stories from the faded pages

Once again,
formed and faded when
the last big break began

look through the skin
to read within
the story's grown so thin

I'm not just your next door friend
I'm not just a child within
I'm not just a pretty face
I'm not just a rat in the race

if ever we needed

a time to be treated

more like human beings its now.

Musicians are amazing: Meklit Hadero

Psychic Sober

~song demo~

I got no drums in my dreams at night
the clock the clock the clock the clock
is ticking

The soles of my feet pound the ground in the light
I know so cold so cold so cold
its monday


But all your whisper symbols bring you to
And all you mocked up meetings follow through

Psychic, psychic, psychic
sober easy
psychic, psychic, psychic
over easy
I follow through


I got no so's in my seams at night
Oh friends I feel I feel I feel
Its Monday

The claws in the draw of my dreams in the night
too late I'm gone I'm gone I'm gone
its monday


But all your whisper symbols bring you to
And all your mocked up meetings follow through

Psychic, psychic, psychic
sober easy
psychic, psychic, psychic
over easy
I follow through

I learned to sing my violin

I I I I

learned

to sing my violin

not a fin-ger

do i pluck with

not a bow

or bow-like things

I bellow out

a yellow note

and hear it on the strings!

oaken age

on my tongue

a seed once sung

where my wild oaks grow

where my red blood runs

where they tear my hair

and my teeth will dig

and find a pretty place to live

o' in the fingerling trees

that grab to rape the sun

and make the fruits of future thieves

small critter corns and nests

of tawny silver and ancient brass 

with dewy sap sprung from the leaves

that glisten in the morning's dawn

I am the reflection of the infinite

The salt of my life
is what time divides
lends and sorts
through a series of lines

If I think that I've found it
I'm well on my way
sort of a treasure
just to know that we change

Its got to be light
Its got to be soft and free
like ether less aged
like the sound of a breeze

the mirror I know
the mirror its me
the mirror that reflects
infinitely

Niflheim Giants

Ice first
the last deserves
a body of earth
the fire to curse

a tree
a light
with sparks
o' night

this land
this home
four corners
we roam

tonight we fly
tonight we fight
tonight we stomp
tonight we strike

tonight we sing
tonight we eat
tomorrow will come
and now we sleep

mourning
in morning
the wolf devoured the moon
lost
and lonely
he comes again soon

I met o' a meadow
I crept on a creek
twelve rivers divide you
in the nine worlds we seek

giants
or gods
great odin
he sought

to create
us as humans
and the earth
we forgot

Glass bones

Where the lonely wolf roams
so the lady calls her home
if ever a song she sung
it failed to fill her lungs
beholden to none
unknown in a hum
what's done is done
now dare not cast a stone.

Glass bones
Glass bones
my house, my home
Glass bones

bums dome
brings a nomad home
when the fire burns
mix the heat and the dirt
form a body of earth
for the gods to insert
with terra-cotta clothes
the essence of one

glass bones
glass bones
my house, my home
glass bones

Wolf skin wrap
buried home
what once was above
is now below
hollow head
hollow coat
hollow breathe
hollow notes
who dared to cast a stone
at my poor glass bones?

How I love your leaves

~ song demo ~


Little feather
of fingers a leaf
on my tree

If ever we are together
I whisper softly
Into your ear

There's no use anticipating
The long cold days

If we are waiting
Then we are fading
Friends

Oh my friend
Oh my friend
How I love your leaves

Chimera #1

The Only Way

```song demo 1```
```song demo 2```

I'm the only lucky one
I guess I'll stay
Because the only way
is the lonely way

I'm the only lucky one
I guess I will
If you say I can
Then I guess I am

Frightful nights
Dark and chilly
Molested Cigarettes
Don't forget
Our love

Maybe
It's okay
to dream.

