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Another Side Album Lyrics

On We Linger

carried like a child in an obit fit for life

I sit on a planet down beneath the moon

she lingers on the sun

every spring she comes to bloom

out comes the full moon

with a soft boom

pulling the wind and stir the ocean froth guiding a beetle, a turtle and a moth

sweep with sheer heat and speak only light her lips are the lips that kissed the northern lights

wilt an we'll tilt and we'll tumble and well toss

we'll hum a song with the fox to the moon we'll run with the sun trapped in a vacuum flammable arms and glamorous charms

come light the dark will be disarmed reaching threw the sky

sun ray fingers

where life is tickled and on we linger

on we linger on we linger on we linger

Another Side

in the window giant light

you took my heart to the night

found a language in the air

did you ever make it there

feel the beat in the step

feel the pulse in the breathe

feel the breeze lift with the wing

feel the weight lifting

here we are in clarity

admiring mystery

i let the vibes come carry me

beyond this simple symmetry

in the window giant light

you took my heart to the night

found a language in the air

did you ever make it there

here we are in clarity

admiring mystery

i let the vibes come carry me

beyond this simple symmetry

made eye contract with a wild thing

crossed back into a child-ling

stepped over to another side

rest your heart and rest your mind

Torritopsis Dohrnii

slipping threw the marine blue

gifted with eternal youth

slipped out from the coil of a mortal

hide from time and all its ways

live in the grey between the waves

a teeny tiny creature slips between the days no hostage to the hour

no victim to the clock

to never fade in colour

the chains of life were never locked

small goddess in the sea

torritopsis dohrnii

death doesn't kiss

life doesn't seize

nothing lives like

turriptopsis dohrnii

strayed from the kill beneath the waves

no graves to fill beneath the tide

a home at sea

turritopsis dohrnii

slipping threw the marine blue

gifted with eternal youth

Author Heart

here I am but a stone stuck in an axis hanging all alone given to gravity

spiralling with motion

slowly pulling mountains

growing in motion

wobbling with the ocean

scrape and slide and shift like a body

always revolving and never pausing

float an fly through the sky like a body

let live and let die as if you were falling molten flame held by an age old heart

a skin of stone that has been here from the start

broken down and crushed to smithereens within the dust of a billion year old dream

Draconian Constriction

snapped up in a lonesome

tacked down in erosion

these walls are always closing

this city is exploding

a swarm of sounds is imploding

smells crawl the walls like vines

a lion of linear design

the machines save time

fingers reach across the land

buildings rise above the trees

swallowed as the city feeds

a creature crawls into the hills

its concrete veins never run still

Sleeper

years from now when your old and grey

hat is hung meet the end of the day

find a pleasant shade to fizzle and fade

lay down your eyes and let them roll away go place your body in an unsolid way unbuckle your knees and untie your elbows unravel your needs and define your mellows flatten your frame and fall head long

fasten your sheets and dream on dream on

fix up a pillow and cushion your skin

just close your eyes and move in

sink like a stone into your breathe

tell hardly anything else is left

pile up your feathers and let them all fall drop in your thoughts and let them dissolve bless your body with what's left of your day for now you lay drifting away

Awaken

when you awaken to sound in your mind

and colour floods down to your newly open eyes

and your eyes fill up while your bones untuck

when you suck in two lungs of wind

and your mind lights up like its unravelling and your open your lashes

and a wave of colour crashes

and reality unfolds

and your mind must hold steady

no time is the time

that your absolutely ready

when you feel your heart

react to your mind

and now your awake

after a breather from time

when you suck in two lungs of wind

and your mind lights up like its unravelling and your open your lashes

and a wave of colour crashes

and reality unfolds

and your mind must hold steady

no time is the time

that your absolutely ready

you rise into chaos

from absolute peace

you enter the ocean

from head to feet

when you shift from nothing

into something

and your mind is so ready

it holds reality steady

when you awaken to sound in your mind

and colour floods down to your newly open eyes

and your eyes fill up while your bones untuck

when you suck in two lungs of wind

and your mind lights up like its unravelling and your open your lashes

and a wave of colour crashes

and reality unfolds

and your mind must hold steady

Embrace

Wondered the neck by the string an strum

I sat down in the sound by the shadow of the sun

went down with dread and come up with a plan

found my way there with the palm of my hand

side to side the days have gone

pulled them back we were not done

hold my hand ill hold the tide

reel those dreams back to your mind

swept up in a flow

tossed along threw and fro

let from none to ones own

caught by one another in a flutter and flow picked a shoe and moved it left

choose and side and swing the rest

moved to the music that makes you stop

sing if the silence is all you've got

up with the living and up with the eyes

up with the feet and up with the hands

down with the bored dreary and dry

down with the ho hum that hunkers our mind down with the angles that one cannot go down with the humdrum you've come to know

down with the dry and up with the soul

down with the stone that will not role