Bittersweet
Seven sins of wantonness and
everything that's good is gone
Sell it all for glory from peers
Silicone priestess scratch the back and
twists the knife to bone
Kick against the pricks and scrape the shins
I'm the enemy in the enemies now
Swallowed the pill
Drank to the fill
All these things I carry now
In this bittersweet, in this bittersweet now
Try to hold the world there sinking,
swimming in a paper cup
Try to own the one beneath the skin
Held up to the flame 'till singing
skin begins to draw and tuck
Never told there's a chance to win
What couldn't be, wouldn't be now
Hold your hands up to the sky and try
so hard to rise above
But everything is beating down
Jesus or a Gun
Walk away, I walk the wire
And my fields are burning in the flames
Feel my way, blind in the mire
Struggling from your voice inside my head
But now everything's trying to drag me down
But I'll rip the sky from the ground
But tell me who's my saving one
Jesus or a gun
Stripped away my last desire
Nothing comes and nothings sent away
Happiness I couldn't hire
Struggling from these thoughts inside my head
All that's safer falls from my favor
When it's over who will cry for me
It's safe to say I don't desire
Everything you push inside my head
And I reject it until I'm dead
It's Come To This
And I found my head uncrowned and all life's sweet necter flowing down
the cracks and seams wasted on some petty little prayers
reached up for despair but I was well below that cherished stage
and all my mangled hopes all songs unsung
I fear I've wasted all my sun
I fear I've wasted all my time
Everything is faded
Smiles are fabricated now
I fear I've wasted all my sun
I fear I've wasted all my time
Held my eyes too closed for too long
And I ran out through the streets in hopes that I might find it there
but all my buildings stared back at me tenantless and bare
and I
reached up for the sky, but it always seemed so far away
transcendent thoughts you gave lie atrophied and broken
And I sat when I should have stood; swallowed when I should have spit
until now I only recognize me in pictures taken long ago
and
all the changes simply haunt and never go away
a friend will tell when I hit hell, I may not feel the change
Held my eyes closed for too long
Held my eyes closed for too long
Just before I go don't you offer any sweet advice because
where were all your shoulders when I needed them so long ago
and now with legs weak and weary from this silly dance
with a suitcase full of memories, I pack my bags and slowly drift away
King For A Day
Bled the line tonight
Fading as the lies
Lie weeping on the page
Nothing was saved
Falling at the sight
Photographs of white
Bright grin and sunny days
And all was betrayed
And I think I know
The reason that your light would never stay
And all that's left to show
Are memories now but I can truly say
I was king for a day