The future seems more awful than the past
Where every day is better than the next
If looking closely, it's not hard to see
How we got here, and how it came to be
If you're not outraged then you don't understand

Wishes disguised as facts
Too much is never enough
Standing, stunned, staggering
The illusion of safety is a trap
If you're not outraged then you don't understand

I want to believe in hope
But hope does not believe in me
I'd try to change things, try to mend
But first I need to know if the world is gonna end

deluding ourselves with hope
Hope keeps us paralyzed
Hope helps deny what's right in front of us
If you're not outraged then you don't understand

I want to believe in hope
But hope does not believe in me
I'd try to change things, try to mend
But first I need to know if the world is gonna end

Hope V2

There've been days when I could not find a friend
Get no replies to the letters that I send
All alone on empty streets, no one between  my sheets
Here I am again --- I'm still my own best friend.

And I know it's a simply awful thing to have to say
But people mostly bore me, anyway
With all that idle chit-chat noise, designer clothes and luxury toys
Here I am Again --- I'm still my own best friend.

There've been days when I could not find a civil thing to say
And certain times I have to push everything from my way
I rarely ever take advice (although I've thought about a few things twice)
Here I am Again --- I'm still my own best friend...

Here I Am Again V2

I don't know how to grieve anymore, 
I've forgotten how to cry 

Everybody's weary, and now too numb to fight 
Impossible things become du jour --- How is that a life? 

Mistakes were made - somebody got it wrong 
Everybody's watching everything go wrong

Rules and order breaking down 
We'll wait another day to take the kids to town 

And now we've held our breath collectively 
At the edge of a future we can't escape 

Time to exhale, time to breathe 
We have a lot of work to do 

Though I'm still breathing, and my heart's still beating 
At least a piece of me has died 

We stand by watching, stupefied at what we see 
The past has passed, we're here right now 

The only answers now that count 
are the ones that shape tomorrow 
We have a lot of work to do...

Tomorrow V2

I Like You
I want to hold your hand
I want to be your man
I want to twist and shout 

I just had a hard day in the life
with a little help from my friends

I've got a feeling
Do you want to know a secret?
I want to tell you
Got to get you into my life

I'll be on my way
I'll follow the sun
I'll be back, it won't be long
Anytime at all

I want you
For now, I'm happy just to dance with you
Across the Universe
Here Comes the Sun!


I Want You V.2

When we talk, we don't talk
We just throw words past each other
I would, if I could 
But I can't get it done...

Part of me is now part of you
and part of you, is me
I hope that I can bear that weight
How can “empty” weigh so much?

I've been alone
Alone on a beach, alone in a crowd
But lonely's not the same as alone
Lonely's so much different than alone...

I know I'm a little broken
Endings often happen fast
Despite all plans and expectations
Sometimes nothing goes as planned

And then it came --- the day before it rained!
My hero cape retired, my regal robes in dust
Now I live alone, Now I sleep alone --- 
I'll likely that I'll pass from this life alone

I've been alone --- I can choose to be alone
on a beach, in a crowd
But lonely's not the same as alone
Lonely's so much different than alone...

Lonely's Not The Same As Alone V2

So now I’m left just standing here with nothing but my name, again
Been through this before
And it always feels the same
Maybe this will someday be my only claim to fame?

Things change and sometimes have to end
And what you get you gotten
This song is dedicated to my best friend,
Whose name I’ve since forgotten..

I took a sad song today, tried to make it better
But things don't always work that way
I heard some sad talk today, that winter's here to stay
And there's no more month called May

Things change and sometimes have to end
And what you'll get you've gotten
This song is dedicated to my best friend,
Whose name I’ve since forgotten..

Learned a few new games I never thought I'd have to play
Thought my time of leisure was here to stay
Ignorance is bliss, I'm told --- that's probably so
Maybe I'll never be happy

Things change and sometimes have to end
And what you get you gotten
This song is dedicated to my best friend,
Whose name I’ve since forgotten..

My Best Friend V2

Time is for memories
One way to realize it's moving past
Those who don't respect it
Just fritter it away
Like sand running through the glass

We mark time with videos and photographs
And smells and sounds and visions of the past
Things that we've experienced 
in some way once before

I'm not waiting anymore
I've had so much time
And now there's none to waste

The passage of time is invisible to most
One moment to the next, and then it's gone
Life sometimes turns on the smallest of decisions
Time is often measured by the things we've left behind

We know time by the things we most remember
And sometimes those things we'd rather forget
Life often changes in quite ordinary ways
Makes it easy to forget

I'm not waiting anymore
I've had so much time
And now there's none to waste

Time V2

I'm ok with rules
All I ask is that those who make the rules
Practice what that preach
Not what they fear

Rules are good when order is required
But order has a border that including 
Those who make the rules

They should abide by the rules they make
Consequence should  be something that hurts
Rules aren't made to be broken
They're made to make things work

I've been scared for awhile
But now I just don't care anymore
I played the part of someone else so long
That now I don't know which one is me

I follow the rules
Even when it doesn't suit me
But the folks who make them don't follow them the same way

Rules are good when order is required
But order has a border that including 
Those who make the rules

They should follow the rules they make
Consequence should  be something that hurts
Rules aren't made to be broken
They're made to make things work

I've been scared for awhile
But now I just don't care anymore
I played the part of someone else so long
That now I don't know which one is me

Rules V2

Gravity and the sun (and every silly thing I've ever done)
shape the contours of my skin
I'm only human, after all
Can't pray to a god I don't believe in

And yours will be the voice I hear
the angel on my shoulder, Devil in my ear

Something's punched a hole in my world
my gravity, leaching away
An ego like an empty honeycomb
All the roles I've played, now retired...

Emotional devotionals, giving form to fictions
The urge to merge has faded, the urge to share no longer there

The urge to purge has taken root, This old dog gets no bone

And yours will be the voice I hear
the angel on my shoulder, Satan in my ear

Here's where we find out who we are
What happens when we learn the truth?
One day we'll wake up and understand what we've done
Open-mouthed in horror as we contemplate that news...

Emotional devotionals, giving form to fictions
The urge to merge has faded, the urge to share no longer there

V2

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