Olden times and ancient rhymes

[ I like the Starflyer 59 version.]

Christmas time is here
Happiness and cheer
Fun for all that children call
Their favorite time of the year

Snowflakes in the air
Carols everywhere
Olden times and ancient rhymes
Of love and dreams to share

Sleigh bells in the air
Beauty everywhere
Yuletide by the fireside
And joyful memories there

Christmas time is here
We'll be drawing near
Oh, that we could always see
Such spirit through the year
Oh, that we could always see
Such spirit through the year...

by Vince Guaraldi, from the A Charlie Brown Christmas soundtrack album

"Let's take a holiday..."

The only thing I recall is
Those shadows coming my way
Comforting me with their searchlights
To guide me home again
“We will take
We will take
That wretched heart away
And when you come to
You’ll thank us
For the new you we’ve made”

So now I'm left here fading away
Far away
Far away
So now I'm left here fading away
Far away
Far away
From me

So now I wait as they make me
Into someone else
If I believe what they tell me
I'm tired of being myself
Cause they take and the take
A piece of me everyday
“And we will help you belong here
With this new you we’ve made”

If you you can amputate my heart
Then I will learn to smile and then
You can replace me with yourself
And I'll become the model citizen
And I will tell them all
That I had this breakthrough surgery
They give you a pill
They remove your heart
And replace it with a battery

--"Soma" by Project 86, on their Truthless Heroes album

"Tapestries in banquet halls..."

Joy Electric - The Works Of Unknowns

Have to read patiently
Books from past centuries
Books of those rarely seen
Hidden for ages
Painted walls, portraits drawn of great empires and royal lawns
Tapestries in banquet halls
Vanished from memory

Now there's nothing left to be shown
The works of unknowns

I divide, multiply
Write what I learn and why
Lecture to younger minds
With sense and reason
I devise formulas with chemical and minerals
Ponder life through telescopes
And question one's purpose

Now there's nothing left to be shown
The works of unknowns

Have to be commonly known as one family
Lengthy genealogies of who came before us
Branches of family trees drawn by those after these
Pages, proper histories, lived then forgotten

Now there's nothing left to be shown
The works of unknowns

not quite Kafka.

"Metamorphis"
Hello friend, it's been sometime, since i've sat at your
table, and drank your wine; worldy lies, empty
skies, but only you can satisfy

Can I be somebody? Not what they want me to
be, just a pale reflection of what you want me to be

Sticks and stones, skin and bones, my teflon coat is
wearing thin, worldly wise, synthesised, i'm on the
outside looking in

Can I be somebody? Not what they want me to, just
a pale reflection of what you want me to be, that's
what i'm gonna be, can I be somebody? Can I be
somebody? I'm gonna be somebody

I know one day, I will be free, my cynical clothing,
will fall from me, flying high in the blink of an
eye, mezzamorphisy

-:Delirious:, from the album Mezzamorphis

Crash Rickshaw

Reached the top
Found out that there's nothing there
So I ask myself
Where do I go from here?
No one knows my heart or where I need to be
I can't sit yet
Stay contentment, please don't leave my heart
Peace of mind don't go yet, I've traveled far
Over many mountains to find what's good
Because life is precious when it's understood
I hit the road
With Psychology and Intellect running
Under my blood
None of it matters when I'm dead
So what is true?
They all can't be
Then I found the truth
He was right before my eyes
Now I have contentment
It fills my heart
Peace of mind consumes me
It wasn't far
As I looked to Jesus
I found who's good
My life is precious now it's understood

Artist: Crash Rickshaw
Album: Crash Rickshaw
Song: When

solid as a rock

I have decided,
I'm gonna live like a believer,
Turn my back on the deceiver,
I'm gonna live what I believe.

I have decided,
Being good is just a fable,
I just cant cause I'm not able.
I'm gonna leave it to the lord.

There's a wealth of things that I profess,
I said that I believed,
But deep inside I never changed;
I guess I'd been deceived.

cause a voice inside kept telling me,
That I'd change by and by,
But the spirit made it clear to me,
That kind of life's a lie.

