Seasons are changing  
Faceless days are rearranged. I cant figure out  
What to make of this place I’m in      

People are zombies 
Or maybe I’m the zombie cause I’m searching out  
The bloodthirsty heart of everything 

People are honest but sometimes I’m so dishonest I can figure out
What the truth looks like  
You see
 
The household is borrowed        
There may be no tomorrow
So just let it out
Before you have to leave  

Gentle lover 
Wont you tell me where it is that you go?   
Distant lover    
Tell me something I don’t already know
Cautious lover
Help me understand your rational fears
Little lover
Help me wipe away your free flowing  tears
     
Effortlessly I’m lifted
No demigod, just gifted 
And now I can spread these cramping wings

One is adorned with feathers
The other claws and leather
We vow to be steadfast in between 

Gentle lover 
Wont you tell me where it is that you go?  
Distant lover
Tell me something I don’t already know
Cautious lover
Help me understand your rational fears
Little lover
Help me wipe away your free flowing  tears 

Without a day to get the hook out you can really lose yourself
If I pretend to give a fuck now who’s to tell           
It was me all along.      

Little Love

Be careful what you wish for
You know what they say
Now I'm standing in whatever the wind’s blowing my way
 
We fall apart and reconverge
Just like mercury
we never mix, just volatile
A poison I need 
 
I'm unafraid and it can hurt
But its not like I care
Let's see how soon we’re done with this
crooked love affair
 
I can say the words
Like the seventh smoke
They will leave my lungs burning
and scratch my throat
killing me
But lord knows I'm hanging in
 
And I'm hanging on
 
So be careful what you wish for
Because you know how it goes
Stuck out at sea goin whichever way the wind blows
 
So take a break then reconvene
Don’t let yourself down
Get too wrapped up in thinking things
and you'll leave your heart out
 
you can say the words
like the seventh smoke
they will leave your lungs burning
and scratch your throat
 
You’re killing me
But lord knows I'm hanging in
 
And I'm hanging on

I Love You (LIVE)

When my work here is done I'll rise into the sun and shine down on you
An ocean full of strange, my friends. 
Make no mistake, you'll shine on me too
This ocean's wintered waves got a live bite, like a snake i just grabbed onto
Right hand swollen in pain, and a smile on my face all because of you
As I struggle awake, my heart aflame with hate, my sweat keeps me cool
But my head spins insane, my body's like a dead weight to my caged soul
And when my wings take flight I'll surely learn all on this earth I don't know
Until that fateful day, my dear, all I can love of you is what you show

So don't be a stranger
and don't be a troubled soul
You know, if you're hanging around,
just be the love you show

I think it's safe to say the way we came to be was nothing simple
Crawled up from dust like winged serpents of the seasons to our temples
And when our wings take flight we'll surely learn all on this earth we don't know
Until that fateful day, my dear, all we can love is what we choose to

TheLoveYouShow

If you follow your heart you’ll follow truth
Or you can live in a lie, it’s up to you
We’re machines in a world we may never know
Catch a caterpillar, it’s up to you
You can feed him and see what he turns into
You can watch him die, you can let him go

I feel, every day, like I wait for a train
To take me to someplace I’ve only seen
In a pocketed picture torn from a book
My destiny speaks, call me insane
I was put on this earth to do one thing
So take me away, let me take a look

I never expected it to be easy
I just expected to be love
I’m losing my mind….

So I’ve made up my mind, I’ve made a pact
I am barreling forward, not looking back
Exhausted from living life as a ghost
Say what you may but I will refuse
To accept what, to me, seems to be a truth:
We’re all kept from the thing we love the most


Monarch

I plan to break these ties
You can’t change my mind
I need something kind, but kind of different
So, call me unwise, forgive me, or despise me
For being “oh so nice”
And selfishly taking it all away from you

What’s there to say when a heart cannot change
So one heart must break just to set another free
So it must go, 
And we reap what we sew
But I was never told we all sew what we reap

You love like you’re gonna live forever
Did you ever think to watch your step?
In the end you’ll have nothing left…

My lover’s in the back taking a cold hold of me
And I wanna be out, 
I wanna be in the sunshine
I wanna make it all alright
Birds chirping, laughter, not a cloud in the sky…

But my lover’s in the back taking a cold hold of me
She don’t love me like she used to do
And I’ve heard some things 
And there are some things that I’ve seen
I just don’t want to believe they’re true

But my lover’s in the back taking a cold hold of me
I’m sure she don’t know that I know
She’d say, “I’m not the light you see that’s passing through. 
I am but the window.”

But I wanna be out, 
I wanna be in the sunshine
I wanna make it all alright
Birds chirping, not a cloud in the sky…

And I don’t wanna let you go…

MY LOVER

She, she’s in there waiting for me
I hear her dragging a pitch fork
She makes me sing while I sleep
She is lusting after all that I need
Captures all my thoughts like a fresh sore
She makes me do dirty deeds

She has a callous on the tip of her tongue
She’ll speak a spiteful word like it’s for sport
She gives no mind what she’s done

She is laying, muddied up, in the streets
Like a vagrant waiting for an unlocked door
And this stays between you and me
But she has a soul about as black as a fresh road
And a rotten heart as cold as a dead crow
She lives off making me bleed….

She breathes me like a dragon’s fire
I said you ought to listen
I sold you a lie
So leave your lose ends all untied
And if you catch her coming 
Just run and hide

Monarch

Healer Warrior

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