Julien Aklei

CHORUS: Is there any tool that can be used by a fool so they’ll have food to eat and clothes to wear? A fool must be a tool, but I don’t know what for. That’s why I’m sitting here in despair. How is a fool supposed to make their way in this world? They c...

Like a grain of sand you got the world caught in your eye You couldn’t see nothin’ at all When you came to, there were figures walkin’ everywhere But a ghost, a ghost can’t end the world “What does it mean?” You said As you counted the fingers on your han...

Well it’s kind of you to offer, sir, to spend your time with me When it’s plain to see I’m all alone, and no one’s loving me, But I’m gonna speak the truth, sir, so look straight into my eyes, I don’t want no man to take me home and try me on for size. I d...

I’m glued to my chair like a leaf on a tree My eyes have fallen to the ground My shoulders rolled forward like the wings of a bird My mouth has fallen into a frown. My ears are all but closed up closed to the words you say. I wish someone could change m...

In my hand I hold your stone Dark glitter, black glass I know I am alone. Close my eyes I see your face Surrounded by the black of space and the stars They are friends to me now. Alone- but not crying now Alone- darkness glows somehow Will God punish m...

I can feel your hands reach into me. The breathe & scent of your queer geography The wild tribes who are guarding your door The secret sands that have slept on the floor of your sea. You - would you ever think of me? Think of me & the shape...

Making Love on the rocks and the sand Touching the bones that were tied to your hand Cooking for you on a stone And the flag of our clan it was tied to our home But it’s all over now. And it was probably just a dream anyhow. Visiting you where you live...

When at last the autumn came, he was wishing that the summer would still remain the leaves were crackle and crisp, flaming, exhilarating but still the same he didn’t feel quite ready yet, he didn’t feel quite ready for the sound, the earthly crinkle that wo...

If I could have wishes three, I’d wish you’d fall in love with me, then I’d wish some money in my hand, then I’d wish myself into a band. But if I could have wishes four, I’d wish you naked on my floor doing all the things that I could do if I had me a...

you bought me candy and you held my hand and we walked, just the two of us, there on the sand and we watched the horizon so far away and i smiled- i knew it would all be mine someday but then when you left the horizon turned flat it was an empty line, who...

Are you afraid of the darkness? Well i ain’t afraid no more Because a sailor has to sail at night & leave that sunny shore. Are you afraid of the darkness which constructs you as a man? Are you crouched behind a fig leaf are you coming to life with...

Well no one really wants to go into the shadow world where the rivers meet. But you know you’ll never make it home without the guidance of Tiresias. So you go down looking for the shadow of the one who can tell you if you’ll make it if you wander on and on....

You, loved you so long from afar. Hey, I thought love could live from afar. Like a ghost in outer space, I could never touch a thing. What, what is it that you were to me? You, someone my black heart aspired to be. Black, cold, and far away, I’m kicking...

Sometimes in the night, I think of black man. When the stars are gone, I think of black man. Is he old or is he wise, Staring from a thousand eyes, yeah, Sometimes in the night, I think of black man. Sometimes in my sleep, I think of black man. Pressing...

pink in the dawn rising thru a lacy veil smile and yawn we made love last night very well down in the waking streets are people shaking with their signs trotting in circles and their words fly as they shake their signs i’ve seen that face before i kno...

i'm gonna find the better part of me piece of sky pinned down on the branch of a tree hey baby won't you take a walk with me drop your books and your gun to talk with me i know that men have died this way but i never knew why i just heard their final...

Bluebird flying, but nobody sees you till you’re down on the ground. Bluebird trying, but it doesn’t matter clouds are circling round. Pushing you down into a circle of ashes. Ashes from the shell of an egg. Thunder circles round and it crashes. Lightning...

Big headed man I remember your name; two years ago to my town you came. Your name riding high up on everyone’s mouth, that’s the way I spoke it when you took me down. Drive slow, daddy slow, when you’re taking me down, slide fast, daddy fast, when you’re...

Mama, look at me upon my swing! Wind blows up beneath my skirts like the bells that the fairies ring, Ringing for you,you mama where the black mulberries fall, and the nighttime wraps around us like a wall. Mama, look- the moon is running wild! Come on...

There was a beast with one big eye You took his sight away You carved a tree into an instrument You poked his eye away There was a fluffy flock of sheep You ate them for a meal There was a baby blue citadel You tumbled it down from the hill There was a...

Life is the sky flying high above us when he opens his eye, pouring down upon us because Life is a dream dancing round our fingers when there’s nothing that we can change at all. You by my side, get through any weather Two times I cry, but we stay togethe...

Don’t touch me no more, cause if you touch me one more time we’re gonna end up on the floor. Don’t talk ’bout love no more, cause if you set this house on fire you’re gonna be running for the door. You’ll find yourself in the desert, the sky is all on f...

Skipping through a town by the bay, where a Captain won’t stay but a day or a night. Standing tween the sea and the sky, well a Captain can’t lie, and he always is right. Saw you stepping down from your boat, with a Boot in your hand; you were holding it...

