Meet me in the afterlife I'm floating off to heaven I think Should the skies look gray We were naive to think it beautiful Suddenly I'm not so sure my prayers were reaching anyone Out on the limb of my own tall tree And my vision's obscured by a cloud that's beneath And although my eyes blur I know the drop is so deep And then I forgot myself and my self was believed All your life you worked to live And never got your freedom You knew to take, forgot to give And you thought that was freedom Floating through nothing A tumbling lost soul I'll be the nothing while I hang alone In the astral plane I am the pure and 5th, the aether, nothing In Akasha's pool I am the bliss of the ethereal Through myself eternal I am cosmic and terrestrial All your live you knew to live And you thought that was freedom You knew to take and not to give And never got your freedom I once had a dream that a man's waking life was a dream He carried on living his days out obliviously He crawled in a cage with no lock and no chain Yet he stayed unaware that the door swung wide open I woke from a dream and realized I was free And the man, He had always been me In this tranquil darkness I suddenly see everything so clearly now All is one and one is everything All is all as long as it is now And we all journey to the sun In this black hole's darkness I suddenly see everything

She's pirouetting on the lawn She doesn't have any clothes on She's laugh laugh laughing at the sun She caw caw caws before she comes She can pretend God lends a hand Divine Design divides her legs She's elevating to a God-like bird's eye view Pa pa pa pa pa pa pa pa ca ca ca come into my room The mailman peaks in through the cracks He sticks his hand down to his slacks He pull pull pulls it on the spy He shoot shoot shoots it to the sky He can pretend she'll lend a hand Her thighs divide eyes wide and then He's elevating to a God-Like bird's eye view pa pa pa pa pa pa pa pa ca ca ca come into my room Please give a dog a bone when he needs one

Placed a smile on the sun As they reached where it shined On the scrapers they raised And the sun gave them praise See how slowly they climb Every leaf, every vine They impaled the amazed And the sun gave them praise Caught in the roots, in the bark, in the waving stalks Faces some happy, some sad, through the trees they talk Break through the earth babies grow so high

In the jungle of the mighty lion His Majesty to cool his hide Lay on the stone floor deep in a cave to quell the sting of day The serpent sly, not far behind Beyond the cool, a clever find A cave so dark and empty Surely no one would suspect his entry The clever snake, though slithered quiet Awoke the jaws, that woke the lion And both were trapped between the teeth Of hide collectors steel machine The poachers light crept up inside And him to claim his precious hides I'll skin your coat and pick your bones And trade them for their weight in gold Snake your skin will grace my stroll May God welcome both of your souls May death reveal the divine The Jungle is my home Said the lion on his toes But if you let me go Yours is the kingdom and the throne But his stare was stone solid Then the serpent spoke I am the devil, You cannot resist me Knowing and clever, Heaven if you kiss me But the lion's throne And the serpent's gift to know Were no match for gold And he skinned them both I'm the collector, you cannot persist me

So many sunsets I've lost Drinking the old lady's wash Ned laid down on the train tracks last night That old drunk pissed away his whole life And he aint comin' back When your dead it's a fact But I aint gonna waste no more days after this, NO Please, Free me from the things I cannot change and let me be Tell the preacher I started the fire Tell the devil, I can't live his lie And Ned's never comin' back Brushed through the wheat fields so tall Grazing the hearts of my palms Whispered secrets escape in the wind In them lies where my troubles begin And I can't take it back When it's done it's a fact But I aint gonna waste no more days after this To think of the delicate things I have missed, NO

They are the paralyzed sticks in the dirt (There are rows of them) Bending and swaying in tune with the wind In Europa's Garden, the yield it is plenty And we are the harvest, the Earth is a memory The extra terrestrial insects are resting on me Dancing their dance on my limbs, How I envy their wings In the garden of mine I am callisto's ice, Io's burning fire Full, full of the light Of heaven inside me, hell on my brow There's a courageous light That we all desire Flies drawn to the light Of heaven inside me, Hell on my brow In the garden of Europa, Heaven casts no light In the darkness I am light, where heaven waits inside Extra Terrestrial insects are resting on me Dancing their dance on my limbs how I envy their wings We are the paralyzed sticks in the dirt Bending and swaying in tune with the wind

Extra Terrestrial insects are resting on me Dancing their dance on my limbs how I envy their wings We are the paralyzed sticks in the dirt Bending and swaying in tune with the wind

I lay here bedriden, imprisoned in me I'm crippled and broken, alive and not free The sun out my window, it warms me and leaves No calls and no visits, just me and my dreams And I'm lonely Alone with my thoughts, how they haunt me inside The ghosts of a lost and regrettable life The food here, it sickens and rots my insides The woman who brings it, she treats me unkind And I'm lonely The clock on the table says thirty past ten The hands, they are ticking so slowly again The noise from my tv, my only friend Oh God in heaven, destroy me, I am I'm so alone Into the Afterlife

