Want
----

Been staring for a hundred hours.
Run down a spiral drain.
Keep mouth clamped tight, and it isn't right.
Three words keep running 'round my mind,
But my tongue is hard to find.
I need to let it go, because I know.
Dark secrets burn their vessel.
Tearing out to grab a mouthful.
Chunk of heart destroyed by quiet.
Yell it out before it kills you now.
Let it all out.
Used to let rumors do my work.
They got around real well.
Now they only hurt.
It's a liar's quirk.
This time I gotta say it straight.
I mean to do some good.
I'm calling out your name
While the chance remains.
I want you.
So now you know where I come from.
My secret's come undone.
My heart revealed my cause.
I'm lying naked at your feet.
Don't crush the heart that bleeds.
Take me at my word.
It may sound absurd,
But I want you.


Seethruskin
-----------

You're undecided.
You ride a fence but that fence divides.
No side is still a side.
A look in your eyes says I hold myself above you.
You can't see through my skin.
Hey, don't think that I ain't counting all the things you do.
I'll hold a floodlamp to you and burn you in your awful truth.
Born without a choice of race.
Held to blame and put in place.
See through skin and look at all that lies within.
I know that this can't cure it but if it bends and ear then hear it.
You, watch what you do.
You've gotta unlearn it.
It's a sickness that keeps returning.
You need open heart.
Enough of your joking.
You're gonna wind up choking.
Some words still can kill.
Hey, what kind of friend would understand a joke,
Could stand a joke so cruel?
Hey, color's just another number tattooed with a blunt old tool.


Fine Day
--------

If I believed everything that you said,
Then I'd never go outside.
And if you completely showed yourself to me,
Then I'd never go outside.
Fine day if you're not me.
Fine day to sleep. 
If the sun came and it wouldn't go away, 
Then I'd never go outside.
I've got no time for your Sunday afternoons,
And I'll never go outside.
Fine day...


Incomplete
----------

We hear your one hand clapping.
It's music to our ears.
You don't like the way we sound.
We don't like the way you hear.
Sorry we ain't hard enough to piss your parents off.
Hatred's not our policy.
We tried that game and lost.
You keep saying you're just killing time.
Be careful,
You're killing some of mine.
I don't want it.
Keep it to yourself.
You can't help it,
So put it on a shelf.
Well hate makes hate.
It percolates.
You're brewing up a storm.
This song's the head of your coffee spoon,
Mirroring your form.
The distortion's pretty accurate.
I'd say your head's about that size.
Your vision's been so striken by those beady little eyes.
And all the broken nursery rhymes.
Old hopes cracked open by cynical minds.
We'll try to work them out sometime.
I wouldn't want to be so cool in a world about to freeze.
You're so hard you're brittle.
You shatter easily.
And no one's there to pick you up
'cause you fucked with all your friends.
Lying there like an unpieced puzzle nobody can mend.


Imaginary War
-------------

Underwater screams,
he is so far gone.
Drowned out by the unseen powers in unseen ways.
Fists clenched to fight,
It's a fearless wall.
Takes your soul and grinds it all.
Let it go.
Some things aren't meant to be now.
Battlesore.
Why fight a war that's been decided?
Change your course.
Feel out your enemy now.
Realize you can't fight a war without a weapon.
Ran off to war but you couldn't find the battlesite.
Seems you missed the fight.
It's imaginary.
Causes, clauses clog your mind with their spite.
Like the preacherman who lectures hard on supersin,
He's soon found out in bed.
Too long your mind's on fire.
It's got you firmly in its grasp,
A keyless clasp.
If you had an edge you just might cut loose.
But you've been dulled with age and ease.
Your muscles seized.
Please beware.
You should prepare yourself now.
Nevermore.
Don't come to class without your homework.
Resign yourself.
It takes work to make it here now.
Realize...


