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Scarlet Rose

Twilight falls on concrete town, the water flowing underground, where it goes, nobody knows. But the general state of mind round here was uplifted by the sheer beauty of the legendary Rose. Oh how she’d go every night for two shows and the crowd would overflow out of the rows, and the marquee could be seen, lit up like a dream for a star as delicate as a rose. Maria, your love is like no other love and I’m just an ordinary man. When you arrived I was blinded by the brilliance of the light that surrounded you. What, oh what is a poor boy to do besides play and sing to you when you’re blue? Is this the beginning of the end my friend? when will we meet again? Oh my scarlet rose, I saw you wilting in my hand, I lifted you up and let you go, scatter across this fat old land, where I’m headed only you in heaven knows, Oh my scarlet rose. Now I walk along the pier, forcing through an atmosphere of blues and indigo, but the only light to set it right shines when my memory goes back to my private show, la la la... Oh my scarlet rose, I saw you wilting in my hand, I lifted you up and let you go, scatter across this fat old land, where I’m headed only you in heaven knows, Oh my scarlet rose.(repeat)

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no one said love is fair

 I tried my hand in leaving but I can’t leave you. Can you give me a clue? Tell me something I can believe if you want me to be free of you. Oh oh a miracle, Oh oh as clear as a bell sending birds in the air, Sunday morning, no one ever said love is fair, and I can’t break it’s spell. I’m drinking for two and I lost my shoes at the Heartbreak Hotel, and all my little wishes have turned into fishes that abandoned the well. Oh oh a fortune, Oh oh a lucky number seven or the perfect pair, make this gambler a winner, no one ever said love is fair, and i can’t break it’s spell. Darkness has fallen on my heart and your smile, it’s tearing me apart, and you throw salt on my wounds and I’m writing you tunes? God knows I’m crazy, got the full moon lazy in the afternoon, tucked in my black jacket and the rest of the night I sacked it and the sun will sink soon. Oh oh it’s serious, Oh oh as a war field, nurses crying in despair over bleeding hearts, no one ever said that love is fair, and I can’t break it’s spell. No I can’t break it’s spell.

Smiles

After studying portraiture for some time now I have come to learn that a face smiles. It's not just the simple gesture of two lips but a very complex changing on a microscopic level of every feature of the face. Every atom across the terrain of the face livens and moves to create the brightness of a smile. When the shape of the eye is properly rendered, or the shadow along the forehead, the smile starts to become evident. It's not the face that smiles, it's the soul. The soul is projected by the graceful yet complex micro movements of the face. The soul communicates it's peaceful essence through a face that smiles. The soul extends itself into the universe through a smiling face. The soul is realigned with the energy from which it was sprouted when it is  gifted with a smile. Smiles are filled with immeasurable power. The mechanism is divine. OM.

carried away   

 

  Carried Away

   I’ve got my sugar high and my careless clothes, gonna tear up the lawn. With the right glance I’ll jump at the chance and trip on the floor. Carried away, i get so Carried away 2x  I put my hand in the fire and it always burns, somehow I never learn. I sink to down to size when i see your eyes. I’m a victim of the flood. You’ve got me tongue tied, with no handle on the door. Carried away, i get so Carried away! 2x 

When the anacondas spring to life and the magnolias blossom and it rains and the diamonds in the pavement shine so bright and the wallpaper peels cuz it’s plain...You’re the one for me when my motor’s stalled, someone to pull me along and it goes to show, when the cold wind blows and you keep it warm. Carried away, i get so Carried away! 3x

you melted my mind

 
 

  You Melted My Mind

   You did melt my mind, left me blind in a labyrinth of vines and now I’m stranded here in a place so surreal, filled with vultures and seals, I don’t know what I feel and I’m starting to sink in quicksand, I can’t think but I could use a drink, cuz you melted my mind. You did melt my mind the last time the two of our lips combined. It was down by the shore, a bird circled above, and we watched it soar. Oh then we kissed and now I find all of my thoughts have climbed as high as that gull and my head has hollowed of all reason and rhyme because you melted my mind, girl, you melted my mind...and it’s oozing from my ears like hysterical tears, it used to be without fears...but now it’s gone and I didn’t know that you could be so unkind...cuz you melted my mind, you melted my mind...you melted my mind and my soul has entwined with the wayward winds and I haven’t a care cuz it’s empty as air and if you look in you’ll find, you melted my mind, you melted my mind, and if you look in you’ll find the total absence of mind, the vacancy of brain, a gone away sign, an abandoned motel, a forgotten cave, a wishless well, an extinct species, a tabula rasa, divine mantra, total nirvana, a world so sublime, you melted my mind.

i don't want to be sad no more      

 

I Don’t Want To Be Sad No More

All of my favorite artists committed suicide and all of my lover’s lied

but I don’t want to be sad no more. I don’t want to be sad no more.

