Evolution – RON

Trials and tribulations, lies and hesitations

Are backing us into a cage

Peaceful simulations, die in frustration

Now packing us in with its rage
The stage is set for a revolution
The peaceful man born of evolution
So let them all kill each other off, no solution

We must rid our minds of all the pollution

Cuz the wise will grow old
Ignorance will be folded and tucked away. 

Now past acts back-track

We’ve rounded the bend and back again

The fast track’s action

Is bound to the end and back again

The stage is set for a revolution
The peaceful man born of evolution
If you’re stuggling I can map out your route

If you’re suffocating I can help you find a way out

If you’re hurting I can ease your pain
If you’re thinking I can help you keep up with your brain

If you’re drinking I can make sure every bottle is drained

If you’re homeless I can help you get out of the rain

If you hurry up you can just catch that train

It’s time for revolution to reign. 

The stage is set for a revolution

The peaceful man born of evolution

In Your Smile – Hundo (co-written by Don Sheridan)

Waiting, drawing blank
My life seems so far away

Unexpected clout draws smiles

As I undo all these miles

The next big thing

Just makes me feel kinda small

Garnished days with popcorn strings
Only make me hungry
Only to realize now that youth is beautiful

There’s a city of lost children found in your smile

Another sweat from my brow

You’re in no way committed here to your own fall

I’m feeling down, can’t keep my feet on the ground

I’m feeling down, can’t keep my feet on the ground

Meaningless chatter just fills up this tower

Ladder – RON

It plugs up the hole just to stop the drip
It fills the whole cup to take only a sip
It’s tying it’s shoes and it’s packed for the trip
It lives next to perfection and they’re tied at the hip

It’s faded past and it’s lost all it’s tracking
It’s paling trust and it’s costly reaction
It peels back and adds to subraction
It reels slack in to gain a better grip

Memories of past time
last through rhymes and rhythms
Pass through time and scisms
to it’s own beat
A complete unknown
Like a rolling stone
You hone in and hone in on it
Drone win and drone win till you depend upon it

You get a little further up the ladder
You dig a little deeper till you get down to the matter at hand
It’s a land in your mind that few know
It’s a land where you dine on the flow

You dig a little deeper and get down to the matter at hand

Day of Bliss – RON

 

Drained, I strained to speak to you

But again to no avail

Pained, I rained the street for you

And each time I failed

I”ll trade all of my misery

For just one day of bliss

I’ll trade all of history

For just one kiss

 

She glows and glows and glows

Because she knows

Her place in the space

She’s so beautifully posed

She throws her hair

And the heaven stop and stare

A million rays of light

She’s lost in the glare

 

 

Hang on Me – RON

 

Carefully plucked from the sky

It’s around your neck and hanging you high
The hair in your eyes is blocking your view
There’s no way around it so you go right through
It takes you to the middle
Answers your riddle
Then poses another to you

How does time drag and fly by so fast
How the mind flags those which may show last
We’re flying through space
And what’s in front of our face
Seems so big

But we are so small
So you can’t forget your big dream
Even if achieved it is so much smaller that it seems
It fits on a tiny blue planet
You can plan it and plan it and plan it
But it will only amount to granite and dust

We are so small
So forget your big problems and remember
That we are so small

 

 

Hammer – RON

 

 

Must – RON

Now you lay low
Now you hide in the chaos
And drown in the day
So real that it all feels ok

Now it’s drying on the vine
Now it’s lying saying it has time
But we all are running out
Yeah we all are running out

We take critical polital action
And it all amounts to dusk
We fake analytical subraction
And bring it down to what we must
Down to what we must and must not do

Please just rewind and be alive again
I’ve realized again you are here
Please just rewind and be alive again
I’ve realized again you are here.

We take critical polital action
And it all amounts to dusk
We fake analytical subraction
And bring it down to what we must
Down to what we must and must not do

Where to Run – RON

Your life’s on fire
There’s no where to run
Your life’s on fire
There’s no where to run
Smoke climbing up the walls
There’s no where to run
Smoke climbing up the walls
You’ve no where to run

The missles are coming
You’ve no where to run
The missles are coming
You’ve no where to run
The bombs are falling
You’ve no where to run
The walls are crumbling
You’ve no where to run

Your life’s on fire
You’ve no where to run
Your life’s on fire
And you’ve no where to run
The missles are coming
And you’ve no where to run
They’re already in the air
And you’ve no where to run

Slick Grip – RON

 

Touching no ground my feet tend to stray

To find what I’ve found they’ve gone their own way

In love, in doubt, indifference won out

And I’m sorry that you had to pay.

 

A wall of protection no one is let in

A fall of perfection from love’s peak set in

I have once again slipped from love’s slick grip

In changing directions I lose so you win, don’t we fit?

 

I hope in not very long that you will see

That what I do is for you and not for me

It’s so hard to tell what the future will bring

But for now turn away and just be free of me

Just be free of me

Just be glad you’re free of me.

