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WEST

(*d. dill)

Three miles west of Calcun

In an open field

Waiting for the sun to lay down on my skin

Layers unfolding like the dead blossoms bloom

I avert to the question just to see some satisfaction in you

It's believeable to me

But maybe its because I don't understand a damn thing.

Religous zombie

Wandering through the night

Looking for the scars inside

To see if your life's right

You pretend to be the martyr

With sensible flaws

But life's not worth living when in debt to a lost cause.

Another addiction

Another way around

See as my eyes lower down

Well, you know I loved you

But you thought I'd care

Look at me it's gotten me nowhere

Mary Magdalene

In your masochist ways

Cast out your seven devils

And tell me you have changed

Aloofness in your eyes you don't fool me at all

Behind those dark shields
I can still see it all.

CHORUS

Three miles west of Calcun........

We're heading west.

WEAK

(*d. dill)

You make me

You make me weak

But I like it

Cuz things like that don't come so easily.

Like the sun and rain

You change your seasons

Like tides change the waves

You're weak

And things like that just come so easily.

I hear you humming low

Singing that constant drone

Packaging guilt with shame

Until there's piles of you

Misleading me

And teasing me

With pieces of you.

I memorized the motion

And counted the notion to predict

That things like that don't come so easily

CHORUS

You make me

You make me weak

But I like it

Cuz things like that don't come so easily................

LIMBO

(*d. dill)

Imagine that I'm cured

Lured by you I'm sure

It's possible

What for?

My mind is insecure

I'm waiting here in limbo

In limbo

Reflective bliss I miss you

The way we kiss in tune

To music without words

I want more

Of what we have instore

I'm waiting here in limbo

In limbo

Don't break the silence

Let's just stare

With a mouthful of words in our eyes

Shhhhhhh.....be quiet

And just kiss me

We'll create new words that make love

That make love

So just take off your glasses

And I will be your eyes

You can drive me and you into the skyline

We'll look down from up high

Steering clear of limbo

Of limbo

CHORUS

LIE TO ME

(*d. dill)

Come here and sit next to me

We can write poems on my jeans

I'll write to you in third person

Just so you don't know the real meaning

I wanna build up my bravery

So i'll have a couple of drinks

Get rid of that fear I have inside of me

And act on pure instinct

Maybe you could wander the streets with me

We could walk at my pace

I could listen to you speak

Our politics would be of past currency

And our questions would consist of random curiousity

So I wander the streets up and down again

Looking for that person I used to see

Maybe it's just that I still can't believe

That you ever got tired of me

She said, "I need a change of scenery

Things are moving in a bit too fast"

So I guess I'll just walk now

Scene by scene on this big movie set

So I'll wander the streets up and down again

Looking for that person I used to be

Maybe it's just that I still can't believe

That you ever got tired of me

Transitional Bridge

Come here and sit next to me

We can write poems on my jeans

I'll write to you in third person

Just so you don't know the real meaning

I wanna build up my bravery

So I'll have a couple of drinks

Get rid of that fear I have inside of me

And act on pure instinct

So I wander the streets up and down again

Looking for that person I used to be

Maybe its just that I still can't believe

That you ever got tired of me

So I'll wander the streets up and down again

Looking for that person I used to see

Maybe it's just that I still can't believe

That you would ever LIE......................to me.

2000 Miles

(*d. dill)

I know it seems so far away

I hope you're gonna make that trip someday

I know it seems so far away

But nothing can make me stay........away

So I take a walk alone now down on Newbury St.

Light me up that cigarette, put my head between my knees

I see the same crowd everyday

And they pass me like a breeze

god knows I'm willing, they just don't wanna see me

So I think I'll walk the skyline like a brush against its ease

Paint you all out in different colors

From my memory

And if I could disappear for years

I know we'd start from where we stopped from and take it from here.

CHORUS

Way

Down

Low

I wanna hear my name out loud (outloud)

Don't you know I miss you

I'm still the same

It takes more than 2000 miles to change things.

