People Like Frank

it doesn't matter what you know
maybe it's best to let it go
but when it worms into your brain
they say you'll never be the same

he'll tell you secrets and
he'll tell you all you need to know
you're wasting your time and seeing all red
i'll tell you that i don't mind
you're fallin over my bed
thrown right over my head

you're in a place you never been
you'll find it written on the tin
it's not enough to come to find
whatever's theirs cannot be mine

another woman tryin 
so hard to be young again
comes and joins you in the leaves
hard as i've been tryin
you can't unsay what's said
thrown right over my head

somebody close enough to care
for whom it's not too much to bear
can seem too good to be believed
we're lemons fallin from the trees

to all the places that you love
but always fear to go
you bring your jealousy and rage
jailed without a trial 
for what you never said
thrown right over my head

if you're content to be unknown
you won't have anywhere to go
but if you say you're not the same
you needn't share in all the blame

and though your melody
may lull into obedience
all of the people on your side
there's nowhere left to go
as someone surely said
thrown right over my head

they say it's not a game they play
you know it's better not to say
and though they beat you to the ground
no one can say it's not allowed

again you're told that you are
welcome and free to attend
but you don't see it for yourself
you wear your scars the way
that others wouldn't dare
thrown right over your head

they'll listen if you're in a cage
but if you're free you got no stage
you let them have it all their way
as long as you're willing to pay

there isn't time to waste
and you must act so rapidly
there's money still out of reach
you take it in your stride
and put it right to bed
thrown right over my head

Thrown Right Over My Head (Demo)

Mechanical

Black Tar Heroin

New Day

The Android

i wrote this song for a uni assignment. it's about the movie dahmer.

(lyrics)

take the bleach and fill up his brain
and crush
a pill to pacify the next one
don't want him to run
but if he does
you'll say he's just a little too drunk
you know
your way around the ones who get close 
to finding the truth
you've worked it out

in the bedroom your mistake
is lying there and has to wait
and he's the only one who'll ever ask
it's moving fast and
and all the highs you have to reach
and the projection in your speech
and you'd resent the loss if you could care
and from the top you stare

when you trace it back to the source
you think
of when you ran away from that place
you're drunk off your face
you're all alone and
aching for a body you own
you want
to exercise the kind of control
that you've never known
you choose a path and

follow it to any end
it's not enough to just pretend
you want the twisted outcome that you've seen
and so you try and
find that it comes easily
although you have to drink to be
the person that you found you couldn't change
you've always been so strange

burdened with a father who cares
he won't
forgive or understand what you've done
and what you've become
but that's the way it's
always been for people like you
you can't
control the feelings you've always had
you'll always be sad
you have to be and

only in your deepest sleep
a world away from reality
do you feel you like you've turned out alright
they'll talk about it
on the tv and in print
without the thoughts you always think
and all the things that led you where you are
in a way you've come so far

Head in a Box

It's all about the lyrics, so give them a read otherwise you're missing out on about 90% of it.

(lyrics)

the candles together in a line
and they will see you there
if you can make it on time
under the looming shadow
of the burgundy wine
you didn't have to meet
below the poverty line

your tower surrounded by mist
you had to watch it crumble
while you tightened your fist
and does it only hurt
to talk of marriage and kids
and can you go without
or do you have to persist

all the broken promises you lived for
and all you had to say but never could
no one ever made you wait for this long
you don't think it does you any good

you stay at the places you meet
and you would take your car
and travel over the sea
and you were close enough
that you began to believe
and do you have to pay
when you can get it for free

you count on the people you know
and you can take it with you
wherever you go
and you can stand for hours
looking out the window
and you can be together
even when you feel low

on the snowy mountains by the lake house
when you run your fingers through your hair
you will have to turn around and walk out
and there's nothing waiting for you there

you work until the end of the day
they want to let you know
when you've forgotten your place
and it could take forever
in your ribbons and lace
and you reject the poison
with the chemical taste

you panic and wait in the dark
and it would take them years
to figure out what you are
but could you turn around
when you have made it this far
and could they understand
and want to keep you apart

on the empty shelf below the postcards
and the wreath you wanted for your door
is where you kept the candy hearts
the hope that you and him
would never have to part
and the faith it took
to shake you to the core

The Return Of Iris

Headspace Demo Update 2

A song I wrote while in hospital.
Here's a link to a video of me playing it: http://tinyurl.com/gvjp3j2
If you're really clever you might be able to watch my hands and figure out how to play it yourself.

jamesianmckenzie