 

 

Harvest – RON

 

You sink deep in a haze
A crazed state
Up too late and out for bloodIt’s a flood and you’re swimming for your life
It’s the blood pumping you never think twice

 

Peace reigning down
It’s spread all around town
You’ve got the pieces all around
Now you gotta
Put em all together

 

Now the gun smoke dies down
And it’s part white and it’s part brown
But all alive
It’s in us to strive for greatness
If it’s late miss the bloom
And rot all the way to the harvest
The right thing may be the hardest to do
But it’s better

 

Peace reigning down
It’s spread all around town
You’ve got the pieces all around
Now you gotta
Put it all together

 

 

Hum – RON

 

All that we have done is justified

It’s rusted I’d say we’ve gone too far

We do the time to commit the crime

We’re grimy and we’re drowning in tar

 

It’s spun deeper and deeper

It’s spun deeper and deeper

It’s spun deeper and deeper

It’s spun deeper and deeper

 

We fall in line to the beat of the drum

Fear to overcome is overrun

We sing all of the words that we know

And the others we hum

 

Flow and ebb, bass and treble I’m a rebel in trouble

In a bubble with rubble and tears

Freaks gather round just to see what goin on

Weeks clump together years keep rolling on

 

It’s spun deeper and deeper

It’s spun deeper and deeper

It’s spun deeper and deeper

It’s spun deeper and deeper

 

We fall in line to the beat of the drum

Fear to overcome is overrun

We sing all of the words that we know

And the others we hum

 

 

Barrier – RON

 

So I guess I’m ruined

I have not seen the writing on the wall

So I guess I flew in

Right through the window

End up down the hall

 

It’s uncalled for

I’ve spoken ill will towards you

I’m at the ball core

Bouncing around but never through

 

Finally I break through that barrier

Only to find the taxpayers’ aircraft carrier

On a course towards the innocent and frail

It’s a jail of the mind, a hail to the unkind bind

 

And we cheer to our success only to turn around

And fail to find the time to finish the rhyme.

 

 

No Life – RON

I am the man with no life
It’s all strife and no action
I keep on living my life
No attention, no reaction

I am the man who gets no sun
Who gets no rain
I just laze in the gray
With no one to play

 

I am the man with no life
I’ve no wife
No one runs to me runs to me runs ta
I am the man with no life
La la la la la la la la la la la

 

I am that walk down

I am that take down

I am that stay
I am that look past
I am that walk by
I am that space
You are that look past
You are that stay non
You are that plain
I am that stand up
I am that up right
I am right on

 

I am the man with no life
I’ve no wife
No one runs to me
La la la la la la la

 

 

Supermen – RON

We are here to save the day
We are here to make sure everything is ok
We have come to free you of fear
We have come to tell you what you need to hear
It’s all gonna be just fine

We are super men
Taking on the frown
Saving you from stuff that’s goin down
We are super men
Taking on the frown
Saving you from stuff that’s goin down

We are here to save the day
We know everything that you want to say
We’re flying high above your town
We got an eye out to make sure that you don’t drown
In a flood
It’s all gonna be just fine

We are super men
Taking on the frown
Saving you from stuff that’s goin down
We are super men
Taking on the frown
Saving you from stuff that’s goin down

Sun Sets – Starrunner

 

Saintly glow, in times we grow

And it tastes like morning

And the sun sets up straight

And the drum rids us all of hate

As we stand here abreast in fate

Faint and slow, we find we know

And we steal the morning

As the sun sets up straight

And the drum rids us all of hate

As we float here, adrift in fate. 

 

 

Sitting on the Beach in the Carribean Looking Up at the Stars – Starrunner

 

There is crying out far and near

We just scrape by year after year

We are taught to hate, taught to fear

We are so much wiser than we appear.

 

It’s all coming down

And we’re forced to gain ground 

In this never ending war for who’s got more

It’s the obvious truth

That it’s all in our youth

Still we follow the line on the floor

 

Have some trust in me

I will not let you down

We will swim the waters

In which you drown

You look up to see 

It’s icy stare

You see it just lone enough

Not to care

 

It’s all coming down

And we’re forced to gain ground 

In this never ending war for who’s got more

It’s the obvious truth

That it’s all in our youth

Still we follow the line on the floor

 

 

Unnamed

 

A day well-framed and a shot well-aimed

A calm collected point of view

Sifting a list to remain unnamed

And they all turn into you

 

You leave in steady decline

I hope I get a chance just to stand in line

If all love is true and between us only years

And if time is as time was then the time draws near

 

Falling faster and faster from you

I can see to afar from which I flew

And if my wings might must carry me above all

I must be unafraid to fall

 

You leave in steady decline

I hope I get a chance just to wait in line

If all love is true and between us only years

And if time is as it was then the time draws near

 

 

Inhale – Starrunner

 

I see all there is to see

Float around in ecstasy

Time is you and you are me

It’s a dream far away from here

That keeps you going from year to year

Drown in love and fear

 

Can we just ignore today?

And fear to hard to play.

 

So what is this thing that we call life?

Should we live it all just to set up the fall

I find it hard to believe that we must leave this place

In order to truly see grace.  

 

So let’s take a look around

Tell each other what we found

Keep our noses to the ground

Let us look to the sky

And tell each other why

Keep our heads up real high

 

Can we just ignore today?

And fear to hard to play.

 

So what is this thing that we call life?

Should we live it all just to set up the fall

I find it hard to believe that we must leave this place

In order to truly see grace.  

