Got a hole down in my soul,
Scared to look, don’t know how far down it really goes.
When I fall in, won’t bother me,
I figure there’s nothing there I haven’t seen
Paradise lies over the hills
among the cactus and carousels
Buddha sat under a banyan tree
Saw a lotus and heard a symphony
a bit too peaceful for you and me.
Nirvana sits in unusual places

It only exists in time we’ve never tasted
Sitting blind in a lemon tree
Tasting fruit bitter as the sea
Knocking us down, pounding the sand
Laihana’s grace saves mortal man
we all seek a path
over the mountain or from the past
Hercules held up today
Tomorrow comes regardless of yesterday.

Never was a ranger, Never lived to mine
Lived my childhood
Loved those who were mine
Leo took my money
MCA gave it back
Never thought loving Woody would take me to the places I’ve been
Never thought seventh Ave East would hold lessons for the world
Never thought my tough old town would say shit about me
They’ve got along fine without me
rolling stones gather moss on the range
Childhood is trapped in time
Christmas pageants speak in rhymes
Hockey still makes heroes
Misfits and talent seek bigger stages
While the hills, holes, and pellets of rangers
Throw steel into the heart of Detroit’s muscle

Fire burning to the source
Heart loathing
The encounter
With the shadows of my mind as they proclaim their presence
Accumulated karma crying
For release
Every nerve a wire
Lovely
What about the garbage?
I can’t free them all
If I can’t free me
Corruption floating on the breeze.

Every day I pray, and pray
To see the light and find a way
I catch a glimpse, I feel the power
She gets up and all my spirit drains away
I talk of hope I talk of possibility
All I hear is wrath and hostility
How long can I stay, how long can I maintain?
An illusion that just never was?
Love is a fire a burning flame that fires your heart with everything
You ever thought you would want or need
Love never dies it’s eternal it can’t despise, deny or lie
Our hearts like situations change as emotions assail our brain
Changing as the words like spears nail us through the heart.
I know it’s hopeless I know it sucks I know life is completely just
as I reel from the Karma I’ve created
Done

She harangued me again a leash extended through my mind no better than one around my throat.
I cannot leave she has her needs she would be completely incompetent or would she?
My path is clear I see it there in the haze of possibility
The emotions flow I cannot know I cannot choose my life is always dichotomy
Split between light and black now and then projections and reality
I function fine between the lines I know the rules
Emotions are my liability and trinity
Driving me forward progressing growing seeing
Piercing the veil for a moment
Only to fall back to reality
Is the leash hers or mine?