He took my hand, I was forced to dance No choice was made, no second chance You can pick the moves and the song But know I'll only play along If it works for me I was happy at the catering table Writing poems and reading fables But you told me I wasn't able To hold a groove, my feet unstable Infatuated with the grapes they had You made me dance, it drove me mad When I returned the grapes were sour You told me I had to dance Just another hour

I heard a song that helped me hang along When I was drowning in the creek And I don't know what the words are supposed to mean But they do cut deep Then I saw a fruit fly shoot out my nose I saw a spider crawl up my cheek Then a blizzard filled my vision I was snowed in for a week When I finally awoke The sleet had turned a crimson red The chatter amongst the streets Was now the wails of the dead I imagined if life had stayed the same Or I chose a different road instead It's safe to say that I can't complain when I remembered what I'd said It brought me down She wore the thorn of crowns in a shantytown I know it now It was the devil to who I made a vow It brought me down She wore the thorn of crowns in a shantytown I know it now It was the devil to who I made a vow I saw a man hanging from his neck For crimes he did not commit The real culprit had diamonds in his eyes And gold chunks in his spit As he watched the man hang he felt no ounce of pain He did not feel a bit He got what he wanted, as soon as he came He went off, split And as I saw him go, I noticed my hands caught tied in ropes A cackle behind my ears I turned to see a face framed in smoke She whispered "dear, feel no ounce of fear And don't hold on to hope It'll only get worse from here My best advice is just try to cope" It brought me down She wore the thorn of crowns in a shantytown I know it now It was the devil to who I made a vow It brought me down She wore the thorn of crowns in a shantytown I know it now It was the devil to who I made a vow I've tasted the spit of a thousand sons and daughters That sit alone Atop a throne of glass built upon a nation carved in stone I only hope to ask that a god exists So one day they may atone For now, the ash falls across our fists And says that we're on our own And with fractured hands I thought of the tomb that was my abode With no body parts left to lose I saw her face at the crossroads And we gathered the sculptors Mimes and lovers To take back what was owed Before success was clear she disappeared As quick as the river flowed It brought me down She wore the thorn of crowns in a shantytown I know it now It was the devil to who I made a vow It brought me down She wore the thorn of crowns in a shantytown I know it now It was the devil to who I made a vow

She said "your body's here You left your brain behind" "He'll be here, he just needs some time The streets seem like a maze, they wind Between night and the day I find A motel advertised by neon sign With my dollar-store porn I paid a dime'' She said "get to the important line I need to get home before the trains resign" "Well, as I sat and heard the motel's moan and hum I thought of what it was I want us to become You can give me any finger, I'd prefer a thumb But remember when we bought that Jamaican rum And you pulled my hair and I didn't care Neighbours couldn't do much but sit and stare Cops buzzed the line, told 'em we weren't there Can we bring back that time, have you heard my prayer?" He said "I poured my heart into your glass And you would just deny it Anything you need just come and ask and I would supply it" She said "you pain, you sore inside my ass We've done this too many times And the last time that I gave you a chance you just left me behind Between the hooded chants, the brown striped pants You knew you'd crossed the line And if it weren't for the low cost of postage stamps I would've lost my mind" Then he cried "No, we'll find a brand new dance Where we don't spend so much time together I'll cross an ocean, my full devotion is yours We will die together" We've been back together for just a few days And I gotta say, you're getting on my nerves But I love it when you start yelling at me Because honestly, you've got a way with words And I never stopped running because you never Gave me a place to hurt My visions going funny, oh hunny We look the same when blurred Let's drive to where the stained glass grows on trees To where we both fly upon the breeze And when we're there, where no sight compares Neither of us will ever leave This dime a dozen love we breathe Is a baker's dozen times naive But you and I will last for life Until the next time, I believe

