Difference between revisions of "Veech"

What the fuck is you thinkin'

Better yet, where the fuck is you goin'?

Get back to no star map and

Out here nobody knowin'

Time flyin' and you figure

You'd fly right along with it

Not hearin' no warnings

In the morning you go get it

Like thruster, throttle, play that out

Move a half a moon around

A galaxy, you play that down

Like it's nothin', nothin' out

Of nothin' leaves you wishin'

Every day that they was still around

Soakin' in the corridor corrodin'

While you mill about

'Bout a million miles a millimeter

Doesn't really mean nothin'

'Cause your body is bone marrow

And blood can never be trusted

It won't last to the nearest

Destination because functions

You could load into the chamber

And treat sleep like it's a punch-in

Space is wavy, follow, form it

Analyze it spectrally

The specter in the spectrum

On inspection is an entity

You call it god or man or woman

Love or hope, it's all the same

A nickel-bag philosophy

A beta boost inside a brain

Conversation is tough when ya think

Too much 'bout the metals

Most time is spent silently

Just monitoring your levels

Scanning for the Clay Ark

In the blood pressure, and stay dark

It's off long enough so your days aren't

Just arbitrary - though they are

Nothing is familiar

So the strange become a family

Analogies are old and useless

When was last you had a tree

For reference or for reverence

Irrevocable amnesty

For sure, by now, you're so far gone

To track would be insanity

Ingrained on the membranes

Of your conscience is a dark spot

Heavier than the other antimatters

In your stark thoughts

Can't shake what you've done

No matter how far you outrun it

Mask that with the false fact

That somebody is comin'

Delusional is easier than self-examination

But you gotta make a choice of where you're goin'

Because stayin' is surrender

And since you might be the last that's not an option

Get your shit together, lover boy

Stop lookin' at the clock

A Better Place - clipping.

If ever you find yourself beaten and broke

And can't bear the whip for the weight of the yoke

And fear that the night will not turn into day

Remember the darkness will show you the way

It's a long way away, it's a long way away

And I'm all alone, alone, alone

A long, long, long, long way

Flesh is weaker than the metal, it is true

But the metal's being moved into a thing it doesn't do

Circuitry is only serviceable as much as it is used

So why don't you use it

'Til you use it up, abuse it

It is strong, it can take it if you can't

Your sinews are more intuitively designed for dance

Well, it set up a random course safely away from suns

Four hundred and twenty three

By a hundred and twelve by fifty one

Scrooge - A Muppet Christmas Carol

When a cold wind blows it chills you

Chills you to the bone

But there's nothing in nature that freezes your heart

Like years of being alone

It paints you with indifference

Like a lady paints with rouge

And the worst of the worst

The most hated and cursed

Is the one that we call Scrooge

Oh, there goes Mister Humbug

There goes Mister Grim

If they gave a prize for bein' mean, the winner would be him

He must be so lonely

He must be so sad

He goes to extremes to convince us he's bad

He's really a victim of fear and of pride

Look close and there must be a sweet man inside

...Nah!

I Am A Rock - Simon and Garfunkel

I've built walls

A fortress deep and mighty

That none may penetrate

I have no need of friendship

Friendship causes pain

Its laughter and its loving I disdain

I am a rock

I am an island

I have my books

And my poetry to protect me

I am shielded in my armor

Hiding in my room, safe within my womb

I touch no one and no one touches me

I am a rock

I am an island

And a rock feels no pain

And an island never cries

The Crow - Dessa

That old crow came back today

Sitting in my window like a prophet

Out on the fire escape, to say

Anger is just love, left out and gone to vinegar

You send signal, you listen for an echo

At the first splinters you run to tell Geppetto

And in the worst winters the whole thing feels untenable

Crow took me by the shoulder

And he told me honey, don't let go

He took me to the workshop

Showed me where they built the bodies

A mason, a blacksmith, a carpenter

And in the darkroom where the whole assembly started

On the clothesline where the hearts hung to harden

You come as fragile, soft machines

And you're bound to fast, bound to grieve

But you're built to balance on two feet

So why you living this last year from your knees?