They say we mask what we run away from

People just putting on their different fronts

They're hiding behind their haircuts and such

Not me, I know how far I've come

I just wanna go back down to the river

Play my guitar til my fingers go numb

Spend the night under the bridge tomorrow

And meet you at the crossroads next year

We can drive and drive forever

Take that trip to nowhere and back again

Sit out on the roof and look at the painting in disguise

Which is the LIFE and LOVE we learned to live by

CHORUS

I walk and talk in circles

It's a pattern I learned to take

It just takes some getting used to that's all

I'm more than the girl with the guitar and no small talk

Well, I couldn't say it better than he did

Simple as it is

"You don't mind wasting time when you're spending it with your friends"

CHORUS
CHORUS

SECRET Z

(*d. dill)

Secret Z

You're undressing me

Unraveling threads of truth

Of why I fell for you

And why you fell for me

Secret Z

I want to answer your questions

Solve your mystery of confessions

But it's all a ball of confusion to me

Honest E

Truthfully, in your poetry

How have I wronged you

Was I starving you with my love on a string

Reluctantly, I ease into your knees

Guess I felt sorry for your desperate disease

And I'm feeling more alone each time I sing these notes

So I share my thoughts with you

Him and her ....they all want more than I can give

Guess they're just used to it

All I seem to wanna do is exist

Cuz your desperate disease

Has spread to my knees

And I'm waiting for you to offer me

Your love incomplete

She speaks her words through her teeth

That sing so sweetly with this song

We played that game for hours

Floating between the greeting and goodbye

I could say so long forever

As long as you answered back with one of your

Romantic replies like

"I wish you were here"

Or "I'll be dreaming of you tonite"

CHORUS

Secret Z

You're undressing me

Unraveling threads of truth

Of why I fell for you

And why you fell for me

FARE BAD WEATHER

(*d. dill)

Why should I care what you say

I gave you my world and I can take it away

You say it's not much to lose

Goodbye, baby, right back to you

Now you have him to catch your fall

Redo the rights you said I made so wrong

But how can you act this way

And leave me here with nothing but the blame

Do you ever look up to the sky?

And remember that red and orange the way it

Lit up the night

And the skin we shed until we were bare

Vunerable, so vunerable and scared

You said I always had the right thing to say

Well I still do you just turned the other way

Now you can go on making yourself the good guy

With a new perspective and a love of a new kind

Eden's gone and now I know

That Adam has left me here alone

To fare bad weather

If I proved you wrong

Would your gardens still grow in my songs

Or would I grow my own

So I guess now I've been done wrong

I could say that I'm giving you more credit than your worth

By singing this song

But I haven't forgotten who you were

With your head laid in my lap on a Meridian St. suburb

Eden you're not all what you seem to be

You're made up of HER AND ME

And Meridian St.

I guess all we had was moments on our side

So why does it feel like we've left lifetimes behind

CHORUS

So why should I care what you say

I gave you my world and I can take it away

I guess I'm better off alone...............

CHORUS

MASQUERADE

(*d. dill)

Daring and pretentious you stand in my way

Introducing to you the new masquerade

Take a load off

Put your head down

I see what you see and it's starting to bother me

Cuz, love, I don't think you're telling me everything

You and I are lying in bed on a sunday morning

You've hit all the spots, now, and you've reassured everything

As I sink into the matress and I slowly exhale as you breathe me in

And I say there's nothing I hate more than a liar with a conscience

Seems like it defeats the purpose anymore

Laying along those banks with that old nighting gale

Looking for the widow in her black wedding dress

Apparently we're treading water, now

Cuz we're bobbing up and down like bouyes

Friends much less and less I encounter

Who am I to say that they are phonies

You say you'll love me through thick and thin

The water's up to your knees and it's getting hard to move in

CHORUS

There's a girl in the back of the room

I don't think she's smiled

Don't think she's said a word

Blowing kisses through her pen I think she might be lonely

Seducing secrets like the wind.........................

Quazi- in her touch there's much she hasn't showed you

Quazi- in her touch there's much she hasn't told you

There's much she hasn't showed you

CHORUS

OUTRO

BOUNDARY LINES (spoken word)

(*d. dill)

Preach to me

Preach the word

Along with an ultimadum tell us what we deserve

In the name of the father while you hide behind his eyes

Putting words into his mouth

And backing him into a corner

What kind of comfort do you find in giving someone no other choice

Telling us to take a number, Jesus will get to you when he has time

But it's just you speaking in third person

Living a double life

Dictating other's beliefs because you couldn't DICTATE YOUR WIFE

Attack us in a time of grief

In a time of need

When I'd rather bleed than heal myself with an ointment that spreads disease

A religious monster feeding on fiends

Looking for a fix in a mixed up society

That throws up their fists to reinforce their diety

I'm a minority

Disorieted with a loyalty to a friend that never made amends for isolating and alienation it's kin

Cuz if I love

I love

Who are you to judge the subject of my poems?

