The air was thick like honey 
Her honey held her hand
And helpless on the highway
Her honey and her stand

Her belly broke the silence
The silence spoke again
The wind offered a whistle
The silence took the wind

She picked through her pockets
Produced a pretty plumb
Her honey bit it softly
And placed it on her tounge

The air was thick like honey
Her honey held her hand
And helpless on the highway
Her honey and her stand

Honey

Come with me stranger to the village we once knew. Let us take the uncomfortable stroll.

Honestly stranger we at a loss for words. 
After all it's the words that they stole.

Over on yonder where the people use to play they erected a beautiful stone

And all the transgressions from the foolish games we played they engraved so that we may atone.

And atone we did atone...

Come with me stranger to a village once revered. Once a well we believed could not run dry.

Over on yonder where the people took to fear as the wheat bowing down to the scythe.

Now all of the color that you see before your eyes is iluminated in neon signs.

Bathed in their glory we can carelessly devine: "This is Love, That is Hate and We are Kind"

Over on yonder where the people use to play
they erected a beautiful stone.

All the transgressions from the foolish games we played we engraved so that we may atone.

And atone we did atone...

Atone

Hell I'll give you ten hail Mary's
If it'd take the burden off this night
You're tugging on the jewelry they bought you
I'm tearing down the walls to make it right.

Tearing down a house that never held.
Tear it all down.
I do not care what the neighbors whisper.
We're never coming back to this town.
We're never coming back.

Hell I'll give you ten hail Mary's
If it'd take away the hold they seem to have.
Stale floral curtains in the bathroom.
I can still taste the blood from that bath

You can't unsee what you wish you never saw 
So tear it all down.
I do not care what the neighbors whisper.
We're never coming back to this town.
We're never coming back.

Ten Hail Mary's

Colorful Crow


An awkward boy is pursing lips 
With gangly bones and boxspring hips. 
He holds the clothes his sisters left.
He turning blue from holding breath.

There she is revealed before him now
Smiling with the only mask she owns.
Spinning like the blood inside their body.
Whispering nobody has to know.

Through the mirror he mouths her name. 
He finds it hard to feel the same.
When home's no more an empty house
When held inside her flowery blouse.

Smiling back he starts to cry.
He's never felt so good inside.
When he's no more the cringing crow.
When he is her he's colorful.

There she is wrapping arms around
Smiling with the only mask she owns.
Spinning like the blood inside their body
Whispering nobody has to know.

Colorful Crow

The castle corpse is fit for dwelling
The stones were laid by mortal men
The people sheltered lose their meaning 
The need for shelter never ends

The crop row people call for order
The painter stained their perfect plans
The introduction of the combine 
The painter longs for wilder lands
 
The ages span is overwhelming
The tale as old as time itself
The constellations￼ lose their meaning
The crop row people claim the wealth

But you were born into the age of ignorance
Your captors curse you simply can’t avoid
And it will cling to us long after you are dead
in your lifetime you will glimmer in the void 

The crippled words will rattle cages
The cages needn’t hide the door
The call to venture will be answered
The ones who answer know what for

The river runners round the corner 
the boat arrives to bated breath
the message makes it to the people
the people work with what is left

The sun will pierce the tattered pages
The net will draw around the beast 
The poet carves her into peices
The world was born by our deceased

But you were born into the age of ignorance
Your time alive will mark the smallest single step 
And it will turn again long after you are dead
It is our burden but you needn’t be bereft

Cause you were born into the age of ignorance
Your captors curse you simply can’t avoid
And it will cling to us long after you are dead
in your lifetime you will glimmer in the void

The Age of Ignorance

Ruby Red apple. 
Glimmers red in child eyes
A family tree branch.
It's hand-me-down and over sized.
Mama's mouth is open wide. 
A Dotted line you fall inside.
Ruby red Apple boy. 
The mealy-mouthed compromise
 
Ruby Red Apple
ya fool me twice shame on me
Tell me I'm special 
and anything I wanna be. 
The whole world is open wide.
Your daddy’s word. He wouldn’t lie. 
Ruby red apple. 
Just a mealy-mouthed man inside.

Now watch as you’re obscured from the very thing you need. A deal so absurd you would have to be a kid. Ruby red observed you are hanging in the tree. There’s no one left to curse when we’re burying the dead.

Ruby Red Apple 
a deal you made some time ago
Fully grown baby boy
you never even have to grow
When the windows open wide 
they see the rube. You shut em tight 
Ruby Red Apple boy 
with a mealy-mouthed man inside.

Ruby Red Apple 
Let’s have a look at this fruit
It fell from this torturers tree 
and lookey here a rotten root.
Now your eyes are open wide. 
Cut it down then you'll see.
Ruby Red Apple boy withering willingly

Feel it now your heart is filling back with blood.
Well this is just the start of willing you to live.
A world torn apart is begging for a flood.
The truth that you impart is all you have to give.

Ruby Red Apple

The castle corpse is fit for dwelling
The stones were laid by mortal men
The people sheltered lose their meaning 
The need for shelter never ends

The crop row people call for order
The painter stained their perfect plants
The introduction of the combine 
The painter longs for wilder lands
 
The ages span is overwhelming
The pain as old as time itself
The constellations￼ lose their meaning
The crop row people claim the wealth

But you were born into the age of ignorance
Your captors curse you simply can not avoid
And it will cling to us long after you are dead
in your lifetime you will glimmer in the void 

The crippled words will rattle cages
The cages needn’t hide the door
The call to venture will be answered
The ones who answer know what for

The river runners round the corner 
the boat arrives to bated breath
the message makes it to the people
the people work with what is left

The sun will pierce the tattered pages
The net will draw around the beast 
The poet carves her into peices
The world was born by our deceased

But you were born into the age of ignorance
Your time alive will mark the smallest single step
And it will turn again long after you are dead
It is our burden but you needn’t be bereft

Cause you were born into the age of ignorance
Your captors curse you simply can not avoid
And it will cling to us long after you are dead
But in your lifetime you will glimmer in the void

The Age Of Ignorance (plugged)

A woman holds the belly
 She can no longer hide.
 
Like the bottom of the ocean. 
A burden carried quietly.
  
Their hearts are on the spindle. 
The fates are to decide.
  
She lays her body down. 
Her heart will welcome anything. 
  
For the countless before her
Have held the world together. 
  
She feels her belly moving 
You can’t take it for granted, no
  
For a baby beckons 
For the spirit of a mother 
  
Who’s Head is in the night sky 
And feet pinned to the planet.
Who sees a new born baby 
And deeply understands it.
  
A man holding his child
He can no longer hide.
  
Like snow crowning a mountain. 
A burden carried quietly.
  
Their hearts are on the spindle.
The fates are to decide.
  
He lays the child down
His heart will weather anything
  
For the countless before him 
Have pulled the world together. 
  
And waters are rising. 
You can’t take it for granted, no
  
For a child beckons 
For the spirit of a father
  
Who faces the darkness 
And the lives that he is handed.
Who seeing a child 
Leaves no spirit stranded.
  
The two now stand together.
The need no longer hide.
 
The child will be born.
Moving now but quietly.

Leery