These lungs don’t know..
That I’ve got more air than
they give credit for 
‘Cause when they burst
I will scream this out once more

The bonds that make me taste 
The memories of failure is my mind
But you lie
You can’t tell me what’s inside

Cause I am not my body
Or anymore the bones inside
Dire with strife
Or this skin tainted with life

I don’t need to stop
Any more than sirens far
Should be alarm

The peace I find
Is not a blanket or shelter from the night

But creases radiating from these 
Casted dimes strumming wildly, these ripples catching eye
Tilling waters for a promised sign

But I am not my body
Simply just ‘cause you remind me
That’s my heart 
I’m pushing way too hard

I don’t need to stop
Any more than sirens far should be alarm


I (Am Not My Body) Lpr. Rehearse

"Live High" cover outtake live in CA

Now I can't pretend 
Years came as friends
They were liars, traitors, and storms

But when the tilt of the world
Was its steepest 
It grabbed me by the shirt
Wouldn't let me go

I didn't know why
With my feet toward the bottomless
Sky, it would not let me fall

Till the very last foothold 
I set on the earth is what I'd
Stood for all along

I'd trade any destiny
To stand with you this
Side of the sea
All I could ask is that day to day

That you may
Grow with each step that you take
Learn from mistakes that I've made
Wandering safely the waves by the
Waysides till that day

That I've seen
You become more than I could be
Here with you this side of sea

Well, life is a mystery 
That is, it used to be
That I couldn't explain till you came
Now, I'd give everything 

I'd trade any destiny 
Just to see that you're seeing 
Yours through 

And I'm not losing a thing
'Cus I know everything that I give
Well, I know that I gave it to you

Tell

And so begins, the song I’d never play
Because I always heard them
Laughing at the end

Its melodies will line my bed
And sudden chords will slam the lid
As I’m lowered down, and make my way out

Well pardon me 
If this parting is jarring
But couldn’t you have seen this coming?

When I said
“Hello world, I’ve been sitting here just working up
These lonely words-“
“Bit my tongue and let the years run for so long”

“Well, I'm just dying that you’d know me-“
“It could be the breath that stops this growing sense
That I am drowning in the silent of my soul”
 
Light will flood the truss and opening doors
Where they've come to cast lots for my words

See? I knew just how this would play
I put my life upon that claim
When I dove into the streets on winter’s day

Hello world, I’ve been sitting here just
Waiting on some friendly words
You bit your tongue or let the years run for too long

Now I just want that you would see
You could’ve been the breath that stopped this growing sense 
That I am drowning in the silence of my soul

I should’ve reworked all the wiring I have encased
There’s no doubt something would be
Crossed if I'd retraced

But the days they tire, chances waste
Till’ at the last I lacked the strength
But promise that you’ll shout from rooftops
What remains?

‘Cause somewhere out there I still hear:
“Hello world, I don’t wanna die alone here in this
Lonely world—

But, ‘life’s a bitch and then you die’
Or so I’m told”

“But I'm just dying that you'd know me—
It could be the breath that
Stops this growing sense
That I am drowning in the silence
Of my soul”

Rick Mora's Album

Posthumous (Hello World) Garageband cut

Life would seem to me to be 
A cannibal machine lurking through the street
Toward the sound of heartbeats
 
Life would seem to be a poetic scheme cleverly matching words to beat 
This streak of silence.

So tell me: Why is nobody snapping?
Why is nobody running?


While I’d like to say we’re just numb
The truth is that we’re unbecoming


I hid my tracks and sailed away
Cus’ they suspected arson 
Every single time I trail blazed

“A witch, a witch!”, “it’s sorcery!” they’d reprimand
But they won’t let me explain, call everything a slip of hand


What do you want anyway?
‘Cus It’s not like home team has had 
all that many good hits lately

you’d think maybe you’d 
jump at a rope
glance at a note
laugh at a joke
 but nope because-


Life would seem a tragedy
But nobody's crying
Life would seem a comedy
But nobody's laughing

Tell me, what the hell has happened?
That now we won’t let nothing happen

That can suffer us to reach in
mile wide, but “inch too deep” they said

Everyone is unbecoming
What deserts the soul at sea is
To see that the preacher’s got no soul, secedes 
From everything he preaches senselessly to be
Ain’t hard to see
Only hard to believe

Unbecoming

I’m a waning needle on a gauge 
Nothing left; I’ll soon be left
But I’ll pace the dash’ again
Once I’m out’ the red
And that’s just it:
Cus I’m sick of this

“pointless” seems 
To be the breeze that blows me
Back and forth

But wheels that peel over new roads
Will slowly speed us forward	

I’ve learned to say
“I know nothing ever stays the same-
Though all things sway”

