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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