The Starry Skies

  Saxophone rings Music booms aloud The past stings Forgetting it That's allowed Repressing it Not unfound But what is unheard of Is the dancing of the crowds A unique, new Kind of blue Has spread among them now A kind of blue that mesmerizes The eyes when you catch on A kind of blue that emphasizes The errors that then match up A unique, new Kind of blue That blinds the onlookers They don't know What to do Leaving their own liquor on ice Pondering the meaning of life Staring aimlessly at the navy blue sky Wondering why The whole world is sad Whatever happened before Is not the same as now And it's funny Oh so funny That the blues, rock, and jazz Are now our meditating music They help us collect our thoughts Before our backs collapse And one does wonder what's the use in it To think too much about this new blue Every month men do bring home winnings Doing what they do But then again, they do what they must Not what they want Not what they wish they could Cigarette ashes...

  Wake up before the sunrise again What will this day truly bring? Brought before your eyes the rain Can't spread your wings The world itself remains afraid That's why it stings You walk arching your back What a magnificent chip that is You carry it on your shoulder But never fall to its whims Don't think, just do Act according to your beliefs What did they gain, those who thought it through Didn't they all leave Be brave and take the world on Eventually it'll bend knee to your will And if it doesn't, at least you've tried You did owe it to yourself Spend your years longing for the truth But in all honesty, it's always been you The mistakes we've made together The errors of the past We always swore to remain forever But nothing ever lasts They say everything you touch eventually dies But that's what it is to be human Death is the only constant in life It may follow you Like a shadow right at dawn But it does follow everyone too Just not as close ...

  Here I go Out on the range again The sunshine blinds my sight My dreams float out of my head Sun in the sky Blinding my brown eyes And I really do not care For the world I walk on my own, I stare Down that path down there That leads my lonesome road Perhaps it's those whom I've lost Perhaps it's the issues within Perhaps it's my inner thoughts That tell me they'll leave in the end I'm at peace, truly When I'm on my own But even then Even people like me Need their friends Yet here I walk A lonesome road By my lonesome Leading, headstrong A darkened sky The sunlight evades my eyes It knows I'll see through All of its lies Yet here I stand Staring at the open seas A stranded, stoic man Torn at the seams A smile, I find across my face A slash has once cut through my faith Whatever I had once believed in Has been since then erased A darkness, but no void The voice drowned, destroyed Refusing to speak up Refusing to wake up Asleep until we die Only awake so ...

  Staring Tearing at the seams War-torn, broken That used to be me Here I am, staring yet again A year or so later Here I stand, starting to begin To believe in a future A future where I'm alive And free Oh, I've been on survival mode For years Stabbed in the heart In the back Still walking With the spear within me Still intact And I breathe deep I let out a sigh or two Something broke within me What, wish I could know All these mirrors, and the smoke All the tricks my mind does play All the lies and all the tropes All of me is, of me, afraid And yet here I am Here I stand A year or so later Oh the things we've done Together Hand in hand All of you with me Letting me lead The voices that speak And dissuade them Maintain their peace My thoughts were running like a stream And oh, my dearest me How much I've let you down How hard it is we find Making ourselves proud How sheltered I truly keep you How reclusive I really am Wish the world could understand I still am that bro...