DOING TIME

Because I need no one else
I can drink to your health
It's not hard to be alone
And I see you swallow pride
And in yourself confide
But talking lets me know

It’s just a way to get there
It’s just a line
And it takes me off to somewhere
And I’ll forget that I’m doing time

Because I get so upset
If I take my regret
And use its weight to anchor down
All of the things that I have learned
I’ll read what I have burned
But your rain won't put me out

Because I need something now
I don't know what or how
Maybe some time and I’ll work it out!
And I see you standing there
Part like a school girl scared
But 1000 years can shout

THIS LIFE

Am I becoming enlightened?
It’s taken more than this life…
Not from me or what we'd be
If a man takes a woman the earth is his wife
In this life, in this life

In this life we are born
To learn more than the word
Your soul is so much wiser now
Fly away just like your bird in this life
In this life

What this life gives to me is everything, everything
How this life gives to me is all I see
What this life gives to me is everything, everything
How this life gives to me is all I see

You will feel what you choose to feel
I heard the wise man say
But the I is more than the me
And you could break me in one day
Of this life, of this life

So think of this through this life
Just like your spiritual wealth
And learn it's so much easier
Just to know yourself
Through this life, through this life

Here and now is this life
And the here and now is true
In this life there’s no one made from all the things that they do
Every sunrise sunsets
And the hear and now is you
And that’s all that’s meant to be here in this life
That’s all that’s meant to be here in this life…

DEVIL’S CAUSEWAY

Look at yourselves and enjoy the music
Cause I knew a real fallen angel who used it
So why do we try and why do we die
For the ones that ourselves cannot find to abuse it?

Am I tearing myself apart?
Or just of this beat with no art in my heart
I could be a fighter but it seems so absurd
Why should I fight on your unstable word?

We’re told to lift up your life, lift up your soul
Lift up your self because you have been told
Now’s not the time to try and be one
Now is the time that we drink of the sun
A sun that is warming, a sun that is giving
A sun that will light up your fool way of living

A sun in your wind and your heavens above
A sun in your wind and your heavens above
A sun in your wind and your heavens above
Now you can see for the small price of love and it won't force you

But what of the dark moon the one who of knowledge
Hides her soul until you seek and forage?
With reason and whisper on a warm mortal breeze
She pushes her message of hope through the trees
And as the Queen of the Celt song hides her pain in the night
Unbeknownst that the light's reflected from the sun's tireless might

No it won't force you
No it won't push you
But it does know you
Can enfold you
It'll guide you through your night

It won't force you
It won't break you
It does know you
Wisdom, daylight, night time
Invocation
It does know you
Can grow you
It won't force you

SPARKS OF DIVINE

How did you want me to feel?
Where did you want me to go?
Cause what was before and what is so real
I’m pretty surprised how quick you let go
Cause I could never let go of something so quick
It takes me so long to trust something to hold

So why can't you just make it real?
It's something that I know you feel
I pushed it through to losing my name
But there’s every part in me that’s just the same

As light and as dark
But I’m not sure we agree we're both a spark
Of light and of dark
But your lack of speech is keeping me
It's bad for my heart
My heart of light

How did you want me to feel?
Where did you want me to grow?
If you thought for a second that all you see here is not real
Would you still walk around like you didn't know?
I never let go I just needed to see
If you could believe what’s in you just might be in me.

So why can't you just make it real?
It's something that I know you feel
I pushed it through to loosing my name
But theirs every part in me that’s just the same

How do you want me to feel?
Where did you want this to go?
If you thought for a second that all you see in this worlds real
I could be it all I just thought maybe you should know
But I would never be without a message from you
And I know you’re more, than the fucked up things you do

We are just one part, of light and of dark
We are yin and yang, we are just one spark
Sparks of divine!

FREE THE ME

Break me down, and leave me broken
I can put my pieces back together
I’ll do a better job, than my early growing
Couldn't leave it alone I had to be a big spender

You can bet that Buddha
Is not down the bottom of your bong
We're working so hard for wishful thinking reality
I don't exist! You don't have to light my candle
I’m just another drop in the big, big people sea!

And I’m just as happy never knowing if I’m wrong
I’m just as happy tell the truth and I might float along
I’m just as happy never knowing what will be
I’m just as happy if I can learn
Learn how to free the me

I gotta free the me
I gotta free the me
I gotta free the me
Myself from I!

