Buildings And Bridges

Buildings and bridgesare made to bend in the windto withstand the world,that’s what it takesAll that steel and stoneis no match for the air, my friendwhat doesn’t bend breakswhat doesn’t bend breaks we are made to bleedand scab and heal and bleed againand turn every scar into a jokewe are made to fightand fuck and […]


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Amazing Grace

amazing gracehow sweet the soundthat saved a wretch like mei once was lostbut now i’m foundwas blind but now i see ’twas grace that taughtmy heart to fearand grace that fear relievedhow precious didthat grace appearthe hour i first believed through many dangerstoils and snaresi have already come’twas grace that brought mesafely thus farand grace […]


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Hell Yeah

life is a b movieit’s stupid and it’s strangea directionless storyand the dialouge is lamebut in the he said she saidsometimes there’s some poetryif you turn your back long enoughand let it happen naturallyoh, yeahhell yeah I got a face like a limp handshakehair like an accident sceneI’ve been waking up slowlysavoring the same old […]


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Asking Too Much

I want somebody who sees the pointlessnessand still keeps their purpose in mindI want somebody who has a tortured soulsome of the timeI want somebody who will either put out for meor put me out of miseryor maybe just put it all to wordsand make me say, you knowI never heard it put that waymake […]


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Dog Coffee

perpetrating counter-culture she is walking through the parkfirst light ugly and more muscular than the darkpushing poems at the urban silencedrawing portraits of the passers-bysitting on the curbcombining traffic soundsgetting dirty looks and dirty jeanson the dirty groundshe says I can’t figure out what kind of life this iscomedy or tragedy I just know it’s […]


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Not So Soft

In a forest of stoneunderneath the corporate canopywhere the sunrarelyfiltersdownthe groundis not so softnot so soft they build buildings to house peoplemaking moneyor they build buildings to make moneyoff of housing peopleit’s truelike a lot of things are trueI am foraging for a phone booth on the forest floorthat is not so softI look upit […]


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Letting The Telephone Ring

I am letting the telephone ringcause I don’t want to know whyI don’t want to hear you explainI don’t want to hear you cryI have written so much about youso much I thought I knewwords like water used to flownow what could I possibly have to say?she is someone I don’t even knowand all the […]


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Dilate

life used to be life-likenow it’s more like showbizi wake up in the nightand i don’t know where the bathroom isand i don’t know what town i’m inor what sky i am underand i wake up in the darkness and idon’t have the will anymore to wondereveryone has a skeletonand a closet to keep it […]


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Face Up And Sing

some guy tried to rub up against mein a crowded subway carsome guy tried to feed me some stupid linein some stupid barI see the same shit everydaythe landscape looks so bleakI think I’ll take the first one of you’s homethat does something unique some chick saysthank you for saying all the things I never […]


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Letter To A John

don’t ask me why I’m cryingI’m not going to tell you what’s wrongI’m just gonna sit on your lapfor five dollars a songI want you to pay me for my beautyI think it’s only right’cause I have been paying for itall of my life I’m gonna take the money I makeI’m gonna take the money […]


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