Desiderata

I know that death hides in my eyes And screams from my song I've left the bright lights Left for the river without bridges Slow and silent: In it's waters I can dream of peace I know of no hope Down...

Hold the curse close to your chest Now let the game begin Whisper a silence of disease That will never end Just give a changer all control And the pallid king your hand Lay your head gently down on...

Storyteller, bring your stories to my pyre You, the tame man, be what I have learned to loathe Tell me the secrets buried underneath A thousand years of dirt Tell me the fever chills your blood You...

Sleep, take me now and never let me wake Still in your hands, in your kingdom I'll be yours to break Sleep, I am tired I have blundered on to a path where I don't belong Still in your hand, I'll be...

Nothing can turn me now Come the terror, come the turmoil Close over breath and bones On the tide will flow Rivers of vibrant life Come the fever to the dead soil Stream with my dormant dreams On the...

I open my eyes today To leave the world of dreams behind We all know the nothing A hole in our hearts we try to forget Or drown in jest and jokes So I open my eyes today To let myself be torn apart In...

Fate, I see your stare Underneath your pale eyes All is here, holding it's breath to have life Smooth, sleek smiles howl at my door To hold me down Or move me on? The pace makes it unclear They smell...

Speak so softly, I will hear you Though your words are uncincere All your talk amounts to nothing And that nothing's not for me Through a thousand smooth evasions Your voice still rings in my ears If...

Spelling my name in analogies Pulling your eyelids down Over my silence, over your blind eyes Building myself an anomaly Building with breaking hands Shutting the noise out Driving the nails in I have...

Useless words and scattered earth Wring that neck for what it's worth Curse the flood and hate the sun I will see the damage done Plague holds this land flooded with milky tears Life dripping from...