Would you introduce me, please, as Mr. Aklei-i? Would you kindly loan to me an extra suit and tie tie? And a piece of wood to stop the quiver in my thigh thigh? Then line up each man in a big line beneath the sky sky. Good evening, ladies, I am Mr. Aklei!...

We shared some wine upon a stony beggars bed Underneath my overcoat I wore a shirt of lead You touched me slowly with a flaming poker sword You sang a song about a girl who bled to death on the floor. A fire crashed in the distance and we trembled a refrai...

Walking across Russia ain’t no walk in the park, Swords in the sun, torches glow in the dark, Cinnamon House holds a spark, keeps me going on and on. Twenty-seven soldiers all dressed up just like me, Each with white boots stretching up to their knee, Red...

You tell me that your will to live is crashing to the ground, You’re feeling like a jug of moonshine being passed around. And you thought I could show you something lovely, something true. I’m happy to oblige, if I can hide my flesh from you. Lately I’ve b...

My father he lives in a castle. That castle will be passed down to me. The blood that pools up in the turrets, my friend, will be cut loose and tumble down free. In three short years, I will own this town; every man will look up to me. What I’m offering...

You found a shell upon the edge of the shore (hello, hello) You found a button by the side of your door (although, although) Night falls, the white walls turn to grey. Cool hands, around your neck, why? you were only wanting to change things. Cool hands,...

Mama who is this man with his long yellow legs He just stands in the corn and he’s thin as a blade in a tattered green shirt and his eyes are so black I just stand there and stare but he never looks back, mama Hush little baby come inside and away from...

Unlock your broken door for me, Lead me to your table for a broken cup of tea. You’ve still got on your hunting shoes, and the Melancholy aura of the Indiana dew You say you buried her last night, Your basset hound, Elizabeth, while the moon was slim and...

cranberry harvest blood red fields with a rake in your hand stick man upon the fields and the sky is sky blue with a cranberry sun but you know the black black is gonna come but you didn’t mean to touch it like a needlein the hay you just sifted with...

It won’t come to nothing if you won’t rise. Blue door, blue road, blue blue skies. Hat hangs on a nail by the door, Ain’t no one gonna wear it no more. Sky shining onthe wood of the floor- It won’t come to nothing if you won’t rise. Sitting by the road w...

Heaving myself to the top of the hill I already know what I’ll see Beautify, simplify, tell the truth or deny Nobody leaves this world free. Look all around me, the clouds that surround me No one can doubt that God’s demons have found me Swallow me up in...

We sat together on a rock you slowly took my hand my hair was knotted by the wind my eyes were filled with sand your words they were unrolling fast like links upon a chain the chain it was a-growing fast sliding like a heavy snake beneath the ocean wave...

You were a frog in a bucket of fish. You were a dog with your head in a dish full of worms- every single one full of germs. You owned a small house and a piece of the press. You tried to keep yourself tidy and dressed like the teens you'd read abou...

it’s time to rise & shine mama pulls back the curtains i’d like to mama, but inside there’s something hurting it’s hard to brush my hair hurts when i walk down the stairs breakfast with a vacant stare then catch the bus for school sun always rises...

Hey hey, daddy one two three Now you’re shaking your hips down just like me. Don’t you know that it worries me, son, Cause a man can’t do like a lady’s done. Think of this, twenty years gone by And we’re still rocking down in the red man’s eye. Don’t you...

gold and green, hard and round favorite son, toast of town bathe in wine, soak it up slip inside golden cup soaking up the golden sun seeking smiles from everyone life is laughter, life is fun seeking praise from everyone for your fire for your flame...

Used to kill the desert squirrels when you were young & free Then one day you grew a beard & came to look for me. Perched upon your Spanish horse through blackened eyes you see Hold the reigns tight, with knuckes white, you won’t find me. Walking i...

Now Dusty, you don’t think I’m worth a dime But not all men would comply. I bet you, just by whipping off my shirt, I could catch me somebody’s eye. Or heck, it might take a big sign around my neck Saying ‘I’ll do ANYTHING for free.’ But the point is, Du...

Three steps to the window and take down your hair The pine trees are sleeping nobody will hear Look at my eyes and the hat in my hand Open your heart to the way that I stand poised for love stretched like an arm for your hand and I will. Your tights and...

You’re all alone now, nothing changes Snow blows and it rearranges Time froze into winter cages Try to settle in. Cold air through an empty earhole Brain cried its last tears so many years ago Fur hat is a symbol of a world that’s never been. But you he...

I like to call you Dusty Stables cause you’re mean, Call you Dusty Stables cause you’re strong. Make me feel like a weakling and a stranger in this town Where I’ve been a stranger all along. You’re always covered by some ladies and those black clothes; I’...

Mama, do you love me? Child, you know that I do my eyes drift through the window just remembering you I read you books by the fire in matching sweaters I knitted one arm wrapped tight around you as you nestled against me Then you grew your first beard...

Do not linger; do not run. Just walk east towards the sun In the lacy light of dawn You will find me. By the rock on Easter Hill I am waiting for you still And I will be here until You come find me. You do not like Englishman They believe they own you...

Every stream will flow to me. Every river will roll right under me. And I will float like Moses did on a little bed of reeds. While every river rolls to me.Every candle will shine for me Every flame that burns from a roll of mullein leaves and I will Mel...

