STRANGELY SIMPLE
Words by: Caroline Walters
Music by: Danny Caing
Date Composed:  May 21, 2017

similar disillusionment
like feathers on the wind
like dreams had been scattered
in dark corners of the garden

the face of an unpolluted angel
the body of an accomplished sinner
the air of vulnerable innocence
they are all so plain and strangely simple

happiness replaced by panic
frightened and so weary
longed to beg forgiveness
unable all to tear away

the face of an unpolluted angel
the body of an accomplished sinner
the air of vulnerable innocence
they are all so plain and strangely simple

similar disillusionment
like feathers on the wind
like dreams had been scattered
in dark corners of the garden

the face of an unpolluted angel
the body of an accomplished sinner
the air of vulnerable innocence
they are all so plain and strangely simple

STRANGELY SIMPLE by Danny Caing

ANXIOUS
Words & Music by: Danny Caing
Date Composed:  May 21, 2017

she was small and pale
her dark hair tousled on the pillow
she was taking a long time
to snap out of her depression

she's scared out of her mind
she was only anxious
she laughed in the darkness
and liked to be haunted
she's scared out of her mind
she was only anxious
she laughed in the darkness
and liked to be haunted

not that it matter
she made love with uncommon passion
how long will it take
a leap of understanding

she's scared out of her mind
she was only anxious
she laughed in the darkness
and liked to be haunted
she's scared out of her mind
she was only anxious
she laughed in the darkness
and liked to be haunted

she was small and pale
her dark hair tousled on the pillow
she was taking a long time
to snap out of her depression

ANXIOUS by Danny Caing

OVAL GREEN
Words by: Caroline Walters
Music by: Danny Caing
Date Composed:  May 28, 2017

testing the sensibility
a glazed look of abject terror
staring at demons crawling out
of the depth of the pit of darkness

the marmalade light of the fire
slipped from one void to another
as black whirlwind spun out within
the perimeter of the oval green

gleaming from some hidden light source
around dark silence descended
dreams that were based on memories
bore the ominous green oval

the marmalade light of the fire
slipped from one void to another
as black whirlwind spun out within
the perimeter of the oval green

testing the sensibility
a glazed look of abject terror
staring at demons crawling out
of the depth of the pit of darkness

the marmalade light of the fire
slipped from one void to another
as black whirlwind spun out within
the perimeter of the oval green

OVAL GREEN by Danny Caing

FEVERED DREAMS
Words & Music by: Danny Caing
Date Composed: June 10 2017

the desperate existence
dreams were shattered forever
flooding other memories
dealing heretical lies

the persistent nightmares
burned with embarrassment
always watching closely
awaiting in surprise
pursued by fevered dreams
again the dreams would come
pursued by fevered dreams
again the dreams would come

casualties in order
a long mournful history
caught glimpses of the pale blue
staring into the distance

the persistent nightmares
burned with embarrassment
always watching closely
awaiting in surprise
pursued by fevered dreams
again the dreams would come
pursued by fevered dreams
again the dreams would come

the desperate existence
dreams were shattered forever
flooding other memories
dealing heretical lies

the persistent nightmares
burned with embarrassment
always watching closely
awaiting in surprise
pursued by fevered dreams
again the dreams would come
pursued by fevered dreams
again the dreams would come

FEVERED DREAMS by Danny Caing

INCANDESCENT BLUR

Words by: Caroline Walters
Music by: Danny Caing
Date Composed:  June 10, 2017

at that moment I saw
the glimmer of an idea
anger brimmed fresh in me
the blind rage seethed beyond control

faster than the eye could follow
a hovering tapestry spread
over the entire world
distant warning wailed
a billowing emerald fog
a green-tinged darkness
behind the incandescent blur

unable to react
something came looming to my view
there was nowhere to go
in a meaningless sacrifice

faster than the eye could follow
a hovering tapestry spread
over the entire world
distant warning wailed
a billowing emerald fog
a green-tinged darkness
behind the incandescent blur

at that moment I saw
the glimmer of an idea
anger brimmed fresh in me
the blind rage seethed beyond control

faster than the eye could follow
a hovering tapestry spread
over the entire world
distant warning wailed
a billowing emerald fog
a green-tinged darkness
behind the incandescent blur

