Squint your eyes and look closer
I'm not between you and
When the joy had left your body
And you were locked
you can't hide
behind social graces
so don't try
to be all touchy
I am walking out in the rain
and I am listening
Buildings and bridges are made to bend in the wind,
our father who art in a penthouse
sits in his 37th
fourteenth street and the garbage swirls like a cyclone
three o'clock
life used to be life-like
now it's more like show biz
i
I opened the fire door
to four lips
none of which were
they were digging a new foundation in manhattan
and they discovered
state trooper thinks i drive too fast
pulled me over to
i heard the sound of your bike,
as your wheels hit
the sky is grey
the sand is grey
and the ocean is
hold me down
i am floating away
in to the overcast skies
over
I bet you're wondering.
if you woke up today,
just to learn
So that's how you found me
Rain fallin around me
Around lookin
I do it for the joy it brings
because i'm a
in a coffee shop in a city
which is every coffee
i'm holding here a book
notable, but not the greatest
stolen for
the answer came
like a shot in the back
while you were
Millennium theater
Get out there and buy that water and gas
Ramadan
they told you your music
could reach millions
that the choice was
I search your profile
for a translation
I study the conversation
like a
i was born to two immigrants
who knew why they were
as dolls go i am broken
and you could just let
i cannot name this
i cannot explain this
and i really don't
Well the heat is so great
It plays tricks with the
i am out here studying stones
trying to learn to be
white people are so scared of black people
they bulldoze out
you keep telling me i'm beautiful
but i feel a little
Think I'm going for a walk now. I feel a
How can I go home
With nothing to say?
I know you're
coming of age during the plague
of reagan and bush
watching capitalism