Dominoes

Staring at the sun
Playing roulette with a gun
The halo on her horns
Makes me think she is the one

What I wouldn't do
To believe I lost the blues
A glove around my love
And whisper to be true

But what have I done
How did I become
A domino down her halls
Fingertips begat the fall

I don't even mind
If the sun refuse to shine
She can bind me in the dark
Keep me until the end of time

What have I done
How did I become
A domino down her hall
Whisper lips complete the call

God Knows

God knows
I been rollin' bones
Prayin' to the wind
I might find a home

God knows
I been on my own
Since 'bout the time
My thoughts up
And roamed

You know I don't mind
If I stumble and fall
As long as I can hear you
Say my name in the fog

God knows
I might feel alone
But everything is green
In the twilight zone

God knows
I can't reach the phone
My hands are tied
Got this blade here
To hone

I might tell lies
Or innocent tales
But I hide some truth
In the biggest whales
That's right
The truth is always found
Inside the biggest whale

Sunday Morning Jazz

I close my eyes
And try to remember
A day I felt like this
Hold on tight
Because all I recall
Are the times I felt like

Somewhere close to comfort

Thinking this is as good as it gets
Try to convince the outside eyes
This is as good as it gets


Think happy thoughts
About Waffle
Put forth a genuine effort
To find some hope
In a power above
An eyeball left unblinking

Somewhere close to comfort
Thinking this is as good as it gets
Try to convince the outside eyes
This is as good as it gets


See I rationalize
In a logical way
Every shadow must
Spring from light
Then I open my eyes
To watch myself slip
down a one-way slide

Jesus Saved Kevin

One day Gibbo was playing guitar
The devil had it in for him from afar
A trap designed to break his leg
Let me tell you what happened instead

Jesus saved Kevin from the cinderblock
Said out the way son of the falling rock
Kevin took a drink said what a relief
Watch how I spread the word of ol’ J.C.

Jesus saved Kevin from the cinderblock
Jesus saved Kevin from the cinderblock
Jesus saved Kevin from the cinderblock

Yes he saved him from that stone
Sent from hell just to break his bone
But he survived certain travesty
When someone took pity on his knee

Well he knew the band couldn’t survive
A setback now in the prime of its life
Said get to work you got some jammin’ to do
And play that song about what I would do

Jesus saved Kevin from the cinderblock
Jesus saved Kevin from the cinderblock
Jesus saved Kevin from the cinderblock

The Siren Song

I believe in miracles
I believe in angels
I believe in selling souls
Tonight

I believe in dollar bills
I believe in oil spills
I believe it's our god's will
Tonight

I believe in the T.V.
Helps me think
Tells me what I need
I believe about any ol' thing
Tonight

Tonight I believe
I hear the sirens sing
Dragging us down
To their sweet release
Wake me to see
What tomorrow might bring
Alright

I believe in the bought and sold
Live like slaves until we all die old
I believe in doing what I'm told
Tonight

I believe in government
Every word from our presidents
To rob the poor makes a lot of cents
Tonight

I believe in dropping bombs
On moms and kids and everyone
I believe we do no wrong
Tonight

Tonight I believe
I hear the sirens scream
A towering prison
On every street
Tell me this is what
You were hoping to see
Alright

Hair Pieces and Hand Grenades

Have you seen the dire warning
Posted just above the door
Exit signs are broken
Doesn't matter where you go

Have you see our precious mother
Blue and blackened on the floor
Once a priceless golden vision
Can't lift her head up anymore

The world doesn't end with a whimper
The world is gonna end with a bang
And way back
Way back when
That's how it started all over again

Have you seen our real reflection
Do you stare or look away
Bloated ghouls we're on a mission
Ugly murder every day

Have you seen the coming winter
Another ice age on the way
Bury tools of self destruction
Save them for another day

The world doesn't end with a whimper
The world is gonna end with a bang
And way back
Way back when
That's how it started all over again

Hair pieces and hand grenades
Hair pieces and hand grenades
Hair pieces and hand grenades
Vanity violence all the rage

Sand Castles

Without a word
He was gone
On a beach all alone
He turned to dust
And let the tide
Pull him out to sea

Man is a mountain
But down pouring rain
Was bound to see him
In the waves again

Maybe now he can
Wash it all away
Maybe now he needs
A castle made of sand

Never held him
Close enough
A brother’s arms
Are not to touch
But they could build a
House for a king

See him at dusk
Alone and adrift
Lost in the surf
At one with the mist

Maybe now he can
Wash it all away
Maybe now he needs
A castle made of sand

Crawl Inside Your Coffin

A wasted breath
Wishing things were different
You wash away
Like the river stone
Turned around
On all this trauma
Can't rewind the sun
To save her soul

