The pure and infinite well

Refraction and distance in the glowing afternooon

Thunder and lightning

old sophia

Driven   

fences waving in the wind
standing around in the frost and the dew
drivers cursing the empty glove
nobody knows what will become of you

burning up the life and the crowded road
following the rules, oh happy citizen
groaning all over this blackened load
blood spilling out from the coffee oxygen

enough to make a strong man lose his mind
explosions and fire and crowds of angry fight
a broken stick floating and the light off gods design
but nobody listening, they locked away tight

so, Sophia make a drink and look away
the wind is flapping against the street
same thing here today as yesterday
& the river rolls away in soft defeat

(Chorus)

I'm driven, I'm driven on
It's only god now I'm calling upon
Well I'm driven, I'm driven on
I'm gonna drive until the coming of the dawn

Empire of dirt meets a horse named danger

Residue of a deal I made with myself 

Starfish burst into flames, the waters down below and the smell of the sea pours like a morning shower over a newly executed man, aglow from the chairs buzz and fry. He supports the strike of metal and bone and recovers his past glory bursted orange and his new soul shines like a clear bubble made soft by thoughts of the forgiven and wildly free which pulses violet with a clear light blue. Breaking down the city streets alone at night and dark and the smells change and your magnetic field fluctuates and lights up your mind theoretically (without a visible crank all the bands shine on rainbow creek). A golden flash hits the the surface of the web, and shudder the earth squeezing light balls smiling towards the electrical aether and void over lake and mountain snake stone. I see x-ray comets and pale blue cats, a velocity slow like a watermelon and visible radiant rock is standing in the waves, turning to sand. We're all standing in a risky point and we all know it over the planet turning this night. Millions of prisoners levitate and float through the courage in their dreams and the current flows in and over the sphere, breathing the lunatic ball.      

- from 1996

This Wheels on Fire

‘Highway sign down the road of gloom’   Bm/D/A/E …G,F#,Bm    (key of D)

(For Apollo)

Verse

Bm,D,A,E

Highway sign down the road of gloom

Waterfalls and mist and a broken glass room

Hearing the sound of the view from the shore

G,F#,Bm

There ain’t no escape from the bars on this door

Open road way out west

I miss you more than all the rest

I've been in here way too long

My road home is just gone

Oh to be free just like a song

Love don’t remember all’s been done wrong

Roll me away take me anywhere

Cause love don’t remember any here or there

The people of all these little towns

They just accept that the truth it got drowned

By cynicism, greed & deceit

By the plan of a black hearted elite

Oh chain of light, chain of earth

I know I'm chained down to this dirt

And my tears they fly away like the birds

And hopes is a feather that lives in my words

Chorus

Em,G,D,A

This wheels on fire

Rolling down the road

Pray for the king of desire

He reaped what he sowed
(he's lost and alone)

'peace which passeth all understanding'

FLOWER FOR SHINE        

(Key of G, verse: D/A/G, chorus: F #/Bm/G/G, fade out: G/E)

D-A-G repeat

Carry my arms

Away up to you

Break open the sky

Into something new

Drink from my cup

Of gold and mud

Cover the land

With something other than blood

Bland coffee hours

Between sand and the towers

& everything falls into the human heart

While the wheel runs around & you play your part

So burn the sky

And drown the word

That mountain won’t cry

For your bluebird

I’m gonna write you down

Into a beautiful pearl

And send your voice & crown

Out over the world

And the moon tide will stand still

And no one will shout or call

And like grist for the endless mill

The sunlight will turn to nightfall

F#-Bm-G-G

And I am fast

Approaching the paradoxical abyss

Of the luminescent paradisaical kiss

& while your soul is caressed by mine

I still find myself a broken battle line

G-E   (Fade out)

But I got the flower

Flower of life

And it’s still spinning

Spinning in my mind

But I got the flower

Flower of life

And it’s still spinning

Spinning in my mind

But I got the flower

Flower of life

And it’s still spinning

Spinning in my mind

The God of Soldiers

Distant Mountains (key of C)    

G-Em-G-Em-G-Em-G-Em-C-Am-C-Am- G-Em-G-Em

Well people are more distant than mountains to me

And life it ain't nothing but insanity

And love; oh love is the endless fountain

And loneliness is the name of life’s battleground mountain

And loneliness is the name of life’s battleground mountain

I’m lost in the trees and I’m reaching to see

So many things that I still want to be

There is streetlights a waving, rippling the wheat

We’re all alone & Machiavelli he’s still king

We’re all alone & Machiavelli he’s still king

Chorus

F-C-F-C-Dm-G-Dm-G (return c-f9-g back to verse)

