1. NEVER INNOCENT, FREQUENTLY NOT GUILTY

With slight of hand
And a winner’s smile
I dodge the hangman
Again and again

Like secret magic
That can’t be taught
If you have it you know
If you doubt, you don’t

I walk out free
And pay no fine
Still never sorry
For this life of crime

Frequently
Not guity
No charges raised
Stick to me

So blow me a kiss
And I’ll throw the dice

I’m feeling like a million bucks tonight

So blow me a kiss
And I’ll throw the dice

I’ve been lucky
Lucky all my life

Live fast
Spend that cash
I know I can’t take it with me

When I’m violent
You like it
But that don’t make you crazy

Live fast
Spend that cash
It’s fun but it still won’t save me

When I’m violent
You like it
But that don’t make us crazy

I beat the house
I’ll show you how
This is my game without a name

You have to play
So unafraid
And relentless

Inexorable
Implacable
Merciless and ironfisted
Unflinching
Vindictive
Take no plea make no admission


2. ONE THING, NO THING, EVERY THING

Distant and lurching
From the non
Now forming
Shaping and turning
Making and consuming

Infinite power
And limitless reach
Commanding creation
In holiest speech

Sacred and fearless
The carrier seed
Both father and mother
Both sky and sea

Mouth to the empty
The tounge and teeth
Stars formed in quiet
And firey heat
Burn bright in darkness
Let yourself be seen
One thing no thing and every thing

All limbs of spirit
Join and take up song
Let voices carry sound
From that which has no mouth

This violent shaking
This violent death of peace
So quiet in the stretch
Reach in and tear these seams


3. IRIDESCENT PEPPERMINT

Lost but unafraid
My death is hunting me
I see it
I feel it near
No one is listening

Make my heart a place
And hide yourself away
Red and white and neon shining

Spin and twist the skin
My candy cane needs blood again
Make it pretty
Make it sweet
Hang your body
Across my tree

Make it pretty
Make it sweet
Hang your body
Across my tree
Make it pretty
Make it sweet
Show me every thing
And make me…


4. SAY MY NAME

This winter
No different
This ice and falling snow

Unburied
I’m freezing
I have so far to go

Keep digging
I’m freezing
I’ve never been this cold

Inside me
So lightly
I feel that dying glow

Torn pages
From the book we wrote
Blood and ink
The serpent coiled

Wild horses
Drive into the sun
So hopeless
Yet given to none

No shadow cast
Absorbed in light
Immersed in passion
Returned to die

Take back the power
Turn loose the ends
Free fall forever
Or until you land
Let's light the candle
From both its sides
Let's meet in the middle
Let's see if we die

You be the feather
I’ll be the flame
Now do what I tell you
And say my name

My body empty
A broken church
Burned out and hollow
And sunken into earth

Your body empty
No color and cold
Pulled from the garden
So that I might hold

You as you are meant to be

Now say my name


5. PURPLE IS THE COLOR OF MY TRUE LOVE'S BRUISE

I can make it happen if you want me to
It’s not too much for me
Is it for you?

I’m tall and strong, and dressed in black
You are so pretty and still so sad

All the lives I ruined just to get to you
I would do it again, I would run right through

I’d stack the bodies ten feet high
I’m ready to fight and too tough to die

Pale shades of red and gold
I see the sun and stars below
I keep both eyes fixed on the road
And a light in the window of a home I’ll never know