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NOTE: This collection used for what I am calling 'READ MY STUFF BEST TO WORST' was published: 2/5/2020 originally. It has 95 percent of ALL of the stuff listed in my 31 ALBUMS collection and I'm sure a few more that aren't listed there. If I have showed the world 400 things i've written there's gotta be a few thousand that I have not. THAT'S for Patreon or ONLYFANS which I will have to start posting on... 

 ;)

(1 of 10 read my stuff best to worse)

****WARNING EXPLICIT LYRICS, ADULT THEMES,

DIRTY THOUGHTS & SHIT THEY DON'T WANT

YOU TO KNOW IS IN THIS M*THAF*CKA********

"I'm not gonna lie... I wrote and read all this shit...

and I'm kinda f*cked up!" - Tom Jensen, collaborhythm

(start with a few nice ones)

FRESCO

by Tom Jensen

I've been waiting for a night like tonight

For so very, very long

Sitting here studying the portrait of my life

Wondering just where the artist went wrong

So why does my sketch in black and white

Contain so many deep, dark shades of gray?

My life before today had left me feeling sad and blue

When I'm with you I never want to say goodbye

To someone so beautiful that the angels sigh

I think of you in thoughts so kind

I painted your picture, it took me some time

You are the one that makes my life worth living

Yours is the last face I see before I fall asleep

You'll never be the one to break my heart

Never leave me alone to weep

Now all thoughts of retracing my past

They have become erased

And I live within your eyes

With each new line I'm redefined

Every time I draw your face

When I'm with you I never want to say goodbye

To someone so beautiful that the angels sigh

I think of you in thoughts so kind

I painted your picture, I could paint it blind

I drink to your health as I raise my glass

Toasting to a future and time that has not yet passed

As time crawls by and I stare above

I believe only in you - my muse - my love

Now all thoughts of retracing my past

They have become erased

And I live within your eyes

With each new line I'm redefined

Every time I draw your face

When I'm with you I never want to say goodbye

To someone so beautiful that the angels sigh

I think of you in thoughts so kind

I painted your picture, I hang it in my mind

MARRIED TO SOMETHING ELSE

by Tom Jensen

You watch him come stumbling 

through the door

Find yourself wondering 

if you can take it anymore

The wedding ring bonds 

until death does part

But what’s on your finger 

is not in your heart

After ten years it’s still the same

While the love is gone

The smell of whiskey still remains

You know you can’t let him drag you down

That’s why some nights 

you live in another town

You dream of a future where you are free

Maybe it just wasn’t meant to be

You stare at the door until he comes home

Thinking your happiest days are spent alone

Its tugging at your heart 

it replays in your mind

When he’s sober he’s one of a kind

But that only happens

about half of the time

After ten years it’s still the same

While the love is gone

The smell of whiskey still remains

You know you can’t let him drag you down

That’s why some nights 

you live in another town

You dream of a future where you are free

Maybe it just wasn’t meant to be

It’s never too late for another start

Age doesn’t matter 

when it concerns the heart

You know you can’t let him drag you down

That’s why some nights 

you live in another town

You dream of a future where you are free

Maybe it just wasn’t meant to be

It’s time to say your peace 

and pray a little prayer

To hope he’ll make it on his own 

when you’re not there

Then maybe he’ll take 

a look down inside himself

And realize he’s married 

to something else....

DEAD END by Tom Jensen

I know who you are

And who you want to be

I know you're entrapped

And you want to be free

You can't put off until tomorrow

What needs to be done today

We've had this talk so many times before

There's not much more I can say

When the days become years

You'll know that it's true

You'll look back and say

Why didn't I listen to you?

I've been down that road

Let me tell you my friend

That sooner or later

You'll see a dead end

The road will deceive you

With its ups and its downs

It's so hard to find direction

With your head spinning round

You found a hole in the sky

But it's so lonesome there

Even when you gaze down

You still feel no fear

Come on my darling

It's time to turn the page

The only way you're not dying

Is from old age...