INCANDESCENT BLUR by Danny Caing

PURELY ANYTHING

Words & Music by: Danny Caing
Date Composed: June 10, 2017

your intelligence
is overwhelming
your mood lightened with
a little laughter

you pretend not to notice
your pain 
your indecision
emotions you cried in frustrations
you cannot be purely anything
you cannot be purely anything

deep humiliation
could not simply speak
you do not recall
spending time in dreams

you pretend not to notice
your pain 
your indecision
emotions you cried in frustrations
you cannot be purely anything
you cannot be purely anything

your intelligence
is overwhelming
your mood lightened with
a little laughter

you pretend not to notice
your pain 
your indecision
emotions you cried in frustrations
you cannot be purely anything
you cannot be purely anything

deep humiliation
could not simply speak
you do not recall
spending time in dreams

you pretend not to notice
your pain 
your indecision
emotions you cried in frustrations
you cannot be purely anything
you cannot be purely anything

PURELY ANYTHING by Danny Caing

FEEL THROUGH

Words by: Caroline Walters
Music by: Danny Caing
Date Composed:  June 11, 2017

breeze smells of fragrant mold
and dusty hills
the world seeming to stretch
and draw closer

in a field of crumpled stone
blasted landscape
weaving unsteadily
meditative

images cascaded
striking pictures
a floating light flower
out of nowhere

glint with evil beauty
bright golden glow
through dark sinews of dust
natural storms

breeze smells of fragrant mold
and dusty hills
the world seeming to stretch
and draw closer

in a field of crumpled stone
blasted landscape
weaving unsteadily
meditative

FEEL THROUGH by Danny Caing

RAINBOW MASK
Words & Music by: Danny Caing
Date Composed: June 11, 2017

the sky yawned and flexed
the sun was a crown of flame
immensely funny
squatting near a small sheltered fire

along the river rain forest
a mindless walk on darkest depths
all memories just passing through
holocaust of lunatic sound
everything seemed empty
a deep thought of itself

a vengeful god mind
subjugated reality
futile rebellion
warriors from an endless desert

along the river rain forest
a mindless walk on darkest depths
all memories just passing through
holocaust of lunatic sound
everything seemed empty
a deep thought of itself

shivering in the tawny heat
a tone bounce across the highlands
a moment of silence tightened
engaging the dark emptiness

the sky yawned and flexed
the sun was a crown of flame
immensely funny
squatting near a small sheltered fire

along the river rain forest
a mindless walk on darkest depths
all memories just passing through
holocaust of lunatic sound
everything seemed empty
a deep thought of itself

RAINBOW MASK by Danny Caing

A DRAGONISH TWILIGHT EASTERN SKY
Words by: Caroline Walters
Music by: Danny Caing
Date Composed: June 11, 2017

helpless beyond thought
some said blamed your mind
don't let the agony consumed you
twisting you deeper your body strained
a voice was chattering in your head
it was the same horrible mumbling
lurched across your thoughts wanting to die
a dragonish twilight eastern sky

tormented voices 
sensed no one anywhere 
fear an evil mind
unravel dark secrets

helpless beyond thought
some said blamed your mind
don't let the agony consumed you
twisting you deeper your body strained
a voice was chattering in your head
it was the same horrible mumbling
lurched across your thoughts wanting to die
a dragonish twilight eastern sky

everyone is dead
in the mangrove shadows
silent as a smoke
touching the cold tombstone

helpless beyond thought
some said blamed your mind
don't let the agony consumed you
twisting you deeper your body strained
a voice was chattering in your head
it was the same horrible mumbling
lurched across your thoughts wanting to die
a dragonish twilight eastern sky

A DRAGONISH TWILIGHT EASTERN SKY by Danny Caing

SHADOW OF THE WORLD
Words & Music by: Danny Caing
Date Composed: June 12, 2017


the only joy left in life
were lucid moments
of pain-charged such beauty
it did not disappear
silent-though passion
surge of revenge-lust

at the dry edge of the cloud forest
there were needles of gold light
the rain creaking in the deep jungle
track down a rock labyrinth
inflexible diamond time
reality of an obscure mind

like an innermost problem
silent as the straws 
of twilight scattering
across the horizon
limits sensation
shape of consciousness

at the dry edge of the cloud forest
there were needles of gold light
the rain creaking in the deep jungle
track down a rock labyrinth
inflexible diamond time
reality of an obscure mind

the only joy left in life
were lucid moments
of pain-charged such beauty
it did not disappear
silent-though passion
surge of revenge-lust

at the dry edge of the cloud forest
there were needles of gold light
the rain creaking in the deep jungle
track down a rock labyrinth
inflexible diamond time
reality of an obscure mind

