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Aeola, lady of the Wind
Up on the topsof the mountains
Or down across the field to the streams
Foot prints that lead to the ocean
Following a trail to her dreams

Through the bright lights of the city

5/10/00
It feels like friday night
But It's only a Thursday
all it takes is
something uplanned
to turn your
Best day to your worst
day
Another cold wet morning
past troubles come finding
you again
The world so fast is turning
That you go looking for
long friends
I never heard a single
whistle
Until I got ran over
by a train

---

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/
One day...
A boy met a girl
Well, actually a woman
And in time...
They started to create some history
After she learned a thing or two about
adolescent psychology
But the boy didn't teach it, he lived
but still was it
He had the love in side - playing hide and seek
Thus she was still out of reach
And After one too many apologies
He didn't turn the other cheek
He just shut the door thinking
this time there's no more FORGIVENESS
He once wrote her beautiful poetry
Until he stopped believing that their
"Love" had symmetry
And then she moved - overlooking
the cemetery
And I mean, that both metaphorically
Symbolically and physically
I could never [crossed out: exactly] put my
finger on exactly what it was
That she ever did to me
To ever cause me so much, pain
and misery
---
Funny how the girl you once adored
Could make you take the name in vain
Oh Lord!
One day pleasure...
the next there's pain
One day it's sunny...
the next there's rain
Just when you think you've struck treasure
you hit A watermain
Only when it's some one else is it funny
Just think of Monica's blue dress and the...

Happy birthday though I have no card
I hope I don't get feathered and tarred
My mind was thinking awfully hard
And I had to walk a thousand yards
Its hard to travel without a car
With only my feet I don't get far
You know how pedestrians are
But I saved my money in a jar
And I decided to set out through the snow
I can't afford much case there's no grass to mow
But they say its the thought that counts you know
It isn't much but here you go

LOVE IS DEAD
I can't etch it in the sketch
It's been placed under house arrest
Yes, yes, I tried my best
But now it's gone
Yes, yes, that's what I said
Love is gone
Love is dead
The psalm of a love song
{struck: ?} Has just been read
Love is gone
Love is dead
Pain and I
We are now wed

---

MOW
MOW
MOW
YOUR GOAT
its gettin' too hairy for me

goat noises
goatnoises
goatnoises
goat noises
At least it don't smell like the sea.

Rise up Rise up
Smell the rebellion in the air
Has anyone noticed
That the president elect
His head is filled with gray hairs
Our grand fathers are all CEO's
While the grandsons are {struck: playing}
Watching music videos
Both are losing touch with reality
The future and the past is scaring me
Either too much money
Or too much skin
Ain't nothing changed
It's the same old problems again

Moderation is the new sensation
It's the foot steps of fathers
Reverberating the loud vibrations
Rise up Rise up
Smell the rebellion in the air
When the old and the new
Have each got the flue
There's no doctor in the house
Looks like it's all up to you

---

The infection of money
Is not quick to cease
Spreading and spreading
Like an air born disease
Trow away those phony pills
Blow your nose with those dollar bills
You can choose to be poor and cured
Or sick fithy rich
Though some might not know
which is which

Rise up Rise up
There's something in the air
But not everbody cares
Weap phony tears
Trying to muffle the lond
And quiet the fears
It's the same old problems again

Does daddy work seven days a week
Even though his kids have plenty to eat
Does mommy teach and cook and clean
And dicipline her kids when they get mean
When daddy gets home is mommy usleep
When daddy's not home do the children weep

A THOUSAND MILES ABOVE
She came from the land of sun
Flying through the clouds drifting above
Conquering new cities in the name of love
From a thousand miles away
To a thousand miles above

When we first met I knew she wasn't ordinary
Conversation sent a chill through my bones
Falling in love in an hour is so extraordinary
From that point on I didn't want to be alone

Before her I had loved and I had lost
Oh, but of course
Still I had to pay the cost
She got half when we got divorced

The mistakes I made I had corrected
Seems that love creeps up when you least expect it
She wanted my friendship, I wanted more
Best friends forever seems like such a bore
This feeling for you I have to direct it
Like a dog on the porch I await to sneak in the back

