Best Blues

Personal Best

PERSONAL BEST Though we like to pretend

the dance is choreographed

there looms the pattern

more random every day seen through a pane of glass

but clearly magnified

we sit and focus

and hone in on the worst yet I

don’t see us running out of time

but its true

we should've learned enough to

chalk it up as a loss our day is coming quick

we put it off of course

in a line of thinking

we had doubted from the start the only cost of which would be

our bullshit time

still see us lying in the dark

fixing, just staring at the void

making a list

setting demands

reminds me why

I might have cared she said

"come take your birds and fly

go find the afterlife go out and focus

hone in on the void I see you running out of time

I see you running out of time just see you and me

just see you

running just see you and me

just see you

running out of time just see you and me

just see you

lying in the dark lying in the dark

No One Wants It To Happen To You

No one wants it

to happen to you

No one wants it

to happen

No one wants it

to happen to you Enter the room

the fog crept in your eyes

made you float Whether or not

it came as a surprise

you were sure

they were mistaken No one wants it

to happen to you

No one wants it

to happen news from the wall

take the ruins of

spring again the gaps may be closed

the visible escape

just a blur the cold tap of the facts

you realize we live in the dark

we do what we can

the rest is up to chance

&

No one wants it to happen to you

No one wants it to happen

No one wants it

No one

Boys Life

In light of luck

which seemed remote

came

The loss of wonder!

Glad to see it go! I don't bother

anymore That secret's sold!

Hell, I made my own pictures of youth /

picturing you wandered off to wade

a sea of pasts the undiscovered

leanings likely lost floating in ozone park can't stay there

its true but if you'd like to visit

you are welcome least in your mind

somewhere you can go

least in your mind

yet to yellow pictures of youth /

picturing you

The Closer I Look

And if not here

then where else

might one live

easy? in tomorrow?

underneath all the spikes

left of memory's sprawl? the closer I look

everyday at the doors! But it felt weird

just walking out not sure if

I came close Minor deity

to you spoke: "when first faced with it

take the compliment

more directions

to follow" current sympathies

have been of use to me

got sad, did something

of note helps to worry sometimes

the closer I look

every day at the walls have they warned you?

are they going to?

On a bus to Duluth

heard about the scene there the closer I look

the more it takes away the closer I look

the further it feels/seems today/away

the more it feels/seems ok Have they shown you

streets off the main?

Me? I Don't know the way! Lead me there!

Lead me to

Lead me to

some practical use lead me to

lead me to

Big Ideas, Pt. 2

I recall a time when the moon

was full

and you had no idea

where you were side by side

came out to surrender

I wore the best

thing I could find love is a choice

love is no answer back through the empty

house of the zodiac

onto some

better myth death is one thing

to be dead is another

it was the last thing on my mind Maybe, I'd like to

live in this place Maybe, I'd like to be for you

what you are for me

what you are

what you are for me love is a choice

love is no answer love is

a choice like any other

Back at Belle's

When I came here

everything was strange

Wasn't sure I'd see

you again

with the act I pulled Back at Belle's again

least for the evening

Way I was thinking

It wouldn't be long

til you came back

you came back then we'll lay around in

some madhouse

laughing at the world outside

and I'll ask you what What made you

change your mind?

what made you change

your mind? Who says I changed it? You came back

You came back

for me what made you change

your mind? Who says I changed it?

Maybe, I'm just thinking about it

Between Leos

two in the dark

a competent heart

come and live with me Just out of reach

the tape would repeat

Asked to find the flame,

could barely glow Between Leos

on your own

Between Leos

you won't You just say the words

I'll hop into the car and go

though we hardly spoke a word setting off alarms

terrors of the afternoon

made you feel the fool full of the old Adam

I expect the worst from you

made you feel I disapproved Between Leos

on your own

Between Leos

you won't you just say the word

I'll get into the car and go come meet me halfway

come meet me halfway

half the way is easy

Checkpoints

None of this can resume

from the place that we

left off pan as you walk through

the room

cut away to

a permanent address paradise may be far off Checkpoints on the map

Checkpoints on the map between

I was hardly here

I was hardly gone I was hardly here

I was hardly gone Wanted to flee the scene

through the fence

through the present in the course of the work

you missed light invading the void

psychic only in joy,

crazy enough to leave

the edges tempted me Checkpoints on the map

Checkpoints on the map between

I was hardly here

I was hardly gone I was hardly here

I was fairly gone

Smoke Around the Bend

Quietly, I asked them what

this place was for

nobody could recall in the distance

Watched the traces left of the crane

their story was the same Smoke around the bend

Fire in the east

places I pretend to reach

Smoke around the bend drone assures me

I'm still here

out on the breadcrumb trail

but leading out to where? Found the clearing on the map

strangely made to scale

of the studio sky Smoke around the bend

Fire in the east

what did I intend to see?

Smoke around the bend oh I'm bound to seek september

in the valley of the moon

XX Century