And all the world

And all the world

Does drink it’s woes with thee

Does drink it’s woes with me

So raise up your cup on the bark with the beam

For the sun fills her sails, the crow’s nest will buy your dream

I’m broken down in the heart of the Puget Sound

I lie next to nothing and Zeus, he bears the crown

I lie next to nothing and Zeus, he bears the crown

There’s a crazy man dancing with a loaded gun shoe

I don’t see any reason for your drone right out of the blue

Well I’ll take the boneyard with a view of the lake

Well I’m talking of God’s land and times lonely heartbreak

Well I’m talking of God’s land and times lonely heartbreak

And all the world

And all the world

Does drink it’s woes with thee

Does drink it’s woes with me

Swimming to a new place through roadways filled with mud

Soft silent admonishment from ghosts and mothers and drugs

I don’t even know why I’m even here for love

& it’s spread over all the earth with an opened velvet glove

& it’s spread over all the earth with an opened velvet glove

Cast your way right back into the heavenly stars

Away from the black and white avenue of bars

Spinning away across the heavens of time

And know thyself hiding in the songs endless rhyme

And know thyself hiding in the songs endless rhyme

And all the world

And all the world

Does drink it’s woes with thee

Does drink it’s woes with me

So empty out the sand that runs into the sea

The oil bird skeleton is screaming up at me

And I’m hiding out in the eye of the storm

I’m playing in the sound of the silent new born

I’m playing in the sound of the silent new born

There’s a ring for the bee wrapped up in a cloth

There’s a coal on a string and graveyards enough

I am waiting for the last place the old man can be

You know it’s not every day you’re offered a white horse in a tree

You know it’s not every day you’re offered a white horse in a tree

And all the world

And all the world

Does drink it’s woes with thee

Does drink it’s woes with thee

Lost Highway

Erebos

Robot Mirror

Ophelia

Like fair Ophelia in her later days, beneath the cracked branch
And floating under the willow shade with thorn and oaken land
Incapable of her own distress and babbling songs of goo
While drowning slowly her garments filled with water where she lay
And died pretending all was well at the closing of the day

And now we play and drive and fly across the world
Gathering black blood and singing novel songs
While the science story sells,  "any day now"
And we are incapable of our own distress, blind to the gathering winds
Like marvelously innocent children

And the days are too warm
And the diseases are spreading
And the law is without morality
or common human decency

And the land is without water
And the food is growing scarce
And the army is attacking
enemies of its own creation

So hearing this the fall gathers dust to sweep up her crowns
And laughs at the temple of Eoster's forgotten flowers
Away to the winds with you my sweet dears!
The trumpet calls sounded and the moons are blood red
The furies await behind the veil of worlds
And the days have entered the dream of the Gods

Mercury

I try.

“Dream Slip”

