Tag: redemption

The Stunning In The Stars

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There’s stunning in the stars
And they wish away all of my prison bars
As they shine from on high
And whisper that I’m not gonna die
Not from treason, not from rain
Not from people I’ll never see again
As the bird alights on my shoulder
I roll away the boulder 
At the mouth of the tomb
And find my Lord like I found the womb
Of all existence
And the resistance
Is subterfuge 
In the deluge
Of somehow in the Sunday
Would the Son of Man love me anyway
In spite of all I have not done
And the promise of being young 
Was not enough to stem the tide
Of longing to abide
In a deeper state of being 
And the seeing 
Is no longer enough
I have to become the love 
Instead of picking fights 
With people when they’re being shites
And talking me down to sin
Telling me that though I walk with Him
I am lost in the sea
And I get a knee
Into the chest
It knows how to wind me best
With the loss of love
Why do you do this when above
Is the standard we bear
I watched the Universe tear

The Salvation In Plurality

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I can feel the brimming thunder
In the sky we’re living under
And the people I railed against
Were the ones who were heaven sent
And just wanted to aid and abet
Me in the mission to forget
All that had come to weigh me down
So I walked around the town
Looking at signs
I was trying to diamond mine
Searching for a holy gem
And I did it once, twice, again
And somehow the men
Never hurt me 
The danger seemed to just skirt me
By degrees
Til I fell to my knees
And begged the wonder out thieves
Help to steal away all that I believe
And they were only too happy to comply
And I thought I would die 
Under the weight of their heavy handed slap
I crumpled up the map
And took a picture in the garden of Dean Swift
So looking back would be a gift
But I could only see clarity
Not the mental illness they made of me
Searching for some hidden pain
Well I looked again and again
But I could never find
Evidence that I was out of my mind
For seeing love in every shape and form
And loving bodies while they’re warm
And vital and young and free
Shit, is that guy staring at me
But anyway I’m letting sleeping dogs lie
Let go of the merely getting by
On what I think I know 
My sisters on the branch they bow 
In the aching powder they blow 
Into my face like I’m in the know 
And I’m annexed into a space
Where I only see your face 
Smiling at me 
I was out the door when they set me free

The Wars From Afar

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I was a teen when the war in Iraq broke out
And there was nothing I could do to stem the doubt
That no one should be invading a land
That they simply do not understand
And dictators come in many shapes and sizes
Some of them would be surprises
Because what’s viewed as a just war
Only depends on what you’re looking for 
And the bullets will be forever silent
If we abdicate the violent
And you could say I’m a pacifist
And we simply should not exist 
Because we put stability in danger
When we say that the manger
Should not starve a baby boy
And a gun is not a toy
And I’ve never been burdened by strife
I just rebel when he wants a wife
To make a house and home
But I love being on my own
Free to admire
Now I’m watching buildings on fire
And children screaming for their parents 
Wondering where the hell they went 
Not knowing, and maybe by grace
They get to see their faces
Again
And you can blame men
But it is the ego
It shoots what it doesn’t see though
And I am no liberator 
The queen of whatever and see you later 
But I can’t be superfluous about this 
It is not stuck in a kiss
It is in a scene that I could change 
If I just rearrange 
The way I see things play
Because it will never be okay
To raid a village and plunder and thieve
And feed the enemy things they might believe 
So that you can further your agenda
And you have some friends that will defend ya
But the foundations are rocky and unstable 
And what was born isn’t able
To reign in the suspense
Compassion’s in the present tense
And it is the only way
To redeem the wolves that bay
To the moon we all see
Let’s let the past be history

The Flood That Washed The Bones Away

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It’s either a famine or a feast
So say the ones who have deceased
And left us with their words
And I may be away with the birds
But I still have something left to impart
Because that holy dart
Struck me straight into the heart
And said stand up and speak 
The one who says to the weak 
Or the cripple to walk
I’ve been silent but now I talk 
And my voice is resonant 
With a power that’s heaven sent
As the Christ makes Himself known 
In the garden that has grown 
In the absence of stares
And somebody cares
About who you are 
And every star
That ever was must burn
So why did my sky take a turn 
To spin around the sun
I think I know the only One
That will ever come to reside
In the heart where love abide
As I give the King his reign
Please don’t ask me to do that again
But if you do I will consent 
And acquiesce to your request 
To be the tower in the shade
It’s something I cannot evade
As I spill secrets to my GP
And she looks back at me 
With frightened eyes
My disguise
Has grown thin
Since I revealed myself to him 
And I can no longer lie by omission
Or sell myself for a commission
But bullet reverberate around my soul 
Leaving me riddled with holes
Like the pillars of the GPO
Who are the British in this, do you know?