 

 

Avocado – Starrunner

 

Shedding some light on the fight

It’s never about who is wrong or right

I am offering you my plight

That we all share one common sight

 

But you’re bounded by such gusting gales

And my trust while trying so hard fails

So I sink heavy toward the floor of the sea

And in comparison everything else around this world just pales

So I sink heavy toward the floor of the sea

 

Clear grey reflection, flatted plane of liquid glass

How I look deep within and see that none shall pass

Fingering malcontent flipping through the air

Lingering pale current keep slipping through the air

 

But you’re bounded by such gusting gales

And my trust while trying so hard fails

So I sink heavy toward the floor of the sea

And in comparison everything else around this world just pales

So I sink heavy toward the floor of the sea

 

So you look out to the sea

You try way too hard to find a trace of me

This aint how it’s supposed to be

Why don’t you just let me sink, let me be

 

But you’re bounded by such gusting gales

And my trust while trying so hard fails

So I sink heavy toward the floor of the sea

And in comparison everything else around this world just pales

So I sink heavy toward the floor of the sea

 

 

Liz – Hundo/Starrunner

 

Walking around this sunny day

I got the feeling everything’s gonna be OK

Walking around dreaming of May

The sun in my eyes I look for you

 

Cloud riding on my shoulder

Wind at my back and I’m one day older

Stride widening, higher to you

Your smile in my head I look to you.

 

Think the trees are greener today

Got your call and I’m on my way

Feeling better as I near you

Cloudy days so far away

 

Big plans as days go by

You give me presents and I give you sky

Not alone I won’t walk away mad

I got plenty for which I can be glad

 

Think the trees are greener today

Got your call and I’m on my way

Feeling better as I near you

Cloudy days so far away

 

Your smile in my head I look to you.

 

 

Spun – Starrunner

 

A single-string tuning 

She rings in its waves 

And rides along on the energy she saves 

All day long, her heart full of love 

Reaching down and aback from above 

 

She is billowing down like a feather afall 

She is wearing no crown, she will weather us all 

But alas time has passed and I find we’re done 

End up again spun 

 

A single-string tuning 

She sings it along 

And she wishes she could sing it all night long 

But alas, time has passed and I find we’re done 

End up again spun  

 

 

Super Daylight – Starrunner

 

By the light of your angel breath

I see the haze of Super Daylight

Two suns, lonely ones, found each other so bright

In it’s glare we dare lay down our fight.  

 

Illumination, saturation, we see what’s real

The dehydration of the nation, in plain sight we feel.

 

Super Daylight, somehow we all understand

Never spoke the word cuz we heard it from the land

In our quest for light we have honed our skills in pre-sight

All along we know we’re right.

 

Illumination, saturation, we see what’s real

The dehydration of the nation, in plain sight we feel.

 

 

Dried – Starrunner

Glazed youngin, crazed toungin

he wonders how it all came to be

And in his wonder my friend slips under

And ends it all for me

This one’s for you

Thank you for your glimpse of grace

Thank you for your lovely face

And I thank you for all your assured hands

I hope that in time you will understand

And if we drive to the edge I will vow not to look down

As if I ruled the world I would never wear a crown

We are all upon this path together so laugh together

Play each and every day

Whether or whether or not they show

Thank you for your glimpse of grace

Thank you for your lovely face

And I thank you for all your assured hands

I hope that in time you will understand

The Righteous – Starunner

We are free as can be

We are deaf for the right to see

We are living for you your dream

And handing out our love for free

Do we not spread the word of god?

You cannot tell me we are not saved.

Don’t we spread love when push comes to shove?

You cannot tell me we are not saved

Righteous Pilgrims of the Funk

We have made our way through all the junk

Shrouded in trees he agrees to abide 

and all of life’s ho-hum doldrums he decides to take in stride,

eyes wide to nothing too fantastic, 

averted advertantly to all things plastic, 

a drastic release, 

he polices the increases of love flowing in and out of his air, 

his hair a wild rummage of unkempt fair, 

still he stares at its bare simplicity, 

its rare implicity that he’s missing from his 

everyday life and in every way strife is a part of his heart … 

until he lets it all go.

Righteous Pilgrims of the Funk

We have made our way through all the junk

So give me a free way of life and you’ll find me home

A song for a whisper, a lingering tune for a poem

You can get the moon for a tune

And a June for a December

But you can’t have the perfect life for the price of remembering.

Uno de Juno – Starrunner

Lazing around, amidst all I found

I can’t help seeing

While I chose the prose to go along with the song in my head

Can’t help being

Blue falls like a veil

Across the hills we sail

We float upon my love for you

As blue is blue though pale.

First of June.

Blazing around, life in circle round

I can’t help seeing

While I drew a cue from you I found I’m homeward bound

Can’t help being.

Blue falls like a veil

Above the hills we sail

We float upon my love for you

As blue is blue though pale.  

First of June

Tomorrow – Starrunner

You can’t tell me wrong from right if you can’t tell me black from white

And you can’t tell me up from down if you can’t tell a smile from a frown

So, you go your way and I’ll go my way

And you will find that we both will be OK

Please don’t define for me my happiness and sorrow

If you can’t tell me today from tomorrow

You look down on me in your sly snide way and you are shocked when I have nothing to say

You may hurt your arm patting yourself on the back unless you’re in a pinch someday

So, you go your way and I’ll go mine

I think you will find that we both will end up fine

Please don’t define for me my happiness and sorrow

If you can’t tell me today from tomorrow. 