You just face the way
Know the secret waits above the break
And screams to say

This is all an upside and an upside down
But nothing truly goes around

Now, I’m a victim of change
Spun my car, then it
Sped away

Well, I had a destination
But witnessed a coupe 
Smash the hell out’ my vision
Distrust is wung when in midst of mist
‘Cause there’s just no tellin’ what’s up ahead
And I miss when…

“Pointless” seemed the breeze that 
Blows us back and forth
But wheels will always turn, so learn:
To never give up, or you’ll never get up
And never get on…

Learn to say:
“I know nothing stays the same:
Though all thing sway”
So face the rays
Hear the music, and taste and feel the rain
And you’ll see then

So learn to say:
“I know one thing always stays the same:
All things change”
But face your way, ‘cause I know everything’s 
Gonna be okay, just wait and see

Upside (full piece version)

Welcome to everything 
You ever were meant to be
Now, where the ground meets your bones
As the soil the seed

But where is the silence you dealt me
Oh, instant of death?

Where lies the infinite sleep
After moment's last breath?

Cause now, I walk along crystal like waters
On golden like streets

In the thick of the immense growing sense
That I'll never want to leave

Whether hope seemed to tarry
Or road seemed to presently end

Is forgot to me, all eternity is 

Complete and perfect!
The Author of faith reached the ending today!
Proclaiming ever long

The plot of the Everlasting's
Heart, oh my soul is left forever in awe
Forever in awe today

I could run here forever
Woke and never again had to sleep
Tears all but forgotten
Pain etched in faint memory

Then I lifted my eyes to the sun
Cause it didn't scorch me
But You stood in its place with a smile
There, looking at me

You said, "take all you like, there's a tree
And a river of life!"
"I know the road here has been hard-
But now, you're alright-"
Yeah, this story has been able to tell
More than words ever will

Cause it's plain to see
All eternity is

Complete and perfect!
The Author of faith reached the ending today!
Proclaiming ever long

The plot of the Everlasting's
Heart, oh my soul is left forever in awe
Forever in awe today

When things don't make sense and
All hopes don't add up
If chaos clouds the work of love
Scarred are we all that draw near

But we harken to hope
Crying loud with each tear!

Perfect (Unresolved)

I never would’ve thought I’d be this lost again
But now I wonder why you’d bother to finding me again

All rumors of ruin run thick in the wind
Just daring me not to listen

And ‘...where my help comes from...’
Is just a tired expression 
There’s only so much more that can be done

I never would’ve thought It could be this
Plain to see
That there’s nothing worth being 
Or worth hope to be 

That notion that steers us toward the
Light is bound 
To be the same that mocks and breaks the vow

Yet it’s my condition
I’m just made to mess things up
I’m a walking revulsion of breath and dust

And when I am alone
And when I am alone
And when I am alone
Give me Jesus

Give me Jesus
Give me Jesus
You can have all the world
But give me Jesus

Give me Jesus
Give me Jesus
You can have my whole world
Take what little I’m worth
Take what more you can hold
But give me Jesus

Untitled

What if you knew clear as light
That ‘destiny’ was all a lie?

If reasons weren’t so simple 
I would think that I
Would let truth reclaim her day to day
As uncertainty makes company

We’ll sing a song just for the thought
Not to drive some point across
Know this whim of worth that
Carries us along

The things we’d make just to create
With every day, we’re on our way
In melody

Sing a song just for the thought
Help me carry the tune as we
Carry along!

Oh, the things that we would make 
With this in play

The things we’d make just to create
With each passing day we’re on our way
In melody and harmony

The craze that never ceases to amaze me
Is the chase we never cut to because between
All the motives in this sham
We never understand 

How to hear what reason whispers on
The reasons that we sing our songs
See- inspiration is how all of this begun

Now: with handful of heart and release of the lungs
With taste of a thought on the tip of your tongue
With this, impart, and give this thing all you’ve got
Cus to really go back, that is how the world begun

Sing a Song re edit

I hear something in the wind
Guess it helps to be listening

Change will come in flooding soon
And I hold to this position 
At the risk of superstition 

You say it's no way of life
Slaving over grand design
Of name unknown and way untried 

But when watershed above gives way
It's, "what do I do?? 
What should I say??”
“Let me in on a way to get away and be saved!"

When it’s too late to get away

If there is no tomorrow 
How much would you give to 
Do this over?

With nothing left to barter
What will you still claim to have control of?

