a philosophy of freedom
part 1


in my blood

I take a few steps and it's almost sexual
I haven't been here a whole year
and I bring something, he says
my ancestry
to esoteric christianity

and when I speak to the Jew in me
on Napoleon's terrace
he says "my language been dead 2000 years"
so keep your shoes on
it's no holy place

and it's soaking in blood
the land is soaked in blood
and it wasn't my blood

well I had done all the right exercises
still I don't like me very much
he says he doesn't mind the fur that's covering my body
only it makes it hard for skin to touch

and it's not in my blood

and how will I know content from form?
and I how will I brave the less travelled road?
my diet of fear
my diet of doubt
it's entered my blood

I used to believe in philosophy
but now gods and demons are dancing with me
and there is a light
that is shining bright
when darkness reigns
reigns in blood


my love awaits

he said
 if love don't save us I don't know what will
I said
we'd have to become otherwise obsessed
with other things

my love awaits me in another land
maybe in another time?
maybe she's a woman in a body of a man
and I don't wanna play the part till then

I thought it was a boy who carried books around
I thought it might have been a girl
with comfort in her sound
but this is not where they were found

my love is teasing me in dreamland
she kisses me and smiles
"your moon may want them magazine covers
but what you need is a house and children 2.5"

I breathe on yoga mats
and try to find my bliss
that inner happiness is all we ever need
but it's never been enough

my love and I are both complete and whole
we revel in the friction of our souls
our love is free and unconditional
but who will fill this gap?
who will fill this gap?

let's go to the beach
it's not too cold to swim
and just in case we'll leave behind everything
maybe a wave will tempt us
after our love forsake us
and go under




other side of the veil

if there is another side to the veil
then I had known you and I will again

I light a candle
I learn to live with my fears
the night descending
the floorboards creaking

sometimes I want to call you
but then I remember

where is the white of the snow?
the warmth of the sand?
I take your hand in mine

I light a candle
I learn to live with the dark
I want to know now
I want to know where you are

sometimes I want to call you
but then I remember.




lines

 he undoes his tie
he let's it slip to the floor
the bedroom is dark
she doesn't wait up for him anymore

somewhere outside
sirens chase tragedies
through their bathroom mirror
he takes out his lens
and now he can't see

the lines in his face
that stand for
the lines he can't cross
and therefore
his share of the bed
is a citadel

some boys in the park
wonder if he remembers their names
a picture fell out
on the shiny parquet
without a sound

and lines in his face
that stand for
the lines he can't cross
that stand for
the beauty which he can't afford
they told him instead
"it's all in your head"

tomorrow I could get run over by a bus
wouldn't it be funny
if today I bothered much
with what people think
and what my future may hold
but then again
no one wants to stay out in the cold

and I knocked on doors that opened
and I walked inside and closed them
it didn't take much
I am of the lucky ones

but lines in his face
that stand for the lines he can’t cross
 that stand for
the beauty he craves which stands for
this sobering segregation
his share of the bed
is a citadel



too many windows

 in the mirrorball I saw our future
deflecting off the studs on your dress
you expose a thigh
and mime that you love me
I smile with crossed arms
I'm watching you dance

my office upstairs is where we first kissed
I locked the door and carressed your hair
you raised both your legs
propped up on my desk
I felt the disco beat in my brain

but don't kiss my now
there's too many windows
someone might see inside of me
and when we're alone
all that I wish
is for a piece of normality

when the cops come you are defiant
I get so angry with your sillinness
you're giving them excuses to hit you
what is so brave about that?

so don't kiss me now...

wanna cut your dress short
remove all obstructions
imagine holidays we could take
on the black sea
sipping margaritas
dancing outside in the rain

and then there won't be enough windows
for me to shout
proclaim my love
we could be free
we could be happy
with this minor adjustment

but you don't comply
always had it your way
stubbornness incarnate
why do you still revel in your abberation?

take all this cash
buy something nice
don't ever give up on yourself
and as for me
I'll fade in your shadow
I wasn't strong enough to be your man



safe

 how did we get like this?
well it wasn't me who said
"all of your fear ends now"
but you couldn't hold it

do the currents divert our thoughts?
do you think 3 months is enough?
and the colours will coax our minds
into feeling safe

what day is it today?
I'm losing my count
so do you love me in your own way?
make me believe
maybe this digging will some day stop?
in my skin
in my soul

and the theatre sails away
on the wings of your word
and the colours all fade to white
and your sonic sphere expands
and your angel starts to cry

how did we get like this?
it wasn't me who said
"all of your fear ends here"
but I couldn't take it

do the currents divert our thoughts?
do you think 3 months is too much?
and the colours will coax our minds
into feeling safe.


 
the rose

how long has it been
sitting on this wall
the sun painting my hair yellow
nothing but sand for miles and miles
the horizon makes it seem
a congested hourglass
nothing moving

I think about home
don't know why I call it that
humans were never supposed to fly in the first place
if I should fall
I will crawl along the earth
for the rest of my days

an aeroplane zooms above my head
guess he found that missing part after all
it's nobody's fault
it's nobody's fault

patterns in the sand is all that keeps me occupied
all the travels that I need only happen in my mind
and I don't believe in God
but I once saw a flock of geese
that could carry me
could have carried me away

all your little suicides
every day
still you come pleading
begging me to stay
I don't know what is sadder
let me be
I've an early appointment tomorrow
only what with two suns circling
tomorrow never comes

and the rose
I couldn't find
just some petals along the way
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