Jackie Brown – Starrunner

Like it or not, I got to chill a little more today
Last night, drown in blood and vodka, may keep me in bed till May

Just leave it alone now, don’t let in run you down
Just leave it alone now, don’t let in run you down

Upon rising, I found my voice, but found I had no words to say
So go on, leave it alone, go and find your way home
Call another day

Just leave it alone now, don’t let in run you down
Just leave it alone now, don’t let in run you down

 

 

Linger – Starrunner – Lyrics by Oscar Loubriel

He created echoes
For that’s all that he possessed

I heard the rustling of an empty black trash bag
Filled with mellow songs

That lingered in my mind
That lingered in my mind

I chipped and cracked as concrete buckles
Twisted wire along the highway

Mimicking torn abandoned tires on the sides of old lonely tress
Lying naked and

It lingered in my mind
It lingered in my mind

Calm heart of black rubber
Dried rust running down thick slabs of cement
Their eyes touching my hopes
Their hands watching infectious blankness
Everything covered in cages
Birds, murals, litter, honesty
Happiness, smog …
Broken windows with their backs to me
A civilized civilization of tomorrow worriers
Yesterday never lingers in their mind

It lingered in my mind
It lingered in my mind

 

 

Afro Kitty – Starrunner

She said she believes in angels
But I can’t tell if she’s one or not
I think she could ring all of my bells
But right now, she’s just not
Firing, crying, lying on the floor
Till I’m made to come back for more
Trying blindly to force my core
But it’s a bore, there must be more in store

Oh Camilla, don’t you want to see me
Found in you and now I’m drown

Clearly we can see past all that we were
Never kindling bridges to deter
When all of the crazy things that could occur have occurred
You were there along your lucid ways your curse

Oh Camilla, don’t you want to see me
Found in you and now I’m drown

 

 

What Good Am I? – Ryan Behling/Dave Wagner

What good is a starry sky if the stars don’t fall on you?
What good are these arms of mine if they can’t rest upon you?
What good is a sunset but to warn the day of night?
And without you, my love, tell me what good am I?

What good is a soothing breeze if you’re not there to soothe?
What good is my every move unless it’s to you I move?
What good is a moonlit sky except for birds to fly?
And without you, my love, tell me what good am I?

If you can hear my inquiry, I ask you darling answer these
Questions may not change your choice,
But I just want to hear your voice

What good could a heart be if it’s so easily lost?
What good is the ocean if by you it’s so easily crossed?
What good is a love song, but to make my heart cry?
And without you, my love, tell me what good am I?

 

 

Piece of Mind – Starrunner

Time goes so slow when I can’t get to you
Each night forgoes the sweating of the morning dew
Will I ever find you outside my mind?
For each hour’s a day and each day I think I may
Find the time to fill my mind with you all day

Tell me where can I find
A little piece of mind
Tell me where can I find
A little piece of mind

Around each corner the thoughts of you creep to me
The taste of your lips fills my every cup of tea
Will I ever find you outside my mind?
For each hour’s a day and each day I think I may
Find the time to fill my mind with you all day

Tell me where can I find
A little piece of mind
Tell me where can I find
A little piece of mind



Drivin’ 55 – Starrunner

Driving down south, better watch your mouth
We’re going on down toward Memphis way
No a cloud in my view, but my eyes ain’t what they used to be
All along the road, it’s all the same to me

Driving 55 the wrong way
Looking for my life along the way
Driving 55 the wrong way
Looking for my life along the way

Creeping for weeks in a broken down Ford
Not a soul on earth can ever call me bored
No a cloud in my view, but my eyes ain’t what they used to be
All along the road, it’s all the same to me

Driving 55 the wrong way
Looking for my life along the way
Driving 55 the wrong way
Looking for my life along the way

 

 

Figment – Starrunner – Lyrics by Oscar

Come down, kiss the clockless hour
Where everything’s in reverse
Hunger the understanding
Amidst disorders of debilitating thirst
I’ve been knelt on my fists
And I’ve been bent at the knees
If the world’s gonna cave in
Never said I was a savior
I’m the one who needs saving

Walking on the water of heavy tears,
Could this be reality or a figment of a galaxy?
Felt you as I jumped from the sky to the ground
We can’t believe in trust if it’s beneath us.
I’m not making sense of strangers
I thought I knew about innocence
As I dine on poisonous snakes
Her kisses hiss
Trusting upside down beliefs
In a fictional destiny
Side by side we dive into forever, momentarily

Walking on the water of heavy tears
Could this be reality, or a figment of reality?
Felt you as I jumped from the sky to the ground
We can’t believe in trust if it’s beneath us.

Succumb to the numb you
This riverbed bled
Cuz it was confused
Meager definition
These theories grow weary
To crucify or fear me
I got half a mind to
Find my better half
And make us whole

 

 

Sun Sets – Starrunner

Saintly glow, in times we grow
And it tastes like morning
And the sun sets up straight
And the drum rids us all of hate
As we stand here abreast in fate

Faint and slow, we find we know
And we steal the morning
As the sun sets up straight
And the drum rids us all of hate
As we float here, adrift in fate.

 

 

Day 2 Day – Hundo/Starrunner

Staring into space, utter void in my chest
How long ago did our wave reach its crest?
The downward spiral of loss and deceit
Making quick liquid this base of concrete

Standing tall, looking quite far away
When can you love me if not from day to day?
Standing tall, looking quite far away
When can you love me if not from day to day?

I’m no angel, don’t get me wrong
But I’m the fool who’s been loving you so long
Still can’t help my admiration for you
But how would the foot feel in the other shoe?

Standing tall, looking quite far away
When can you love me if not from day to day?
Standing tall, looking quite far away
When can you love me if not from day to day?

