the steam from combustible fossil fuels + form some procession of molecules a dreamless conception in tidal pools a seamless perception of ruling rules we're turnin' to talk, turnin' to tumble turnin' to walk, turnin to fumble for fate in decay, to crumble + fade find sleeping bodies + kick them awake *well there's an evolutionary argument hell it's a pleasure being part of it a temple with an organ at the heart of it the knotted yarn you severed cuz' you couldn't find the start of it you lost your way, you gotta ways to go + you wouldn't say, you made it so you could syncopate or you could sink the boat you seized the day + you cut it's throat papa paid attention a hell to pay mama said she don't know-what to say (I) gotta head up on holiday I gotta get up this morning when it gets dark we don't need sun-tan lotion we parked the car + left the trunk wide open we're cool + smooth as the camels we're smokin' swimmin' with sharks but it's a big, wide ocean * where the water meets the land we'll pray to god we had two hands + dig our toes deep in the sand we'll let the ocean drink us in + when electrolytic wind + how the water heals the skin where the freckles spiral in the dead sea taught me how to swim *

papa's in the lava, mama's seek + hide thunder's just the lightning listening to itself die sister sits with baby, brother says goodbye grandpa told me anything worth fighting for's a lie *hey! the rats came out to play you don't say? 'bout a thousand yesterday? ok so, wait though, the cat just ran away? a waylay, mayday, naysay or obey sudden death, sudden breath god of mercy, let the world end in a tie sudden moments when the red sea opens + you can't stop to ask why, + suddenly I'll start to cry suddenly the sun retreats your cousins ashes at your feet he wasn't worth his weight in meat so to the victor goes defeat as every cycle is complete + you are only excess heat the means compel your heart to beat between each breath both your ends meet * sudden death, sudden breath god of mercy, let the world end in a tie thunder's just the lightning listening to itself die sudden moments when the red sea opens + you can't stop to ask why, + suddenly I'll start to cry for anything worth fighting for

have confidence, amphetamine take self-defense, eat dopamine may nervous sense + lucid dream say never meant + never mean have confidence, amphetamine take self-defense, eat dopamine may nervous sense + even mean apology in running dream *x by x + x by y rivers flow + mountains cry time erodes + deltas dry low-d-low + high-d-high let it roll + close your eyes nigh-d east + rainy skies any flows a lazy ride + swivel tow goes left oar right dope over donuts, coke blowing cake we're eve + the apple, believing the snake could + I won't say so, should + I don't know no ironies is Socrates' lotto scratchers hitchin' Jesus heathens heating swimming pools cuz' satan is super cool + christ died in catholic school, like: "son of god? he's such a tool." could + I do say so, should + I may not though sophie don't like Plato, wherefore thou Romeo *

*so happy I could die + sadly still alive when I can't say it's a surprise I'll tell you what, I'll tell you lies I am a risk I can't advise a diagnosable disguise I is a consolation prize so I wear a mask with holes for eyes better was bad for me mythical prophecy static-elliptically psycho-dependency mani-obsessively bipolar symmetry major aggressively auto community cilia-ffinity ritual botany proto-divinity po-mo lobotomy pro-contraceptively faux pas posterity better for good to be sodom eternally *

*where to, + what'cha gonna do when you / get there? why me? + why you? out of / no where what's new, you're always passin' through inhalin' / stale air how true, but you can't know what you'll do until you / get there there is anywhere that you could care to spare the cab fare midnight in Paris high noon in Juno heard what I said but I meant it like, you know it is what it is a colloquialism look see what I did fit the phrase to the rhythm I never been better so I always been worse I re-read the letters + still said those words kid you can't do no wrong but you're bitter alright man I don't belong here I'll walk, yeah, goodnight taxi! *

*in a net to the water the predator prey in a net to the water the animals stay in a net to the water + a nimmo today in a net to the water I'm swimmin' away some young bird in some old dress + mama's two cents, penniless the season sprung the cuckoo's nest + the afternoon's a new day's rest so the wanderings stars share a sun with me so the rovers on mars if + if if only so as to find a way out (+) blues skies are nothin but grey clouds wrung out *

what's it really fuckin' matter what's it called? I went + lost my words wouldn't worry 'bout the chatter brother better use your verbs *start talkin' / start talkin' / start walkin' keep walkin' / keep walkin' / start talkin' keep talkin' / keep talkin' / keep walkin' keep talkin' / keep talkin' / keep talkin' where is everybody going do you think that I could come along wouldn't worry yourself loathing wouldn't say that you were wrong, just * the similarity is difference the difference is the same I wouldn't worry 'bout the distance but time is just a losing game keep talkin'