One day your born, one day you'll die Gotta look like an angel in your mother's eye Gotta grow like a sparrow for someday you'll fly Aint got a thing but time And then your grown, gonna get your kicks Do you run toward the devil and his clever tricks Do you make the kind of worries you can never fix To keep for all this time Someday you gotta do like your daddy's right Gotta go to work and pay your fines Well you got some dreams but you got some time And I got things I call mine There's always something else to do The wants are many but the times are few A little bit older but you'll start things soon I'm sure there is still time Got a little man inside my head A selfish beggar with a nagging beg A three eyed devil with a gift to tempt Goddamn you devil mine A young man passes by an old man's stoop The old man's jealous of the young man's youth Somewhere I was once a young man too Where did go all my time? Full of grace The eyes of babes Who cast their gaze in awe Now in grey For God I wait My pace remains a crawl I clung to the moment but the moment passed It seems I couldn't make the good ones last I ran from the devil but the devil's fast Goddamn you devil die And then death catches up to you Well your road was steady and the stops were few But the regrets were many and you found no truth Goddamn you devil time Goddamn you devil mine Goddamn you devil die

Now I lay me down to sleep I pray the lord my soul to keep If I should die before this dream of waking life expires Take me to the place that I existed long before I was brought here Here am I bound in this body Here in this time and this place And even if I wake in morn The God and Devil need be warned That someday I'll be knocking on their door And I will ask them both In life was I outweighed by truth or lie Is sin a make of man or of the sky And which is worse an unsung verse Or men who have their lives rehearsed Just counting down the days until they die And I am but the space between the chatter of an unrelenting sky

Please mother hit me It's what I need Your strikes are painless For I have more tricks up my sleeve Someday you'll see I've my own bag of tricks I'm stronger than I was before I'm sure that you'll be doing well While your sweet children burn in hell A burden that you wish you could ignore Dear mother I have no religion And I know that I won't burn in hell And I know that I'm always forgiven But you'll always question yourself Please mother hit me It's what I need Your blows are sunshine Beaming on atomic seed Go get your jollies from your crucifix It's always saved your soul before I'm sure that you'll be doing well While your sweet children burn in hell A burden that you wish you could ignore Dear mother I have no religion And I know that I won't burn in hell And I know that I'm always forgiven But you'll always question yourself Yes you'll always question yourself

Refrain from your numbing A dark fair is coming To your town The fruits of your labor Will offer no savior On our grounds Pinch closed your noses And kiss all the roses goodbye The sky is falling The children are crawling inside Here's your ticket Come right in Come in see the show Here the spirit won't grow And the mouth doesn't close It just swallows you whole We're born into mystery and dotted in history We walk with a fist or a wave Some have whistles and bells, some the deepest of wells Some are free, some oblivious slaves Many glide with the grain and few guide with refrain But inside we remain much the same We are flesh over bone on the inside alone And our vying hearts battle our logical brain Many will follow, the fearful, the hollow The shallow, the callow, the cohorts of creed But leaders don't lead 'less creating new leaders Upon which more leaders will seed Some will make claims to be prophets or saints But the faith will be flavored in fear A promise of hell will keep turtles in shells So approach with a cynical ear There are angels and devils among us each exchanging blows One to the other, then each running for cover Each tugging ends of a thick wire rope On the opposite sides of a volcanic slope And anytime anyone pulls very far You can count on another tug back to the start So be it a deity, peasant, or czar An all-knowing wiseman or ill-burning star If you're basking in light or you're lost in the dark Asleep or awake in this moment you are We're all angels and devils and beggars and thieves We're fakers and fools with our hearts on our sleeves We're sulfurous serpents with gluttonous gaze That obscures the horizon in dazzling haze And the mouse cannot master this meddlesome maze But his willful submission will gather him praise There you are so carefully plain 8 hours sealed in a jar A breakfast cake at a 10:30 stop Dance with me, bask in my limitless rays Over here feel my tentacles Slide through your curls Channels change But the glow stays the same Children don't follow The swallowing mouth doesn't close Even the tallest trees Crawl from the smallest seeds souls There you are so patient in vain A freedom you see from afar Any day til you make your escape Dance with me, bask in my chemical ways Are you there? Feel my chemicals Burn through your pours Patterns change But the ghosts still remain Children don't follow The swallowing mouth doesn't close Even the tallest trees Crawl from the smallest seeds souls Inhale, Exhale, everybody's equal here