I've been down that road

Let me tell you my friend

That sooner or later

You'll see a dead end

The road will deceive you

With its ups and its downs

It's time to get it together

Turn your life around

Two years later --

I'd hoped to see you again

But I couldn't make it

So some flowers I'll send

I tried to convince you

But you wouldn't bend

So sorry for you

Now you'll never mend

I've been down that road

I told you my friend

But sooner, not later,

You saw the dead end

The road has deceived you

With its ups and its downs

It's just so sad

I'll never see you around

UNITY 

by Lai Youttitham, Justin Justice & Tom Jensen

Sometimes when I look into your eyes

I feel I’ve been reborn

And yet other times 

I can feel my heart become 

Colder, broken and torn

There is no greater pain 

than letting what you want

Slip right through your fingertips

Sometimes it hurts, sometime it haunts

But the burning in your heart still lingers

Much like the touch of her lips

What I feel I might not always say

But I need you tonight just as much 

as I needed you today

Like a river overflowing

I know that my love for you is still growing

Let us hope it never fades away

That is why I say…

Unity…you and me together

Soon we’ll see if we can be 

Forever for, for one, for one another

Or else never 

will true love ever be discovered

Let me bend you and shape you…

Into…. what I want you…to be

A soul mate….a friend…

A lover of life for your whole life ‘til its end

My soul, conscience and my guide 

A true mirror to my inside

My eternal undying spring

Remember…

From nothing comes everything…

Comes everything

My delicate flower 

Giving me a garden in the wintery snow

Take me and show me 

Exactly where you would like to go

We both know that I’d follow 

just given the word

And as soon as I cried 

 From the years of lifted sorrow…

You’d be given the world

Unity…you and me together

Soon we’ll see if we can be 

Forever for one another

Unity…you and me together

Soon we’ll see if we can be 

Forever for one another

Or else never 

will true love ever be discovered

Or else never 

will a true love ever be discovered

UNTITLED UNLABELED

by Tom Jensen

I will never ask you 

For what you cannot give

Since I always speak the truth

I no longer know how to live

In a world full of illusions

False promises and disguise

One that no longer seeks solutions

Only places to hide

I wouldn't ask you for your heart...

Only for some piece of mind

I wouldn't ask you for your body

Only for some of your time

I will never ask you

If you'll love me 'til the end

I’d just ask you to hold my hand

And walk and talk with me and be my friend

I will never ask you

For that which 

I'd ever have to take

Nor would I want something that wasn't real

Hollow, pretentious or fake

I wouldn't ask you for your heart...

Only for some piece of mind

I wouldn't ask you for your body...

Only for some of your time

I will never ask you

If you'll love me 'til the end

I’d just ask you to hold my hand

And walk and talk with me and be my friend

I would ask you…

To just be my friend...

I would ask you…

To just be my friend...

FALLEN WALLS

by Tom Jensen

A whirlwind of thought starts spinning around

I've been thinking a lot ‘bout what's been going down

And about what's been going on 

as I read the texts of history

I see the pages keep repeating… 

The idea is becoming clear to me

I'm noticing a pattern of ebb and flow

The rise and fall of man, men and kings

As a great chasm seems to keep growing between

Self-proclaiming all-seeing beings 

and those who'll never know

I watch castles crumbling while at the same time

New statues keep rising as slaves stand side by side

Working all day on newly fallen walls 

And it's our job to keep rebuilding

What's not for our own protection 

Since these structures are used for dividing...

All people and states

All races and religions

It's become the best way to separate

Old new ideas from 

The foundation of tradition

First condense them

Then convince them to believe it's too late

When they know it really isn't

Get them to lose their hope

For if you can break their faith

Maybe they'll all stop searching for what's hidden

History's hands of time have told 

That when there's no buried treasure to behold

We all know there'll be no shovels left to be had 

Nor no more miners to find others out there 

to help them with their digging....

Ahhh

SLEEPWALKERS 

by Tom Jensen

When they're playing chess with you...

The game never lasts very long

Still haven't got a clue... why do you...

Why do you smile when you take a pawn?

Then their bishop overtakes your knight

When he wasn't even dressed to fight

Soon their queen upends your rook

Before you could even look

Another smile...

your knight just claimed a pawn

But now... now your little horsie's gone

He didn't run away... he just got sleighed

As the king of your castle 

he numbers his days

Yeah, you're wondering and pondering 

As you're endlessly wandering 

on and on and on...

And you're scribbling and scrabbling 

Along the chessboard of life feeling you're just a pawn

Sleepwalkers

Sleepwalkers

You just made a list of things 

that you need to say

About yourself, about the world 

and all its ways

Sometimes you think that it's a lie 

that hard work pays

Now that everything has been numbered –

 yes even your days

Why is everyone... 

sleepwalking around this globe…

This giant wheel?

