SLEEP
Oh despair, why did you wake me? Why did you shake me?
Lend me your ears and hear my song,
and you know it won’t be long
before I sleep in your arms.
Oh despair, you are a stone bird,
You are the morning’s sister.
Come, moon and night and spread your wings
Around my mind and all things,
It won’t be long before I sleep
In your arms.
And then I hear you breathing out,
Breathing in,
And breathing out
And I listen, and I listen, and I listen
In your arms.
FIRE
First you asked me that I stay
Then you told me, go away
Fire fire, I am burning
I am learning, then unlearning
So I burned down all we had
(now I’m feeling pretty sad)
Fire fire, it’s still burning
I am learning, then unlearning
And my bird was singing, singing
And my heart was bleeding, bleeding
It was like an act of violence
When your silence pierced the silence
Fire, fire it’s still burning
I am learning, then unlearning
WEEP O MINE EYES
Weep, o mine eyes, and cease not,
alas, these your springtides me thinks increase not.
O when, O when begin you
to swell so high that I may drown me in you?
Y GENERATION BALLAD
Mama, I am tired,
And I’m broke and broken hearted, mama
You told me I was special and everything will be ok
But I’ve been looking everywhere, you see
No one was waiting there for me
You know, I think I just can’t figure out my way around
this world
Is spinning faster than I anticipated
And this is not what I thought it would be
This is not what you have promised me
Mama I am 30
Rumors say its irreversible
Mama, I feel the pressure pounding in my brain
(Boom boom boom boom)
Remember when I was a child I was so happy just to be
You overestimated me
I cannot figure out
this world
Is spinning faster than I anticipated
Mama, please say it isn’t so,
Where the fuck did my childhood go?
And my entire generation
is smoking weed and in depression
this is not what I thought it would be
This is not what you have promised me
Youth, like the spring, will soon be gone
Youth, like the spring, will soon be gone,
By fleeting time or conqu’ring death;
Your morning sun may set at noon,
And leave you ever in the dark.
Your sparkling eyes and blooming cheeks
Must wither like the blasted rose;
The coffin, earth, and winding sheet
Will soon your active limbs enclose.
SAD ZEN
I am on a quest to find
what I've pictured in my mind
Sun turns moon and moon turns sun
Before you know the day is done.
Sorrow sorrow go away
“I am your friend, I’m here to stay”
How I try to do my best,
but I think I better rest.
I am on a quest to start
Forgiving you and heal my heart.
When you walked out of the door,
My heart was shattered on the floor-
What did you do that for?
Take me high and take me low,
How I fear of letting go.
Fixed my heart with superglue-
But I fear it still is blue
How I try to do my best,
but I think I better rest.