Sometimes I realize that the back of my chair is reclined as far as it will go, and the only thing to do next is to sit up straight again.

The Moon Outside My Window- by: unknown forgotten

The moon set down on the ground, level
It's parked outside your bedroom window
It's flourescent lights keep you up all night
You haven't slept in days
And there's no use in running a way

Don't hide
Earth child
Don't hide

This moon, he's a good fellow
He came to meet you on down on the ground level
You lick the windowsill and hide from him
There's no use in staying away
You'll never escape his shining light rays

Don't hide
Earth child
Don't hide

The light's so bright that it burns your eyes
It seeps deep through your eyelids too
He's seen everything you've ever done up there
There's no use in running away
He'll watch as your running away

And he lingers there all day
And he lingers there all day
You haven't slept in days
And he's never going away
Don't hide

Chilly boy
Blue bones
So cold

Stepping Out- by: unknown forgotten

Let me step out
Just for a moment
Let me step out of the lime-light
I'm just going over here
I need to do something alone
Excuse me, can I get through?
I need to leave and be on my own

Let me get out of your way
Just for awhile
Let me get my things out of here
I'm just taking a break
Making some more space for you
Pardon me, can you hold the door? Thanks.
I need to step out and leave you alone

Self-Redemption- by: unknown forgotten

He drank
He drank until his bones were brittle
and his mind no longer functioned
When he woke up his taste buds were burned off
He could smell the vomit
But he couldn't taste it
When had that happened?
The musky scent of stale cigarettes surrounded his whole body
His eyes were crusty and blood shot
and deep circles radiated around his eyes
Had he been crying?
He thristed for a drink of water
Opening his mouth his lips and tongue cracked and split in half
But it was hard to move his bruised body
and at first motion the liquor in his blood rushed back to his brain
Then dropped to his stomach, knocking him over
He lay fully clothed on his bed
The sheets disheveled
Evidence of his agony the night before
Outside his keys were still dangling from the ignition
Of course he could not remember how he got home
He drank until all the world he knew and loved
Swirled around him in a dark brooding mass
Lashing back against him for the first time
Revealing all the flaws of his life he thought he had so cleverly disguised
His memory came back slowly
But most of all he could not stop thinking about how she was not coming back
And he was all alone.

He found a bottle of something next to his bed
So he drank some more.

Far Side of Crazy- by: Wall of Voodoo

I'm Pilate and Jesus
And I wept when Lennon died
Yet I envied his assailant
When I visited the shrine
I cried for all those Beatle Fans
So old so quick they grow
I follow the example to destroy
What I love most

And I remain on the far side of crazy
I remain the mortal enemy of man
No hundred dollar cure will save me
Can't stay a boy in no man's land

I once hid my lust for stardom
Like a filthy magazine
I stroked the shaft on my guitar
And watched you on the screen
I've become now what I wanted
To be all along
A psychopathic poet
The Devil's bastard son

And I remain on the far side of crazy
I remain the mortal enemy of man
No hundred dollar cure will save me
Can't stay a boy in no man's land

I shot an actor for an actress
But he lived to make a joke
Shot two other men who could have been
The bodys of my folks
I stagger toward the future
I stagger day to day
Plot revenge inside of darkness
I am withering in pain

And I remain on the far side of crazy
I remain the mortal enemy of man
No hundred dollar cure will save me
Can't stay a boy in no man's land

New Dreams- by: unknown forgotten

I tremble in the night of tomorrow's 'morrow
What am I to do
I can't help it
In my dreams do you appear
So much do I remember
So much do I fear
Oh angel
Don't you worry


I'm living in the bystanders point of view
Never do I help myslef
Never do I try more than I know I should
I'll just disregard everything
As I am, and always do
I feel these blues, they hover over my soul
I think I'll think no more

And always realize:
Life fades away

Either or
Niether nor

Ocean Floor- by: unknown forgotten

All along the ocean floor
I drug my feet
Coming to the realization
That we will never again meet
All around was the distant sound
Of dolphins laughter and delight
And everything seemed so dreamy I started to cry

There was seaweed higher than the sky
It shifted so effortlessly in the depths and tide
And as my feet slid though the murky sand and deep
I grew tired under the rippling filtered sun light shining down
So I layed down on a corral rock
It was softer than I thought it would feel
The octopus let me make him my pillow
and there in the oceans depth I slept
Calm sleep like nothing I've ever felt
The silence was immense and the orcas lulled my mind
The little fish danced towards the surface
Light reflcting off their shiny scales and glimmering around
The sea anenomae was poisonous to the touch
But I wasn't aware and gave him a good soft pet
His venom did not hurt, nor did it kill
But it caused me to sleep forever
And down there on the bottom of the ocean
I do sleep still

Given enough time, everything will go from bad to good.
It will not necessarily stay that way.

