Safe and Sound

And I won't sleep with socks on, I'm scared I might dream. And I won't set my alarm clock, I'm scared of its scream. And did you know that sleeping in peace, is a condition of the weak? I rest aggressively and restlessly and only in 3's.
Dreams pass straight through my head and out my feet. Into the dead space of my home, between walls and under beds. Where it's fast and safe and sound asleep and unaware of any threat. And did you know that inspiration strikes at 3am? I'm blessed, I'm cursed, I write it down before I fall asleep again. Dreams pass straight through my head and out my feet.

In the middle of the night, I'm floating outside at the edge of my driveway, I'm glowing in the moonlight and I'm thinking about my neighbors all asleep in the same way, atop a second story staircase, in the distance there's a train saying; travels can be made by the sleeping or awake, and your medicine will help clear the fear from your veins, and your bones no longer ache, your walls no longer cave... breathing gets deeper when your bodies are safe.

Bees

Well your brother's a liar, and your sister's a faker. And someday they'll be home wrecker and maker, in neighborhoods of dreams, with crime fighting teams. Recycling those cars that end up on their lawns and don't you forget the image in your retina, to foresee the future, to find a use for... Them telling me, everything that would happen to me anyway.

If it isn't science, it doesn't exist, we make our own problems and blame them on birds and bees but we ain't seen nothing yet, and don't you ever forget it.
Well your mom was the queen, and dad was the farmer, now we're all covered in aerosol armor, singing God's out to get us with his army of wings, Mother Nature's militia of precision stings and those petals in your pockets, mosquitoes will swarm, to foresee the future, before it takes form.

Please tell me, every sting to hit me in this heat wave. Please tell me, everything that would happen to me anyway...

If it isn't fire it doesn't exist, we've all come to burn and learned to love it, better answer your heart before it blows apart. And don't you ever forget it. Please tell me everything that would happen to me anyway.

I'm Pretty Sure I Can See Molecules

I see molecules and I see you, I see the way that matter scatters out and makes things move. I see the backs of my eyelids have never looked so beautiful, there's shapes and light with eyes so tight and swirling little pixels. It's a funny seeming, fuzzy feeling to think about all I'm seeing, all that is, birds and fish, plants and apes and annelids. Traffic smoke and atmosphere, it's a one way ticket out of here, it's a science you can trust, it's a molecule and it's here with us.

Finally I'm right, Finally you're wrong, I've seen molecules all along.


To be young and dumb and innocent, to fear your life and want to live, to sleep and wake naturally, to treat your brain how it's supposed to be. One with nature, two for tea, three's a crowd and all for me, to walk the plank, find the shark, underwater, in the dark. The air we breathe, it comes from trees, not carried by air and sky, but is the breeze. Chlorophyll and bits of rice, ice cold water and warmed up ice, fish eat plankton and plankton is, molecules as food for fish.

Finally I'm right, Finally you're wrong, I've seen molecules, all along.

I see molecules and I see you, I see friends in stars and faces in moons, and I see molecules I see light I see colors and shapes in the middle of the night. And finally I'm right, finally you're wrong, finally I dance with confidence to songs, that sing of hope and love and truth, when you're nothing, you're still something, you're molecules.

To Be Alive and Alone

It's nice to see you, back in the game, back playing the field, back to your old ways.

We don't want love we just want to be touched. Some just touch while others want love. Relationships are way too much, don't give me your heart because I've had enough.

It's hopeful to know you are there for me, as a friend with benefits, or a friend in need. Love is happiness and happiness is free. It's a lie that we're told and try to believe. God is love and Love is the Devil. What is your type, you say I've got several... It's a great time to be alive.

There's a hole in my soul that will never complete, just waiting for someone to marry me. Broken hearts are overrated, you died alone because you've waited. It's a great time to be alive and alone.

Even Marathon Runners Need to Nap

Even marathon runners need to nap, he said he'd have a heart attack if he didn't lay down. The years went by he settled down, his house is on the edge of town and you're so proud. You never bit off more than you could chew. You never gave out more than inconveniences you. In olden days he made enough to build a car that runs on dust, but it ran out. Now we've got oceanic hydroponics bringing back the great relax from way back when. Do you think this will last? Of course! How do you really know? We'll use force. Even marathon runners need to nap, I ran all the way there and then ran back and back was gone. Defenestrate my old ways, grand canyon all the lovely days and then dive in. Oh, that's my dad in the yellow shirt, he won the race and then the girl and they made me. Ineffable is life and death, let's talk till we run out of breath, or just run along... Just run along.

Ear, Nose & Throat

Airway. Chemical. Think it through. Sudafed. Theraflu. Hotel Chain. Airborne. Self-Contained. Underwater. Gill filled. Oxygen. Claritin. Feeling sorta stuffy at the Red Roof Inn. Because a Heat vent. Sudafed. Prevent. Righteousness. Who will help me and my kids? With their medicine. Monitor. Bacteria. Doctor. Sit back and watch all the money roll in through a...Stethoscope, Aerosol. Circulate. American. Common Cold. Often told. Often tricked. Often fooled. T.V. scams a plenty. If only the needs of the many outweighed the few. Are we lied to? Can we find trust in our evening news? Who will tell me what to choose, what's good for me and my family?

