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Stranger Than Fiction

Stranger Than Fiction

A febrile shocking violent smack
the children are hoping for a heart attack
tonight the windows are watching,
the streets all conspire
and the lamppost can't stop crying
If I could fly high above the world
would I see a bunch of dots spell the word stupidity?
Or would I just see hungry lover homicides,
loving brother suicides
and olly olly oxenfrees, who pickaside and hide

The world is scratching at my door
My morning papers got the scores,
the human interest stories, and the obituary

Cockroach nape and rattling traps,
how many devils can you fit upon a match head?
Caringosity killed the Kerouac cat,
sometimes truth is stranger than fiction

In my alley around the corner
there's a wino with feathered shoulders
and a spirit giving head for crack
and he'll never want it back.
There's a little kid and his family eating crackers like Thanksgiving
and a pack of wild desperadoes scornful of living

The world is scratching at my door
My morning paper has the scores,
the human interest stories,
and the obituary

Cradle for a cat, Wolfe looks back,
how many angels can you fit upon a match?
I want to know why Hemmingway cracked
Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction

Life is the crummiest book I ever read,
there isn't a hook, just a lot of cheap shots
Pictures to shock and characters an amateur would never dream up
 
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Tiny Voices

Tiny Voices

The brown and orange sky holds its breath
as the sun retreats to the distant horizon
And our hearts palpitate anxiously as we soon will lay supine,
and wait for sleep to overcome us.
And from somewhere in our black subconscious minds when we're asleep
Comes a haunting swelling mass of voices,
resonating
It screams of forgotten victims and the cries of innocence
And the desperate plea for recognition and recompense

Tiny voices, echoes of our heritage
Our long and sallow faces turn the other way
Tiny voices, harbored deep within
As we outwardly deny that they have something to say
And if we don't confront them they will never go away

The billions of tiny pinhole embers fade into a morning sky
filled with poignant morose wonder
Waking we bear a cosmetic peace that verifies the turmoil
which we carry deep inside

And from somewhere in our black subconscious minds when we're asleep
Comes a haunting swelling mass of voices,
resonating
It screams of forgotten victims and the cries of innocence
And the desperate plea for recognition and recompense

Tiny voices, echoes of our heritage
Our long and sallow faces turn the other way
Tiny voices, harbored deep within
As we outwardly deny that they have something to say
And if we don't confront them they will never go away

Go away!
 
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The Handshake

The Handshake

Every time you shake someone's hand and it feels like your best friend
Could it be that it's only superficially?
Without regard to well-being, without an inkling of compromise
Handshakes are nothing but a subtly "F--k you"
Contracts determine the best friendships

This is the way of the modern world,
Everyone's vying for patronage
This is the way of the modern world,
And something has gotta give

Every time you shake someone's hand,
and you share neither color or creed
You gotta overcome the obstacles of history
There is restrained passion, mistrust, and bigotry
And these have created the new foundations of society
There's no harmony just class and race

This is the way of the modern world,
Everyone's fighting for dominance
This is the way of the modern world,
And something has gotta give

Now I believe in unity, and I'm willing to compromise,
but I'm not gonna lie or sell my soul

Every time you shake someone's hand,
it determines where you stand
And if you won't uphold your side then its better to...

Fend for yourself, and shun the handshake someone's gotta give
 
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Better Off Dead

Better Off Dead

I'm sorry
about the sun
How could I know
that you'd get burned?
And I'm Sorry
about the moon
How could I know
you'd disapprove?
I'll never make
the same mistake
The next time I create the universe
I'll make sure we communicate at length
Just to play it safe
But until then...
Better off dead,
A smile on the lips and a hole in the head
Better off dead, yeah better than this
Take it away 'cuz there's nothing to miss
I'm sorry
about the world
How could I know
you'd take it so bad?
And I'll never make
the same mistake
The next time I create the universe
I'll make sure you participate
Oh yeah
But until then...
Better off dead,
A smile on the lips and a hole in the head
Better off dead, yeah better than this
Take it away 'cuz there's nothing to miss
Better off dead, yeah better off dead,
why don't you try pushing daisies instead
Better off dead, yeah better off dead,
A smile on the lips and a hole in the head
And I'll never make the same mistake
The next time I create the universe
I'll make sure you participate
Oh yeah...
And I'll never make the same mistake
The next time I create the universe
I'll make sure we communicate
Just in case...
 
