based on the poem "Stagnant" by Warren Vronay.  From his book "The Complete Works:  The teen years"

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i gotta chop it up with myself again 
gotta reconvene with common sense 
and get acquainted with grass, fool. 
Went through some self hatred 
went religious 
went through some self worship 
then atheist. 
I gotta chop up music again
but i'm terrible in production 
i want so much but i become 
a slave of ambition.
Is a cigarette as comforting? 
i don't mind the smell of 
yellow wallpaper and rotting meals.
Is it worth it?
thine life poetic and short-lived
the mortals get tired and sick 
but not you, prophet.
Yes, your body is sick 
but the mind lives in heaven;
every agony is ever present
every moment ecstasy; 
every second is ticking
every heaven temporary. 
You become a tool to an end
an insect, a human on nicotine 
with the buzzing wings, and 
they retch. It's all in your head, isn't it? 
All this extra shit 
Are you well met? 
underneath the layers
and sediment ; 
how much fossil is left? 
your mind unravels in its own sick ; 
what can i do? about the climate
this is crueler than i was taught 
naive thing
should've dealed before you bought, 
but i was born crying.

Stagnant - demo

based on the poem "Homeless in Hawaii" by Warren Vronay.  From his book "The Complete Works:  The teen years"

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I'm homeless in Hawaii, 
I can't afford to leave my island. 
I'm stuck in my mind, 
I'm abandoned. 
I'm walking around this colorful waste, 
beautiful fresh waste of life.
As all things die
I feel sunshine on my face, 
sunlight I feel without question 
will one day die too. 
And we're wandering, 
me and my thoughts. 
I find a coconut tree, 
pretty lady, 
we go surfing. 
Homeless in Hawaii, 
not such a bad thing. 
I'm homeless in Hawaii, 
I can't afford to leave, 
cuz if I left my lady 
then she'd never forgive me. 
She saw me sulking and made me feel silly. 
Put my head in her arms and said 
'you're a baby', then shook and cooed at me. 
Damn it if I can't be happy, 
it's not hard to be homeless in Hawaii; 
it's easy to get to the island, 
only difficult to leave.

Homeless In Hawaii - demo

based on the poem Forever's a Promise, by Warren Vronay, from his book The Complete Works: The Teen Years.

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Couldn't say what I wanted 
Now it's forever 
And forever I'm stuck
on the words that I left her.
Waking up to her arms as my sweater 
Couldn't say I begged for more
Shaky typing in the evening
I begged for more 
Now it's forever 
And never again, 
Forever's a promise God gave to the poor.
Couldn't say what I wanted 
Now it's forever 
And forever I'm haunted. 
Waking up to the wind as my sweater
Couldn't say I begged for more 
Shakey writing in the morning
I begged for more 
Now it's forever 
And never again, 
Forever's a promise they gave to the poor.
Couldn't say what I wanted 
Now it's forever 
And forever's a promise. 
Waking up to the smog as my sweater 
Couldn't say I begged for more 
Shakey writing while I'm driving 
I begged for more 
Now it's forever 
And never again, 
Forever we're lost and they made us poor.

Forever's a Promise - demo

based on the poem "Restless" by Warren Vronay. Check out Warren's book "The Complete Works: The teen years"

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Amongst the night owls of the world 
It's extra to stay late still
Morning will never come when you want it to 
Amongst these folk comes Desperate,
its mesmerizing dance and tail,
greet yourself wandering at the end of its fable, 
Desperate is a Desperado, No fallen angel; 
through its cuts is the bloods of a criminal. 
How they drill and drop
how its guts go splat plop 
North toward its teeth 
The North Star shivering 
And its skin covered in scabies 
Dance with Desperate's 
panting smile, furrowed brow; 
dance with fettered howls,
your chains quasi-ephemeral 
It always feels better 
It will only get worse 
And the night sky itself faces ember 
I kill myself, feed the Serpent 
I am fragile, high temperature.

Restless - demo

Based on the poem "What I guess you must be thinking" by Dave Vronay

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I can still feel you, you know
I can feel you, and I crave you desperately
I feel your lips pressed softly against my own
The dull, wide taste of your tongue between my teeth
The feel of a razor’s edge, running up my thigh
The stuttering stroke as it bites my skin
The burning of your hand on the new wound
It opens for you
It oozes in anticipation
Sending foreign sensations up my spine
Like the stimulation of a new sex organ
I touch it now, thinking of you
It is mostly healed
Just slightly raised
And no longer sensitive to the touch
I need to see you again, soon
My scars are almost gone

What I Guess You Must Be Thinking - demo

based on the poem "Waiting to Unwind", by Dave Vronay.

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Attraction?  Bitter spoils
From a war long forgot
Passion?  Old and soiled
From a time I cared a lot
-
I’m a young man with young ideals
But life has dealt me out
I maneuvered with complexity
Killed sound that I could shout
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My maze is deep and drowns to weep
To crush me what I find
But the first twine in has special spin
And I’m waiting to unwind
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I’m a clever man with clever hands
That feint and sleight and plot
My razors fan at my command
And slice and dice and chop
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And foolish me can fool myself
Go down the path to the river’s mouth
Climb the hill to the sacred height
Lose myself in status fright
Find a way in my labyrinth
To chose to say where my face has went
And trick so fast, I never suspect
My own cruel secret –
The unwind protect

Waiting to Unwind - demo

Based on the poem "Multi-facet Lust" by Dave Vronay

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If I could only touch you
So that it would feel for you
How it feels for me to touch you
Then I should

If I could only reach you
So that I could try to teach you
What your touch has taught me
That your destiny is not me
Doesn’t please me
But it ought to, for it must be
If you could trust me
Like I trust you
Which I don’t
But I will

And if your lips should kiss me
Maybe I could make you miss me
Like I miss you
Which I mustn't
But I do

And if your flesh should know me
And your colors should enfold me
Maybe I could thus inspired
Be a prisoner of desire
And do things that I must but shouldn’t do

And when the lies are over
And we both are so much older
Maybe we will be so bold
As to laugh and lie together once again

In this future that I long for ‘til my mind is most insane
All our sins they are forgiven but our longing still remains

Because after all the yearnings
The mind games, the enfoldings
The teaching reaching touching timid trust
After all the writings
The rhyming threaten frightening
Behind them lurks my multi-facet lust.

Multi-facet Lust - demo

Based on the Poem "The Infinite Loop of my Desire", by Dave Vronay.

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In you there is a darkness
And in darkness there is sin
And in sin there is obsession
Obsession – let me in

Obsession leads to madness
And madness leads to doubt
And doubt leads to depression
Depression – let me out

Depression is a sickness
And sickness is a curse
And curses follow karma
Karma – do your worst

The worst is just the waiting
The waiting unto death
But death leads to a rebirth of
the soul in happiness

And happiness is beauty
And beauty is what's true
But in truth there is a darkness
And in darkness there is you

The Infinite Loop of my Desire - demo

Lyrics are from the poem "Flex" by Warren Vronay. Check out his collected works on Amazon! "Complete Works: The Teen Years"

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I'm federal
operating on multiple levels
I'm jaded
cynical and expecting betrayal
I'm gaming
wasting time on entertainment
I'm working
making money and earning paychecks
I'm wasted
my talent allocated to all the wrong places
Still wasted
2am I can't recognize faces
Complacent
operating like an episode of Shameless

The Unicorn Song

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