Blues Turned Black
Let me tell you about my blues
My blues have turned black
Black, black, black, black
And my rotting stinking flesh
Black, black, black, black
I couldn’t stay high
I’m in some cemetery
I don’t know where I am
It’s been so many years
I lost so many tears
I don’t know who I am
It was all a moment in the ocean of time
I thought I had to go
And then I really was gone
I was gone, gone, gone, gone
I lost the way
I went way on tears
It was all I could do
Keep on keeping on
I walked and I walked and I walked and I walked
I didn’t see nothing in the midnight blue
My blues turned black
Black, black, black, black
Inside I’m a zombie
Outside I’m unknown
Black, black, black, black
That rotten stinking flesh
Maybe you can’t see it
But I know it’s for real
My blues have turned black
I forgot how to feel
My blues have turned black
I’m gone, I can’t come back

It Seems Forever
You see me walking
I go here and there
You hear me talking
I say this and that
But it’s the front side
You don’t know the back
I play the game
But I don’t keep score
I can’t win or lose
It’s just marking time
I told my maker
I’d live real good
Just take away the pain
I’ll start breathing again
And as I continue
I’ll try to do it right
I won’t hurt nobody
Not even myself
I’ll hold out a light
Let it shine for you
If nobody sees it
I still do what I do
I tried to be happy
What a foolish thing
The gems of the universe
Don’t care about that
You’ve got your position
Just play your part
You see me walking
You hear me talking
The sun and the moon keep rolling around
There’s nothing but a pathway
Follow your footsteps
Demonstrate your front side
Don’t even think about the back
You don’t want to be there
The pain is what you lack

I Threw You Away
I threw you away
So I could play
I wanted the other side
What I didn’t know
I was walking so fast
Now walking slow
Around (I ran?) to the butcher
He cut me up
I took a lot of years
For the pieces to get back
Slow walking now
Got no place to go
And I don’t care
I feel like I’m there
I’m at the playground
But I’m watching the children
I can’t play nothing
I don’t know how
The spirit moves me
Along with the breeze
I alight on some sidewalk
It must be the park
I like the flowers
I like the statues
I threw you away
So I could play

Frozen Beauty
I thought I told you
Not to be so nice
I thought I’d hold you
Just once or twice
But you stayed around
All this time
If I didn’t go
You’d probably have changed
But because I’m gone
I still see you the same
It’s like you’re frozen
Time doesn’t change you
You’re still around
And you’re the same
Sometimes I see you
You’re in a dream
Just like you were
A long time ago
I’ll take what you give me
This memory
I don’t need nothing else
I made you this way
I took your life
Put it in a box
I pray at your gravestone
Remembering when
You walked my path
You slept in my bed
It’s a long, long time
I’ve got a pain in my head
But you gave me an earthquake
Everything is rearranged
I take this new place
As the world is now
It’s just I remember
Your frozen image
You wild, wild thing
You gave me a jungle
To cut my way through
The beasts and the dangers
Made me what I am
So walk with me, frozen beauty
As I reclaim my life
I’m sure that you’re melting
Some other place I don’t know

The World Stops
At the end of the trip
Blank and sudden (?) going back
Voyage terminated at long last
Waiting for the high-speed rocket
Take me back to where I know

The ride’s not easy, it’s not calm
But going back at long last
All the faces, all the voices
Somehow I stay at the back of it all
Watching my body go through the motions
In a slice of time and space

Guess I was there, I surely must have been
It’s a simple memory hangs near past (fast?)
But going back at long last
Somehow seems so much more important

Looking through all the events
Clear on out to single points
Where it’s quiet and still
At the end of the trip
The world stops

And I can stare at the wood and stone
And the objects of place take on their own life
Nothing’s really so different at the end of the voyage
It’s all an extension of my thought
All the differences disappear
And a quiet calm floats me in the air