Disaster
Lost in time information disasters
Take us back to how, when we were, then stranger
Saving all quaint reminders for at least another day,
Queens and kings of tragedy to shine brightly
Did you hear us dreaming and not know where to look?
Your’s left as an open book that we travel and bury on a star
Now that I’m unsure how to describe
A gift you gave to me that you say you can’t remember
Lost in time information disasters
Take us back to how, when we were then, strangers
Beneath The Wheel*
It’s been a while since I’ve seen the light of day
It’s no surprise to see you’re not the same
Your fingers they’re crooked to the bone,
Your fingers they’re crooked to the bone
I gave it up, I turned around the other way
And I was gone for so long while you stayed
I wanted you to be the one to know,
I wanted you to be the one to know
But who was I to say, who was I to say
It takes one to know one like you said
And what is there to do, what is there to do
Who knew that I would be the one to fall
Beneath the wheel (To fall beneath the wheel)?
You did your best with what you had in your hands
You know I stood where you wanted me to stand
Don’t you know I did all for you,
Don’t you know I did all for you?
Now take a loot at who I’ve become
Did you expect that I would leave, that I would run?
I wanted you to be the last to know,
I wanted you to be the last to know –
But who was I to say, who was I to say?
It takes one to know one like you said
Who knew that I would be the one to fall
Who knew that I would be the one to fall
Beneath the wheel (To fall beneath the wheel)?
*Written by Rachel Heininge @rachelheininge
Invisible Man Pt. 1
Before things got ugly for the Invisible Man
The wrench was such an eyesore
Who could not be saved from genius
With my design a fresh coat of clear air,
A fresh coat of clear air
A life’s work to soak drapes in kerosene
A life’s work to make the sorrow fade
The madness of unlimited science
Take these shoes and take my clothes I’m leaving devices,
I’m leaving devices
Self-administer smuggle the past away
You turned off, alight with your brian
There’s snow upon the fire escape,
The dusty cobblestone, your trash’d only home
Where you have stolen
Galaxy A
In the way of traffic
Run dolls no one had seen before,
Writing letters upon a picture
Of lightning crashing
Always laughing
Toadstools adhering,
Mistletoe singing:
“Brains, float around inside”
Things I
As you were gone today there were
Things I cannot describe –
Thing I cannot describe,
As you were gone today
Unreckoning Hands
While you were on the road the tide rose
Jumping in the neighbor’s pool, creatures from the great deep blue
Strange troubles of our over obsessions
Such as the clock staples to our brains
Unreckoning hand,
Unreckoning hands –
Your unreckoning hands,
Flirting with disasters
Ferry stars and shadows twirl across the lakes where you were born,
Riding on a northbound train, fighting a fever that wouldn’t fade
Wearing thin as time elapses all covered in blue
How will you find our home in such wreckage?
Unreckoning hand,
Unreckoning hands –
Your unreckoning hands,
Flirting with disasters
Private Abbott
This day last year
We made pretending questions and faces,
That we were not still too young
In may of this last year
The only words that were spoken
Were drowned in sounds we made,
Where have you been until now
That I may write in the sand here?
La Salle
In your voice –
Saying there is a song to sing –
On my mind when things sometimes
For a while, asking the world to know
This cover of blue
In days without you
Calls on things we said
Now that I can hear speak like waves crashing
That if you are free,
That if you are free
Invisible Man Pt. 2
Odd how you can’t stand still out of sight letting it all hang down,
Two frozen heels and ten toes alone spoke of you
Now sharing details you haven’t got the place or time to tell,
Things to do before I left the city all just the same,
All just the same
Sending letters to my former self in Olde London at the Parisian Market
Where you were dressing up like a golom,
Missing a few pieces, then ran by the Empire Music Hall,
Then ran by the Empire Music Hall
Cure how all that I am is nowhere found,
Turn back on the shadows
What was never meant to do harm
Made invisible,
Made invisible
Landslide
This for how to begin sometime with you again –
Skipping stones to the night sky and sharing the wildfire inside
Time filled our cup by the lakeshore, marbled to stone by a landslide
We found it given to change, and made such as one, full choir
Wash Away
Is there a desert just like a winding road
Where hope is unanswered to dreams for something more,
Pretending needs to armor, the sentiment
And causal significance with tomorrow,
Spelling death in martyrs,
Where you might find you’re strolling
Proliferating maltese
And making signs to wash away throwing up Fost. Freeze wasted?
If there’s a desert,
We’ll take the winding road
If hope is unanswered,
Better to dream of something more
One Day
Are we here, leaving the water running?
That the message says: “We are approaching
Nowhere, though we tease
Reminding that one day
When there was an ocean here
That stood, as sure as you are –
With the quiet lawn surroundings –
Playing a fool to soak”