Oh I want to sing the songs of old From bards born under different stars But I have no harmonica and don't know how to play guitar My chicken noodles left to broth I got no way to scoop 'cause I'm a man with a fork in a land of soup I don't have a car to drive Don't have a place to call my own My pet alligator died 'fore I was even fully grown I'm much younger than my age Still acting older than the youth 'cause I'm a man with a fork in a land of soup You can cope with what you want You can cope with what you need But know you can even overdose On the air that you breathe And as the camel hits the needle Trying to make it through the hoop Just like a man with a fork in a land of soup I get confused, I get conflicted Get abused and get uplifted Lose my mind every time The sun and moon have shifted Even mess up metaphors I truly have no hope 'cause I'm a man with a fork in a land of soap Well her face inspired sonnets And her I eyes I never did forget My bed, she lay upon it Smoking sandpaper cigarettes She likes 'em filled with force I guess I'm too damn cute 'cause I'm a man with a fork in a land of soup Oh it's a beautiful day but the sun is saying nothing Walking naked down the street Thinking "I must have forgot something" And the birds are singing sweet So I repeat the tune they're humming

Rotting fruit on the table Is that an apple or a pear? He falls out of bed With her nails still in his hair She looked like a bunny rabbit With an art deco flair Her eyes said I'll slap ya But I won't really care A genocide in the other room His place was a tomb last night She dripped candle wax across his back That he didn't try to fight And with no money left to give She dove out the window without a sight And he lay on his bed Unscrewed his head and turned to close the light And as the night went down the drain He felt he'd gone insane She held her end of the bargain But she did it so inhumane With his body wrapped in cellophane His brain caught in a hurricane He left his house that morning with nowhere to complain Doesn't want to be seen but wears a ten-gallon hat Only wants love when it won't come back Keeps his shoes so clean but his shirt is a sack Every single smile feels like an attack Doesn't want to be seen but wears a ten-gallon hat Only wants love when it won't come back Keeps his shoes so clean but his shirt is a sack Every single smile feels like an attack Only wants love when it won't come back Every single smile feels like an attack Only wants love when it won't come back Every single smile feels like an attack The block he walked was a broke And downtrodden favela A thief was selling turquoise And black cherry vanilla Above shards of glass he asked the thief If he'd seen the woman go And the thief just laughed with an arrogant mask Saying "wouldn't you like to know?" Turning his back he ran for the fields Where the stained glass starts to grow His body, it was made of flesh and twigs Wrapped in an elegant bow As it all collapsed he felt the weight of the world Fall to the ground Calling out for help but no one watching Heard a sound Doesn't want to be seen but wears a ten-gallon hat Only wants love when it won't come back Keeps his shoes so clean but his shirt is a sack Every single smile feels like an attack Doesn't want to be seen but wears a ten-gallon hat Only wants love when it won't come back Keeps his shoes so clean but his shirt is a sack You see your eyes in the mirror Live two lives it seems They only loved you for who They wanted you to be Set expectations, built an image And you cried out "that's not me" And when you failed to live up They just sighed and set you free Doesn't want to be seen but wears a ten-gallon hat Only wants love when it won't come back Keeps his shoes so clean but his shirt is a sack Every single smile feels like an attack Doesn't want to be seen but wears a ten-gallon hat Only wants love when it won't come back Keeps his shoes so clean but his shirt is a sack Every single smile feels like an attack Only wants love when it won't come back Every single smile feels like an attack Only wants love when it won't come back Every single smile feels like an attack

Only voice heard in the house this evening The time ticks away and I've got no meaning Succumb to a place before my mind was present The hungry wolf doesn't care if you're a king or a peasant I've seen that forest enough times to know That I don't like it I don't like it It's just another old block in the road For the wolf to come biting Wolf to come biting He's such an old man, such an old mole Got a temper like lightning Man isn't that frightening There's only one move left Only one move left No hope to try and fight it Hope to try and fight it The days that pass I gain some more Closer than the night before The rising ash The pain and sore Finally, the river pours The night clears and my brain turns around There's a hole no doubt A hole no doubt A tight grip until I can't hear a sound And my body falls out My body falls out Footsteps pound close to the door I can hear them shout I can hear them shout Now it's open, I've got nothing to hide Move on without Move on without me The days that pass I gain some more Closer than the night before The rising ash The pain and sore Finally, the river pours

