Keep score,
They'll move the posts some more
You've gotta keep an eye on dems

Kneel down
Or put your ear to the ground

You'll find a current somewhere
You'll find a current somewhere
You'll find your way out there.

No one's been keeping up with the games you've had us play
All the while your goal gets further, further away
With our lost gold and rations tucked up in your belt
We know from here you've sealed us in your hard-earned Hell.

Read plays
And audibles along the way
You'll plunder so much more when your defense can score
You'll plunder so much more when your defense can score

No one's been keeping up with the games you've had us play
All the while your goal gets further, further away
With our lost gold and rations tucked up in your belt
We know from here you've sealed us in your hard-earned Hell.



A Collection of music mostly written in 2020.

Keep Score

Patiently,
'Cross opal plates with perfect symmetry

Knowingly,
You've spied the sight of his prowling '63

Town all knows
"He hasn't given that one up since the last war"

Then it dawns,
What would god come here for?

I know it's tough,
I know it's crime
But my back's been hurting all the time
And I know that I could make it
If I only could fake it enough.



A Collection of music mostly written in 2020.

Town All Knows

Tales of spinning sand
Hanging on
Flung about and through
All this for you

But can you stand it?
The pressures of one planet?
Do you know that you are here today?

A hunt for fallen stars
Amidst a haze of suspicion
Yet no one with a cap
Has ever read the map

But can you stand it?
The pressures of one planet?
Do you know that you are here today?

Another healthy stress
Lost on the West
Sung about and through
From me to you



A Collection of music mostly written in 2020.

Tales Of Spinning Sand

You can't feel the love
When you're lost high above
Can you?

And nothing is fair
When you've lost all your hair
huh?

You'd be damned to know your worth
'Cause it can't get much worse, can it?
And forget the times 
When you forget the reasons to
Keep writing rhymes

Number One: It's Fun
Number Two: It's You
Number Three: It's Me.




A Collection of music mostly written in 2020.

Can It

We laughed all day our way about the shop
The window cat, the curtains and the loft.
Yet no one else is following me
Reminds me that I'm good company

Sailed out to skate across the frozen lot
The corner bum holds one
The ticket stop

and passed a vase with its eyes worn off
Whose in its arm still held some pot




A Collection of music mostly written in 2020.

Good Company

Upon his bike
He rode the sky
Like no one else before him
"it's not unpleasant"

But the wheel didn't stop
Foreign lands he'd spun across
A true testament to his skill

But then the man overreached
Had the bicycle seized
So no one would ride anymore
That's for sure!

And the time of the man
Is too much for all our young brains to comprehend
We need someone to play the cards right
Through the gunfight

To be held in the arms of everything good
Just like you should
To know wrong from the right
and to walk with the Light

"This is just about as nice as i could be.
What, with this badge and all..."

And the mind of the man
Is too much for all our young brains to comprehend
We need someone who plays the cards right
Through the gunfight

And the mind of the man
Is too much for all our young minds to comprehend
We need someone who sings the song right
Through the whole night.



A Collection of music mostly written in 2020.

Bicycle Day

Starlight and Sunshine
The same
I'm with you

Old friends
Gazing slack 
With eyes on their backs
And hooks for heads.

Awash with the woods
With brightness all around you
And cast with salt
Then drenched in gold

I tried to keep the sight from my eye
Now I'm the soldier

Gone are the days
When men crashed their waves
On rocks in the sun



A Collection of music mostly written in 2020.

Rocks In The Sun

Before We Spoke
The forest shook
The last match of the book was lit

Began the tale
With tattered sails
A voice as monotone as me,
It would be.

The flock cast off
The she'd burned the cloth
The Oak her viewership of one

Who'd seen the crime
Paid it no mind
Herself a victim of some laws

"I wear the sound
Bathe in the ground
Her story justified as mine."


A Collection of music mostly written in 2020.

The Oak Who Wears The Ground

I can see you listening to me sweetly
Upon your balcony
n' your eyes are moving slowly
For you've only seen it's me.

Although your toe was tapping
You told me it was a beat behind
n' I felt myself imploding
Because that was on my mind
On my mind...

Where nothing lasts forever 
Yet no one can be sure
Accept your lessons learned
And leave your blues at the door.

'Cause time is just the bullhorn
That calls you to your race
So prune your soul's leaves slowly 
And see you're stuck in space!
Stuck in space

Balcony Scene

Today I was mad
Running round, feeling sad
Trying to iron out rhymes in my head

I'm keeping a pace
A steady-going second place
I've learned all my grace for you

They say no one is ever lost
At least that's what my songs have sang
You'll find me here with all my thoughts in tatters
With yesterday still ringing in my ears

They say no one is ever lost
At least that's what my songs have sang
You'll find me here with all my thoughts in tatters
With yesterday still ringing in my ears
With yesterday still ringing in my ears

Steady Going Second Place

The Kids Don't Stand A Chance

Broken, I was
At its best it's in your head
Everything was going well
Until that stupid trend

The cold can't kill us
Just bends us into shapes
And tells us to go
Where we wouldn't think

Back out east to New York City I will go
Way down Forsythe I will follow you
Oh, I will follow you

Oh, You're the best that I've got
Why can't you see
When I'm twenty three
Nothing I say will matter to anyone
Oh, why can't you see
Oh, you're just for me
As fucked up as it seems
We'll make it out safe
And we'll both leave

Oh, you wrote me a love note
But what does it say?
This brew's got me asking
This brew's got me asking
No.

