Can’t fight the feeling coming over me tonight
Pray for sleep and tomorrow maybe I can get it right
Because tomorrow is the next day of the rest of my life
And the quest is without any rest
I know that one of y’all out there is understanding my plight
Can’t even number the times 
I can’t slumber, I find
Until the break of morning light
I’ve got a hunger inside
No longer feeding on rinds 
Of labors only bringing in rotten fruit
Can’t even count the amount of occasions
I’ve considered confiscating someone else’s loot
But criminal thoughts
I always give them the boot
I wouldn’t look too good in a state jump suit
Nah
Orange is not my color
Born just like no other
Eros above the average in every way
The mannerism you’ll encounter isn’t common today
Calm and level-headed
In my circuitry embedded
An ability to reason
Is a real survival method
Avoiding confrontation like a pointless conversation
If you really want to know me you can listen to my songs
But fuck being agreeable
Stuck if it ain’t “me-able”
I see behind the curtain and refuse to play along
Compromise is dead to me
The enemy fled
And it can only re-occur if I let doubt in my head
“What’s it all about?”
All I am is my integrity
And evil advice is being given for free
The price of my soul
Would be impossible to cover so
Save it for a sucker
I just do me

My life is
My life is mine
I’m not yours
I’m not your slave

My life is
My life is mine
I’m not yours
I’m not your slave

Dismissing doubters just by living my life
And the haters are powerless
Cause they’re scared of my sight
Petrified by a visionary giver of light
I see right through the fear they wield like a knife
I’ve taken the stage even with a threat on my life
Because I never back down when I know that I’m right
The only thing that matters in a world of illusion
I get to be truthful
You can draw your own conclusion
I reach for honor in the modern day pulpit
Speak honestly
Even though the truth is bullwhip
I could play the game
Smoke bowls and spit bullshit
End of the day, I’d be just another culprit
Eros
And I’m just looking for clarity
But I’ll be happy if I get a little sincerity
All I have is all I am 
I want no pity or sympathy
And I don’t need the girlies in your town to want to get with me
I don’t claim a crew
I don’t claim a city
And for some strange reason that makes people want to fuck with me

Work, love, play
All the same
One jerk
Eros let the feather drop
Stay on earth
My worth is calculated in my mind
That’s all
Still anticipated by some
My fall
Never see it coming but attacking them soon
Fresh tracks when they’re running
Best path to they doom
Crack crack in the way
Back back of the room
Immaculate the package is
Eyes are not windows when you’re free
Eyes are not windows when you’re free
Think I’m gonna fail just because you can’t see?
Who the fuck is gonna tell me who I am, but me?


Tavern 33

I manifest
My will be done by me
Otherwise by none
Building calluses
Knuckles to the bone
If you’re interested in fallacy
You should’ve stayed home
Mind is in a zone
Singular focus
Fine when I’m alone
Attachment breeds hopelessness
Release stress
I’m finally in my element
Affecting the entire present moment’s sentiment
Steady on a quest
Motivation evident
While the rest are as arrested as a river’s sediment
Suspect a lack of talent due to lack of melanin?
I could give a fuck
But I can’t give intelligence
Problem with our culture
And an industry’s predicament
Too quick to put a label on an artist’s shit and sticker it
And I’m right in the thick of it
Swimming in a pit of it
And it’s making me sick

So I move with the force of a tidal wave
Eros, the emcee
Is the title gave to me
By the divine who has elected me 
To save those who shipwrecked and are lost at sea
And the cost to me is nothing
Veritas
Spread it
The truth will set you free
But only if you get it
If life likes to bring your eye a tear
Shed it
If the beat tries to raise your hands high
Let it
Most of the shit we see
I wonder what the purpose is
On stage long enough to undoubtedly prove their worthlessness
Hearing them speak I’m thinking
“Damn, what a jerk this is”
It’s too many freaks
Not enough circuses
I need a release
Or my belief is
I’ll be forced to feed a fury and then forcibly unleash it
Of course I’d rather peace it
Of course I’d rather steal away to beaches
Feel the stress release
And peel away the pretense
Stuck among the leeches
Sick of all the pretend
Fake smile every day and then wil’ away the weekend
David amongst the lions
Raise a fist in pure defiance
Satan’s clients urge compliance
Evil beat by self reliance
Confidence 
Dignity
Significance
Ability
That’s the main ingredients supplied to be rebuilding me
It wasn’t always this way
I wasn’t always feeling me
Proof that you can do it with persistence through adversity