*so the truth is there is none the proof is you got one the girls want to have fun the boys need their toy guns the last laugh the first tear the half day the school year forgotten for now dear remember you live here your home sits on quicksand you're drinking your last stand this is not what you planned you reach for the ledge + you take a step backward trip on your shoelace crack your head open your mom says: "I told you so" so? so what? so's so. so fear for your life everyday of your life you can make a new life you will learn to love life there is nothing like life to be found in this life all surrounded by life giving birth to all life O' miraculous life unbelievable life that I might have a lifetime to contemplate life have a dream about life where I end my own life where I wake up in bed kinda glad I'm not dead so? so what? so's so. *

there's a hole in my head that the light goes into there's a tube in a tube that the food follows through there's a drum in my ear: one, two, one, two, one, two + I button my belly, (achoo) god bless you, + I forget my manners, I'd forget this head if not for this body, the same weight in lead I wake + I whimper: "just get out of bed" cuz' if times were much simpler I would have stayed dead I don't know what you want, + I can't tell you either this world's without ends + all sirens deceivers just stop, drop + roll, feed a cold, feed a fever + fuck those old housewives, they're desperate believers in any old story, I'll spare the details our love lasts a lifetime, the hero prevails they run home to mother to find her grown frail + boast to their brothers, flip through the mail

fuck this nah, fuck that nah, fuck you fuck, too soon I never earn I barely earn I crash + burn I pay cash + turn my blind eyes my shoulder's ice I slice + dice, + I pick the price, cuz' I know my rights I've had my nights I stop for lights + I own a knife I'm outta here I'm outta beer I'm low on fuel + I'm full of fear so I blow smoke so I breath smoke so I need smoke, + I hate smoke so I fight fire I chill w/ rain I drink w/ god, yeah I know their name + they feel my pain it doesn't help if nothin' else they don't know myself + I want another one

don't it so-romantically don't take it slow, fake it swollen + manically freedom, America, god + his son got me teethin', and breathin' even eatin' the sun I don't love you but I don't mean it cuz' I don't hate you but I don't mean it cuz' I might love you but I don't mean it cuz' I might hate you but I don't mean it cuz' I don't love you but I don't mean it cuz' I don't hate you but I don't mean it cuz' I might love you but I try not to cuz if I had to I'd hate to leave you so much harder on the brakes than you a light touch + a little foresight ought-a do you're so rushed can't see the lights you're speedin' through that soul crush a little flash of red + blue + foot down I'm rolling out the passenger side now find it in your heart to drive or get found I'll meet you at county in 5 + I'll see you in town tonight I don't love you but I don't mean it cuz' I don't hate you but I don't mean it cuz' I might love you but I try not to cuz if I had to I'd hate to leave you

I wanna hear you call me stupid again I wanna be a little sliver of your circle of friends I wanna die sometime sometimes it takes stomach just to eat never be ashamed of anything you need keep applying pressure to the wounds that bleed papas in the air + mamas tappin' her feet who says roof means shelter it's your guess what you saw or felt so blindly play the hand you're dealt hearts in spades, you're a chance in hell lost + just as well forgotten I don't lose my god that often we hopped the gate + landed soft until st. michael chased us off + lord knows, it only hurts inside but I'd rather cringe than run or hide those ghosts will teach you how to live if you can teach them how to die you just happened there you weren't meant to care but you should breath the air 'til livin's less to bear + if it's all we share at least you'll be somewhere the rent is low, the sentence fair you crossed a line in truth or dare dare you to inhale forever + I'm glad you don't see us together

coulda been Hathaway woulda been better that way coulda been yesterday woulda been better that way coulda been half my age woulda been Hathaway coulda been yesterday woulda been yesterday

*we're going to the graveyard we're painting pentagrams on mausoleums we're going to the old barn we're raising calicos I gotta see 'em cuz were going to the box cars we're runnin' wild, steamin' believin' we're going to the north star we'll tape our soles + hitch to eden I been layin' down the railroad tracks + I been prayin' they'll take me back you caught pneumonia, your mother passed the last canary's lungs collapsed say, blood, sweat, coal + the rails you ride need an engine boy w/ burnin' pride + shadows moving mountain sides a future fueled by dynamite *

have you seen the sun through eyelids + have you lived in ultraviolet have you been the warm + wildest have you seen the world through childish wonder what it's like to be anything I don't call: "me" seeds that made it into trees or kids still blowing in the breeze *(well) rainy nights rest should keep you awake so hail to the roots + the glorious day you were planted you frantic romantic got a wish, (+ wished it) granted sink, like a stone with spin skip like vinyl homes you've been in the flick of the wrist I don't understand I'm in the rhythm of clicks spin me again + let it play, throw it underhand let momentum say, all the words I can't + have Lennon stay, he'll be your man we're not both they, still not like them * that we're dying that we should be happy that it's not up to us it's up to anyone that we're crying that we should be happy that it's not up to us it's up to everyone *

*nuns know + guns go don't say those words to me you're hidden by my apathy you can't teach me to be + you don't learn how to breathe deaf men never listen + blind men they don't see the pieces that you're missin' make your whole identity * skateboard through the afternoon + howl-bark at the big blue moon sleep-walk to the .22 + sweet talk me a honey-boo *

