Broken Wings

put your head in the mouth of your failure and let’s see if you survive put your head in the mouth of your fear and doubt and let’s watch you try to stay alive i’ll put my face in the mirror i’ll reflect what I see cause so much of what you are is what […]

Brother Child

Brother, brother, brother child where you goin’? Where you’re at the weather’s mild But that ain’t showin’ what life is gonna be. Baby, baby, baby boy why you cryin’? You’ve got all the love and joy ‘Round you trying to keep your heart carefree. Lover, lover, lover man why you trippin’? Know you’re doin’ the […]

Burn in the Fire

are you a catcher of the song or do you hold your heroes far too long are you a helpless little man or is the a fire in your hand well the flame don’t cast a shadow when it burns and the shame don’t pass for shallow when it churns and you make the heart […]

Coffee Shop Girl

There’s a lady I met at a party one night She’d come over from old mother England Just a beast in the air with her fancy a-flight And her ship was just now coming in You could tell by the light in her eyes this was no make believe That she measures her prize by […]

Castles of Her Crystalline

Building castles of her crystalline… She lives and breathes and hides behind an outrageous smile and her eyes of burnt obsidion. She greets you into distance when you takes you in her arms, A twisted warm oblivion. She stands like a sequoia Rooted firmly in the soil upon the prime meridian And she’s just one […]

Coretta’s Song (Version 2)

i’m a soldier in the army it’s an infantry of gods and were marching towards tomorrow and we mean to break the odds we are marching for the children for the mothers, for the land we will build a new beginning with every soul who dares to stand have not the pious promise makers taken […]

Diamonds

she always said "there is something healing in darkness it somehow shields me from the fray i’m only full within my emptiness that’s just my way. that’s just my way." and i’m reminded of the days i sat alone in coffeehouses reading jung and drinking klimt in through the eyes i asked those diamonds from […]

Every Shadow

i didn’t know nothing ’bout love until you came along i didn’t know nothing bout loving until you sang your song look what you done for me you gave me a reason to smile everyday for every season, for joy and dismay you made me believe that the moon was my own and as long […]