- Araby
North Richmond Street is blind
It's too hard to keep saying goodbye
Early morning snow is falling
shorter days of winter coming
Araby
The darkness is all you see
Take care of me
- As The Crow Flies
You've got stars over head
I've got a wind-chill
well below negative ten
I've got snow and I've got ice
I've got sun, I've got rain
I've got you all the same
I've got rain
I've got sun when it shines
- Cemetery West
Grew up in Cemetery West
Now I float like a ghost above the streets
I carried a broken compass
Always led me back to the same coordinates
I kept going lots of places
I kept ending up somewhere I'd been before
I see myself in those lost faces
Whatever I have left to do has just begun
- In The Flicker
The air is filled with dust and smoke
The cities burned down long ago
Washed in fear we salvage hopes
We walk the same abandoned road
I dance to the here and the now
I dance to the bullets against the ground
We live in the flicker tonight
- Jewel Of The Midwest
Dream softly tonight
Breathe easy the cold air of this life
I'm not sure how I arrived
At the choices I made but I made them
- Life in the Embers
Today
I let go of everything
I looked in the mirror
And I saw what was there
I'm a collage
Of success and defeat
Cut and pasted together
- Mouth Of A Tiger
I'm worth five bucks or less
The future is down my neck
My restless soul takes stride
for across this great divide
But I won't heed its cry
won't follow its lifeline
It's time to sink or swim
sail on or anchor in
- My Boatless Booze Cruise
Jackknifed, my strife, take it easy, sit outside.
I just died one thousand times yesterday.
Lay down. Drown out, drowning in these cries and shouts.
Changing so fast that it stays the same.
Encryption ensconces this cryptic cliche.
If it's not stupid, it's more of the same.
I'm too tired to care, we're too busy to think.
- One Hundred Resolutions
Where have I been all your life?
Sitting on fences.
A novocaine for all the senses.
Another year will pass us by.
Making sense of nothing
in defense of something.
I laughed too late
and dug myself into a grave.
- Steal Your Words
I massacred the afternoon
To the sound of rain drumming against parked cars.
I drenched myself in desperate colors for you.
I was dripping for your sympathy.
I wear this weakness on my sleeve.
I'd like to put you on. I'd like to wear you out.
Solitary day. Forgive me for the blood you shed.
City of night-Hear my footsteps.
- this war is noise
The war will never end.
It crackles through the speakers.
I watch as the landscape roll on by.
And all the drinks have warmed me up
from my toes on through my fingers
I made it through this day alive.
Everything must go wrong before it goes right.
So all the pages that I wrote will burn tonight.
- Your Self Portrait
I tie my shoes-leave the house,
board the train and keep on moving.
My thoughts are thickening.
Trees fill me like you're whispering,
"The night is fading." Hey there friend.
I think we had a lot in common.
The feeling is dead.
Maybe it's just lost and needs to be found again.