Seems as a whole we can no longer feel 

While deep in this slumber

For the gift of the presence of love 

we no longer hunger

When our dreams are gone... 

yet we still walk on and on and on and on...

You just made a list of the things 

that you need to say

And it 'tis just one...

There's hardly no time left for anyone

As names and faces 

keep fading farther away

Still, you know you've got so much to give... 

so with this guilt you live

I'm sorry, 

but there's just too few hours in a day

You find your precious time 

becomes taken up 

Oh look now how... 

You're so easily led astray...

How'd your life become this way? 

(sleepwalkers)

Is this what you say?

(sleepwalkers)

While you're wondering and pondering 

As you're wandering 

on and on and on and on...

As you're scribbling and scrabbling 

Along the chessboard of life feeling you're just a pawn

sleepwalkers

sleepwalkers

EXIT THE SANDMAN By Tom Jensen

So the midnight oil

Seems to be burning again

The sandman's at your door

But he can't come in

With so much trying your mind

Tonight he's not your friend

Since there's so much

You're still trying to find

Before your time

comes to an end

You used to dream about today

But that was back then...

Back when...

You smiled as a child...

Before you got sucked in

Back when...

You always shared and never cared...

About the color of somebody's skin

Back when...

You didn't try to solve all your problems

With the bottom of a bottle

Drowning up your sorrows in a pool of sin

Back when...

You still had time to let the road unwind

But now your patience is wearing thin

Exit the sandman

Why not see it from the other side?

Doin' the best I can, man

And that ain't no lie that ain't no lie

DAYLIGHT AGAIN By Tom Jensen

Daylight again… Comes now and again

My only friend… That's left in the end

The shadows hide as the clouds creep by

I take stake in my mistakes in

The life I know the one I can't shake

Grabs me by the collar and won't let me go

There's only one way to live there’s only one way I know

I've been taken… I've been shaken

And sent out on my way

I have tumbled… I have stumbled

Just going from day to day

The only sunrise ahead

Is the one I see when I go to bed

I wake up in the dark circled by sharks

So I cover my head until there's daylight again

I'm trapped in a tunnel while sucked down the funnel

The light is dim in either direction

When you're only trying to escape and be safe

There's no time for perfection

From day to day to year to year

Somehow, some way I'll get outta here

Where I stand my feet are stuck in the mud

There's no chance I can rise above

With bars on the doors I can't climb out

My guide left me when the candle blew out

I came to my sense

and that was when

I knew I'd be down here

until there's daylight again

WATER FLESH AND BONE

by Tom Jensen

Should I go to San Francisco? 

I'm getting sick and tired of the snow 

I've been stuck around here 

For all my years 

And I've been thinking I better go 

There's not much that I'd be leaving 

Except the one person I believe in 

And maybe, maybe that's the reason 

Maybe it's time to let her go? 

For every day she waits 

The closer I come to slipping away 

I thought we were soul mates 

But I don't feel as strong about her today 

As I did yesterday

And I'm still waiting... 

But I'm barely hanging on 

My mind, it keeps debating 

Over whether I am right or I am wrong 

But every time I try to write

She becomes the subject of my song 

And I'm still waiting...

But I think that this time 

I might’ve been waiting too long 

She held the hands that helped mold me 

Into what I now am 

She was my inspiration 

Turned the key that drove me 

Away from a dark and desolate land 

She was my motivation 

But we all know 

That sometimes life doesn't always go 

The way in which you had it planned 

Some mornings you feel... 

Like you're on top of the world 

While other times... 

You're the damned of the damned 

So this morning I asked myself 

Should I go to San Francisco? 

I'm getting sick and tired of the snow 

I've been stuck around here 

For all my years

And I've been thinking I better go 

There's not much that I'd be leaving 

Except the one person I believe in 

And maybe that's the reason 

Maybe it's time to let her go?