Just when I thought I'd seen everything A dragon swirled out of the sky. His tail trailed behind him like ink Spelling 'dragon' across the sky. I touched a scale- it was shiny and soft, So I touched him again and again. He breathed fire so deep i...

Don’t cry, don’t cry Just look at the sky It’s your friend ’til the end It’s your mother’s blue eye And the leaves on the trees Well they know how you feel And they eat all the bad And they store up what’s real In a trunk by their roots That no one’s...

Silver haired soldier, your age and your beauty your grey uniform speaks to me. Skipping behind you, I'm leaping to find you and every step you take demands of me three. The sky is so pretty, as big as a bluebird, whose wings have uncurled to uncov...

All alone with no pocketbook waiting for you. Press my head on the the looking glass waiting for you. And my pockets are big but my fingers are small And I cry like a butterfly smashed on the wall as I stand Pressed on the looking glass dreaming of you...

We were sitting together on the front porch swing You started talking about everything Like how the white man stole your land away And I felt in my heart like I was to blame Like it was my fault, and I felt this shame And then I felt your feathers...

cloud in the sky will you come down onto me fill my ears fill my eyes teach me not to hear or see turning grey turning wet till i vanish in a foam no more buildings, no more eyes now its only me alone in your banner of blue let it never be true the f...

You big and tall man You strong as a wall man I did everything that you wanted me too You are the great man You never feel afraid man we did everything that you wanted us to… Even as a boy, the sun brought you no joy Your heart was a man with meat slabs...

Are your stripes the shadows of bars or the hint of things unseen? I move in for a closer look but I’m put off by your scream. I got a gun and a knife. I’m sitting up high in a tree. The moon is out; it’s my time of night. I’m waiting for you to come to me....

The tiniest look can be a deadly hook to a lonely heart. Saw you once, didn’t like you that much, liked you a just a little, but that was poison to my lonely heart. Lonely heart, glass heart, crystal heart just hanging in my window, like a prism, turning...

You’ll make your way with a bag in each hand one of green and one of blue. The room will be filled with people talking but none of them will talk like you. You won’t know left from right and there won’t be nobody walking by you. You give your ticket t...

mister one man the one man that i always knew you called me your crystal child & now someone’s calling you the shiny bells you’re hearing now are reflected in your eyes you’re fingering your spectacles you’re laying them aside nestled in your armch...

Watch the world with hopeful eyes staring at its black disguise hiding-where are you? Underneath a checkerboard knights and kings keeping score crying- can it be true? Under your purple eyes black squares and white squares lie fighting- which one is tr...

Three hours I’ve been walkin now though the halls of this holiday inn I know you’re hiding out in one of these rooms by the tingling feel of my skin. But all the doors just look the same & silence is all I hear. But my body’s tingling, my heart is sh...

I had to leave Mikael I had to say goodbye Mikael's eyes were sunlight and he didn't even cry. I turned my back I walked away from all I knew before Left my clothes a-lying in a pink heap on the floor. Nighttime could you spare some time fo...

Tell me that you like my hat, walking through the garden path, filtered sun Flowers sway in golden heat, smiling every time we meet, like we are one But I know that you’re hard And I know that you’re full of rain And the ones you discard I know they never...

Long stick, long legs Follow me through dark space Trees of green and underfoot Plants that eat the midnight dirt. Follow me; never lag Long legs, dark path Twist, turn up the hill Moonlight hovers around us still. Hands on my head; spirits are falling...

I wanna live, I wanna give I've been a miner for a heart of gold. It leaves impressions I never mention Keeps me searching for a heart of gold. I've been to Hollywood, I've been to Redwood I crossed the ocean for a heart of gold. I've been in my...

Home is the hand of a friend On an arm pale and thin Reaching out from the door Where he welcomes you in And you sit by the fire Drinking coffee with pie And some sandwiches perched On a stack of old books So you tell him your story All the bad things...

bandana fills with resentment sun flies so high always pushing your plow before you too long a line one day you’ll even the score your pain will die but first, no more hunger and thirst till then, you cry blue ocean flowing so endless so moist and wil...

Smile, smile, smile, smile Sin, sin, sin You were born the king of our town I will bow, I will bend. Two, two, two stars collide Please stay warm upon your throne now I will run I will hide. Ladies in silk Wanting to adore you Laughing at your jokes...

Where is this place, this place, that I find myself? There are plants all around, but nothing moves. I need a face, some face, so I can show myself. There is a sky overhead, but it don’t move. I see hands, two hands, when I close my eyes. I see love, I se...

It’s a bright blue day, it’s a horses’ parade, It’s the very first day of spring. And the men are tip tapping to the steeple bells as they shine through a golden ring. And the ladies are swaying and they’re dancing and playing with their hair so long and...

Push through trees at night you’ll never find the one you’ll love forever. Some die, some don’t Some will some won’t Follow me & I will show you. Come find me, keep in mind we won’t be coming home- I am bone. Shine a flashlight on the dark ground T...

