1. THE HAMPTON ROADS 4TH ANNUAL PARADE OF THE BLIND

Even your martyr wears his best suit to this affair
Logical reasoning is something you should shoot for
I'll aim for the sky myself

Soaring above our city
Your heart loses it's balance and plummets to this earth
Now i walk in circles flipping through old photographs
I've been wounded but not fatally

Don't even bother trying to assemble the puzzle
For my compassion is missing
And i'm canceling wishes by the skyful
Moving forward i lose track of time and my sense of sight

Visit him lord and kiss his cheek for me
And thank him for the glasses
You saved me from his grasp and cleaned all of my wounds

The towel in the ring
Alone like yourself

All alone

I sit and read your letters and i force a smile

Soaring above our city
Your heart loses it's balance and plummets to this earth
Now i walk in circles flipping through old photographs
I've been wounded but not fatally

2. L'AEROPORT

Poetry written in a tongue that only you and i can read
We forget the world with one prolonged embrace

Marching to the beat of a near end song
Your crystal facade cracks quietly

With the legend of the mantis still fresh in my mind
I continue trying to give you the key
But your foot's already in the door

One hand on the phone
The other on a blank picture frame
Left alone to remember all the wonderful memories we never had together
There were no memories for us to have

Move your hair from your face and look me in the eyes

With the legend of the mantis still fresh in my mind
I continue trying to give you the key
But your foot's already in the door

Forced to forget tomorrow
Each breath becomes more precious than the last
Drastic weather changes make me tired
Hopefully the worst has passed me now

Flawlessly gorgeous you looked in that dress
Your intentions were more fair than your skin

It hurts to smile when your indecisive ways
Freeze my emotionless expressions

Marching to the beat of a near end song
Your crystal facade cracks quietly

With the legend of the mantis still fresh in my mind
I continue trying to give you the key
But your foot's already in the door

Flawlessly gorgeous you looked in that dress
Your intentions were more fair than your skin

Over and over again, i seem to lose my mind
Like a leaf in the wind of the most atrocious of hurricanes
Carelessly and directionless it floats away
Goodbye

3. MALICE IN WONDERLAND

This dream i'm living will never end
When i attempted to place your abominations into words
You fled with disgust

Lions weep at the sight of their own weakness
The day's darkness overwhelms our spirits
I'm still fortunate enough to know someone like you

The waves remain placid and invisible
Receding the shore with ironically horrific malice
Caught in a war against the blues

Lions weep at the sight of their own weakness
The day's darkness overwhelms our spirits
I'm still fortunate enough to know someone like you

We walk every where with sheets over our heads
Praying they won't recognize us

You're a paper wall
And i'm your wrecking ball

The silence spreads like fire across our field of dreams

Lions weep at the sight of their own weakness
The day's darkness overwhelms our spirits
I'm still fortunate enough to know someone like you

You're a paper wall
And i'm your wrecking ball

4. THATS THE WAY YOU DEBATE

The stubble on my face engraves my lack of compassion
I'm counting grass blades to pass the time
Queen-sized comfort awaits my tired eyes

Remember me?
I'm your satire's locksmith

You referred to the way of the sword as hope
Despite the blade in your back
Two days pass and there is still no sign of the sun
But you wait calmly playing checkers with your gut instinct

On the contrary to the heart's self-imprisonment
Your horse-shoes fall like hail

Remember me?
I'm your satire's locksmith

You referred to the way of the sword as hope
Despite the blade in your back
Two days pass and there is still no sign of the sun
But you wait calmly playing checkers with your gut instinct

I hear your name in the wind
My collapsible heart skips a beat
You remain in my head only as a bitter-sweet memory

I've given up sleep
So i can pray for you

Day by day, i bite my tongue

I hear your name in the wind
My collapsible heart skips a beat
You remain in my head only as a bitter-sweet memory

The mental song is sung
It shakes the ground beneath you