Oh our sadness
Is our own
Hold it deeper than
Her bleached out bones

The Devil mocks
Your every inhale
Steals the blood red
From her rose
Scales don't grow
From a bright tomorrow
Learn to breathe where
You can't find hope

Oh our sadness
Is our own
Hold it deeper than
Her bleached out bones
Oh these caverns
Become a home
Hold her tighter than
Bleached out bones

Never Seen

See your hands
At the end of my arms
Feel you flowing
Through my scars
Tried not to care
When you were gone
Know now
I never really saw you
At all

You know
I never even saw you at all

Feel you in my words
And my songs
Taste you in the salt
Of my heart
Never thought
You might fall so far
Know now
I never really felt you
At all

You know
I never even felt you at all

Smile of a wolf
Flashing in the dark
Needed my enemies
To feel a spark
Not sure I ever
Could have done enough
Now know
I never really tried
At all

You know
Neither of us
Ever even tried at all

Four More Wars (11/9/2004)

Had a chance
Just the other day
A chance to learn
From the same mistake
The same mistake
We always make
Day after day after day

Hate to ask
But I have to
What did you buy
That made you
Take a devil
We already knew
Through and through and through

So
Are you ready to kill
To make a rich man richer
Are you ready to die
To watch his pockets grow deeper

Four more wars
Are you ready now
Four more wars
Get your hate on
Four more wars
Hallelujah
Four more wars

Got a war on drugs and
On the freaks
War on the water and
On the trees
War on the poor
So easy to beat
Down and down and down

Soon they'll start
The war with you
On the white side now
But just wait a few
You have something they want
You know that you do
So true and true and true

Are you ready to kill
To make a rich man richer
Are you ready to die
To watch his pockets grow deeper
Four more wars
Are you ready now
Four more wars
Get your hate on
Four more wars
Hallelujah
Four more wars

Angel Dust

Let’s see you move mountains
With your mind
Cause rivers to unwind
Turn the moon outside in
Make me believe again

Anything’s possible
You said
And you placed that thought
Deep in my head
Anything’s possible
You said
And like a bullet
It stuck in my head

You said I could fly
And don’t think
I didn’t try
Thought I had wings
I thought I
Would touch the very sky
But instead
I fell and I broke
And I bled

Anything’s possible
You said
And you placed that thought
Deep in my head
Anything’s possible
You said
And like a bullet
It stuck in my head

How could you look
In my eye
And tell me one more lie
Had to know
Had to know
Had to knowI would try
Anything’s possible you said
And because of you
For the last time
I am dead

Tom Foolery

Night cat stalking down the street
Shadow at my side
Gutter rats sporting poisoned minds
Wanna test my pride
So I take them to the sky

If I dogged and came belly up
Would you tear my throat
Or would you lick my side

Queen twisting in starlight drag
Wants to share the night
Dance the highmoon way
Until the eastern light
Jumps into the sky

If I dogged and came belly up
Would you tear my throat
Or would you lick my side

Fence walking my dead end street
Scarred from every fight
Alley trash so ripe and sway
Think that I just might
Might change my mind

Damage Done

I greet the eyes
Of a woman
I see
Lashed to a
Sinking ship
I tell you what
She reminds me
Of me
Oh she reminds me
Of me

She looks away
And I know she thinks
Hope is just as bad
As drowning alone
But maybe we
Can give it a row
Maybe we can plug a hole

The two of us
We are barely afloat
Oh we are barely afloat
Take my hand
We got one last chance
To keep this wreck afloat

The waves crashing down
Are cold and dark
The bottom is so dark
And deep
We can’t forget
All these springing leaks
Now that the hull is breached

One last glance
And I know she thinks
Love is just as bad
As drowning alone
But maybe we
Can give it a row
Maybe we can plug a hole

The two of us
We are barely afloat
Oh we are barely afloat
Take my hand
We got one last chance
To keep this wreck afloat

Snakeduck

Born in a barn
Born in a swamp can’t say
But he's been a freak of nature
Since busting out his egg
Likes to loves the ladies
Hypnotize them with his eyes
Catch him with the sinners
Something new between the thighs

Coming down the road
It’s a snakeduck snakeduck
Slithering waddling
Down the road

Always finds himself a
Heap of trouble right away
Once took the Sheriff’s daughter
And rolled her in the hay
The Sheriff formed a posse
To hunt the snakeduck down
And that’s when he learned
The snakeduck doesn’t fuck around

Coming down the road
It’s a snakeduck snakeduck
Slithering waddling
Down the road

