Must've Been Love
I once knew a guy
Who told so many lies
They actually replaced all the whites of his eyes
He met up with a girl
By the nickname of Shirl
And she promised him that she would rock his world
They had a few dates
Often stayed out real late
Woke up in the morning to coffee and pancakes
After a couple months
He had thought she was the one
So he popped the question for anything but fun
She exclaimed 'Yes! '
And so he tried his best
To make it through the daunting wedding arrangement quest
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Important Illusions
Pay your bills to mow your lawn
Go to work and hold your yawn
Shop for fun or get a loan
For ring tones on tiny phones
Pray for life but shoot to kill
Give your freedom for free will
Where’s your page in VR?
Your avatar should have a car
You’re wasting away on desperate delusions
Of a blissful life of important illusions
From your home, watch this show
The world’s a danger zone you know
Speed it up! Do is faster!
Time is short but still your master
You’re the best and first in prize
And you deserve a larger size
Trust in those who can spend
But success is your only friend
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Changing Of The Guard
It’s hard
For a young upstart to compete with the old guard
For the old guard guards the old ways of doing business
With old business partners who also make it hard
For the young upstart
For they guard the old ways of guarding the business
From the brash and rash and flash of upstarts
But the old guard was also young at some age
Back when they fought the old guards of their days
And they too were young upstarts looking for change
Things for them seemed just as hard
And they placed each bet on each losing card
But before they knew it they were playing the old games
With the young upstarts who were looking for change
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Why We Fight pt 1 (Lock and Load)
You’ve walked out the garden and watched your hands go
From picking up berries to picking up ammo
The same sticks and twigs that build up your village
Fight off the conquers and plunders and pillage//
-Stones and sticks and sticks and stones
Gather them up to protect your home
And when needed use them on some bones
Lay them all down to outline your zone
Raise them and burn them on your throne
Monsters can’t outrun the sticks and stones-
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You Are What You See If You Want To Be
In a symphony of harmony and muted voices
Where what makes your life is a matter of opinion
Where love conquers all and death has no dominion
There are no answers only your choices
Some blame can be placed on disco mania
Or the yuppies created from Reaganomics
Crack taking folks higher than aeronautics
And pop stars rhyming with schizophrenia
On front lawns dawns the day’s complications
This is so common and thus is much proper
Where you can make more cake than Betty Crocker
Must not cheap with the conversations
You are what you see if you want to be
Legendary gallant or the infamous
Legendary valance of the incubus
There’s always 2 ways to travel 1 street
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My Life on the Eve of Revolution
Tomorrow is on its way
And the person whose pen is writing these words
Will cease to exist when it arrives
The world in which I live in will follow suit
And a new one will take hold
Destroying the old with action renewed
My nerves are on fire
Burning visions into my thoughts and
Sparks into my imagination on the possibilities
Coming my way
I will not see
The current situations on the globe are all
Of devastation in increasing severity
But tomorrow will change all that
Yet
I still feel this eerie
Anxiousness to change
That seems so strange to me today
Even as tomorrow draws evermore near
I’m excited with fear and hope that it comes
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LSDearly Beloved
Shoulders sagging and spines dragging so weary
No escapes dream states groovin to Tim Leary
Dreary lives mime scary times tastes so melodic
Episodic seasons chronic greetings psychotic
Meetings touch L.S.Dearly
Beloved don’t covet the days and months yearly
Ears hearing the colors sway and fearing the eerie
Feelings in fields of view corroded by smelling the teary
Developments enveloping everything in the being
To coax out a hoax and mislead the misleading
Displeasing stigmas stuck on melting backs like a dorsal
Forceful impressions from head to toe through the torso
Hallucination invitations in the dropp of a morsel
Promise clues to breakthrough this dimension in Morse code
And forgo...
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Game of Life (Ka-ching!)
Come in here my good man, how bout some coffee?
Give me your land and I’ll loan you a donkey
Never mind 3 courses I’ll promise you eight
For the next 5 years or the next decade
Just sign here and initial there
Don’t read the fine print this bargain is fair
You’ll pay for the donkey and the eight courses
For the next 10 years and nature’s forces
Can’t relieve you of making your payments
Let me slow down and say this in laymen
You owe me somewhere around 500 large
Now will that be cash, check or charge?
The business of business has one bottom line
To split up your nickel and call it a dime
Money is money forget what you feel
If you want to make something, then let’s make a deal
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Qrious Beauty
She’s a dangerous woman, of an evil sort
A conniving young thing, with a beauty of course
Calculating more than Texas Instruments
She’s very rational when it’s time for injuring
Pushes the right buttons like she’s entering codes
Just to toy with you, she’s not after your gold
Entices crowds of all burning men
They unknowingly enter a tournament
Lose their vision with one bat of her eyes
Their hearts all babble to speak with this prize
She calls each one by one as if they're the winner
Then brushes them off with a wag of her finger
Qrious, she keeps up a clever defense
Teaches men to never say never again
Though feeling betrayed they go where she goes
She’ll break them all down
Like a gorgeous tornado
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Mad House pt.2
Hissing and dissing and feelings are driftin
Ignored and abhorred insisting on distance
For what seems like no reason when out in public
The shoulder’s so cold you’ll freeze if you touch it
Clenching your teeth brain twisted like twine
They couldn’t have put that knife in your spine
And kept greetings on time
You gotta be crazy in order to smile
In struggles where it’s often guile v guile
Eye for an eye fight fire with fire
And everyone’s blind on a funeral pyre
All lumped in a bundle and dumped on a heap
Ready for shearing like low humble sheep
Following trends like zombies at sleep
You’re still the one bolt in this great big machine
You gotta be crazy to be yourself
And from what’s being said, it’s bad for your health
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