But I’d lying if I said I wasn’t feeling the stress
The pressure in my head a constant ache
And nevertheless I press on
Because I’d rather be dead than mundane
Everything I say or I do is done plain
In a way
With allegiance to truth has come pain
As the voice of reason I’m the enemy
But someday
I’ve lived in solitude for 25 years but it’s worthwhile
Cause I’d rather die alone than be servile
Yeah, I’ve had friends
And I’ve still got some
And I love them
But that’s because they earn and deserve it
And never take it for granted
And I make sure that I’m worth it
Whenever seeds have been planted
No unjust claims and no irrational demands
When you’re honest with yourself you know exactly where you stand
A liberated mind, I lack in social dependency
Self-sufficiency is a burden
But it’s only on me
And I’ve got a million other people wanna tell me I’m wrong
So fuck ‘em all
I just want to sing love songs


I Manifest

Reality sets in, but it hasn’t taken hold of me yet
Wake up to wash the liquor from a cold sweat
Older than most who grace the same age as me
The pages of this novel seem to turn too swiftly
Groveling for alternate takes
Never do it
The fault in it can shake to the core
I run through it
If life is a book then I must be a speed reader
See the plot as a seed to pot a new free leader of men
I’ll give it all I’ve got
A constant conscience keeps a kung-fu grip on the stopwatch
I stop to watch
Wide eyes and tight lip
Visualize my next step
Otherwise I might trip, like this
A “sober Sunday” story I suppose
But no matter the metaphor
A rose is a rose is a tall small town boy
Wolf in sheep’s clothes
Bitch of it all
It’s the path that I chose
And it goes down to refill the mind drain
Timeframes are inane 
Time rushed is time slain
I don’t mean to cause pain as the story unfolds
But my sign reads: “thank you for continuing to hold”
As much as it is in my control to change things
Given the chance I would do the same things
Never lay blame
Own responsibility
See, I might have missed it when you asked me to save you, but
I’m not a hero
I’m just passing through


Hero

Sitting in the Lakeview restaurant
I've got everything that a guy could want
Some hot soup in a cup
That hot girl at the register
Just looked me up and down again
Apparently I'm interesting enough for her to bring her eyes around again
And that's not all
I just took a break in the bathroom stall
And I just took a number someone scrawled on the wall that read:
"If you're looking for a good time call"
Well, I guess my nightly search will soon be through
'Cause what good is a night when you've got no one to do
	"Hello, Melanie?  A mutual friend of ours recommended that I call you."
Think I'll go up to the roof 'cause it's such a nice night
Finish my burger underneath the moonlight
Take down the umbrella so that I can see the sky
Take a bite
Close my eyes
And pretend there's no life on earth
So it can't pass me by

But I've got everything need
I'm charming
And I'm tall
And I got Melanie's number off of the wall in the bathroom stall
And if I call her now then I won't be lonely later
So why don't I feel like calling her at all

I wish I didn't need to breathe
So I could take my leave of this place
Sprout wings
Fly away and soar through outer space
Build a nest on the farthest star
And finally get some rest
Not exactly course for the par
'Cause so far
The stress level is bizarre
Since the emphasis seems to be on the idea that what you have is what you are
Would love to take flight on a night like tonight
It's hard to say what's wrong when nothing's quite right
So I grab my buddha beads...and pray the lord my soul to keep?
Lay my tired ass down on the hammock
Let it rock me to sleep

'Cause I've got everything need
I'm charming
And I'm tall
And I got Melanie's number off of the wall in the bathroom stall
And if I call her now then I won't be lonely later
So why don't I feel like calling her at all

I think that money is evil I don't sweat it
Spend it just as fast as I can get it
Hate having more shit than I can fit in one car
So most of my money goes right back to the bar
Just got paid today but I'll be broke again tomorrow
And the phone call...
	"Uh, Dad, you got any money I can borrow?"

