Freedom

Sep 7 2012

fool for all




Every girl in the world oughtta be Daddy’s girl, but the world isn’t open to reason. Never left second best never fail any test, she should know Daddy loves her like Jesus. Rock’n’roll, rock-a-bye, rocky road gotta ride, rock of crack ‘cuz there’s no rock of ages. Hand to hold ages old, never led to [...]

Sep 18 2010

Today




we have the proud and fervent passion of fierce young eagles who live in a time of wordless rituals in a church without walls where an unseen choir sings hymns that are written in our hearts and the heart of the sky for the first time and the last even as the song fades in [...]

Sep 18 2010

the price of doing business




No longer angry, the child is a man, empty of the turmoil that fueled his youth. Eyes that once were stones heated by a fever are void, staring with lucid and powerful focus at some distant nothing, drawing everything in without care. Still the sidewalk-spanning street-fighter slouch and sway, unself-conscious. Jail-baby, perspective born in the [...]

Sep 18 2010

a song for the sunset’s daughter




Rain … Dance in the falling water. I sing a song for the Sunset’s Daughter. Shy child of the sky, an(d) Echo is my reply. I rage at the altar, lonely without my god. Didn’t think she could falter so somehow she beat the odds. (but) I see she’s fallen again; to die like a [...]

Sep 18 2010

churchyard wind




ex-desperado why did you stop running so soon? didn’t you know that a brother of the setting sun can only serve the moon? when you let somebody love you was it worth the price you paid? did you trade the sorrow of an outlaw grave for the sorrows of a slave? didn’t you know it’s [...]

Sep 18 2010

vignette




With that childhood grin, I don’t know where to begin, you’re a wild one but I never mind. You’re a wild one child but I don’t see the crime, I’m as innocent as ignorance claims. You remind me of things, I don’t know where to begin, you remind me of my innocent days.

Sep 18 2010

shower song (rock of shame)




I always start with a warning – “Won’t be here come morning, I am not the one You’re waiting for.” And if it’s my heart that keeps breaking, those million shards are the dreams I’m forsaking, it’s not so hard to be alone, ’cause I don’t have to say goodbye. No I’m not so strong, [...]

Sep 18 2010

neverlet




shake it out now, break it all down, let it all flow out from Babylon’s crown, I’m a sell-sword legend, I’m reckoning come, I’m a deep deep dream of pay; gonna take you down the way. never let you down I’d never let you fall, never let you suffer the death of it all. you’re [...]

Sep 18 2010

do you remember you?




do you remember what you said when you came to set me straight about my world? remember what you said, and did you think I wouldn’t recognize you girl? you can hide behind your tears and all your anger, and you can hide behind your sympathizing too – but you know it’s not the same [...]

Sep 18 2010

is




is, always the searching from, to and for the edge, the boundary, borderline, balance of absolutes, the opposite-annihilating point of view, is a hunger there, need, how the universe sings, how we dance predator’s dances in anguish, how we hunt for the words to convey it, as if our only joy is the spreading of [...]

Sep 18 2010

lost legends of an imaginary empire




They made a legend of our love, in songs to rock and rule the ages; of death and dreams and unsung lullabyes, of memories to make us hide our eyes – but we were never what they saw, we were never love’s redemption, just broken hearts and broken laws; the broken ways of our intentions. [...]

Sep 18 2010

the sea




Hell isn’t a place unincarnate, it isn’t even on a different plane, it’s a ripple of thought through the now, shark ideas swimming people like waves…

Sep 17 2010

I don’t pray in churches (Baby)




Sense impressions and muscle memories intertwine. Moments ago – feeling her breath on my skin, her dreaming silhouette as she writhed above me. Feeling the edges of the universe unravel and thread through us. The boundlessness of orgasm, shattering worlds and collapsing stars, the tightening spiral a galaxy within. Magic: how each of us is [...]

Sep 17 2010

the meaning of some song




Saw the Phoenix rising where the Scorpion died, consumed by the power of his own desire, Night died flaming on a golden pyre I love you more than anyone knows, ’cause you sing while the story unfolds, dream where the devil don’t go and I love you more than anyone love you more than anyone [...]

Sep 17 2010

Ophelia (or all my sins remembered)




I imagined that somehow we were eternal, that the instant we gripped our passion we became living memory. Like feeling The Will of The World or understanding gravity, our dreams touched an ancestral rage and splendor. Arching into you like stars – the tightening spiral burst in my loins, and Time tugged at my Levi’s. [...]