Aventine

Watch me and stay close beside. So helplessly waiting close my eyes. And hold me now because it's after me. Just waiting for my last breath. . Vague distant holes in my memory.

Swollen Summer

Downtown in the shade. Staring at the sunshine in my face. Telling me to come and hide, come and play. I'm telling you the sun never goes away. . And all I do is talk, talk, talk all day.

Recall

It was all about acceleration. All for notoriety. All about the destination. Driven by my own abilities. . Rocket shuttered screamed and then fell away.

Prologue

In perfect orbit they have circled. As the light of many worlds falls softly on their skin. And days here pass like minutes. One moment of brilliant daylight will shift into the next.

Au, Revoir, Mr. Mercury

Mr. Mercury, (U.S. patent No. 55453xx54), a cast iron steam machine,. Made the morning tea for the Admiral Gabardine. Went out on an errand but came back too late.

Sugar Pill

Come, come like sugar my love. Until the bitter taste is gone. These images then burn my eyes. Like the thumbprints of the sun. Come, come everything to please me.

Moon Burns Bright

They said the surface was suffocating,. They said the distance wasn't worth the waiting.. They said the pressure could crush the spirit of a man,. But none of them see the heavens from the place where I stand..

Split Me Wide Open

Split me wide open and look right inside. There's so many things that I tried to hide. Oh, you see right through me. You always see right through me. .

A Year In Heaven

"I'm thinking we're shrinking," said the lady to her darling.. "But the word is getting and my patience is getting thin.. I'm guessing it's pressing that we start progessing.

Mercury

A Hostage

J'ai une ame solitaire. Feels the same. Can you not see it?. Our lips are trailing poison. The feeling will last forever. The fighting is over. Won without a sound.

Mercenary

I was the future,. In nineteen-ninety-five. I watched the flashbulbs burst,. Whenever I'd arrive. I'd tape my knuckles up. Cinched and tight; for the ring.

Song For Jacob

I saw Jacob, he lay in the street. He said the air out here is like amphetamine. And I never ever wanna sleep again. I wanna live 'till I die. . They took all his money and all that he had.

Invictus

I've been breaking my back... yeah,. only to show You,. how very lost one can be,. And bitterness fires through me.. . The brilliance that was. is flickering cold,.

Slow Poison

Burn, burn the house on fire. I'm so sick and tired. I can still remember your sound. It's cut, cut, cutting me down. . I'm locked and loaded. You're so milk and roses.

Indpendence Day

You're biting your lip now,. I know 'cause you do it all the time.. You're blinking your eyes hard,. I know 'cause you used to be mine.. You're strong and resilient,.

She's So Bendable

Ain't a soul who's seen. A loser like me. it was she, it was she. She put the devil in me. Wasn't me, wasn't me. I don't have it in me. (That remains to be seen).

I Fell Away

Did you see me falling down from Heaven?. Breaking every bone I have. So I tried to touch the sun. I had another fall you can do the math. . I was wrong is what they'll say.

Rites Of Spring

Youre the woman who made me a man. You're the woman who made me a man. I was down, you taught me how to stand. You're the woman who made me. . I was made up of nothing, you put something inside.

Hero's Homecoming

There is no doubt today. The cynics and the critics have faded dead away. Every wound has healed. The meaning of their struggles has now been revealed.