2.242 : 12/31/05 : The Catch Up

It may be catching up with me
but I can sneak one last
unconscious melody
Into the vortex of all recorded thought
Started with the scripture
now see what we have got
if information overload
is the century’s curse
I guess I’ll throw my own
handful of verses on that purse
Simpler than you could imagine
this is all it takes
jump it with a sweet line
and a bass escape that shakes
and it’ll go down sweet
as any other
thinking bout the new year
thinking about my brother
thinking about my aching hand
I surely bust that nut
If there’s anything I’m not
thinking about I don’t know what

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2.241 : 12/30/05 : Next Penultimate

Next penultimate
next big thing on the ultranet
some diseases pass all boundaries
something forged in
exquisite foundries
something truly dark and twisted
every scenario ever listed
might pale before the fact of life
might redefine both woe and strife
plenty new under the sun
I’ll work as hard as anyone
to carry through this simple pledge
I balanced every moment
on its edge

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2.240 : 12/29/05 : Thunder

Thunder distant
thunder rolling under
just below what you can hear
but you feel a little
tremble
you might misinterpret as fear
it’s nothing to
be afraid about
though it’s gonna get near by and by
though it’s gonna really shout
it’s just a changing of the season
things still happen for a reason
meaning may have died
with irony but
reasons still abide
This year I’ll crack the meaning of life
it’ll just be a joke by then
but it’ll still amuse the wife

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2.239 : 12/28/05 : Near

It’s a near light but so very dim
I can hardly see a thing
the energy was never fully dissipated
and what a chain reaction it created
So near to the center of me
revealed at last the central fallacy
nothing ever really stopped
it’s all still rocking on the beat He dropped
on the first day ever
whatever that means
A man makes a mess
and he just cleans and cleans
When God makes a mess
all creation sings
And I wind up hung upon
by a thousand things
But nothing ever really stops me either
So I guess you could say I’m a true believer
Or I guess you could say I am fortune’s fool
But I’ll give it all up to gaze
Just once more in that pool

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2.238 : 12/27/05 : Pop the Cork

Pop the cork a couple early why not
I got a lot to be excited about
It’s been a year like none before
and I fully expect the next’s gonna be even more
You can’t exactly call it evolution
You can’t exactly get behind the revolution
televised or not it’s surely bought and sold
oh they’ll do anything for filthy gold
This is barely a scratch on the surface
I’ll keep on digging till I find my purpose
I’ve got my row to till my furrow to plow
It started out so small but look at me now
Look at how it’s rolling crazy
I’m not always quite so lazy
but I love to just roll it along
pop the cork and pour out another song

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2.237 : 12/26/05 : Powerful Impact

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Powerful impact boom! no dodging
deep into the mantle lodging
sent in by a bad old crew
that flew long before me or you
the tidal waves that rip the sphere
reverberate through oceans clear
throw up a spume to cloak the earth
happened before for what it’s worth
maybe the first five shots went wide
the longer they fall the harder goes forth pride
if it happened and it surely could
I guess I’d try to hang on I surely would
‘cause after all it’s just another day
I’ll still be signing if the music still plays

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2.236 : 12/25/05 : Hurtling Down the Cellular Time Tunnel

Was it the acid sent him round the bend
He saw it all the way down to the end
and saw the beauty inner eye
of telling this becoming lie?
hurtling down the cellular time tunnel
vague remembrance of a harsh k funnel
So on fire to be the chosen
In that crystal valence frozen
turn on turn on turn on turn turn turn
I feel it you’re about to burn
and issue forth a wild decree
not so different from ol’ J.C.
The priesthood and West Point
don’t need much of an excuse to fire up a joint
pass that pass that flaming coal
only thing I can’t give up believing in’s my soul

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2.235 : 12/24/05 : Song Plow

I’m gonna hitch my oxen
now I’m gonna hitch my oxen
I’ve got to get on up behind my song plow
Got to plow a furrow
today there’s no tomorrow
Plow this veil of sorrow
behind my song plow
You get up in the morning
as soon as it’s light
As long as there’s another song left
we’ll be up all night
driving the song plow

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2.234 : 12/23/05: Trucks Are Fun

Trucks are fun! Trucks are fun
wheels that roll and gears that run
and rumble when you pull a string
lights that light and cars that sing

things that rattle rock and roll
dump a load into a hole
trucks with winches trucks with cranes
pretty soon you’ll be on airplanes
let’s just play trucks on the floor
after that let’s play some more
and at the end of every day
put every single truck away

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2.233 : 12/22/05 : Epiphany

While I was building a booth
to house the Son of God
Moses and Elijah
both reverted to sod
and the lesson I was told
by the Voice from the sky
was try not to let the moment
pass you by
this was my epiphany
while the glory was revealed
I was fretting on the sea
that was getting very choppy
that was getting very rough
I remembered I had already
Said I’d had enough
but we didn’t stop we went
on up that mountain anyway
and that’s how I came to see the son
transfigured on that day

