Songbirds Talking

It opens up words like a flood my mind
Sugar-coated, softly spoken in rhymes
Time is running, always running to hide
To lead us on a failing compromise

I hear voices, songbirds talking
I make choices that change nothing

Just because I don't see the fuss don't mean
That it's not there and that I'm not scared of me
Don't despair, just tread carefully
Lose your senses, lose your mind and be free

I hear voices, songbirds talking
I make choices that change nothing

Could this be the moment?

A Holiday On Planet A

I'm going to put the world in a box
And dance around it
I'm going to draw us in a bubble
Of love and of lust
And we'll be one together
And as one surrender

Fate has thrown us off a cliff
And we're together as we fall
Together as we shatter
The fragments are many and randomly scattered
And I am just a monkey
With no sense of repair

I'm on a different planet
Dazzled by a dark star
With time and consequence in a box
No more laws and no more models
No more hiding from each other
If only I could stop the box from opening again

Blood

All the sorries in the world
Won't bring back my little girl
No tickets to the time of my life
Can undo that which has been done

And though you make me laugh
And though you make me smile

The blood is still on the floor
No matter how you tread around
The blood is still on the door
No matter how you play it down

I hauled a rock off you
And I can let it drop
And grind what is left of you
Into dirt where you belong
Cuz I really fell for you
And I paid the cost
I fought fought a war for you
And I was the one who lost

And though you make me laugh
And though you make me smile

The blood is still on the floor
No matter how you tread around
The blood is still on the door
No matter how you play it down
The blood is still on the floor
No matter how you tread around
The blood is still on the door
Forever stained with this mess you made

The Heat

Sentence me, I deserve it
Promise me you'll never change your mind
Punish me until I learn
Jealousy is welling in your spines

I forget I forget all that I've learned
In the heat in the heat the heat of the urge

Terraform, stretch your nerves
Slavery, hips and curves, twists and turns
Don't tamper with the machine!

I forget I forget all that I've learned
In the heat in the heat the heat of the urge
I forget I forget all that I've learned
In the heat in the heat the heat of the urge

This City

Despite all the charity this is a desolate place
Where dust and ash seep from the taps
And it mourns for its sense of self
And its sense in general

This suburb fell victim to a chemical spillage
Now it just murmurs from amongst its own rubble
Its poisoned bubble, just poised to give up the struggle

But this city is a light, a beacon
This city is alive and beating
All the scattered, smiling breathing
Cuz this city is alive

Out in the villages her stone walls are worn away
By acid rain, piece by piece they're ground down
And trampled back into life's cycle

This town was kicked and beaten
This town was bruised and bleeding
This town was a shadow, a shadow of Eden

Watch her stumble
Watch her turn
Watch her blurry-eyed attempts to learn

Now this city is a light, a beacon
This city is alive and beating
All the scattered, smiling breathing
Cuz this city is alive