My boss, he robbed me of my pride and the crocodile hunter died.

But I don’t want to be sad no more. I don’t want to be sad no more.

The police wrote me up for being sad. I’m hoping that it’s just a fad. My sadness is making me mad. But I’d rather be mad than sad.

cuz I don’t want to be sad no more. I don’t want to be sad no more.

You came into the room and you saw that I wrecked the place. You looked up and saw it written across my face. Ah, you called me a disgrace, for sure. I don’t want to be sad no more. I don’t want to be sad no more.

All of my favorite artists committed suicide and all of my lover’s lied

but I don’t want to be sad no more. I don’t want to be sad no more.

 

with no trace(row17seatC) 

 With No Trace(row17seatC)

   He put his death certificate in his pocket and got on the train. In his black suit that fit as good as it did in ’02. At the Town Hall was the long awaited reunion show, all the harmonious love songs, he used to know. And all the girls there, they look so nice, under the hallucination inducing lights...but the one, not alone in row-17 seat-C, in the crowd, in a haze, a swept away look on her face, so in love it seemed to be, without a care, with no trace, with no trace!...and the bands reputation was based upon their variations on a theme, songs about love, old love, love lost. One after the other the hits were greeted with screams and oh how he’d cry if he were alive...because the one, not alone, in row-17 seat-C, kissed the guy in seat-B and the mysteries of love are still the same when you die, without a care with no trace, with no trace. He put his death certificate in his pocket and got on the train. In his black suit that fit as good as it did in ’02....and the bands reputation was based upon their variations on a theme, songs about love, old love, love lost.

 

i know you well  

    I Know You Well

   The tyranny of silence worked you good, decapitating flowers on the stoop, waiting for the hour to arrive, to come and bring you back to life. Underwater, you seemed so surprised and everything it fades to white. I’m not one to tell you lies. I’m not one to hide. Quiet where you’ve gone, silent in the room, no windows, no blinds, no raise-able gripes. You look beautiful in your borrowed red dress. I’ve come to know you floating off the ground. I’ve come to feel you in the hallway. Where the echo of your voice resounds. I know you well. I know you well. Your letters have all unwrit themselves. Your likeness has fallen from the shelf. In you I long to be. Within you I’ve always been. I know you well. I know you well.

 

 Dandelion

Dandelion

   (Dandelion, she was a friend of mine)...So fucked up in the head, when she showed me, what she showed me. She pulled me through the room, oh what the doldrums could do, when you’re bored all the time. Dandelion, she was a friend of mine. Now I pine for Dandelion. She led  me to the shade of some tall trees, far from the reaches of society, then she blew my mind. Dandelion, she was a friend of mine. Now I pine for Dandelion 2x. She opened up her shirt, then she opened up her chest and let me inside, let me inside. Dandelion, she was friend of mine. Now I pine for Dandelion(repeat).

stardust(live)

Stardust(live)

   I’ve got my black hands, they’ve been sifting through soil. Satellite eyes and secret spies. Ripped from the gut of a widow’s song and torn by the tooth of a dirty black dog. Just to find you on this night, shining! Stardust in my eyes. Don’t you leave me here, b-b-blinded. Oh no! Hold up the quiet of the morning rain. Chase down the demons on the avenues of pain. Delay the darkness. Set the pace of light. Call all the angels from the places that they hide tonight (that’s right) When your love is gone and a fire has burned down your door, you could trace the thin line to the place, the place you were before that lonely night I found you shining. Stardust in my eyes, don’t you leave me here, blinded! blinded! blinded! Oh won’t you come back to me. Ahh come on, won’t you come back to me!