Pull the lever Lucifer

We're all having fun
just sitting round
a boring campfire.

Bring out the sticks
bring out the gas
bring out the fun shit that
us kids aren't supposed to have

And we'll
burn
burn
burn
this fucking love apart.

Like we were
sitting back home
on the porch to the house
and you saw your dad die
as it fell to the ground
and you stared

Would the fire alarm ring
at a quarter to nine?
just in time
to save the day?
the lever stood there
but you only glared
you only stared
away

Pull the lever lucifer
where did you go
when he was trapped
in the attic
of the house
that you burned to the ground?

Pull the lever Lucifer
I know you hurt
when you see his shirt
catch fire
but all you think about
is the bruises on your arm
and your black eye

I guess Karma has a name
it's Lucifer

Colors

Your red heart makes you beautiful,
Your blue eyes make my skies.
My black heart needs you to be full
I'm not telling you white lies.

Orange horizons tell stories
of green fields far away
where silver knights of glory
and girls like you lay.

My green eyes say that you're too good
but my grey soul can't keep away.
My purple brain says I should
just go to you and say

This world is full of colors and it was yours, alone,
that out of all the others, to me, truly shone.

The Unspoken Ballad of Mad Men and Sinners

Eruption of disbelief
of etymological science
my ghostly friend conveys
he's upset
by skewering the wind
like only he can.
I am a fountain
I am a geyser
in autumn
because the trees
can only color my eyes
with their brilliance
once a year,
once a lifetime.
Flowing
Flowing
Flowing
why am I blowing
away away away
away like so many leaves,
your hand on my hand
your chest on my chest
your lips on my lips
your heart on my heart
apart
I take
you lack the initiative
to forsake
at least that much
it's like a muse
has kissed my forehead
and told me
he's always listened.
Rave
I rave
I'm raving mad
I say
obey
like a mcdonalds commercial
gone terribly wrong
or right
there's so much
illusion
intrusion
disillusion
mistrust
and diffusion
of cultures
of life spans
of waist bands
like blotches of paint
on a large white board
we soared
with such ease as
a heavy black primer across the tiny room
and we soared
and we soared
and we lied
but we soared
god speed
means gods fast
because man
there was more
and soon enough
I looked up
with a curiosity
only mad men and sinners possess
and asked myself
what the fuck I was doing.

I Hate You

I hate you
I hate you
because I need you
and I need you
because I had you
and I had you
because I love you
and I would follow you
to the ends of the earth
and back again
to protect you
and when you're there
I want you
and when you're not
I don't
and all along you agree
and follow me
back and forth
and fuel
my endless emotional circle
without even knowing it
and for that I'm sorry
and I'm sorry
because I hate you.

Rainbows, Butterflies, and Suicides

She's got her attitude and her smile,
and just denies that she's in denial,
She walks around like she's got it all,
But she ain't what she is in the hall.

She barks out rules like she owns the place,
they'd see her pain if they saw her face.
Preps and Jocks is her clique,
if they saw her wrists, they'd all be sick.

'Cause she's all,
Rainbows, butterflies, and suicides,
They won't know it till after she dies,
Rainbows, butterflies, and suicides,
Her happiness was always her greatest lie.

They talk and gossip about suicide in the urbs,
and they don't realize they're talkin bout her.
Talking about when they get to move from mom,
she probably won't even make it to prom

The newest band, or their newest fling,
they don't know living ain't her thing.
They talk about the new school play,
she probably won't wake up that day.

'Cause she's all,
Rainbows, butterflies, and suicide,
They won't know it 'till after she dies,
Rainbows, butterflies, and suicide,
Happiness was always her greatest lie.
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A song I wrote a few years ago actually, originally written to the tune of Jenny, Jenny by Tommy Two-Tones

Mirror

Becoming you
Is harder than I thought.
Becoming you
Without my past I won't get caught.
And nothing, And nothing
Is in my mirror.
But something, I don't know
Is staring back at me

You can't fight the sky
That envelops you.
You can't tell me why
I keep coming back to you.

I don't know, I don't know
Who I'm seeing.
I don't know, I don't know
Just who I'm being.

But there's a mirror, just dyin'
To shatter me.
It's not me who's cryin'
But the one I can't see.

I don't know, I don't know
My only juror.
I just know, I just know
My whole life is in this mirror.

See it through,This plot has no story.
See it through,We worry just to worry we all worry
And sometimes, I'm lonely
Because I look at you.
You tell me the stories
That in past lives I knew.

I won't run without you
To die by my side.
We don't know, what is true
Except that we all lied.

We can't know, We can't know
What is yet to come.
We can't know, We can't know
Which killer has the gun.

There's a new day approaching
From the hidden shadows.
So you are encroaching
On my dreams of meadows.

We can't know, We can't know
Who we truly fear.
We can't know, We can't know
That who we fear is in the mirror.
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I wrote this song a while ago. It just so happens to be one of my personal favorites, as far as my own work goes.