The Dam At Otter Creek

When all that’s left to do
Is reflect on what’s been done
This is where sadness breathes
The sadness of everyone

Just when like the guys that built
the dam at otter creek and all the water
backed up, deep enough to dive
We took the dead man in sheets
To the river flanneled by love
Deep enough to dive
Deep enough to dive

Be here now
We took him three and three
In a stretcher made from trees
That had passed in the storm
Leave the hearse behind
Leave the curse behind

Be here now

Selling The Drama

And to love: A god
And to fear: A flame
And to burn a crowd that has a name

And to right or wrong
And to meek or strong
It is known, just scream it from the wall

I’ve willed, I’ve walked, I’ve read
I’ve talked, I know, I know
I’ve been here before

Hey, now we won’t be raped
Hey, now we won’t be scarred like that
Its the sun that burns
Its the wheel that turns
Its the way we sing, that makes em dream

And to Christ: A cross
And to me: a chair
I will sit and earn the ransome from up here

I Alone

Its easier not to be wise
And measure these things by your brains
I sank into Eden with you
Alone in the church by and by
I’ll read to you here save your eyes
You’ll need them your boat is at sea
The anchor is up, you’ve been swept away
And the greatest of teachers wont hesitate
To leave you here by yourself chained to fate

I alone love you
I alone tempt you
I alone love you
Fear is not the end of this!

Its easier not to be great
And measure these things by your eyes
We long to be here by his resolve
Alone in the church by and by
To cradle the baby in space
And leave you there by yourself chained to fate

Oh now, we took it back to far
Only love can save us now
All these riddles that you burn
All come runnin’ back to you
All these rythyms that you hide
Only love can save us now
All these riddles that you burn
Yeah, yeah, yeah

Iris

I liked the way my hand looked on your head
In the presence of my knuckles
But the beauty of this vision alone
Just like yesterdays sunset
Has been perverted by the sedimental
And mistaken for love

The felix of your truth will always break it
And the iris of your eye will always shake it
And the armies, the armies I have created
Will always hate it
Will always bait you on

I liked the way my hand looked on your head
In the presence of my struggle
But the beauty of this vision alone
I cant shake from my tree just yet
It keeps invading all my private moments
Listen to me now

Lightning Crashes

Lightning crashes, and a new mother cries
Her placenta falls to the floor
The angel opens her eyes
The confusion sets in
Before the doctor can even close the door

Lightning crashes, and an old mother dies
Her intentions fall to the floor
The angel closes her eyes
The confusion that was hers
Belongs now, to the baby down the hall

Oh now feel it, coming back again
Like a rollin’ thunder chasing the wind
Forces pullin’ from the center of the earth again
I can feel it

Lightning crashes, a new mother cries
The moment she’s been waiting for
The angel opens her eyes
Pale blue colored iris, presents the circle
And puts the glory out to hide, hide

Top

This is not helping me at all
What are you doing her
In the name of God and Love
It's the distribution of fear
Pyramids, healing wires, analysts with fame
I haven't got your degree
And I forgot your name

Pick me up and put me on the ground
Set me up and spin me all around
No, you are not the one I wish to see

This is not helping me at all
Where did we get this plan?
That you could give me
What I might already have
Pyramids, healing wires, a musicain's fame
I've volunteered you my eyes
In place of facing me

Oh, Hitler, in a robe of truth
My emptiness has built your altar
And I've worshipped myself i you forever
Until now!

All Over You

Our love is, like water
Pinned down and abused
For being strange

Our love is, no other
Than me alone,
For me all day

Our love is like water
Pinned down and abused

All over you, all over me
The sun, the fields, the sky
I’ve often tried to hold the sea
The sun, the fields, the tide
Pay me now, lay me down

Shit Towne

The Weavers live up the street, from me
The Crackheads, they live down the street, from me
The tall grass makes it hard to see
Beyond my property
Hey man, this is criminal
This hard line symmetry of people and pets

We don’t bother anyone
We keep to ourselves
The mail man visits each of us, in turn
We don’t bother anyone
We keep to ourselves
The mail man visits each of us in time

Gotta live, gotta live, gotta live
In Shit Towne
Gotta live, gotta live, gotta live
In our town

T.B.D.

