
I love 
Love when you say my name.
I can sense pressure darling, like constriction to a vein

I love
I love the the way you lie
I can feel your frustration when I look you in the eyes.

Treat me good and I'll never let you go.
Treat me bad and everyone will know. 
Won't you tell me at least let it show. 

Give me can you give me ?
Give me give me 
 Give A little Hope 

Love,
When you go the extra mile. 
Wrapped up like the prey, lured by your smile. 

I love, 
When you scream my name. 
Say it for me gently, with a little play. 

Let me in, deeper in your soul. 
Or Lock me out and leave me in the cold
Whisper to me or turn your back and go. 

Love me long and even love me slow.
Love me fast and send me my way home.
Won’t you love or maybe let me go.



Give A Little Hope

I stood out side and watch the world from your point of view.
God knows I tried, tried so hard to see just what was coming through.
I couldn't see, I couldn't see what I needed to 
And you just fell apart. 

Straight shots of whiskey can warm my colder side. 
My disposition, I tired, but I couldn't hide.
I realized, I realized and then summarized. 
That we'll just drift apart. 


You say that I have changed.
Well what if I stayed the same.
What would we have gained. 
What would you have to blame. 

So when 
When will I see you again.
When will I see you again
When will I see you 
Or is this to be our end? 

You come to terms and came to learn things you never knew.
Changed your stance on dominance and me poor attitude. 
Did you see, yes did you see me begging you. 

So say I need to change.
In a tone so calm and tame.
The act of placing the blame
Is your kind of game.


So close the door and make up your mind.
There Aint no coming back this time.
Broken promises and dark lullabies, 
The songs of heartbreak in the key of cries. 

So close the door and make up your mind.
Or good by x2. Good bye




Dark Lullaby

Well I think i’m sinking in, why do I bother?
I know i had enough, but, has it had enough of me?
Well beneath this skin is the kin of late great wanderer. 
So, shed regret and learn to start again.

Well my nerves are wearing thin, why do I wonder?
This pocket of change will never set me free.
There’s tumour on my mind, benign and black in odour.
Pay penance and let me swim to thee.

Well I’ve got weight on my shoulders
We’ve got stains, from blood on our hands
we have our ways, to never ever see the end.
So just wait . . . . to start again.

Lets tip toe through the night and call ourselves monsters.
The things that children fear and parents endure.
I slither through the streets, a rush to dead men walking.
blood in your veins, no blue, no flow, no more. 



These Scars Show A Fighter

I lost myself
Among the guts and glory.
Amen to me.
For I have not to worry.

Amongst my peers.
I am but a trigger.
Amongst my tears
I’m not a forgiver


And If I was a better man they’d take my soul. (x3)
Yet here I am.                          
And I’m not going nowhere.


I aim to please.
Those who aim to please me.
I have my days.
Where it all just comes too easy

I’m not going nowhere. (x4)




Double Negative

Say it honey like you mean it. 
Ive heard you say it before. 
You want me to squeeze out. 
Just say it like you mean it cause i’ve heard it before.

Move it honey like you mean it. 
I’ve Felt you move it before.
Swing those hips around. 
Just want you to move it like i felt it before. 

I found a lover - wilder than me. 
I found a lover - wild and free. 
I found lover and know she’s a 10. 
when I start end she wants to do it again. 
I found a lover i must confess. 
I found myself a lover and  she’s a real hot mess.  

Slide fly my money. 
all over the floor. 
Dripping thick like honey. 
There's nothing to tell me  when you drip on the floor.   

Hot Mess

Your face exposed .
Where’s all that charm?
Rusted like a nail that’s been in the rain for far too long. 
Let’s use no words 
Let’s talk with arms. 
Come out of the frame, like the shrapnel from a dirty bomb 

These lines we crossed. 
They look so far. 
Way beyond our reach  and peeking out from the dark. 
Let’s tell no lies 
Set no alarms   
Surgical precision, separate and do not harmĺ


There’s no forgiveness, from here.
I feel the need to make that clear. 

The silence breaks 
Our fragile words. 
Those empty little phrases that contain nothing that should be heard. 
This will not mend
It’s gone to long. 
The solders getting cold, dropping hard cause it will not bond. 