WATCHER by Tom Jensen

Hold onto your dreams

Tonight could be the night you fall in love

Hold onto your dreams

Remember there is someone

Watching from above

He sees the picture complete

There’s no need to be discreet

Never have to worry about defeat

It’s okay to fall down at his feet 

The watcher will guide you

Once you take a look inside you

The watcher will hide you

When trouble comes to find you

He will stand behind you

I’ve never seen his face

Never looked into his eyes

He’s never said a word

Never told me a lie

He was my spirit guide

Who held me by the hand

Led me through darkness

After day had turned to night

Now I’m no longer on my own

He removed my blindfold

And showed me to the light

Hold onto your dreams

Tonight could be the night you fall in love

Hold onto your dreams

Remember that there is someone

Watching from above

He sees the picture complete

There’s no need to be discreet

Never have to worry about defeat

It’s okay to fall down at his feet

I’ve found my way back home

Not afraid of the dark…

Just don’t feel the same way I used to

The watcher gave me a spark…

Lighted this path that leads to you

The torch has been passed

Now it is my turn to watch over you

Hold onto your dreams

Tonight could be the night you fall in love

Hold onto your dreams

Remember that there is someone 

watching from above

Remember tonight could be the night…

You fall in love

VISITED A PLACE

by Tom Jensen

If you stop and listen...

You can hear a crying earth

With all of life's trivial things

It can be hard to measure worth

I visited a place 

That used to be a forest

A little girl made a puzzled face

No one else noticed the problem

She represented brutal honesty

My God, I thought they'd outlawed it

Yet when she looked back at me

I turned away like I never saw it

I cleared all those trees myself

For you see that I am a logger

As each one falls what grows is my wealth

Now that land's a factory of her father's

If you stop and listen...

You can hear a crying earth

With all of life's trivial things

It can be hard to measure worth

I visited a place

That used to have a garden

Back before the bombs fell down

And all this crumbling decay started

I used to be able to sleep at night

But lately I've been having problems

I used to think things would be all right

There are so many evils out there

And by myself I just can't stop 'em

Do we really think we're going to find

The hands of the clock unwind

If so many people just like me and you

Say we have something 

more important to do

Can't change the world 

by wishing only by trying

If you stop and listen...

You can hear a crying earth

With all of life's trivial things

It can be hard to measure worth

I visited a place… I visited a place…

I visited a place… I visited a place…

I visited a place 

that could have been my Eden

If only I had spoken up 

but unfortunately I didn't

I let myself fall back asleep

Until now I kept my nightmare hidden

I visited a place that no longer exists 

If only we had woken up... 

It would never have ended up like this

UNWINNABLE by Tom Jensen

Culture vultures circling the sky

Off our self-doubt is what they thrive

It’s either the daily dodge 

or else face the grind

Something finds you every time you hide

Given time and sobriety

You can reshape your reality

In this kaleidoscope world

You can clearly see

Sometimes you pay a hidden fee 

On what ya thought was free

It’s not all about material goods

Talking ‘bout a man all alone in the woods

When no one is watching what does he do?

Are honor and integrity 

things that he holds true?

What one does to others

Will someday be done to you

As the company you keep

Will one day keep you

Given time and sobriety

You can reshape your reality

In this kaleidoscope world

You can clearly see

Sometimes you pay a hidden fee 

On what ya thought was free

I bathed in dark energies

All the while absorbing light

Living in between two planes of existence

As the day became my morning 

And the morning my night

Wrong has always been wrong

But now it was alright

When you become freed 

from the disease of please

Is when you begin to build walls 

that only others can see

You take all you need and often times more

An unwinnable game always trying to score

An unwinnable game always trying to score

OVERRATED by Tom Jensen

It's all the same yet so much has changed

Since ten years ago

There's so much I've learned 

but still I've returned

To what I used to know

New strangers appear… 

Old friends disappear

For some reason I've let them go

So simply stated:

My book no one's read it…

My life story nobody knows

Though my cover is quite plain 

My text is full and rich

Be it fact or fiction

Who knows which is which?

I fake my happiness, hold back my tears

So I appear elated

It's best that I hide behind 

these hollow eyes

While I'm intoxicated

It's all the same yet so much has changed

Feeling high, then feeling low

I've visited here and I've traveled there

But what have to show

It's all the same yet so much has changed

Since ten years ago

There's so much I've learned 

but still I've returned

To what I used to know

New strangers appear… 

Old friends disappear

For some reason I've let them go

So simply stated:

Life's too complicated

Tired of telling my tale of woe

It's suddenly so clear to me

That I may never be

What I want to be

So hopefully being the best

Is overrated…….Overrated

NAME IN LIGHTS By Tom Jensen

When you put it on the poster

The shorter the name

The bigger the print

You’re knee deep in posers

Your name in lights

You hit the bigs, yeah

They say there’s bullets 

flying down Broadway

But you haven’t yet heard the news…

You just got to have your piece of cake

And now you want to eat it, too

You wanna be the next Bobby Dylan

Oh, today it’s Johnny Cash

I could tell by your cool sun glasses

Looks like you lost your funny hat

You say your sound’s original 

I’ve never heard nothing quite like that

Well I’ve been around a long time my boy

And I’ve got just one question 

that I’d like to ask…

You’re knee deep in posers

Your name in lights

You hit the bigs, yeah

But what happens when you’re exposed

By both the paparazzi 

And the pigs…oh!

