Last Straw

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Like a flower fades in winter freeze
Or a river empties into spring
Like an atom splits itself in two
Oh my anthem, sings its simple tune

Like a spirit spins a clear head round
Or a swing set drops back to the ground
Like an outlaw falling on his knees
Oh my last straw, finally killing me

Mile Marker 331

Asleep I had a dream I saw
The northern lights, the northern lights
In the early morning of
A winter night, a winter night

There was a long drive to get here
I am sure, my love
I am sure, my love
It was a long night to live through
But we've made it now
Oh we've made it now

You saw a crystal ball up there
And held a knife, and held a knife
You wanted to see galaxies
It's where they hide, it's where they hide

There was a long drive to get here
I am sure, my love
I am sure, my love
It was a long night to live through
But we've made it now
Oh we've made it now

So sick of feeling like a,
So sick of feeling like a ghost
So sick of feeling like a,
So sick of feeling like a ghost

In The Ground

This is a song I recorded with my friend Jennifer Fuentes. We call ourselves "Irresistible Nothings". Enjoy. (Click on the link below to listen and download)

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Take me up in your glassy airplane
I just want to see the world
Maybe up so high
I won't even say goodbye
To everyone I know

And I, just want to leave it all
And I, just want to feel the fall
And I, just want to leave it all
In the ground

Can you take me where
stars shine brighter
than any grassy field?
They're so beautiful,
Unattainable,
So wonderful, surreal

And I, just want to leave it all
And I, just want to feel the fall
And I, just want to leave it all
In the ground

Have you found a place,
Oh a resting place,
Where I can lay down?

On Insurgence

Stifling, with dreams like
paper truths cremated
in the basement of the

Ministry, with intent
to burn all life and all
ambition out of me

Eternally, while my
sluggish heart hardly cares;
and all creation sits

Soundlessly, with faces
melting into blue-grey
oceans of digital

Urgency, with muteness
stemming from delusion
that our words are billed by

Quantity, and I?

I just want to float down frosty rivers,
navigating rapids and

To swim in sunny surf,
pursued by Poseidon and outsmarting the sirens and

To cross this continent by train,
rambling with Kerouac and all the tumbling miles of track
and singing with the click-clack and
To simply BE
breathing in the mountain air
or hiking all these cobbled stairs
or laughing with a brilliant old friend

At a table
in a bar
on a riverbank
with a drink
and a warm smile.

Enough For Two

I tried to talk with you again
I'm sorry I guess I'm not ready for the end
Cause there was this fatal feeling
Like Charlemagne's army was finally closing in

And I knew all that I wanted
Was a room, enough for two
And I knew all that I wanted
Was a place for me and you

I tried to be a charming man
I'm sorry I guess it was foolish to just pretend
Cause there was this naked feeling
Like all of my mysteries were solved before I began

And I knew all that I wanted
Was a room, enough for two
And I knew all that I wanted
Was a place for me and you

I saw a brick house it was covered in vines
I said to myself one day all this will be mine
Then soldiers shoved in and they tore it apart
Now all that is left is our rubble and sparks

And I knew all that I wanted
Was a room, enough for two
But I guess all that I wanted
Will just have to stay subdued

Soft Blows

Here:
Standing on the south pole
braving the 31 below zero
Like paramagnetic slivers
faced with parka-less shivers
after their brief trembling

Iron red, Eyes run redder

You albatross, spanning your global wings
because a thousand miles wasn't enough distance
You albatross, devouring golden calves
guided by the currents and incandescent lamps
You albatross, swooping down the sea-line
baring your teeth at the black and white
You albatross, plaguing the water and wine
because even a blurry view is much too bright

Here:
Standing on the center-sun
sweating anthemic buckets
Like emasculated cloudbursts
losing our shoes and shirts
after a sudden final flare

May

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I got scared in the winter
That the summer had disappeared
And we all got trapped in our isolation
Let's get out of here, yeah!

I rode around on my bicycle
Thinking of all the words you said
It was so good, it was so good
It was so good like the month of May
It was so good, it was so good
It was so good like the month of May
When everything looks close on maps
And everyone just smiles in the photographs

I caught you trying to catch a break
Your pulse was slowing, it was frozen in a way
It's ok to finish, even if you're late
It's ok to finish, you know that I can wait

I got scared watching snow fall
That the spring would never come
And we'd all be trapped here in hibernation
Waiting for the sun, yeah!

It was so good, it was so good
It was so good like the month of May
It was so good, it was so good
It was so good like the month of May
When everything looks close on maps
And everyone just smiles in the photographs