863 : 8/20/00 : The World Soul

Am I imagining the world soul
aching and groaning
under the weight of all our irate
pissing and moaning
could it be there’s a true place
where the spirit arises
where the world soul wells up
and silently baptizes

Walking the spiral for the world soul
diminishing spirals
is there a vector of renewal
truth retroviral
And at the center what I’ll find
is not a mind is not a stone
a chamber without door or walls
a place where no one is alone

You can read an explanation of the origin of these lyrics here

862 : 8/19/00 : Loving the Question

Loving the question
easier said than done
We all want answers
to our postmodern cancers
embracing the technique
seeking our natural peak
the valley behind us
the sun that may yet blind us
in difference and scorn
have set us back and left us torn
And those of us who still care
We better be there
I’ll love the question true
make my way back to you
and write it in the stars
on Jupiter and Mars
The answer’s in living the question
no sooner said than done

You can read an explanation of the origin of these lyrics here

861 : 8/18/00 : Burning Coal

What began as a digest of regrets
of so many things beyond all control
what began as a manual of hedged bets
is turning into a burning coal
I dreamed I smoked a joint with the President
and talked about trying to change the law
that had come to be so diseased and bent
it looked to collapse under the weight of a straw
and I dreamed that I was the President
shouldering a burden I didn’t want
trying to stand up for the innocent
wielding a tool so heavy and blunt
this is a digest; I regret nothing
I stand behind every goddamn word
so ask not if the coal is still burning
of that you may rest assured

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860 : 8/17/00 : Sickness

When we’re sick of the sickness
the sickness shall cease
and finally pick up the final piece
a relic of days long past gone by
the sickness in my hand, my eye
and though they offend me
in their sick way
confess I couldn’t pluck them out
cast them away
they say I’m not fit
for the Kingdom to come
and they may be right
I’m no sicker than some
who say that they’re already
riding the rail
that will take them straight through
this illusion this veil
I’m not sick of my sickness
I’m getting there quick
but I live in today
and today I’m still sick

You can read an explanation of the origin of these lyrics here

859 : 8/16/00 : The Lost Thought

1,931 : 10 ?



The lost thought the lost verse
the lost art such a curse
what it was is gone now
what’s left is the long bow...
it glimmers and dances
but spins past the chances
of chance recollection
evading detection
it’s gone now we must yield
and harvest a new field
set free from the lost thought
content with what’s fresh caught

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858 : 8/15/00 : Admit Defeat

Admit defeat avert my eyes
there is no consolation prize
dying for the slimmest hope
hoping God will give me more rope
throw the towel in I’m all through
at least for now at least that’s true
I can’t wait fifteen minutes more
trying to stare a hole through the floor
in a one way tie for last
not much of an iconoclast
no not much of a hero true
so paint my little wagon blue
I might as well go on the road
let all the rubes watch me implode
a tent revival kind of thing
for which this last short tune I sing

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857 : 8/14/00 : Microscope

Ah: Microscope
look a little closer
reveal the structure within
Up periscope
rise above the posers
look across to where it might begin
things that are tiny
things far away
there’s a scope for every point of view
don’t think me whiney
but I have to say
I wish I had a scope to look inside me too
You can read an explanation of the origin of these lyrics here

856 : 8/13/00 : Past Due

I’m past due
for a little rain on my Garden
past due for a pleasant surprise
don’t you think it’s time for
an unexpected joy to be revealed to my eyes
It’s long past due for my
ship to come in
loaded with glory and wealth
Still I sit around and wait to turn the corner
on work on happiness and health
maybe we live in a world of order
Where nothing can occur
before its time
and my sense of being past due’s
an illusion
I just can’t understand the reason
or the rhyme
maybe my time is already come
has been hear all along
waiting for me to unlock its secret
and talk about it in a
song

You can read an explanation of the origin of these lyrics here

855 : 8/12/00 : The Magnet Part One

Crystal clear and filled with light
the end of ignorance and night
slightly convex bent and straight
the magnet man can you relate
watch it bend the point of view
of me of anyone of you
watch it bending gravity
part one is over now we wait and see
the magnet is an artifact
produced by the union of a secret pact
its manufacture lost in mystery
and here’s the trick of how this could be
in the background of the story told
there lies a riddled waiting to unfold
where did it go when it disappeared
yet was not destroyed as they had feared
it went to where the magnetism
goes after crossing the causal schism
action at a distant explained at last
the magnet pulls the present from the past

You can read an explanation of the origin of these lyrics here

854 : 8/11/00 : The Magnet Part Two

Baby sometimes we’re just
Like magnetic dogs
we spin to meet or
flip like plastic frogs
In the grips of forces
we scarcely understand
the magnet part two
has us in its hand
The great Magnet’s will
cannot be superseded
But though we have a fate
we are not yet defeated
the poles we inhabit
Our opposites attract
mediated by the magnet
leaving us the will to act

You can read an explanation of the origin of these lyrics here

853 : 8/10/00 : It’s Not Working

Is it working yet
I still feel pain
It’s not working
please try again
It would have worked by now
it would have done the job
but I don’t feel a thing
I’m getting every throb
Help me get me through
give me just one more
can’t I please I know
God I know what’s in store

You can read an explanation of the origin of these lyrics here

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852 : 8/9/00 : Sludge Cup

1,923 : 1 ?