You cheat me, you beat me, you fail to complete me
As you still lie in my head sweetly



Uno de Juno – Starrunner

Lazing around, amidst all I found
I can’t help seeing
While I chose the prose to go along with the song in my head
Can’t help being

Blue falls like a veil
Across the hills we sail
We float upon my love for you
As blue is blue though pale.

First of June.

Blazing around, life in circle round
I can’t help seeing
While I drew a cue from you I found I’m homeward bound
Can’t help being.

Blue falls like a veil
Above the hills we sail
We float upon my love for you
As blue is blue though pale.

First of June

 

 

Flames from the Sky – Starrunner – Lyrics by Dallas

Your way to get by
Some souls may cry
Judgement impaired
People are scared

They don’t know why
They might die
Has the dark side won?

Flames from the sky
Flames from the sky
Flames from the sky
Flames from the sky

We point no blame
But some will shame
Few know the truth
Many poison our youth

And they don’t know why
They might die
Has the dark side won?

Flames from the sky
Flames from the sky
Flames from the sky
Flames from the sky

Almighty vision some will see
Humanity come to me
Don’t be scared
Please be spared.

 

 

The Righteous – Starrunner

We are free as can be
We are deaf for the right to see
We are living for you your dream
And handing out our love for free

Do we not spread the word of god?
You cannot tell me we are not saved.
Don’t we spread love when push comes to shove?
You cannot tell me we are not saved

Righteous Pilgrims of the Funk
We have made our way through all the junk

Shrouded in trees he agrees to abide
and all of life’s ho-hum doldrums he decides to take in stride,
eyes wide to nothing too fantastic,
averted advertantly to all things plastic,
a drastic release,
he polices the increases of love flowing in and out of his air,
his hair a wild rummage of unkempt fair,
still he stares at its bare simplicity,
its rare implicity that he’s missing from his
everyday life and in every way strife is a part of his heart …
until he lets it all go.

Righteous Pilgrims of the Funk
We have made our way through all the junk

So give me a free way of life and you’ll find me home
A song for a whisper, a lingering tune for a poem
You can get the moon for a tune
And a June for a December
But you can’t have the perfect life for the price of remembering.

 

Spin – Starrunner

Where’d you go that you learned so well
Maybe it’s within you
Caught somewhere between heaven and hell
It runs around and it spins you.

Forget the array; forget everything that I used to say
We are all fighting in our lives
To do what we should
But now it’s fuck for good and buck the hood
And get out.

 

 

Long Day – Starrunner – Ryan Behling/Robin Kelso

Caught under the knee of my chi
It’s so hard to see what will come to be
I have no clout and I have no doubt
So whatever’s allright with me.

Such a long, such a long, such a long day

The sheets have nice pleats, but they’re all used overtime
As the beats have nice cleats to dance under the rhyme
But I forgot to give you the time of day
I thought it would matter to me
I say come what may

Such a long, such a long, such a long day

The things you want cost laughter and smiles
Riches galore pave ever mile
I hope you get all you want through the years
And we shine through your tears

“Lazy days people come and go just to see you smile, my dear
It’s in your eyes that infectious glow glad to know that you are near”
So you take off and fake soft anthropological weaping
And it’s the only part of your heart I will be keeping.

Remedial poetry written menial foes forgetting
That I’ve gotten even two fold
It shatters and clatters hold a hand in a right turn
Light burn that you can return when you’re old
Or so I’m told as history’s sold
Packaged as mysteries, mysteries, bold listeries, cold facts
Laying tracks, snapping backs, old words from old men stack the racks
Lies to try by, trials to fire by and all the while we’re looking to clear skies
Hoping to find we know right from wrong
Maybe weak from strong
We’ve been brainwashed for far too long.

 

 

Chill Cut – Starrunner

Another gloomy April day
And I see that we are not here
We are all looking for something to say
Or so in silence it appears

And you say that you won’t
You look down pensively
I just figured you don’t
So, I crawl along defensively

We are one in action
We must start to look up
Blown apart distraction
We must start to look up

Ripping my hair out just by working too hard
Nameplate and suitcoat nearly caught me off guard
Gather round cuz I got something to say
Don’t wait for your break I got an ache today, it’s not ok.

And you say that you won’t
You look down pensively
I just figured you don’t
So, I crawl along defensively

We are one in action
We must start to look up
Blown apart distraction
We must start to look up

 

Super Daylight – Starrunner

By the light of your angel breath
I see the haze of Super Daylight
Two suns, lonely ones, found each other so bright
In it’s glare we dare lay down our fight.

Illumination, saturation, we see what’s real
The dehydration of the nation, in plain sight we feel.

Super Daylight, somehow we all understand
Never spoke the word cuz we heard it from the land
In our quest for light we have honed our skills in pre-sight
All along we know we’re right.

Illumination, saturation, we see what’s real
The dehydration of the nation, in plain sight we feel.

 

Blues #2 – Starrunner

I found my girl, way down and out in Baton Rouge
She said baby what have you got to prove
I found my girl, way down and out in Baton Rouge
She said baby what have you got to prove
I said please please baby,
Don’t make me choose

Then she willed me away, told me I’ve gone astray
What could I possibly say?
Then she willed me away, told me I’ve gone astray
What could I possibly say?
I said please please baby,
Don’t make me go away.

