Dissolve

Hazy lights on the road before me
Slow like a hundred trees passing
Blurry like the liquid in me
That echoes my engine running
A touch and a flip won’t discern
Ghostly signs and waifish warnings
My intent to dissolve in the morning mist
Together with the random thoughts
The automatic gods of memories insist
Deeper and deeper does the metal paddle sink
Like shards of images in the glass I held
As I drift slowly into the barricades
Alas I am lost forever

Let It Pass Me By

Another day

Another night

I keep waiting

Another way

Another wall

I keep moving

I don’t know if I could let it fly

I don’t know…

I don’t know if I could let it pass…

If I could let it pass me by

Another game

Another rhyme

I keep playing

Another name

Another time

I keep holding

I don’t know if I could let it fly

I don’t know…

I don’t know if I could let it pass…

If I could let it pass me by

Where the river runs

Gazing into the sanctuary
Where the night's edge falls
A chasm of ebony
...a river...of listless souls
Milling in the bank of Charon's fare
I tumble blindly under the boatman's stare
Hark now and in step you shall be
Never again the light you shall see
The beauty..the life you left  for me

What You Give

Who's the one that makes you happy?
Or maybe, who's the one always on your mind?
And who is the reason you're livin' for?
Who's the reason for your smile?

I feel so lonely, yet I know I'm not the only one
To ever feel this way.
I love ya so much that I think I'm goin' insane.
I'm goin' crazy, outta my head.
Goin' crazy, outta my head.
Can't think about nothin' but your good, good love,
And what you give.

Now, ev'ry one needs somebody.
And you know, ev'rybody needs someone.
Well, and a-yes it's true!
Ev'rybody needs a special kind of love,
And you're the only one I'm thinkin' of.
You mean the world to me.

I feel so lonely, yet I know I'm not the only one
To carry on this way.
I love ya so much I lose track-a time,
Lose track of the days.
I'm goin' outta my head,
Goin' crazy, outta my head.
Can't think about nothin' but your good, good love,
And what you give.

It's not whatcha got, it's what you give.
It ain't the life you choose, it's the life you live.
It's not what you got, only what you give, only what you give,
It's not whatcha got, a-but the life you live.
It's the life you live.

You're the one that makes me happy.
And you're the one always on my mind. And yes it's true.
You are my reason, that I've been livin' for
Why can't forever be forever and nothin' more. 

It's not whatcha got, it's what you give.
It ain't the life you choose, it's the life you live.

It's not whatcha got, it's what you give.
And it ain't what it's not, but what it is!

Only what you give, only what you give. It's only what you give.
It's not whatcha got, but what you give.
It's not whatcha got, it's what you give. What you give.
It ain't the life you choose, it's the life you live.
It's only what you give, only what you give, only what you give,
It's not whatcha got, but what you give.
It's only what you give. Only what you give. 

Grenades & Mines

When red roses turn to bloody blades

In our garden where a war is waged

And you feel that you just can’t complain

You’d like to die

Can you take out all the bullets inside

When I bleed in the foxhole I hide

Shaking while pain overides my pride
The die is cast…I can’t deny

Don’t take my life … but I‘m ready to die
For this flag I fly
Throw..throw down your guns
When all ammo is gone
It’s just you and I

Do you know where the barbed wires end?
Or when these shrapnel wounds would begin to mend?
When the enemy surrounds your gate…
You suffocate

You jump and crawl from all the grenades and mines
Eat meager honesty like a rich man dines
But when the swords slashes you up from inside
You begin to fade…

Don’t take my life … but I‘m ready to die
For this flag I fly
Throw..throw down your guns
When all ammo is gone
It’s just you and I

Did you burn your hands holding shells
Firing back at the enemy’s fence
When your back feels the bayonet’s end
You begin to sigh…but hope won’t die

Don’t take my life … but I‘m ready to die
For this flag I fly
Throw..throw down your guns
When all ammo is gone
It’s just you and I

Gazing Haze

Its five o'clock in the morning and still couldn't sleep
the lights are banging the window
my mind a massacre of sheep

day's memories like residual ghosts repeat
closed eyes can't exorcise
a moments peace my request to them i plead

city silhouette yawns and stretches in a lazy haze
beyond my window lies a new day another step in a journey
another run in my mind's maze

Lingon

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