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she is dried out like the desert she is famished, all but vanished by design and her hide out is her cactus heart her own hand grenade, a barricade of spines the sands of time repeating she’s seen suffering before her future takes a beating for some man, some god, some war she is minding her own business steadfastly building castles of sand when she is blinded by a raging son who demolishes and calls it all his land those poor holy rolling soldiers’ plights they can’t live without their virgins and whores to lift their strengths and spirits to fight for some man, some god, some war we are sucking out the venom of poisonous scorpions and snakes we are bucking this ecosystem til our mother’s deserts are our daughter’s lakes oh, wondrous, thunderous women together too loud to ignore no more curtsies at the mercy of some man, some God, some war
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right this way ma'am to the finish line i was never in your lane, you were never in mine do what you gotta do, girl go get that win did you do it the right way? honey let's not pretend sometimes you must choose to lose with a shrug and a grin come with me friend to the starting line you know i got your back, i hope you still got mine do what we gotta do to begin again i won't fight for a prize but I'll fight for a friend
you’re the sugar coat on a bitter pill
you’re the place i go in a earthquake drill you will walk to the porch with a bat in your hand so i don’t have to look at the boogeyman you flash all of the light underneath my bed and the monsters have not found me yet but they found you, they surround you look around you, yeah they found you you’re the softest nest in the highest tree you’re a needed kiss on a wounded knee you crack open a cactus with your bare hands so i don’t die of thirst in a desert land you rip all of the targets right off my head and the arrows have not got me yet but they got you, yeah they shot you an onslaught into you, yeah they got you you’re a little bird with a lion’s mane your dreams deferred in a weathervane i will scour the depths and the breadth of the sea and collect all the joy that you gave up for me to the queen with her crown i will coronate i will bow at the feet of my surrogate i will praise you, cause you raised me my grace traced to you, thank you haley i've been down, i've been below i've been taken by the power of the water and the undertow now I know when there's nearly nothin' left it's the perfect time for learning how to hold your own breath cause I chose a life a little deeper down it gets dark down here but I like the sound of absolutely nothing when something hits it hard it's like underground thundering my divine, supreme, subliminal being i've been stuck, i've been between i've been worried about the woes of a woman wandering now I know my paths are plenty sometimes sitting on a fence is just as good a place as any cause i chose a life without a map i get lost a lot but i'm fine with that cause i like the curious curve of a question mark it is all encompassing my divine, supreme, subliminal being i've been up, i've been high i've been launched like a rocket ship looking down at the sky now i know flight don't like gravity but there'll come a day when weight won't apply to me cause i chose a life that stares death in the face just a stop along the way before outer space cause i like to think my soul's made out of stars it is vaporizing my divine, supreme, subliminal being she ain't no ordinary mama, she might like you a lot but not as much as drama and you, you don't want no drama she ain't no ordinary sister she's going down and she wants to take you with her and you, you're too smart to sink you should stop giving swimming lessons, that ain't your new profession you don't owe her progression, that's what i think she ain't no ordinary lover she likes to be the victim; one day she will discover you know love won't point the blame she ain't no ordinary honey erasing all her problems by spending daddy's money and you know love don't cost a thing i know you don't want to hear it you're still not used to these words until you're thinking clearly let me tell you what i think you're worth you ain't no ordinary lassie you keep it kind, thoughtful and classy and you have a heart that grows you should start taking flying lessons make that your new profession you owe yourself progression, that's what i know
i used to cry, it's the way i would feel
my mom would smile and say it's just an earthquake drill now there's nothing natural about it, the disaster is real they're all shooting at nothing but they're shooting to kill they're all shooting at nothing but they're shooting to kill have a good day at school kid, good luck on your test mama packed you a lunch and a bullet proof vest now there's nothing natural about it, the disaster is real they're all shooting at nothing but they're shooting to kill they're all shooting at nothing but they're shooting to kill if we put down our guns, step away from our screens pick up our kids and teach 'em something cause there's something natural about that we're all someone's daughter or son i'm not saying it's the answer, but it sure won't kill anyone i'm not saying it's the answer, but it sure won't kill anyone when i thought i had nothing left when i thought i had died you waited with bated breath yeah you waiiiiiiited sure is not a shrug or an ambivalent guess it's a capital underlined yes in my mind's eye i see your smile and your heart beats in the heart of my heart your beauty is a beggar for description no words could ever play that part the course of true love never did run smooth but you brought your oars to my waves and i'm sure of one thing and that's you snake skin is what i've been living in no appendages or opposable thumbs just a head and tale that won't stop spinning snake skin is what i've been living in just wide eyes and a poisonous tongue and i don't even know where all this venom came from and it's so damn sad losing all you thought you had and it makes me weep cause i just wanted to keep my snake skin so bad snake skin is what i've been living in my muscles clench and i might bite but it's my only protection snake skin is what i've been living in swallowing more than i can chew just gotta learn to let it move through *co-written with Veronica May tiptoe up the stairs as if there's anyone up there, up there silent night in bed storm clouds raging in my head in my head oh night, tell me a story oh night, sing me a lullaby sleep walk me into the morning just let me close my eyes don't want to watch the wheels fall off my life watch the minutes pass lonely little hourglass, hourglass conscious steady stream runs through an ocean of could have been dreams could have been dreams *co-written with Haley White every thought was a play that you starred in i can’t keep from clapping, i’m begging your pardon but your radiating underneath that spotlight this audience seat feels like a cage it’s all i can do to keep from jumping onstage because of the way that you look tonight i’m yelling encore i stand in ovation for you wish i could do more wish there was more i could do give me your script, i will write myself in you can be the new hero to my heroine forget the dialogue, let’s get to the curtain call we can hide in the wings where nobody’s watching i know that your lips can do a lot more than talking come on baby let’s break down the fourth wall it’s intermission, i’m sitting here wishing that they keep the lights on for the last scene there’s not much time before your last bow yet somehow i still keep hoping that when you look out i’m the face in the crowd that you see wish you could do more wish you could give more to me |
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