I have decided,
Im gonna live like a believer,
Turn my back on the deciver,
Im gonna live what I believe.

I have decided,
Being good is just a fable,
I just cant cause Im not able.
Im gonna leave it to the lord.

So forget the game of being good,
And your self-righteous pain.
cause the only good inside your heart
Is the good that Jesus brings.

And when the world begins to see you change,
Don't expect them to applaud.
Just keep your eyes on him and tell yourself,
I've become the work of God.

I have decided,
I'm gonna live like a believer,
Turn my back on the deceiver,
I'm gonna live what I believe.

I have decided,
Being good is just a fable,
I just cant cause I'm not able.
I'm gonna leave it to the lord.

"I Have Decided" by Amy Grant

Lean not to your own understanding.

"To Whom It May Concern"

So hold your head up high and know it's not the end of the road
Walk down this beaten path before you pack your things and head home
At the end of the road you'll find what you've been longing for

I know 'cause my feet have the scars to show
I was lost with vague direction and no place to call home

It's time for you to press on
This is not your war
Set your sights to North and press on
This is not your escape
Wash way what they thought of you
Because in this place, we're all as good as dead
...end cycle...

Behind the mask you'll find yourself alone
It's not the end of road for you


-- from Underoath - Define The Great Line

Not that far away.

"Slaves to Liberty"

Your worth is so much more than words
I know the sound of it's absurd
They'll say it's easier to wallow in distress
It might be true but then we'd
Look like all of them

I know you look for clever words
But simple truth's what you deserve
I have a lifetime of this evidence in me
But you don't need a story
You need broken legs

Call
On Me
We'll rise upon our knees
Call
On me
Cause I'm not that far away
Call
On me
We're slaves to liberty
Call
On Me
Cause I'm not that far
I'm not that far away

Let go the contraband, my friend
We cannot gravitate to destination death
I see your legs are broken bones
Maybe instead of running, just crawl right back to home

--Project86

Eating a book

There is a monster in my room
we discuss movies over coffee
And I think it's quite absurd

He got hungry, licked his lips, he shook my hand, and tried to eat me.
And it's getting on my nerves.

Don't you think it's strange that I've been reading,
and I still don't know how to kill you
I'm trying hard not to meet you when I am sleeping,
and still I don't know how to kill you

I've got tickets to a show that I know no one will be attending
And think that you should go
I don't mind your complexion or the fact you are bleeding
It's just the way that it goes

Don't you think it's strange that I've been reading
and I still don't know how to kill you
I'm trying hard not to meet you when I am sleeping,
but still I don't know how to kill you

I don't mind the shape your head is in
I've just got to watch you explode

--He Is Legend

pensive

And this is what you can't explain
A need to take a long long trip on a train
And this is what you cannot say
I want to take a long long trip far away

I can't even talk
Just kick in the rock
I already know what we're going to play

I just want to take the flight
I need a drummer and I need one tonight
And this is what you cannot say
I want to take a long long trip far away

I can't even talk
Just kick in the rock
I already know what we're going to play

-- "can you play drums?"
from starflyer 59 : leave here a stranger

Bless the Martyr and Kiss the Child

Memphis Will Be Laid To Waste

Waltz around the room, with a glaze in your stare.
In your tuxedo suit. I'll give it a name.
Lower defenses. I'll lower the casket.
Open the door. Open the grave. Murder.
Now you're doing the waltz with your murderer......
Waltz around the room, with a glaze in your stare.
In your tuxedo suit. I'll give it a name. Lower
defenses. I'll lower the casket. Open the door. Open the grave.
Mediocrity is the killer.

You find yourself helpless. Christ is not a fashion,
fleeting away. fashion...

