Tunnel of Time
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OBJECTS IN MY QUOTIDIAN LIFE
Objects in my quotidian life
Are a device to make things real
But what’s more real
Is the way I feel
I’ve
I’ve go
I’ve got the
Maybe I’m not happy
Maybe I’m numb
Maybe I feel so much
I search for crumbs
Of reality
Little pieces to bring me back
To what, to what to what is real
Not the guilt from plenty
Or the edge of privi
Of the free of whitey
Or the glad of bad
Bank is full
Fridge is too
So many married times to you
Objects in my quotidian life
Are a device to make things real
But what’s more real
Is the way I feel
I’ve
lost I’ve lost
the lost I’ve lost the
feel the lost I’ve lost the feel
of feel the lost I’ve lost the feel of
the of feel the lost I’ve lost the feel of the
forest the of feel the lost I’ve lost the feel of the forest
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Ya Dee Dah
04:21
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Birds dart from branch to branch
Hopping up and down they dance
And chirp their morning songs
Asking me to sing along
Their tune is fast and bright
Sounds strange filled with delight
If I sing their song I’ll change
Their notes out of my range
But a big bird I can be
Sit at the base of the tree
I sing low and I sing strong
I sing the birds their bird song
I sing their song in my key
I bring out the bird in me
I sing
Yah dee dah
Yah dee dah
Yah dee dah
Yah dee dah
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Staring down the tunnel of time
Looking for a home
If I’m honest with myself
With myself
I’m in hell
Got to wait until I’m well
’til I’m well
To feel better
Staring down the tunnel of time
Looking for a home
If I had only one wish
It would be
Live through this
Ooooooo
Staring down the tunnel of time
With myself
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House of Wonder
04:01
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I once had a beautiful house
With fancy tile and so many windows
I bought it for my little mouse
Who told me she wanted a minnow
We drove to a pond
Out in the beyond
And dove in the clearest blue water
We sat in the shade
And sweet love we made
And now we’ve got us a daughter
My beautiful house is now gone
I sit on the curb and I wonder
Where tonight can I sleep
To be out of the rain and the thunder
All the trinkets and bling
They don’t mean a thing
Without a sweet place to slumber
And all the fast talk and lies
I’d throw to the skies
To go back to my house of wonder
I once had a beautiful house
A sweet wife and a fine daughter
I gave them all up for a louse
Who told me to walk on the water
I made a mistake
My faith it was great
Believing without really seeing
My fate is my fate
And so my mistakes all mine
So stop your agreeing!
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Fortress of Solitude
03:31
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I knew a man who danced and drew
And was smarter than anyone else he knew
And he became famous and had many things
But he couldn’t be loved so he gave away rings
A grand place he made, a mighty fortress
Where he held himself against all weakness
There were jewels in the windows to dazzle the eyes
And gardens that reached up to the skies
But as he watched the sunlight fade
His loneliness a shadow made
What to do, where to begin
He dreads the dread of evening
Night is black spreads like ink
Heart is hollow glasses clink
Face is flushed and tears are dry
What he wants he cannot buy
A grand place he made, a mighty fortress
Where he held himself against all weakness
There were jewels in the windows to dazzle the eyes
And gardens that reached up to the skies
I knew a man who danced and drew
And was smarter than anyone else he knew
And he became famous and had many things
But he couldn’t be loved so he gave away rings
Locked inside fear and need
In the mind monsters breed
Blinded by sorrow bright
Slide into eternal night
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Lesbian Lasagna
05:12
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Once my neighborhood
had only bodegas
Small markets that stank of rotten meat
No coffee shops or restaurants
Bars on the windows
graffiti on the walls
Streets empty after dark
That was Echo Park
Now there’s a coffee shop on every corner
And Mom’s with strollers
houses without bars
Even perfectly manicured lawns
Why even the graffiti is gone
And that smell of rotten meet
But what’s really new
is the food boutique!
Once ‘round suppertime
that place is packed with shoppers
Drooling while the owner advised on
How to sauté that million dollar piece of beef
And we all moaned in culinary delight
When an eager woman reached
the front of the line
And she asked
“Do you..do you have today…do you have Lesbian lasagna?”
Everyone hushed
And she blushed
the moment
the words left her lips
We wondered what such a dish could be?
We wondered what such a dish could be?
A new kind of meat?
A new way to eat?
At that fancy food boutique!
I want know
Is there a difference between
Gentrification and genderfication..?
I mean there was an article in the NY Times*
About, you know, the size of a man’s package
And the degree of his power..like
If the man’s package is hanging to the left..
Or if it’s hanging to the right..
Or if it’s short or if it’s long and thin..
Well I wanna know about a woman’s package..
I wanna know about Angela Merkel’s package..
I wanna know about AOC’s package..
