Intimacy hopeful kindness Misery aggressive Distract confusion touch Satisfaction shame caress Sacrifice frustration hopeless Love mistake emotion One word at a time The best way to get through to you Is with one word at a time All you need to do is listen Rage belief betray distraction Fun doubt regret Sorrow frustrate cheat confuse Intimate alive believe Heart hate kiss lick sexual Passive passion foolish Easy. One word at a time The best way to get through to me Is with one word at a time All I need to do is listen Boredom deep desire guilt pointless Joy satisfy Fear hold feelings need Pet hope stroke feel sensual Suck truth die True thrust lust play Trust

We held our breath When your warships passed through Afraid you had found us Afraid you had found us Stood still as white statues When your warships came through Afraid you had found us Had finally found us We flocked to our temples We flocked to our shrines We hushed up our children And sent them inside We razzled ‘em We razzled ‘em We dazzled ‘em We razzled ‘em Again We felt the cold chill As your radar swept through A knife in our bellies Ice in our bellies In spite of the sunshine A cool ocean breeze Ice in our bellies Had you finally found us We flocked to our temples We flocked to our shrines We hushed up our children And sent them inside We razzled ‘em We razzled ‘em We dazzled ‘em Again

There is a moment in my head You are watching the show That is my girl up there Pretty crazy I know Is it your profile Is it your posture or gait Something about you Something that makes me Feel so fine Totally alive If we could just fall into Another space and time No one to notice Crossing parallel lines All the warmth spilling through The shimmering gap They’ll never see never know Coz we’ll be right back If we could ride the wavelength On the crest of the moon On every channel that I know I’m broadcasting a tune And then you look my way And I don’t have to guess You got me loud and clear My yes oh yes!

Her eyes sparkled with the gift of the gab A nice doughy coating of American fat She knew that Book like the back of her hand The lines on the other side were driving her mad The compass in her heart pointed true north The rest of the world swung back and forth Life can’t be counting cracks in the ceiling Love cannot possibly be this terrible feeling She ran away from mom and dad Trying to hear the dreams she had And cried out when it got too bad Who am I she had to know I will find out all alone So she ups one day and runs away from home This time the words will come out in the right order Meaner and stronger bigger and bolder This time I’m gonna say exactly what I mean Now that I’m wiser now that I’m colder This time you’re gonna listen to what I say Black and white no shades of grey This time I don’t give a shit what you think You can preach you can preach you can preach A broken-hearted husband on his righteous throne Couldn’t let her go so she could come back home He knew so much and could not see To love someone really does mean let her be She ran away from her man Desperate to understand The scratches in her hand Sick of being down on her knees Tired of trying so hard to please Up she get and runs like hell to be free

Trip down thy valley of choice Rain clouds hem thee in A thirst as big and insatiable as Texas No promises to what lieth in wait on the other side Lost layers of fat melt in the ground Canst thou remember what it was thou wast Weighed down by mountain ranges of garbage Lie back in raving bliss The forest and the trees The fear and wonder of it all Let it go Thou art naked Possibilities they mushroom best ‘gainst a purple sky Save us from this clutter and noise Thou art only a creature This clay hath made thee Stripped naked well beyond thy skin Throw it all away And start again

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Sleep little one Leave your thoughts in the twilight Sleep little one Down through the midnight Sleep little one Fall asleep Drift little one The daylight shimmer above you Drift little one The silence surround you Drift little one Drift asleep Sleep little one Know I love you so Sleep little one Don’t you worry no no Sleep little one Down down deep Sleep little one Fall fall asleep

It hits him without warning At four o’clock in the morning Standing in the doorway His mind a sleepless slurry Wound up in impotent worries Fists in fetal fury Knuckles in his eyes He listens to her sleeping A wheeze of labored breathing Meanwhile she is dreaming A face that fades into the night You’ll have to find another way Sorry So sorry He hisses his frustration The word of all creation A quick and vicious summation Of all that he can see You’ll have to find another way Sorry So sorry

The pieces of the puzzle are scattered on the table Eye of kid toe of wife corner of a cradle I pick some up at random try to figure out where they go Here there anywhere how the hell should I know Maybe I should arrange the pieces by shape or design They do not seem to match the image that I had in mind Never gonna know until I shut up and get started Could it be that my plans were those of mice and men I wonder what I would change if I could do it all over again A longer string of lucky charms Another woman on my arm A back account that never seems to dwindle I can see it now The frame is warped and crooked and the corners are all dog-eared I counted up the pieces some are missing just as I feared But the kid has come together like the woman who is holding her I guess that is my hand that is at rest on her shoulder Could it be that my plans were those of mice and men I wonder what I would change if I could do it all over again A longer string of lucky charms Another woman on my arm A back account that never seems to dwindle I can see it now This chair I am sitting in is making my back ache And the tools at my disposal are just about to break It seems to take forever to find the pieces I need The picture remains a puzzle Images and moments Islands of colour in a sea of floating fragments She asks me if I’d like to take a break and have some coffee I sit back close my eyes listen to her singing Could it be that my plans were those of mice and men I wonder what I would change if I could do it all over again Count up all my lucky charms Touch the woman on her arm Hold on as long as I can I can see it now This is all right

Having the same dream every night The end of the world is nigh It will happen tonight at seven o’clock It will not be a sudden event How or why we know nobody knows We will all wake up the next day The event behind us Now everything has changed The dark and the cold grow day by day And everything that grew begins to fade Billions of us are still alive And though we are we no longer care why And all the remained is all the remains To sustain us Then it’s dog eat dog And man eat dog And man eat man And all that’s good is behind us