In the setting sun
As the tide rolls on
Between the surf and sand
 and the gray of dawn 
I stand sleepless

When the stars align
I’ll know where to cast
Hook my dreams
Down in sunken lands

There’s a glow up ahead 
A shiny beacon which shows
He will rise...will he rise?
Oh, great ancient one! 
Is that you?
With pale greens, black velvets and hues 
Like a raving heron that knows 
Lullabies! Lullabies!

Come sing me something new, for I am sleepless

No more city lights, life and family are dead. I can repeat this day over and over again. I’ll wait til the bobbers gone, till titanium bends. Through sobering froth and wake, come  leviathan. Til terror in my eyes, shows the rumors no more. Til I can be whisked away, and lie with no shore.

It’s here I make my stand

Chorus

Lullabies

You’re supposed to pass the torch
You don’t hold it out of reach
With a humiliating grin
I don’t think you saw it
How you snuffed our spirits out
You’re supposed to share the losses and the wins
But I’m a lot like you

Can I break the cycle
And not raise another ghoul
I don’t want to validate that fantasy
I still need to do better
To remember I’ve been burnt
Use the ash to grow a happy family
I'm a lot like you

I don’t want to end up a bitter ritual
Am I strong enough to forgive myself 
On the days that I still feel like I’m pretending
I’m happy enough to live.
   
I'm a lot like you that much is true
I'm a lot like you, nothing I can do
But, thank god, I’m not you

A Lot Like You

Compagnie francaise des chocolat
Entertain, et de Thes
A-E-I-O-U 
El burro sabe mas que tu
Chingao su madre y tu papa
Shiawase ni kurasu
Senso no junbi

Compagnie Francaise

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I must try harder than anyone you see
To entice your spirit to follow me
Don’t make me beg I’m not into pleading
So, I invite your spirit to bother me

Some think their way to sacred creativity 
Makes their art glimmer, matter enormously
We’re all terrified of losing our company
So, I invite your spirit to bother me

Sit at the counter have a drink with Destiny
Hide your future in some absent anarchy
We all fall and lose to infinity
So, I invite your spirit to bother me

Bother Me

Outhouse swirling with swamp gas
Stepping barefoot on broken glass
Nails on a chalkboard needles in your eye
Violent dreams can’t pacify

Cookie cutter frat boy apple of my eye
Dynamite hot dog watch your flesh fly
Spring loaded boxing glove underneath the lid
Nuts on the milk carton next time you take a piss.

Wild nights, Yeast, sugar, rotting fruit
Recipe to see your face in morning after puke
Shove your nose down in your little doggy doo 
Told your mother that I saw you cook your breakfast on a spoon

Am I jealous of your freedom?
You’re god damn right

We all deserve to be raked back into muck and mire 
Let our stories be written down and thrown into the fire
You and me the royal we should join in matrimony
Stare at the heavens and finally see we should feel nothing but lonely

Pacify

Gimme birds, gimme bees, gimme sycamore trees
Because I like it
When the earth falls in sync and remembers how to breathe
Another cycle, will we survive it?
Lose the walls, lose the steel, lose the sustenance  and meals
That never ripen
Draw the shades, draw a bath, draw the saber from the ash
Release the hydra

Fall off your stepping stone
Mute the ticks stop the stroke
Doze when you want to doze
When you need go home and start over

Another round, another rung baby don’t be so afraid 
To climb the ladder
You get high, pass the roach, take a lick, If you trip 
it doesn’t matter

CHORUS

Nick Kukowski

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