 (Key of D) (D-D-G-G), Medium to Fast Tempo 
Country-ish vocals 

Acoustic guitar, D harmonica and Foot tamborine

Dream slip is coming, Dream slip is coming

With the brand new sun, With the brand new sun

The hills are rising up, The hills are rising up

And I don’t see anyone, And I don’t see anyone

Dream break landing me, Dream break landing me

On a mountain made of stone, On a mountain made of stone

Yeah my blue water is deep, Yeah my blue water is deep

Cause I swear there ain’t no one home, Cause I swear there ain’t no one home

Dream now for this events, Dream now for this events

Long horizon line, Long horizon line

There’s a camera for your thoughts, There’s a camera for your thoughts

It seems their noose is tightening up, It seems their noose is tightening up

Dreams got lost caring, Dreams got lost caring

For these olden young trees, For these olden young trees

The shadow holds her down, The shadow holds her down

She says she’s excited to bleed, She says she’s excited to bleed

Yeah my Dream car is riding me, Yeah my Dream car is riding me

So high and immortal, So high and immortal

Someday I’ll be dead, Someday I’ll be dead

Flying where the cuckoo does warble, Flying where the cuckoo does warble

The Dream cost is paid for, The Dream cost is paid for

In blood and bone & sand, In blood and bone & sand

I can hear the sound of oil, I can hear the sound of oil

Always drowning out the holy man, Always drowning out the holy man

Dream crayon paint my world, Dream crayon paint my world

Paint it without tears , Paint it without tears

And the writer he’s so lost, And the writer he’s so lost

And the truth ain't nothing to fear, And the truth ain't nothing to fear

Dream time is made of breath, Dream time is made of breath

And blue evening sky, And blue evening sky

And there is a golden dust, And there is a golden dust

Dancing in the beam of light, Dancing in the beam of light

There’s a Dream man on a bar-stool, There’s a Dream man on a bar-stool

Yeah he’s fading fast, Yeah he’s fading fast

Ya know an ounce of faith, Ya know an ounce of faith

Would not have weighed him down at all, Would not have weighed him down at all

Dream voices in a book, Dream voices in a book

A book of bluest vision, A book of bluest vision

They said everything does matter, They said everything does matter

They said everything et all, They said everything et all

Dream land calling out, Dream land calling out

To my longing old hands, To my longing old hands

The star passes right through you, The star passes right through you

And I ain't nothing but a man, And I ain't nothing but a man

Dream life singing her song, Dream life singing her song

Of freedoms bell ring, Of freedoms bell ring

The forest is just a sound, The forest is just a sound

But to me it’s everything, But to me it’s everything

There’s a Dream world a resting here, There’s a Dream world a resting here

For ten thousand million years, For ten thousand million years

Everyone done got it now, Everyone done got it now

Their the one’s with all the tears, Their the one’s with all the tears

There’s a Dream sound echoing free, There’s a Dream sound echoing free

On a bench of mighty stone, On a bench of mighty stone

Yeah the temple is empty now, Yeah the temple is empty now

It went out on the road, It went out on the road

There’s Dream words written here, There’s Dream words written here

On the box made of light, On the box made of light

The ocean is waiting for me, The ocean is waiting for me

If I wanna give up the fight, If I wanna give up the fight

Dream eyes are watching the, Dream eyes are watching the

Lines in the mirror, Lines in the mirror

The winter is coming, The winter is coming

Someday I just won’t be here, Someday I just won’t be here

Dreamer is dreaming everything I am, Dreamer is dreaming everything I am

Dreamer is dreaming the whole goddamn, Dreamer is dreaming the whole goddamn

I’m gone already, I’m gone already

And I’ll hold your hand forever love, and I’ll hold your hand forever love

Chorus and fade out

(D-A-D-G)

Some Dreams they keep on burning

And they’re the ones that show us the way home

And there’s some Dreams that are still waiting

Before the coming of the storm

So be careful what you ask for

Your gonna end up right where your headed

And remember that nothing really matters

We’re like dust in the wings of angel light

Fade Out

Well I am not made in China

And there’s heaven in my eyes

Well I am not made in China

And there’s heaven in my hands

Well I am not made in China

And there’s heaven in my head

I got heaven in my eyes

I got heaven in my hands

I got heaven in my head

New Moon Piano

Invisible Sun

He raised his hands and parted the vaporous clouds of glory and scum

And the sun shone down upon the land and blood dripped out from the bong

And dogs could be heard in the howling of the wind 

And nothing seemed to last long

The ice buckled the strip and bent back the asphalt like a dictionary

And the water ran out and the rails blew and something weird capped the tops of the trees

And the sheep ran for the center of the storm, all the while pointing white fingers at their neighbors

And the children floated in the din and raised their spoons, gesturing for the skulls of doom

King fish blew bubbles and whales called out to their long dead mothers under the wavering road of moonlight

And shells were old and turned to sand and dust 

And all the days groaned on about how the destruction was imminent

And no one spoke for fear of influencing the wave

All turned away from the game at once

And a blistering and immediate sun rose from inside and became known

And was experienced as a real and true thing

And did burn with a heavenly and holy light

An illuminated shame arose and a transformation softened the selfish pallor of the cruel

And it showed them the reason why

And vacant stares replaced their insipid cynical laughter

And the devices gathered dust and broke into pieces in the bland plastic sunrise

Myriad possibilities were lit by this new and invisible light 

And a gentleness and kindness spilled out from the dead bodies of the captious masses

And an orange glow was seen on the surface of the sea

And opened were their hearts to this wonderful new heat

Like a crazy mother screaming the change happened all at once

And a new music could be sensed surrounding the twice dead shells of clay

And it awoke and broke free

And the invisible sun froze the controls of the bomb

Then water vapor filled the veins of  icy metal tubes

 And a jerking crack opened the the brittle bone of latent hatred

And smothered by this new and incandescent body it frothed in agony

And the aeon was exposed as gesticulating and unnecessary shadows

Exposed as hollowness, Supremacy was an illusion of carpetbaggers

And unmasked the visions fled

And scattered like greasy rats throughout heavens language of paradise

And leaving the ghosts in the machine only a helpless landscape of eyes

Then having taken shape the one did sweep the rug clean

And the rushing waters did purr like fire

And the sound of a diamond star did ring forever like a gong

And the epoch closed with the white dwarf singing his song