Seat In The Sky

Seat In The Sky

From up here all I see is the cracks

The chasms, the lines that mark 

The boundaries and changes

Even from this vantage point are locked to the ages

It's so beautiful but so far away

I know it soon ends but forever will stay

Easier seeing beauty than from the ground

Where we can't see a word for all the sound

Just watch, look as it flows by

You can only see it when you're up this high

Much bigger than one moment

But every particle makes the whole

Seeming so small or unimportant

Come down from you seat in the sky and pick up the pieces of your soul

Straighten

We have to straighten things

Buy diamond rings

Confess our sins, sin, sin, sin, sin

Conform your password 

You are what you're worth

Keep creeping backwards, back, back, backwards

We have to keep it in

Keep counting chins

Take in the spin, spin, spin, spin, spin, spin

Sit at the table

You are your navel

More than you're able, eh, eh, eh, eh

What you doing there

What you doing with your hair

What you doing with your underwear

What you say, weigh, pray

May need to be explained

And then folded and straightened for packaging's sake

Take

Cake

Make

Fake

What you doing here

What you doing is unclear

What you doing is not what they want to hear 

What you see you need

Seed not weed, breed don't feed 

He he he he, me me me me me me

Take

Cake

Make

Fake

Straight

Straight

Straight

The Real Love Songs

I used to think all love songs were saccharine ideals

Written to convince self or subject to embrace the delusion

Flash painted art capturing a moment that never lasts

A web needfully spun, each victim the one

And maybe I was right for more cases than not

Some love songs don't hit that hopeful spandex

What's fleeting or permanent, deep or deepest

Is only known relative to what you know today

But in this is the antipathy of 

That unfakable, unmistakable truest true love

Whether unexpectedly immediate or commitment's culmination

When you really feel it you DO know

It's love with true balance and flow

Each side gives as it receives

Reassures as much as believes 

And the questions utterly cease

Heart and mind embraced in peace

And any love song that should spring

From this, not just a fling

Will always be the real thing

And so I sing...

You fought the year and won!

What a year it's been

All the mess you've seen

All the tiresome toiling hours

All the times you felt devoured

What a year of dread

Of being in over your head

A raging river, not a stream

Losing grasp of the serene

But tunnels end in light

And you stand in it tonight 

Not on your feet but on your face 

So we're slowing down the pace

To where we both can see

Our iris patterns as they gleam

In the warm beach sun with colours bright 

We take in every welcome sight

But one sight cannot compare

Those long days and nights we'll share 

Just to enjoy this love so true 

Each precious moment I'm with you

There's one more thing to say

Although it's all relief today

You must be proud of all you've done

You fought the year, and won!

They Sold Hermione's Smile

They Sold Hermione's Smile

Staring at her toes 

then just wiggling her nose 

isn't gonna make their eyes open wide

I'm thinking that she knows 

but still thinks it's worth a go 

and there's no big crowd here to shout her down

Money burns like ice on her bare skin

melting her insides with the expected precision

This is what she's told

This is what she's told

This how she fits the mould

This is how Hermione's smile was sold

I remember it so wide

Not from haughtiness or pride

Just that open hope found floating alone

Not that she never frowned

But the reasons then were sound

Not stolen, twisted, broken from words unspoken

Burnt into her eyes, not in tattooed skin

These things can't be erased once they've been etched in

This is what she's told

This is what she's told

This what we'll see define her soul

This is how Hermione's smile was sold

Burning in her heart, tightening her skin

Bright and wide is now a Christmas card grin

This is what she's told

This is what she's told

This isn't what they call control

This is how Hermione's smile was sold

Disingenuous of A

Disingenuous of A

Yes, something stinks that is to say

In this country where so often fact

Is baked, refined and sold like smack

Now rampant addiction has ensued

Masses need the comfort of servitude

Or the euphoria that can only be enjoyed

With blind ignorance to what's destroyed

In exchange for some great honourable dream

Little more than a scratch'n'win it seems

Because we're told this running race is fair

When most have weights or even chains to wear. 

Hypocrisy like this survives

Entwined through 300 million lives 

Because to break it down would be to say

We're not the greatest, this is not the way.

When truth is simply bought and sold

Along with the democracy of old

Which this country built its name upon 

Then what was great is all but gone

So if there is some that still believe

Not in divisive gods, but in equality

Then now is the time that they should stand

'Cause they are the only hope left for this once great land.

For money cannot buy respect

In truth, they rarely intersect.

So question much, and let power reside

In numbers of people, not numbers of bribes

Tie-dyed Jeans (La-lah-love)

You will never understand

How far I searched the land

Yes, Anaheim strip malls, Spitalfield's stalls,

New York back streets, Montreal

Everywhere I'd search

With your jay-bird on its perch

Claws held around that piece of twine

And pulling at my heart strings all the time

It's la-la-lah-lah-love

La-la-lah-lah-love

Is it always such a one-sided affair?

And though you never did before

Now that we're no more

I see you walking out the Art School doors

Wearing those tie-dyed jeans I bought

For la-la-lah-lah-love

La-la-lah-lah-love

Is it always such a one-sided affair

Communications

Across the nations 

Complications from your strange translations 

Words can often be

A double-edged-sword battle for me

In la-la-lah-lah-love

La-la-lah-lah-love

La-la-lah-lah-love

La-la-lah-lah-love

I'm moving on, for all you care

These feelings make for quick repair

And it seems it's not a one sides affair.