Gig's Up

Unraveled in the rat race

Spilling all your sand

Through a hole in your soul that nobody knows

Is a hole in the whole damn plan

The whistles of the winners

Sour into moans

In a snap a collapse has ‘em trapped in the back

Of a wreck that is all their own

That gig’s not going to go down anymore

There’s a glitch in the matrix

There’s a crack in the sky

It’s a glimpse of the big game

And it’s showing what’s going on all the time

While we’re blind in our minds

So it all looks fine

Fingers point at fingers

Points pretend to point

At the source of the mess that’s blessed with its kiss

The men with the most gold coins

Bitter in the glitter

Of their mighty prize

They hide in the lie that they’re right and we’re fine

With the way they rob our lives

That gig’s not going to go down anymore

There’s a glitch in the matrix

There’s a crack in the sky

It’s a glimpse of the big game

And it’s showing what’s going on all the time

While we’re blind in our minds

So it all looks fine

We’ll make a revolution

But not with blood and guns

But some fun with the ones who are coming undone

From the grip of the goons with the guns

We’ll do some crazy dancing

We’ll sing some soulful songs

That fly to the height of a sky of a life

That burns through a world gone wrong

That gig’s not going to go down anymore

There’s a glitch in the matrix

There’s a crack in the sky

It’s a glimpse of the big game

And it’s showing what’s going on all the time

While we’re blind in our minds

So it all looks fine

But it’s all a lie

But it all looks fine

But it robs our lives

But it all looks fine

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We Walk Among You

One Sunday I just had to go out walking

The streets of the city were bare

Of all the traffic that usually fills them

The sky was so calm and so gray

I wandered and soon I approached a tall man

Standing there on his own

His calm was the calm of the sky above him

His eyes were like two glowing stones

(And his smile said)

I’ll tell you something

You forgot you knew

We walk among you

And do what you do

You work and worry

And we work too

But where’s your worry

Gonna get you to?

You’re still gonna do what you do

Just then a big cloud of birds passed overhead

Gliding through the smooth air

I watched them until they faded far away

I turned and the man was not there

And an amazing grace came over me then

(It’s a good day to fly

‘Cause we’ve all gotta die

So kiss your ego goodbye

And take your place in the sky—

There’s no diff’rence between you me or them)

So I stood like the man before me

Breathing the calm of the sky

A gentleness started flowing through me

I know that it showed in my eyes

Then I decided to head back home again

The world felt lighter somehow

I know that some trouble had knocked me out here

But that didn’t bother me now

(It’s like they say to me)

I’ll tell you something

You forgot you knew

We walk among you

And do what you do

You work and worry

And we work too

But where’s your worry

Gonna get you to?

You’re still gonna do what you do

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Dream Of Heem

His name was Heem

He had a dream

His back was off the wall

Outside the gleam

Of his dream

Heem felt mighty small

He’s not caught in a cast-out kingdom

Oh no not at all

He’ll tell you ‘bout it

If he’s gotta shout it

The trick is to start to crawl

Was that Heem

You thought you’d seen

Raving on the street?

Was that Heem

Who sang so sweet?

You threw coins at his feet

He’s not a dot in the midst of millions

Some cold old far star

A code of flashes

In passing fashions

You don’t know how close you are

(Did you hear?

Is it clear?

It’s all here)

Another scene

You seem to see

A glimpse of Heem again

A street a dream

A mirror’s gleam

Familiar as a friend

Don't get caught in the big distinctions

If it’s him or you

We take our places

And we find our faces

Any one for sure will do

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Maybe Grace

I get in some kind of trouble ev’ry

Time I hang around a place

Ev’ry time I linger I fall

Into some bad way

You may say it’s my problem and that

Might not be so far from the truth

You may say its something I’m going through

I know that you

Know I’m out of place

You see the traces

In my face

I don’t like where I come from—oh no my

First thought was to run far away

Somewhere something could happen that I knew

Would not if I stayed

In the gleam of the cities I found

So much loneliness and no chance

Sometimes violence made so much sense

When you get trapped

Inside a nasty game

You get a sense of

Who’s to blame

(The ones who run the world

Want you to be small

Just to work for their worth

And that’s all)

An awful thing

Curses ev’ry place—

People who wear their

Boss’s face

This is not my homeland and I am

Another lonesome restless man

But borders blur and bound’ries blend and

Here I am again

Have you wanted to wander? Have you

Wondered if you lept where you’d land?

Have you ever dreamed of another chance?

I see a trace

Of me in your face

And in the end this

May be grace

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The Soul of Poverty

All I have is spirit!

Which is ours and not my own!

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Hungry Ghosts

In this city of echoes and shadows,

the glowing moan of hungry ghosts

grows to a glare and cries

We are lost behind our eyes!

Dazed with duties

in a devouring world

beneath a star obscured by lights

we become our devils,

wishing a wave would

wash away this mess,

this consequence reminding us

like a sky through wires

that we are here

to get it right

one last time.

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Beyond Belief

She’s not
a thought

but one
humming beam

of a being,
beyond belief

and basic
as breathing,

clearly here,
a soul who knows

all soul is ours
and absolutely

entirely
enough



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Music Industry

Fuck you, Goliath!
The devil’s just a metaphor
For everything you are.



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Young Man

My mind crazed with magic
and desperate omens,

I ache and crave and seek
sex( a ride to the land of my bloom),

certain that a sudden perfect stroke
will set my whole life right,

my fate a fever, a dream
I wait to awaken

finally and forever,
each new clue

a possible key
to my impossible destiny.

The rest is death.
Diving at clues is all I know I can do.



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