I mean is it long and thin and covered with
a smooth, white, creamy sauce
Like a lesbian lasagna
*https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/31/opinion/sunday/world-leaders-penises.html?searchResultPosition=1
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Fred Hampton
04:10
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Let’s all go back
To not so long ago
1969
Chicago
A black panther
Named Fred Hampton
Spoke like a prophet
And the people followed him
Preaching power to the people
To all the brothers and sisters
Cops came gunning for him
They shot him dead
The FBI
Would not allow
Fred Hampton
To stir the crowd
And while Fred Hampton
Was fast asleep
Outside was swarming
With police
They stormed the building
Guns a blazing
Shot him lying face down
They shot him dead
This is the land
Where the cops run wild
Killing all of our loved ones
And never standing trial
And like Fred Hampton’s
Assassination
The cops go free
And it’s no aberration
They stormed the building
Guns a blazing
Shot him lying face down
They shot him dead
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Foggy Monday in Pacoima
04:56
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You tell me that you’re leaving in the morning
Just like you said last Tuesday afternoon
Got no strength for arguing, convincing you to stay,
Some things end too late and others end too soon
Something changed or something must’ve happened
No one ever really knows just what or why
There’s nothing left for me to say, there ain’t much I can do,
so I’ll pull the shades and I’ll just say good by it’s just
Another foggy Monday in Pacoima
A heartbroken country song at best
There ain’t no rest for the wicked and the weary never sleep
We just find the ways and means to get it off our chest
You wanted guarantees that you’d be happy
But this illusion I could not provide
So you found someone or something to amuse you for a-while
Thanks for helping me learn to take it all in stride
So I guess I’ll sit here in the darkness
And contemplate the future without you
Yeah I know they’ll be some sadness, but I was born a—lone
Some day I will die alone, and this much still is true it’s just
Another foggy Monday in Pacoima
A heartbroken country song at best
There ain’t no rest for the wicked and the weary never sleep
We just find the ways and means to get it off our chest
Please come to bed and get undressed
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9. |
Devoted to You
02:38
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Darlin' you can count on me
'Till the sun dries up the sea
Until then I'll always be
Devoted to you
I'll be yours through endless time
I'll adore your charms sublime
Guess by now you know that I'm
Devoted to you
I'll never hurt you, I'll never lie
I'll never be untrue
I'll never give you reason to cry
I'd be unhappy if you were blue
Through the years my love will grow
Like a river it will flow
It can't die because I'm so
Devoted to you
I'll never hurt you, I'll never lie
I'll never be untrue
I'll never give you reason to cry
I'd be unhappy if you were blue
Through the years my love will grow
Like a river it will flow
It can't die because I'm so
Devoted to you
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Dusk
04:21
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I see into the changing into the change
I see into the into the endless
I walk and sing as shadows grow
and feel the feeling
of what I know
that dusk is dusk
the changing light
the variations infinite
I see into the into the change
I see into the end
the balmy air
is like the sea
the living breathe
to welcome me
the living cling
to what they know
they walk and sing
as shadows grow
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Making Toast
02:56
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Traveling down a tunnel of white
Tooth brush trees and blinking lights
Curled up in the caboose
Turning wild fast and loose
Walls come apart
Windows start
Swinging in and out of phase
Toasters and a microwave
Zooming down the track
Click click click clickety clack
I’m wearing plastic boots
Toot toot toot toot toot toot
I’m ready smiling wide
I got him by my side
Zooming down the track
Click click click clickety clack
Sliding the slippery shaft
Brush my cheeks against the blast
Trust the rail to guide me through
Hum the metal in my shoe
Walls come apart
Windows start
Swinging in and out of phase
Toasters and a microwave
Zooming down the track
Click click click clickety clack
I’m wearing plastic boots
Toot toot toot toot toot toot
I’m ready smiling wide
I got him by my side
Zooming down the track
Click click click clickety clack
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That's The Way Love Is
04:47
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Let me tell you about a friend I have
All she does is cry and laugh
Sometimes I think
She don’t know what enough is
I ask her why she acts that way
She just wipes her eyes and says
“well I guess you wouldn’t know
But that’s the way love is.”
That’s the way love is
Standing on the basement steps
And my feet are soaking wet
Won’t somebody please
Throw me my crutches
The echo is a creeping doubt
From a cobwebs light burnt out
Oh but I guess that’s the way love is
That’s the way love is
You think you can’t make it alone
So you trust someone
Just to guide your blind feet
Across the bar
But if you wind up in hell
Well your mirror should tell you
That you know who your enemies are
That’s the way love is
We’ll while away the evening hours
With a pistol and a bunch of flowers
Trying to discover whose the toughest
You know the gun’s not loaded babe
And even flowers have to fade
That’s the way love is
That’s the way love is
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13. |
Twice Today
03:23
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Twice today I saw a woman cry
Saw her tears heard her voice
Shake and rise
So her heart could tell
The story of why she’s now alone
Her wound still fresh
Like a gash of flesh
Turned crimson red
As blood meets the air
Still warm to touch
This feeling so much
Grief turns the inside out
And the outside in
Her language is broke
Her tongue to thick to swim
Through nuance with finesse
Everything is meaningful
And meaningless
Twice today I saw a woman cry
Saw her tears heard her voice
Shake and rise
So her heart could tell
The story of why she’s now alone
Grief turns the inside out
And the outside in
Her language is broke
Her tongue to thick to swim
Through nuance with finesse
Everything is meaningful
And meaningless
Twice today I saw a woman cry
Saw her tears heard her voice
Shake and rise
So her heart could tell
The story of why’s she now alone
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Bold Marauder
04:19
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And it's hi ho hey, I am a bold marauder
And it's hi ho hey, I am the white destroyer
For I will show you silver and gold, and I will bring you treasure
I will wave a widowing flag, and I will be your lover
And I will show you grotto and cave and sacrificial alter
And I will show you blood on the stone and I will be your mentor
And night will be our darling and fear will be our name
And it's hi ho hey, I am the bold marauder
And it's hi ho hey, I am the white destroyer
For I will take you out by the hand and lead you to the hunter
And I will show you thunder and steel and I will be your teacher
And we will dress in helmet and sword and dip our tongues in slaughter
And we will sing a warrior's song and lift the praise of murder
And Christ will be our darling and fear will be our name
And it's hi ho hey, I am the bold marauder
And it's hi ho hey, I am the white destroyer
For I will sour the winds on high and I will soil the river
And I will burn the grain in the field and I will be your mother
And I will go to ravage and kill and will go to plunder
And I will take a fury to wife and I will be your mother
And death will be our darling and fear will be our name
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