Say what is
On your mind and use all
The words you can find and don’t
Hold your breath because you are afraid and don’t lock
It up just to keep it
Safe
Cause your secrets can stay with me.
And I’m just so tired of always being wrong
Now you seem right, you seem right.
Believe my ribs are yours.
Enslaved never before.
Move into the dancing light.
You’re almost close enough to taste tonight.
Look into my eyes and
Imagine what it is like to be
Glossed over with love
Hoping for
The sky above to melt
Not for the crime
Of it but so
We can drink the very spine of it.

This is too much, cycling in my
Heart’s pit
I think I taste love, this
Silence is redolent (of peace to come)
Loose leaves color and fall
Over last season’s decaying ache
Violet ruffles in the sky cover all
Each storm past I could not take
Move over, seething doubt
Unless you can accept your fate
Spit your hesitations out or
Take them with you to the grave
Before I hand you this head on a platter
Entertain me with one thing
Are you convinced this really matters?
Does this make you want to sing?
Recount for me our warning signs
Elated, I listen in… with
Alacrity, so divine, I
Might call it religion.

When I was a little child, we’d pack the car
And we’d drive to Alabama
Especially when my grandma was sick
But my mama cursed her name and said
“She’s a witch and an alcoholic”
But she was the one with the Indian blood
With the dark hair in a family fair
She was the one who saw to the end
Of her own father’s life
And he haunted her every single night
WELL CAN YOU HEAR ME?
AM I COMING THROUGH?
ALL THEM YEARS
DID THEY EVER HEAR YOU?
CAN YOU SEE ME?
THEY SAY I HAVE YOUR EYES
AND IF I DO, WILL I BE HAUNTED AT NIGHT LIKE YOU?
So we put her in an old black hearse
And we left her there in southern dirt
No I will not say that I was cursed
But I was the one to see her again first
Maybe cause I was the one who lost the faith
She’ll talk to me cause I’ll listen to what she has to say

Let loose on a warm trip
Engaging and sun-stricken
Aided my spirit with every sip
Ripened my cheeks with a belly sickened
Noticed every bead of sweat
In the brow of every person
Noticed every person I met
Gave to the wind their worse and
Thought through every move I made
Hours upon hours too late
Insisted that where I laid was
Nested for me without debate
Gave myself to the wine and
Sent my regards to time and
In between the sand that slipped into my mind
Noticed the ways in which the desert is divine
Mexico’s winds are gentle the way I should be
Easily racing through the sun’s
Xanadu
If you go to Mexico, dismiss the
Clock
Or someone else will do it for you

Your attention is caressing the narcissist in me
The shallow pits of my belly
The echoes of words aimed to flatter
The obsession with things that do not matter
Get me off of your pedestal
This queen needs no throne
Simple keep me warm on nights
I choose not to sleep alone
Your confessions are so absent to me
This is what has happened to me
I’ve traveled my roads well till they’ve worn
I’ve been crucified but now reborn
I’ve come back to haunt you
Convince you that I want you
Won’t it be a crying shame
When you wake up screaming my name
This is reincarnation
Revenge at its best
You’ll have no way to recognize my face
As it lies blushed on your chest
You’ll take this one for the team
You’ll take it any time any where
You’ll keep your eyes out for me
Your glorified worst nightmare
I’m sad to say
But this is the way
This is the way we roll
We spit venom into your eyes
And sting the beast between your thighs
All is fair in love
So die motherfucker
We know what we came for.
Bury your head in your hands

You are so mediocre and typical beyond words
You shuffle your feet with the rest of the sheep
Moving through life in a herd
You wanna drag me down to your level
Persuade me that my dreams are only dreams
Well, I’m not that easily sold
Not by any way or any means
I thought you were so different
I swore you could rise above
Hell, I even thought that I
Could save you with my love
You wouldn’t believe my shock
Or foresee my deep dismay
To learn that after all
A will doesn’t constitute a way
I thought you were so eccentric
A thinker on your own
Now your radical ideas and beliefs
You’re so comfortable to disown
You’re so disarrayed now
And completely disjointed
Your lack of faith is nothing short
Of a severe disappointment
I was so impressed
And taken by you
That time literally froze
But now I can see
You’re just a sheep parading around
In wolves clothes

Smoke in the room
Fire is below
We’ll be leaving soon
Before the others know
The flames are dancing
We’re drinking ourselves sick
Sing to me if you can sing
The air is getting thick
I was just
Wondering if this party will end
The music is
Thundering, I’m making a new friend
But I’m tired of all my friends
They make me feel more alone
I would rather go home
The glamour, the glimmer
We’re hammered, but we’re thinner
Than everyone else in the room
Off-camera, we’re bitter
But well-mannered and fitter
Than everyone else, we assume
Glamour, oh my dear
Cock-sucking dirty whore
You’re quite a sight in the right light
I bet you’ve heard that line before
I’ve watched you take my friends
Cried as you took my lovers
I’ve lost some of them
From underneath the covers
I’ll let you come near
I’ll let you sit with me
But there’s no vessel for you here
So do not bullshit with me

Take my neck and choke me
And I will stop hoping
To see the light, so holy
I don’t want to die slowly
This is a carnival
At the lights, I marvel
Hands in the air
Wind in my face
I think I love this place
I am going for a ride
To the darker side of things
Knowing deep inside
I haven’t got the wings
To fly this far from here
I’m just crazy
Creating dimensions and illusions
Translating my confusion into
Wars that are so ugly
Bruised by purpose and my fate
Don’t kiss me, don’t touch me
I’m ready to release the gates
Perfection is an amateur night at the mic
The best shot
At the whole lot
At the hopelessness of sight

I’ll be no prisoner to this passion
I’ll wait not a second more
I’ll exit where these gates once stood
Where a fortress towered before
Because I ride my own horse
I am the first and last daughter
And I haven’t got time for you to tell me
How you’ve been walking on water
What if I told your father
The things you have been saying
What if I exposed this city
To the games you have been playing
It’s a sweet routine
You’ve got going on
I’m ashamed that I’ve been seen
Gliding along

I see heaven in your eyes
I feel angels behind your breath
I taste life on your precious lips
And in your absence, I taste death
Dreams of you are knocking
Beckoning me back to sleep
Where I lay safe in your arms
In your love’s keep
This feeling makes me want to
Dissolve down for you
Revolve around you
For Heaven is not out of reach
With you by my side
You capture my reality
And these two worlds collide
Come to me and consume me
Release me from this hell
For you’re a piece of heaven
A true angel
From all I can tell