SHADOW OF THE WORLD by Danny Caing

QUEASINESS
Words by: Caroline Walters
Music by: Danny Caing
Date Composed:  June 18, 2017

expected deep sleep at last
just before dawn the distant sounds
finally faded away
awakened soon flushed with a vision

a collective sigh
away from the roaring
snapping bonfire
regaining the path
said nothing until now
lie straight and clean

visions forgotten later
the rote wisdom of the dead past
plunging into the darkness
the quilt of the natural world

a collective sigh
away from the roaring
snapping bonfire
regaining the path
said nothing until now
lie straight and clean

expected deep sleep at last
just before dawn the distant sounds
finally faded away
awakened soon flushed with a vision

a collective sigh
away from the roaring
snapping bonfire
regaining the path
said nothing until now
lie straight and clean

visions forgotten later
the rote wisdom of the dead past
plunging into the darkness
the quilt of the natural world

a collective sigh
away from the roaring
snapping bonfire
regaining the path
said nothing until now
lie straight and clean

QUEASINESS by Danny Caing

COLLIDING A DAYDREAM
Words & Music by: Danny Caing
Date Composed:  July 9, 2017

life was a dream of love
like the opaline sunlight
breezed over the wind-twitched grass
the eye see but is blind to itself

a true ecstatic music
beneath a sky shot with stars
unknowable as the clouds
words thoughts dimensions the whole mind-world

deep within 
remembering was unimportant
still waiting
anticipating the inner change
being born
there's nothing to be done about it

for many years living without fear
across its twilight dreams
it's something like a cry but unheard
colliding a daydream

a true ecstatic music
beneath a sky shot with stars
unknowable as the clouds
words thoughts dimensions the whole mind-world

deep within 
remembering was unimportant
still waiting
anticipating the inner change
being born
there's nothing to be done about it

life was a dream of love
like the opaline sunlight
breezed over the wind-twitched grass
the eye see but is blind to itself

COLLIDING A DAYDREAM by Danny Caing

MOON HANDLED

Words by: Caroline Walters
Music by: Danny Caing
Date Composed:  December 24, 2017

get out of here before
the real enemy shows up
shadow of the dead world
brought your mind back to the present

you hurt yourself for a while
you feel like water locked inside and dry
you had left something behind
relax and let your memories unwind
you hurt yourself for a while
you feel like water locked inside and dry
you had left something behind
relax and let your memories unwind

could not give it to you
until then you did not need it
it comes to the same thing
you know that it doesn't matter

you hurt yourself for a while
you feel like water locked inside and dry
you had left something behind
relax and let your memories unwind
you hurt yourself for a while
you feel like water locked inside and dry
you had left something behind
relax and let your memories unwind


get out of here before
the real enemy shows up
shadow of the dead world
brought your mind back to the present

you hurt yourself for a while
you feel like water locked inside and dry
you had left something behind
relax and let your memories unwind
you hurt yourself for a while
you feel like water locked inside and dry
you had left something behind
relax and let your memories unwind

MOON HANDLED

STRANGE LONG JOURNEY

Words & Music by: Danny Caing
Date Composed:  December 25, 2017

we could talk to each other
but were anxious to make
no unnecessary noise
past the great cascade
that formed the pool
to the curving ramp
marked its way out

years of the free life we had known
all seemed to disappear
it was a strange long journey
yes a strange long journey
years of the free life we had known
all seemed to disappear
it was a strange long journey
yes a strange long journey

a dim green light around us
advancing warily
now from cover to cover
passed the deserted
ugly garden
made our way across
ruined cities

years of the free life we had known
all seemed to disappear
it was a strange long journey
yes a strange long journey
years of the free life we had known
all seemed to disappear
it was a strange long journey
yes a strange long journey

STRANGE LONG JOURNEY

UNLIKELY

Words & Music by: Danny Caing
Date Composed:  December 25, 2017

it's your big echoing empty head
you are genuinely running this show
there's no change in the situation
about a painting on the display

satisfied eager
thoughtful and ready
thought knotting through thought
sensitivity
luxuriant pleasure
sense of amusement

making some unlikely suggestions
with an advice quite so much to heart
a disgusting place of nakedness
where the flowers grew in the middle

satisfied eager
thoughtful and ready
thought knotting through thought
sensitivity
luxuriant pleasure
sense of amusement

