- Becoming A Jackal
The most familiar rose
Every implement was leading to you
And your homely sense of dissaray
Never once the same
Always rearranged
But things would never change
In the seam between the window frame
Where the jackals preyed on every soul
- Courage
It took a little time
To get where I wanted
It took a little time
To get free
It took a little time
To be honest
It took a little time
- Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep
Do not stand at my grave and weep
I am not there. I do not sleep.
I am a thousand winds that blow.
I am the diamond glints on snow.
I am the sunlight on ripened grain.
I am the gentle autumn rain.
When you awaken in the morning's hush
I am the swift uplifting rush
- I Saw The Dead
Lyrics to I Saw the Dead :
Have you got just a minute
Are you easily mad
Let me show you the back room
Where I saw the dead
Dancing like children
On a midsummer morn
And they asked me to join
- Memoir
The city lights are beckoning
The sirens softly call
Of the fantasist and fetishists are preparing the ball
When you've been stuck here on the doorstep with nothing to forsake
Well you might as well be anyone's to take
So i give myself to strangers like i gave myself to you
But the tenderness I felt has been replaced by something new
- Nothing Arrived
Savanna scatters and the seabird sings
So why should we fear what travel brings?
What were we hoping to get out of this?
Some kind of momentary bliss?
I waited for Something, and Something died
So I waited for Nothing, and Nothing arrived
It's our dearest ally, it's our closest friend
- Occupy Your Mind
'Cause it's the funniest feeling
So let's slip inside
Out of this world
Out of this life
'Cause this place called home
Is no longer mine
So now I need to occupy your mind
- Pieces
For a long, long time
I've been in pieces
In the corner of a room
In an endless afternoon
For a long, long time
I've been in pieces
For a long, long time
- Set the Tigers Free
Farewell to my only friend
You've been so good to me
Now the carnival has ended
Let's set the tigers free
The spring was always early
And the winter never came
But since I got this hunger
- The Meaning Of The Ritual
My love is selfish
And I bet that yours is too
What is this peculiar word called truth
My love is selfish
Ad it cares not who it hurts
It will cut you out to satisfy its thirst
For the meaning of a ritual so habitual and cursed
- The Soul Serene
So I go walking on the shore
And wonder what I am walking for
Rain falling in the stream
As I try to figure
I try to figure out what it all means
And I find chameleon dreams in my mind
Took a little ride on the carousel
- The Waves
There are waves
Up in the diamond sky
Stronger than you and I
Am a wave
I break through the barrier reef
Cut through the carbon sea
Approaching the shore
Look at the sky, look at the trees
- Twenty Seven Strangers
The bus was late
And forced us all to congregate
Twenty-seven strangers
Made to stand and wait
The time went by
The sun went down
A baby cried
- Wichita Lineman
I am a lineman for the county
And I drive the main road
Searchin' in the sun for another overload
I hear you singin' in the wire
I can hear you through the whine
And the Wichita lineman is still on the line
I know I need a small vacation