dead and breakfast

This town is not my home, I’m not a regular

I’m not even welcome here anymore

The aroma is kind to my tongue, but it’s not what I need

The intoxicants are killing me

Here I am seated, will you serve me or ignore me

My table is full and you can’t be bothered for time

I sit impatiently waiting for you to take notice

Lock eyes and take this mess you left for me to find

If this is coffee, please bring some tea; but if this is tea, please bring some coffee

It’s far too late now to blame it on the cow’s diet

Her milk is not what tainted the beans

You mix the colors in one it all looks the same

But it’s hard to mask something you can’t see

Is something wrong here, was I unclear with my words

Am I speaking the language of a long dead tribe

I told you what I desired, you seemed to nod and agree

Then you brought me this hodgepodge and split like the Red Sea

If this is coffee, please bring some tea; but if this is tea, please bring some coffee

I hate to tell you how to do your job

But I have a feeling I’ve been robbed

Maybe if you wrote my order down, word by word

We wouldn’t be here now

Is this how you treat all your customers

Is this why no one stays for leftovers

The clientele seems to change as fast as the day

I’m starting to see why this place is always empty

If this is coffee, please bring some tea; but if this is tea, please bring some coffee

double vision

Left down on your own Avenue

Why pretend you don’t know the signs on the road

Waiting for darkness just to say you’re lost

Is no way to find your way back home

You know where you’ve been, you should know just where you are

It’s not the stars that light the night; it’s the night that lights the stars

The lights shine the truth all over you

Tire marks show where you left the road

Sure the dirt can be washed clean

But it doesn’t mean it never took hold

You know where you’ve been, you should know just where you are

It’s not the stars that light the night; it’s the night that lights the stars

And now in a weakened state

You find yourself looking for answers to your pain

Conveniently forgetting it was your direction

That made things this way

You know where you’ve been, you should know just where you are

It’s not the stars that light the night; it’s the night that lights the stars

Like scabs that bled

It’s time to heal and fade away

But you’re too caught up in the taste of your own blood

To realize you can live any other way

You know where you’ve been, you should know just where you are

It’s not the stars that light the night; it’s the night that lights the stars

only the shadows come

She sits under tinted glass waiting

For table legs to break

But when that moment finally comes

Her courage fades and she runs

An attempt to save face

To scared to looked used up

Even if that use was granted

Even if that use was in the name of love

Stand down

No one's chasing you

Only the shadows come

The monsters sleep till noon

A solitary cave of doom

The cold air keeps her safe

From the heat inside that brain

In a moment of truth

The claws tare away

What we find is only tissue

What we create can take its place

Stand down

No one's chasing you

Only the shadows come

And what we reap, we may sow

But no ones hungry anymore

The seeds you’ve planted

Have gone bad, we all know

The fire is waiting

To burn your crops into the dirt

Deconstruction is not destruction

Understand this and you’ll stop feeling hurt

Stand down

No one's chasing you

Only the shadows come

shut the front door

Living the fast track

Fighting the heart attacks

Cheating on love with inner demons

Sex now cold like winter seasons

It’s a gun show

And you brought your arrows

Sure the targets just as far

But you can’t match a bullet

Somebody shut the door, we’re letting all the warm out

Somebody shut that door, I’m not trying to heat the world

Falling backwards

Over my own words

If I hadn’t smacked the cold concrete

I could have lived without them

But now they haunt me

They stole my virginity

And I don’t just want it back

I want payment in return

Somebody shut the door, we’re letting all the warm out

Somebody shut that door, I’m not trying to heat the world

And this could be the last time

There’s no doubt in my mind

The feelings get weaker with every rising tide

And sure I could swim again

But it’s that lose that does me in

Cause when you lose a friend you love

It’s like going back in time

I’m so sick of watching the waves pass be by

Somebody shut the door, we’re letting all the warm out

Somebody shut that door, I’m not trying to heat the world

le silence

If saying less is more, what is saying nothing

When silence is all we have, who takes the floor

In our silent reflections, you keep me guessing

Pausing for my chance to shut the door

Argument from silence, roses stay, on lips they lay

In adolescent minds, we sit in corners still

Index fingers to closed lips, eating what we kill

Inner stillness gives nothing, but danger incoming

Chasing the calm, within the storm

Argument from silence, roses stay, on lips they lay

Conclusions based on lack of any solid facts

What we don’t say, says so much more

Is it ignorance or blindness, that keeps the voice inside us

Abduct the reason to this silent war

Argument from silence, roses stay, on lips they lay

island bound

With anchors down, a captive captain captivated

Wind at our backs we’re sailing an open sea

Empty shells house sounds only heard when found

Blinding sun in our eyes we’re calling for mutiny

All hands on deck, this vessel is going down

All hands on deck, we’re island bound

Faster to disaster, as the waves dance valiantly

Kamikaze water fighters crashing to our hull

Surface tensions grow, no safe way to go

Death before dishonor, the white ship sent to slaughter

All hands on deck, this vessel is going down

All hands on deck, we’re island bound

No lighthouse, no bridge of moonlight

Only the darkness lights our way

Searching for a land of hope, which no one knows

Finding the edge of our desires and nothing more

All hands on deck, this vessel is going down

All hands on deck, we’re island bound

lost Lenore

I had a vision, too dark to see

A dead raven that was still calling me

The harsh sound put me down

But the song it wasn’t clear

Tried to envision, her plans for me

The terror in me was a welcome agony

My chamber door made no sound

Our love's a forgotten lore

Dreaming by the day, to find what is lost on me

For when at night I lay, the dark is all I see

My excision, was plain to see

I implore that this shell it wasn’t me

The dreary man that you found

Could care nevermore

The omission, feed all you seen

Empty fowl birthed of mothered vanity

Velvet lined the crown

With no room for more

Dreaming by the day, to find what is lost on me

For when at night I lay, the dark is all I see

Tapping magician, no hands to see

Till the rapping completely raptures me

The absence fills the sound

Night’s Plutonian shore

Loves mortician, she buried me

An inquisition, Roman Catholics after me

A heresy towards our love

And a lost Lenore

Dreaming by the day, to find what is lost on me

For when at night I lay, the dark is all I see

one way street

She put her burnt hands, behind her heavy head

Said I surrender, have nothing left to give

The white flag it danced, it made those eyes shine

And just as soon as she ran, she found arms to climb

The embrace did her good, it even erased

Gave back what he took, lifted the face

But as she exposed her hands, back from her head

She found in those hands, nothing left to give

Sure you can run and hide

But where will you go when you’re tired

Love is a one way street

And you’re headed the wrong way

He put his gasoline hands, to his hollow head

Said I don’t remember letting this love in

But now that she’s gone, it’s all his eyes see

All the blame that he gave, was caused by his greed

From closing his heart, so long ago

In hopes of forgetting all the pain he once showed

Too scared to feel love and have it ripped away

So when he found it again, he never bothered to change

Sure you can run and hide

But where will you go when you’re tired

Love is a one way street

And you’re headed the wrong way

Now in the end it would seem

They both shard the same distant dream

It was only the timing that kept them apart

He gave into love and she just gave out

It was only a matter of time

She’d give up on a love that was dying

So now he lives with the ghost of what their love could’ve been

As she dances on their grave never to trust his love again

Sure you can run and hide

But where will you go when you’re tired

Love is a one way street

And you’re headed the wrong way