Say It.

Originally posted on Song Lyrics and Short Stories:
Why don’t you just say it?You’re confusedAnd I get itBut it won’t doIt’s not all in your headIt’s all in your woundsWhy don’t you just say it?You’re confused It’s just me and youIt’s just me and you Why don’t you just say it?I’m a viseSo I’m letting…

Secrets of the Saint (different version of Telltale)

Are there skeletons in the closet of your cottage in the woodsRemote and overgrown again after an excavation or twoAnd of course there are all those mysterious fires where they couldn’t determine a sourceYou said it was just some stupid kid who was known around town as a torch I’ll travel by the light of […]

Full and Spilling Over (redux)

My cup is nearly emptyAnd I’m waiting on another dosePretending to stare at many thingsBut only focusing on one And it’s getting cloudy yet clearerThe voices drawing nearerOh they’re so familiarThey must be one of mine You are full and spilling overOn those of us half drunkDreaming of pretty thingsWhile you’re spitting over balconiesInto our […]

Aesop

What’s there left to find?It’s all been washed awayYou’re anxious to get rebuildingWhat you let slip down the drainYou’ve clawed your way back upFrom a false bottomYour boots are heavy but you won’t take them offAesop Stop talking in riddlesIt’s all so strangeYou’re begging me to understandWhat you can’t explainYour thoughts are unintelligibleThere’s nothing to […]

Green and Grey

Old folk songs and their wisdomlooking for an unclaimed earfor a soul undistractedlisten child and you shall hearof green and graygreen and gray Tell me a bedtime storyone with monsters and heroesgive me something to believe intell me something that I don’t knowgreen and graygreen and gray Do you know what it was like before […]