The snakeduck is a monster
Or so the people say
Just for ending what they start
In his own toxic way
No one ever heard from the Sheriff
Or his friends
And no one ought to fuck
With what they can’t comprehend

Mercynaries

We were walking around
Our hometown
The gravity got us down
There was a lifeless moon overhead
When she said
You know we’re probably better dead
Born a hundred centuries late
Was our fate
Minus money
Power and hate

Minus the money
Minus the power
Minus all the mounting hate

I couldn’t help but agree
With everything
The hurt made me want to sing
A song about impending night
In our sight
And nobody left to fight
Crushed beneath our apathy
The safest thing
This nightmarish sleepless dream

All I see
All I see
All I see is nightmares in my dreams

What a surprise
If you open your eyes

One thing left to do
For me and you
Is build an army just for two
Go down in a blaze of peace
And charity
In this war against our dignity
To battle in the face of defeat
For you and me
Is the only taste of victory

The only taste
The only taste
The only taste of victory

What a surprise
If you open your eyes
Well here’s your surprise
You can see through the lies

Hypnotized

The clowns we meet
On the street
Are real
Don’t you see
They’re walking
In circles over
Last year’s big thing

When one trips
They all fall
Something new
A skinned knee
It hurts for a bit
But they’re real
Don’t you see

The sacks of meat
On the street
Are real
Don’t you believe
They’re saying prayers
They’re waving flags
I think it’s safe to agree

When one trips
They all fall
Something new
A skinned knee
It hurts for a bit
But they’re real
Don’t you see

H.E. Double-Toothpick

Low then high
Waiting for it to feel
Like the first time
I never thought
The lines of wonder
Would appear but
There they are oh so clear

There they are
Behind the eyes
Burrowing creeps
Completing my disguise
They never leave
This place behind
Once they’ve settled
Deep within the mind’s eye

Did you ever have
One of those days
When you felt
Your life crumble
Slip away
Through your hands
Down to your feet
Just how low in this life
You gonna reach

There they are
Behind the eyes
Burrowing creeps
Completing my disguise
They never leave
This place behind
Once they’ve settled
Deep within the mind’s eye

I am almost certain
That I was sure of something
At some point and time
Some cause or creed
That I could argue with the best
But nearing the bottom
Of this bag
And all the nights before
I find myself
Defending both sides
Nothing feels more right
Than anything else
And if you care enough
To still believe
I got to hand it to you brother
You’re a better man than me

Smoke from the pipe gets in our eyes

Jihad

Wide awake it's another day
I feel the strings pulling on me
Can't deny what I can't see
I feel the strings tugging at me

Morning drive the entire way
I feel your hand on top of me
Can't forget what I can't see
I feel your fingers manipulating

Every thought I ever had
God damned
Every thing I ever touched
God damned
Every one I ever tried to love
God damned
You wanna live just like me son
Cuz that's just what I am

Work again and I have to say
I feel your eye watching me
Can't escape what I can't see
I feel your eye dissecting me

Try to sleep it's the end of days
Even the sheets whisper to me
You can't beat what you can't see
Even the sheets are reminding me

Every thought I ever had
God damned
Every thing I ever touched
God damned
Every one I ever tried to love
God damned
So you can fuck right off
For all I care
Goddamn

WWJD

He'd take some herbs
A bottle of wine
Make mountains of vino
And rivers of kind

To junkies and whores
He'd offer his hand
Knows we all need
At least one second chance

He'd slap on the bass
Play mean lead guitar
Rock out the drums
And hang at the bar

What would Jesus do
What would he
What would he do

He'd dance with the wolves
Fly with the squirrels
Walk with the whales
And wink at your girl

Allow you to strike
Without fighting back
That's just his way
That's how he reacts

He'd ignore the laws
Of those who would rule
Says live for yourself
And not like a tool

What would Jesus do
What would he
What would he do

He wouldn't make light of our malignant pain
He wouldn't start wars for corporate gain
He wouldn't drop bombs from a fighter plane
He wouldn't spill blood in his poppa's name
Let's go

Marching On And On

I
I believe I’m right
Got you in my sights
Marching on and on
You
I see through
The excuses you use
To keep me on the wall

Lies
Perpetrate the fraud
You think I’m in a fog
I’ve seen you all along
Steal
You thought to take my heart
Smash it all apart
Stomp all over the shards

Unbridled animosity
Such a curiosity
You wanna try and
Out crazy me
You have no idea
Of the depths I reach
I can close me eyes
To the sound
Of your screams
Walk away while you
Sit there and bleed
Trust forever
This solitary thing
You don’t wanna try and
Out crazy me

I
I believe I’m right
Still got you in my sights
Marching on and on
You
I see through
The use I have for you
And that is none at all