New ideas, well they can float and flourish
But I’m wasting time watching my TV screen
Conversation, it may be refreshing
It can make me feel like I do know me
That’s the way we all seem to grab our reasons
Hey, maybe it’s time I learned to make my own coffee
Cause I’m alive and right now is the season
Don't waste your time just come down to the shop and sit with me

And I’m just as happy never knowing if I’m wrong,
I’m just as happy tell the truth and I might float along,
I’m just as happy never knowing what will be,
I’m just as happy if I can learn
Learn how to free the me

Oh myself and I
Oh myself and I
Oh myself and I
I gotta gotta gotta gotta gotta go get free.

PICKET FENCES

I went riding with the prince of darkness
Down the back of the line little red caboose
And as the story goes he talks of riches
But only hard card players live that loose

We made it work for him in that hard yard
All false conviction that we see
Unhealthy in his heart and mind he pushed to make it
And none of his conviction does feed me

So where’s the music in your picket fences?
Seems like your living suburb dreams
Show me the music in your shiny picket fences
Your castles made of sand will break by me

“Surf City, it's the bomb! Hey, can you play a song for me?”
Darby Street was just corner shop burgers and Seattle bands were big
I did a little time in shiny shoes just wearing black slacks
And the tradesman down the pub, he got married and now he's got two kids

I got a job and nothing's changed since high school
The dark prince rides his train up to the sun
And in the cocktail car the hardcore drink you pretty
While the poker playing surfers get dealt their hands that run

I went riding with the prince of darkness
Down the back of the line little red caboose
And as the story goes he talks of riches
And I think that I’d like to live that loose

HAMILTON 2303

The old man down the road says life goes on
Outside the coffee spot
He found his soul 10 years ago
Married the grocery shop

Low Flying Hippies in the wild, wild West
Pushed me deep into a desert dream
Australian surfing town, I failed your every test
But there’s something that you didn't see
It's just the things that you don't believe

Mongo lives downstairs and thinks I’m made of noise
And I think he's loosing it
The police take my side when the neighbors call
And I’m abusing it
His girls in the city they get their kicks for free
That’s what one said to me
She poured her soul into all he believes
And it don't set her free

The tradesman down the pub said life goes on
Over a pint of black
Mortgaged his soul to the girl next door
And smiles he won't get it back

Young local boy don't know where to begin
But knows it's all the same
Somehow he knows that he won't have to hear
That life goes on again
That old man down the road just smiles it off
Outside the coffee spot
He cruises home to grow his soul
The local grocery shop

HEY SOUL

I know you love me and I love you back
The rest is in between
All these feelings buried and the way we attack
The parts of us that we see
Inside the parts of those that see in us
The part's that we disguise
Inside that part is just like every human being
That’s why we all think that their lies
And so I’m not surprised you feel like I’m running away
Pride always enjoys the fall
It's the stop at the ground that you might hear it say

I know you love me and I love you back
The rest is underneath
All these feelings buried and the way we attack
This problem’s not that deep
I know you call it and the things you say you see
But I don't walk that line
I’m not as cut as all the things that I should be
I could be if you were unkind
And so I’m not surprised my mouth it might ruin your day
This isn't a social disguise
There’s a man and a boy that might need you to say

I know you know I love you and it's only me
There really is no pride.
I know the things you really HAVE to find and be
The social table does not lie!
So from a distance I’ve been watching you and me
Someday we might meet and say
How much of a small child is your ego, are you free?
Not from me but from all the things that we say

SICK

I tried to be, all the things that you can't be
And I tried to see all the thing's that you can't see
But I was forced to be, all the things that people say
And I have never one the sick games that people play

I see you run from your heart and your trust
I see you run from your home
How can someone so young run so far, run so far away?
I see them running alone

People try and be
It comes naturally and free
I hear these people say these things
I don't think they know what they mean
The mind won't take the time to fool itself
If it's wasting time on leave
But your soul won't find the time to break down
If it's wasting time getting free

I never learned to count my gold
I never learned to clean my plate real quick
Without cause to relate I don't stink of hate
That kind of mind makes me sick

CHASING DEMONS

Hey man, can you help me?
I need to feed myself
But I don't need your pity
You know I have found my own wealth
And hey man could you care some
Cause if you do I won't tell your world
Hey brother! Just grin and bear some
So I can save my friends poor mental health

And I know, what it means to be free
And I’ll go, and I’ll go
With my demons chasing me
And someday, she may say
“Hey blue eyes, where have you been?”
And maybe we can find a groove
And sing the songs that angels sing

Hey man, give me that hair cut
I want the one that looks so neat
As your supermodel slid right down the plug-hole
Along with watching football
And anything that stopped and made me think
And realize that time, if I could just find the time
Oh, won't time please rescue me
And stop wearing out my feet