FATE
BY THE TIME
YOU KNOW WHAT I KNOW
IT'LL BE TOO LATE
YOU TRIED TO PREDICT
YOUR FORTUNE
BUT YOU FORGOT ABOUT FATE
THERE'S SOMETHING
THAT I CANT
PUT MY FINGER ON
SO I GUESS I'LL HAVE TO WAIT
THE TIME WILL COME
FOR THE STORY TO BE SUNG
WHEN I'M CHECKING IN
TO HEAVEN'S GATE
BUT IF I SHOULD HAPPEN
TO LOSE IT ALL
YOU CAN COME AND FIND ME
ON TOP OF THE GOLDEN GATE... bridge
V

CHILDREN BUILD A SANDCASTLE
JUST TO WATCH IT WASH away
EXCITED FACES TRY TO DEFEAT THE TIDE
So they return the very next day
The waves of the ocean only speak
What grown ups can't understand
For only adults know sant castle
walls could never withstand
The ocean's crashing waves
A castle unable to be saved

I see her dance and I feel it again
Will I feel better only time will tell
But I know it'll probably be the same
Until I hear those wedding bells
Its the same old feeling
That comes and goes
How long is it hear for?
Knowbody noes
Its back again
But only time will tell
If I'll suffer
The same old hell
She is taken
But only for now
Some way, I'll reach her
but I don't quite know how?

---

(cut everything after the first ---, from "Soulmates lost we no longer morn" to "When I'm anxious to awake": 6 blocks not on this photo)
Spirit alive has been reborn
Get this funny feeling deep down inside
Just sittin' in the car and goin' foraride
Feel my spirit flow outta my soul
A heart lost is a heart stole
I've lost my way in the fog
Blinded by the sun, choked by the smog
When I'm with you I see so clear
Troubles of the time just disappear

---

Come and see me some time
We've been playin' it by
the books for so long
Feeling lonely tonight
all alone I sing my song
Missing you is what I do
To pass the time away

Night falls its time to go to bed
You know how the saying goes
time to rest your weary head
But when the stars shine
in the sky
IT'S SO MUCH HARDER TO SAY
good bye

---

(You can see a million miles tonight
but you can't get any further)

The weight has been lifted
That comes with being gifted
The plates have just shifted
feel the weight being lifted
Tomorrow's another day
School books been thrown away
Homework tonight is planning how [?]
much to drink
Raise your glasses, you don't have to
think
Summer's around the corner
spring now fills the air
the weight has been lifted
Teacher's gone he is not there

---

Stuck in a rut caught in a jam
Up is down left is right
Hard to make it without your right hand man
You know he skipped town in the middle of
the night
He couldn't make it he couldn't take it

---

Walking in Dublin
talking to Leprachauns
walking in Dublin
Eating shamrocks As I walk on
RIGHT INTO A BAR
But they call it a pub
Using [?] Guiness as my desert
And potatoes as my grub
Met a gentle man named McDonald
who was eating french fries
Met a woman named Fiona
Who spoke of St. Patrick
But only told me lies

---

Woke up half dead
So I just laid in bed
I find myself believing that the best days were left behind
Show me a sign of better days ahead
tell me of a time
When I'm anxious to awake

ALL YOU GOT
Yesterday is history
Tomorrow is a mystery
By the time I realize the present
It has already passed
You cannot catch
What moves so fast
So I plan my future
And regret my past
When stakes are high
You chose your spots
This is no lie
You give it all you got

[Left side]:
We got the AC pumpin
Cause the heat is commin
And I thinks I'm perceiving that I'll be leaving
No need to stay around here

UNDERGRADUATE CATALOG
1998-2000
SALEM STATE COLLEGE

[Right side]:
Captain Haybar hit the deck
What else would you expect
from a man who wears his sailors hat just like a tattoo
If you were captain haybar you'd do it too
Everynight he sails
Just lookin for his whales
Sometimes he sleeps on deck
But only when
theres money for bail!
And when he's buzzin
we call him
Ahab's
cousin
Journalism