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2.232 : 12/21/05 : Photograph

Light travelled from the sun
93 million miles
took 8 minutes to get here
for light that’s quite a while
refracted through the atmosphere
bent and colored shining
through the clouds and through the air
polarities aligning
bounces off some mass of mass
whatever doesn’t get absorbed
reflected at the angles of
the incident and tangent of the orb
and so reflected passes by chance
focused by a lens
and tangles with a chemical plane
thus the photograph begins

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2.231 : 12/20/05 : The Trackless Track

There’s no roads left less traveled by
or so it seems it seems to me
He said you’re wrong by definition
If there’s more there’s less it’s a tautology
And do I really care at all
why stray off the beaten track
except for all my trackless dreams
and even they lead me endless back
to this well beaten mortal coil
weaving to a center so well known
that’s been so many times before
but mine will come for me alone
and few reports are even claimed
across from that dim other shore
Are we surfeit past the trackless track
or do we useless beg for more?

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2.230 : 12/19/05 : What’s Coming Up

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What’s coming up the shifts
the shut down rifts
the watchers of the watchers
the exploding gifts
the bomb squad units
the terrorist label
the last transmission of
the Tower of Babel
What’s coming up
the satanic angels
releasing a report that
Only sex and pain sells
displaying the latest rolling stock
sliding a slim hand
over your stopcock
coax another drop from the tap
collecting your dividend of sap

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2.229 : 12/18/05 : Chasing Light

Mistaking the reflections for the source
Shadows on the cave wall
will occur to you of course
Don’t mistake an archetype for a legend
You can’t eat metaphysics
So we’re fishing off the deep end
chasing light that dances
off the walls
shakes and shivers rises falls
mistaking movement for
real life
grinding dull the edge on
Occam’s knife

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2.228 : 12/17/05 : The Liar

The liar has not stopped
it must go back
ten twenty thirty forty years
playing on the prejudices
playing on the fears
another inquiry to get ducked
Some time they catch
Somebody getting sucked
But who the hell can keep up
with abstracts like liberty
and that’s the nature that’s
exploited by the liar of the free

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2.227 : 12/16/05 : Steps and Ramps

The reactions proceed by steps and ramps
collecting baseball cards coins and stamps
led to the cabin back up in the sticks
led to the manifesto and the package tricks
There ain’t much excuse or even explanation
Just inexorable ramping station to station
First the crystal radio from Radio Shack
Next thing you know the terrorist attack
Demand an accounting be demanded by the masses
better arrest anyone wearing glasses
raid the universities the college kids
who knows what sedition lurks beneath their lids
cleanse society of every intellectual
after every other method proves ineffectual
give the whole thing over to you numbskull jerks
see if all the average joes can make it work

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2.226 : 12/15/05 : Talking About God

I hate talking about God he said
I’d rather talk about dogs instead
People really want to talk about
theology
tautology
politics and gold and ideology
nobody
wants to talk like me
about anything
they’ve actually felt or seen
if people talked about love
the way they talk about God
pop radio would perish
there’d be lectures on your iPod

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2.225 : 12/14/05 : Garble Garble

Garble garble what’s it matter
in the face of history all
meaning is reduced to tatters
words do not mean
what they used to
Text hid eons
are reduced to
fire starters
scratch for accountants
leaving garble garble
interspersed with the amounts and
subtotals ain’t that tragic
Once upon a time
it held a little magic

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2.224 : 12/13/05 : Cheap

Cheap trick lay it down,
old pattern on the low down
fake smile hides a frown

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2.223 : 12/12/05 : Vision Fifteen

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Learning something new every day and
getting pretty sick of it
Still I don’t really know what to say
still I don’t get the trick of it
Learning to take it a day at a time
And really it isn’t any easier
It just makes it possible: the choice is always mine
It’s creeping like molasses though the lightning couldn’t get
greasier:
My God what misbegotten tripe
what a a waste of good time after bad
And even if it’s at myself I snipe
Still it surely makes me sad
not enough time for all the visions
vision one through vision fifteen
Only time for snap decisions
and the hope for a break that is
clean

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2.222 : 12/11/05 : Stone

I stacked my bricks up
stone on stone
I could not finish
or leave it alone
And when a thousand and one
days had died
still I was not
satisfied

I knew one stone could not
remain upon another
I knew that brother
must rise up against brother
I knew the name writ on
my secret stone
I knew the name of the
beast who usurped
the throne

It’s just a dictionary
I said
It’s just a contemplation
of daily bread
I’m just a messenger
so kill me if you must
ashes will stay ashes
and you’ll still eat dust

I don’t look for any
final end
Nobody at all knows
what’s around the bend
but I can feel it
In my bones
Hello to another day
of stacking stones

