Big Bird Soup

Big bird soup

Boiling your feathered friend whole

Til it all falls apart 

Freeing the muscle from the bones

Then you slurp the yellowy broth and hope

That somehow it helps you heal

But either way just bones remain 

and you're unsure how to feel

So you throw them away

Two

Two

In different rooms

Of the same round gold house

No view

Always looking through

Towards the other prison brother

A tune

They both once knew 

Is now an illusive wail on the wind

They lose

And search for more to lose

A sacrifice to the God that gives back past

Inevitably 

A great storm comes

And tears the whole gold round house and all it's walls to the ground

Two alone

Staring at each other, unclothed, exposed

Seeing things they'd both hoped to dispose

Then one

Not wanting to see, runs

To embrace the other, see over their shoulder 

But one

Has seen the question

They'll need to answer from now til forever

Or maybe from now 

until they turn around 

and leave the other, leave the round gold prison, and their brother

What's Your Number

What's your number

What's your number

What you taking

Don't you wonder

Feeling it

From every side

Feeling it

Deep down inside

What's your number

What's your number

Still them and us now

Gorging, Hunger 

Break it down

Til something breaks

Break it down 

Til the foundation shakes

What's your number

What's your number

I was born like this

You were born to plunder

What's your number

What's your number 

Keep those eyes down

Follow the others

What's your number

What's your number

A bed is much more

Than a place to slumber

Can be a home sometimes

Only roof you're under

Let's move it on

Get past the colour

More hypnotised

It's time for thunder

I'll take your hand

You're not a number

Be Safe

Be safe

Find your place

Crawl the race

Blinded in the rising sun

Haunted by a plastic face

Behave

Join the crave

Dance the rave

Believe a TV or a tomb

Not a mind, not too soon

The cow jumps over the moon 

The tracks, the tracks

The clickety clacks

The fickety facts 

The wickety wacks

The sickety, sickety ball sacks

The inches, the pounds

The greens, the blacks 

The browns, the blacks 

The reds, the blacks 

In gowns, in hats

In ties, in slacks 

On beaches, or in cul de sacs

Be safe

Buy your place 

What you're given, what you take 

All in prison, all eat cake 

All the people dead for Franklin's head 

Drink coffee then get into bed

Check your coat but never check your head

It's what it said

These words of dread

Those shaking til the baby's dead

Those faking til their face is fed

Those breaking til it bakes some bread

Those aching til the malls are bled

Those raking til the scene is set 

Partaking til they've cleaned the plate

Mistaking their green beans for brains

Impressing we must join the train

Suppressing til we're all insane

Mountin

Run down the mountain

Surmountin

Much harder than bouncin

The ounces

Keep me from the countin

An outing

Some shouting is better than mouses

People 

Mountin

Evil

Mountain 

The top

The stop

Be bop

Be countin 

But don't be thinking 

The clouds hide heavens 

They're below more mountin 

Exploding In The Sound

Sa beatin, it's beatin, stop beatin, a beatin

Sa beatin, it's beatin, stop beatin, a beatin

Up is up and down is down

But up is much harder than down

It's not a frown, not all the town

But most of it

Morning is mourning, and yawning is warning

And all the police are paid to pretend

And all the small things 

Fill all of my head

Sa beatin, it's beatin, stop beatin, a beatin

Sa beatin, it's throbbing, stop eatin, jabbering, jabbering, jabbering, jabb--er--ing 

Up is down, is round and round

Exploding in the sound 

The help comes in the end 

Too late to make a mends

You don't know me friends

Ends, ends ends ends ends 

Five Years Ago Tonight

Five years ago tonight

My life forever changed

Each flower sang new colours

The sky no longer greyed

Right when I saw your face

The ground beneath me moved

Realities of love and life

Came suddenly to view 

I knew, down deep inside 

My true love stood right there

I knew I'd never known or know

Another girl so fair

In every single little way

Unlike I'd once believed

Unlike I would have wished for

Beyond my wildest dreams

So know you are the one

And know that special night

Will always be the one when my life

Walked into the light