Friday, July 29, 2011

If Not Now, When - Incubus










I have waited
Dined on ashes
Swung from chandeliers and climbed Everest
And none of it's got me close to this

I've waited all my life
If not now, when will I?
We've been good
Even a blast, but
Don't you feel like something's missing here?
Don't you dare

I've waited all my life
If not now, when will I?
Stand up and face the bright light
Don't hide your eyes
It's time

No umbrellas
No sunglasses
Healing Hallelujah everyday

I've waited all my life
If not now, when will I?
Stand up and face the bright light
Don't hide your eyes

It's time

Thursday, July 7, 2011

You Could Be Happy - Snow Patrol

You could be happy and I won't know

But you weren't happy the day I watched you go


And all the things that I wished I had not said

Are played in loops 'till it's madness in my head


Is it too late to remind you how we were

But not our last days of silence, screaming, blur


Most of what I remember makes me sure

I should have stopped you from walking out the door

You could be happy, I hope you are

You made me happier than I'd been by far


Somehow everything I own smells of you

And for the tiniest moment it's all not true


Do the things that you always wanted to

Without me there to hold you back, don't think, just do


More than anything I want to see you, girl

Take a glorious bite out of the whole world

Wednesday, July 6, 2011

Saved


I may be lost around you these days

Inside your mystic labyrinth if I may

Shivering cold tired and demented

When thoughts of you fall down on me like God’s sunshine

A deadly dance from present to past

A frightening painful ritual I must last

Like an ancient magic time surely must have had killed

That fate made stronger just to spite the power it wields

But I’m alright, though just a little bit deranged

Bumping into walls of you

Scattered into a million pieces of me

Going into a state I can’t control…I can’t escape

It’s no use; I’m like a blotted sheet of music out in the rain

Left unfinished thrown out without a refrain

But let this madness roll and rage

Because you still have me

Enough to turn on the unceasing rain

So let it pour down and drown me

If this is the only way to keep a little of you
Just a little of you with me

To keep me sane

If I can’t be saved


Friday, June 17, 2011

Glimmer

Hey Ian what have you done?
You went away too early to vanish like the sun
I guess you couldn't stand the night that had just begun
Growing around your world like some freaking spawn  
I know you couldn't see clearly beyond the glimmer of dawn
But why do it just a wee bit sooner?
Why be a little rash?
Couldn't wait to feel the never ending hurt slowly fade away?
You could have stayed another morning to pick a nicer day
I know life like a bad joke was hard to swallow
As the walls boxed you in and around
Like a sick tightening noose at the gallows
Wish you could have stayed a bit more
We could have had more tea...just a little bit more


Friday, May 27, 2011

Abelard

How painful is the silence that breaks this creation in shards
Passion so brutally pieced and torn apart
A muted scream like Eloisa's anguish for Abelard

O Eternal grief humbly concealed in disdain
Should a tortured soul beg for mercy or a sword
A remedy...to exact clemency from the stinging pain

Is this sacrifice? This bitter brew of love, hate and despair he regularly partakes?
Melded by his own miserecorde in life's searing goblet
As time like a gentle executioner smiles for fleeting pleasure's sake

Like a knight's silent ransom to save a fled maiden from cruel judges that reign
A misconstrued servant's last stand to save what he holds most endearing and true
From a voyage that holds the promise of more unjust pain.
Should this banneret refrain?

Thus in a deathly silence in this cold tomb he sleeps
In dreams he lives and in life he bleeds









Monday, March 14, 2011

Irresistible









It makes me smile beyond myself
How clouds move around
Around a light alien to the sun
In a surreal sunny day that now I can seem to reach
Scent of flowers beside my feet
Chameleon colours over a hand painted road...
A path...like a beautiful card that must be dealt with

Will you read this note in your dream?
Will you weep at the news as you sleep?
A treasure hungers to be embraced
Answers beckon not demanded
A trove of mysteries that must unfold
A journey sourly awaits
A path...irresistible like a beautiful card that must be dealt with

Thursday, March 3, 2011

In Between













She turns a blind corner
Skipping about unprepared
Looking for something about nothing
Following lines that go everywhere and around
Checking her watch to find not time but colors

They whirl in her mind
Inside and around
They dance in her eyes
Within and without

She gathers her strength
Tracing lights in dark water
Trying to make do with fleeting shapes
Anything that shines sputters
Because love doesn't matter
It doesn't matter anymore

They whirl in her mind
Inside and around
They dance in her eyes
Within and without

She gazes up to a sky burning
A swirling shine of all that she never minds
She looks back down
To the ground full of sparrows
No colors
But it doesn't matter anymore

They whirl in her mind
Inside and around
They dance in her eyes
Within and without





Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Miserecorde

Recorded images play as his maudlin star weeps
A voice distant yet familiar begins in earnest
The pressure starts as his pulse flees from rest
The trigger is pushed...the current relays
A broken trasmission...his breath in delays
Lights communicate in quick stark succession 
A bizarre reflection...a prism of love, hate and confusion
As the audience react in jovial cacophony
A silent image moves back across in gentle agony
The greet, the eyes, the smile...his miserecorde

Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Sink


Does this picture paint a chair to sit on
To make my peace and view my life from
Monkeys singing perched on trees
Saying the joke's on you

Could it be the light from a collider
Hadron's light to shine in my cellar
And all the chosen people cry
It's alright and true



From right to left the dust is red
Can't give it up
Till the sky is blue

From the North and South
What are these tears all about
Everything's changing hue

Start my implosion from this commotion
Can't help to blitz this motion
Everybody in this box
Say follow through

Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Shine













Like a light shining from a collapsing star
You reach out to me from beyond melancholic stone angels
Hovering, a silent shroud of gray
My will gasps like a dying rainbow
Smothered by the eternal sun
Painted of flaxen locks left to unwind and surrender
A death mask gently held down and fastened
I lay down to embrace serenity in peaceful disintegration

Evening















Darkness settles in
A yearning to dissipate
Silence in sepia


Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Ember



Naked in this world I came
Abandoned in this land in flames
Beseeching the caress of liberating rain
Bequeathed with love drenched in pain



Run lost and wild
Flee child of anger
Away from this golden mire
Your love laid waste in embers
Your love's like a forest fire

How long will you drink from this poisoned well
How long will this dying river swell
Will this night go on forever
When will you lay down your scepter

Rage shine down from a sickle moon
Love lies lost...slain too soon
Speak and no one answers
So run like you don't remember

Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Majestic











Majestic...that's what you are
I tremble at the whisper of your name
Swallows guide your feet
While stars form your halo
Darkness scatter like ripples in your wake

But how would I know?
Its more than I could handle
But how would I know?
It's always too late

Majestic...that's who you are
The room brightens upon the touch of your sight
Rivers sigh and fold before your path
Scared creatures elate at your presence

But how would I know?
Its more than I could handle
But how would I know?
It's always too late

Majestic...that's who you are
Knaves and knights kneel together beside you
I genuflect in gentle supplication
Subjugated by merciful consolation

But how would I know?
Its more than I could handle
But how would I know?
It's always too late