832 : 7/20/00 : Brim

This cup is brimming
it’s ready to spill
guess I’ve had about enough
of the bitter pill
oh if momma knew
that I’d come to this
I wouldn’t be here trapped
in my paralysis
fill me to the brim
overflowed and overwhelm
I’m ready to begin now
ready to take the healm
It’s been twenty years and more
since I set myself a task
not knowing what I had in store
not knowing really what to ask
but here I am again
I’m not sinking I am swimming
my moment slowly turns to view
this cup is brimming

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831 : 7/19/00 Vorpal

1,903 : 54 ?


Vorpal cut through anything
here’s the quandary see what you can do
Slice through the Gordian knot
that ties my hands from reaching out to you
snick snack slice through seemingly
inseparable matters of high regard
no diamond too rough
no hard place too hard
vorpal blade oh sword of legend
buried in your crimson stone
could the holy task of freeing
you from your place be mine alone
almost anything that you could
think of can be divided
the vorpal solution to the dilemma
and curse of the uninvited

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830 : 7/18/00 : Descent

The long low drawn out wail of descent
Why didn’t he ever say what he meant
We find it so hard to speak our mind
I guess that’s why we’re the distant kind
The thrill of take off the agony of the crash
You best be careful they don’t take you out with history’s trash
It happens to the best of us you know
So if your aim is hostile best you fly in low
The warm sound of trains, Northeast side
A brave man can still take those boxcars for a ride
I don’t hold with airplanes much I’m in no rush
Why hurry why get caught up in the crush
Start the descent now in the tenth hour
before this night is through your branch will flower
Its scent will testify to one raw fact
The sense of forward motion’s all you ever lacked
going down

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829 : 7/17/00 : The Doorway (part 2)

What did I tell you
nothing of value
can ever be destroyed
Look at yourself now
dressed for your last bow
strung out and paranoid
Yet here we all are together
Standing on the edge again
We made it through the doorway
not by the sword but by the pen

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828 : 7/16/00 : The Doorway (part 1)

Is what goes in
what goes out
Isn’t that question
what it’s all about
The doorway by virtue
of being there
forces us to ponder
on the faulty recall that we share
Is there room for error?
can we trust in who we are?
I guess I’ve got a feeling
that the answer can’t be far
so walk with me to the doorway
look and see the other side
and if I see you again never
still in my heart you’ll reside

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827 : 7/15/00 : Industry

I must think I’m
pretty hot
to think that I can get out
of the industry
I think I’m a messiah
but I’m not
and my errors are
very plain to see
Are you looking for
a new organization
a different order
a change of the guard
Here’s the source
of my frustration
the question I have
pondered hard

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826 : 7/14/00 : Squink Teevee Theme Song

Oh god
another day
in front of the teevee
all the things they always show
all the things I always see
but everything
has changed for me
since I got Squink Teevee
since I got Squink Teevee
Oh I
can’t face another day
without my death sports
And my virtual pet lamprey
You think there’d be a price to pay
but I get it for free
because it’s Squink Teevee
because it’s Squink Teevee
You must get Squink Teevee
You must get Squink Teevee
It’s all on Squink Teevee
It’s all on Squink Teevee

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825 : 7/13/00 : Before the Wave

What a silence will descend then
as we gaze at our demise
traveling across the whole world
far above skyscraper size
We may wonder what we did to
merit such a killing blow
little understanding that our
ends were plotted far below
We misread the signs and signals
blind to what we swore to save
This won’t be the last time we
wish for the world before the wave
some may cling to bits of flotsam
wash up on some crazy shore
Some might stay afloat a while
a few will come there won’t be more
One less thing to worry about
for those that rule the nether realm
and there’s not a single one
of us the wave won’t overwhelm

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824 : 7/12/00 : Delusions of Grandeur

1,895 : 46 ?


Delusions of Grandeur...
Delusions of Grandeur...
What do you see when you look through the door
that leads to me to you to the way things were before
what do you do when the moonlight
Turns the world to silver frost
What was the word so bold and true
that soon as I heard I had to say to you
It was a little bit past midnight
And I was talking faster than Docta Faustus
Delusions of Grandeur
Delusions of Grandeur
There was a time so long ago
When the paradigm shifted like melted snow
We had read about what went down before
But even so, we were not prepared
And the lesson that came up from that age
Put some duress on our mostly blank page
That’s what I see looking through the door
To a hall of memories we shared
Delusions of Grandeur
Delusions of Grandeur

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823 : 7/11/00 : The Lost Word

For those about to die
by and by, by and by
for those about to die
salute what is seen and not heard
Searching for the lost word
For those who choose to live
take and give, take and give
for those about to be demured
For you I’ll whisper the Lost Word

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822 : 7/10/00 : Brilliant

Brilliant brilliant written in fire
The moving finger writes and having writ retires
Look at what it says on the wall
You better drop everything when I call
Brilliant cycle perfect and complete
one thing leads to another and on down the street
I can’t hide the fact that I’m smitten
Dazzled by the brilliant fire in which it is written