When it rains it pours and happiness doesn't always come knocking on your door

With a wedding ring and benefits to support

A tradition of sorts

Passed on by overpowering egos and weapons that trigger a surrender in this horrendous endeavor

So bury me without the word

And save your preaching for your turn

While I live my life without faith in a bigot who's name is never mentioned

For burning crosses and murdering it's kindred spirit

In a martyristic disguise that never crossed that boundary lines.

SHOULDN'T IT?

(*d. dill)

Action has taken the place of words

So don't talk to me

Your humor is a little less funny now

Cuz I've gotten used to those things

This should be easy now

Shouldn't it?

I'm passed the point of questions

Yet you bring them up everyday

Inserting insecurities wherever possible

Pushing me down below and raising me back up again

In this world of two extremes

Loving you is not so easy

Should it be?

I want nothing more

You want nothing less

Looks like the road has stopped

You continue to go off track

I turn back, you shortly follow

Kicking my heals

And guilting my conscience

Until I feel obligated to love you back

"Don't assume the negative

How I make you feel is not my responsiblity

Don't be so defensive denise

In your stubborn philosophies"

I just want to say the same thing to you

Cuz assumption is human

Responsibility is the catch

And defense

It's no threat

Shouldn't it be?

You want awareness

And I just want the comfort

Looks like your conscienceness has begun to complex my effort

Then there you are again

Kicking my heals

And bullying my subconscience

Until I feel obligated to love you back

I want love and you want the same

I can give you unconditional if you'll just give me my space

Afterall, I'm not yours and you're not mine

So don't act like it

Stop trying to push the line

I want nothing more

You want nothing less

Looks like the road has stopped

And you continue to go off track

I turn back, you shortly follow

Kicking my heals and guilting my conscience

Until I feel sorry enough to love you back

OUTRO

POLITICAL PITIFUL WORLD

(*d. dill)

This political pitiful world

Sitting on the balcony with boy meets girl

As they swing back and forth with impatience

Cuz the big picture's a big disaster

And the road map from our master

All they give us is a lowsy U-turn

And I say

Scapegoat, you know, why don't they blame it on the trenchcoats

The father, the son, and everyone but the holy ghost

It's the books, it's the TV, it's the radio

It's everybody who didn't get their say so

And now they pride themselves on censorship alone

I'm in wasteland on the outskirts of graceland

And I know you had to have been down that road

Cuz the bottle it talks to me

It speaks to me through languange on the TV screen

It plants it's seed and then it grows and grows

Well I took a walk out to the back balcony

The cold wind was fierce

You could hear it in the chatter of our teeth

I clentch my eyes to forget everything

Cuz I'm next in the rotation

'Bout to be lifted off my feet

Guess I'll hold on to what I have

It's better than trading 5 for 3 and ended up short handed

Shake off the words that you said

Cuz I can't say much but I'm still standin'

Mr. Marley comes to me in my dreams

He says, "Child, you gotta spread the peace

Don't be afraid to share the green"

We are the making of our own destoyers

Plant the seed you're a devil in disguise

Don't let Revelations control you

CHORUS

BRIDGE

So I'll continue to pluck these six strings

Hum to you my melody

Pride myself on mediocrity

Don't know where I am

Don't know how to fight

Don't even know if I got my fist held up right

All I know is I'm still standin

CHORUS

This political pitiful world

SMOLDERING

(*v. birkle, d. dill, s. roedel, n. turpen)

Under this roof

I'm covered

With roots that I can't seem to rip from the ground

When the light dims it flickers

Like the flame inside of me

I put it out a long time ago

But it's still smoldering

I'm waiting on a whim...............(repeat)

I swallow the poison

Antidote of emotion

Here are the moments

Flashing before me (before me)

The sound of my own voice (sound of my own voice)

The sound of my own voice

Is annoying..........

Speak

Before you think

And unravel the world into a ball of yarn

Weave it into a blanket

Of comfort on my skin

Tuck me in like a child to sleep

And never let the doubt creep in.......

I'm waiting on a whim..............(repeat)

I feel the calming shock of separation

Where is the comfort

That I seek before me (before me)

And the sound of my own voice (the sound of my own voice)

Is soothing

I am circling (spinning, spinning, spinning)

I am spiraling (spinning, spinning, spinning)......

I cannot take this genetic compromise..........

Chorus

Outro




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