Come take my hand We'll stake the land alright When night takes hold If morning never reaches Then you've found me Our time will fold You've died in the cold Roadkill reeks of riddles That rattle between the stars Chimes on winded crackle Through the trees That cry from afar So high above the stars Until the tears run dry On the great North cheek The scent of the South sits far beneath The parent of your protection Never mentioned All of the scars you keep The stranded children gently weep Highway stretched till the day was night Eating away remaining light The serpent gliding hills of white Gaining til there's none in sight The radio sings in static So the raindrops fill the air The steering wheel is manic But the engine It doesn't seem to care We play the devil's fanfare The great books have all been written The great sayings have all been said We'll march to the beat of nothing To the tune Of whatever lies ahead All the signs are dyed red

I'm dead in the water Too many fish in the sea There's a ton at the slaughter But not the one I need That woman is a goner Already swam upstream Fishermen finding corpses And the stench is obscene She is gone, she is free There's no hope for me The last resort will be to Block it out completely But I know that she's got the Same speakers as me She's a war hero to some A war criminal to others Didn't raise the chaos But she's the surrogate mother She's got hordes of sculptors Of mimes and of lovers And if you don't love her by now You're insane Find another She's a Bolshevik bear To the Monarchist bee I'm the plagiarist's appeal To the court Of originality Still I know that she's got the Same speakers as me I was never a praying man But now I'm down on my knees My hands together, back and forth My throat is open with glee Singing bring us the girl The megalodon of the free The natural state of the world And the force That brings you to me Now I know that she's got the Same speakers as me

Own house doused in gasoline Burn it down That's all he had left Own house doused in gasoline Burn it down That's all he had left The house was built on a grave of time On the side of the trees that God left behind Billy bought it from a desperate man Billy was in the working class A Big family till his wife had passed His daughter Ramona, was the only one left for him Ramona saw her father cry drink to dull the pain inside And soon he had no other way to cope But she thought he had soothed his mind And left those spirits Far behind Until the day she found him hanging from the rope Ramona grew and found a man to hold That house hid them from bitter cold They had a boy by the name of Abel That boy had melancholy eyes A sensitive soul that laughed and cried Ramona carried him from the cradle But Abel's childhood brain was fog His parents singing you salty dog Whenever their voices rose his body froze Ma kept photo albums in the fireplace Dad had another lover he tried to erase At dinner time they let out all their woes Mom would sit with Abel and say I wish to sail the sea someday But deep down she knew it was just a dream And when Dad left for the other girl Abel became Ramona's world Her ray of light, her one and only beam Ramona reached her final days Grateful to peacefully wilt away In the late October cold and gray Her ashes sat in proud display In the house now owned by the Only son Who's family's curse now fell upon The Hands of a boy who had no one Knowing his future he has to run Away Someday This house would be his grave He can't stay But some distant hope had shone He'd go alone Like a rolling stone To the unknown Down valleys of mist On the dusty trails Past bridges above Where the hapless sail Past coffin houses And circus tents On shattered ground And wet cement To the unknown bounds Of the restless sea Ramonas ashes were set free But the house still haunted Abel's mind He had to return for the very last time Own house doused in gasoline Burn it down That's all he had left Own house doused in gasoline Burn it down That's all he had left Own house doused in gasoline Burn it down That's all he had left Own house doused in gasoline Burn it down That's all he had left Flower petals flow On a flammable freeze Gasoline glow Picks the scent off the breeze His own house grows Until it's back to the trees And not remembered Lone wolf calls But the cry isnt heard Pounding waterfalls Drown the meaning from the words Shadows on the wall Of the twigs and the ferns That missed the ember Flower petals flow On a flammable freeze Gasoline glow Picks the scent off the breeze His own house grows Until it's back to the trees And not remembered Lone wolf calls But the cry isnt heard Pounding waterfalls Drown the meaning from the words Shadows on the wall Of the twigs and the ferns That missed the ember Flower petals flow On a flammable freeze Gasoline glow Picks the scent off the breeze His own house grows Until it's back to the trees And not remembered Lone wolf calls But the cry isnt heard Pounding waterfalls Drown the meaning from the words Shadows on the wall Of the twigs and the ferns That missed the ember Flower petals flow On a flammable freeze Gasoline glow Picks the scent off the breeze His own house grows Until it's back to the trees And not remembered Lone wolf calls But the cry isnt heard Pounding waterfalls Drown the meaning from the words Shadows on the wall Of the twigs and the ferns That missed the ember