 

 

Rising – Starrunner

I’ve been meaning to tell you
What’s been going round in my head
I keep trying to tell you
What’s been going round in my head
I walk out the back door
Real slow and come out ahead
Tripping on my tongue sometimes
Just trying to keep my ego fed

On the horizon,
tandem rising from a tantalizing point of view
Welcome my friends
I trust you are well and
I’m glad I get to see it with you.

I’ve been meaning to tell you
I can’t get you out of my head
But I forget just why
No matter how hard I try
I’m leaving in the evening
On the town to get my feet wet
Throwing all my money out
I’ll take right now and I’ll chance the debt

On the horizon,
tandem rising from a tantalizing point of view
Welcome my friends
I trust you are well and
I’m glad I get to see it with you.

Twisted minds and crying souls
Desperate hearts and the force below
Don’t run from what’s to come
For its just a dream.

 

Less Than More – Starrunner – Ryan and Pete

This dirty world is playing you for a fool
A muddy puddle plays itself off as a pool
Yet we dive in time after time again
Seeking the exception to the rule

One step closer to war
One dollar less than more
Collected the masses stand in brown grasses
With one eye fixed on the shore
And we go to the polls and our voice falls through the holes

Blood drains of the flooded plains as they become drier
How could we forget that our situation is so dire
Yet we tire of burning our hands in the fire
So we work just hard enough to not be fired

One step closer to war
One dollar less than more
Collected the masses stand in brown grasses
With one eye fixed on the shore
And we go to the polls and our voice falls through the holes

Constant struggle to better ourselves
Taking steps back through power and wealth
See through the greed take just what we need
No need to struggle we all would be free

 

 

Feel it Wind

I could run so far with you

If we could make the time

I could spend my life with you

If you would give me the time
Feel it wind

Feel it wind
If it’s all in my mind

Please let me know

And if your love ain’t that kind

Don’t let me be the last to know
Faster, filling my head with the smell of hot

Deafening methanine with starships in between

All space and time start to unwind

And I am caught in the green
Shall I find my way to the door

Before it just becomes the floor

What else could this day have in store

A complete and utter store-bought bore.


A Hedonists Prayer

Thank you god for giving us this day

Whether we use it to work, fuck, or play

Rain or shine, we are one in thine

Our gracious host through which we shine
Mountains in the distance

What a welcome sight

We now in the mist dance

And define the trite as trite


Mopless

I fell like my sink is overflowing

As I stand, mouth agape, mopless

Wouldn’t know where to start

Even if I could make myself.  
Stones piling up, securing this stronghold

But blocking it off from the rest of our fair land

And now I find myself having a seat

As just the moment its time to take a stand
Same hours, same towers, my powers wane away

Same faces, same places, no traces, different day.  
Dark circles under the eyes of the world

We haven’t slept a wink since we proved false god.
With brutish force, the cadence descends

Lands with a thump, a final blow released

The tension only to ease up now our

Upturned eyes tearful and intense

We relax, we fall under, a spell hard to tell

The difference between thunderclaps and our one tolling death knell.  
For fantastic dreams await us in time

Always out of reach till we invent the divine

Ah, your soul is eased now, eyes pleased now

Eden on the Rhine

The biggest mother of all fish now you’re leading on the line
So I guess My Small Problems are naught

As we’re all falling down

And I guess unless I fess I’m caught

Between a hard rock and this place.  


Goodbye

How I love you, my dear

And how I wish that I could stay another year

Would I stay or throw it all away

My answer I’m afraid to say
Or speak the truth without losing kooth

It’s like biting on a rock to save the tooth

A booth set up to fret of if we’re read up

But attacking my backing get me so fed up
So redub this club with a tree and a shrub

And it’s me that you rub when you say anything

And a king and a queen could never dream to seem

So part of the team I mean all combined could ever set at ease the time we find


Frozen Moment

Frozen moment, we can see forever

And ever and ever and ever no weather

Just field of truth and souls grown plain

Calls to an end the sickening money reign. 


The Way to Nowhere

On the way to nowhere, the group collectively wanders, finding things to do at every turn.  A simple journey turned flash with opportunity, neccesity just a word.  “It’s here, I want it.  I’m used to having it.”  They will leisurly consume as if they’ve nowhere to go, no purpose here but to contribute to the machine.  After all, it’s worked here for so long.
He gets on the train at 95th and rides it north to work.  A meager living, but a living indeed.  Inspired by music at night, he puts up a good fight and obeys tradition and social norms.  He speaks to no one on this ride.  Train moves him silently closer and further, depending on where the sun is.  If it weren’t for the cell phones ringing, he would hardly notice his transient transit companions.  
He looks up at an instant where 2 souls pass.  Catches the eye of a lovely woman as she enters the creeky automatic doors.  He is compelled to rise and offer his seat.  She accepts and they share a lifetime in a glance.  
But alas, the bell tolls, “Switch here for blue”.  Duty calls and in row he falls.  Leaving behind a head full of love, happiness, fulfillment in what could have been called love if it weren’t already so well defined.  Off to his job to help him sustain for another day so that he can go to his job.  


