Love Street Blues

I learned my lesson

Too typical to call it a blessing

Wiped your tears out of your bathroom sink

Mistaken, clearly missed the discrepancies

I have been held up in a sweet flippant fantasy

Touch me, squeeze me, pretend that you need me

A fixture, a perfect picture

Twisted into a shallow codependency

Hand me my bag

Give me my shoes

Is that my watch on the dresser?

I’ll grab that too

Broken heels hitting the pavement

Among lost strangers

Singing the Love Street Blues…

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Nebulous

Flip me upside down 

I don’t care

Take my money

Have the shirt off my back, my underwear 

Are you done?

I’m unsure of where this is going 

Do you have what you need?

Shake me for loose change 

No matter what you ask, I can’t change 

I hear someone calling 

Panic at the disco, maniacs keep brawling 

Bitches keep wailing 

All this smoke, I keep enhaling 

Silly silly goose, mama let you on the loose

Got nothing to prove, but you idolize Van Halen

Release me so I can sail again 

Dance, I just want to prance across this sinking ship

Rocking through a purple haze trip 

Barking cats and sparkling whips 

I have no idea where I am…

9:45 am

Slowly the revelation hits

Lovely egotistic illusions waning

And the compassion churns inside

Got me feeling

Things I try to deny

Things I try to hide

Like a butterfly with a stressed wing

I’m trying to fly

Like turbulent waves

I can’t sit quietly

And watch the seconds turn into days

How dare we attempt to just lay and watch it pass us by…

 

Awake

I awake early in the morning 

Before dawn, just to listen 

To my breath, and the light vibrations of my heart 

To warm your side of the bed…

I’m awake, to hear the motor of my freezer running, and the drips from the bathroom sink

The ticking clock…

To take cold comfort in the dark, stark naked 

Then quickly bundle up in my soft blanket and crisp sheet

To feel the presence of my cat watching me from afar, my feline guardian 

He’ll be the one to love me the most 

I awake early just to hear the city outside my window finally sleep 

And to be the first to witness the jungle’s rise 

Caught Up (in my feelings)

Caught me crying in the corner

Caught up in my feelings

I’m all up in my feelings

Screaming at the ceiling

I thought you loved me

So why did you let me go?

I thought you were sorry, honey

So where is the show?

Caught me in tears, erratic

I’m so damn dramatic

Love is sick, it’s problematic

I can barely speak

Gasping for second chances

I forgot we’ve already had 4-6 dances

The roof is on fire, burning oak

I’m overheating, bleeding hearts will make you croak

Should just run my sorry a$$ a hot bath

I need to soak

Caught up in my feelings

I thought you loved me, so why did you let me go?

Like Cherry Pie

i find places…different spaces…

tied and tangled, knotted like my Nike laces

 

a village underground where the songs rarely shuffle…

lyrics sound quite the same to me

but the melody…

the tune, the acoustics still bring out

a heart-felt insanity…

 

new experiences…not all old…not at all subdued…

more unfiltered, more unglued

a little bit of beautiful, specks of crude

sweetened awareness, shaken

by a cold-blooded brute

 

and i laugh and i cry…at all the contradictions

and all of the deception

drink it all down

what is bitter now, soon tastes like cherry pie

Torch

Take my hand and lead me into the fire

I struggle to feel lovely things

You branded me a liar

Sentenced to the sun, ignite my face

Scorching lava down my torso, liquid skin

Burning tongue, I can not taste

No hesitation, push me in

Drowning in a sea of flames

An inferno, scorching my name

Let the blaze swallow me whole

Embers raining from my soul

torched

 

 

Someone (in the crowd) at the Disco

No Cecile, no receipt

The disco is calling me

Saw someone, who I can’t let be

Lets pound this tall gin n’ tea

Liquid courage slips me into the crowd 

I see her face. Bass is growing loud 

Bright lights pulsing through dark clouds

Kiss me please. I can’t stop this room from spinning around 

So cliche for me to call out 

You turn and smile

I can’t catch up. I can barely breath 

You reach for my arm

I almost fall to my knees

Who are you? A love from my dreams 

She’s swaying faster

We sink further, and I catch her 

I’m so high, I’ve lost all sense of time 

Dancing this hard should be a crime