Like the stars and the sun You're always reaching for one I've wanted what I can't have Throwing away what I always had Knowing with an unsure heart You were just a part Of the same stars and sun *** We are hedged bets And lost causes We are rebels Without pauses And when it's time to break the windows And time to burn the buildings down You can bet your ass We are on the front lines *** Raise the dead Man, gone These three years From whiskey And heartbreak And heartache In this funhouse Mirror I stare So deeply And see myself Where you are now Where I was *** If you collected tears Would you drink them Or drown? If you collected souls Would you feast on them Or fast? If you collected them both You still wouldn't have either *** Reaching your arms out And trying to snatch out stars Doesn't get you any closer To Heaven than A hammer, a halo, and some nails *** Dangerously drunk And only then I feel Like I want to Too much on my mind Is on my mind It's cancer, its death It's how I'm getting home It's God, it's the bottle It's how I'm getting home Someone's sister is just Like my mother Somewhere sick Like a baby bird Stuck in a nest Suffocating Never singing, never flying It's the past, it's the future It's the heart that's never sure It's marriage, its divorce It's my heart that's never pure It's cigarettes, it's beer It's her that's never here It's empty and its hollow It's lies like rounds So easy to swallow *** Venom dipped And dripping claws Clawing, hear their calling Come crawling Along soft skin Supple sin Let's love like Abel and his kin **** If this skeleton has the key it's his Cigarette Ablaze, sans muscle and flesh A fiery storm from his skull To the smile To the metacarpals To the ashtray **** Come now, Christian lions And lay with slaughtered lambs Birth your soldiered peons Who will retch The Holy Word I will prefer my years Though Spent as the liar With a lyre Happiest in the glen **** If I was a dream I wouldn't be What I seem No iconoclast icon Secretly saying you're wrong I would be paper I would be words I would be this song If I was the wind I would carry smoke And I would bend I would whisper And discreetly blister A quiet voice Out though the trees Wishing I'd kissed her **** With the sky slate gray Like a blind man's eyes With this hate roiling Like a Fool suffering With this silence here Like a time bomb or a hungry child With all of this, all I can think is Where did all of the stars go? **** Teeth Too sharp To touch Mouth Too numb To close **** Come now, Christian soldiers Lay your swords down to thee Beat them unto plowshares And lose the light with me I can make promises too Like the good lord or a rapist But, faith is like an orgasm It's worthless when you fake it **** Soft pen like lover's fingers on paper skin. A kiss: the promise of a meeting Between Two lips and a rose **** Please forgive me, I've forgotten Your name, Even though I've known you my entire life. But, I've lost a lot of blood From these wounds And the knives are still in my back. Yet, you're no Stella But, I can yell your name Just the same. Blanche can go Crazy and go Fuck herself because we're still here in the rain. **** I'm the bulletproof vest When I want to be the bullet So I brace myself for impact And hope for the best *** Your kiss touches everything but me