The Bear Comes Back Down The Mountain

Keeping ourselves so hid
From the daylight
It reigned for some long time
Then came the night
And with our blood so cold
We tumbled down
And with our muscles slowed
We slept so sound
Like the bear who crawled away to hibernate
While other beasts struggled with the snow
Then to reawake inside the cave
And come down the mountain, here we go

And so museums are built
With opposed thumbs
And reptile roots might be
Fruitfully dug
And when the story’s told
Will it be right
Some say its stubborn scales
Some say it size
Like the bear who crawled away to hibernate
While other beasts struggled with the snow
Then to reawake inside the cave
And come down the mountain, here we go

And at the tail end of those little creeps
That eat on eggs while we
Asleep in peace
Some to rebuild those bones
We’re whole again
Standing in great hallways
Scare little kids
Like the bear who crawled away to hibernate
While other beasts struggled with the snow
Then to reawake inside the cave
And come down the mountain, here we go

Peacock’s Eye

I’d be a liar if I said it was true
I never let myself come unglued
When I’m sleeping
And its late in the night
I go searching
For the peacock’s eye

Sheets are drawn, bed is warm
Peace and solitude not feeling no one
No one’s breathing no one’s twitching
Just the fan of the peacock
With my eyes on it
If you wonder through gardens and parks
The blue bird shines right through the dark
Your head can’t handle the shock of it all
So the kingdom of your dreams begins to fall

Some people say the galaxy is ending
Giant black hole sucking us in
Well I’ve been there every night
and I’ve been back again

The black hole of the eye
wraps me in its blankets
The black hole of the eye
is drawing me in

Some people say the galaxy is ending
Giant black hole sucking us in
Well I’ve been there every night
and I’ve been back again

It Made You Dumb

When I was in goldmines
Everybody’d ask what I was digging for
When I was on hard times
It seemed like everybody knew that score
and I was such a bore

When I lost my true love
Everybody said we told you so
Camping with people I knew loved
Its such a funny place but I would always glow
so sad to see you go

You cut your tongue and it made you dumb

You always thought you’d lose me
When I didn’t have that much to say
But you came to learn I was
Off in my other place
and you’d lose me anyway

You cut your tongue and it made you dumb

I always knew I’d lose love
When it was off in ancient Rome
Riding over viaducts
and spending so much time alone
so sad to see you go

You cut your tongue and it made you dumb

Sacred Place

I will make for my own sacred place
When the pets that are injured and ill
Hide themselves away
When meteors melt
And the love that I’ve felt starts to slip
The maps that hold countries intact no longer exist

My father would fear
My mother would moan if it was known
My dreams try to keep me asleep
When they find me alone
All the mountains and marshes
My body’s traveled as its grown
Are the memories of fire in the arms
That are waving me home

I will make for my own sacred place
When the lips of cursed purses
Call out to me by my name
When the rodents that hold court
Beneath my floor board start to flee
I will know that its no longer safe
And I’ll follow their lead

Become a Monk

I retreated up to the mountain
I sat down meditating
Before my mind lost concentration
I was the punctual pupil
serious ’bout my studies
before my hive had any honey

I was gonna become a monk

My head was bald and shiny
My scalp was pink from plucking
Before you hair made me feel bare
I was following the prophet
My trees were free from carving
Before I realized the truth was walking
It was walking down on the earth
I could hear each and every word
No longer imagining any of its magic

I was gonna become a monk

I retreated up to the mountain
I sat down meditating
Before my mind concentration
I was following the prophet
My trees were free from carving
Before I realized the truth was walking

I was gonna become a monk

Ice Fields

Ice fields, fields of ice
I’m so cold, so alone
Ice fields glisten in the sunlight
Crystal palaces on the mountain-side

I pushed myself up the hill
To look down on a might view
The higher I got, I’ve been tackled
Locked my light head in one of those ice castles

It was an old man skipping, furry coat
I try to scream at him, I almost choked
The vapor of my breath like glass to my throat
Jack Frost skipping, furry coat
No heat reaches and the sun ain’t locked
So what causes this freeze to fall
Lightning crashes into a tree
Calling on the wind to blow that breeze to me

Ice fields, fields of ice
Frozen lakes are prisons, you get locked inside
Someone standing there, I was mesmerized
A princess of fire saved my life

Milk Moustache

Crawl closer in the hay
Spent so much time away
Nothing like a familiar blanket
Much missed but you didn’t take it
I loved you like your mother
You know I loved no other
But I can’t help feeling embarrassed
All grown up but you’re still wearing
Sipping from a tit
Hung up on the hair on my lips
On the skin where the kisses sit
Looking just like a little kid
Who can’t out grow his past
Looking back with a milk moustache

Still pretty in the picture
Know that its hard not to miss you
With seashells in our pockets
The photo in your locket
Sipping from a tit
Hung up on the hair on my lips
On the skin where the kisses sit
Cling to fingers like little kids
Who can’t out grow their past
Looking back with a milk moustache

