Risen in Phoenix

Arizona
feels like a new home
reminds me of the wild west
cowboys and indians on horses
the way the rocks sit on the earth
i could live on/in one
hoping for LA
city of angels
im lost
forgive me father
i was born with my heart already in cali
waiting for me to come and collect

The Lament of Orpheus: A Letter to Eurydice

Our lives are movies in which we all portray

a character living in a vault who has been betrayed

try to keep the last of myself from ever being frayed

my soul split into pieces that i wish i could trade

this world is not all as it seems to be

we're playing roles that we wish we could flee

i'd tell you everything i hate about this scene

but i can't because you won't listen, it's not that i don't have it in me

if only you had the key to unlock this chains in my chest

i'd make the most of myself and give you all the rest

hibernate like a busy bee living in a honey nest

but even though i do all i can for you, you've never been impressed

this life is so routine, a robot could suffice

wanna dig inside my skin and remove this device

salt the wounds til i feel fine, cool myself on ice

but the worst part of this is my emptiness is your only vice

put me like a moth to the flame

like a sinner with his skin etched by shame

a tattoo inside of you that you cannot change

i have one last shot at you but you're too far out of range

hold me up, i'm falling down

throw me away, let me drown

it's easy for you to stay in this town

you and your army have torches

burning me to the ground

here i am, it's the afterlife

i don't know who i am

while back on earth you rejoice

you couldn't give a damn

carry around your prized knife

that slaughtered this young lamb

the knife that took away my voice

and took away my land

hearts hanging from tongues dimly lit

I remember

when you could make me move

oh the nights

of being stuck to your hands

like a beartrap

flypaper stuck to sighing skin

aching for new life

this old oxygen's gone stale

and i'm rethinking the strategy

to breaking down my barriers completely

hack this matrix

crack the code

til we all see it plain as day

me and you can feel it

our veins flooding

and all the blood swimming

in the coast

of the cost of this instability

life isn't what it seems

until the lights go out

and the strobelight streams

fill my lungs with the smoke in this club

and there's nowhere else on earth

where you can make this kind of love

i am one with you tonight

and the higher i get, the brighter the light

approaching God without a care

it's just midnight, it's only life

rave(n)

Traced across a dancefloor

in an outline of neon and strobe

slowmotion heartbeat

and i see every little move you make

and every breath you take

illuminated in cascading lights

red yellow green blue

you can rest when you're dead

but tonight sunlight's coming to a head

peeking out over the clouds

5am feels good in my head

i just never wanna go to bed

rantem

Doesn't feel like christmas in hollywood

the ribbons wrapped around my wrists and neck

a coup d'etaut of antichrists

slavery still lives today

wage slaves raking up change

working with dead animals

to feed a greedy nation

stomaches bigger than their wallets

and all you can do is eat

sleep doesn't even come cheap

or with a conscience clean

when you dream

do you see me

or do you see tomorrow

nothing changes

history repeats itself

this blitzkrieg of beloved "soldiers"

who do you think you are

to brandish a weapon

in our name

no sleep makes me nothing more than a writing machine

pink lemonade sunset

staring out of the window

across the street

yardlights left on

just for me

if i call you home

will you call me tomorrow?

can we keep this a secret

or should we tell everyone

your friends and mine

its only a matter of time

load up the car and hit the road

like a popchart

singing songs on the way to rescue you

the castle is waiting for us

to hang our heavy heads up

let's just use our heart tonight

for as long as you'd like

until fatigue takes us under

like an anesthetic

sweet sweet sleep

put me to dreams

p.s.

all of the sense in the world

couldnt buy me on this one

i'm sold out

tell me a true story, its only a story that isnt that true

everyones a liar! redhanded and blue in the face!

way to choke on that last lap,

out of breath and off pace!

you broke the commandments,

youve lost the human race!