Double Shift. Patriot. Aerosmith. Eat the rich. Eat yourself. Eat your dreams. Take one for the winning team Drain your face. In every room. In every state. Concentrate. The liquid of life is not blood. In a five diamond. Super 8. Better never. Better late. Continental breakfast. Business suit. Break neck. Break dance. Break down. There's laughter in the White House. And the streets are alive with things you may not like. Like me. Like them. Disease. And Pathogens. Blood born. Well worn. Wear gloves. When push comes. Don't shove. Just step aside and let the powerful men pass by. Are we lied to? Can we find trust in our evening news? Who will tell me what to choose, what's good for me and my family? Oh Canada! Otolaryngology ain't right for me, if it's not free. Wealthy Equals Healthy.

Floribraska

In a Pontiac 600 on a Florida side street. There's no place like the Midwest, except the Southeast. When the clouds hang low on a vacant beach and the roads stretch on, endlessly. And the great facade of the Holiday Inn is windowless at 3am, we're on camera, we're careless for once and we'll be damned if we're not having fun, we're on radar. We're not very far from an ocean breeze or a field of dreams, and no one is getting any sleep.

Just as the bluffs are hills the gulf's a sea, the sky's the limit we meet. Horizons on the palms and leaves, the waves reflect the blues and greens.. Sink or swim, drive or die, find a coast, stay alive. A Northern source will feed us now, but we'll all end up at the river's mouth.

You know what they say about passing ships? They're old ladies, in leopard print. Who've lived their lives, with telescopes. Who've made mistakes, but are now too old.

The Do The Build The House

There's a home, there's a hell up in the hills, there's a private drive to dreams fulfilled and a fence and a fence keeps bad away, separating the predators from the prey. There's a system of wires and drains and tubes, one million means and ways things can reach you, there's a friend and a neighbor just down the street, there's a way to make you feel complete. There's a sense of fear you can't ignore, not a flood or a fire or a thunder storm, but a beast that lives out in the trees, the more we cut the closer he comes to being released. There's a church where your parents pray to God, they swear the stained glass home is all they've got. They've got they've got to feel secure and do their part to keep this poor world pure. Let's build a stadium with a cross on the roof. Some black magic, packed arenas are the proof. Acres and acres of faith filled parking lots, we were told we have read this is what he wants.

Building a house cut a hole in the Earth now. Turn it all out, you're doing superb now. Framing's a game you can play it's a dance now. My heart spins where this home is, the home is where the heart will live and die we can't build out, so we build up now everyone lives in the sky.

Burn the prairie, build the church. God will love, your hard work. The deer that flees, in fear of the crane. Destruction is beautiful when it's done in His name.

Get Lost

Well what we have here is you and me and we're not going to give up that easy. Where will you go when this day is over? I don't know. There is so much anger behind your beauty, there is so much beauty behind your anger and what comes out is like bloody feet on a sandy beach in my favorite season.
Know that, you and I will one day, one day get lost.

Are things the way you want them to be? No, they aren't and they never are it seems. I'm on the phone you're on the moon, we're in each other's bedroom but this can't go on this can't exist when you've got two hearts that won't want to live with the other one, get out of here now, you can do it. Escape and face your fear. Get lost. Fight the freeze, cut down trees, in your cities of conformities. If I cooperate with my nerve, if I cooperate with the traffic officer, if I cooperate with the roads, I'll never get lost.

Jackpot Stampede Deluxe

There was a stampede into a casino that we went to. Familiar ringing like money was singing. There were old ladies laughing, and fat men dancing, so we took our chances and joined in the madness. Then a cocktail waitress, spelled out our fate for us, you can stay and drink as long as you'd like. But don't you forget to return to your jobs, I don't work these hours cuz I beat the odds. Oh! Life is so rough, money can talk but it never says enough, and I've had enough.

There was a jackpot on the last slot and hearts sank all across the sea of hopeful losers like me. In the sad hue of the red light on an empty-wallet kind of night, she was the only thing keeping me alive. And I bet her birthday, and we were both sure that our luck was changing as black bars lined up. Oh cover me in green felt, I'll deal with all I'm dealt and we'll keep each other safe from the sharks that surround us here. Oh, life is so rough, money can talk but it never says enough and we've had enough. Oh, to win big just once. I swear I know that it would be enough and we've had enough.

Later that evening the fountains were freezing, the cold wind was stinging my sunburned neck. From days of walking and jaws dropping at canyons and copters that flew around our heads. Las Vegas, last places, lost energy converges, from outer desert spaces like gasses escaping through holes in our layers, are there holes in our prayers when we pray for ourselves before others?