Oh, You're the best that I've got
Why can't you see
When I'm twenty three
Nothing I say will matter to anyone
Oh, why can't you see
Oh, you're just for me
As fucked up as it seems
We'll make it out safe
And we'll both leave

When I'm Twenty Three

Mother Mary says to me
"Why am I awake, is this real at all?
Gold and Green with Silver Screens,
We know we mean everything to you"

So, I'll elate my precious time
And we'll become a different kind of true
So kick me once or drop me twice,
Whichever it'll be so nice for you

Oh love, Oh love
Tell me everything you do

Mary, Mary
I'm confused by you

You're used for good,
You're used for wrong
I know I won't be here long with you

I will play a different song
When you are not upon my tongue this week.

So, I'll elate my precious time
And we'll become a different kind of true
Kick me once or drop me twice,
Whichever it'll be so nice for you
For you
For me

Mother Mary

How I wish that you were here
To keep me on-path between my ears
The flashes and the cracks will all grow cold
But I'll still love your greens and golds

What will it take to step outside
and scream that you're in overdrive?
Once more, I don't know where you're going
Us and them?
It's us for I, and I don't need no alibi
For once I can see where we're going,
Where we're going

Grow my vines and tell me lies again
And when we're done having fun we'll send
A postcard or some letters to the men
Telling them how we'll be back again

To find the lies and compromise 
The way we see ourselves, the way we see ourselves
as glass and rings, we ain't these things
Let's value all ourselves, let's value all ourselves

Trees Will Stay (4x)

Trees.

I can't read minds
But sometimes I try
And although you're in love with Pierre,
I guess I'll just sit right here

The concrete feels fine
Up and down my spine
But I'll get my chance to shine

So take your time
and I'll sit in line
To hope you're mine
Until our silent decline

Kick me, I wanna feel that boot
Slam square into my jaw
Corrode the waste from my face and replace it with his grace
And give me all your old plates, my friend.

Purloin my mind
You seemed so kind
You'll miss outright
My audible incline

Pierre

The year that you're awake
Is just the time it takes to hide your old mistakes
So hollowed out to where you know just what I mean
We're drinking gasoline like we love it

So shell out,
Don't doubt
What you heard just must be true,
It was born from me and you
But the matter of the fact is we're too far gone to tell

(swim back to shore, go back for more than what you bargained for)

So take it all like dope in stride,
Be sure to cure your appetite
It's everywhere you go
It's everywhere to go
Your misters and the misses say
It makes your mind fade away
It keeps you up at night
That's only true in light
and light flows on within and without you
But the matter of the fact is the UV's hard to see

Will you wait for me stay?
Or will you desert me again?
Will you stay

Matter Of The Fact

"Come in", We'll say
and the bands will play
Their scripts of love for us
Light up at the top of the stairs,
You stare at me and say "What can we be?"

It's so, it's all I know

The strings all sing
and make the fling something to marvel in
Gin-breath thinks twice, before the wife
Just as he draws his pipe
"Thyme, have you got a light for me?
I'm ripe in where I ought to be."

Oh, it's all we know
What will we take to show?

Thyme

It's been a while since we were in the same room
But it don't feel like I ever left you
For a while we took our time to fan the signal
We both know how abysmal this can be

(but can you bear with me?)

It came to me within a dream, I swear it
Apostles on your neck, just where you'd lay them
Make me sharp, make me clean
Make me something less obscene

Forever hoping to be in your next scene

Bear

and when the rain came down, 
it washed us all around
and when the ship fell through,
we made another two
out of wood we knew would rot
on the beach to our new spot
we were given all the glory left for God
forgot

we'll meet in the Trees
you'll grow the Leaves for the Tea

When The Rain Came Down

The year that you're Awake
Is just the time it takes
To hide your old Mistakes
So hollowed out, to where you know just what I mean
We're drinking gasoline like we love it

So, shell out
Don't doubt
That what you heard just must be true
It was born from me and you,
But the Matter of the Fact is,
We're too far gone to tell

(Swim back to Shore, Go back for More. Then, what you Bargained For)

So, take it all like Hope in Stride
Be sure to clear your appetite
It's everywhere you go
It's everywhere to go
Your Misters and your Misses say
"It makes your mind Fade Away"
"It keeps me up at night, It's only true in Light"

And Light flows on within and without you
But the Matter of the Fact is,
The UV's hard to see

So will you wait for me to stay? or will you desert me again?
Will You Stay?

Cycle Comes Complete
I've been Judas, I've became Crete
Many Souls to Need,
Compared with Souls that Hold Me
"Don't Forget Where You Came From",
Back when the Sun don't Shine Much
Targets on our back but we Wear them Well

I've been a Hermit, I know it's true
Thought it was Worth it, Said "it's all for you"
But now I see, it's for We

Been to have Strange Dreams, it seems
That my Ceilings were not as High as Me
Reform Madness, Exhale Sadness
in all the forms of 'Friends' it may have shown itself as

It's just a tad Overwhelming,
But it's Worth it in the End

I said "He's worth it", I know now that's not true
Became this Hermit, but, babe, this Ain't For You
Found out I'm Worth It.
It's within Me, I thought I hurt them, 
But Now I'm Free

Hermit Roach

Modernization of an older tune!

Mother Mary says to me
"Why am I awake, is this real at all?
Gold and Green with Silver Screens,
We know we mean everything to you"

So, I'll elate my precious time
And we'll become a different kind of true
So kick me once or drop me twice,
Whichever it'll be so nice for you

Oh love, Oh love
Tell me everything you do

Mary, Mary
I'm confused by you

You're used for good,
You're used for wrong
I know I won't be here long with you

I will play a different song
When you are not upon my tongue this week.

So, I'll elate my precious time
And we'll become a different kind of true
Kick me once or drop me twice,
Whichever it'll be so nice for you
For you
For me
For We.


Recorded in Oct 2019 w BEDTIME KHAL.

Mother Mary (2019)

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