I Blow My Mind

I blow my mind

All the time

It’s not divine

I hear no lines

I grow my wine

On the vine

It’s always ripe

Before its time

The stars align

Baby, it’s not at all what you think

You know she’s crazy

I flushed it all down the sink

The place is stately

You’re finding everything you need

Just thank me greatly

As long I’m here to please

I know my lines

Upon your sign

You said goodbye

Was worth a try

A light to shine

To leave me blind

I’ve been resigned

It’s by design

Well the part in the play was beneath me

So I decided to go it alone

Took a ride through the states

Found it hard to relate

My mistakes were

Found by the clever police work

No escape but

Bound to a city of thieves

Baby, you thought about everything

I hope we’re trading

Fire and the gasoline

And the light it’s making

For candles burning in the sheets

I feel you shaking

No mistaking

The sun setting over the sea

Your elation

Comprising my disbelief

Lately

I blow my mind

The Byzantine

It’s everyone you know

And they’re driving so slow

You can leave the lane you’re in

Just to get in line

It’s understood

The rot under the hood

Will reveal itself

Just got to give it time

I know I’ve lived some other life

I’ve got another’s time on my mind

Cut to the Byzantine

In the cavalry

On our horses we go flying

Through the night

Coming to the scene

Of the wall that’s been breached

If you feel your way around it

You don’t have to fall

Now I may seem a little lost

But inside my head I’m your boss

When you clock in the time will slow

Til it’s safe to die

Just so you know

Where I’m coming from

We’re in the limousine

Speeding through the streets

Bend the forces and the lights

Enough to make us fly

Split the imaging

Is it just a fling?

Leave our arms aside to bear

As we go light

I may come on a little fast

But lift your head we’re home at last

Control Me

Got a message on the side of a box

On the corner at the end of the block

Helps to keep all the labels on

Sleep with one eye, limp when I walk

Hammurabi sent it straight from the top

I can translate Cuneiform

How does it feel to console me?

You never really could control me

I never really would comply

Write in the mail you’re postponing

You know I really can’t condone it

Send it to the next guy

Say it louder now you’re clearing my throat

Roll me over off the back of your boat

Now you found out your keys are gone

Going lower til your sinking in place

Breathing water but it’s better to taste

I can tread til your drowning’s done

Hit the streets when we flip the lights

Replacements lay just out of sight

Just you wait til the place ignites

Lit up like a day in July

I’m gon do what I feel is right

My face says I’m gon do it tonight

How does it feel to patrol me?