But give em your ears 
Give em your eyes
Endearing the lie will
Make a deer in the headlights 

As blind go on and lead the blind

Endearing the Lie

Have I got a whirlwind tale to tell...
Of fire and lightning 
A judgement unreal

The stomach won't settle till it's told
Even by empty bottle, 
I've never been this wasted before

Cause you've seen the wretch 
Within my skin
And you've come to quell 
with vengeful whim
To deal with the dealers, dealt and then
Put all to an end
Call in every debt 

I know you're gonna peel it from my lungs
Scuffing my lights out
Wringing my guts

Cause the verdict has bested out the fun
Now the moment has come
To bleed out the veins that I have strung

Cause you know the beds 
I'm sleeping in
Yeah, no innocent plea 
could ever weigh

My twisted words and blood split
Do make
The darkest of canyons
Into a fiery lake 

I knew there I'd immolate 
I'm left to the wolves
Cause' I turned on the pack

Dragged to the waves of smoldering black
Blistering death
To die again and again and again and again
To no end

Now at the last
I brace for the grasp of your hand
But instead: see you've sent down a man
Who’s
Clearly not dressed up like the droves
Sovereign and sightly
In fact, like one of your own
But that’s something I never could become
Not wretched word to think of in his sum

With one last look, you grabbed him, your own
And you dragged a knife 
across his throat
You hurled him down into
The death that was my own

And so, a judgement unreal 
and case was closed

To save the wretch 
within my skin
You killed your own son
with vengeful whim

The joy in this fateful tale
Is the tell that he rose again

And now we're forever free
If you are indeed
a wretch like me

Wretch (Vox Retake)

T. Walk (Lead Take 2)

Well,
‘Every day is a new day’
It’s what they say, but the must be crazy
Cus the wheel spins over
But I don’t see this going forward

Same are those cold shoulders
The jabbing fingers in my face
Scissors through the back
Though I’m disarmed and in embrace

But as long as I can hold I won’t let go
Cus all I know 

Is I couldn’t go
And make a different choice
My voice shouts on its own

‘I wouldn’t go’
Though the years spell out
The worst of all I fear
I wouldn’t go 

Through your slights I had been your praise
Through the words you twisted and threw
Back into my face, I stayed
Even if it was in vain

Was there a point to this display
And all the pain I put into deciding I’d
Hope for better days
Or was I a fool to chase
Any truth or silver lining
In the manner of my confiding?

When those better days are gone
What have I got?
When said and done 

You may call it ‘self delusion’
But I maintain to this solution:

Defend with arms open 
It goes a long way to hope when
No one’s got an inch to give
Or offense they can forgive

Bitter bets from broke men
Beget regrets indebting them to more things

So let the betterment begin
It may be late, but it is not the end

Not the End

Write it On Me (HK)

If you’re wondering what I’ll say
About the places that I stood
About the faces that I met
In a breath: all I’ve observed 

Well, so am I
Just wish that I could breathe deeper

If you’re asking what the depths—
Of my spirit heard expressed
What I heard, “what did I feel?”
“What did I see?”

Well, I’m not sure
And I’ve come to wonder 
If there were ever words

Is it wells that fists of coins have known before?
Where forgotten wishes poised to shape my world

Or was it simpler still, the spark that led the way?
Like the one on that face, where forever I was changed

Here, I’ll lend my voice to anyone who has the words
And you can shout to every end, to every 
Corner of the earth


But this silent celebration, this oration without words
Days from now and further, so much truer stand to prove
So just…

Write it on me, that nation’s name
Brand it on my heart and soul to say,
“This is where I’ll live and die along—
Over the seas and East, each day, I long

Somewhat like the currents for those shores
That’s where I belong, to where I’ve sworn

That the love I’m made to give 
Will drape its mantle overhead
This is it

Write it On Me

Welcome, alive morning light
There’s no need for wake up calls
We’ve been up since yesterday
These times are high

On Black Winding Road we’ll travel miles
But it’s smiles across our crew
Singing out, feeling alive, and life is fine!

Think about this all you want
But the answers are inside your heart
And there’s no way to mess this up

“How far is far?”
“Where does the drift begin that pulls us all—“
“along?”
And even, “where do we belong?”

They’re all questions we forget to ask as we
As we


Welcome alive morning light
There’s no need for wake up calls
We’ve been up since yesterday
These times are high

On Black Winding Road we’ll travel miles
But it’s smiles across our crew
Singing out, feeling alive, and life is fine!

Dreams, my good friend
Are funny things
As you’ve come to see
Cause they never come to be 
As they’re dreamt

Yet in this mystery
That unfolds
You will sooner come to see
The gift that’s every second in between
That has led us to this moment here where we
where we



Welcome, alive morning light
There’s no need for wake up calls
We’ve been up since yesterday
These times are high

On Black Winding Road we’ll travel miles
But it’s smiles across our crew
And our path turns ear to hear
News that breaks this bend to say:

“You’re alive!”
And, “life’s not all arrivals,
But also the ride”
Singing out and feeling fine!


Black Winding Road

Here's my stuff~ some stuff done formally, others in progress, some scrappy sketches off an iPhone or hand recorder. Feedback appreciated.^^

Rick Mora (馬拉力克)

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