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Its paralysis in wonderland
Ignoring all the things you can
Building a soapbox out of buried hatchets
On which you finally hope to take a stand

Will you ever be this young again?

I don't know, but don't get mad
when I ignore your gender, man


We split the toll for the long road home
We find ourselves questioning things
that they never wanted us to know

Pioneering sinking ships,
- still being told to 'row!'
A routine change of quarters,
Pushing on every border,
Until you finally feel you've found a home


Where is your light?

                               Where is your soul?







I guess we've got a ways to go
They say that déjà vu occurs
when your soul happens to be
in sync with the universe;
when you are exactly where you're supposed to be
exactly when you're supposed to be there.

They also say it's a glitch in the matrix.

I don't know what to believe,
But I believe I haven't known what to believe
in this exact situation before.
You said I was just a street rat
An Aladdin with no Abu
But if I only had three wishes,
I wouldn't waste a single one on you
The first would be for money
The second would fix my crooked jaw
and my third and final wish
Would get me the **** out of Agrabah
I woke up
on an unfamiliar couch
and the only thing I could hear
was Jerry Garcia,

singin' Ripple

-

The soundtrack to crushed beer cans everywhere
and ashtrays overflowing with resin-caked roaches

(amongst various other things)




I knew

Then
& There




This was what God sounded like
after a long, hard day on the job



I closed my eyes and went back to bed
Nothing more than something to look at
Nothing more than a stake in the ground


Nothing more
          than movements in the wind
I got lost in a sea of people
And a monkey mask
And although the snow was rollin
She didn't tell, I didn't ask

I'm bad at letting people in
Unless I'm in a different state of mind
But like all the faults I've found
It's bound to fade away with time

I fear I only feel at home
Surrounded by faces I don't know
And that unless I'm in an awkward situation
I'm doomed to always feel so cold

I lost my soul to California
Although I've never been out west
I know the golden state of mind
Of those who think they know me best

I found worth in a sea of people
Caught beneath an avalanche
And although it took some time and courage
I think it's finally worth the chance
Everyone I meet these days
likes to ask me what I do
And I was hoping until recently
that the answer might be you
But she took my hand when Sandra Bullock fell
and then she took me home to *****
And now my moral standing stands alone

and it's contradicted, too
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