Home is where you hang your heart
When it has had enough beating for one day
Home is where you hang your smile
When it only fits on upside down
Home is where you take your laughter off
And put on what you really feel
Home is where outside doors shut
But inside doors hang wide open
Home is the warmth of fresh sheets
And the humming cool of the fridge
Home is where you put you in the wardrobe
And snuggle into your secret self.

So green man
Have your hands
Sewn on
Teddy bear
No finger-hands
Impotent
Wave around
And hurrumph
Like it makes
A single difference
And it does
Feeling better
About feeling bad.

Change is as good
As a heartache
Buy a ticket to get
Out of space
Carry the blues
Read the daily news
Plastered on
The front page

People stop and stare
Celebrity auctionares
Disaster wears
A happy face
Practise what you do
It's so up and down to you
Turn over to
The lastest rage

You swallowed it up
And soaked it in
It wasn't a lie
There were no words
So easy to assume
So quick to read
Am I so open
So plain, so surface?
Perhaps not
You soaked it in
After all
Sponge of your own imagination
I would be laughing
Chuckling, smiling
But
Slick black rock
Wet cold chill
Only it wasn't a lie
There were no words
It feels the same

When we were told of the other grass
It didn't seem so different
Struggling in the wind like the rest of us

When we were told of the other grass
It wasn't strange or fair
Just greener than our own

When we were told of the other grass
We would look up some times
And imagine ourselves gazing back

When we were told of the other grass
Something was sewn and sprouted
A habit from before birth

When we were told of the other grass
We had crossed over
Before we even knew.

I remember you were special
Like the cry of the sea
And my thoughts ran out
To meet you in waves

You are the proper distance
The fatal collision

The ghosts don't look twice
Don't seem to realise
They got no shadow
They got no soul
The past on repeat
Till it wears you down

Soldiers of the former night
Head and shoulders in the wishing well
Lost forever can't you tell?
But you just say "surrender your guns
Tomorrow comes with tiger claws
To blow us all to hell"

The greenlights are all unsafe
We have to stop, slam foot on brakes
Time is opening up beneath our feet
A dead end street
An empty pause
A full stop
A finishing

She don't look twice
But smiles and ice
Make slippery footing

just one arm out of place
not around you or anything
just beside your jacket
leaking warmth like refugees
there's a war going on inside
and I think I'm losing.

Resist the sun
And hope your walkways
Won't remember gravity
In between stars

Fake plastic teacher
Skin-of-his-teeth-deep smile
Fake plastic laugh
Last of the Russian dolls
Inside him inside him inside
Without words to ask

Work it out
Work it out
Work it out

It could have been sometimes
It never turns out green
It's maybes on the whiteboard
Reality is what it seems

You are
All of the other kids
You were different
But we grow up sometime

We thoughtfully occupied our allotted space
Making our way through the clinging city
Pausing only to mourn the drunk
Passed out ungraciously on the cold stone floor
We poured our common consensus out like wine
Sipping, swirling, spitting out, we departed
Odours of neglect and disipation
Flavours of hopelessness and abandon
Danced upon our tongues
Fired with steam as we, thoughtfully
Left him to his own burst bubble.

Piercing

Ears never bleed
From the listening alone
But
No new life is bought
Without blood

We change ourselves
Opened up to the blade
The hole is more
Than the sum of the pain

It is the shape of something beautiful
Held just outside of common sense

Cigarrette
Burns slow ash
Curling smoke
Breathe at last
It's in the mind
Letting go
Of dying fire
Breath out
And suck the spark
Back to life.

Forgiveness comes from the floor
With footsteps that shed no sound
She knocks so softly at my door
So sad to have to tread this ground
And I alone and by myself
Am oh so gently found.

The truth is
You lost the war
A long long time ago
You are just
Catching up with yourself.

Did I find the wrong eternal sunshine?
Ambience an epitaph
To the fog of an unspoiled mind
Pile me up like stones on a cairn
Yearning for the freedom of the sky
Children locked up against our wishes
Arms too short to reach the handles, you and I
It's in the fine print, cut between letters
Swallow down these tablet stones
They will help you sleep at night
You will never be alone.

I'll open my eyes
If it will be alright
Caught up in happenstance
You're such a sight

Fall upon a quiet moment
Inhale in the day
Swallow the wild fire
Sleeping on the hay

Set off the fire alarms

Ambulances
Bearing down so fast
Sirens for the wailing
Says it all at last

Set off the fire alarms

Sitting in the true time
I fold my hands a while
Not all numbers and figures
Listening to a smile

Set off the fire alarms
Wake up the dead
Settle for an accident
Intentional instead
Intentions
Intentions
I never meant

Coloured in surprise
Bucket of sunrise
Shatter sound and glasses

Find the bluebird of happiness

Wrecking ball
It's a level playing field
You won't change much
You are outdated
Yesterday's faded news
Silicon in the rough

Temperamental
You sank my battleship
And cost us all the game
Have the grace
To go down quietly
Like a good captain

The oinks

I has swine flu

*coff coff*



I tell a lie tho. I don't but I did just want to say so. Or something.

By the Wolves

Miscellaneous
Cry wolf one more time
I dare you to find the pieces
After that.

Stars behind the door
Lights in outerspace
Large enough to see
Grease the axles
Of your novels
Just to stop and breathe

Peak in
Break ships
Cast the timber down

Unravel the change in your pocket
It clinks like a drowning soldier
Unwilling to let go

To understand who you are
You must be willing to accept
Where you are

I'm not asleep
I'm just keeping the peace

Yesterday is today
Only twice as before