Swamp night, you wade beside me in the moonlight I feel your scales upon my leg, slide I feel you slither and I spread wide I thought you’d died You’ll never leave me; you’ll never go You lift a finger, it’s made of gold I will remember, I’ve never told...

the touch of silk, the smell of rose that’s life, that’s the way it goes, i know the smell of rose and lemonade close my eyes, not afraid, oh no everyone that seems to care they feel so far away imagine that love fills the air, imagine it will stay i cou...

Handkerchief rests like a weight on my chest, I can’t breath, oh no I knew from the start the things that come will go You say you love me, but love is a word, tra la la, I know Life floods when it comes and where it goes it goes Restrain, I can’t breath,...

Atlas my love you do me wrong to cast me like a stone from you When I have dreamt of you so long beside a stream named for you. Hey Hey you'll never stay, no willow-bed could keep you. Go! Go! You'll never know: I love baby unikorns too. You touched...

Ice man, could you lend a hand? You know that I’m lame. Furthermore, it’s in the stars- I’m the one to blame. Thick fur surrounds your face, Crystals freeze your eyes. Lips blue, you heard it too- The fragile sound of lies. Cause it’s dark But I don’t...

Come on, baby, take that chain and wrap it round my neck, Suck and spike me, whip and bite me, web me like an insect. Tease me in this black room, til my armor turns to fluff, Melt me in this hot room, til my heart floats on a swamp. When it reach the boil...

You rode my daddy like a dark horse through the night, woke him up to ride him again. You wrapped him up in your bear skin rug, took him down low with your hands on his head. He would have been nothing more than a horse by the time that you got through wi...

Mister, is there some price I can pay for the way to catch your eye? I’ve watched all the ladies who drag your head as they walk on by, rented movies with Julia Roberts to see what I should be, and I’ve gathered that a man like you must require something mo...

High on a mountain, with a helmut of cloud Pushed a baby blue flag into the snow on the ground Saw something move way back down on the ground. Knew it was you & it turned me around. I was running but my legs were all ice. Rolling down the mountain lik...

You must leave now, take what you need, you think will last. But whatever you wish to keep, you better grab it fast. Yonder stands your orphan with his gun, Crying like a fire in the sun. Look out the saints are comin' through And it's all over n...

Child, I would tell you a story now, but it’s lost inside my mind. It’s the story how I landed here on a summer’s eve, from a lavender sky. It’s the story of falling in a field, eyes glued shut, time knocked from your mind. It’s the story of the opening...

White house on the prairie That’s me on the inside That’s me with my back against the door That’s me you see squatting on the floor I think my feet have gotten too long They’re throwing crazy shadows on the living room floor. Well the jokerman he don’t c...

Turn your eyes to the side We promise you won’t see the knife Cold, glide, pain, slide Goodbye strife, life. Cold marble burns the skin Checkerboard floor never ends Life is a maze, i chose wrong, White on black I do not belong I let them in. They wil...

I know how to dance, man, you step left and then step right. I know how to make love, you just lay down in the night. Daddy has a magic lamp, I rub it when I please; You gotta pay, man, if you wanna sleep with me. When I was a baby, I was sullen, big and...

You tilled the ground with a dagger. You tilled our bodies and bones. You smiled, but your face had no flesh, and the sky was as white as a bone. He was a pretty young devil. He had a helmet and wings. He left in the night with a stick in his hand, and...

Let’s go to the jungle, pick the fruit from off the trees. Let’s give all our notebooks and our boots to charity. I’ll let out a yelp so loud, the animals will circle round, but First let’s have us one more drink to the here and now. Cause time flies out t...

I’m on the beach with the wind in my hair, a Hawaiian print shirt, wearing men’s underwear My heart is under the ocean floor If life is just a game, then I don’t want it no more. You were the man who was so out of reach Playing cards in a bar on a tropic...

You saw my legs before you ever saw my eyes. Dangled like a carrot from a string tied to the sky. Landed on a stairwell in the arms of Mother Earth. Saw you in your rags when you were digging in the dirt. Saw you love your mother just the way that I...

Let me be your little star, Let me shine tonight for you, Just give me one glance babe And I’ll smile back twice at you. Imagine all the sweet things you hold outside your life, I could be that for you tonight. Ain’t got much to say myself But I can he...

Captain of your big ship with three fingers in the sea & You leave your ship to go fishing on a smaller boat with me & You criticize my ponytail from beneath your feathered hat As we slink along the side-streams in our search for trout & bass....

Well i came here with a husband & a baby on the way I thought I’d be a painter & sell my art for pay i lost my baby & I lost my man the art didn’t go as I had planned men would come to buy paintings & then they’d try to buy sex with me. no...

Walking through the cemetery where your father’s buried and the elder leaves are falling at your feet. Soaking up the history, the dry and subtle mystery of feeling other men beneath your feet. Babies may be crying, in the distance ladies dying, but you a...

In the woods, covered by trees, I’m dangling my feet in a stream and wondering what all this really means Armies of God are on their way, marching like a stream and now they’re marching on my way. Will it pain me? Will it hurt? Will it crush me like a t...

Three clouds is billowing through the blue of a noonday sky. Lord, they got to be three miles long, got to be one mile high. All around me is people; the tents and flags of a fair. They’re all going and coming someplace; I’m the only one just, just st...