Will you still say: 

You love your life with all the stuff 

You got because of what you said and did?

Or will you finally 

See the light and make right 

For all the crimes that you commit?

When you put it on the poster

The shorter the name

The bigger the print

You’re knee deep in posers

Your name in lights

You hit the bigs, yeah

They say there’s bullets 

flying down Broadway

But you haven’t yet heard the news…

You just got to have your piece of cake

And now you want to eat it, too

SINGER SONGWRITER

by Tom Jensen

I'm a singer... a songwriter...

I'm a lover... and a fighter...

I'm a poet... a word dancer...

I love asking questions…

Though I don't always like the answers 

Still I do it…Try to see through it

Though I know that I don't have to

If you were me what would you do?

Is the question that I now ask you:

I'm a searcher... yes a seeker

I'm both a student... and a teacher

Yet I'm no prophet... nor a preacher

I sit here and I think – 

But that just leads 

to more confusion...

I live to question…Become a believer

Not in self-deception 

but in something deeper

That gives my life meaning…

Even more than rhyming

And that's the reason that I keep on trying...

I try to open minds those that are closed

And uncover what needs to be exposed

By bringing myself up to the brink

Where my head feels like it will explode

Boy... I could use a drink

But that only adds cloudiness 

to this great grand illusion...

I'm a singer... a songwriter...

I'm a lover... and a fighter...

I'm a poet... a word dancer...

I love asking questions 

Though I don't always find the answers 

Still I do it…Try to see through it

Though I know that I don't have to

If you were me

What would you do?

Is the question that I now ask you:

I'm a singer… a songwriter

PUZZLE PIECES By Tom Jensen

The newspapers 

have all gone

Been blown away 

in the wind

The magazines have 

all been bought up

Turned to ads 

for corporate spin

As the radio 

repeats itself

So much so that you 

stopped listening

And TV...

well not much 

has changed... 

It's still the same 

as it's always been

We both look 

at each other

As loneliness 

starts creeping in

Once upon a time 

we like brothers

Now we feel lucky 

just to be friends

All the signs 

during these times

Have been put up 

to lead us astray

So that our views 

become skewed

So that we see 

the world 

in a different way

For our bonds 

are becoming broken

With every smile 

that our face keeps hid

Every hello that 

remains unspoken

This world becomes

a tougher place to live

Because everything 

that for ourselves we take

Becomes something that 

someone else can't give

So we better think twice 

about the choices we make

Before it's too late

to change this state 

we're living in

That's why I'm 

moving and shaking

Been busy trying 

to stir things up a bit

Rearranging this

big jigsaw puzzle

So that 

all the pieces fit

RAT PARK by Tom Jensen

Like the town witch on fire

I’ve become a social pariah

I have lost my desire

To climb up any higher

There’s an energy vampire

Now standing right beside ya

There’s lots to know that you can’t see

Until you crack the code or else find the key

I was in rough shape 

Looking for an escape

Started feeling sick

Must be time to get fixed

Look inside to see what’s broken

Hoping it’s not a hopeless situation

And that I really am worth saving

Since copping is not coping

When stopping isn’t an option

Oh how can I regain my focus?

It seems we cling to our vices

In major times of crisis

And when we’re feeling isolated

Day by day we’re being sedated

In a state of constant bereavement

Because we’ve failed to have our needs met

Hence our only sense of achievement

Is when we depart this world and leave it

Often it is fleeting and lost after a moment

Though you’re taking a beating 

you try your best not to show it

It was when my world was dark

I made some friends at rat park

They said that I could stay there

That there were lots of fun games to play there

In lofts, down slides and on wheels we play

Oh no more boring lonely days

I’ve been growing stronger no longer do I crave

Of thinking, drinking or sleeping away the day

Yeah, some get lost and some get saved

Others find themselves getting thrown away

Some are still searching 

even after all these days

You either make your escape 

or become one with the maze

Remember if God grants wishes 

To all those who kneel and pray

That means that somewhere there’s 

A fallen angel waiting to have his day

REHAB By Tom Jensen

Sometimes I need a good talking to

To set my mind at ease

It's not always good for you

Doing just what you please

When the door is locked

You just need the right keys

Stop peeking through the keyhole

Get up off your knees

Just a glimpse of the whole

Will never do

With the door barred and chained

It's so hard to get through

Like a deer in headlights

Your feet stick like glue

Denial is just another lie

That you believe is true

Yeah...

