1. A MAN CAN DREAM

Feed what is hungry
Let every footstep in the snow melt beneath your boots
Warm with blood, saliva, and contemptuous steam
Let disdain for others stain the roots
Everything rises again
Infinity in cycles
Cycles that end with the spilled blood of brothers
And semen in dead mothers
Feed what is angry
Let every tear drop that falls burn and tear chunks from your skin
So you can learn to react and think comforting thoughts
Force yourself to learn to hold them in
I'm only wanting something new
Don't blame me if it means the ending of you
It's the ending of me too
The beautiful, something away.
Know when it’s right to let go.


2. CLENCHED JAW

Clenched jaw
A reason to believe that the future looks bleak
Target
Each sun that rises above my peak
Your sadness not even a distraction
Clenched jaw
A reason to believe that the future looks bleak
Target
Each sun that rises above my peak
I call you beautiful
I'm an animal for your innocence
Your sadness, not even a distraction
It's just inherent in your beauty
A maddening part of my being
One I refuse to understand
Always wounded by the space
Between inner and outer man
I lash out
I do not kill
I injure
I do not kill
I injure
I live for the sound of pain
I do not kill
I injure
I do not kill
I injure
Kept alive by my disdain.


3. THE LIFE OF FIRE

This is not the hearth that charred Nyeli
Nor the flames of enduring energy
I may die with all my flickering
This fire belongs to me
It dies when I die
With my reaction to eternal form
And when my wind carries it
New foreign lands can be forlorn
Sorrow implied
Designed for those who rise
Every human struggle
A smoke cloud for empty skies
Where every arm is extended
I've cut off a hand
My fire, sent to burn the skies
Will first burn all the land.


4. WINTER AND WARMTH

It will be winter soon enough
So I prepare my warmth
Without the need to prepare my warmth
I’d be left with only myself
My winter
Snowflakes imprinted with messages of death
Words explaining why love has failed
How my life is veiled by the comfort of others
And how every light grows pale
Reasons for the brightness
Fear of self, worry for others, diminished hope, desire to escape Consequences of my desire
Murder, suffering, more convictions and more love
Blood stains the snow
The snow will always melt
Blood stains the snow
The snow will always melt
Who will see?


5. LONG HOURS

It follows
I am the reaction of conscious prey
Long hours subdue me with distraction
At the end of the day
I am prey
At the end of the day
Dead inside
I've stalked mine
Missing opportunities
Now a person like other people
Hunting prey elsewhere
This maelstrom, others might call it a mistake
I call it fate
Some call it energy in all the wrong places
As they fall prey
It follows
Manifestations of murderous desires
Long hours subdue me with distraction
At the end of the day all are prey
Mistakes lose their meanings
Especially the beautiful ones
Not everything needs an answer.


6. WHAT YOU REMEMBER

Where the most beautiful things are slowly murdered
Their memory dies slowest of all
Dragged through the mud after the last pain of torture
Of legend, that they were ever here at all
And their memory dies slowest of all
Engrossed in
Detached from
I'll do anything to survive
This chaos
This last breath
Irrelevant, this legend of lies
Irrelevant!
For even though their memory takes the longest to fade away
Every beautiful thing still dies long before the end of human days
Where all thoughts are dying embers
No one cares what you remember
Never with an alliance
Learn to die in silence
Comfortably.


7. A TRIBUTE TO BARREN LAND

Show me that you trust me
Lash out
Anything but apathy
Show me the beauty in the unsettling
If necessary
Where all need to be slaves
Some pray, some use, some hate
Everyone loves
Everyone stands above
One never overcomes
Lose faith in dreams
Where flocks of sheep devour the healthy greens
Lose faith in dreams
Where barren land has devoured all the trees
Lose faith in dreams.
Lose faith in dreams.


8. OVER(COMING, TAKING, BREEDING)

Filthy posterity
Descending to the last slimy rung of a wet wooden ladder
Dropping into once sanctified wells worldwide
And overcoming everything
Overtaking every stream
Claiming piety
Entrancing the feeblest of an impoverished under elite
Vengeful spirits with no place to release
And an overabundance of seed
Overtaking every field
The lion never eats straw
Children can not lead
And nature carries on without flesh or streams
The poison entered this well of blood
Long before our generation
And we are unto death
Tied to a dying animal