The Day Has Arrived

```song demo```

I can't let go
I'm too tangled in this
Not another sunny day that I missed
And the record plays on just one side
but its alright

When the lights go down
Its hard to resist
If I can't have you and I can't have this
I'll yell against the night
another late one

Didn't I try
Didn't I try
When the morning is outside
Didn't I try

What's the purpose
of running up the white flag
If I don't act now, I'll surely be had
It's tough to get to know you
but I still do

so when morning comes
Its bringing it back
For another sunny day to attack
the song of we're alright
we're alright

Didn't I try
Didn't I try
When the morning is outside
Didn't I try
Didn't I try
Wake up and go outside
The day has arrived.

Nothing Matters

~Inspired by a friend~
```song demo```

I don't know what's worth the effort
It's been this way so long
I just can't stand the thought of someone
Telling me what's wrong

Because
Nothing
Matters
Anymore

You can't stop this hunger in me
I've watched it all unfold
It scares me now as I reflect on
Thoughts of getting old

Because
Nothing
Matters
Anymore

Whisper softly what you fear
I calm with one regret
That I can't love you like I oughta
Because I can't forget that

Nothing
Matters
Anymore

Perishable

```song demo```

One hit wonder
But she's your thunder
Wake up next to a storm
And you're a lot
Like the head of a knife

Pull her up but
She's no puppet
See the rings round her eyes
And realize
There's a person inside

Drowning out
In words and Shouting
Sinking under her skin
Can she survive?
Or can you save her life?

And I know that it's a process
But lately I think I'd rather die.

flash lights flash!

```song demo```

the enemy of a surging sea
is the wind that blows back the waves
from me
You came to stay
on the coast of strays
but nothing comes so easily

on the way
you let your guard down
and I guess
you'll do it again

first to the edge
now you're holding your breathe
the last light is shining
on the water's skin
the love you make
numbs a subtle ache
in your chest from all
those crashing waves

all along the coast
of chemistry
you wound your way
around me

take your time
you are worn down
by the crush
you're holding so tight
til the moment breaks
and you can escape
away back into the night

troubled waters
break away
until we're parted
right here we'll stay
The surging seas
fight a gentle breeze
follow you ask me
patiently

But don't ask you know that I can't
You know
It's not my decision to stay

semi wavelength

Into this video
wavelength beneath a pale
broken sky we can hide
from the tiny water molecules
descending from great heights

Tropic of Cancer
begging us not to answer
a sweet summer mellow
mood marked by a distant
thunder boom echoed in the woods

Chasing the wind
Ship sailing friends
find glowing willow wisps
whispering softly
on a breeze
full of goose neck goards and ribbons

In vision static
with grand harmonics
of a white noise chorus
played on trombones rusty
frames of our hollowed dreams

And while we wait
for an escape
the cherished song sails on
through the dawn
floating on and on
on the breeze.

smoke chain cinder

chased all my dreams away today

thought it wise to pick on the big guys

for a change

winked and waved and danced to say

"hey we rule,

we the kings of the silly and strange!

telephonely lonely

the green button of light
turned blue, means a message
or a call, or an email

put it on silent,
you can't run my life!
but i constantly look over
to see if the button color is blue

empty text inbox every 2 days
with one word responses
to my 3 page novel questions

tried so hard not to care
3 men who don't care,
doesn't equal one man that does.

Same 2010

```song demo```

Paisley finger prints
rainbow pup tents
cherry candle scents
bubble gum chocolate mints
the prez on holiday
the prez on holiday
the country can't wait
but the head of state can

banjo cardigans
big lots bargains
homecoming wagons
tea leaf beaulieu afghans
the prez on holiday
the prez on holiday
the country can't wait
so bring them out with dead bait
twixt a rock and fate
so they all took off and ran

drivin around town
i barely heard a sound
drivin around town
i barely heard a sound

voice box whisper steam
childhood college pipe dream
Animal planet image tree
squidbillies and smokin anything free
the prez on holiday
the prez on holiday
the country can't wait
but the head of state can
the country's too late
so they all took off and ran

Kitty Lullaby

To sleep with you wilde cat! Let your dreams play a trick on your mind, paw at the sheets and whimper softly, until daylight lets you wake with a sigh, new adventures and the fire in your eyes, mark a journey bound in balls of thread and stray bottle caps left by your master and friend.

Tram Cram 4am Jam

Guitar belly
faced by pillows
toes and fillings.
feelings are notes
born from it
bellowing out into the early morn.
afghan blanket forests
and paper airplane rescue missions
for the sake of quenching this desire
to relieve this tension
to receive these gifts
bound in broken mirror and nameless tags.
certain death awaits us all
and so does living loneliness and dispair.
the trick is to find a crowded understatement
and make it your anthem.
give it space to grow and be honest
and it will give back to you in notoriety.
all good things will be multiplied infinitely
by those that encounter them.