Morning

Welcome love!
Welcome hate!
Welcome everybody
I’m starting on a clean slate

Notice the table
All wiped and clean
Notice I have emptied even the cup
Starting from ground zero now
Working my way up.

Outside My Window

Redefining friends
redefining loneliness
Counting my blessings
vain and vacant like
counting barking crows
outside my window.

Outside my window
What’s out there? (do I really care?)
Outside my window
Far different from the calm between my toes
Where everybody else is busy
And in here it’s really only me

Is this the moment of truth?
Who’s been calling or
who’s been used?
I don’t care to know the answer
when half of it is bull
and the other half is out there.
Out there.

Outside my window
I can see the steeple on the hill.
I can see a lone cat sitting still.
Someone else is counting calm
Counting friends and
counting foes
or counting crows outside his window.
He’s wondering if half his cup is empty
or half of it is full

Or like me, from behind my window
The other half’s just bull.

I Will Be Happy

I will be happy
I will defy the odds
I will look past that childhood scar
and dare that dream to rock
I will be happy
Even while they laugh at me
I will be happy
I will be happy and me

I will be happy
I will remind the rain and sun
I will be scorched or drenched
I will be cursed or praised
But I will not turn and run
It is my right
It is my right
I will be happy
I will be happy in whatever light

Sweet Exile

My kingdom usurped
My armies turned mercenary
My treasury the gift to many a plunderer
My enemies are marched upon my throne
Desecration befall my holiest of temples
I, the king departs a lowly beggar
A heavy heart is all I own.

And yet I look upon my sweet exile
My journey set in shame
I have kept my dignity
Goodwill decorated with my name.
My sweet exile -- dates that fall ripe by the oasis where I lay
Richly supplied by music and water
Peace and quiet are my company of friends
Here I dwell
My soul in solitary style
In sweet, oh sweet exile.

Fade Off

F is for Fade.
And Fade is a colour
That lightens by day
and darkens by night
Until it becomes nothing
Dust specked in a beam of light.

Fade is a person
Weak and absent
Diluting in importance
Losing his worth.
Reduced and reducing.
A grain of salt
sowed on the ocean.
Snow in the frost.

Fade is a person.
Fade is a person lost.

1-2-3 Spin

123 spin
stick another needle in
123 spin
shove it out or shove it in
456 roll
do it baby do it slow
456 roll
the program has started
everybody go
Better fit in boy
better fit in girl
better fit in boy
better fit in girl
It's the formulalalalalala
It's the formulalalalalala
It's the formulalalalalala
Lalalalalalalala

123 spin
Stir the bullshit mix it in
123 spin
see the blind lead blind lead blind lead in
456 roll
sheep like marching marching on
456 roll
keep your mouth shut or sing this song

It's the formulalalalalala
It's the formulalalalalala
It's the formulalalalalala
Not me baby, I've had enough

Broken Plate

My flu ravaged head spoke his mind last night
And what a mess it made
It got me stuck with my parent's fight
It made me smash the plate.

It was a light and floral blue plate
And it used to hold some rice
It was complete a moment ago
It was peaceful while I ate.

The folks, they fought about the usual stuff
Now why did I interfere
Now why didn't I just shut the fuck up
and be on my merry way
Finish up my work
Did all the time there was and get on that plane?
Instead in tears and spit I had to shout my ravaged mind
And broke that fucking plate.

It was a pretty floral blue plate.
Its sides were like many tiny sides of a petal

Used to be part of a series of three
but now there’s only two.
Time moves in a linear direction, as Stephen Hawking says
You can’t undo a broken plate
This means you can’t unsay what’s been said.
The folks are pretty serious now.
It seems this time they’ll separate.

It really was a tug of war with me stuck in the middle
But I really loved them so
But seeing them at each other’s throats
it’s hard to just let go.
It really was the flu
I really felt that fevered throe
I really didn’t mean the words I said
And I didn’t mean to break that plate.

Believer

I'm a believer
What more can I say
There's no other way
I pray I pray I pray
I'm a believer
I don't expect you to comprehend
The beginning or the end
The meaning of the plan
No other faith to sway
I pray I pray I pray
I'm a believer
Despite anything you say

I'm a believer
I know you know I know you don't
I'm a believer
Pagan or patriot or parrot or pawn
I'm a believer
A believer like I was
from the start
like an art
on the day I was born
I'm a believer
Forgotten forsaken forlorn
I'm a believer
I'm a believer
Be gone

Me Me Millenium

What do I want?
What do I need?
What do you care?
What does it all mean?
I know nothing
I know nothing
I know nothing
I am just a kid
I am just a thirty year old kid

I want security
I want me bigger than me now
I want a bigger body
I want a bigger pay check
I want someone to show me how
I want certainty
I want it all to be okay
Just right
Not too much
That's it
That's fine already

What do I want?
What do I need?
What do you care?
What does it all mean?
I know nothing
I know nothing
I know nothing
I am just a kid
I am just a thirty year old kid

I don't want much
Just enough
Just enough I think
To think
Think about it
Think about nothing
Nothing much
Just some security
Some certainty
Some peace of mind
Piece of cake
Piece of cake, I think
But then again
What do I know?
I am just a kid
Just a thirty year old kid

Lullaby

Sleep
Sayang-sayang
Go to sleep
Sayang-sayang
Sleep
Sayang-sayang
Go to sleep
Sayang-sayang

I’ll watch you even while you dream
I’ll watch you even while you’re breathing slowly
I’ll watch you while you drift and drift and drift
To the valley of dreams

Sleep
Sayang-sayang
Go to sleep
Sayang-sayang
Sleep
Sayang-sayang
Go to sleep
Sayang-sayang