New Tonight

Chances always arriving,. passing by like cars in the distance. Takes me out of the moment,. and I lose myself in the headlights. . I'm peeling off my labels.

Lube

Waves of promise. are spilling over. out of the cauldron that. you once spoke from. now your words have. become a jukebox. the songs recycled. you beg for quarters.

End On The 6

12:09. The train to Trenton's right on time. but I'm still waiting for my ego to arrive. A dollar five. A poor man asks and I oblige. Here's to my money leaving me before my mind.

D.e.f.

Every time you speak. a stream of bullshit fall to the ground. and every time you breathe. I can smell the burning embers of truth all around. Every time you cry.

Breathing In

It's the feeling I get. When I see my own breath,. reminds me I'm alive. And my hooded sweatshirt skin. that I've been living in. blends into the night.

Bottom Of Yourself

Well, I don't know what's worse:. to change when you're not ready,. or stay exactly how you were. No one tells the truth. to a camera in their face. but we're always trying to recreate those same snapshots.

The Bullet That Takes Us

You wanted a mystic. something to believe. You needed a healer. and I could stop the bleed. And they hated me. from the moment I met you. . Loneliness is a battle.

Parenthesis

One broken wing. Soaring and suffering. Arm in a sling. I don't owe you anything.. . I'm a bad absentee. You know when I want to leave.. So close up your knees.

Wake

With the door closed, shades drawn, the world shrinks.. Let's open up those blinds. But someone has to sweep the floor,. pick up her dirty clothes. That job's not mine..

Two

In the middle of the night I was sleeping sitting up,. when a doctor came to tell me, "Enough is enough.". . He brought me out into the hall (I could have sworn it was haunted),.

Tiptoe

Thirteen

Pull me out... pull me out.... Can't you stop this all from happening?. Close the doors and keep them out.. . Dig me out... oh, dig me out.... Couldn't you have kept this all from happening?.

Sylvia

Please, curtains in. Start us off... You swing first.. Sorry. I don't know what I said, but you're crying now again,. And that only makes it worse.. Let me do my job. Let me do my job..

Surrender

Well I hope, when you can't hear what I am thinking, you know I can't always talk. But I'm always listening in an absence, where you hate to feel uncared for.

Shiva

Suddenly every machine stopped at once,. And the monitors beeped the last time.. Hundreds of thousands of hospital beds,. And all of them empty but mine..

Rolled Together

Rolled together with a burning paper heart.. Rolled together with a burning paper heart.. Rolled together with a burning paper heart.. Rolled together with a burning paper heart..

Revisited

When some unfamiliar faces came to shop in our old house. I didn't bother trying to stop them until they emptied it out. I was standing by the front door, stuffing cash in a jar.

Refuge

When you lift me out of me. When you lift me out of me will I know when I've changed?. And when you bring me back to me, will you bring me back to me, un-estranged.

Putting The Dog To Sleep

Prove to me. I'm not gonna die alone. Put your arm round my collar bone. Open the door. Don't lie to me. If you're putting the dog to sleep. That pet you just couldn't keep.

Prologue