Living with the living

Like a gray bird in a blue sky, over a blue ocean civilized men fly Bomb, repeat, bomb, repeat, bomb Through puffy clouds and beautiful rainbows with the power and the speed and the will to succeed,...

Sometimes the rain upon the sea Can make the gray look green to me And when I'm into all that gray I'll make the morning last all day See, I've been down to New South Wales Both my brothers been in...

Oh, lonely and endless light Cold morning rises from the night No smile smiles back through the glare No voice calls back from the stairs Oh, those wounds on your blistered feet That march you on...

Let me tell you about my morning, checked my mail and I received a warning Ooh, nothing new And though it held an accusation, all I smelled was abnegation Ooh, not a clue And the noise in my town and...

Picture me at twelve, Annunciation Day To be sent off to the Falklands, that's for what I prayed And the beads moved through my fingers as I marched around the schoolyard on parade And I wanted to...

Well, the moths have been fed and the pirates pirated Are things I left undone As every day rolls on, I lose them At least your pressure to confusion Was it something I read that's been doing in my...

Howling in remembrance, an animal has died I'm hollowed out but resonant, a void is amplified And abandoned, shy My animus was lost, I found when I looked back in time I can see the where and how, but...

Crying for the hungry friends and you're crying for the struggling friends And I'm crying over you Crying over a mother's debt and now you're crying over some other's head While I'm crying over you...

Welcome to the lost brigade Lost but pursuing Fragments to protect the day From badness and ruin And this one's for the makers who have made Only to be made By the takers who delayed Later to declaim...

I've been seeing the same old things and I've been hearing you saying some things that you don't mean Everyone needs a Sunday some days Everyone needs to take some time away So come on home from the...