Pool of Love
My desire bleeds
For what my heart needs
Though discovery is bleak
when what you seek
Is so hard to catch
As beauty is sketched
by the pen of blood
Filled from the pool of love
So easy to fetch
When the droplets bead
After the dam's sprung a leak
As wide as the Grand Canyon's creek
There's no escaping the flood

I see faces on the wall
Mimicing my reflection
As I am pacing up and down the hall
Without any direction
Eyes are crossed
The T's are dotted
I feel their stares
I've been spotted
My Conscience has been
Conscience multiplied
As Voices now have faces
fantasy and reality undivide
No longer kept in seperate spaces
The walls are now closing in
The faces now are laughing clowns
The future will show where I've been
The ceiling just came crashing down
Bloodyed flesh
Splintered bone
Together mesh
Into one alone

Rehab - day 1
PAYING YOUR DUES
You're in violation of your probation
So we're taking you down to the station
That's the first time I ever seen a cop smile
So I knew I was going away for awhile
With a six month suspended sentence hanging
over my head
They brought me to my cell with shackles
on my legs
Three hots and a cot
And a book about war is what I got
Well bitch and complain
I just may, hopefully
Two hundred pushups a day
will keep the bad men away
I have to wear them
These are my shoes
In this land of law
You gotta pay your dues
When the punishment is known before hand
You have to choose
I chose wrong
Guess what? I lose

SEEING STARS
I went out on a bender
Crushing ice in my blender
I went and dented my fender
Now rehab I have to enter

When everyday's the same
You're the only one left to blame
It's time to come back to earth
At least you're getting your money's worth

You'll be seeing stars
But at least it ain't through bars
Even still I don't want to play doctor
[crossed out word] with any doc
Alone and in his office
with the doors locked

CLOSER TO GOD
Some old man asked me if I went
to church
I told him god rested on the seventh
day but what about me
Calisters and blisters
I'm all black and blue
I wear my work
Like a bad tatoo

On the subject of religion
I have only one thing to say
There is only one sacrament
That I preach everyday
Every cigarette I smoke
Brings me closer to death
Which brings me closer to God
Smokers go to Heaven
They have a big ashtray
Put some money in [crossed out text] the basket
And you can smoke all day

PIGEON LAND
As I stumble down the street
The street lights go out
All the people I pass
Are down and out
You see the difference
Between the have and have nots
You see the difference
Between the with and with out
I ask myself how could you live here
You must get numb after awhile
I say to myself anywhere but here
You must get dumb after awhile
Children playing in the dirt
Next to a man who lost his shirt
Everywhere you look
You see people getting hurt
To live here every day
A place where even the pigeons
They all fly away
You know I'm getting outta here
I suggest you shouldn't stay

I.M. GRENDEL
Self control is a common goal
By using free will people can kill
There is safety in numbers
like solitary confinement
People, not unlike machines
still need some refinement
Alas, there is no hammer for the heart
Certainly no wrench for the soul
We haven't perfected recycling yet
You're still thrown out when you're old
Dead Vagrants and peasents thrown into the dumpster
As Wisemen and nobles are lowered into a casket
Both groups segregated by the pews of the church
Though each drop their money in the passing basket

a dime a dozen
There's a blue sky above
But the weather's still cold
Up there there's a rainbow
And everybody's searching for a pot of gold
After believing every story ever told
But me, I only want what is real
What I can see
What I can feel
No time for make believe
That's not the kind of life I lead
So I no longer beg and plead
With people who deceive
As soon as they say hello
I tell them I have to leave
They sell their kind
for a dime a dozen
They're here and then gone
All of a sudden
And so I live like a turkey in an oven
In A world that can be so cruel
With everybody making their own rules
And Thinking every encounter is another duel
Another corner turned, another fool
Those who could live in the artic and not keep their cool
Just Treading water in misery's pool
Being used as evil's tool
Following a carrot on a stick just like a mule
Some may call them an ass
But it depends on who you ask

Some people only buy a thirty
And they get a little dirty
But when you buy it by the pound
Then you're nuttier than snickers and
mounds

This place is sucking the life out of me
The light is so dim I can barely see
Everywhere I go trouble seems to follow
But a gulp this big is hard to swallow

This place is sucking the life out of me
Just when I think to myself how hard can
it be?