I come exposed
To set of alarms. 
Came beyond your frame, seek to hurt like a bomb.

Like A Bomb

War Paint

Fine place for refuge. 
Wont you  waltz on in. 
to find face in a mirror. 
Try to comprehend. 
Why is time so angry, 
i feel its wrath bearing deep on my skin. 

There’s a house in them fields. 
maybe no ones home. 
its a good intention
To just leave them alone. 
Why the need to pretend, befriend
invitation to send, strangers a goodbye. 

You know i’d like to help you, 
Its Goddamn shame that all you do is lie. 


Hey nice to meet you. 
you say we met before. 
A lapse of recognition. 
This aint rendition I once endured. 
So why don’t you tell me your name
You claim its the same, but would you blame me 
if i denied. 

Maybe you will 
Maybe you Wont 
Maybe You say that I do but I don’t.
I know I know I know your kind of type. 

So, Have a fine meal. 
Of that over cooked crow. 
Eyes bigger then your belly
My oh My How your plate does over flow 
I don’t care for the taste o think its a waste,
Dont even ask me no don't even try.

I'm Feeling Idle, Just as well to raise the dead.  
This game is over, I just won it in my head.
I brought this whiskey just to try to plead my
and if you get down to the bottom, you won't need to see my face. 

Are you ready?
Think its time to turn you loose. 
Hard and Heavy. 
Loose this noose.
Cause its off the clothes or on the boots. 

My mind is dirty while yours is squeaky clean.
cause i'm on fire, overloaded and obscene. 
You say I'll pay if I aint gone by 3. 
So stick em up and spread em out, while collecting currency.

On The Boots

You know I meant your sister.
She had sweet southern style.
I really liked her attitude be surely love that smile. 
She said the house kinda lonely, think i need something to do.

I said i know that your trouble and i want to get in trouble with you.

I surely thought you'd find out and i'd be attacked. As you walked out through the front, i waltzed
in through the back.
She your gone till 130 i need you out by 2

Its a fine situation you grow up on the farm. We were kickin heels, in the loft of the barn.
I had told her things you said you wouldnt do.

Trouble

I brought you here.
Far from your home.
You were Tangled in the wires of a rotary phone. 
Declared your father crazy, your mother Fake vacant and stoned.

It came all of sudden.
Rush to your head.
When you read on your face that your dreams were dead.
Stepped off life's highway and into a drugstore instead.

Oh. Thats the tale of folks around here.
Oh oh. Same ol'tale for folks around here and you Ma'dear

Burning your good
like a hand me down smoke
Lace the bipolar ashes with last night old coke. 
Stepping into the fire without reason or lump in your throat

Oh. Thats the tale of folks around here.
Oh oh. Same Ol' tale for folks around here and you
Ma'dear

I name you chaos.
You name me weak.
There's a thin layer of flesh when their cheak to cheak.

When your cheque to cheque 
and their week to week 
And live day to dayjust to stay on your feet

Oh. Thats the tale of folks around here.
Oh oh. Same ol' tale for folks around here and you Ma'dear

Ma'Dear

Maybe someday we'll find that light. 
Maybe someday or wrongs will die with rights.
You've gone dark- you've gone rogue. 
Does your heart still beat cause your touch is cold. 

Maybe someday well have no regrets.
And to get to that day we need to disconnect.
The words we spoke - nobody heard.
Tension so deep you feel the burn. 

I got hope that I keep.
Locked in this chest of mine
It comes up my throat and speaks.
That It feels like it's doing time. 

Prison. 

Maybe somehow this hurt will end. 
Maybe someone has a needle to mend. 
These wounds do not bleed - their open and sore. 
Maybe someday they'll close a little more.

I got love so deep.
Borrowing through my lungs.
A lump that was born to meek. 
In a fear it might be hung. 

Prison 

I got a hold so weak.
I could lose you at any turn. 
If youre letteing go I'll seek.
A means to anchor firm. 

Is there something missing? 
Cause this feels like a prison.  
Is that your decision? 
To make it your mission 
To build up a prison 
To build me a prison 

Prison.

Kenneth Penney

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