Lady: Well, I’ve been drinking wine all night, I need to tell the truth. Maybe you suspected, friend, that I’m in love with you, and so, my friend, if you’ll take my hand, we’ll step outside this bar. We’ll kiss out on the sidewalk, and then start making lo...

Nah, I ain’t feeling all that down today, I ain’t even feeling that blue, And if anyone wanted to feel sorry for me, I’d just tell them to feel sorry for you. See I came here from Beaverlick, Kentucky, And out there we use what the good lord brings, If y...

Don’t wanna be your woman, don’t want to be your wife, don’t want to be your girlfriend, man, don’t wanna live inside your life, Just wish you could give yourself yeah give yourself to me. Love it don’t mean nothing, man, unless it come for free. Love i...

Mama, do you think that maybe I could be the lucky one today? Cause the men who used to laugh at me And dance around my table Are all lined up in the yard today. And the wind doesn’t blow them away, The rain doesn’t change the words that they say. Oh Ma...

bandage on my eye sun shines on the barrell of my gun and the blood on my hands is dry today i turn thirteen i'm pretty strong but i ain't that old and they call me brave cause the truth be told the very youngest in the calvary... hey hey lit...

Seeing the way your thighs press together, in your high school skirt, you are laughing, watching your hands kick around in your hair I can’t help but think that I’m the mailman, the mailman, I’ve got this letter, I’ve got to slide it through your thighs,...

We met on a yellow day; I tripped down a flight of stairs. You caught me at the bottom with a whistle and a holler and your fingers tangled up in my hair. i was a little knocked out of my mind- upside down like a child. I let you carry me back up the st...

I met her on a Thursday when the clouds were so high, and the mountains reached up like a perch for the sky. She wore feathers the color of air; I was crusted in callouses left by despair. Though she chirruped soft sounds I could not understand, she smell...

I’m tired of California. I’m sick of these friends. I wish they’d drown in the ocean waves. I wish that you were my friend. I wish the earth was flat, you know, I wish it had an edge, someplace to go. Some space to just fall into & not come back My lif...

My hands was sore, I’d been spinning wool all day with my cousin Lu. Then Ma comes smashing through the door, blasting out the news. Them Yankees, they’s on a rampage, girls, ruining women and corn. Our boys is gonna stop them. Going up to Massanuttin in th...

Blue eyes shine~ on the road they look like ice. And he was fine~ but you know he was never nice. And you were scared~ but what what could you do when he came to you… he was the Masterful Blue. Blue eyes fly, fly through the sky, Fly away, go somewhere fa...

Masterwood!Do not be so hard upon yourself! You cannot be held responsible for every hammer on your good friend’s shelf. Nor for his thick-wooded table, nor his ochre rug, so dingy and bare, Nor for his hands stretched high upon the wall, Nor for the quive...

I look so out of place here with a sack upon my chest. Gloom is leaking from my eyes, milk is spilling from my chest. You’ve been starring in my eyes for five minutes now. Every cloud that passes casts a shadow on your brow. You won’t even touch me touch m...

The bells are a ringin i know what they mean beaten the yankees in battle again murdered our foes; squashed them like grapes crushed down their bones; trampled their capes Boys'll be marchin on back to this town two by two marchin on, lonely and...

Mikael, Mikael, be by my side to grip my arm when i would hide to lick my tongue to lay the blame to take my hand to pull its frightened flesh into the flame Where are we from why are we hear? What could we lose? What could we fear? What can we t...

My feet are gold from their collision with the earth Tumbled like a changeling from the sky. I saw you walk in with your white pants and brown shirt. Hector pointed you to me. M. A. N. he said to me. That’s a man he said to me. And you’re an alien. You se...

Trapped inside me is a mother Trapped inside me is a rolly polly girl I’m gonna shake it like no other I’m gonna spread my crazy fingers through the world. We will always be together child We can get through any weather child. Mommy sees me in the mirror...

Mr. Greenjeans, go and find her Go and find your red-hot mama I can use this duffel bag as a shelter from the sun I don’t need loneliness but maybe she needs me Like a woman tugging at my sleeve, I guess I’ll satisfy her. Cast out on the corner, like a sn...

Last night I dreamed some stranger murdered my pet snake. In the middle of the sidewalk, he just smashed her against a pole. Her blood filled the sidewalk with a puddle one foot deep; I was screaming ‘murder’ at the top of my lungs. Then I saw you walk by,...

A man he approached me & he offered me a drink He said ‘Your eyes is so blue;you look nice in pink’ Well, well ‘Thank you mister well that’s really kind of you But I’m feeling little hungry could you buy me dinner too?’ He said he’d love to; he said hi...

Don't Do not remove your suit Don't tell nobody your name Don't tell them what you do Don't Do not shake anyone's hand Keep one eye on your back And watch where you stand You know we did not want it this way It aint precisely what we arranged It's more or...

Your legs are stiff as planks and you’re walking deep in the snow You’re a man without a rank and there ain’t no place for you to go And the sun doesn’t fly so high; it just circles around on the ground And the snow doesn’t fall from the sky It jus...