The days blend together
There is no change
Not every storm can be weathered
When you're not home on the range

This place is sucking the life out of me
Now I know how the Indians felt when
Columbus sailed across the sea
Washed upon their shore
Walked right through their door
Showed them their deepest, darkest fears
Then made them follow a trail of tears

This place is sucking the life out of me
Hour by hour I lose my dignity
Day by day they take my pride
Week by week by their laws I abide

BREAKING THE LAW

No need for seniority
When you've got the majority
Cici took a hike
So I jumped on my bike
Alvin Cohol stole my car
Don't think I'll get too far
But I still got Mary Jane
And she still drives me insane
It's party time!
M.J. has arrived
[?] when she's around I never
Get too fucked up to drive
I just forget
Where the bags are I hide
She's the only
Law I don't abide
She'll still come knockin' on my door

Even after I die

ME, YOU AND HOOBIE DOO
Well ladies and gentlemen
It is time to tell a story
About a student who liked to earn A's
He knew what he had to do to make it
He knew that hard work pays
He had a nice perspective on life
He knew who he wanted for a wife
But for a long time
He let her slip away
He practiced all the words he would say
He's still searching
For the fairer sex woman
To make his live complete
Anyone who really knows him at all
Will tell you he's not the type
To [crossed out word] settle for defeat
He's been searching for so long
And he's written so many songs
Speaking like a prophet
But still he won't get off it
He wants to have his
Cake and eat it too
And there are certain choices you have to
Make
And you also have to learn from your
mistakes

This is something that he knows
But apparently she knows it too
There's only one thing he won't do
And that is stop smokin' hoobie doo
She left and went away
Now at another's place she stays
As he's learning it doesn't pay
He saves up for his rainy day
There's no telling when it will end
There's no telling who's your new best
friend
Is a locked [crossed out word] door
Opened [crossed out word]
One that's never been entered before
No telling what's in store
And soon you'll understand
That nothing ever goes as planned
Your fate is decided
By how you handle adversity
You know I cannot hide it
I've been treated
The worse you can be
Every blow I've dealt to myself
And I cannot blame anyone else.

(She Said Me, you and hoobie doo
That's more than two
And that won't do)

---

ME, YOU AND HOOBIE DOO

Well ladies and gentle men
It is time to tell a story
About a student who liked to earn A's
He knew what he had to do to make it
He knew that hard work pay
He had a nice perspective on life
He knew who he wanted for a wife
But for a long time
he let her slip away
he practiced all the words he would say
He's still searching
For the fairer sex woman
to make his live complete
Anyone who really knows him at all
will tell you he's not the type
To [crossed out: do] settle for defeat
He's been searching for so long
And he's written so many bad songs
Speaking like a prophet
But he still won't get off, it
he wants to have his
cake and eat it too
There are certain choices you have to make
And you also have to learn from your
mistakes

---

This is some thing that he knows
But apparently she knows it too
There's only one thing he would nt do
And that is stop smokin hoobie doo
And she left and went away
[?] at anothers place she stays
As he's learning it doesen't pay
But He saves up for his rainy day
There's no telling when it will end
There's no telling who's your new best friends
Opened is a locked door
One that's never been entered before
No telling what's in store
And soon you'll understand
That nothing ever goes as planned
Your fate is decided
By how you handle adversity
You know I cannot hide it
I've been treated
The worse I've dealt to myself
And I Cannot blame any one else.
Chorus { She Said Me, you and hoobie doo
That's more than two
And that wont do

I USED TO TYPE ON A COMPUTER
UNTIL DADDY STOPPED GIVING ME HUGS
I used to go to private school
Until I started doing drugs
I knew my days were numbered
When the caledar fell off the wall
I knew the weather was getting colder
When the summer changed to fall

We all want money
We're all green with envy
We all like our honey
It's the message sent to me
My girl Mary Jane
She's in another class
I put my stake in nothing
But theres a chace well last

