Beautiful Thoughts

Sometimes the people you have known and the places you have been

Seem like they’ve never grown into the images you dream

While you look for blackened beauty, they smile the light of day

And a chorus tries to sing you all the words we never say.

Take people by the hand then go speak the dumbed down word

Lead a life you never planned man be no dead monkey in the herd

For if you follow all the beaten tracks you’ll end up at the same

And if you don’t know where you’re going then you’ll have no one to blame.

We are not invincible or divisible or flat invisible.

We are free to be the dreamers or the cynics that we want

But you should situate the streamers of yourself before you can’t

Pass on pride and pass on love and goodwill as you go

Don’t be afraid to be afraid or say that it ain’t so.

Money burns a hole inside where laughter never could

Talk and think and poetise no tv’ll say you should.

We are not invincible or divisible or flat invisible.

Me and you

My sweet daemon

Heading to a distant land

Me and you

Oh to freedom

Shifty hand

You reappear

When I least need you

Shifting sands

Are always near

To what we do

Days go by

Then months and years

You never call my name

Then you tap

Upon my back

And life is not the same

I live

In fear

Of alley way Kings

I live

To clear

These evil things

Shunned you stab

Me inside

My sweet weakness

Stunned I grabbed

But lost my pride

With all its teakness

I’d rather be

At home

Drawing pictures

I’d rather be

Alone

Reading scriptures

It’s the devils touch

The devils

It’s a lesson learnt

Too easily

Too easily

I’m wearing out my wishes

My nine lives

Incorrigible

Indefatigable

Hidden are my goals

Desperation’s all I know

My world is all a glow

With true tears

True tears

You’ll never miss the whiskey till the bottle runs dry

You’ll never risk being risky till you’ve got a reason why

You’ll never know what’s coming till it spits you in the eye

You better grab someone you love and make sure not to lie

Wake up now and see somehow
That the only thing you ever need
Is keeping sweet the hand that feeds

Tired of drinkin coffee
That burnt sienna melody
Charmin off my underpants
Lookin for a little dance
Up against a dark girl
Her wicked tongue and long curls
She could be the one for me
My wanderlust it disagrees

Wake up boy, life’s not a toy
You’re dreamin all your life away
Think of tomorrow not today

Plungin in the sea waves
Terrorism marks our days
Buy a car, drive it far
Don’t believe the false praise
Take a whistle blow it loud
If you’re a steamer sing it proud
Don’t forget your parents too
They thought the same things you do

Wake up please I’m on my knees
I’m lookin for the antidote
To this insane human disease

Read the paper, throw it out
The words are bullshit don’t you doubt
You’ll understand it less and less
Don’t buy into the machine mess
Go help the poor in Africa
Tell some stories to your Ma
Ride the bus write a song
Someday someone will sing along

Wake up hey, before you’re grey
If you think your life is misery
You should try to be me

Up late, a clean slate
Leave your troubles at the gate
Take a pill, take two
Step up on my blue shoes
Get a job, get fired
Stay sober, get wired
Laugh a lot, tell a joke
Go for a jog, then have a smoke

Wake up soon, before you mushroom
Into a sad and lonely one
Go get laid and have some fun

Walk on, walk quick
Don’t let your mind get sick
Love a man if you can
Don’t turn into an also ran
Back a horse, do a course
Philosophise with no remorse
Be sure and be strong
Make mistakes, we’re all wrong
Tell your girl she looks hot
Or someone else will take your spot
Live free and live well
Fear Heaven, not Hell

Wake up while, you still can smile
You can sleep through all the thunder
When you’re six feet under

When drink and drugs are taken

Its not a place for lovely days

When good habits are forsaken

Its hard to keep my mind on track

When my chest is too quick beating

My demeanour is not full of mirth

And honest ways are fleeting

Its not a time for assuredness

When the cocaine dives inside me

Intelligence is warped and skewed

When loved ones might deride me

Its a place I know just far too well

And has seen some great men topple

Its a way I must equate with Hell

When Eve nibbled from the apple

Its numb cynical my feelings then

When gargle takes me over

Its a need that sends me to the edge

That reminds me to stay sober

Law makin

Hold my balls they aint goin breakin

Full Fakin

Poise shakin

Detoxed like a homeless drunk forsaken

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Topless winkin

Im sinkin

Rethinkin all the words Im sayin

Credits payin

Dragon slayin

Day out the night is all all along day in

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Cant reach it

Must teach it
Feel the wrath of the songs you speaketh

Consternation

Desperation

Without degrees the angles elation

.