Busy
----

When all the old consoling places lose their charm
And change their faces.
The world becomes too cruel to bear
And something in you starts to tear.
When nothing seems to be quite worth it
And sleep becomes the only sure thing.
I'm here to help you out of it.
Come and see me for a lift.
We're all close to the end.
Don't you need a friend?
Honor your allegiances.
Everyone is drowning in sand.
Couldn't you use a hand?
Please don't make me guess.
When changes make the world a stranger.
No one calls and your life's in danger.
If the money's gone without a trace
And you're longing for a familiar face.
Cars collide and people die.
You begin to shake 'til you start to cry.
If disasters only multiply.
My door is open.
Drop on by.
Sad again,
You're sad again.
Hey, 
You're breaking down.
Your eyes betray your new smile.
When keeping up is killing you
And you need a ruling without a clue.
When being cool means being dead
And your better thoughts are better left unsaid.
If you're sad to see your gun's unloaded.
Tried to drown but you only floated.
If the world is only getting colder,
I'd like to offer you a dry shoulder.
Whoa!


Softcore
--------

I'm putting on my blinders. 
I'm walking straight to me.
I'm following my carrot.
It's plenty hard to reach.
Keep your foot out of my door.
I don't want you on my floor.
Yeah,
Take it from the source.
Yeah,
It's killing my softcore.
I'm dressed in my best soul.
You drag it through the mud.
I'd like to keep my skin on.
It's holding in my blood.
Open wounds that never heal.
You're the flies and I'm the meal.
Don't listen.
It's not the truth just because it glistens.
It's painted. 
The coloration's tainted.
Skin looks good on paper to a million hungry eyes.
They just want the wrapping. 
They throw away the prize.
Show her body.
Fuck her mind.
Fuck her body.
Why's she crying?


Driven
------

A darker power.
Thick blood inside a flower.
A beast who preys on love,
Love?
The need is there.
It supersedes the care.
Driving the flesh to merge this urge.
It's come to killing. 
The reckless ones who need fulfilling.
Anything for a laugh,
Laugh.
A senseless murder.
You meant to love but found you hurt her.
Only in death will she forget.
Doesn't matter much.
Everyone is out of touch.
And no one wants to learn.
What I'm talking about is a city full of fear and doubt
And I'd like to see it burn.
She moves his hand.
He has a larger plan.
He thinks she'll like it in the end,
The end.
It was the screaming.
A part of her got too close.
The kind of truth that hurts the most.
I understand it.
A drowning man grabs all he can.
Just tell it to her friend,
Friend.
Hunger moves us.
It makes us kill and then it soothes us.
Some call it a right.
I call it a wrong.


Wound
-----

Tried to squeeze my eyes and scrape up my skin.
There's a hole in my head where the bullet went in.
I think it's all in your heart.
And I think it's all in your mind.
You just got to split the difference.
Tell me what it is you find.
Feel my burning rash.
Old scabs on my back.
Deep red welts from hating myself.
I was once,
Once so strong.
Things seemed sure,
Things long gone.
Don't look,
Don't look down.
Will I ever be part of the here and the now?
And if I am my world,
Then this planet it won't last.
It keeps running down.
It's fading so fast.


Down
----

This is the world,
Why are you waiting?
Everyone's standing by hesitating.
So many people halfway there.
Between two points in the middle of nowhere.
And all those things you thought you'd be.
Did you know that it doesn't come free?
Have you seen yourself of late?
Standing still beside the kill.
Have you really got your fill?
Time to try for more than that.
At times your feet they seem to slide.
Never stop.
Never break your stride.
And if you slip you can get up.
Get up!
That's the wonder of the winner's cup.
Put your foot down.
Into the shaky ground.
Piss around a circle and make it sound.
Look around.
See the people lying down.
Listen now.
Can't you hear the sound of machines all breaking down.
The fuel is running out.
The severed lines destroyed by too much time spent down.
My head forced down.
My hope forced down between my legs.
I come unwound.
All my preaching stems from fear.
You're my concern.
I hold you dear.
You must break out of this old cage.
Do it now.
This is no longer safe.