UNLIKELY

YOU KISSED ME

Words & Music by: Danny Caing
Date Composed:  December 25, 2017

I loved you it was a simple truth
I wondered why
I had taken me so long
to recognized and felt it
was it your lovely warm sensation

you kissed me
with the tender-roughness
your embrace was encompassing
you kissed me
long and tight and deeply
with a quiet desperation

as you sleepily opened your eyes
it was like
an endless span of time
it was nothing more than just a dream
was it really happening to me

you kissed me
with the tender-roughness
your embrace was encompassing
you kissed me
long and tight and deeply
with a quiet desperation

I loved you it was a simple truth
I wondered why
I had taken me so long
to recognized and felt it
was it your lovely warm sensation

you kissed me
with the tender-roughness
your embrace was encompassing
you kissed me
long and tight and deeply
with a quiet desperation

YOU KISSED ME

BORN OLD AND LIVE YOUNG

Words by: Caroline Walters
Music by: Danny Caing
Date Composed:  December 25, 2017

I think you took that chance
for another reason
you are not without dreams
you freak me out like this

but I can't help
what you make me feel
you could not be
born old and live young
you must feel good
it make too much sense

what is it that you know
that you do not tell me
there is one thread that seems
to connect everything

but I can't help
what you make me feel
you could not be
born old and live young
you must feel good
it make too much sense

I think you took that chance
for another reason
you are not without dreams
you freak me out like this

but I can't help
what you make me feel
you could not be
born old and live young
you must feel good
it make too much sense

BORN OLD AND LIVE YOUNG

UNFOCUSED
Words & Music by: Danny Caing
Date Composed:  December 25, 2017

it was maddening in its way
you're required to hear it whisper
and this was just another test
let your mind go empty and dark

the outside noise ceased to matter
taught you more than you need to know
an art of a mind unfocused
and letting time pass unhindered

you closed your eyes for a moment
so faintly you heard an answer
you thought you caught some images
simply broken out that way

the outside noise ceased to matter
taught you more than you need to know
an art of a mind unfocused
and letting time pass unhindered

it was maddening in its way
you're required to hear it whisper
and this was just another test
let your mind go empty and dark

the outside noise ceased to matter
taught you more than you need to know
an art of a mind unfocused
and letting time pass unhindered

UNFOCUSED

INWARD AND DOWNWARD

Words by: Caroline Walters
Music by: Danny Caing
Date Composed:  December 26, 2017

trying to make out
what it might have been reacting to
senses undulated
there was no happening out there

still far too thick to see through
not just one voice but many
that some of it was here now
and some in some other time

inward and downward
unbroken walls of gleaming green glass
the ones from outside
an odd sense of passage behind it

still far too thick to see through
not just one voice but many
that some of it was here now
and some in some other time

trying to make out
what it might have been reacting to
senses undulated
there was no happening out there

still far too thick to see through
not just one voice but many
that some of it was here now
and some in some other time

INWARD AND DOWNWARD

IN YOUR OWN CHOICE

Words & Music by: Danny Caing
Date Composed:  December 30, 2017

you just do not notice
because until now you have not cared
you just do not see how
this can be done in so short a time

look carefully
at everyone you see
and speak to those
who just interest you
use your talent to help you
be happy in your own choice

there is no need to fear
it's too much to withstand all at once
only you can decide
what you would do to make a good choice

look carefully
at everyone you see
and speak to those
who just interest you
use your talent to help you
be happy in your own choice

you just do not notice
because until now you have not cared
you just do not see how
this can be done in so short a time

look carefully
at everyone you see
and speak to those
who just interest you
use your talent to help you
be happy in your own choice

there is no need to fear
it's too much to withstand all at once
only you can decide
what you would do to make a good choice

look carefully
at everyone you see
and speak to those
who just interest you
use your talent to help you
be happy in your own choice

IN YOUR OWN CHOICE

I LOVE YOU HERE WHERE I AM

Words & Music by: Danny Caing
Date Composed:  December 30, 2017

what I really want
is just to see you again
to hold you in my arms
to make love to you
over and over again
until you're completely filled

remember you stole my heart
but you gave me your heart too
I could see it in your eyes
every time you looked at me
remember you stole my heart
but you gave me your heart too
I could see it in your eyes
every time you looked at me

I know you want me
to say I will love you
every hour of my life
what good would it be
without memories of you
making me smile and cry

remember you stole my heart
but you gave me your heart too
I could see it in your eyes
every time you looked at me
remember you stole my heart
but you gave me your heart too
I could see it in your eyes
every time you looked at me

