Coke Tab Necklace

i can't get you out of my mind,
no matter how hard i try.
i can still remember the first time i saw your face.

coke tab necklace.
black tank top.
bleached blonde hair.
a smile that makes my heart drop.

the problem is i still see you.
you haunt me in my dreams.
talking about greener grass
and golder gold. the only gold
being the gold we make. you are
my beautiful alchemist and if i could

i would

wish you away.

Dresden

Dresden Dresden take me in,
hold me close 'til i begin
to sing a song from my soul,
Dresden Dresden let me go.

Time wears on and time it tries
to raise the light on weary eyes,
i close to see you standing there,
Dresden please disappear.

i am a moth and you the flame
all our scars they look the same,
Dresden Dresden do your best
to hold your cards close to breast.

one more road, one more sin,
Dresden Dresden take me in,
this burning ride could be our last,
one more time, Dresden one more time.

If You Walk Away, I'll Walk Away

for the tense voice

Because i am a sinner

and you are a saint

let's trade places, if just for today.

And i'll do all the good deeds

you're promised to do,

as long as you remember your duty too.

For My Friend, J.W.B.

They say the hell we have
is the hell we make.
I say our only fire
is the bread they take;
slavery didn't end in '65,
it breaths today
it is still alive.

To Teetotalers, Go To Hell

Eleven empty bottles
sitting on my window seal;
The ghost of you still haunts me,
i think it always will.

Ale

third one down fast,
enjoy the drink you're havin',
it could be your last.

In the fields outside the kingdom walls

In the fields outside the kingdom walls
there is grain as golden as the skies of heaven,
green grasses, rippling brooks laughing at men,
proud at what they think they do.

Tilling, irrigation, plowing, harvesting,
sloughing, milling, grinding, baking.
Nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing.
i am a man who forgot i do nothing,
even though i do everything.

cut back, plant - the secret efforts of
a dying pawn. i never forgot the fields
outside the kingdom walls were as much kingdom
as the stately structures inside the walls.
i forgot my place, maybe not even forgetfullness,

maybe i had divine indifference, maybe a pharoh's
heart. i ignored the lillies of the field,
those falling sparrows, i said "Your clothes are
not as splendid as mine, you are not as strong as i."
to the tortise i said "You are not as smart as i."

nothing as i. nothing as i. in the fields outside
the kingdom walls i wore the badge, nothing as i.
i come with empty hands, the day of destruction
is closer than i think. it feeds like an angry owl.

there is beauty in the fields outstide the walls,
and the beauty is the kings, but like destruction
the king remains unseen, a ghost walker among
his people and his lands. and the owl flys at night.

i can not release my hand from the sickle,
it is on the golden wheat in seconds, the song
of the thrash in the afternoon glory. and as the
darkness rolls in i lay down in the cleared grass.

i put myself in the clearing like a slaughtered
lamb, as still as possible, blood on my hands,
blood on my throat. all i know is i am nothing
in the fields outside the kingdom walls.