Never seemed to matter too much to nobody round here if I lived or died. Half the body tied at the touch while the other half feels to believe inside. Two days, that’s your break and then it’s back to the floor. Not here, not now, not anymore. Everythin...

do i look handsome in my little skirt to you? do i look much like a soldier with my heart of baby blue? & did you ever chance to fancy that you know what I might do that you know from where my river flows & where it’s flowing to? men may stake thei...

on a mexican trail i got a horse with a tail & a skinny leg thru a green mountain pass thru a sky made of glass i guide my horse with his skinny leg i got a hat & its red it covers half of my head i keep my eyes on the ground i never look all a...

I don’t like microbes; please don’t touch my arm with your fingernails I’ve already thrown up in my own mouth three times today I twist and spin, still the world presses in like a gauzy veil Covers my eyes, lies, fuzzy, and white Voices smile, laugh, holdi...

Well I was pickin corn with my brother Kay on a long corn row on a sunny day. Now Kay he was kind of the silent kind, so I had to invent me some friends in my mind. Till a bird flew by through the bright blue sky, and landed on a piece of the corn nearby....

Pikey, remember when we met and we kissed on a stone? We moved away, just the two of us, so far from home? Do you remember when we wandered through the green fields together? You held my hand, you promised you would hold it forever? Summertime, you were th...

You are so soft and warm, dusted with flowers My face in the palm of your hand, I feel powerful Tell me again that you like my soft head I am an egg I will rest in your bed. Hold me through nightshirts, hold me through pajama pants Hold me so tight I am f...

if this were the gold-time you would love me love would shine like starlite from your brow it wouldn’t be so hard for you to love me cause love would flow the way that tears flow now if this were the gold-time i would not hurt a silver light would shine o...

I loved a man named Joe, I loved a man named Joe, but he became a confederate soldier & went to war. la la la la la la I became a nun; I became a nun at the pink cross nunnery, the pink cross nunnery. la la la la la la Now every day I watch the sun...

Pinkstar of the beautiful Ohio crashing down in flames to extinguish in the river, smoldering, smoldering with black and gray smoke, thicker than mud, thicker than fossils, this river is on fire, it is red hot at the bottom, it burns the curious fi...

Twenty pine mountains fall on a cold Kentucky night, Cold moon is drifting through a black Kentucky night, Your eyes are drifting like a heart set loose at sea, Raft to Indiana that is drifting through to me. Did you ever, did you ever think of me as your...

Hunched in a field, you sing in deep voices The seeds and the soil of a world without choices Take off your clothes at the end of the day Lie down in a bed made of burlap and hay The sun sinks, the sky pinks through your window so crude Your feet hard, yo...

Silver he was, With skin like a razor blade. Thin as a blade Was the shadow his body made. Stretched out and flat On the grass Was the Love we made, Oh, so long ago. Silver and flat Were his eyes when he gazed at me. Gazing through moonlight, And de...

You was walking around in blue jeans Blue jeans and long hair You was talking to the friends and ladies You was drinking beer. You was laughing and slapping backs You was wearing brown boots I kept my eyes on my fingernails, but my secret eye was on yo...

I was riding on my horse one cold and snowy night, The air was tinged with whiteness and the road was gone from sight, I pulled in on the rains to take deep breath of the night, My vision looped the planet in a perfect circle quite. God gave birth to man a...

Rose Fairy in the city streets Tip-toeing through a world of grey. With all the noise and the pageantry Not a soul will ever look her way. Newspaper in the dusty wind Blowing words into your eyes The grey grid of the city streets Carving words into the...

Twenty naked shadows upon my wall; Left there by the suitors inside my hall. You run away, you run away, You run away, you run away. Curly haired and twisted, you noble lad; Touch me like the father I never had. You run away, you run away, You run away,...

Now that you’re gone, and I’m left behind with my twenty-four lions of stone, Now that you’re gone, and I’m left behind with my power and a heart of stone. When I met you, I fed you poison, but you blocked it with your shield; I was knocked out with admirat...

Do i look handsome in my little skirt to you? Do i look much like a soldier with my heart of baby blue? Did you ever chance to fancy that you know what I might do? that you know from where my river flows & where it’s flowing to? Men may stake their cla...

Copper baby lying in the sweet sun-speckled hay. Copper lady watching, then she turns and walks away Through the fields, through the woods, where there’s babies of her own. Through the fields, through the woods, where she meets you, Sandalphone. Sandalphon...

Tentatively, he walks the shore a donut in his hand. The clouds have come to fill the air with words he won’t understand. Saucer eyes, is it wrong that he just doesn’t care? Hypnotized by a flag waving up in the air. Who built the fire, and who drew the...

I want to love you, but you don’t want to love me. Six feet ahead of you is a trap that you can’t see. And you’ll be falling down caught and snared on the ground. But it’s still the case that the Savage Life will never set you free. There’s no place in...

thick and gray, blobby and wet turn your eyes away, don’t ruin this precious day– shame, shame sky of blue, tree of green can’t you find happiness in the simple things– shame, shame you know you’re fat, you know you’re soft it hurts to move, it hurts to w...