Lost in the Desert

Lounging in the desert, playing life with an empty bank

To drag around my sorrows grows exhausting to be frank
So I suck it up and draw a line in the sand

And lean no more as it’s time to stand

Forge ahead until I’m dead, nary a moment filled with dread

As I wash my dreams out of my head
It’s no dream now, instead a way of life

Rocky as any path I could choose

But it’s only in time and rhyme and passionless crime

That the best players in the game feel they lose
So I cruise, no hands, sights looking to now

Knowing that if there’s gas in the engine I’ll move

And listen no more to the chores from the shores

And wrong the naysayers I’ll prove. 
I’m too good to give up, half full is my cup

So long as I know that what drives me is truth

I will sing as if I will be the only one to hear

And what comes of what comes is moot


Ginding to a Halt

The way to god is love we know

Not like fighting a way for peace

As we fall on our knees one another we please

Tolerance and happiness will no doubt increase.  
We are small, we are not right

Deep inside we must know

that not everything is solved in a fight. 
We are unimportant and so is our cash

And we should take our hate out back with the trash

With you I would smile and walk 10, 000 miles

If you could just look past your stash.  
Grinding to a halt, not minding who’s at fault

We will see that it’s us all who is wrong

So doubt fully our clout and shot our hearts out

A chorus as one in song.
So sing loud to right our own injustice

And sing strong if we all really want peace

And stand tall and be unafraid to fall

So sing loud and make the fighting cease


Blind Date

Brainchild, free grown easy

Still got all of your tricks to learn

What could come of my heart drawn lightly

Your sweet smell, my chosen one
I await here, eyes drooping likewise

Arrested in your intent

If all these hours add up to just that

They are considered to me hours well spent. 


First Song – Starrunner

Got him up a wall, his eyes a waterfall

I hope that I have what it takes to get her back

Got her all up in a fit

I hope I can keep up with her shit

But now I have to try lest I would die.
Don’t trust me cuz I can’t be held responsible

Don’t follow me cuz I don’t know where I’m going

Do what you must to me I’ll still be

But never tell me there is no way I can win
Cuz I will destroy you, you won’t be getting out now for a while

I will implore you to follow all my rules and then I’ll smile

And I’ll go to war with you and watch it on my television dial

And I’ll never glorify you only in the name of good style.


Drive

Fly onto my rescue

Drive on my way

Your voice creeps in my ear

I dream of you my dear

Drive with me to up and around

Drive with me to my favorite view


Classical Music on Lunchhour
  

And so now I grow more and more alone

Like minds diverge and find their own

Fear of losing touch, fear of fearing too much

Fear of admitting we’re grown. 
But from the corner I hear a piano

Tickling notes from heaven past

So for now I hold on to this lingering moment

Petrified for it to pass
So you jog my mind, flow through my pen

Words far too refined for very refined men

But then oh then but then oh when

Can I feel your wind again?
You blow to me as leaves, thunderhead above

You reach to me like trees, lightning bolt of love

Straight to my head

Straight to my head. 
So old, in classics we are steeped

And knowing we’d burn, you leaped
Silent midnight, wind askew

Symphony of soft, culminates in dew

As risen sun fights sleep

This reminds me of you. 
So behind frozen smile you walk with me each mile

Adding strength to my ready-steady steps

And to those who think we’re living a trial

I pray to your god you’ve slept. 
He is yours, yours is mine, and in sharing words we see

That we are talking of the same thing

A great Collective WE


All That I Dreamed – Damage Control

This is a dream come true … me and you

All other plans are made and you’re still standing in the shade

Just you 
You keep me marching along

I keep doing it even though I know it’s wrong

But when you’ve looked for so long

It’s so easy to fall into the throng
Trumpets soar, you’re a bore, and I just realized

Your eyes match how I feel, I’z

Gonna find my way around you, pound for pound you are not what you seem

And I can see that you could never be all that I dreamed you’d be.  

Slumber

Drawing corners on his smile

He stops and considers it for a while

Drugged up fantasies of tragedy barely escapes

Raped the delicately draped paper machee too late
He is falling in and out of slumber now

As his mind rambles he start to wonder how

It was now he proceeds to drop trou

A roller and holier than thou. 
A stranger relented to let me in

Stoned faces facing glory and story apart from one another

Grow stone cold in the face of the thief

Poetic mumbo jumbo in peace releases our grief.
Can you ever imagine a tired summer night

Late October, maybe, a bit of a chill

Where lonely lovers come out of their shell

And breathe life into this still life.  
How could I ever remember your names

When all of your faces look exactly the same

Seems a dreams gone yet we still trudge on holding a grudge on all whom we deemed have wronged us

Never let up steam so we reem one another out

Never ever to have any doubts.  

Crystalizing, memorizing every little thing you do

Signifying, empathizing, never wan to wear that shoe

 

Stray, gone away, and can’t find his way back

Train, gone astray, can’t find the right track 

 

High above, how did he get to be so free?

Tell me when do we get home. 

Waiting for the Call

Growing weary of my home

Like a scab I can’t leave it alone

Masochistic, intrinsic, musical viewpoint

Waiting for the call, waiting to appoint.
Scarring over now I can see just how

You love me unconditionally and I can’t believe I can see

How to wake each hour. 


Through Your Eyes

History repeats itself like dwindling wealth

From across the room you could barely see me scream

Intrinsic abundance, how long can my health hold up

Through your eyes, you can hardly see what I mean.  
Pain up front like a brick wall

And I can’t stand to watch you fall

A stick man taking his stick ball and going home

We wait and wait for him to turn around

Hold hope for his shadow on the ground

Till the horizon flies in

Drowned he found his way home.  