Elementary School Flashback Shrines- by: unknown forgotten

He was afraid for me
I wasn't concerned about bad times

Don't bother
It was sort of like blacktop
In the summer time

With green go signs
With red stop signs
And yellow 'who knows?' signs
Bloody nose good times

Tether ball good times
Where the ball comes around and breaks your nose
Spattered blood good games
And the opponent is on the floor
And around your ankles the blacktop grows

Swelling salty blacktop's hot
It's growing as your blood hits the floor
Terrible woes good times
Yellow 'who knows?' signs boggle the brilliant minds
Yell out "Who knows?" good signs of a wreck of good times
Elementary school flashback shrines

Finality- by: unknown forgotten

I'll never forget
But I'm not going to try and remember anymore
Not anymore
I'm freed

Cal- by: unknown forgotten

I could see in his face that he was cheddared
He was talking about all this soul junk
And lively spirits that dance and drink
Powerful wicked sea serpents and ocean lilies
Fast cars and non-existent technology
I told him to shut the fuck up
And he just glared at me with his cheddared eyes
He just kept on rambling about gods and salt
Relating the two as if they meant something to him
I've never met a man as cheddar as him

Safety Confines- by: unknown forgotten

This gilded brass cage in which I live
Is in the shape of a sphere
I can roll around wherever I want to
But I can't fit through the door

It's bars protect me from the wolves
And their glistening sharp teeth
The wolves protect me also
From people entering the room to take me away

I swear sometimes
That if I get it just right
Huddled in the very center of the orb
I can hear the ocean's roar

Someday I may go there
Or that's what I say
When I leave the fear and open the cage
I will run for the shore

New City In The Future- by: The Angels Of Light

Here, here it is,
the place where you lived.
The place where you rose,
a ghost-
You were mine,
you were mine...
Here, here's where you walked.
Different now,
moonlight and chalk.
Polished white stone,
bruised feet,
shattered bone,
brittle hand of a child-
You were mine,
you were mine...
Raise, raise me up,
up from the ground.
Naked, transposed,
wound like a rose.
Face painted with white,
mouth full of black stone-
You were mine,
you were mine...
Here, here it is,
look at it shine,
pure, polished and white.
Piercing the sky,
new towers of ice,
so lifeless and clean-
You were mine,
you were mine...

I Panicked- by: unknown forgotten

I need to hear something soothing to calm my soul
My heart beats so fast it burns like rubber
I want to take back control
I'm trying so hard so hard
But is beyond my means
It's a terrible game versus time
And it takes too long to win
I just need soothing words to help me rest assured
I know I can win
It's just my heart is beating so fast
The room is filling with smoke

Foot Down- by: unknown forgotten

I stepped on the dictionary
I trodded through the snow
I payed the doorman a visit
I peered out the only window
The alley was all I could see
Down below people were moving
They were walking on the dictionary

-The Salted Gods-
Black Peppered Sinners- by: unknown forgotten

Part I
-Beware the Wrath of the Salted Gods-

All that salt turns to dust
Blowing up in the wind
Freeing our peppery lungs once again
Salt laid on the road to destroy ice
Like it's sprinkled upon dry toast
Salt used in vain that angers the Salted Gods
And tears at their mineral coated throats
Beware the wrath of the Salted Gods
Or so be it you taste pepper for the rest of your life
Shaker caps unscrewed
To dump millions of black grains on the unexpected
To inhale and sneeze the black powder until death

Part II
-Salted Love-

Taste the salt
Flavor your bland foods
Do not salt the earthen world
You question the wonder of salt
Like you never knew it before
Iodized packets torn open
And poured on your soul
It will melt the ice around your heart

Part III
-Repent Peppery Sinners and Be Blessed-

When you eat your pretzels
Do you neglect to thank the Salted Gods?
When you indulge yourself with popcorn
Do you even consider the magic art that makes it's flavor so good?
It is salt! The mineral you have forgot!
Repent peppery sinners
Your sodium filled blood is not yours to own
Turn away from your black peppered ways
And pray to the Salted Gods for forgiveness
And offer up to them an offering of thanks,
sacrifice your baked potato to the delicious white heaven
And cover it with what you first loved
The blessed gift to man that is salt
Do not use just a pinch, but pour freely
Like the Salted Gods have done
And sprinkled their never ending tasty white love on you

Baren Nights- by: unknown forgotten

I have nothing much to say
My dreams have fled
Or else do escape me as of late

I lay down to sleep
The matress soft
These cold sheets
And linger awake

Every speck of light destroyed
Curtains drawn, electronics off
Except the hour of late
Displayed on my clock

Its dim glow throws shadows
They slowly reveal the surroundings to my eyes
My lonely room
This lonely man

My eyes see nothing
My mind revels on
It hunts down my lifes mission
But never receives transmission

At some point I fade off to sleep
I can never remember when
And on the morning I awake
With no dreams remembered

Because as I said
My dreams have fled
Or else do escape me as of late

Next Time Around- by: Starflyer 59

kissing the boys when i wasn't around
feeling the mess by the word of mouth
could you feel the same way i feel
next time around

feeling the hurt by the word of mouth
coping a word when she's got me down
could you feel the same way i feel
next time around
next time around...
next time around...
next time around.......

Life's Lost Goals- by: unknown forgotten

The life has flown from me.
I know better.
A peace has surrounded me.
And tears.