I do what I do
But at least I do it well
Will it get the better of me
Well only time will tell

Extreme in Nature
No moderation
Trade your future
For a new sensation
Hoping you don't end up
On a permanent vacation
But in this world
Both life and death -
Are cause for celebration

The waves are getting higher
But there's no place to dock the ship
You're starting to look tired
Let me give you a tip

If anyone waving a flag
Or someone holding a badge
When they come your way
Hey {struck: o} listen to what I say
You better run away
This ain't no place to stay

A fine line
There's a fine line between
Peace and war
love and hate
and Me and you
There's a fine line between
I love you
you're just okay
and We are through

HUNDRED DOLLAR HEADACHES
I am no witch doctor or magician
But I can turn a hundred dollar bill
Into a head ache
They're not even counterfit
Much too real to be fake
Way back in the day
When we learned how to barter and trade
We all thought we had it made
But tell that to the man
Who's job it was
To have to dig out all the graves
Oh baby, I dig a little every day
Every time a little deeper
And it is here that I will lay
Oh baby, You know this wasn't my first
choice
When they asked me what I wanted to be
I lost my nerve and then my voice
So My name went back into the pile
Finally they called my number again
I was still innocent as a child
But they left me standing in the rain
They handed me a shovel
Then told me I had to start right away
That was many, many years ago
And I'm still digging today

---

I can turn a hundred dollar bill
Into one hell of a headache
I can turn a pint of V.O.
Into a hell of a mistake
And I will dig forever
We all make mistakes

Empty blue lines fill my head while white
lines fill my brain,
I'm tying my galashas while standing in the
rain,
My long hair flowin' in the breeze while others wait
in vain,
I know some who hurt themselves and those who run
from pain.
But me I come from a different breed,
A little less jealousy a little bit more greed,
I don't know you or what you've seen,
And you don't know me or the places I've been.
Sometimes you need to be burned by the sun,
Convincing yourself that you're number one,
Tomorrow it changes, back to the bottom again,
Though never the same your mind it will bend,
Nothin' left to do, Scooby doo comin' for you,
Better go and find a lucky horse shoe.
Young minds all around, knowledge can't be found,
I'm shining up my shoes for a big night on the
town,
But I'll probably come home when there's no one
around,
Though free from my handcuffs my hands are still
bound.
I'm stone cold like Austin after I'm slammed
to the ground,
After being up for awhile I find my way down.

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Her mystery is her illusion
Her sanity is my confusion
Is she really what she seems
Or the reality of shattered dreams
Eyes of passion, thoughts of lonliness
Heart of gold that fights off bitterness
{struck: So easy to read yet hard to describe}

Are you happy when its gone?
Empty mirror
Empty vein
Empty bottle
Empty bong

Have you had enough?
It's getting tough
The paddling's rough
Shaking the stuff
{struck: A key in} man's bluff
Is this the last?
World around is so vast
Not every second lasts
Time to accept the passing of the past

Same old walls
Just which number to dial?

I have known and lost someone
Forevery leaf on a tree
And as each one fell
Grew another seed
After spring has sprung
You must return to the roots that made who you are
When the sun has gone
You gaze up past the clouds to find your star
You know where it is just as you know who you are
As everything changes it returns to dust
All in all you know who what you can trust
Besides yourself is there any thing else?
Can you grab ahold if the world is gonna melt
Decisions you are faced with
Nothing can replace it
Nowhere to hide
Once you venture into the
Cave of your soul
Only you know what it holds
Do you find it?
Do you hide it?
Did you sign it?
Will you fight it?
Or do you defy it?
When all is said and done
Catch hold of the wave and ride it

---

Jensen 1

I am the ballplayer Shoeless Joe Jackson. I got my nickname back in 1908 when I was playing in Greenville, North Carolina. I was breaking in new spikes and I got blisters on my feet something awful. I asked the coach to sit out but we were shorthanded and he needed me to play. I played in socks and ended up hitting a triple when someone out in the stands yelled, "Shoeless, you son of a gun!" I guess the name stuck. During my stay in the Majors from '08 to '20 I had a lifetime average of .356 and we won the Series in '17. The series of '19, however, was much more complicated than the one we were in a couple of years before. Before the '19 series I was known as "Shoeless" and people said that my corner of the outfield was "Where triples go to die." A year later I was banned from baseball and when my name was spoken of people usually said "Say it ain't so, Joe."