I love you here where I am
I will always love you
always
I love you here where I am
I will always love you
always
I love you here where I am
I will always love you
always
I love you here where I am
I will always love you
always

I LOVE YOU HERE WHERE I AM

ZINC TAINT

Words by: Caroline Walters
Music by: Danny Caing
Date Composed:  December 30, 2017

I can't help but notice
that a lot of you are still here
something broke inside me
did not seem to realize it

that helpless sinking feeling
satisfied my own driving lust
my bruised egos were salved
trampled on the pains of my heart  

I lost my memory
I would not tell you anything
perpetuate a lie
I will wait for you to say something

that helpless sinking feeling
satisfied my own driving lust
my bruised egos were salved
trampled on the pains of my heart

I can't help but notice
that a lot of you are still here
something broke inside me
did not seem to realize it

that helpless sinking feeling
satisfied my own driving lust
my bruised egos were salved
trampled on the pains of my heart  

I lost my memory
I would not tell you anything
perpetuate a lie
I will wait for you to say something

that helpless sinking feeling
satisfied my own driving lust
my bruised egos were salved
trampled on the pains of my heart

ZINC TAINT

THE LADDER

Words by: Caroline Walters
Music by: Danny Caing
Date Composed:  December 31, 2017

you have to act as if you know
what's going on what's going on
you try to grab you try to grab
the next rung of the ladder
do not looked panicked as you feel
scrambling up fast scrambling up fast
on the ladder on the ladder
someone will throw you over

without nervous mannerism
you had obviously been outcast
you simply sat there motionless
you should have been more sensitive

you have to act as if you know
what's going on what's going on
you try to grab you try to grab
the next rung of the ladder
do not looked panicked as you feel
scrambling up fast scrambling up fast
on the ladder on the ladder
someone will throw you over

without simple motivation
you can't resist when you are wrong
you seem to have done pretty well
you should have been more creative

you have to act as if you know
what's going on what's going on
you try to grab you try to grab
the next rung of the ladder
do not looked panicked as you feel
scrambling up fast scrambling up fast
on the ladder on the ladder
someone will throw you over

without nervous mannerism
you had obviously been outcast
you simply sat there motionless
you should have been more sensitive

THE LADDER

RUNNING SCENES

Words by: Caroline Walters
Music by: Danny Caing
Date Composed:  December 31, 2017

it was already dark
as we stood on the beach
you seemed more confident
it was I who felt shy

you had a way of running scenes
I never knew someone like you
walking so close together
side by side silent for a time

I loved looking at you
you were so beautiful
so young and full of life
like a bright shining star

you had a way of running scenes
I never knew someone like you
walking so close together
side by side silent for a time

it was already dark
as we stood on the beach
you seemed more confident
it was I who felt shy

you had a way of running scenes
I never knew someone like you
walking so close together
side by side silent for a time

you had a way of running scenes
I never knew someone like you
walking so close together
side by side silent for a time

RUNNING SCENES

MIRROR OF THE PAST
Words & Music by: Danny Caing
Date Composed:  January 1, 2018

how frustrating
to hold the answer
in the palm of your hand
and not able to find it

listening to a dialogue
in an unknown language
you came across something
that you did not know you needed
there's no way in which
your senses could touch reality
there's no way in which
your senses could touch reality

sometimes you had
a little nightmare
you don't know the key words
you are badly organized

listening to a dialogue
in an unknown language
you came across something
that you did not know you needed
there's no way in which
your senses could touch reality
there's no way in which
your senses could touch reality

how frustrating
to hold the answer
in the palm of your hand
and not able to find it

listening to a dialogue
in an unknown language
you came across something
that you did not know you needed
there's no way in which
your senses could touch reality
there's no way in which
your senses could touch reality

MIRROR OF THE PAST

IMAGO WITHIN
Words by: Caroline Walters
Music by: Danny Caing
Date Composed:  January 1, 2018

a deeply drawn awareness
of past mistakes
lost in that observer-world
watched and listened

into a vision of the future
wore the deep knowledge learned and told
whose heartbeat and anguished wail was known
precarious way out of that trap

its beauty is all bound up
living with joy
uncertainties which weakened
seeing the dawn

into a vision of the future
wore the deep knowledge learned and told
whose heartbeat and anguished wail was known
precarious way out of that trap

twitched with the inner battle
imago within
the awareness to perceive
cannot preconceive
twitched with the inner battle
imago within
the awareness to perceive
cannot preconceive

IMAGO WITHIN

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