Enchantment

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The look of men as they cross my path
And something in their stillness dulls the wrath
Of the God inside my heart 
One’s a musician, another makes art
Another studied with me in school
And we broke every rule
That night in Tripod when we 
Kissed the edge of destiny
And made two into the one we are 
He reminds me of a burning star
In its effervescent red 
And I know he took other girls to bed
But it doesn’t dim the look in my eye
Because I know that I would die
Just to see him smile
And I haven’t seen him in a while
But we are connected on a level beneath
The roads that move under our feet
Do you remember the night I chased you down
As you tried to escape to your side of town 
And we talked about having a cup of tea
As you looked over at me 
Wondering what I might mean
But you are more than the dream 
Supping oxygen in the tent
I wonder where those years went
And you threw your arm around my neck 
In the days reality seems to wreck 
With it’s assurance of get to be 
But you were everything to me
And somehow you still are 
I wonder if your heart
Is still the same hue as it always was
I needed you to know because
It’s not every day you meet upon the trail
A love that simply will not fail 
So when you look up into the sky
Know that there’s a love that will never die
And it burns for you here 
In this heart beyond the fear 
Of what they might say
You showed your cards and I play
My own onto the table so you see
That you meant the whole world to me

Shout To The Lord

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They could put me up on a cross
And all would not be lost
They could drive me down the alley
And I would still walk in the valley
Of the shadow of death
And I would not fear yet
For the Lord would be by my side
And I would abide 
As I always am
Moving in space without a plan 
And the heat of the fire is a furnace blast
But something’s healed within the cast
The broken bone 
And the heart of solid stone
Cracks at the sound of the light
I love my Jesus, alright
And would follow that soul, that man, that being
In the waves of ocean that he’s freeing
And all the sheep
Are like people that we keep
Safe from harm
I panicked and he stayed calm
As the water raged
I took a leaf out of his page
When he held out his hand
And said you will be grand
If only you trust
I shake and quake but I must
Go palm to palm
At first the audience and then the psalm
To leave my spirit ringing
Tell me what else should I be singing

Starships

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What is a starship when it's at home
And must a tomcat always roam
Or be swan faithful by the sea
Like the Children of Lír that wait for me 
And was there some kind of ancient fable
That monumental on the table 
Made enough bread for us all to eat
But there's millions in the bank and death on the street
How can we let this continue 
As if loss is on the menu
And the rolling hills of vagabonds
Play the fool like two dumb blondes
And I know this is not the female's fault 
But we go along with the lie we've bought
As a child not of our womb
Starves to death in an empty room 
Full of faces who just placade
And there are millions in that state
As we deny, deny
We just simply shouldn't try
To bring this to fruition
Just spending more on ammunution
Seems to relieve a conscience broke
From all the words we have not spoke 
And I cannot speak for myself
Because I have my own story of wealth
And how I try to keep it from my door
But if I had it I could give more
And make a change on that plain
But what if I could not contain
The contempt and the corruption 
Like Vesuvius and eruption
Like lava and all it encases
The modern history and what it erases
Or geography to keep us asleep 
To the promise that together would keep 
And am I just out on the run
Or do I speak to some 
Who feel the same way I do 
The conundrum and me and you

Mercy

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When you get knocked down do you ever consider staying on the floor
Let everyone else continue their war
While you use eyes to stare at stars
You can only see because you’re in the dark
And give yourself time to contemplate
Why you always return to this repetitious state
And if it says something about who you should be
That you’ve only been escaping from dignity
In silent stillness on the ground
You find the peace that’s all around