So ready

Rock steady

Drop the dead cat my name’s not Freddy

Unrelenting

God dissenting

Unleash the nija whirl you’re venting

.

We’re only human

Just be a true man

With no delusion

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Total crispy

Hair gone whispy

Eyes that sag and a mind gone thrifty

Untarnished

Full varnished

Dont make the first or last your last wish

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Dishes dirty

So flirty

Wish I could be less than thirty

Age only

Makes lonely

The truth of all you could never really be

.

Rhyme broken

Soft spoken

Where there’s a will there’s a will but you’re only jokin

Realise

Disguised lies

Are more than the sum of all your hopin

Pitch’s ready

Ship’s steady

Inhumane the bitch goes He He

Diamonds too dear

Show no fear

Love the things you love and love them dear

.

We’re only human

Just be a true man

With no delusion

.

Im all around you

Like tofu

You can’t taste me but Im here like swine flu

It aint easy

I feel queasy

Pretty sure this world is crazy

.

So lazy

These days see

Could be more productive but Im reductive Si Si

No worries

Mc Flurries

Could be a hit but its mass production

.

My gumption

Is luncheon

To everything that keeps me revelling

Disheveling

This devil in

Side the body, the soul and Christ of me

No fallacy

No parody

No way to make you think the same as me

Cept marketin

And targetin

Weak eared whores who’ll soon be spending in

Your shop fronts

Dizzy old cunts

I understand it less and less with wild grunts

.

We’re only human just be a true man

With no delusion

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Cant stop it

Try to pop it

Burns me up like a random rocket

Londons calling

Red balling

Bags you out when you know you’re falling

Freedom fighters

Cheap lighters

Burning out before they’ve wronged the writers
Of power

In this hour

Where freedom lies with those who write it

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Its so shit

This last bit

But without an honest touch you’ve lost it

It’ll cost you

Some bad news

And you will reassess and trump your new and old views

Cocks hurtin

Re workin

Everything and everyone who’s spoutin

Loud mouthin

The dragons hid and the tigers crouching

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We’re only human

Just be a true man

With no delusion

.

It takes time true

For what you do

To make you make the things you make new

Pidgeons cooing

Brains brewing

Without some thought you’re a zombie anyhoo

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Revelation

Masturbation

With the polished touch is a cool sensation

Dissertations

Piss creations

Falling up and down throughout the nations

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Mind sodomy

Be the killer Bee

Without a sting you have no edge for me

Our time’s short

Wealths a closed court

Serving double faults to the soft sports

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Dont dally now

Kiss the Hindu cow

Makle the most before you take your final bow

Im leaving

You’re grieving

Before I loved you more just couldnt show how

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We’re only human

Just be a true man

With no delusion

Pause in quiet defiance

Marvelling at the oblique slash

Of Beauty

That airplane streaks across

The wide open sky

The cathartic

Setting sun

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Soft lines mark the lull

The deep recess where

Coruscating consciousness collapses through

Moments of sense

The honey scent of your neck

The dew nestling on your inner thigh

In picnic time

At morning

The gentle rambling gurgles you chutter at night-time

When the mice sleep

The mirrored look you give me

When I stare into your eyes

In candlelight

The final sense I disremember

As the clarity reduces

And emotion charges through me

.

Oh that I can hold this time

Through all time

The days when lemonade will be made

On verandas

With long crickets hopping through long grass

And small children laughing in

The heat of the evening

Bouncing balls

And quips at each other

The days when I become

The natural actuality

Of this untamed Irish soul

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Oh that I can keep your look on me

Through all the roads and rooms

We will pass and stop someday

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Oh to the South Pole

And the merriment I request

Penguin cold

A day that’ll best unfold

With dancing bears

And polar sonic booms

Of your laughter in my ear

.

Oh that you were here to hear my thoughts

This pencil dries too quick

My digits too slow

Too steady

For the stormy flashdance of crunching love

That burns inside

Every inch of me for you

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My wide ears are

Entranced by the prophecy

Revealing itself day to day

Habits and ways

The lynch, the cape, the coil

Reasoned attraction

The cascading forces pummelling

The yolk of life that

Exchanges moments of charity with

Nothing to lose

For nothing to win

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This happy watery land

Where giant coloured fish

Mince bubbles and Cedar wood pines

Scraping the cloudless sky

Dropping finned cones onto the soft

Velvet grass

Where

A man will fish with

No need to catch

For he has been fed a

Thousand times