I've been sedated

My head played with

Medicated

Regulated

And every word they said dictated

I've been questioned and I stated

That everything good I had I've traded

With every step I've walked been baited

A life like mine you begin to hate it

Well, the doctor's in

And he'll take your money

Then when you're not looking

He'll call you funny...

Names behind your back

The nurses are in on it I got a hunch

See their crooked smiles

While they're serving lunch....

Their white gowns

Should be striped with black

You gotta pay the bills

That'll pay for all the pills

They say will cure your ills

While they're raking in the mils

They locked him in the closet

And then they lost the key

Twenty years later

When they finally found it

They finally set him free

Though he looked much older

He looked okay to me

Though he acted much colder

Like we all expected him to be

Rehab - you never come out

The way you came in

Rehab - Get drunk off words

When they take your gin

Rehab - You'll never be the same

Rehab - you'll never go there again

When he gets home he has a drink

Passes out at the kitchen sink

Though his liver's fine his mind is bloated

Just one drink and his head exploded

Rehab - you never come out

The way you came in

Rehab - Get drunk off words

When they take your gin

Rehab - You'll never be the same

Rehab - you'll never go there again

TONIGHT'S MOONLIGHT by Tom Jensen

Orange is the color of the trees

At least the ones that still have leaves

In the coolness of the night

I watch a gentle breath take flight

I watch it vanish out of sight

In the glimmering, glittering moonlight

I'll never shiver in the cold

For now I have someone to hold

In the coolness of the night

The skyward birds are taking flight

Soon I’ll sit holding my new love tight

In the glimmering, glittering moonlight

It’s through your calming eyes

That I become hypnotized

In the coolness of the night

My senses, they are taking flight

It’s you who takes me to new heights

In the glimmering, glittering moonlight

The sun could sleep for seven years

And still I wouldn't freeze

You've become my refreshing

Reassuring summer’s breeze

Sitting here alone without you 

I’m just part of the whole

But when we are together 

I feel both my heart and soul

Anxiously I’m waiting here

My heart, it skips a beat

It seems like an eternity,

These seconds before we meet

Before we reunite…

In the glittering moonlight

Eyes are magic windows

That look inside the mind

Through yours I see us together

Until the end of time

Until the end of time

Beneath tonight's moonlight

TABLE FOR TWO by Tom Jensen

The coffee's on... I used to have coffee with you

But you're gone...

And now I'll have to find someone new

No, I don't like to

Drink my coffee alone

So I'd call and hope that you'd pick up the phone

And we'd talk

Until the kids came home

And we'd talk

Until my coffee it turned cold

And we'd talk some more 

When the kids ran off to play

And we'd talk...

That's how we'd spend the rest of our day

Then you'd cook

With the phone held up to your ear

As you set the table for only two

You knew that I was there...

Even though I was here

(even though I was here)

You knew that I was there

(you knew that I was there)

Even though I was here

(even though I was here)

You knew that I was there

The coffee's on...

I used to have coffee with you

But you're gone...

And now I'll have to find someone new

Table for two

Table for two

Table for two

Table for two

LIVING LARGE By Tom Jensen

When my fat girl winked at me

I smiled back Immediately

‘Cause I’ve learned to 

like ‘em you see

hefty, chunky, 

bumpy and large

You know when obesity 

Comes running towards me

You know I don’t stray far

Oh yeah…oh yeah….

