My sisters and I Have the wish before we die And it may sound strange As if our minds are deranged Please don’t ask us why Beneath the sheltering sky We have this strange obsession You have the means in your possession Tea in the Sahara with you Tea in the Sahara with you The […]
You consider me the young apprentice Caught between the scylla and charibdes Hypnotized by you if I should linger Staring at the ring around your finger I have only come here seeking knowledge Things they wouldn’t teach me of in college I can see the destiny you sold Turned into a shining band of gold […]
There’s a little black spot on the sun today It’s the same old thing as yesterday There’s a black hat caught in a high tree top There’s a flag pole rag and the wind won’t stop I have stood here before inside the pouring rain With the world turning circles running ’round my brain I […]
Every breath you take Every move you make Every bond you break Every step you take I’ll be watching you Every single day Every word you say Every game you play Every night you stay I’ll be watching you Oh, can’t you see You belong to me How my poor heart aches With every step […]
Another suburban family morning Grandmother screaming at the wall We have to shout above the din of our rice crispies We can’t hear anything at all Mother chants her litany of boredom and frustration But we all know her suicides are fake Daddy only stares into the distance There’s only so much more that he […]
There is no political solution To our troubled evolution Have no faith in constitution There is no bloody revolution We are spirits in the material world We are spirits in the material world We are spirits in the material world We are spirits in the material world Our so-called leaders speak With words they try […]
I don’t want to spend the rest of my life Looking at the barrel of an armalite I don’t want to spend the rest of my days Keeping out of trouble like the soldiers say I don’t want to spend my time in hell Looking at the walls of a prison cell I don’t ever […]
Though I’ve tried before to tell her Of the feelings I have for her in my heart Everytime that I come near her I just lose my nerve As I’ve done from the start Every little thing she does is magic Everything she do just turns me on Even though my life before was tragic […]
Don’t think me unkind Words are hard to find They’re only cheques I’ve left unsigned From the banks of chaos in my mind And when their eloquence escapes me Their logic ties me up and rapes me De do do do de da da da Is all I want to say to you De do […]
Young teacher the subject Of schoolgirl fantasy She wants him so badly Knows what she wants to be Inside her there’s longing This girl’s an open page Book marking she’s so close now This girls is half his age Don’t stand Don’t stand so Don’t stand so close to me Don’t stand Don’t stand so […]