Day and Night Father stood up and said: “Give me what’s mine I’ll occupy Wall St and put up a fight Because the economy’s forsaken me most of my life So I’ll camp through the day and the night” And mother stood up and said: “My son shouldn’t die I’ll occupy Wall St...
Take a Stand Tell me if you look around Tell me how this shit goes down Tell me when you’ve had enough Tell me why you don’t man up and Take a stand Take a stand Take a stand Take a stand Take a stand My boy’s locked up again Three strikes he never had a chance to win...
The King of Carmine Of woman born when Caesar died When clowns would dare to crucify their king From King’s quarters this I write News the latest regicide will bring So bring me fortune bring me fame And I will bring to you their names in verse Versions known and...
Interrogation Now sleeps he With insurgency Who, yesterday, denied him thrice. Soften him up. Now sleeps he With insurgency Who, yesterday, denied him thrice. Pause. Wait for the detainee to catch his breath. Continue. Did you deny them? Yes. Thrice? Yes. Soften him...
Living Lies We are the stories we tell ourselves Pray tell what you’ve been telling Heavenly or helling Fuel for your thoughts What do you consume to say What you are you are...
Freedom to be Peaceful Who foresees the future Poet or the king? Has the crown been wearing down Do lyrics give us wings? Will we go from town to town Sharing many things? The freedom to be peaceful The peace that freedom...
Language speak to me in language i would love to understand put a bullet in your mouth and put a gun into your hand and then you spit that bullet out while you pretend to be a man i would love to understand you boy to love and...
Long Walk (chorus) And we take a long walk On the ground Heaven never saved us Next time around Maybe we can fly on our own But for now Maybe we belong on the ground And you say you hate me And we kiss And you’re saying maybe I would be missed And you say I ask too...
straws and fire Learned in motion she made music with his flesh. The man sat on his paws, glistening with applause, as all the stars bore witness in darkened galleries. As when a point turns lazily in a spoon, nudging out between bubbles, lust, for an instant, in the...
Firewood Break like a woman ‘cross the Corner of my bed Feel like a poor boy should I Got a sack of firewood The evening’s turning red And if you can’t forgive Everything I’ve done Shake like a tambourine and Just let your metal scream I’ll play the sorry...
Ireland’s Smile Her eyes were as green as the hills above Kerry She barely was more than a child Give to you a smile and ask you to marry Her hair in the wind blowing wild (chorus) Point me to my beer Point me to the prettiest girl here Give me a song full of...
Stark Raving Maddie He’s a rowdy rotten laddie They call stark ravin’ Maddie The last time that I saw him He was rollin’ away in a paddy wagon They arrested him outside the pub For bein’ an alcoholic Beat him in the head with a billy club...
She Said She Was Seventeen I took her down by the river She said she was seventeen But she was already married Nebraska Halloween My costume was horrible I thought she would say no I wore an igloo made of bubble wrap A naked Eskimo I behaved like what I am A true born...
High School My intuition is to hate the institution of the school I feel that savagely they rape the innocent who come as fools The young are forced, they have no choice they’re made to come and fit the mold They are coerced to lose their voice and shown the proper...
Three Songs This song was written Girl that I met on the beach She was bitten Venom it reached to the soles of her feets She couldn’t complete the walk home Had to live on the beach Built her a lean-to made out of drift wood But I didn’t mean to Stay there so long It...
Fable of the Mermaid and the Drunks I was drinking gin when she came in And she was naked It was close to closing time and outside It was raining They began to spit at her All the drunks in town She came from the river She didn’t know her way around She was a mermaid...
San Francisco Tell me what happens when a girl’s eyes fill With the lights of the city from the top of a hill And the stars all conspire to come out tonight The moon burning bright- Like a funeral pyre Young and stupid and like a disease Tongue in your throat and your...
How Much Does a Man? How much does a man live after all? Does he live 1000 years or only one? For a week or several centuries How long is death supposed to be? What does it mean to say it’s done? I went to town for answers To questions that were lost I waited for the...
God is a middle class family God is a middle class family With the internet for neighbors and international trade As a game of king of the hill They’re thinking ’bout solar panels If they can get a tax credit And recoup the up front investment costs Okay,...
Caterpillar Friend A caterpillar gently sits Asleep, atop my upper lip And when my lips they start to move The caterpillar starts to groove When stinky cheese comes into sight He twitches left, he twitches right But when I feed him chocolate chips He grows to show how...
Whiskey Woman Whiskey woman You do me wrong Whiskey woman Don’t be so strong Whiskey woman Don’t be kind Whiskey woman You’re burnin’ my mind my mind my mind Won’t tell you no lies I’ll love you one night at a time Got your house By yourself You don’t need any Body’s...