I’ve grown to love ‘em large

Sure she’s got some 

pie on the thigh

And some rack on the lamb

But at least I found someone

Who loves me for who I am…

Sure she may sag a bed

Or perhaps maybe 

even bend a chair

But it’s really good 

for your head

To know she’ll

always be there…

Sure, she’s got more 

than just one chin

And the girth of 

two full-grown men

But she’s become 

the center of my earth

Not because of 

gravity but because 

I know what true

love is worth…

It’s not weighed by 

pounds of the flesh

Yet it’s so rare that 

Two people mesh

Sure, she fell on me 

the last time we hugged

That’s not how or why 

I got sucked into the 

belly button of love…

I just felt so cozy 

so safe, so warm

And well-protected from

all of this world’s harm

So now I live here in this place

Living off the 

crumbs and gravy 

that runs down 

The sides of her face…

Sure, when she sits 

she somehow expands

But we were meant 

to become one 

in God’s great big plan

Because I finally found a girl

Who loves me for all that I am

So when my fat girl winked at me

I smiled back immediately

‘Cause I’ve learned to 

love ‘em you see

hefty, chunky, bumpy and large

You know when obesity 

Comes running towards me

You know I don’t stray far

Oh yeah…oh yeah….

I’ve grown to love ‘em large

Oh yeah…oh yeah….

I’ve grown to love ‘em large

RAIN by Tom Jensen

Rain...it makes the flowers grow

Rain...doesn't hide what it doesn't know

Rain...leads to floods look out below

Rain...don't say I didn't tell ya so

Pain...it doesn't always show

Pain...fills up what's empty and hollow

Pain...remembers names from long ago

Pain...better when it's dull and shallow

Such a dark and depressing day

Only time will tell if it will fade

All I know is that I'm uncertain

Will it ever lift?

This endless cloud...

This heavy curtain?

A heart once prone to give

Can now no longer trust

I proved you don't need love to live

Yet things inside begin to rust

You can dull your senses to suffering

If you feel you must

If you're like me you've given up on love

Now you settle for lust

I cut my arm only to watch it bleed

Just to see if anyone would take me

I spent a month inside a cold dark room

Just to see if it would break me

I built a house in the middle of the woods

Just to see if I could make it

I spent a whole year inside that cold dark room

Just to see if I could take it

And when it rained...

Sometimes it was heavy

Sometimes it was slow

Rain...when it came

At least I had somewhere to go

When it comes to pain...

You can only take so much before all feeling disappears

You start to grow numb

Soon dreams, reality and your darkest fears

All become one

And when that day comes...

This cold dark room will be waiting here

PERFECT IMPERFECTIONS

by Tom Jensen

Perfect imperfections

Perfect imperfections

I always tried to show 

you the best of me

Sure, I may have lied 

about the rest of me

I should have given me whole

For scars make love real

What we can't control

Is what seals the deal

The sharing of fears

and weaknesses

Helps manifest lovers

from friends

Can lead to holding 

each other at night

When you don't want the day to end...

And I don't want this day to end...

No, I don't want this day to end

Perfect imperfections

Perfect imperfections

I long to see your face

in the rising sun

I long to hold you dear

because you're the one

(You're the one)

I find I found I failed

This great test of me

I should have told you 

all about my history

With this new day

Comes a new way

For you and for me

Yes, for both of us

In this new light

Will come tonight

As we shall have 

So much to discuss

Perfect imperfections

Perfect imperfections

Perfect imperfections

Perfect imperfections

PERFECT WORLD By Tom Jensen

I've spent my whole life

Looking for what I can't see

For what will never be

As the only thing

that can set me free

Is an unknown memory

That somewhere lives

inside of me

Behind a locked door

Perhaps you hold the key?

This set pattern we follow

is just one of their lies

A world lacking communion

only me's and I's

Through competition our

brotherhood has been broken

As no one's acknowledged

these words that I've spoken

Everything, even people

filed by order and rank

Number one built the Titanic

And yet down it sank

There's still time left

to return these ideas

you've been sold

Rise up in rebellion,

could you be so bold?

The whole world's a fight

I can't get no peace

My mind gets disrupted

When it's at ease

The sun and I awake as one

Though it's not my first choice

I'd prefer to sleep in late

I wish I had a voice

Some say if winning

isn't everything then

why keep score?

Those same people

send other mother's

sons to war

I could be like you

or maybe someone else

One step towards them

and one away from myself

Sometimes they see me

and ask me "How I feel?"

I respond,

"Like a hamster

on a rusty wheel"

If you feel trapped like a rat

in this world so cold

Rise up in rebellion,

could you be so bold?