Red light green light this will not continue Red light green light this will not go on Shanghai trio approaches, bounding through the streets with feet like bells. Wearing red suits; crossed in white and their hearts are clanging like bells. Do you remem...

God rest ye Merry Gentlemen, let nothing you dismay! I come here bearing roses that I now must give away Hoping one or two of you might shed some blood today- Oh Oh! Shed some blood for me. All my many brothers now you wear the same disguise Same w...

One thing I know is how true must be our love; I’ve seen it in my dreams at night- You’re hovering there up above me in my bed, Naked and propped up on your arms. I’ve stared so long in your brown eyes, I’ve watched them turn into one big brown sea, But...

You loved me on the water-dock that loved an ivory moon. You loved me on the river-glass on a raft made of bamboo. You loved me with such gentle hands, like barnacles I clung to you. You loved me, loved me, Ideeyaii, beneath a silver moon. Press upon m...

Never saw no yankee curls curled half as tight as you. The mountains that surround me now ain’t half as hard as you. and I’m waiting on your lady disguise, waiting for the gleam in your eyes that could tell me where the cool vat grey of your bullets lie...

I want a body pumped and flushed with blood; I want a heart that breaks and shines. I want a man with a quick and eager mind With a soul that’s part of mine. But I’m a shy girl; I’m very scared of you. Don’t want to ask you for too much. Don’t wanna long...

The idea was to go south to where the tropic flowers sprout, to where we’d live beneath the sunshine and the pineapple tree. Oh, but somewhere in the plan, you grew up to be a man and now you don’t think that you can go on with me. Not with me. So lon...

Got to get so small to fall inside. Got to get so tiny that there’s no more need to hide. Fall, but never feel it Crawl through where the others seal it. Watch the people passing through the hall. So small. It’s a path of pebbles on the floor. Trace the...

Let me be the one who is sober, Unconcerned, responsible and older. Sneering at their childish plans, Disgusted by their sticky hands, Weighing down their dreams like a boulder. For in this world never believe that it’s safe to be terrified or go soft in...

When a monk tries to kiss you, of course you say yes, But next thing you know he want to get you undressed. And next thing you know he’s like a rabbit in bed, Humping and pumping and giving you head. Olive and purple, overflowing and wild, You spread like...

Little girl, can you see the sky without a moon tonight, the leaves beneath your feet? With the sky, like a cape; the earth is like a basket and she holds you like an egg. You’re walking like a statue, there’s concrete in your feet. You’re walking on...

Polar bear shining like a star in the night. The ice caps of the arctic like a star in the night. Is he your soul baby, soul baby, oh. First you were crawling now you’re lying on the floor. No clothes, no clothes, Cause that’s the way to know If he’s you...

spirits fly, one two three, come up behind me tonight shadows shine, brilliantly, burning behind me so finespirits talk, they whisper lies, green trees and cloudy skies- someone is high spirits breathe upon my face; lighter than than lace I complypeople star...

O star in the sky, and the fire, O flame between my legs leaps higher and higher. I light your candles everyday, like a priest so patiently, I light your candles everyday on the altar of me, Is this what you were thinking of? Is this what you were thinkin...

Sometimes I feel so lonely, like there’s no one but me in this worl-orld. Sometimes I hide in the curtains and pray that they’ll swallow me up in their furl-urls Wait! Don’t pack me away- I’m trying to get to the sea Wait! Give me a second to think- is ther...

The men are big here. They weigh 200 pounds. They look like stones to me that rage upon the ground. And their eyes don’t see the same things my eyes see. They can’t see the fairies that come & talk to me. It’s no big deal its just I feel so all alone....

Well, a wagon was rambling over rocky ground with a rope on the back, that drug on the ground, and I held on to that rope, though it was hurtin like hell, though I was bleeding and broke, though it was hurtin like hell. But today I let go and just lay on t...

I know you must have drowned at sea I know I’ll never see a man again! Or can you hear me call to you a tiny voice that glides upon the huge expanse of ocean & the wind? Bowed-down men, acquit this place Leave my mother alone Waiting on a man who wi...

You want to be such a rock hard daddy but you didn’t want to be it today With all the roses well you just gotta wonder if I’m getting it in some other way You were surprised when the devil in disguise when he dipped back down onto me At the sacrificial feas...

Councilmen, I must address you With my baby arms & paper-doll knees Wave a baby-blue flag before you Odysseus is lost at sea. There’s no one here on earth to protect me Tinier am I than a man Seeking protection from mis-use & abusion. Seeking pr...

One man feels so weak when he’s alone out in the cold; he can’t tell if he’s young and strong, or if he’s getting old. Rolls a stone across the ground, it’s rolling like a ball, and if he had ten thousand, he could build himself a wall. Daddy, you’re a kin...

I see you smiling in your gold frame, baby, but I always turn away my eye. I see the chief out with his gold star shining, but he knows I’ll never testify. I won’t testify. People ask me all the time now how are you doing when they know I’m never gonna say....

He thought there must be some lines in the earth he could follow, Hidden by snow, but he’d possibly find them in spring. A grid made of brown that would lead to the crown of tomorrow… Hail to the rose! Hail to the sky! Teach me to live; Teach me to die....

