1. YOUNG LAMB
2. TAKE US NOW
3. A LASTING THOUGHT FOR A DYING CELL
4. NO LUNCH
YOUNG LAMB
I saw a young lamb playing with his executioner
Did the lamb know what was to come
Did it matter as the two played so freely
TAKE US NOW
On a course set by ancestral
skulls
and wallowers,
we traced along her desert curbs
till every man that ever walked these plains
was a subject to its loss and gains.
No time is truly ours
but I tell you it’s never up.
And who in the isle of Elijah
could ever call our bluff?
You can wish and wish
but you need only accept what is.
And as time pushes on
the band will play your song.
I’ll show you the sights that could
bloat the eyes of a suffering Christ
and all the evils that ever constricted
hearts of good men
who dared to search the reaches
of the imagination.
If you’d humble your self to know
you will never return
So we danced with the brothers
of the fallen creed
till our feet were singed
and weighed to their afflictions
and we cried” There is no synchronization here-
take us now”
You can hear the tales
of the ones that failed
f you back our trails
to the nearest watering holes
where they sit with their sons
and talk of what they could have done,
what they would have known
and how we must and will push on.
Take us now.
I remember counting on you
to count on me
when I never did.
You live the earth like cows in pasture,
obey your hunger like dog to master.
Waiting and wondering
about an alternative
that never was.
Who needs a cause?
Live and live and die and learn.
But for what?
The past did clash but it’s no surprise-
nothing was sacred; all was compromise.
Looking for someone to understand you:
what a poor excuse to be renewed.
I remember looking for you.
I remember staring at times
when minds were kind
and flesh was blind
to symbolic hate
we’ve mistaken for faith
and taken to our graves
so neatly tucked away.
But that’s not how it died.
Waiting for you
to bring it flowers…
I remember counting on you.
