Stronghold of Oblivion

Climb into the silence

The twisting blinding light

The path towards the chamber

Pulsating savage bright

Shielding hands to faces

Touched the twitching grin

Dancing gems behind us

The Stronghold of Oblivion

    The Keeper of the sun                                     The scream inside the tear

    Eyes too old to council                                    The dead beneath the clear

    Staring through the dark                                Eternal slopes of time

    The giant light behind me….

…and the sky lay unbelieving

A distant gaping hole

We penetrate the mountain

To the nothing far below

Blackened by a sacred sun, Truth you fear to mention

Leaving friends to stumble on, Take the breath of peace……

Shouting at the Sea

Didn’t really get to know you well

From what I did know, I could tell

That this was the last thing on your mind…..

Didn’t really get to say goodbye

What words could ever signify

The sadness of a fight that can’t be won

Time is all we’re spending

Don’t go shouting at the sea

There’s emptiness descending

No escaping what will be (will be….)

The day begins as I wake up

Some days I feel I’ve had enough

Such luxury, that I might have a choice….

The luckier we are the more we fear

There is no happy ending, this is clear….

So look around and feel the presence

A transient delight

A temporary essense

That cradles us tonight

Find a Way

We’ll find a way

Never been able to settle, we go far beyond

You may not be able to catch up to where we belong

But we’ll find a way

Taking the time to imbed every line from the soul

Out of the blue and the burden’s on you to respond

But we’ll find a way

Poe faced in Taunton

With firey red jeans

Propelling one’s greyhound

By no other means

Except to pass judgement

On those that can’t swim

And crave only egg yokes

That chokes on my skin

For frogs do not see me

With armchair in hand

They fall off the ground

And make holes in the sand

But oh what I’d give

To take all that is mine

But with only an armchair

You’d hate to be blind

So fill up my car parks

With ladles and spoons

Laden my trousers

With hot air balloons

Use your bazookas

To tighten my jam

The mutant intruders

Will form a new plan……. 

Visions and Prophecies

Somehow you crept up on me

Now you’re just part of my world

It’s a kind of dependancy

A lantern of hope in the swirl

You ebb and you flow with the tide

Carried on waves from your mind

Restless and hoping to find

Peace in a soul that’s so blue

When the pieces are speaking to you

- It makes you happy -

I get visions and prophecies

And drama that breaks out your head

You involve me reluctantly

Desperate to hear what you’ve said

- It makes you happy -

Devotion’s how you make sense

Your gifts are from heaven sent

Connections keep you alone

Rejection is all that you’ve know

The Engineering of Consent

You are hunted - Can you feel their breath upon you?

We’re the haunted - This machine is drip-bleeding your soul

Debauchery – so implicit; can’t resist it                      

the engineering of consent

Grand illusion - We are subjects of confusion

Fallen saviours - Neon cravers – all of us are sold

Depravity – so ingenious; dark and heinous              

the engineering of consent

You never see through the world around you

The apathy you ingest surrounds you

You think you’re free to decide what you do

You cannot hide from this western voodoo

Conspiracies of a grand agenda

Insanity or a truth defender

What do you see when your eyes are closed?

Daydreaming in the Undertow

It’s just a little scar - I see it in your eyes

The lightning flashes out and takes you down

It firers red and green and then you hit the ground

You have to sleep now, have to sleep

Daydreaming in the undertow

Try to catch a breath

No feeling in the after shock

Clouds still fill your head

You’re off the grid

It’s just a little pill to keep the storm at bay

Confusion blind the in pulse drives you wild

Here comes the deja vu and then you hit the ground

You have to sleep now, have to sleep

Daydreaming in the undertow

Try to catch a breath

No feeling in the after shock

Clouds still fill your head

You’re off the grid

Electric boy - you’re off the grid

Because

Because….

You know you’re only on my mind, half of the time

And so it goes, breathe the words in

Take it on the chin, biding my time

I can’t begin, to let it all in

Letters and spaces all dancing in line

They take off like black butterflies

Patterns revolving and swirling through time

Elusive, like breath over finger tips

And though, it’s only in my head, the things that you said

Are real to me, a memory in time

The stupidest of crimes, longing for sense

To make the word, I just couldn’t see

Letters and spaces all dancing in line

They take off like black butterflies

Patterns revolving and swirling through time

Elusive, like breath over finger tips

Because….

Because, it’s only in my head, the things you said….

Warriors Of The Morning

Bestial eyes - Glowing chaos - Fingers of the damned

Driving closer - Terror heart - Warriors of the morning

Frozen statues - Thrown aside - Defenders left defenceless

Driving closer - Terror heart - Warriors of the morning

Faceless shiver - Climbs the wall - Tidal wave of fear

Driving closer - Terror heart - Warriors of the morning

Driving closer…….

It’s coming closer - Terror heart

Warriors of the morning

Faceless shiver

My terror heart

The Cure

I’ve been waiting - I’ve been waiting all my life

But no-one sees me

How am I supposed to reach you? - When you’re miles and miles away

And you can’t hear me? - What if you could hear me?

Have I been dreaming? - What if I’ve been dreaming all my life?

And all is wasted?

Is there something I can’t give you? - Some electrifying flare that eludes me?

Is that what you need?

I cannot wait anymore - I’m free to love

I just can’t take anymore - I’m free to love

I’ve been grieving - But now I’m feeling so alive

And I am ready

There’s a place that I can get to - A secret world where all is within me

A sanctuary

I was so sure, never saw that the cure would enslave me

Up the pace, win the race, more power to the maybe

And now I let these fragments scatter in the wind…..

Today

Summoning the energy that this takes

It alludes me

Seeking out the enemy in my mind

Pick me up

Puts me down

In my place where I belong

Who do you think you are

And her face becomes yours

And you ask me

How do I feel…… today

Switching from a universe I adore

Disconnecting

Kneeling at the alter I take the strain 

Grey and black

World of shame

In this place that I run from

I don’t know who you are

And his face becomes yours

As you ask me

How do I feel…… today

The Benefit Of Experience

I recognise your collapsing stare

Pleading with tedium - Lost in the glare

Remembering that you once knew fear

Breathing with reasoning - A path so clear

And that’s the benefit of experience

The benefit of experience

With the benefit of experience

Don’t have to worry about what they think

The drifting tides released you

The baron void in which you sink

Unravels all but anguish

I recognise your collapsing stare

Leaking your loneness - Your life passed you by….

What Alchemy?

What is the cost friend

When we add it all up?

Then what alchemy is this?

Like Icarus dawning

That all gold flames to rust

Falls to river beds of dust

And there’s nothing I can do to protect you

Bend the world unto my will and I can’t hope to

But the stronger the grip, you still slip through….

Once a universe - in your arms….

Wide, warm hands

Can’t sooth this anguish at play

Fingers close

Tiny wrists fade away…..

The oceans of droplets

All the deserts of sand

Don’t mean anything now