Be Careful & Beautiful
(The dangerous lines we
tread)

She went off like a cannonball
& left me for dead

(I sat still like a shotgun
jugglin the pieces of my head)

My world is filtered through (you)
No-matter what I do
(I see the world through you)

If you wanna know how I am
make small talk

Wanna know who I am
read the poetry

I You Want to Love me
Look into my eyes

moments of
ecstasy, sorrow

(life happens in-between)

Days float by us,
revolving slowly

Away from ourselves.
reaching out:

Like the two arms
of the milky way

She's there at the
shifting moments

(bridges the worlds
with shamanic peace wings)

(found the quiet place
where it's ok to let go

where the silence speaks
of who we are

where the truth is what's unspoken

What if i'da punched somebody
in the mouth
or even pulled my gun

Made the sign of the cross
or just went on the run

maybe I shoulda smashed up my
car or set
somethin on fire
(it always worked before)

or drank the whole goddam bottle
or tore apart the book
we never read

Wouldn't it be cool if we could really
go to heaven
really go to hell

Imagine if we were children
what a time we'd have
(we coulda just dropped it all)

Dropped it like a match

(Pulled the fuckin' trigger)

You can't be with me
from inside a cage

Smile pretty and get me to
rub up against the glass

You gotta roll
to rock with me

Ain't no tabletop
gonna keep up with this
stone

Anything can be made sacred
(I never really wanted to
live without you)

soft chirping of crickets
& frogs

gentle rain blankets my soul

Let your pain
go

Let your desire go

(they are the same)

I get my strength
from the Warrior's Edge

(I get my love
from the Goddess
Breath)

I have dreamed everything
no more pain
I am a beautiful poet

free of myself
(I say something
about the caterpillar right
before transforming into a butterfly)

& warriors to filled with
hope too die

Before becoming
all things
(awakened)

Set yourself free
into the empty choir
(absence of sound)

Just come along with me
to all the places we have not been
when time bends around again
throught the spaces
we burned holes in

Yeah it hurts to see the light
squinting from your cave
we saw the dreams inside out baby

inside out
(and upside down)


You'll always ride with me

We never sold our souls
blood filled with rock n roll
somebodies gotta pay

That just the way this game is played
(she tasted like a river
she melted like a sea
she took me to her throne
then set everybody free)

she couldn't understand
the kind of man
that didn't want to
play her game

she seemed like gold
that couldn't be sold
but when the glass breaks
its such a
shame

He had a heart like a lion
in a cage
that just coudn't be staged
there was no way to predict

When he'd shoot from the hip
or just let everything stay the
same

Any kind of change or
way to re-arrange the
illusion without diffusion
was the way he liked
to pray

(anyway...)

Twist it whatever way
you want too

Rationalize, justify, rage,
hate, fear, love, defy, argue
disagree, expose, snow, fake

me

Hide me
deny me
forget me
disrespect me
long for me

walk away from me
turn your back on me
embrace the lie in front of your
face

Its written on my knuckles
it's written on my soul

I never lied about who I am
never showed you nothin that wasn't
true


I'm a mother-fucker
poet-biker warrior
wanderer
shaman
eagle-flyer

ain't no box for
you to stick that
in

if you can't be it
you'd better
forget it...

We are not the same
(I walked away a long, long
time ago)

Never joined the race
(free-man of the world)

Wandering...

wandering the forests and temples

"Have to find another god
now

One that doesn't know your
name

If you think this song's
about you...

man you gotta change"

From the band- 1911
Song: "Broken 45"
1972 single, from Rock Hard records

Let
Our
Visions
Empty

Salute 2 Brian Gordon

years and years of
cheap motels,
roadside diners
watery coffee
greasy pie,
(bus rides on what
sometimes seemed like
dirt roads)

empty stands
lackluster anti-fans
stupid names,
like
Iron-pigs

A lot of dreams must have
died,
before he came to the mound
an aging man with a newly
formed cutter

Those bright crisp lights of
the Bronx
Those o so clean and o so straight
blue & white pinstripes

6 innings & 2 runs later
those ornery fans
came to their feet

His father among the crowd
lifted as if by a cloud
for the ovation

LIVE
FREE

Obviously,
there is no one
there to hold your hand
when you jump off the crumbling
cliff of your
life

To be free
you must have the
courage to fly
alone

I'm not here to make you comfortable.

She was my dream
held together
with ethereal prayers
of golden light

(thanks to whatever twisted gods of time
let her briefly shine on me)

The world
(everybody thinks they understand)
Know what's best

You can't accept it
the way it is
Peace makes war
war makes money
money makes fear

(hide your head in the sand)
say your prayers
look the way you're supposed to
make everyone smile

(each of us is what's right,
what's wrong)

The Poetry
is the only answer

Whoever knew me
doesn't know me anymore

(whoever thinks they knew somebody
from the past,
that they are expecting to be
the same)

doesn't know me

I left with the cougar
into the mountains

I entered the eagle
(and she landed
within me)

If you want to know me
you must leave yourself
behind

We saw the mysteries right?
(showed them to each other
creeping through the sparkling
darkness)

Say goodbye to lifetimes,
bloodlines

desserts,
mountains

(remember when the nighttime was so
thick (thick like smoke, thick like
saliva, thick like blood,
thick like life) we couldn't
see anything but our
souls)

Let the beauty of
the day flow

(into the arms
of what we'll never know)

I will always
love you so much

we had our time together
of
(destiny & heaven)