HERETICS

Spelled in the cracks
Of the crumbling facade
Legibly spelled, yet you disregard
The hard facts
The future moves fast

The smallest of us all
Brings the biggest of us down
Time and again
What goes comes around
It’s a hard fact
The future moves fast

Does it shake you now  

ELIZABETH

Elizabeth, catch your breath love
Steady as she calms
Blood over water
She flows

Elizabeth, must you insist that
They should have you more
Blood over water
She flows

Should you find the sun
Would you let us know
It brings us back to you

Elizabeth, carry your head high
You’re fine just as you are
Blood over water
Don’t go

Should you find the sun
Would you let us know
It brings us back to you

Elizabeth, what could you find
That’s not in me
Elizabeth, once you were mine
The future suits you fine

UTOPIC

She loves her mother
She loves her child
But she’s not inclined to stay docile
Raised right in the wrong time
Etiquette decays, norms decline
A future torn between the tides
A want for that which gives life
Anchors drift in a swollen sea
A change of course could free

Swim across high tide
Your body breaks
You run against the landslide
Your body breaks

Her body’s bound
But her thoughts are free
A room of one’s own, a pen to ink
Word by word and brick by brick
She builds the frame of what we need

Swim across high tide
Your body breaks
You run against the landslide
Your body breaks
Utopic, Utopic
It’s your call, It’s your call

TO LOVE IS TO LEAVE

I’m just a little tired
I don’t seem to rest as well
When I lay with frantic thoughts
And conversations dwell
What was that you said
About the future looking bright
For whom did you think of
Your daughter or your son

Or me, the one who can’t look back
The one who carries the weight of loss
For your gain
Let down your guard and let me cross
To stand as the same

To love is to leave you

Nod if you can feel
The sadness in my breath
Inhale this honesty
It’s all that I’ve got left
I’m leavin’ here tomorrow
And the future’s looking bright
Hold down this home
Hold up this light

For me, the one who can’t look back
The one who carries the weight of loss
For your gain
Let down your guard and let me cross
To stand as the same

Kiss them all goodbye
And take my place

This is the song of sorrow
This is the song of my debt
This is the timbre of woe
This is the tone of my regret

THE NAME YOU FEAR

You blocked out the light
And cooled the sun
You held us too tight
The knot’s undone
Your silence ignites
A rage, a voice, a call
Try as you might
The time has come

Call me the name you fear
A name can change
Call me the name you fear
Names don’t mean a thing

How long, how long we wait

Your reasons too flawed
Remove the stones
Your stick is too small
My time has come

Call me the name you fear
A name can change
Call me the name you fear
Names don’t mean a thing

Lead this on we’re a part of you
Carry us on
Lead this on we’re a part of you
Vicarious

IT MUST TASTE GOOD

Fame breaks the best of us
Trade balance for bust
It must taste good
It must taste good to you
But it’s never good enough

Shine like a sliver screen in the dark
Shoots like a fire across our hearts

Made fools out of us
Laid thousands in the dust
It must feel good
So damn good to you
But it’s never good enough

Shine like a sliver screen in the dark
Shoots like a fire across our hearts

It must taste good to you
It must feel good to you

I KNOW WHAT YOU ARE

I know what you are
I know what you want from me
I know what you are
Trample on my dignity

I know what you are
I know what you want from me
I know what you are
Mandate what we ought to be

My colleagues
We’re sober
We’re so good
This threat sleeps at our door
Stay focused
Not honest

Don’t mention
This meeting
This secret
Collusion keeps us safe
Their bodies
Unruly

My colleagues
Stay patiently
Evading
Engagement
With hysteria
Choose your weapons
Words and daggers

I feel it
It’s coming
Their sickness
Their needing
What we have
God save us
They’re knocking now

FIST TO FACE

Grab a gun you charge
Make these streets run cold with blood
And its just begun
But you’re too large
Has anyone ever understood

That if we take what we want
Won’t we be the poorer
But if we make what we want
Won’t we take this further

You’ve overcome the pain of
Winning it just to take the fall
And you’ve come undone
But you push on
Fist to Face, a currency of waste

You’ve overcome
You’ve come undone
But you push on
Fist to face

If we take what we want
Won’t we be the poorer
But if we make what we want
Won’t we take this further

LOST OUR FAITH

Begin with good intentions
Attention to the hopeless
Crusader for the cause
But the cause can cost a lot
And the sense it seems to slip
It slips in what we say
And we lose our way

Words can move a million
But a million compromises
Weaken your resolve
And resolve can cost a lot
When you’re listening to arrows
Pointed words may sway
And we lose our way

Pandering to power
Power of protection
Sell the future short
And giving all we’ve got
And the posters fade to silence
And the words they rot away
And we lose our way

We try, we try
To change minds
Despite the love we made
We lose our faith

HOW LONG WE WAIT

Loss of what to say
You look the other way
Hold your fire
Heat fades
You’ll win another day

When you fail to think twice
You fight
When you fall between the lines
You fight
When words fail
You fight
Right is on the line

Swallowing your pride
Not everything you try
Breaks your way
Pain fades
You’ll win another day

When you fail to think twice
You fight
When you fall between the lines
You fight
When words fail
You fight
Right is on the line

Fear made you cross
Cross the sane divide
Here lays the cross
The cross of your divine

How long we wait to see the light

ASHES FALL

When the years are long
And the shifts are small
And the inch is won
But the mountain’s tall

See the ocean roar
Feel the waves crash hard
And you breach the shore
But the sirens call

Watch the embers rise
But the ashes fall
We gave more than we realized
Just to have it all

And the engine strains
And the gears grind on
Through a driving rain
Until the road is gone

And we hope for love
But we fight for hope

Watch the embers rise
But the ashes fall
We gave more than we realized
Just to have it all

When you feel your footing slip
Wait
When you feel the only good
Is hate

Breathe