In the moment I was losing my head
Readin’ too much, and losin’ my head, and I was
Reachin’ forward, I was already there
Readin’ too much and losin’ my head
This information caused a cut in the line
Now I’m remembering God, and readin’ too much
I'ts so nice
The print is smaller than the ants in the grass
I’ll have to put it away now
In the morning there are things to be read
Words to be said, and food to be fed but I
Won’t be there. I’ll be clutchin’ on a megaphone
pointed at my head, would you be there, would
you kindly, read this word for word so loud and clear
I cant remember it all, it needs to be clear, I tell you
If the feeling drops out of your voice, would you kindly pick it up
This is how, I’ll go out tonight
Dressed in blue, by the book tonight
This is how, I’ll go out tonight
But I don’t need a book

We’re talkin’ anchors, talkin’ ships, we're
Talkin’ seas, we're talkin’ everything you need
You should be workin’ now, not askin’
How and where abouts where you’ll
Be, I don’t suspect you will be thinking
When the brain is dead, and the mind
Has taken over, this is a skill this
Is not a game, where have you been
Are you with us? Can you hear us? got
The megaphone pointed at you

Stage

I wanna feel
I wanna try
I wanna rock in the city tonight
I wanna deal
Don’t wanna die
I wanna bring my captain hook into the lights
People I’ve seen my day
Ranting and raving this beauty away
We are by and large the same
Words are too feeble, they cannot contain
He was a "rock and roll mesiah"
She was known for her childcare
The truth is gonna give up the world
If you can give up the stage
If I can give up the stage
If we can give up the stage

Come to this, I cant come to you
Don’t do this, wake me up tonight
Come to this, I cant come to you
Don’t do this, wake me up tonight
Tonight, tonight, come on mother fucker

Waitress

Come on baby, leave some change behind
She was a bitch, but I don’t care
She brought our food out on time
And wore a funky barette in her hair

Come on baby leave some change behind
She was a bitch, but good enough
To leave some change
Everybody’s good enough for some change

The girls got family
She needs cash to buy aspirin for her pain
Everybody’s good enough
For some change

We all get the flu, we all get aids
We’ve got to stick together after all
Everybody’s good enough
For some change
Some fucking change

Pillar of Davidson

Warm bodies, I sense
Are not machines, that can only make money
Past, perfect, tense
Words for a feeling, and all I’ve discovered
Ill be alone son
With medicine supposed to, designed to
Make you high
Ill be alone son
With words for a feeling, and all I’ve discovered

Old, bad eyes
Old, bad eyes
Old, bad eyes

On lonliness comes
Go see the foreman, go see the profiteer
On lonliness drives
Were takin’ out time, movin’ shit for, this holy slime
Old, bad eyes
Old, bad eyes
Old, bad eyes, almighty fear

The shepherd wont leave me alone
He’s I’m my face and I
The shepherd, of my days
And I want you here by my heart
And my head, I cant start till I’m dead

*Here I am locking horns with a stallion
Failing to hold my head up, I’ll go back again
Pillar of Davidson feeling too hard to go down
Cheaper than all the souls he will walk upon
Deeper and deeper in love so I’ll hold my head up
Cheaper than all the souls he will walk upon
Pillar of Davidson, feeling too hard to go down

White, Discussion

I talk of freedom
You talk of the flag
I talk of revolution
You’d much rather brag
And as the dicibels of this disenchanting
Discourse, continue to dampen the day
The coin flips again, and again, and again, and again
As our sanity walks away

All this discussion
Though politically correct
Is dead beyond destruction
Though it leaves me quite erect
And as the final sunset rose behind the Earth
And the clock is finally dead
I'll look at you, you’ll look at me
And well cry alot
This will be what we said
This will be what we said

Look where all this talking got us, baby

Horse

All the things that they make you say
And all the love that you had way
I'll pick you up, and it will be alright
I'll pick you up, and it will be tonight

She rode a horse into my head
She rode a horse into my head
She wont dance in front of the children
And now their runnin’ wild on the beach
And I don’t care
No I don’t care
No I don’t care

Its the middle of the night on the hill
Rained on and those who are drinking beer
I tried to think of something deep to say
But my will is deaf and dry today