Poetry & Lyrics
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The Stranger
In the light of the moon He watches me With distant eyes I know who he is But I can’t see his face He needs no disguise The stranger calls to me And says I must go with him But I tell him he’ll just have to wait Not yet shall I give in “There are some things that I must do Before I travel with you…” I tried to explain That I wasn’t through But all he said Was, “Life is too short to Do what you can To get ahead.” The stranger calls to me But this time I go along I have no fear that he is…
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Second Thought
Irrational decision Ignorance second-guessed To find the solution That ultimately seems best Conditional surrender To voluntary control Consequence awareness Takes unfamiliar hold With split-second appeal We can change our mind As second base we steal The crowd can be quite unkind As the tick of the second-hand Makes the pressure strong Our second thoughts Could prove to be wrong Rational indecision Afforded seconds less Can’t take foolish chances On choices made under duress Horrendous conditions Forced on you each day Logic and emotion Each have their roles to play Asking for second opinions Hoping to survive Deserving of a second chance To live out our lives As the tick of…
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Sudden Moves
Everything hangs deathly by the wire Waiting for a burst of wind to blow it from its lair And send it tumbling out into an anxious air Trembling at the thought of disturbance Waiting for peace to rear its ugly head On the edge — With just enough courage to stay there The fear of falling keeps it all in place Letting go leads straight to uncertainty Holding on leads straight to insanity On the cutting edge of a sharpened blade is the place to be To insure the heightened levels of anxiety Any sudden move can cost you All around us time stands still Looking for a reason to…
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Give Me Something to Sing About
Give me something to write about Give me something to sing Been racking my heart and my head all day long And I just can’t find anything I’m tired of singing of broken hearts Or the woman I had last night I’m fed up with singing about The world’s constant struggles and fights I just want to sing something That everyone will like And not have to sing the blues I want you to listen To what I’m singing And not stare at my blue suede shoes I don’t want you to hear me because it’s cool Or because your friend told you to And I don’t want you to…
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Sixth Sense
The whisper of the wind The roar of the ocean Telekinesis Is mind in motion Power over weakness Mind over matter The end or infinity Mind lost in the latter You can taste, feel and see Body working in harmony Used to advantage or defense The power of the mind’s much more intense Telekinesis Turns thought into action Sensory deprivation A delayed reaction Imprinted images Photographic memory Brain cells impaired Useless machinery…
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The Warrior
He walks with pride this gallant man His boots are stained with blood He leaves behind with every step The cries of pain and death He has a job that he does well With sorrow he succeeds But goes on to light again The flame that melts his soul His sword’s a very mighty brush Used to paint things red With this he paints the homicides Which occur without much thought He rides a quite majestic steed Which seems not to protest The fact that he will gallop on To fall amongst the weeds Together they will scale cliffs And walk along each shore To play a game with other…
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A Lonely Man
Decision by religion Make way for reality He’s got to make himself A place in society He’s got nothing else to live for Except pure existence His mind and body are Drained of resistance He’s lost all his dreams Torn apart at the seams… He’s had to live alone These past few years He’s had to wipe away The well-worn tears And he’s gone on to live a life Of loneliness and seclusion He’s had to put out of his mind His sorrow and delusion Locomotion and emotion Lost in reality Never to be found again In society Illusion and confusion Distressing memories Recurring nightmares Of tragedies And he stares…
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A Dying Power
It glows — it grows It reaches out to those who care It hardens and slows Always without a spare To keep it growing Just a little bit longer Abused and alone It seeks out its own kind Strange and unknown It must try one more time To find love And become Just a little bit stronger An ancient force Of dying power Seems to fade Hour by hour But all it takes Is a little bit of patience For all it knows It’ll find the power To carry on — Carry on with its dreams…
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War of the Words
Sounds come out that I don’t understand Those words mean nothing to me Call out a word that I can see Give me a sign, that we may share Our thoughts we could compare Lips move fast but make no sense I cannot comprehend Words come, I cannot send This wall I cannot climb, I fear These words are too unclear While struggling with the words Their meaning slowly dies Some try to fight it, some ignore Others wish compromise Words apart Come together when Thrown from the heart Their truth rises high and clear For all the world to hear… A mother and her teenage child Take the battlefield…
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Unicorn Reality
In the heat of the night Run rampant our thoughts So we cage them in the light Held at bay by our pin-striped minds Surrendering to shadows of doubt We close our eyes To the world we see We’re so frightened by the glare Escaping to and from ourselves Hiding the enemy within Feigning consciousness of thought Confronting obscurity With an open mind — Open to imagination… And a sealed door Closed to those Who have no dreams… In the reality of light Deception has such might Unleashed upon innocent minds Those ignorant of its power soon find They are victims of their own doubt We open our eyes To…