But I've got everything need
I'm charming
And I'm tall
And I got Melanie's number off of the wall in the bathroom stall
And if I call her now then I won't be lonely later
So why don't I feel like calling her at all


Melanie's Number

What's the dream?
What opens up your eyes besides the sunrise?
What is it that's giving your soul its glorious sheen?
What is it that's keeping you from sleeping through your whole day?
What can I say that would get you to stay
With me tonight?
I think it'd be alright if we
Made each other feel like we were needed
We could play pretend until we found that it was real
And maybe then true love could be heeded
So what's the dream?

Sweetest girl in the world 
She's my angel
But she don't go in for sappy shit
So I'll work a different angle
Do my best to play it cool but that's kind of hard to do
When you're filling up her trash can with your vomit and your drool
I made a fool of myself and she took care of me
I don't know why
Should probably beware of me
I'm not that great a guy
But I won't fight it
Because I like it
And I like her
Can honestly say I've never met nobody like her
With a heart that's immense
And it's genuine and pure
And my heart's been so diseased and I swear that she's the cure
Our existence in the same place replaces the frown on my face with a smile
And resistance is futile
To the force that supports our worthwhile endeavor
You and I forever
Rile me up when I see you with another guy
But I know deep down inside that you've got nothing to hide
And I've got nothing to fear from 
You
Would never veer from this path that we've chosen to travel combined
Two minds
Two hearts
Focused on the same goal
If consciousness had lips I would kiss your soul

What's the dream?
What opens up your eyes besides the sunrise?
What is it that's giving your soul its glorious sheen?
What is it that's keeping you from sleeping through your whole day?
What can I say that would get you to stay
With me tonight?
I think it'd be alright if we
Made each other feel like we were needed
We could play pretend until we found that it was real
And maybe then true love could be heeded
So what's the dream?

She may chuckle because I wear a belt buckle
And a headset at my job location
But knuckling under the pressure has never been a part of my method of operation
And if they ever found out that you had infiltrated the installation
That would be a perfect time for a vacation
A diversion
Little alley cat
Perpetrating like a persian
In impostor apparel
But it looks like the designer version

Now if you look into the distance there is a horizon
And this horizon is holding up an island
And this island is beautiful
And it's home to your dream (right there on the beach)
But no matter how you try it seems it's always out of reach
And if I could teach you how to make it there I would
But I beseech you (please)
Find your passion somewhere
Sail that ship right toward the shore 
Because dreams are what we're living for 
Until then, rest easy, breathe deeply of the air
And know that I care

And we can lay together on the elevated bed
As it swings use my chest to hold and rest your weary head
Close your lids and let the mind drift from what the others said
Instead dissolve stress as my hands caress back and walk spine
No sighs, no cries
Everything is fine
Being with you is like a dream
So I pinch myself
Because I really don't believe that everything in life is what it seems

What's the dream?
What opens up your eyes besides the sunrise?
What is it that's giving your soul its glorious sheen?
What is it that's keeping you from sleeping through your whole day?
What can I say that would get you to stay
With me tonight?
I think it'd be alright if we
Made each other feel like we were needed
We could play pretend until we found that it was real
And maybe then true love could be heeded
So what's the dream?

Here's the deal
I want to tell you how I feel
What's lost is found when I am with you
When you're not around I miss you
And even when awake I dream of when I can kiss you
And since you chose me it froze me
Icy grip paralysis
I don't believe that I could really be the man that you would really need
Can't figure why you like me
Though it might be that I'm tripping without reasons
It's scary to find a love that could last all seasons

What's the dream?
What opens up your eyes besides the sunrise?
What is it that's giving your soul its glorious sheen?
What is it that's keeping you from sleeping through your whole day?
And what can I say that would get you to stay
With me tonight?
I think it'd be alright if we
Made each other feel like we were needed
We could play pretend until we found that it was real
And maybe then true love could be heeded
So what's the dream?

What's the dream?
What opens up your eyes besides the sunrise?
What is it that's giving your soul its glorious sheen?
What is it that's keeping you from sleeping through your whole day?
And what can I say that would get you to stay
With me?

Joe Eros

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