The race is the sludge cup
so race for the bottom
the vast sewage cistern
of power’s dark flotsam
The price is a full cup
of dark liberation
the freedom of power
and its machination
I stand on the sidelines
and watch them all lie
I’ll vote in the sludge cup
though I scarcely know why

You can read an explanation of the origin of these lyrics here

851 : 8/8/00 : The Oh’s

Some day forty years from now
We’ll be rocking on the porch
having made it through somehow
Saying:
Hey homes d’you remember back in the oh’s?
Oh’s, oh’s oh’s
My friends laugh know knowing it’s true
We can’t help but be amazed
at the craziness we do
It’ll all go
Just like it looked t’go
back in the oh’s
oh’s oh’s oh’s

You can read an explanation of the origin of these lyrics here

850 : 8/7/00 : Tale of 33

Thirty three
can never be
an even path of anything
remotely round
the normal curve
the order that
the numbers serve
they have a soul
they have a voice
they have a past
but we the choice
at thirty three
cut back the lines
the hour is late
the woodbine twines
cut to the chase
the final part
a tale of threes
a woeful art

You can read an explanation of the origin of these lyrics here

849 : 8/6/00 : Decade

It’s been a long time since I felt like
the kid I was so long back
In the day gone gone forever now
Another decade nearly on the rack
what’d I learn in the first one
I ought to’ve figured it out by now
But when I try to trace back I can’t relate
and it all seems a dream somehow
A little clearer on the second ten
at least the last five of that
even so it’s a long time gone
From when I stepped off that railroad flat
And the last ten years of hard truth
seems too short uncertain too
I can only feel sure of one thing
I spent it searching after you
And since I found my baby yeah
This third pass seems worthwhile
guess I’ll have to face the first year
of the fourth one with a smile

You can read an explanation of the origin of these lyrics here

848 : 8/5/00 : Speed Demon

Speed demon claws in my back
demon monkey crystal smack
meth and monkey dust supreme
please don’t mind that I scream
If my eyes look like piss holes
in the snow I’ve walked the coals
of methamphetamine collapse
just trying to burn a synapse
that keeps tweaking me to the fact
that I’ve invoked a deadly pact
to ride this comet where it may
and see again if it ends me today
don’t try to slow me down my friend
don’t try to circumvent my end
I always like things short and sweet
Creator or no I must be complete

You can read an explanation of the origin of these lyrics here

847 : 8/4/00 : Half Hour

A half hour is nothing no
time to brew a storm, fill a sky with snow
but no time to sit and wonder why
maybe when I’m inside looking at a snow filled sky
How many do you suppose I’ve got left
before I am reaved and my kin bereft
If I had to guess I’d say about a million man
All that I have left to make my master plan
Yet if two friends told two friends
every half hour who says where it ends
before I count all my fingers twice
I’ve got my million one day no price
We could do it all ourselves
no leaders no aliens no damn dirty elves
a collective agency of will
watch the blind spider move in for the kill
just a lovely story friend
all good things must come to an end
with an encryption elegant and small

You can read an explanation of the origin of these lyrics here

846 : 8/3/00 : Weird Worm

There’s a weird worm gnawing at my entrails
between my navel and my pineal gland
It seems to move around from day to day
today it seems to be ensconced in my right hand
the worm is guileless it eats without spite
guess I must have brought it on myself
I’m guessing that the way of purging it
is nothing I’ll just pick up off the shelf
I felt it curled around my ear today
it was listening in on my life
it made me sigh it could be worse I guess
a minor annoyance in a world so rife
with parasites and predators
trying to get a healthy piece of you
an undemanding tenant should not bother me
but dear little weird worm you do
I could expunge it with a cold black draught
or catch it near the surface of my skin
draw it through the membrane with a heated glass
extract it and impale it on a pin

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845 : 8/2/00 : French Connection

1,916 : 9 ?


I dreamed I was a driver on the French Connection
Running smack and guns for the insurrection
Fast money rough trade guns and blow
cops in my pocket and a truckload of dough
I was an enforcer in a factory
making human growth hormone and DMT
making methamphetamine and PCP
I couldn’t believe that motherfucker was me
dreamed I was a smuggler on the Ivory Coast
my eyes were glazed and glossy and my mind was toast
making midnight runs in a cigarette boat
golden chains at my wrists and throat
dreamed I was the kingpin of a mighty ring
pushing something that was worse than anything
Something dark and deadly but I didn’t care
I looked into the mirror there was no one there
I dreamed that filthy lucre was my only kick
mercenary merciless unmitigated prick
when the dream was over and when I awoke
I was very happy to be clean and broke

You can read an explanation of the origin of these lyrics here