Collision:
Follow this path we march
Cleanse our veins of pain
Fill thy eyes with light
The earth now calls my name
Shape our collective dream
All now flows through me
Come, I'll show you why
the caged bird loves to sing

Monologue:
Come with me

Place your feet
between the sky and the ground
Behind us is the earth
whispering her dreams
telling us this is
not what she means

Cold steel and asphalt
swallow the terrain
regurgitate a blue river brown
and belch a khaki skyline

All these streets
seem to lead to the same place
but I've seen better
and there's no fooling you
there's no fooling you

Verse 1:
Sunlight --
forever more found
in the space of my rhyme
Bound to the path
that left you behind,
I can never go back
In so many ways,
I swell in the tides
Lost in the waves
that carry my breath,
a ghost in the depths
of a world of flesh
Half you motherfuckers
only clap for yourselves,
while I patterns my lines
on Orion's belt...

How many ways could I testify?
How many stars could fill this sky?
Or overlook ways I could read your mind?
Tear your page from the book of life?
Jasmine shadows puncture night
and scream advice that heaven must wait
It's never too late for a desolate dream
or a poignant feeling that all is not well

God gave me a bomb
and a walkie talkie
take it everywhere I go
and I hold it sloppy
The eagle flies south
is the code to blow
Catcher in the Rye
and a Southern Girl
Glass slipper dream and
a razor blade necktie
Blind man telling me
I haven't seen shit
Make music to die for
in bumfuck Egypt
with liquor in my liver
and a loaded gunclip

Verse 2:
Press on --
the motif I repeat slowly under my breath
I could never give up on these worlds I project
centrifugal force I use to profess
a tequila sunrise and a beautiful death
aborted baby girl and a list of regrets
all the lost songs that decay in my head
webs of pathology dormant or dead
secrets kept to the rhythm of a drum
woman I love but can't love me
some struggle to grow; I struggle to see
the shafts of your heart that open for me
streak my eyes with spears of light
wake my brain, let it all convulse
engulfed and cold I sold my soul
to dream untold in hopes
it lives much longer
than me