Season of Sweets

There are girls in the park
But its not even warm yet
Their skin is red-hot from the shock
And I’m on my bike, yeah
‘Cause I’m always riding
And make sure that I’m bundled up
The dudes off from school
Are all wearing shorts too
To celebrate that things are young
I’m not just some bum who is eating walnuts
As I stare through my drawn bamboo blinds
I follow these kids to the season of sweets
Where everything will be alright

Lets flirt in the park
while the moment’s still fleeting
I don’t want to lose my seat
And I know you’re with friends
And these moments are common
When disguised through dark sunglass lense
I’m not just some nut who will sit on his butt
While somebody’s sweet-tooth is aching
I lead all these kids into my mother’s kitchen
And we’ll see what she’s busy baking

When the night is here
And we’re slumbering near
Telling stories around the flashlight
We’ll all sleep in peace in the season of sweets
Where everything will be alright

Live Like Kids

Everywhere it is raining
Its been coming down for hours
You were in the shower
With the window cracked
And the big drops crash
Its not hard to imagine
That you’re in a tree house
And this could be the big day
Where i walk right up and say
I’d like to know your name
And when we get alone
Doors swinging on their hinge
Its only breeze through empty halls
And we’re living life like kids

Notes were passed over cold drafts
In all the foggy halls
When i got there you were gone
But woven into my dimension
You were in my premonitions
Sleeping in a sweat lodge
And this could be the big night
Where i walk right up and try
Your skin on for size
And disconnect the phone
You know i never mind the crime
No one gets their every wish
And we’re living life like kids

Foundations weighting ground
Making a stretching sound
You were under cover
Your eye was patched
Your mouth was cracked
And dreams were leaking out
When i settled down
And this could be the big sleep
But it could also be
Just another round
And when we get back home
You know i never mind the time
Its watches lost from weighted wrists
And we’re living life like kids
I’m only skin and bone
You know i never mind the mind
And elevate when lovers kiss
And we’re living life like kids

Rainbow Beard

i was just a boy
When I lost my pants
Running through the fields
Learning how to dance
I should’ve known
By the moon’s glow
That my hair would strain
To ever grow

In the churches
Flirting with the chumps
In the hospitals
Getting stomachs pumped
In the elevators
Printed on the sheets
You buried your blood
Underneath my cheek

Tiger-eyes and Apache tears
The morning time my sister says I’m weird
Mountain peaks with rocky hats
Roots are red where claybeds pack
My minute hand is long and gold
Silver mines explode when I get old
All the tots rotting in the moss
What did you smoke to make it grow so long
I met myself in a way
I hadn’t imagined any other day
I met myself it was in a way
I hadn’t imagined any other day

Take a strand from your man in the East
Another from your brother with the Ivory teeth
Paradise’s freaky fowl
Till the spectrum streams from the lighthouse tower

Tiger-eyes and Apache tears
The morning time my sister says I’m weird
Mountain peaks with rocky hats
Roots are red where claybeds pack
My minute hand is long and gold
Silver mines explode when I get old
All the tots rotting in the moss
What did you smoke to make it grow so long
I met myself in a way
I hadn’t imagined any other day
I met myself in a way
I hadn’t imagined any other day
I met myself in a way
I hadn’t imagined any other day
I met myself it was in a way
I hadn’t imagined any other day

Vision Quest

To the Wart in the water
While you were up their fishing
You became a rainbow man
Your body split in sevens
To the ants in the window
Who drip in on their mission
Just one body blocking satalites
From their position
Now lifting up from my cocoon
Where I’ve been hidden
I’ve found that waking with the sun
Can help me with my vision

To the lizards who crawled back to seas
While escaping teeth
Of the fishes who had claimed the land
Then made that trip complete
When their eyes were tired
And obscured in the blur
They feathered out their flakey skin
And made themselves to birds
Now lifting up from beaches
Where they’re buried in just wishing
They’ve found that striking down with sun
Can help them with their vision

Now I know you’ve seen that lady
Up in the sky
Who combs her hair off mirrored jewels
And gives the night some light
To the people of the east
Her face looks like a rabbit
To the people of the west
We see something more human
But we know that she’s been sent here
To give us goodnight kisses
And awake our minds
To arouse all of our sleeping visions

Now every time I scrape the dust
Off stretching eyes
I see the Aztecs and the Incas
And see Superman in skies
And pilots who were drowning
Under the weight of flags
That parachuting falling planes
And cushioned up their crash
And the shaman who sits in saunas
While his body’s dripping
And assures me that sweating with sun
Can help me with my vision

Half of a Hermaphrodite (in Bed)

I was all alone I shook the rust
And then I slept
When i awoke the streets were dust
My blankets lead
Half of a hermaphrodite in bed
Out of sync with the star in your head
Fly through night and up for hours
Beneath the smoke and radio towers
When you find you’re on your own and all alone
You’ll see that I can be your friend

We made it on to New Years Day
I sang my song
I lit a flame inside my stove
It kept me warm
We were nearly old
With heavy hands and stubborn jaws
But i was wrong, we’re what we are
We’re never young

Half of a hermaphrodite in bed
Out of sync with the star in your head
Fly through night and up for hours
Beneath the smoke and radio towers
When you find you’re on your own and all alone
You’ll see that I can be your friend