The year of the '19 Series, us Sox were the best team in the American League. We finished first and I ended up batting .351. During that season though, we were a divided team. There was a lot of hostility between Eddie Collins' group of guys and Chick Gandil's. Collins and his bunch thought that they were high class citizens and educated and stuff. They made around 15 thousand dollars a season. Us guys who weren't as educated only made around 6 thousand. We were always getting low balled by the owner because we weren't as educated as Collins and his buddies. That son of a bitch Cominsky

---

(cut the third block after the second ---, "BEFORE THE MORNING AFTER ... Is that its okay to use drugs sometimes": on neither photo)
I lost my license on the day
Before my birthday
I had to go to court
The morning after seeing
Bobby Dylan

Woe
Woe
Woe

You don't know
You don't know
How hard it can be
You know when
You believe in being free
So you just pay their penalty

Uncle Sam says its okay
for cops to use drugs
In order to teach their dogs what to find
I need a dog to find drugs for myself
won't get bagged for possession
won't have to pay the fine
The only
The moral I learned
Is that its okay to use drugs sometimes

As old as the earth is
Why do you even try to be original?
You thought you were the first to discover fire
Until sadly, you spotted someone else's smoke signals
Went to the patent shop
It's big and round so you called it a wheel
Then you ran out to find a cop
Asking if you go to jail if an idea you steal
You put your head back down
And kept on walking
Muttering something about some cell
Someone should be locking
Usually the short end of the stick
Always a roll of the dice
Others only have to pay once
But you always end up paying twice
The blame is pointed
The burden is passed
You were the first in line
Only to be served last

Just heard such a laim band it makes
me wanna write,
If I saw them on the street those punks
would have to fight.
Wasting up our time with some made up
phrase,
If they got in my head they'ld be trapped
in a maze.
It takes more to be an artist than havin'
a cute blonde in the band,
I wouldn't say nothin' but lately it's gettin'
out of hand.
Sexy says "kiss me and I'm thinkin
outta my head,
If I'm her biggest fan maybe she'll
crawl into bed?
If you want reality you're better off
listening to me,
I'll be here for awhile before they carry me
off to sea.
If you're looking for information you know I'm
your safest bet,
In this world of uncertainty you take what
you can get.
They say its the easy way, livin' life on the run,
But I knew a man who did it he said it ain't
much fun.
It don't matter if you're number one or on the
bottom of the pile,
Sometimes everybody everywhere has to walk
the extra mile.
There's a man down the street who doesn't trust a soul,
He's never heard of a diamond coming from a piece of coal.

As the bell starts sounding
My heart starts its steady pounding
Legs start running I start to wiggle my hips
My master comes and I lick my lips

I have become Pavlov's dog
Simply someone elses pet
Chaired to a nature
I am unable to forget

---

I KNEW HER TOO WELL
She's crazy as Hell
Her brain's turned to jell
Now Does that ring a bell?
She got nothing to sell
Too many stories too tell
[blacked out text]
wasn't doing so well
Now does that ring a bell?

Now she's gone clean
No more chasing the dream
and Acting so obscene
her Senses far from keen
Decked out in punk and gleam

---

you work so you can
pay for school
clutching pennies is like pulling teeth
After work then after play
you forgot to pencil in SLEEP
How many homes do you need?
Until you finally move in
How many friends do you meet
Until you find your new best friend?