Even after what you told me

You never let me ask you why

Better decide if you know me

My letters piled up in your laundry

I’ve never even seen you cry

Returning the world that you loaned me

You better find something to hold it

Save it for the next time

I can’t pretend that I’ve known it

Just really want someone to own me

An ordinary average guy

Settling

Where have I seen that familiar disguise before

It’s always the same and so is the score

Load my dice so that I’ll win

Hit me again while I just look away

I plead the fifth

I need a lift

To give a gift

A little string

A simple thing

A guillotine in green

They’re editing you out

They’re leaving no doubt

Wake the babes and shout

Now where have I seen that look in your eyes before

There’s someone to blame, got something in store

I’m feeling thick

You’re leaving with

Me adrift

No big thing

A little fling

A diamond ring

Now let us sing

They’re settling you down

And taking your house

Now what to do about it

Wanna Get High

Moment of glory now

You finally got something to demonstrate

But then you turned

And I just couldn’t be found to participate

A shining example

I’m almost proud

A thing you wonder

You should say out loud

I believe I wanna believe

I wanna get high

I believe I wanna leave

I wanna die

Finding a story in the places

Where some others would hesitate

Sitting out on the wing

It’s hard to keep it straight

Just reckoning in the dead of night

If you say no I just might

Believe I wanted to leave

I wanted to fly

Lead you with a wing

Against the sky

Can you see I wanna believe

I wanna get by

Leaving all the dreaming out to dry

Don’t know what you mean

Feel as though I’m going to blow

Something in between

Seething so I’m going below

And I wanna get high

When they go low

If it makes you cry

Then let your tears flow

I don’t have to decide

Deal me so I’m someone to hold

Won’t make you fly

But feeling like you’re breaking the mold

Don’t know what you mean

Something in between

If you leave you better believe

I’m gonna survive

But need you

As you’re healing on the drive

I believe I wanna believe

I wanna get high

I believe I wanna leave

I wanna die

21st Century TV

It’s a lot you’re taking on

Policing the way that other business is run

And your time just takes a toll

The end of your day is a thing undone

And I hear it in your tone

Well enough to leave it alone

And the plot keeps taking turns

A friction that slowly burns

But the thought of reading it through

Is more than you can do

I get it I’m wrong

Later tonight, I’ll be gone

21st century TV

Is on

Overdid it, I’m undone

Sealing my fate while I’m in the sun

They believed it all along

Fell for the lines I that was hanging from

But you read it all wrong

Save me the noise that keeps on coming from

21st century TV

That’s on

Put on the channel with the fire

A line in the sand for my desire

Now I’m coming over to please you

So what if anybody sees me

21st century TV

Is on

A Trace

You wave your knife around so bravely

Til the time comes

And then you flee

We know that you could do it in your sleep

Til the lines blur

In between

It said the words were better not to see

But if you name me

Well there I’ll be

I tried to phone ya to say

That I’d be in line

Do something for ya

That I would be on by

They plant the messaging to mislead

With our eyes closed as they seed

I chased a rabbit down just to see

Where the time goes

Just to see

And I save delusion

To get the space

To be allowed

Just wheel me in the day room

To play

To think out loud

And California

They say will calve away

I tried to form yeah

A phrase to feel about

The tidal pulling

At my lines before they’re out

Now swim me in the rollers

This is my wave

I’m feelin’ proud

And then the ride is over

A simple trace of me around

Play Dead

Got a line in my head

For every time that I was spoken for

An open mind so the words are read

That you were are waiting for

You’ll come from nowhere

Find my hands are in the jar

Without the money

And my head between the bars

So I play dead

And you can roll me over and over again

If I’m not ready

I guess you got a wool to pull over tonight

Taking your aim and hunting the game

That never tires of

Staking your claim to hang in your frame

But do it out of love

It’s like you know just where

My trail is coming from

There’s no outrunning

When my wheels are going numb

Then I’ll play dead

Looking like something passed over before

I clear my head

Emptying the matter all over the floor

And every helping hand is just aces and eights

But I don’t have a heart to say

That I can see to the end of this life that your living

Though I’ve been so blind

Well we can walk to the end of this land that we’re filling

Carve it in the rock, your words against mine

And I could get to the bottom of the case that you’re building

I just need to find a jumping off point

John Ponderosa

John Ponderosa he’s coming closer

Don’t it make you wanna up and leave town

Child in the poster, he’ll wave you over

We’re turning for the door to find a way out

On a limb

One of them must have saved him

There’s no way that he could‘ve made it out

It’s kinda late to allay them

And I don’t think he’s really that devout

And now it’s time to pay the jailor

Another dime to bail him out

So he can walk upon the blotter

The people scream and shout

John Ponderosa is getting closer

Though he’s known for being out of bounds

Living near the ocean, he’s made the most of

The setting and the soaking of the sun

Child from the poster, he’s coming over

Running for a door to find the way out

It doesn’t take much to believe him

You just stand where the fear is the best

Put on a face to achieve it

Just not the one that you’re saving for the rest

Behind a temple in their robing

Designed to wear you down

With all the words to be forgiven

Before their lights go out

Wanna Feel Sad

In the time it takes the speed of light

The eyes can change, a mind can lose sight

Drown out yourself, you’re in the way

And sagging in your seat I’ll just say

Just try to get some sleep tonight

And everything you’ll see will work out

There’ll come a day we’ll set it right

Stop waiting in the wings and we’ll fly

The sea was rough

And you were scared

The time was tough

But you gave up

So you wanna feel sad

And only blue can do

A mind in the past

Is like being without you

The sound it makes when you wink an eye

Is louder than the sea at high tide

There comes a time you have to lie

Don’t let this little part be goodbye

I nearly fall right out my chair

Each time you’re making something up

So you wanna feel bad

And break a fool for you

Cooked up in your lab

You got something for happy?

It is time to do blue

Then make some room for two

You set up the scene

I’ll keep it rolling

Every time that you’re through

I’ll try to prove to you

It’s overcast

The show we’re wrapping

I found a face in the clouds

Just watched it laugh while turning around

If the stratosphere learns

Then I’ll be down