The whole world's a fight

I can't get no peace

My mind gets disrupted

When it's at ease

Watching the sunset

Is a long forgotten art

Feet so busy walking

Separate from the heart

The brokers in their

suits and ties

walking down Wall Street

The ones with their

diamond watches

and their hair so neat

They get so stressed out

playing all their

Wall Street games

Go home and

yell at their wives

forget their own kids' names

All for the love of money

and nothing more

If they call that rich

then you can call me poor

If they tell you the lie

"all that glitters is gold"

Rise up in rebellion,

could you be so bold?

The whole world's a fight

I can't get no peace

My mind gets disrupted

When it's at ease

When was the last time

You noticed the moon?

I'm surprised

You've forgotten so soon

As I climb up the mountains

and float over the sea

I find myself alone

and contented

alive and free

No need to look

at my watch

or punch a clock

And I actually

notice my feet

when I go for a walk

It could be like this

if enough people believe

Just as the wind

blows a flower

I'm planting my seed

There's so much more

than what you've been told

Rise up in rebellion

could you be so bold?

IN THE POURING RAIN

by Tom Jensen

Look into my heart

Look inside your soul

Do you see they are the same?

Have you ever gazed beneath my eyes?

And what I attempt to hide...

Just like a children's game?

My emotions tell me

To tell you

I love you

But my mind is scared of the pain

What if when I tell you

You're my sunshine

It begins to rain?

Since I fell in love with you

I've never been the same

When the world is quiet

I still hear your name

When I am by your side

I feel no pain

I am warm and dry

In the pouring rain

Look into my heart

Take a look into my soul

Can you feel the warmth of a fire...

Burning out of control?

My emotions tell me

To tell you

I love you

But my mind is scared of the pain

What if when I tell you

You're my sunshine

It begins to rain?

Since I fell in love with you

I've never been the same

When the world is quiet

I still hear your name

When I am by your side

I feel no pain

I am warm and dry

In the pouring rain

I could never lose you as a friend

Nor could I break my heart again

My only fear is if I wait

Then maybe it would be too late

Since I fell in love with you

I've never been the same

When the world is quiet

I still hear your name

When I am by your side

I feel no pain

I am warm and dry

In the pouring rain

HIVE MIND by Tom Jensen

Weaponized envy surrounds me

It’s everywhere I can’t break free

Negative energy now grounds me

As I’m watching the world so jealously

My high anxiety stresses me

I’m alone because I fear intimacy 

So averse to pain I constantly retreat

I’m living like a zombie half asleep

Some say this outcome was expected

Look how everything’s grown hectic

Has anyone been left unaffected

By the eye in the sky’s hive mind collective?

Ostracized and placed outside the wall

Is where your fellow heroes fall

With lasting remains 

inside an unmarked grave

True to themselves at least one was saved

Unwilling to play a schizophrenic game

In which fact and fiction 

are one in the same

Where truth and lies 

are often seen on the same side

As enemies become friends 

and your rivals allies

You soon realize there’s a great divide

Between not only us and them 

but both you and I

Leaves you to scratch your head 

and wonder why…

Or maybe be just like them and not even try

And yet that seems like suicide

As you boldly claim, 

“Today’s not your day to die”

You then break out with a great big smile

Yelling “F*%k it all! I’ll walk the extra mile!”

Sacrifice for something 

Bigger than myself

Maybe trade away the day today 

To make tomorrow great for someone else

A flock of sheep can be a dangerous thing

Tended by a shepherd or led by a king?

History has recorded the tales of both

Carrying crosses and swearing oaths

All of that has led us to here

Where honor and faith 

I watched disappear

Become replaced

With aggression and fear

It’s been happening so long

For years and years

Soon feels natural

So that nobody cares

You see me alone and standing here

Lying to myself hoping nobody hears

They gave up on me 

so I gave up on my peers 

I’m the only one who knows…

they’re still unaware

I turned around again…

and there was no one there

HAVE NOT By Tom Jensen

You only live once...

Well at least

you've got your name

You tried to give once...

Got burnt and you

were never the same

Stay away from this one...

You who went from healing

to being one of the lame

Thy will be done...

The only thing you've learned

is how to point the blame

And now your motivation

for waking is slowly stripping

You can sense the tubes

of morphine still dripping

Becoming lost at such a cost

That you wonder just

Why you should go on

Why try to live the dream?

When your imagination is gone?

For once you lose

your inhibitions

The hands around you

mold you into what they want

Shaping and persuading you

Into giving what you haven't got

Leveling society

By changing you from

a have into a have not