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2am, and Everything After

Two after midnight

I’ve taken a right

Turn my head on

Your shoulder

Soon to say

Can’t imagine

How you could accept

My hopes now

 

(Chorus)

2am and

Everything after

Is blurred with your

Smiles and faces a

Lifetime of

Thoughts are changing

The moon sighs through

Its phases

 

I’m shaking

At the thought that

Your shivers are

For me

Having your head

In my hands is

Almost to much

To know at

 

(Chorus)

 

I won’t ever fall down again

With you guiding me by the hand

Skinned my knees on this faulted line

Glad to know I will lay down tonight

Face to the wall, your curves in mine

Tracing your lines, alone with you at last

 

Don’t close your

Eyes it’s not our

Time to sleep just

Dance away the

Night time your

Sighs taking up the slack

For the breath we lost

Anticipating

 

(Chorus)

 

 

 

Apple Seed

 

Walking down the street

Such a pretty little thing

Alone with the sights

Of a big city scene

A bit of life here

A dabble in the eye

Dressed to be watched

In New York’s time

 

So much to be heard

Just two eyes to see

A world of minutes builds

An apple seed dream

If only I was there

To share that dream with you

We could float all the while

In the morning’s dew

 

We’re planting our seeds this spring

And we will watch them grow

New York is not far from here

Its time that we should go

Dancing the night away

Step around our clothes

California in the clear

Tonight’s harvest moon

 

Dancing the night away

With my apple seed

She’s a pretty girl

Confident in her own

Apple seed

Apple seed

It’s been too long since

I’ve seen my apple seed

 

To see the sunrise

An eastern start

Against our thoughts

In our western hearts

Of an ending scene

Stinson beach sunsets

Left alone all the while

Placing our bets

 

On us you see

No depth of field

Alone in a crowd

Where will you go now

Silence in the streets

Noise is all around

Please think of me

I’ll be listening somehow

 

We’re planting our seeds this spring

And we will watch them grow

New York is not far from here

Its time that we should go

Dancing the night away

Step around our clothes

California in the clear

Tonight’s harvest moon

 

Dancing the night away

With my apple seed

She’s a pretty girl

Confident in her own

Apple seed

Apple seed

It’s been so long I’ll never

See my apple seed grow

 

 

 

 

Window Sill

 

Brown eyes

Window sill

So deep I’d

Love to touch you

Share your

View on my lips

Burst forth

And wake tomorrow

Inside

I know your world

Outside

Dress for your sake

Longing

For the time

When we won’t

Hide away

 

(Chorus)

…From here

Is that what you fear?

You can come around anytime

Anytime around here

Don’t leave so soon

Step into the unknown

Take the time to view

That we’ve a long time to be

 

Looking

Out a window

Scrape the

Dust of the sill

A view for us

The changing world

I can’t believe

The wasted time

Scratching

At the surface

Keeping notes

On life and loses

In the dust

With fine drawn lines

Tracing pictures

Of …yesterday

 

(Chorus)

 

Is that all we have to say?

I was little boy, I’ve gone a long way

Now what’s left for us?

Bury ourselves, nights are cold here

Is that all we have to say?

I was little boy, I’ve gone a long way

Now what’s left for us?

Between what’s left, you should know

…I’ll take you

 

Window Sill

Cleaning my slate

Wait for the light to come

Warm my face

Window Sill

The times are hard

Seen this before

It’s time play my cards…

 

Window sill

Hanging my life for you

Window sill

Lay your head over me…

Lay your head over me…

 

 

 

Latent Memories

 

Staring at this cell

It is my room

White washed walls

Are like my pictures

Plastered white

With alabaster days

Empty footsteps

Are leaving soon

Light through the blinds

Paints bars on the wall

Latent memories of you

Line my back and

Scar what I see through

Taints the best of times

 

Oh and I’ve just witnessed my own fall

It’s too late to change the call

 

Dance with me across this blade

A razor sharp edge that we gave

To cut the wrath of the vine

The grapes had dried during our time

Expectations built in sin

Like a house of cards will fall in the wind

Buried on the hill in view of our lies

Three times failed our friendship dies

 

Silence suffocates

All that I’m seeing

Overdevelops into

Blackened nightmares

Latent views of

Dark room memories

Lighten the day of alabaster seething

Locked in my room

Left in the shadows

Can’t run from what draws my mind

Figures of seven

Days till the Sabbath

Looking for the fixer

To end my sighs

 

I burned all my bridges as I went

It’s been hard to build them back again

 

Dance with me across this blade

A razor sharp edge that we gave

To cut the wrath of the vine

The grapes had dried during our time

Expectations built in sin

Like a house of cards will fall in the wind

Buried on the hill in view of our lies

Three times failed our friendship dies

 

                       

 

 

Barely

 

