Transfusion

Get It Over With
Into Thin Air
Fall Upon A Word
Be Your Own God
The Headlight Song
Everything In Motion
Plastic Bracelets
I Want My Toys Back
The Wicked Witch
Houses Cannot Miss You
Where the Crow Flies
Transfusion

Get It Over With

I just wanted
to get it over with
Don't feel special,
it wasn't my gift to give,
my story to tell
You won't be in my memory
so you can go to hell

I just wanted
to get it over with
I wanted to stop waiting
for the pain I was told would come
I wanted my sheet upon the breeze
waving like the big girls
now all on their knees

Maybe where I come from
is a little farther south
cause I'm not completely frozen over yet
and things still gush from my mouth
but that doesn't make me a thing of purity
To be unspoiled,
be untasted
is to never be believed
I don't wanna be just pretty

I just wanted
to get it over with
Don't feel special,
it wasn't my gift to give,
my story to tell
You won't be in my memory
so you can go to hell

Into Thin Air

I'm in hell
It's very simple
I hate myself
and every little thing I feel
makes me wish I had
the courage to die
A simple thing
waking up
How I wish that didn't have to
be a part of my day
But they let me out to play

They let me carry a gun
They give me a little money
and tell me to have myself some fun
is this enjoyable to you
worthy of Moliere?
Watching me melt into thin air,
let me melt into thin air

Fall Upon A Word

I walk in the dark
and I stumble
When the morning comes
that's when I crumble
The masks of my ancestors
hang upon my hollow form
waiting for a strong wind

And I rise
waiting for a strong wind
And I fall
upon a word

I am a puppet
dancing on a string
when the curtain opens
it's my unveiling
A rope around my neck
I writhe upon a whim

And I rise
waiting for a strong wind
And I fall
upon a word

Be Your Own God

Pour yourself
before
the judges
open up a bleeding heart
and head
and read it
to the blind
crying to testify
rising in their power
in a tent
driven
revival
their symbol is a shelter
destined to come down
on a man
a homicide
a killed man
convicted
by laws
he didn't write
he doesn't understand
but ignorence
has never been clemency
only fuel for the fire
of justifying

Be your own god
Be your own god
In the end
even the sun
sets alone

The Headlight Song

I am your headlights
sharing my name with a woman's crowning glory
and I go before you
a prisoner to your euphoria
so filled with desire
to not stop farther back
than the morning where you woke up
first aware of what you lacked.

You're forever playing catch-up,
I'm always in the lead.

I am your tail lights
drowning in the chaos you leave in your wake,
leaving everybody looking
but you can't see what you leave behind.
Do you have any idea
how many heads you break,
how many barriers you've crashed through
like a china plate

You're forever playing catch-up,
but nobody's in the lead,
just a pointless exercise
in speed.

Everything In Motion

Everything in motion
let's not try to stop the movement,
it's true
there's not one person
who didn't feel me going
before the subtle closing
of the door.

I'm a brimming bowl
taking so very little,
nothing
in all the books I've read
can keep the level lower,
the sin of desire
for those who are not whole.

Plastic Bracelets

There is no nation
that can say it has taught by example,
by caring for it's crazy,
it's diseased and smelly poor.

Telling me to find peace here
is telling me to find love
in the arms of the beraying wife,
in the arms of a whore.

Oh but I,
want to find someone to love me
while there is still a place inside me
that doesn't want to die.

There is no person
that can say there is no one she hates,
someone she'd have for her best friend,
but wouldn't let her daughter date.

Telling me to open up
and let these people in
is throwing me in sucking sludge,
and telling me to swim.

Oh but I,
want to find someone to love me
while there is still a place inside me
that doesn't want to die.

I Want My Toys Back

I want my toys back
I want my virginity
I want everything
that was taken from me

My short career as a storm chaser
revealed because I wouldn't leave
because I've never taken warnings
very seriously

The memory of my father
shadow of heredity
blinding lights like shouting voices,
unfolded memories
I don't want any of these

I just want my toys back
I just want to play
I want everything
that's been taken away

I want my toys back
I want what we all want - money
I want everything I see in the magazines
I want the body
and the facimilie of brains
I want to be currently dressed
but neatly ignorant of change.

The Wicked Witch

Crazy mirror
mail order mayhem
It's only water
but I smash my head in
I try to swim
I have no fins

The flower of youth may fade
but there are girls like weeds
ready to take it's place
I must be magic
Don't I look bigger than a star?
It doesn't matter that I'm close
and they're so far

I want to die in glass
I will not die up on the shelf
I want to slide on blackened steel
I set on fire myself

Crazy mirror
mail order mayhem
It's only water
but I smash my head in
I have no beauty
but I have immortailty
Whether you want to or not
you will remember me

Houses Cannot Miss You

I know, I know you are not mine
Your beauty is only borrowed for a time
I watch you grow
and know that means you grow away
turning into memory the
the place from where you came

The voice of wisdom tells me
the kids will be okay
and houses cannot miss you
once you move away
Places cannot be posessed
by spirits now displaced
but it doesn't feel that way

I'd like to think that I can still
ask you anything
like where'd the broken piece go
from what used to be a ring?
Someone else will fix my car
and someone else will call
I close the glass against the storm
I brace against the fall

The voice of wisdom tells me
the kids will be okay
and houses cannot miss you
once you move away
Places cannot be posessed
by spirits now displaced
but it doesn't feel that way

Where the Crow Flies

In our blackened conversation
I know there is meaning
I know deep within you
is the origin of something

The crossed arm scarecrow
points me in the opposite direction
of where the crow flies
of where his path crosses the land
and I
want you to know me
but I can't let you far enough away
to see the whole of where I stand,
where I begin and where I end,
to see the whole of the land

In the depths of conversation
is the origin of meaning
in the exchange of our ideas
is a reason for believing

Just let me hear your voice
just let me hear your voice
just let me hear your voice

Transfusion

Pour your blood into me
give me the gift that doesn't leave
On your way into my heart
give me a reason to breathe
With every breath let me
believe in what you believe
and if it isn't true
let me be deceived

You can lie, you can humor
you can provide an alibi for me
as long as I don't have to be there
it'll be okay
You can laugh, you can roar in anger
as long as you decide
you will stay by my side
then I know it'll be okay

Blood
breathes
Blood
doesn't leave
Stay with me