BLACK KNIGHT

Hey
Sir. Black knight
You better come back for
Your high horse
Soon.


Sir.
Black knight
You better
Return for Your
high horse
Soon.

WOUNDS OF THE WORLD

They break your back
They eat your cake
Running on empty
The battle deals a heavy blow

The fist is never fair
And the player is not there
When time pays her share
Prison walls aren't so bad

Poison in their mouths
Venom in their veins
Runs up a doctor bill
No dollar can repay

Regain your fury
Rebuild your life
All the wounds of the world
Are healed in time

ALONE. ALL IN DUE TIME

Alone in the morning
No arms to hold
Your aroma in those pillows
Still lingers there

Lingers long and lost
I remember those times
Like yesterday
You left me alone
Empty, breathless and on my own

Failed to listen to the signs before me
And it was too late to turn back the clock
When once upon a time I ran to you
Now we slip silently away

Beneath empty sheets and covers
No other body, not another one
I wonder if it was all a futile mistake
Or the right move to choose

Good-bye my love
This house is gone
Six years as my sanctuary
Four years as our home

Perhaps we can send some letters
And exchange sweet notes
For our hearts reward
All in due time

GENIUS JUICE

Only my mother thinks I am a genius
And in some ways,
that makes her
A genius
Because she spawned me
from her genius juice.

YOU, MY DEAR, ARE A COCK

I am busy packing
Burying the Betrayal
Rearranging the Trust
The house is nearly empty
There is nowhere to lie there
Its cold and dusty
Cobwebs adorn the corners and doors

Runaway to another state
A criminal charged wants to be caught
Flee to Florida, Arizona, Texas
Get FAT. Get FUCKED....
Rambler on the run,
Cannot run from yourself
Look in the mirror before you
Face the lie
Fester and rot with the fleas

A worm-laden heart
Is what you own now
Tear it all apart
There is no more home
Nowhere to hide
No place for tantrums
Charm and acting school days are done

And I feel like a bitch
For believing the lies
For believing in you
And for believing in what I "thought" we had

A Cheap party thrift whore,
charms people like soulless snakes
No wonder you cluck through the pen of hens
Because you, my dear, are a cock.

THE EARTH

The earth has left me here
Alone and unknown year after year
I wish that you could hear
The wailing inside of my heart

The breaking of my aches
And the shattering of my bones
Leaves me but no choice
I will surely die alone

And I've loved you with all my soul
With every ounce of my breath
The love that we shared
Was the only sweetness left

What's come and what's gone awry
And all the tears I've cried
There may one day come a time
When true lovers say goodbye

For T.E.G. I've had nothing but pure love for you

CALL OF THE WILD

When wind bends between the ears
When women climb between the sheets
When juices drip down from the legs
This is the call every man hears
The call of the wild

When sirens are drowning the senses
When a woman is giving up her menses
When life is beating you bloody
And you get up to take another bruising
The call of the wild

Where forests are slain by machinery
Where brothers turn against another
When friends turn against their lovers
And the dead have no one to bury their bones
The call of the wild

The call of the wild
Its the home of every monster
The den of cubs and mothers
The children fed their supper
And kin will be safely nestled in bed

THE TABLE

I could shake you and break you and split apart your head
I hate you I love you and pray to god that you were dead
Now you've made it up all so fucking pretty
Time to lie down in your bed

When times were crumbling I always ran right to your side
I was always the last soul to leave and the first one to arrive
I ask myself and wonder why I continue to hold such high
Regards for you

I took apart my broken heart and rearranged it for you
I stiched together the pieces, they were only held with glue
There's nothing left worth saving, I would have died for you
When all things keep changing, best to let them up and move

I held that bottle in my hand and spared myself the doom
Trembling now and shaking I can see the doctors in my room
They pump the poison from my stomach
but there's no life left to save in here

Those times they are a changing
You hear everybody say
Best get on and moving on that midnight train
There's nothing left worth saving, its easier this way
Throw my heart far in that winter grave.

Float above a table where the whispereres gather round
The trimmings of the scapels edge lay motionless on the ground
I wonder what secret spell had suddenly got me down
But now I'm finally free from here

THE HURRICANE THAT BRINGS THEM HOME

If only there were enough hours in the day
To keep the wolves at bay
She wears a golden heart for you
Its truth rusted shut to her chest

Alone in the absence of Heaven
Where the dying cry out below
She waits and prays this tornado
Doth deal her a final blow

The swirling of the chairs and honeybees
The eyes of the tigers and laundry
Wait to respond so softly
Once the hurricane brings them home

Displaced like midnight marauders
This heart was lead to slaughter
And if the chase was merely fodder
Then the cheat was a temporal muse.

BURGUNDY ROOM

In the corner she's a midnight ruse.
Open mouths the spotlight's on you.
Words hurt their tongues are tied
Its what we seem to lose.

Brazen whores and endless nights
Unfinished floors, sharpened knives
Futile search for what we fail to find
Pokes the eyes that keep us blind

A covered heart is a lion in despair
Turns the key of a door that's not there
Vicious ends cut beyond repair
While the thieves divvy out their shares

These nighttime wolves shall devour entrails
And trains collide with damsels so frail
Nothing beats going off the rails
Tipping the balance of the scales

A meteor shower slowly burns and dies
Their crashing death opens eyes
Swollen joints and empty lives
We trudge the lows to get the highs

TINSEL TOWN

I think you know where it all went down
Way upon the banks of that Tinsel Town
The fight that ensued came to insist
And their rebellion could not resist
They boiled over like demons in coffee brew
But the battle was the most natural thing
anyone went through

Four scores and Several seas
We couldn't possibly know what that could mean
But the fighting pilots flew their childhood dreams
Made their families proud while they traversed the skies

They strapped into suits made of expensive fibers
A hole cut in the crotch with a hose attached
Every man needs to drain his tank
Even when engaged high in a dog fight

A dog fight is a man's battle
Only one comes out, the other below
Be piss stains on their pants
They are thankful for the plastic tube
And the absence of their wives
Thankful their time was spared
Continue with the end of their lives

They remember the banks of the Tinsel Town
And they retire to their twilight rooms
As the tinsel tears and frays
Never speaking of what they lived through