Too late for you
Is it too late for me?

Surrendered the deck
To a lunatic duck
A foul fowl
With homicidal intent
Showered in feathers
Wrapped in that tape
I hoped to survive
The next few days
A swamp chicken
With a serious tick
Took his turn in the wheelhouse
And knocked us off course
Driven mad by the calls
Of his cousin the loon
He spit out a rhyme
And glared in my eye
Off with his bufflehead
The Scoter proclaimed
My last I almost breathed
Only to be saved
By a wild eyed elder
Keep whistling past the grave
He whispered as I left
And pay no heed
To that fool and his ways
Just don't tell
And don't call the scaup
Fly free now
My bipedal friend
And with that I turned
Left and never pondered again

Ships run aground
Have no concern
For the depth of the sea
Nobody participates
When no one agrees
I've left little clues
That nobody sees
So fetch me my stick
While I gambol and play
I have a suspicion
You won't know how
Because its clear to me
That you cannot see
The beauty and depth
That floods our senses
Perhaps...
It's you
That's run aground

Envelope crush
A wicked smile
She knew what I was up to
But she stayed just the same
Gotta give him credit
For tryin like a fool
But the title weren't in the offing
And she walked out alone
Someday came and went
Just like her passions
But he paid no nevermind
And wound up the king
Thems the lessons
That got learned
School's not for Buncombe
So's you might well pay
Flyin in the face of reality
Come against the stones
She's just one catch away
From the inside of home

Collector
Collector of souls
The lost, wayward and empty
The nice guys
The hopeless
And love lost
You collect us
Bring us to you
Like pointless moths
To a flame that heals
Your the collector
Of fragile glass hearts
Keeping us safe
In your menagerie

Split by the gulf of consternation
What I want is forever separated
From what I can have
Always sailing between the two
But never quite reaching shore
I am nobody's somebody
Adrift in the In-Between

Closer to Home

I hear you crying
My lovely windswept Angel
I see the sorrow That surrounds you now
I know the pain That he's putting you through

I wish you could fall in Love
I wish I could be the man You were looking for
I wish I could be the man That filled your every need
I wish you could fall in Love with me

It doesn't have to be like this
It doesn't have to be this way
There's so much more to you Than what other's say
You've so much more love to give
Than what he can see

I wish you could fall in Love
I wish I could be the man You were looking for
I wish I could be the man That filled your every need
I wish you could fall in Love with me

It breaks my heart to see
Your heart broken repeatedly
I want to dry those tears
I want to set you free
Bring back that smile of yours
And hear your heart sing wildly

I wish you could fall in Love
I wish I could be the man You were looking for
I wish I could be the man That filled your every need
I wish you could fall in Love with me

If I had my way
I'd make it all disappear
Just you and me
But that's never gonna be
That's not what's in store

I wish you could fall in Love
I wish I could be the man You were looking for
I wish I could be the man That filled your every need
I wish you could fall in Love with me

But that's never gonna be
That's not what life has in store

I wish you could fall in Love
I wish I could be the man You were looking for
I wish I could be the man That filled your every need
I wish you could fall in Love with me

Spent the night last night
With you my friend
My constant companion
My ever present demon
You whispered bitter truths
Throughout the night
And I
I repeated, faithfully
Everything you said
You've been with me so long
How can I not but believe
All the evil you whisper
And twist into my soul
I awoke this morning
Full of your words
Brimming over with spite
For none but myself
And I will continue
To repeat your mantra
Re-enforcing what I believe
About you, me, and tomorrow.