Misty Blue

Careening velocities

In hurtling steel steeds

Ever farther away from me

Misty Blue

Where are u ?

Where are u ?

Where are u ?

Hurtling away

Through the hillsides

Iron wheels eating up the miles

Nodding off

When I need u

Where are u ?

A sleepless soul that weeps

Do you listen or are you asleep ?

For you

Misty Blue

Where are you ?

I wish for telepathy

A connection

A goddamn phonecall will do

But the sounds of your silence surround me

Misty Blue

Where are u ?

Morning Dew

Dew kissed tracks
On a foggy winter morning
The smells of burnt coal
Mingle with your perfume
We were young then
And innocent
And all of life and love
Was ours for the taking.


Furtive glances
In crowded rooms
A feeling
So brand new
It lifted our spirits
And made us soar
We were young then
And how we flew
Wind dancing with fire
Under morning dew.


So young and naive
With convictions so strong
That life and love
Were ours to take on
We were young then
And destined to be
Proclaimed by soothsayers
Or so it seemed.

Want

Midnight in a claustrophobic metropolitan flat

Wishing for a burst of nicotine

Midnight with nicotine oozing out of me

Wishing for a limousine.

Well I got everything I want

Well I got everything I need

When I have everything I want

Is when I start to bleed.

Midnight in my lover's arms

Longing for the days I was free

Forgetting all the tears I shed

Unwelcome escape from misery

Well I got everything I want

Well I got everything I need

When I have everything I want

Is when I start to bleed.

Happily, home-fed, lazy bum

Singing the home-sick blues

Overworked, malnourished, wage slave

Wishing for a home to go to

Well I got everything I want

Well I got everything I need

But no matter how much I get

It's never enough to still my greed.

Tirade

(I think you'll be happy now

That I'm giving up to go

There's a legitimacy to your claims

Towards the fruition of your needs.)

Witness the farce as along we sway

To the beat of the conductors symphony

That was corrupted by the sweat of millions

Such a basic human necessity

Witness the roles so defined we play

Acting to the invisible directions

Etched in by a hundred generations

The rigid mores of society

A thousand years of civilization

Dragging me down, down, down ............

(A hundred years of slavery

Left me with a perpetual frown)

Seize and shackle the hands of the free

Until they conform to all we believe

Destroy all in the name of a god

We aren't very sure exists

Hatred in the hands of the righteous

The most powerful weapon ever known

Flung like thunderbolts clothed in orange

To sear and ravage your home

A thousand years of civilization

Dragging me down, down, down ...........

(A million strands of DNA

Keeping me chained to the ground)

Come over and look at me

I am what you should aspire to be

Recognise the qualities of a patriot

A narrow minded, mindless bigot

I'll smash all that I don't like

Crush every beauty I see

Take all that I want and is not mine

It's the sovereign right of the free

Follow me as I lead

Our land into the sixteenth century

We can't compete so we may as well recede

From the annals of modernity

(All hail the gods that kill

We're overpopulated anyway)