My inhibition Your indifference Are almost finished I wait until the end In the end you say nothing Can't lend a hand You must see me suffering Or is the distance deeper than that? Deeper than that is my love for you Even if it never gets back to you Back to the drawing board Picture yourself in a new light What's all that suffering for? I'm left,...Learn More

Ziggurats are built only to crumble We approach the gods Then prepare to tumble down down Love's a kind of knowledge You’ve written that on your arm The kind you learn in college In cafes and beds and bars And I am studying my youth away For they will take my island Of that much I'm sure The tides roll in from Thailand To pilfer my shores Grain...Learn More

The safety behind bars and in motorcycle sidecars Keeps me asleep all night, deep alright So I'm not frightened by the dark My ears tucked in my pillow hear not the wind blow I'm a passenger, a prisoner The will is not my own And when the customs officer asks if I've anything to declare I keep my mouth shut, so no one will mess with me The...Learn More

I am deep at sea I made myself break free Of the anchor keeping me Safe and sound in sanity Safe inside my old routine I am far from land I have left in my hand A few grains of sand And I try to understand The world in all its expanse Alone again, I hope to find A greater kindness, peace of mind A faith, a joy in my core I leave my love on...Learn More

I am a human being I'm made of muscle, bone and blood I'm full of awesome feelings Like unconditional love I want you and me together Faithfully and through all weather...Learn More

Once I was enslaved to a human being What to do today now that I'm free Merry me, merry me, merry me Is this how it feels to realize one's dreams? Once I was enslaved to a human being My mother, my lover, next, who will it be? Marry me, marry me, marry me I'm happiest in pursuit of liberty Once I was enslaved to a human being One half the saint...Learn More

I scrub my blackened feet Scrape off the caked-on grime of the street I wash my hands and face Of the worldly soot that accumulates In the day-in/day-out farcical strife In the humdrum of everyday life And I enter my home clean Step up to the hearth I've deemed my own I sit down on the bidet And shower my flower of the decay That sets in when she...Learn More

Digital binary system Ones and zeroes, dark versus light Yin and yang, x and y My mother and my father made me one night In the beginning, a murky mass of hydrogen helium Voted to organize into higher elements Carbon nitrogen and oxygen Protons electrons collide Digital, binary system Ones and zeroes, dark versus light Yin and yang, x and y My...Learn More

Hey now, Raza, meet the new day Hey now, Raza, love's coming your way Open your heart and your mind Darling, look up, there's blue in the sky Darling, look up at the birds flying high Open your heart and your mind I know the world has gotten you down On yourself and everything around Hey, Raza, forget those fears Hey now, Raza, a new world is...Learn More

When the tugboat tires of pulling someone else's weight When the tugboat tires of giving all the credit away There'll be silence in the factories There'll be empty shelves and pantries Just you wait When the tugboat tires of sweating for minimum wage When the tugboat tires of swallowing its pride and rage There'll be weeds by the million Therе'll...Learn More

My room is white The walls and all my appliances, all compliances I live in silence, my windows closed to traffic, all that racket You are the opposite I could never fit into your apartment Are we going to give up or (are) we going to try? Are we going to give up or (are) we going to try to learn what life is? To learn what life is? The tide...Learn More

Michael, take me to the mountain Where the air is clear and free I know the road and the obstruction We will avoid our enemies Our enemies Our enemies Michael, take me to the mountain We'll leave behind these city streets I can no longer be around them Let's go some place where we can breathe Where we can breathe Where we can breathe Where we can...Learn More