Red Metallic Beat

Paths are meant to cross at destiny

The antiques sing those songs along the streets.

more than ever, now I've come to see

nothing is more true than what they speak.

Words too thick with love are buried deep

like honey underground the milky shroud

They'll beat: one two, one two, until I fall

Or 'til that 'lectric courage gives me call.

Red metallic on a muscle car

shimmering like summer swelter char.

Roads to thin to go our separate ways

I'll sing you homeward if you lose the war.

From the Deathbed

At 20,

earth was satin.

at 50, it was cinder.

Now it drips like sand,

strand by strand--

the earth,

through every finger.

The Mute

I'm lighting a fire

Under my feet

Going looking for something

in the middle of the street

where the lights shine the brightest

because my quiet is too hard to beat

I cleaned up the day after drifting away

Made sure that my voice was neat

But singing of others is all I can do

I shiver at the thought of your heat

Now time has come

For this girl to be someone

Dress in her hand

just fresh on the run

Going  somewhere 

where the air is so clear

and her words can find somewhere to come from

Pennies, and cowboys

asleep in my heart

Your eyes and the moonlight

can't tell them apart

You're just a boy with the world on his back

And I'm just a film with an awful soundtrack

And my trains arrived

and your eyes are dry

I didn't even cry

Until I said goodbye 

I'm too quiet to tell you

I'll miss you

I always wonder

when I'm thinking out loud

Would the world have stopped spinning

If I'd shouted it out?

If I'd sang you to sleep,

And I'd promised to keep you around?

If I'd sang you to sleep,

and I'd left in the morning

without making a single sound?

Graphic Design

Drops of gin.

Peeling paint.

falling down.

and I feel faint.

Doors unlocked.

the radio.

paper talk.

a window glow.

Light a fire.

burn the bed.

rusty wire.

left for dead.

Monster thoughts.

beneath my skin.

Shed the bulk.

and climb back in.