I have daydreams of making a boyfriend On some ivy-covered porch In my hometown where I am alone now Cursing all who’ve passed this torch At seventeen, this house is burning me down… So I’m running out the front door I go jogging late at night I feel strong when I feel heart rate Under palm of starry skies In my life, will I become someone I’d...Learn More

Watch me walk by Tapping my fingers On a brick wall goodbye Good times good times Spent twenty dollars That i don’t have But i don’t mind i swear Stealing myself against A cold burst of air I like to pretend i’m free Single pine in tree Watch clouds roll by It’s better now that I don’t fight the flying time Teaming with life The avenue of snarled...Learn More

Hear the bed that creaks Here where the soldiers sleep Out on the churning sea There go their counted sheep In the breast of each There is a counted beat That is the sheep i eat That is the beat i keep Give up your life for me Young men of history I love your bravery Peel off my face and see… I am the one you keep Inside your memory I am her...Learn More

Freedom can’t be my only plan Taking off takes root like weeds in the head At my back drooling running fast Paralyzed by my own dreaming again If it don’t make sense In its silence If it blurs your eyes To the burning sky Can you call it god? Heavy-eyed But holding up my weight I’m still awake Got a few more things i could say Holding out But i’m...Learn More

Twisted strings Genetic embroidery Copy me Ill-fated humanity Entropy is the game Of all coded things Copy me and Spread these wings Copy me and Spread these wings...Learn More

Wake up it’s just another day Drink up that coffee stormy-brained What were you dreaming anyway? Best not to dwell amidst the grave Do-do-do, this country got you feeling blue? Do-do-do, sick country coughing in the fumes of All impending doom, sick country’s got it’s (kick drum) hooks in you! Whoo! Pick up the truck, c’mon kid look up See all...Learn More

Hey little bird Out on the sea Hello to me Big and free Hey to the wave Bigger than me I love to see It goes so deep A tunnel to my heart I start to see it as myself I harmonize the part And start to whisper to myself… “i love my choice I live by choice.”...Learn More

Daddy fought for the government Oh, i love him but i don’t know What he did for the government But his sister said when he came home Every night he’d see faces The bodies and bones of soldiers he’d known The cries, “who will save us?” Followed him home And filled up our home Mommy worked after daddy got fired I memorized her work phone And i’d...Learn More

I’ll keep working Hard until i know What’s coming After all the hard work Comes the hard part More working Lovely breathing hard I’m running low But still running Lovely breathing hard I’m running low… Like a password getting old I am vulnerable I know the future holds Recommended passcodes Much stronger than me With random numbers Capital...Learn More

Run away to the party What a delicate dream What a day! got me guarded Bursting out from the seams Run away cast in shadow Still the sun doesn’t leave Summer stretching the days The way i stretched for… I keep falling in love with the traits i lack He’s confident talking with one hand on my back To show my emotions i gave what i had He’s confident...Learn More

My head still hurts I’m not eating well My lungs move up and down Heart swells Through seasonal change I’m feeling my way But nobody paved a way They only paid the lowest wage And hoped i’d stay I need a new gag order Wash my sins away inside a rain Of holy lead-filled water I can’t laugh away the latest strain These longer days got shorter ‘cause...Learn More