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821 : 7/9/00 : Go (Sacrifice)

Sign of the sacrifice
everything has a price
I’m no exception there
even if I act like I don’t care
Don’t put one over on me
I’m the real article, see
watch my hands closely
there’s no trick it’s real mostly
I made my fortune in computer go
and it taught me the one thing I know
everybody gets once chance to see
how I use mine’s up to me

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820 : 7/8/00 : Passion

Watch passion ignite
not a dim light
blind sense and sight
but it’s all right ma
I’m stalwart strong
But gone for a blonde
I waited so long
to hear the song that
made me just hear
potent wild clear
past self and fear
and not a mere truth
written in gold
untouched unsold
passion hot and cold
a Love so bold

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819 : 7/7/00 : Jennie Song

Guinevere...
Guinevere...
Guinevere...
So delicious beyond compare
everything’s better with Jennifer there
at my side; love’s sexy bride
I’m sporting an excitement I can’t hide
Jennie’s song is short and sweet
a princess a twin blessed with a discrete
eternal grace; an angel’s face
that sends me swooning in a transcendent place
plain or complex, coarse or fine
Musta made friends upstairs to make her mine
I won’t let go; you know it’s so; a
Jennie song is in my heart and in my soul

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818 : 7/6/00 : Punk (Karma Wheel)

If you run down a punk in Amarillo T-X
If you play football A and M will cash your checks
If a black man robs the wrong store at the wrong time
chances are they’ll burn him for another man’s crime
I wrote this song on behalf of Dustin Camp
I gave the Karma wheel a spin and locked down the clamp
what goes around comes around I promise it’s true
and one day it will come around for you
Hey punks listen while I sing you a tune
I saw the spirit of your friend howl at the moon
He gave me a message to pass along
He made me promise to deliver it in a punk song
His spirit is vital because you don’t forget
He said to make you promise to live without regret
He said true revenge none can halt or steal
When it’s carried out by the Karma wheel
If you want real justice you must make it spin
believe in his spirit and make your lives begin
don’t dwell on this bad world as bad as you feel
I promise I’m at work with the Karma wheel

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817 : 7/5/00 : Notebook

1,888 : 39 ?


Get your notebook
get your pen
write it down
you won’t be told again
here’s your secret
here’s your clue
here’s your jumpstart
hear and do
read your notebook
heed its words
bright like fireflies
free like birds
write it down
don’t miss a thought
can’t be bottled
can’t be bought
Only given
free a gift
listen feel your
fortunes lift

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816 : 7/4/00 : Independence Tip

Fit that quill pen with an Independence Tip
Be careful with the balances and how many checks you skip
Nothing written down can make a well ordered state
No brand of governance can work that fails to relate
How fine are you gonna have to write
to fit it on a thousand pages
I’ve got only five to the fifths
and the thing has took me ages
nevertheless my dear friend
All that starts is bound to end
nine hundred a thousand a thousand one
look this story has just begun
soon no more an apprentice
on this declaration’s trip
I’ve got my fountain pen fitted
with my independence tip

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815 : 7/3/00 : History

Let’s make history
just like anyone
let’s start a movement
make a new thing underneath the sun
And looking back upon
The way we changed the course
memory’s a time machine
and human thought’s the primal force
Whatever we choose now
is just tomorrow’s history
And whatever happens next
Is what we caused and meant to be
It is our portion and our right
to shape the time that’s given to
the epoch of our power trips
There’s none more key than me or you
The history we’re making now
At least those who get off the fence
is nothing but the myths
they will relate a thousand eons hence

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814 : 7/2/00 : Finding the Work

Finding the work is a job on it’s own
I need a day job besides to throw the taxman a bone
Choose life the rally of the doomed
Oh I choose to be lost inhumed
What does it mean to every day
Walk in this crazy, untrained way
Follow Vishnu, Buddha, Christ
Follow the wind the moon the zeitgeist
Practice caution practice craft
sail off on a wooden raft
discover some enchanted land
the work you love is close at hand
Somewhere in a maze of life
there is a chance past fear and strife
of finding the work we require
to end this road of war and fire
And if I find the work I love
the task that fits me like a glove
then I’ll contribute to the cause
to build a whole world from the flaws

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813 : 7/1/00 : Home

The millions that have wandered
oh so long and oh so far
the time that we have squandered
following an irrational star
when will my million be led home?
when will we find our way home?
The specter of what’s left of us
starfaring tribe our noble race
left waiting for the cosmic bus
the foolish looks left on our Face
When will we wander home?
When will our wanderings take us home?
Ten thousand years ten thousand more
and look at what we’ve come to now
and look at what I’ve come to now
Whatever we may have in store
Still just want to get home somehow
when will our star lead us home?
When will they come to take us home?

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