---

I KNEW I must be some one special
The night I started writing poems on plates.
The first time I knew I was special
was the time my paper arrived late

The Defenseless
To strike the defenseless in nothing
To walk past the defenseless, Knowing you can strike
them but don't, is everything
HOPE HAS A FACE

---

I've smoked so many cigarettes
I've probably given other people cancer
Light one up to kill the time
While I'm searching for some answers
How did I become myself
There's a million other people I'd rather be
Why is everything so dark and cold
Is this really how it was meant to be

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The invisible gap between our fathers
seems like the real Grand Canyon long
But What is the reason that
It Is Because of these men we are born
Why do they seem so far away?
For as long as we live
or widest like Night and day
No one's ever crossed the bridge
What the eye sees will change
Perspectives never meet
One sees long range One measures in miles long
while the other only by feet
Is the way too narrow
Or the distance too high
That so few have ever tried
to get across while so much is lost
Not Knowing of the other side

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I just melted in your eyes
Found something pure
From the sickness of lies
I have found a cure

Grounded on my knees
Head between my thighs
Free from this disease
I just melted in your eyes

OF THE DAZE
I used to be so increadably free
What the hell did they do to me?
I used to walk in the woods and breathe clean air
Now I try to go back there but they're not there
Doesnt anybody care
Does anyone dare speak up?
Has anyone had enough?
You say hello to someone
They respond with "who me?"
Put their head down and walk by
And I'm thinking "so sue me"
I should shut up they probably will
And I aint got to free time to kill
Every day's a race against the clock
You think it will but it'll never stop
Beware of the suits
Beware of the ties
Beware of the truth
Beware of the lies
It's all meant to drag you down
You know that's what I've found
Be careful of the badges
Be careful of the light
Be careful of the daze
Be careful of the night
Not everyone is here to serve and protect
And just getting home safely is a real project
Every path taken is not direct
Living around here what else would you expect?

Trapped in this invisable cage
Forced to live within the confinement of society
Walk along roads that they paved
Worship the idols that they made
Stray too far from the master's eye
He will yank on your leash causing you to yelp
Free thought and free expression
Has such a cost that few will dare pay
If they so chose to pay then they are
branded
with the devils conceit and called under
handed
Sacrificed for the good of the many
So that none will step out of line
Captain Courageous has been exiled
To a land of no sheep
Only wolves
Just where they would want a shepherd
to reside
Where only the birds hear his words
And only the stars heed his call
OFF in a foreign land of languages
That no one understands
He cries to the moon and prays to the sun
Tears and prayers never answered
The master must control them too
But one day the master will fall asleep
Leaving unherded all of his sheep
For even Achillies had his heal
To God even the Pope must kneel
Then the shepherd will raise his cane
Time for able to see the face of cain

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No longer will the people be deceived
The true shepherd will be received
It shall be evident to every resident
That there is no need for any president
The shepherd will unite
While the master will urge all to fight
The battle lines will be drawn
As wrong versus right
The color of blood will be gray
The true color of people is neither white nor black
The day is coming... The shepherd is back

LIVING NEAR THE COURTHOUSE
When you're living near the court house
Trouble's bound to come your way
The law comes knocking at your door
Sorry but you're not serving jury duty
today
So many neighbors with so many eyes
Cops ask so many questions and tell so many
lies
No hand on the bible judge my friend
with handcuffs on there're no laws left to bend
when your living near the court house
you're living day today
Tell you all about it
But there's so much more to say
The midnight moon just rambles on and on
The poker player with a pair of deuces keeps
gambling on
and on
Tint the windows and close the blinds
Just like you've done so many times

A broken mirror lies shattered on the floor. / Beautiful patterns of distorted reflections. / Once one point of view now judged by many. / No hiding in the cracks of misgiven perception. / What was once smooth is now jagged. / Once pure now blemished. / So is life.

It's not that I don't love you but she knows how to play the game
After Mary Jane Things'll never be the same
It's hard to imagine being with anybody else
How could I love you when I don't even love myself
you
I gave away my heart once... just to
watch it break
(remove this line)
Only a fool would be taken twice by the
same mistake

This is my musical meditation 10
A cause for an instant celebration 10
A time to become whole cleansing the soul 10
Get to ride my mood swings I'm in control 10

(remove the [Bracket] label and the stray of before this is my musical meditation)
of this is my musical meditation
Better than oxy contin perscription
I used to need assistance
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Til I built up a resistance
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Used to need a ship to fly me to the moon
Now I sing a different tune