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All Lyrics are the Intellectual Property of Mike Anderson
(Note! These lyrics have been recorded onto a tape legally accepted in a court of law. This grants ME a defacto copyright. That means if you steal these lyrics, I will sue the shit out of you. Have a nice day!)
Patron:
Poor little rich boy, and his childhood revisions
Ambitious or so it would seem
He’s lost his own secret, his secret for living
Left to survive, and to count his misgivings,
And lie...
Follow me patron, of sainthood and murder
Follow me into the flames
With the world at your throat, and hell at your heels
Lacking the vision to see, care, or feel
Or to try….
A dash on the canvas, can be accepted
Lacking the will to break through
To imagine a world, free of confusion
Lacking apathy, pain, and abuse and
good-byes
Delusional boy, lacking the drive
Unfortunate, simply a shame
A statement of martyrdom, a manifest of dreams
Merely a stat, a number, a scheme…
but why?
Overcast and cool, humidity high
Monday, November fifteenth
No matter the effort, the change remains missing
Left to ponder, remember, left reminiscing
a fly…
Rapport
Home front
Incarceration
Somewhere between
Exploiting indecision
In everything committed
And beating fists and bibles
Left with only the memories
Of less pressing times
Gazing at the ocean
The gently rolling sea
Clouds of smoke drifting lazily
Falling to their knees
With sobs of respite
And so the tide flowed out
Flowing out with that tide
Were hopes and dreams for unrealized futures,
discarded much too soon
And so left ideals, and the bleeding hearts,
the contention to ignore,
the desperate concealment of common sense,
And came a time of rapport
And yet with the pulse of time
The swells continue on
The tides of tomorrow
Are here by merely dawn
Today
Sitting dumbfounded
Somewhere between
Exploiting indecision
In everything committed
And beating fists and bibles
Conversations with Gods:Can a rose thrown on a bleeding heart bend a new reality?
Is it possible to say freedom from fear is a near practicality?
Can a kiss on a wound of ages past inspire a new mentality?
Is love a figment inspired by thought, wrought into brutality?
To answer would fly in the face of god…
The treasure of kings, a loved one’s façade
That face in the mirror, a paper flying in the wind
The hole in hearts where wrongs have been pinned
Can you say there’s a heaven, fires toiling in hell?
Will our lives be swamped by fate’s bitter swells?
Do those who rant and complain have the resolve to rebel?
Can we look towards the future, or is the past where we dwell?
To answer would be to question the hand of fate…
Is it that inner force telling us to procreate?
A friend who we must trust to guide us through life?
An enemy who moves one along with their back to a knife?
Firmly entrenched in the battlefield of time
A message must fly to us from the spirit within,
that silent tongue that seems to speak all
Find your own reality inside your own skin.
Ivory Tower:(Up there!)
High upon your ivory tower of righteousness
(Can you see me?)
Will loathing be healed by forgetfulness?
(A siren of discord?)
Your tongue was always a tool of destruction
(Unintelligible chatter?)
To hell goes substance, give them production
Subdued affirmations of concord
For you made under duress
A twist of the hand
What is this “oppress”?
To put you on a podium
Is to carry a cross
Croix de Gurre moreso,
Faces? Merely emboss.
Brother, friend, comrade in arms
Waited too long to sound the alarms
Associate, my acquaintance in league
Silence of caution replaced by a scream
Equality near, follow our father
Apathetic accord, not caring to bother
Planting the seeds of discord
An internal epiphany
Growing those enlightened
Enlightened with empathy
Shall take a lifetime,
And fairly so
As to the victor shall the spoils go…
(Up there!)
High from that lofty tree branch
(Can you see me?)
You took a bet, a risky chance
(A murmur is that?)
Seeing you eye to eye, finally easy for me
(Silence?)
Yet your face is inverted, as you hang from your feet.
Visions:Dare to wander in the shadows of yesteryear’s missteps
Imagining a world less than what was
Stand below the height of those lesser than yourself
Disregarding what, for others, was applause
Remembering the days of yore with a wistful eye
Has never have been your forté
Scorning the ones who dare pride oneself
Forgetting the past, scorning today
Yet you…
wonder why
today…
went awry
Ignorant to achievements’ praise
And you
Ponder how
You finally
Lost now
Recognition of clichés…
Never appealed…
To you…
Dare to bask of in the light of the accord of today
Imagining a world better than now
Standing shoulder to shoulder with those taller than you
Disregarding limits of what others allow
A myriad of roads lay ahead of those willing to try
Listen to the canorous tune of tomorrow
Predictions of a figurehead of the future pervades…
If one lets inspirations be those of borrow
And you’re
Leaving the past
And avoiding…
The caste…
Of inhibitions gone
Forget not
Conflicts begot
Today is
Merely the dawn…
Of tomorrow…
For you
Past:Block
seventeen-twenty two
You know the girl..
That woman in blue
With the little slit eyes?
Assured her of the shame
I left that hellhole
To go back to the war…
I remember the pain
The day the sky fell
His speech inane Reich on its last knees
Yet, Sherman Five under siege
Harbinger of death airborne
Another proven hero not born
But under pressure was made
“No ma’am
Lady, he’s dead
You know he
saved the lives
of the husbands of wives
Ma’am, it was bleak
Firing off his blood soaked rounds
The work of God counfounds”
Feeling utterly weak
…a tear on my cheek?
“Yes ma’am
A hero he is
You know he
fought for our lives
Under the devil’s knives
Ma’am, it was a trap
Protecting you in your own town,
…rather government grounds
A fine old chap”
Too bad he was Jap
Crosses:Preach to us father, of logic and word
Open us a future unknowingly deferred
A random tirade by a superior fool
For the future of deception, let us be fuel
“Credibility has all but vanished!” he cries
with a scroll in his hand, a gleam in his eyes
Clenched fists of iron end welcoming arms
The fire of lucre offers limitless charms
Condemn our youth, yet offer us wings
Live the word of the future: follow, don’t think
Follow my children, no stop to decay
Meaning for money: fraud’s protégé
Cheated, stolen, battered, deceived,
Surely, you’re wrong…confused and naïve
Be my own Judas, help create the mold
To smelt works of art into crosses of gold