Gutless
-------

Swallow your pride.
But take it slow.
You might just choke on it.
And you wouldn't want to do a thing like that.
What's left inside without your words
And fists to hold them up?
Can you look at it without rose colored lenses?
Doesn't speak too well of you.
You crawl to pass their tests.
I would like to help you but
I'm not sure who to address.
There are so many of you.
Used to be just one.
Lost you to the other side
To promises of fun.
Do you define yourself by some remembered set of empty phrases?
Do you question them at all?
Is what you do and what you say just following companions?
Do you do it from fear of not belonging?
I don't condemn you.
I know that we've all got to cling to something
To find our way through this life.
Just look inside and see if your beliefs have any meaning.
Or are they something that you found?


Drone
-----

Go ahead burn what you can't hide.
Try to unlearn what's clear to the eye.
It's a matter of fact.
But fact don't fit.
We gotta rewrite.
We recount the dead.
Two makes one now.
We're counting on our hands.
We're out of fingers.
We shower in your blood and crawl inside you.
You harden in our form like statues.
Alone in this place.
The others are gone.
I wire the base.
They say push on.
The salt's in my eyes.
The fire's in my lungs.
I take my best shot.
I'm shot!
Drone.
Fact and fictions all blurred to fit them.
Drone.
The ceaseless hum.
The factory drum.


Lawn
----

Man on his lawn,
Staring inside his house.
And it looks so strange,
He doesn't know anyone.
Familiar faces,
Still none to recognize.
They walk around, 
In the glass house he fell through.
He sees strange now.
Left behind.
Took off one day,
He ran an errand.
He kissed his kids,
Started walking and couldn't stop.
Wandered for years,
Looking for the good life.
There's no such thing,
Just life itself.
Still staring in,
Two children playing.
The knot unwinds,
The thaw begins inside.
His wife walks out,
She walks right through him.
He disappears,
The sky clears.


Crane
-----

Takes a crane to pick me up.
A twenty gallon coffee cup.
A metal flag to move my brow.
Indelible's my color now.
Forever is the time it takes to get me going.
Can you wait?
I'll be along now any year.
Progress slowed by heightened fear.
I got a broken crown.
I went from king to clown.
Don't think I'm down.
A fool's got so much less to lose.
I see your tower's tall.
But tall ain't all.
You can rise above,
But it's that much further you must fall.
Life's a race that I can't run.
I curse the man who fired the gun.
Concrete socks and cement shoes.
The race was fixed I'm gonna lose it.
There's danger in a desperate man.
Watch yourself I'm panicking.
I know my time is almost done.
It's now or never.
Never comes.
We're young yet.
Too young to regret it.
I see you play it safe.
If you had a dime I bet you wouldn't bet it.
Well that's cool.
What's advice from a fool?
Just hear me out.
This is what I'm all about.
Twenty-one in need of fun.
Growing old.
Twenty-two it could be through.
Enlist now.
No one knows where it is going,
But it's up from down.
Could well be I'm full of shit.
Saying never guarantees it.
Still I'm not some posicreep.
Reality my soul do keep.
Living on the brighter side.
Living only half a life.
I keep my feet tied to the ground.
I let my head go wander 'round.


Eye-5
-----

In unbearable traffic.
Radio and it's deafening static.
I got my dick in my hand.
Super sanitary garbage man.
Bearing down the interstate.
Feeling hate for hate's sake.
The gun felt good in my hand.
Like an angel in the devil's land.
Though it might sound strange,
Angels call my name.
While it seems insane,
I hold them to blame.
Hood ornament my trusty sight.
The time has come to put things right.
I am here to make things clean.
Man, oh man,
What a violent scene.
Target!
Target!
Woman!
Whore!
This is it.
The holy war.
Steady now.
Draw back the hammer.
Blinding flash.
Nothing's the matter.
Though it might sound strange,
Angels call my name.
While it seems insane,
I hold them to blame.
I should be king.
Angels do the strangest things.
Got a good feeling.
'Bout time I beat my wings.
Her foot turns to lead on the pedal.
Multiple collision,
The flesh it settles.
Glass, gas, a punctured lung.
An angel's work is never done.
Across town another job in need of doing.
My arm's all fucked,
In need of some gluing.
Crank up the box,
Dig the noise between stations.
Pin in my arm for concentration.