Fingertips ruffled like lace Shadows spill like coffee on your face I know you would prefer something easier Cotton sheets curl around your leg Heart sleeps on your pillow like an egg I know you would prefer something breezier Lost in the mirror I am dog...

1. Up and down the stairs I ran with a scepter in my hand How to chase the doubts out from my mind? When the only life I’ve ever known is to strive for absolute control and to pull on every string that I could find To my talismans I cling I am scared o...

Quilts lined his hallway his eyes were so kind he shook your hand, a gentle man perhaps that was a sign. You followed him to the patio there were steaks on the grill the trees swayed, the clouds flew the world became still. Now you awake and you’re the...

Well i'm walking this road with mud on my shoes and the coats of the men are clean and their pockets are filled with pennies and their ladies laugh at me and i'm cheered by the way the birds show off and the flags that blow against the wind but e...

Eldem: I left my dear wife Maple back in 1863 to ride my horse Petunia in the Dixie Calvary. One tear drop blew into the wind as Petunia raced away, but the sky was blue that afternoon, and the wind began to say, “Mr. Vanderlu, don’t you cry; this is the s...

You held my hand by barbed wire You covered my mouth trash burned in a fire The hills rose high No thrills, no sky We walked the road through shack and shed We fed the dogs some whole wheat bread Likes fleas, like friends Burdens that bleed, yearnings t...

I know you’re supposed to roam and run the world is big so go have fun they say don’t hide away. I know you’re supposed to give it up sniff like a dog and fill your cup with wine at least some of the time. But the world is cold; it’s only for the bold l...

bells ring, people sing nobody cries about anything they just let go, follow the flow this is the wisdom that people know but i dream in stone- i know this world of air it can’t be the world that’s really there through my fingers the tears keep falling d...

Three stacked stones don’t lie Hush hush Brother sleeps in the valley below Tick tack toe: don’t cry There’s a rainbow world only dead men know Last winter, that was a lonely load Your brother’s hand carried over the falling snow Wrapped tight in a blank...

Throne of ice, throne of snow When you go out Nobody knows where you go On your evening stroll. Cobblestones and autumn lights Fantasy takes purple flights Nobody knows the beauty you bring There is a world where you are king. Your eyes are cruel Wit...

Follow me through the Christmas tree inside a silver ring and I’ll stay with you, my whole life through I’ll never ask for anything Seasons go, we’ll watch them flow through windows of ice see the people die; they always cry so surprised to pay the pric...

I’m cold. I’ve been told you are the one who can make me feel bold Tongues of fire nobody can escape from you. Warm wood, golden sand, so much power in the palm of my hand watch them run watch them all run away from you, Who said the past is dead? You g...

I still remember that first moment when we met, You turned to smile at me, I shot back with a frown. And after that, we’d just ignore each other’s gaze, but something in your eyes had gone and changed this lonely town. You were tall and thin, you always dr...

Getting through these tween time days is getting kinda low; The fiery flames you fanned in me have faded to a glow. Now I got to find a real life of my own; Gotta find a way to entertain my mind just being all alone. Used to be such pain to me just seeing...

do you remember you walked me to the car your arm around my waist; I promised to call I never told you that I felt our lives were so small I drove away from you my hand on the wheel the clouds were fluffy and high; I started to feel how come the dreams ar...

Sitting by a campfire in a temporary home. Sitting three feet away from you I’m as silent as a stone. And my heart is all in pieces– I was unfair. It ain’t your job to be strong; I got to be as light as air. And I know that its true, I know I wanted s...

Take my hand- I won’t hurt you you can’t go it alone or your mind will desert you here in this white world, warmth is all we need Crystals form like frozen phatoms rainbows spray off of icy mountains beauty chills your bones through the frozen sea When y...

Drifting through space where it’s always night. Where it’s always beautiful And I’m dressed in white. When I was a child it was beautiful here I’m still a child because there’s so much time up here. When I was I child Space filled my eyes I was silen...

On the wild wild seas i will ride my horse again with a flower for my mother & another one for the wind like the shadow of a flower, like the pebble of a friend on the wild seas i will ride my horse again. Drifting through your castle on a pink & f...

Big man walking slow down a long long long hall; His feet are dragging and his shoulders stretch from wall to wall. At the end there’s an archway, at the end there’s a sky of blue, And I’m lying in the grass like a tiny sliver of moon, Watching a butterfly...

You can sit at my table just one last time until my boots will hit the road again to see what I can find. Words they ain't weapons words they ain't lies They ain't rattle you can shake upon to shake away the time Don't know nothing bout women; don't kn...

you built a tower for me you picked me lettuce so fresh and so green you showed the bluebirds the way to my door now you never come back here no more twelve bearded men they befriended me let me in to their cottage where I tidied and cleaned I frosted th...

The clubs are all closed and there's no where to go when the sun wont show for hours The streets have all emptied and lovers lay sleeping and dreaming of each other. You've got a lover but it's not me. He can't love you like I can There will be o...

Young girls don’t get married. Stay away from the wedding vow. When he’s on his knees and begging please, say no. No way, no how. When I was a baby, my neighbor I did wed. And my daddy said I better not catch you lying down nude in another man’s bed. So...