Twenty Second/Sundial
This light's annoying me
tilt my head so i can shade my eyes
small boys cry
too tired to eat
too tired to sleep
i've achieved my ultimate goal
but i've wasted so much time
and i don't know what's mine
cause everything's so fast in my mind
conversations growing boring
it never was this way before
i need more
more time to think
refill my head
with thoughts i've never thought before
and i don't know what's mine
cause everything so fast in my mind
and i've lost track of time
cause everything's so fast in my mind
i need time to realign
i need time to realign
hammer away little star shine
take me away little star shine
from eight to eight i relate
understated don't judge me
i'm judging you
i've never seen a sundial
but i know just what it does
no matter what i do it will always
be a waste of time to you
at impact i stop

Terra Cotta
everything breaks
when one drops out of this
who could have predicted
how the blame shifted?
and who could have said
that we were the night kissed?
and the water falls over the clean clothes
i had it all but still don't know where to go
"i just want to be left alone and not feel"
from behind this door you can't feel
everything breaks
the sink holds no feeling
since we travel high
i'll take this flyer from my ceiling
and the water falls over the clean clothes
i had it all
but i still don't know where to go
hit me
chances are you won't miss me
and i'll even help to launch your fist
cause you know i'd do anything for you

Rule Of Elevens
when you're open to reason you hit the floor
and i jump on cardboard
when we drop the face it's all erased
and theories are linked to taste
deep in candy
sugar stained
bad theories are all the same
kissed the twenty four
kicked in the door
here's a lesson in dissonance
kids are all blurred in six
and so it happens when i hold the coinbox
it's so unofficial
to watch me break down
but i've learned from a learned man
that it's linked and territorial
it's eleven and i'm not wasting wishes
deep in candy
sugar stained
bad theories remain unchanged
kissed the twenty four
kicked in the door
here's a lesson in dissonance
kids are all blurred in six
and so it feels like i'm running
after seven feeling the strain of today
which was not a good day for me
i guess in some cases frustration is unavoidable
it's eleven
i'm not wasting wishes
temporary pictures moving closer to me
watching nothing speak me easy guns
and keys me so confusing
so confusing
never ending pictures
still frame farther from me
watching something scream me harshly
voice and keys me
you can accuse me but so?

September Issue
If i never
if i never
(still i always)
for what benefits the girl
tangles and twirls
she talks
and i dream

Bowl Cut
in people's eyes
maybe next time
bitter child
if i could force a smile
i'd realize that happiness is overrated
in people's eyes see the outside
through others sighs
and i usually don't cut
what i know i can untie
tied down
tired of lies
tired of compromise
in people's eyes
said "hi" to my surprise
and i usually don't cut
what i can untie
tied down
tired of lies
tied down
tired of listening
to things i despise
and i cut what i cut
cut down and i still
won't let you down
it feels so strange
and you look so different

Cassy Flies
we laugh cause we know it's a ride
but a look to the sky is a faceless wild sigh
and we cry cause we know it's a ride
but once in a while it's a faceless wild smile
painstaking -on- body breaking
clouds are forming -off- but it's not raining
not just yet
all i'm doing -on- is simply moving
clouds are forming -off- but it's not raining
my angel has flown home
maybe now her peers will realize
cassyflies

Box Turtle
i look at myself
see nothing special about me
maybe that's why i get sad so easily
i look at you
someone filled with so much apathy
now i guess that we will both be lonely
you said "whatever it is, we'll do it together
problems arise we'll get through them together
don't shut me out
don't box yourself in
give the weak end wind"
in your small box
i can't see how you live so all alone
whoever said your words were cast in stone?
i need you back but i can see that you don't need me
now i guess that we will both be lonely
"whatever it is
we'll do it together
problems arise we'll get through them together
don't shut me out
don't box yourself in
give the weak end wind"
in the end
it's not my fault that i say what i mean
no feelings, just boxed-in fears

Subsequently
"Subsequently" i said "these things happen"
we joked for a while
lit a candle to ignite a smile
it was raining
pouring down
we were standing off the ground
it was raining
"fill it up spray it out take it in" i said
i stood there waiting
"do you remember the day we died
oh how we cried ashes to ashes
dust to linten dust."
subsequently i said "these things happen"
we joked for a while
and lit a candle to ignite a smile
it was raining pouring down
we were standing off the ground
it was raining
the radio said the whole town might drown
then he wanted to talk serious
so i left

The Makeshift Chimney
i bet on a line
i play that faulty wire
we stay even though
we get tired when we are in
we stay
anyway
i never thought it could happen
harmony
get the idea out of me
i know that i was only a mark
on the post of your life
but you don't have to
answer the phone
cause you know it's me
i bet on a line
i play that faulty wire
we stay even though i know
i'll never be back here again
i stay anyway
i never thought it could happen
harmony
get the idea out on me
i know what we had was a good bit
of nothing to brag about
but you don't have to open your
eyes and watch me bleed
all i ask is that you
count me more than makeshift
and i will sound off
and how does that sound

Compactor Room
everything changes
nations are people
people get what people want
people hear what people say
and all my values fly away
i hate you and you hate me
it all means nothing when you see
at least we can all agree
everything changes
nations are people
i've no room
i'll go here and you'll go there
i don't care if you don't
care
everything changes
people are people
people get what people want
we all hear what people say
and all my values fly away
i hate you and you hate me
it all means nothing when you see
at least we can all agree
everything changes
people are people
i've no room
i'll go here and you'll go there
and i don't care if you don't
care
i've squandered my last energies
on things unimportant to me
i think i'll go sit in a corner

Milt
Milt jumps the gun again in his own head
torn clothes reflect his emotions
changing his mind and dreams
intangible solutions bleeding
if someone happens to drive over saturday
we'll keep the head alive
if someone happens to fall
if i knew what was wrong i'd explain it all
flying south in formation
when a leader smitten falls
changing our minds and hurdling
headlong to the ground
without a sound
if someone happens to drive over saturday
we'll keep the head alive
if someone happens to fall
if i knew what was wrong
i'd explain it all
and he bleeds confusion like a branch
from this dying tree
he breaks the fulcrum forcing everything down
bleeds emotion
i knew we would all remain friends
i was hanging by the hope i'd never
have to deal with this again
and it will be this way till milt dies

Wheels
stop the wheel
i can see you have nothing to see
i'm not the same as you are
not the same as me
divisions of our personality
not the same as me
i'm useless battered
unwanted matter
do you think i feel this pain?
as another runner
i'm catching under
and i know we're all the same
stop the wheel
look at you and you look at me
and i'm the same as you are the same as me
this is what we all have to believe
all the same as all the same as me
i'm useless battered
unwanted matter
do you think i feel this pain?
as another runner
i'm catching under
and i know we're all the same
i'm down
i'm down
i was the seven now the three
i'm down
i'm down
what's new
division is falling
down
upon my head upon my soul
what's new division is losing
fast
what's new with you

Shoot Don't Shoot Test
a one minute coffee clutch
becomes hours long
uneasy situations are a dime a dozen
as long as i can drain
hey jill lets
hey you lets
fish on dishes in a drain
oh miss downhill you'll kill me yet
am i the initiative?
i'm one for extroversion
it's a simple philosophy
i know it's childish but it's me
safe and harmless just a shoot
don't shoot test i fail it miserably
in a drain
oh miss downhill you'll kill me yet