Barely a hesitant step forward

Unsure of where skin meets the mist

Prideful glimpses of the future mixing

With the shadows of being a naïve wallflower

 

Latent blooms undeveloped because spring

Always comes before winter’s patterns of ice

Spearing with glances of curvilinear shape

With thoughts of innocence and her time

 

One for her mind and the other for her body

Beauty in the mind’s eye, lust in the man’s eye

Drives the daughters to dressing rooms where Degas

Dreams live in horrifying wakefulness

 

Played out like a bad tape set to start

Over when the antagonist moves to the left

Barely enough to cause concern

Back of her mind, stares in audition for life

 

Life a world of his paternal lies

Blank stares are tied to her blank fears

Black slacks stand behind the curtain

Parallel to the white legs in the mist

 

Only protection from the expression

Only protection forms the oppression

The wallflower better bloom before the sun sets

For the world will change without her

 

 

 

 

Princess of Baden

 

Pulling on a string

Tied to a dream

Hoping for the chance

It will draw him closer

Save her floundering

In between the banks of

 

A river’s tow

Coursing trough her veins

Greed for sunlight

Isn’t satisfied with stopping here

Building a bridge

Spanning her desires

 

Taken for granted

Four people in one

Trusting her faith

That she means more then giving up

Her own life

That she’s more then

 

A wisp away she said

I can’t remember all the lives I’ve lead

To find a place I can call me home

For me to call my own

A wisp away she said

Growing from the pain I have tread

Listen to the past as it calls

For me to live my own life

 

Half the men and

Half of all faces

Are living my life

Through my own graces

Of care giving

Stare while sitting

A city park

Is a watcher’s station

Is running away

Following you

Choices fall in

Line for text to run through

Scanning the signs

An extra eye is

 

Lucky for you

Hurts to wonder

How could I know?

Difference between blood and fire

So close at hand

Split tongue speaks fine

 

Bless her in the end

The means to all the pain

Moving again

Problems follow never solving what to do

Here comes a car

She knows it’s her time

 

For her to go

Her own way

Losing his legs

Freedom is her choice to live

Escape for a while

On her own

 

 

 

October 5th

 

I’m tired

Pouring out myself

Water down a drain

There’s no sieve to take out this pain

 

Filter out

All the memories

All the bad things

I had to hear in the end

 

(Chorus)

Why did this day have

To fall our way

October 5th is

Burned in my mind

Curling forth like

Cigarette smoking from

Breath-gone sour

Thoughts of growing farther from

You I don’t know

Changing directions

Rollercoaster rides turn

Less then your mindset

Why did this day have

To fall our way

October 5th is

Burned in my mind

 

To gather apart

We are not a whole

Pieces on the ground

Weary is my soul

Not for you, for me

Time to let it go

Give and taking you

Draining all we know

 

Spilling out

Soaking my clothes

Have to wash again

Take out the stains that litter them

 

Force a smile

Pulling at my shoes

Try to tie them tight

No stopping here again

 

Relief fades

Out of memory

Found a new trail

Going to blaze it once again

 

(Chorus)

 

To gather apart

We are not a whole

Pieces on the ground

Weary is my soul

Not for you, for me

Time to let it go

Give and taking you

Draining all we know

We are not a whole

Weary is my soul

It’s time to let it go

Draining all we…know

 

 

 

Rewind

 

A newborn’s cry

Youth is chocked

With what it feeds

And what it is given

What it feels

Itself clinging to the

Lack of love

Crazed distress and everything

Above dried tears

Skinned of all their fears

If only pain

Came in the size

Of living seeds

From the child’s hands

Wither as they fall

All over our plans

 

(Chorus)

One time

Rewind

Up comes

The red ball

Taken from

The fall of man

To the mouth

Of the little lamb

A blue lagoon

Deep down

A syndrome

Lungs withered

A week old balloon

Innocence pays

Seedlings crushed

Dearly in the night

 

Survivors of

The blue syndrome

Eyes glazing at

Cigarette burns

Received from

Playing on a wheel

Roulette from

Which it peels

Off my skin

Too much to see

A little child’s plight

In a helpless world

Light a candle

Then snuff it out

Only one bullet lends

Trouble in our house

 

(Chorus)

 

The baby is crying

Something is wrong

Nicotine wails now

An hour too long

Someone’s hurting

Others at a loss

What we’ve done

To be distraught

It’s not our pain

Just what we caused

Too much too late

No power to adjust

It was on our plate

But we pushed it off

Blue baby is crying

Where’s the justice now?

 

One time

Rewind

Up comes

The red ball

Deep down

A syndrome

Lungs burned

An old balloon

One time

Rewind

Up comes

The red ball

Nicotine

A child’s doom

Too late to change

A mother’s fool

 

 

 

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Copyright 2004

Adam Baughman