Neurotoxins Calm my anger my angel with danger I’m no stranger am sure you are too Unchain my neighbor disclaimer I taze her I’m no teacher but ether tells truths I’m afraid of my brains Getting changed into pains Had enough of this rust Catching dust on my thoughts I need a campaign To stop complaining Just need a delay To find some meaning I’m gone leave here I need clear of what’s near Let me grieve clear I need a relief of my fears Short stop get a watch I can’t stop its all tops Cohorts can catch time to ask special ops I portray all these strains An array of disdain I just lost getting caught In my worrisome thoughts I know it’s a cost But my mind should be tossed So please don’t delay I need to be slain So Long Long time I cared you old symbolic gestured mare Cross the hall to relate to start a while for to think Short time I cared it’s my sequence here It’s a new state, to scrap, yell, and create So long Wind hits the chimes but it doesn’t contrast mine I wonder how firm is the stake but I worry because it can’t be replaced I know a little about regret I’ve learned as youths do from the best When I can see I’ll stare when I know I have, I haven’t cared So long Short time I cared it’s my sequence here So we learn and turn like a matchbook burns It’s the spark albeit to light a lit cigarette Move another block like a combination lock So long Think Twice I invite you to come in through the window they’ll never know Nights a game and there’s no clues toss of dice, hope for right Take nothing but photographs, leave nothing but footprints And I’d think twice about them You were right the safe was through the bedroom door with open door Don’t be tame here there’s no truce, done chore, done more Take nothing but photographs, leave nothing but footprints Vault of horrors Drew a self-portrait today it was blue and gold But it didn’t look like me; it was more like go dog go See a sign to stop; I look to see who’ll watch And lines to pass, I just laugh Do what I’m told, so no one will know Oh it just smothers Oh there’s no other Vault of horrors Vault of horrors I throw a lot of focus away it could be useful if saved Made this sculpture today, but if anyone sees it they’ll think that it’s fake Took out a loan for my debts, I’m paying into regrets If the truths too bold, the fiction version is told Do what I’m told, so no one will know Oh it just smothers Oh there’s no other Vault of horrors Vault of horrors Fools Black Gold You’re Leroy Brown you’re John Wayne When you grow up you’ll be a cowboy When you grow up you’ll be insane You’re digging, you’re raping Mother Nature, earth is quaking Fight and then flight We’ll have a tussle; I’m here cussing at you You get our energy, you waste our sympathy Fools black gold It provides heat while you provide cold Fight and then flight Red Mud Calm cool and collected, the three c’s Palm mute and rejected, just one t He’s on the docket, and artist rendering Learning that he offed him, life in honory Hit! It again! I’m going to the lake, but aint we all You can’t negotiate, don’t talk at all Just no solution, just go to jail, or institutions, just go to hell Hit! It again! Put your foot in the red mud, feels good till it’s stuck Put your red hands up, put your hands in handcuffs Its life on life’s terms, but you’re no student, Its life on life’s terms, but you’ll never learn Hit! It again! Fast Times Something I’m going through, a drive a fight continued Each mile is a mile pursued, destination not journey not true You picked a time much better than the ones ahead of you Don’t forget to remember the ones ahead of you River flows till the water ran dry, lifer locked up till the lifer had died Trooper steps till he troops to the night, soothsayer says soothes until denied Chorus Tough times, hard times, doing time, outta time. Chorus CopyCat W-2 blues you chose to walk in these shoes. There’s clues, you see the hues you lose Comply and conform you should get out and learn Obey and subtract from yourself you got to react Sit back with six-pack to distract I’ll get my jet pack to get back Office offices expectations Worth or worthless not courageous Copy copycat don’t contaminate us Demand health deny contagious Time to go! Too old you’re jaded by age too young to know how to think Too fast to see what’s gone past, too slow and you’re dead and you know it Obstacle Need to retain, that or explain, I don’t want to say what needs to be said, I’ve had my fun now is time for an end. Relay is run right; we’re watching the sun rise. Time and again I just got to explain, I just need new terrain Need an away. Lead the way. I’m in the way. I’m in the Let’s rephrase, appreciate the days, celebrate, what people have done with this space, Love for some, others I just bite my tongue If you can react in a way that is safe then let’s talk face to face Chorus Time there’s a better one, all the miles have won, no calls when am home, no am not done Chorus Permanent Indentation When I was young I was dumb, learned my lesson but my lesson already won I’m older than I was, learned my lesson so I might not be as fun When I was 5 I stole some gum, spiral to 25 when I really hurt someone There’s right and there’s wrong, comeuppances really hit you strong Learn your lesson, get that permanent indentation Who says people cannot change, life is change we’re all changing constantly Still I know what they mean, frustrated reasoning Well I hope they change, because that what people do just look at me Chorus Ouija Board What do you think of ghosts I’m haunted, not by chance they were appointed Need someone to tell their stories, endless secrets lovely glories Now apply to where I’m going Don’t need a Ouija board, I’m never bored Pitfall the greatest of them all! Can you think of a toast undaunted? Show these spectre folks some honor. Endless streets for touring, buildings with infinite stories, now apply to where I’m going Chorus Don’t need a Ouija board I’m never bored Chorus