The Song Wants to be Light The song wants to be light In the darkness he will try to hold The moon inside his melody The light doesn’t know what she wants to be She just finds her limit Like the water that she rides And returns the way she came up the shore and back...
College Minds, warded by our feeble State, Schwarzeniggardly allowed repast Briefly; quicken now that mental ga(i)t(e)! Interests compound morsels of the past. Ah, Seraphim! Ah, Muse! Where is my Raid?! Gnats thick in the brick layered smog. Ivory Tower? Ivory...
Me an’ Collette (chorus) Me an’ Collette and the Captain make three Taking our shots as we’re laughing Screamin’ out Me and Collette and the Captain make three Singing I’m going to live by the sea Me an’ Collette we do what we can She...
I Like Americans I like Americans They are so unlike the rest of the world They do not take their politicians seriously They go abroad to drink Not to criticize They claim that they are winning the war But they know at heart that they aren’t They have such respect for...
Fucking Patriots the fucking news is fucking bold it fucking does as fucking told the fucking shows are fucking shit with fucking guns and fucking tits for fucking moms and fucking dads for fucking kids it’s fucking rad and no one questions fucking shit everyone’s a...
Proud to be an American Couch Owner If tomorrow all the things were gone he’d worked for all his life And an Iraqi had to bury his children and his wife He’d curse his Arab stars to be livin’ there today ‘Cause his flag is still the wrong one and his...
Allah Akbar Now I’ve heard there was a sacred word That David kept, and it pleased the Lord But I don’t think that’s what they’re in Iraq for It goes like this The first great truth There is no other God but you The king of kings rejoicing...
Cadence of the Christian Soldier Please don’t draft me pastor I only turned 18 I know it’s war you’re after But they don’t bother me Find yourself contractors And kids who need the green Call me after college And I’ll run your company Got myself a woman She don’t wear...
God Help the Man (chorus) God help the man who has someone to blame President Bush and his sad man Hussein One got elected The other got hanged And three million ran from their homes American Rome Seven hundred bases to keep the world safe For BP, for Exxon, for Chase...
Monday Morning The Monday morning paper read: Another Soldier Dead The Monday morning paper cried For our side Pools of ink began to spread He couldn’t read what else was said He washed his hands and stepped into the sunshine His Monday morning neighbor bought A...
The Lady Soldiers with Foot Notes One lady soldier was a nymphomaniac and kept a blog. (1) One lady soldier’s husband was killed by an IED. (2) One lady soldier loved her commander, but was afraid of having a baby. When she finally got home, she found she couldn’t...
March 19th, 2003, NYC NY They say it’s over The need, now, is for justice, Not for militarism For humanity We must be full of grace, or on the way there, Civilization must lead to something, Morally instructive, dull, but stemming from universal rights Which mostly...
Cadence Somewhere in the Middle East A soldier swings his M16 Somewhere near the oil wells A soldier swings his way through hell Baking in the desert heat Sweats for you and sweats for me “Whenever the fight begins I will be the the first one in” Said the gunny to his...
To a Tragic American Oh he who with five millimeters hot the casing empty after firing inhaled the shock the awe uninspiring Who over summer tried to sneak into the shade Of that undistant country where reside so few of yours, so many from our side. Is there ever...
Go Granpa was a pilot While Hitler did his thing Grandpa went and buzzed a base They took away his wings Dulles was a double agent Made himself a king The CIA was always in the wings The CIA was always in the wings Dad’s an epileptic Or else he would have gone Dad...
Our Museums Empty Their Beauty About suffering they were never wrong, The Old Prophets; how well they understood mashi’at Allah; how it takes the form of fear and hunger and loss and poverty and lives and crops; How, wherever Arabs passionately await the miracle of...
Flag Man Fun (chorus) Ain’t no runnin’ from the flag man fun Either in with a penny or you’re in with a gun Flag man catcha even if ya try ta run Either tag ya with a penny Or he’ll tag ya with a gun uh huh uh huh uh huh Went down yonder to the wishin’ hole ‘n’ Lookin...
White Lip Widows Out of white lips a soldier answers “Thank you for the medal Wish that I could win another but I’ve nothing left to live for” Out of white lips a soldier answers “Thank you for my freedom Wish that I could take my brothers, soon enough I’ll see them”...
Walkin’ I like to walk Whenever I can really Around the city you know The promenade Oh my God You give me a soft girl in a sun dress On a warm summer’s night Santa Monica kills me I’m walkin’ by this one bar They got Karaoke And I’m thirsty So I go in She’s...