Thick Wheels

I love you but I just can’t set this cross down

I adore you but I just can’t stay in the this town

So I guess you’re free to go though I know

That I have let you down. 
Tears roll like the thick wheels of a train

As the idea of elsewhere trolls in my thick brain

But my dear I knew this all when you came

Still my love for you refuses to wane.
Uplift me, please, I’m in need of a laugh, as you know

Stay with me one more night before I have to go

Help sift me a pile of gold for us to share

Then this is one more day I can bear. 


The Train

This train don’t stop till the end

So you best be riding it with a friend

Some stops you’ve forseen, some you never could’ve

Some spots you’ve been, some you never would’ve

And it’s the port in between you and your destination

That both embodies and stirs up the stagnation.  
Underground, no further down can I go with these things

Graze around nor for I found the emptiness it brings

Shed of our gowns and crowns we are all just kings

And from the same earth blood we drink.  
So, don’t look at me like I’m a stranger

I’m you no danger, no anger, you’re drained or

Heads all out of whack and something like that

I want to get through your gaze without being pat down. 
I am you, you are me together we are the same we

We are supposed to be, it’s free and I can see that you are sneaking around my head. 

Train

Early fall, winds brisk upon my cheek, I awake and fill up another day of another week

All work, play is a state of mind in which I used to spend all my time.  But I’ll get back there, because at once I did care; viciously clawing for each day.
So I congregate with the people of my fair city and ride the train to work.  Got a good seat today, one of those suites with a view.  An unused captains cubby, which upon its vacancy is open to the public.  It’s myself and two others.  We’re riding in style.
Clark and Division is next.  Some will exit, most will not.  Silence …  The roar of the train is filling our collective brain, rendering it too loud to speak.  Too close, so we choose to not note the carbon around us and what it has to bring.  Not one a passerby, but a being with a story, too long to get into on the train.  But, perhaps a glimpse, a breath, a catch of the eye will give us the insight we miss when we sit right amidst our fellow man. 
But who am I to talk, head down.  Downtown I don’t talk to a soul.  Except for the folk around every day with whom I have built a rapport.  But I guess the city has a way of making one lonely.  Sometimes you just need to be alone.  And if you never know if someone else needs to be alone thus we are reluctant to bother out of ingrained respect.  
We’re all too nice, I guess. 
In habit we inhabit this city as one, but you are all still strangers when the day is done.  


Racing in the Dust

Life is too short to go through it angry

But I can’t help but let it seep in

I guess it takes strong will to detach

When the machine has you in its grin. 
Teeth gnarling like gears away the years 

My sleeve is caught and it’s drawing me in

Tears falling as peers’ squalling makes truthfulness wallow in sin.
Perhaps I’m wrong about us

Maybe we’re supposed to live cold

As each passing second we’re growing old

It’s too long without trust

Maybe I shant be so bold

And say that we grow young stead of old.
But time doesn’t stop to let anyone in

Express train racing in the dust and the dinge

So I hope you see what’s happening to us

Pay no mind to their rapping to us

And find a way off of this train

But we invented it too, like we invented me and you 

So how much worth could it hold

Forget the playground bound to forget that beautiful sound

it grows quiet as we grow old.  

Flipping pages and ages, somehow now I’m fully grown

And out of the blue will I know you and all that I should’ve known

It’s blown, this cover, so we hover over construction

Of the same name

In the same game

In search of glory, riches, and fame

You’re crazy if you think I would pass the blame.  

Ah but the sun’s rays show that we could never go too slow 

Since we could never compare to it’s grace

Even in it we see that we would cease to be without its bright warmth on our face

So just remember we’re nothing except fertilizer and stuffing for this earth of which we feel we own

But in the end we’ll return to burn in our mother 

And if we could we’d realize we’re nothing more than the dirt from which we’ve grown.  

Of the same mind

Of the same kind

How many clues have you left behind

And heavy now the wheels start to grind. 

Things you Want

The things you want cost laughter and smiles

Riches galore pave every gilded mile

I hope all that you are is preserved through the years

And all that we are still shines through your tears. 
Trailing cold breeze, riding on its frigid heels

We toss our woes about, trusting in future meals

But no path is unyielded, love shielded by doubt

And what we don’t know won’t hurt to find out
Open your eyes, my friends, to why we get up

And from the rain around you fill your cup. 


You Would Kill

Bowed out, graciously giving way

Forded sea a walkway to play upon

It’s with ease that I freeze, stop pause to look around 

And choose with faith in karma the words to say

But how much good do I do you

In my never-ending quest to skew your view?

They say ignorance is bliss so shall I leave you to do what you will?

I could surely try, but in the end you would kill

It is said that everything around knows right from wrong

And in the knowledge of evil we’ve composed our own song.


MotherEarth

In our deep frozen lungs we share this rare air

Acting out this play for a crowd of each other

Share and share alike and in flight we dare to care

For that, we can thank some god for our Mother
A collective mother, the universal care-giver

We thank her by breaking her heart

And of her children, we are but a sliver

Still we thank her by falling apart.  


Samantha – Starrunner

He traces his steps back ends at the start

He traces his mind back and ends with his heart

From time to time he sways as years turn into days

In a haze we are amidst the good part

She shant look elsewhere to find her minds eye

A picture-perfect immediate now always going by

From high and wide she looks over the amassed masses

And jumps to wish sincerely she could fly

They meet up, him afall, her ascending

And they see the beginning is just an ending

To each other they flutter and mutter of befriending

A moment is all they have, always lasting always ending