I gave up my father's name forgot which Richard was to blame lost everything he had to gain cost nothin' more than sacred shame, see faith doesn't flow from a bottle or stay red in a dead man's veins, yeah faith is femoral, ephemeral love without pain flower losing petals, no way, no way, no talking to the devil, no not these days, hey baby won a medal for being brave, now mamas in the chapel says it's all okay but I'm still waking up nervous the nightmares know right where the nerve is ran out on the funeral service no body, couldn't see the purpose devil says: "for shame" + we all play his favorite game we prod the weakest link while he keeps tugging on the chain, says well: "hollow out the earth, the shell will resonate with screams," said: "when the host's a living hell we'll still be parasitic dreams"

well I've tried livin' + in fact I gave it 18 years to take + I've tried givin' up but everyday I waste is just a break from what I know I must from tryin' harder just because I'm here alone, but sometimes know we're all stuck in this sinking boat that's why you gotta hope the world's not always at your throat + if you take the time you'll realize that your parents eloped so what's that mean to you every moment through + through if I meet you tonight, you've lived a whole life sadly I have too

pull the lever watch it spin life's a gamble we're all in cherry-cherry lucky-seven pray to god + hope for heaven pockets tell the truth if all this glamour wasn't more than proof that bitter hands will feed this city hey desperation's kind of pretty + face to face with broken odds they're braver than I ever was raisin' swords to double doors lose the battle win the war + go back home to all your fluid assets all the booze you haven't drank yet all the food you'd never bet would fill your stomach with regret

*I'm gonna get'cha cat'cha one more time + if I get a chance we'll dance like you are mine pretend we're friends + drink some wine sink in pink + think you're fine sorry, took your everything my actions don't say what I mean but you're not you + I'm not me I think that we lie in between two people, that we call ourselves I didn't mean to make this hell despite what seems, god damn, oh well these mortal sins are tremors quelled + earthquakes punish innocence (in a sense) but so do I w/ no repent you said don't leave I know I can't, got empty pockets, money spent on nights, where you can tell me how the boy that loves you doesn't now maybe hates your tortured brow you tweezer princess, squeeky ow only lonely trees don't make a sound you're in the same place that I left you only this time I can't catch you you're falling faster now than you were then (+ are there) people out there left who don't see bitterness perpetually calling for disaster when it can + I know that you been so damn kind I been running from my own damn mind but there are always words that love you: I, me, oh, my, god; that's just a few * sink in pink + we were better blind sink in pink leave nothin' on the line sink in pink + you're the crying kind sink in pink + we will each be fine

speak to be heard we're similar victims analogous hurt that wretched fire burns grass grows + green knows sun from dirt bacteri-archae-ukaryota red, white + blue in an '02 Toyota made up of cells + I won't separate them made up of bonds + I will never break them

half of you's my mother's eyes + every time I felt alive bathroom stalls + broken pride my family calling from inside + half of you's that emptiness the vodka on your father's lips the taste of every muted kiss the pale complexion, hidden fists whoever you want to call it + whatever you teach to care I'm the horror of being wanted before I was unaware filling in forgotten cracks + building up I'm looking back see I'm the heart you painted black + even I'm okay with that *I think the lesson's clear you're the ones not joking here shouldn't have been smoking, cheers to vices, lungs, forgotten years, hey haven't we all had a few I had a few too many too + life is something fun to do but it's up to you to make that true hit me with your car I need a new guitar who said livin's easy I find dyin' pretty hard the ghosts they always tease me 'bout my busy bodied heart you can feel it in your knees + you can hear it through the dark, asked it: "why, what, where," it said: "lub-a-dub," I said: " alright we're kickin bub, we're in the ring without our gloves, so dialate, give me some love" *

when were you cut off when did you pass into this world your mother's womb is where all warmth + what's home once swirled when did you leave you found this unique misery when did existence become your responsibility taking life too serious can tie you up in knots and there you'll be misshapen person never learn to loosen up + if the truth compels you blindly you're not seeing anything caught up in yourself you can't tell gospel from muffled screams I've got an aunt named Ruth she's got a dog named Riley a golden labrador retriever she raided as a puppy my aunt Ruth she never got married my aunt Ruth she always looks so happy whenever she's around she tell me she's so proud of me when I was learning how to drown she taught me how to breathe she loves that dog she loves until she's weak now Riley knows no pain but he won't listen to her speak *the things you love will kill you but you're living anyway so do everything you can do thank the world + all it's grace, for we are born of every evil man, the kings of old + every evil race you are the sun's posterity, hail his majesty put a smile on your face there are woods near my dad's old house that I used to call my home they taught me how to love myself that everything green must at some point be nutured + grown I stared at my hands, laughed at the fact of how anything here could be owned just hands, I can't find the priviledge to pillage this beautiful land strength gives us hope, hope gives us strength + we kill what we don't understand god don't exist, but we're all sacred sons screaming why not just give love a chance the burden of man's not the power, the drugs or the money how each passing hours the same the burdens yourself, + dreams of fear by a different name *

motion what is held therein + the shells through which we shine the outermost radiates communicates consume, decay the inner-ghost the angel's abandoned post the shell that's pulled in way too close our masked attempts at tracing souls so reach for a hand grab an ankle + pull up find among w/in even fusion brings destruction collapse