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Infected

Infected

Now here I go
Hope I don't break down
I won't take anything
I don't need anything
don't want to exist
I can't persist
Please stop before I do it again
just talk about nothing, let's talk about nothing
Let's talk about no one, Please talk about no one,
someone, anyone
You and me have a disease
you affect me, you infect me
I'm afflicted you're addicted
you and me, you and me
I'm on the edge
Get against the wall
I'm so distracted
I love to strike you
here's my confession
you learned your lesson
stop me before I do it again
just talk about nothing, let's talk about nothing
Let's talk about no one, Please talk about no one,
someone, anyone
You and me have a disease
you affect me, you infect me
I'm afflicted you're addicted
you and me, you and me
you're clear as a heavy lead curtain
want to drill you like an ocean
we can work it out, I've been running out,
now I'm running out,
don't be mad about it baby
You and me, have a disease
I want to tie you, crucify you
Kneel before you, revile your body
You and me, were made in heaven
I want to take you, I want to break you
supplicate you, with thorny roses
You and me, are incurable
I want ot bathe you in holy water
I want to kill you, upon the alter
You and me, you and me
 
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Television

Television

Television, Television, Television, Television

Oh yeah! I want to bask in your golden light
submerge in electric waves
I need my connection to the world outside

the world outside is buzzing like an angry wasp in summer
the candidates are running, and soon the son of God is coming
crackle mental convolutions tune in to the revolution
whereby everyone's included so we'll never have to be alone

Television, Television, Television, Television

Oh yeah! I want to bathe in your golden light
submerge in electric waves
I need my injection from the world outside

Every atom of my body, blood and sinew,
bone and fiber
I can't distill you from my blood,
you're a hungry germ inside of me
You're my lover, you're my heroine,
my conscience and my voice,
and I know now that I have let you in
I will never have to be alone

Television, Television, Television, Television

Oh yeah! I want to bathe in your golden light
submerge in electric waves
I need my connection to the world outside

I'd take after my mother but she's from a different generation
I prefer my big brother he's so gentle and understanding
and I learn what I can from him by the television light
So that when I'm all alone I know everything's gonna be alright

Television, Television, Television,
Television

Television, Television, Television,
Television
 
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Individual

Individual

Individuals run for cover,
for the multitudes of thoughtless clones have reached a critical mass
Individuals hide in fear, under cover,
sheltered by the wafer thin veil of intelligence

Individuals
Nowhere to be seen

Urbana is oozing like a bloated carcass
with maggots cooking in the desert heat
Oozing, with progeny writhing and desperate for input
from someone more determined

Congregating in invisible circles
Half apart and half a part
All too aware of the insignificance
Pushing on with soul and heart

Individuals don't pray for forgiveness,
when pinned up against the wall under siege of persecution
Individuals command exception, and accept dichotomy
Maybe you can't choose anymore

Procreation without gain or purpose
Languid wills and torpid minds
Catapulted ever faster by the arrow of time
 
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Hooray For Me

Hooray For Me

I can see my teenage father standing straight on a desolate corner
in the shadow of tentacled towers by the red light of America
I imagine how his mother felt when she heard that her husband was dying
And the underground heroes of the tarmac shooting smack were blowing up worlds
and damned! out loud
Hey can you tell me how does it feel?

Yeah, tell me... Can you imagine, for a second,
doing anything that you don't have to?
Well that's what I'm accustomed to so
hooray for me...

When I slept with stony faces on the riverbank,
My angeldevil reveler shook me desperately in dying
I don't exactly want to apologize for anything.
And now we're all mad and tangled in secret rooms with roman candles
On an endless graveyard train

Yeah, tell me... Can you imagine, for a second,
doing anything just 'cus you want to?
Well that's just what I do so hooray for me...

Yeah, I was dreaming through the "howzlife",
yawning, car black,
when she told me "mad and meaningless as ever..."
and a song came on my radio like a cemetery rhyme
for a million crying corpses in their tragedy of respectable existence

Yeah, tell me... Can you imagine, for a second,
trying half of the things you ever wanted to,
Well that's just what I do, so hooray for me...

Oh, yeah... I'm not respectable, and never sensible,
I've been incredible, so damned irascible
and I like the things I do so Hooray for me...
 
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Slumber

Slumber

So, you're feeling unimportant
'Cuz you've got nothing to say
And your life is just a ramble
No one understands you anyway

Well, I've got a piece of news son
That might make you change your mind
Your life is historically meaningful
And spans a significant time

Slumber will come soon
And you are helping put it to sleep
Side by side we do our share
Faithfully assuring that
Slumber will come soon

Well, now do you feel a little better?
Lift up your head and walk away
Knowing we're all in this together
For such a short time anyway

There is just no time to parade around sulking,
I would rather laugh than cry
The rich, the poor, the strong, the weak,
we share this place together
And we pitch in to help it die

I'm no too good at giving morals,
And I don't fear the consequence
If life makes you scared and bitter,
At lease it's not for very long

Slumber will come soon
 
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Marked

Marked

If I can touch it,
I can destroy it,
If it's imaginable to some degree,
I can become it
Like a hungry turning vortex that just flickers to existence
Consuming bits and pieces until I'm finally extinguished

Everything you see leaves a mark on your soul,
Everything you feel leaves a mark on your soul,
Everything you touch leaves a mark on your soul,
Everything you make leaves a mark on your soul

If I'm a monster
I am a willing one
This roller coaster ride
Is an enticing one
On the tip of a continuum flowing wavelike through disorder
Carry me like a vessel to water

Everyone you see leaves a mark on your soul,
Everyone you bare leaves a mark on your soul,
Everyone you touch leaves a mark on your soul,
Everyone you love leaves a mark on your soul

Everything you take leaves a mark on your soul,
Everything you give leaves a mark on your soul,
And all the fear and loneliness is impossible to control
And every tear you cry leaves a mark on your soul
 
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