He laid emeralds in her eyes, oh but I'd
already tried. a bracelet made of gold and scarlet
thread around her wrist. and everything was wrong so we
sang sentimental songs. Oh how seldom we belong but
how elegant our kiss. and we painted crooked lies but we
danced in perfect time to a love so much refined, we
know not what it is until like a dullen wine we pour
into a grief we know before but it's never quite like this.
never quite like this.
All I know now is regret, it follows like a silhouette
along the cobblestone behind me, but has nothing to
say except to innocently ask, a voice as delicate as
glass, "Do you see me when we pass?" but I continue on
my way.

coming around again

"Anything"

Love, it's the wave I ride
That won't ever reach the shore
Overwhelmed by the tide
but wanting nothing more..tonight
Than to take this time and make it all mine
It's coming around again

Every now and again sometimes
I get lost on the wind of a dream
The air gets clean and the seas get wide
and I can do anything
The pain it won't even cross my mind
There's wonder in everything
The rope gets loose and the chains unbind
and I can do anything

Hope, it's the light that strikes
that burns inside of me
It's a blinding light but somehow I can see...again
When I've lost my way
It's becoming very clear
And it's coming around again

Every now and again sometimes
I get lost on the wind of a dream
The air gets clean and the seas get wide
and I can do anything
The pain it won't even cross my mind
There is wonder in everything
The ropes get loose and the chains unbind
and I can do anything

Somewhere between the darkness and the light
My spirit takes to fly
The colors fill the sky
And I'm free
Oh-oh...

It's coming around again
It's coming around again
It's coming around again

--written by mae (note: a band, not just my initials)

The Fiancee

Embrace Reaction. We ain't God, but here he comes.
Destiny is real and she comes with a smile, passing by your grave
Reach the plague. Black plague.

In this city that never speaks and wakes up swinging,
We will paint the rivers red.
It's fate because they sing the same songs and they just keep singing.

But up above every storm is the day.
Shake hands with fate, and with fate shake hands.

How happy is every child of grace. Who feels his sins forgiven.
This world. He cries, it not my place. I seek a place in heaven.
A country far from mortal site, yet oh, by faith I see!
The land of rest, the saints' delight, a heaven prepared for me.

Oh, what a blessed hope is ours while here on earth we stay.
We more than taste the heavenly powers and antedate that day.
We feel the resurrection near.
Out life in Christ concealed, and its with he glorious presence here our earthen vessels filled

Just Desserts

Relient K - "I So Hate Consequences"

And I’m good, good, good to go
I got to get away
Get away from all of my mistakes
...
I want to run away I want to ditch my life
Cause all of my mistakes keep me awake at night
...
I had no idea where my head was at
But if my heart says I’m sorry can we leave it at that
Because I just want for all of this to end

And I so hate consequences
And running from you is what my best defense is
Consequences
Oh God, don’t make me face up to this
And I so hate consequences
And running from you is what my best defense is
Cause I know that I let you down
And I don’t want to deal with that
...
And after all of my alibis desert me
I just want to get by
I don’t want nothing to hurt me
I had no idea where my head was at
But if my heart says I’m sorry can we leave it at that
Because I just want for all of this to end
...
Now I think there might
Be no way to stop me now
I'll get away despite
The fact I’m so weighed down

All of my escapes have been exhausted
I thought I had a way but then I lost it
And my resistance was once much stronger
And I know I can't go on like this much longer

When I got tired of running from you
I stopped right there to catch my breath
There your words they caught my ears
You said, “I miss you son. Come home”
And my sins, they watched me leave
And in my heart I so believed
The love you felt for me was mine
The love I’d wished for all this time
And when the doors were closed
I heard no I told so’s
I said the words I knew you knew

Oh God, Oh God I needed you
God all this time I needed you, I needed you

And I so hate consequences
And running from you is what my best defense is
I hate these consequences
Because I know that I let you down
Now I don't wanna deal with that

Oh no

Separate your chief anxieties
Cut the cord, but you won't
Excommunicate from our society
Are you bold? You are not

Oh no
The most terrible, terrible
Archer

You among the league of militants
How little you have learned
Tried and failed to be one of the innocents
Little left of yourself

Little left of myself
Little right of yourself

Oh no
The most terrible, terrible
Archer

--The Most Terrible Archer