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2.221 : 12/10/05 : Place Holder (First of a Million)

This ain’t the first time plans went astray
Surely not the first of a million
Head’s too full of thoughts they say
If I had a penny I’d be worth a billion
Place holders may mock resolve
Promises made silently all alone
so I write another apology that will not solve
these questions etched as deep as bone
So I write another song in which
I write another line about the song I’m writing
at this point’s the truth’s a bitch
and the outcome is neither surprising nor exciting
the best that can be said I suppose
I did one thing I said I would do
today and even if it’s another one of those
just holding a place well its intent is true

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2.220 : 12/9/05 : First Day Not Yet Started Blues

It’s the first day
not yet started;
blues are forecast
Reminiscent of the time I started
year on year two years ago
four years five years six years I know
this is the real one
I’ll make it so
So blue
not yet started
formalism says the day’s begun
and I am broken hearted
thinking of the paths all
unwinding
Such a precious stone
I’m finding
tonight
endless night
one last time
pursued by every light

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2.219 : 12/8/05 : When Will the Truth Set Me Free

When will the truth set me free?
When will the truth set me free?
I’ve been raising up its name a long time you see
And I only ever asked for what was said would come to me

When will we meet face to face?
When and in what kind of place?
I waited such a long time hoping for just a small taste
Though I guess that I’d be waiting here in any case

When will the work be complete?
This good work in me be complete?
I’ve raised my voice so many times I’d rather not repeat
I wish though you would answer while I’m still on my feet

Oh when will I be free?
When will the truth set me free?
It’s lined up there with all the other things they said would be
But nobody gave me a vote -
And this is no democracy

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2.218 : 12/7/05 : Another Dog

Another dog makes three
listen babe to me
if this one doesn’t work out
We’re going to get a cat
A cat with socks and stripes
aloof you know their types
And if that kitten should prove false
we’ll get a fast evolver vat
And grow it up into an ape
I warn you it may well escape
and make it’s way all the way
to the talk show set I guess
Then I will get a bird
less trouble so I heard
And if you wonder if it
makes much sense I couldn’t say yes

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2.217 : 12/6/05 : The Grim

Divide the grim from the merely realistic
If the parse suggested seems absurd, far too simplistic
Think about it think about it such a Sisyphean task
Just another maudlin ditty, songs about another mask

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2.216 : 12/5/05 : Chance It

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Chance it says the inner mind
Not expecting pay in kind
All convinced the consequences
will not overwhelm our senses
Twisting upward in an updraft
Something between warp and witchcraft
And adventure no mistaking
with each dubious turn we’re taking
Ask why does this maze exist
ask what lies lost in the mist
find the gem the sword the scepter
I left a thread who knows what kept her
Who knows why she came at all
to see us off against the wall
but we appreciate the support
Nevertheless backtracking is the last resort

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2.215 : 12/4/05 : Time Out

Is there a way to slice some time out of my day
without a seam or glaring gap
is there a method or a map
can you bewitch the clock to count the hours
but skip a beat at your command
halt the pendulum still the sand
Time out of hand
Time out of mind
Time flies time creeps
Time is money time is blind
I don’t have the method you are seeking
we all have to heed the same clock
In our walking and our speaking
In our wander round the coil
Get no time out to reflect
Or revise our strategy
Or our hidden motives reject

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2.214 : 12/3/05 : Bedlam

Just another jolly day in Bedlam
chewing on the carpet bouncing off the walls
Napoleon and Chamberlain facsimiles in human skin
muttering and wandering the halls
I can’t tell the doctors from the patients
whose side I belong to
we’re all locked in here together anyway
We all know we’re bound to sing the same song too
Bedlam oh Bedlam home of my madness
Good fences make even madmen good neighbors
just how sure are you of which side you are on
Where do you look for reward of your labors
Lord oh dear lord to whom shall I go
for words of eternal compassion
there is no better than a good Bedlamite
for invoking you after his fashion

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2.213 : 12/2/05 : Keeping the Faith

Do any keep the faith?
Do any turn the cheek
Do any give their cloak as well
And do these only find what they seek
Do any find a world without war
without injustice
without greed
Keeping the faith is so hard
So unnatural
So many in need
I do not keep the faith
I have a violent soul
I want to cling to what I think is mine
I don’t want the path
Only the goal
I pray to be completed
A good work once begun
I pray that this might be accomplished
by the holy son

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2.212 : 12/1/05 : Batshit Insane

Batshit insane holes in the brain
little bitty bell goes klang klang klang
Roaring void another nitrous train wreck
cashed check writ dreck
gosh I’m mad as all heck
Zippy zippy doo-dah
Fed up with the hoo-hah
Lined up with the light brigade
All shouting booyah
Suck it up
it’s a simple mistake
gotta chunk
get with monk
gotta get drunk
shake

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