Darkness and Light

There was a suicide in Prescott today
Bob kissed his wife and went on his way
To breakfast with friends like he always did
They ate and chatted and shot the shit

He said he wanted to walk to the house
I’ll go through the woods as quiet as a mouse
Tell Charlotte that I’ll be there very soon
I’m not going far I’ll be home by noon

Dave was a very good friend of Bob’s
He took Bob’s car and would speak to Charlotte
Dave nor Charlotte nor anyone else
Could feel Bob’s pain or his need to get out

Don’t ask me why or if he was sick
Don’t tell it’s wrong or drag Jesus into this
Your life is yours to live as you will
You can use a gun or just take a pill

Bob walked out into the parking lot
He slid his hand into his jacket pocket
And rested his fingers on the cold black Glock
Was he mad or crazy or just out of luck

The metal was cold, but the sun shone warm
He squinted his eyes and felt the storm
Inside his heart and inside his brain
We are witnesses to the death of Bob’s pain

He pulled the gun and put it under his chin
A lady screamed in a car next to him
He looked straight up and said goodbye
He pulled the trigger and floated into the sky!

Occam has a razor
I think it’s a knife
It cuts our reality
It changes our life
If the Earth was done
Would Occam assist
And slice up and down
And not across her wrists

Everyone would cry
And say she’s gone too soon
They might even wonder
If she spoke with the Moon
Did the Moon try to help
You know comfort the Earth
And tell her she is beautiful
With an enormous amount of worth

Mars saw it coming
Mercury saw it too
Venus sent some love
Saturn sent some too
The Earth was o so sick
She was so very ill
Some people tried to help her
But no one had the skill

I am burning
With fires so hot
I am poisoned
By the toxins that you drop
I am drowning
As my oceans they rise
I am dying
And no one hears my cries

She said to Occam
I just can’t go on
She told him how
She felt all alone
She begged for his help
Just to please end her pain
And at that very moment
Her skies began to rain

Yes I will help you
O my mother Earth
No more pain
And no more hurt
As Occam he took his razor
And did what only he could do
The rain it slowly stopped 
And the Sun rose anew.

I hope I remember your beautiful face
I hope I remember your love and your grace
I hope I remember the loved that we shared
I hope I remember the way that we cared

It’s not me living in this body anymore
My mind has gone like food from a store

I hope I remember the curve of your hips
I hope I remember the smile on your lips
I hope I remember your beautiful green eyes
I hope I remember the sound of your sighs

It’s not me living in this body anymore
My mind has gone like food from a store

I hope I remember the names of our kids
I hope I remember the place that I live
I hope I remember my name and my age
And not wander about like some lost homeless sage

It’s not me living in this body anymore
My mind has gone like food from a store

My mind is clear but won’t always be
I’ll still be here but it’s not really me
So put me somewhere safe and move on along
Because I’m not here and there are no more songs

It’s not me living in this body anymore
My mind has gone like food from a store

I hope I remember your beautiful face

Our vessel floats over the trestle wherein the truth is nestled
When history evolved a riddle there can be no middle
What Alice saw through the glass was just Carroll's myths alas
So, all ill feelings must come to pass if we are to be the ones who can last

A pipe became the hype cause the fluid in it was tripe
The glass reveals a half full past when aspirations fall into the crevasse
A hare’s hutch has parity but only if our goal is charity
Greed was the grift as the endless term limits shift

Politicians all breaking the law
You know the ones they swore to uphold
Through the glass, this is what Alice saw
Politicians all breaking the law

Fake is the rake that the politicians take
Yet history is ours to make while our ship avoids the hate
It has become the goal to avoid a heavy toll
As the conduit of change is now within our range

Politicians all breaking the law
You know the ones they swore to uphold
Through the glass, this is what Alice saw
Politicians all breaking the law

Please go and leave us alone
While you atone for your hearts of stone
Goodness only comes when we move on
From those politicians who are selfish and numb

Politicians all breaking the law
You know the ones they swore to uphold
Through the glass, this is what Alice saw
Politicians all breaking the law

Don’t talk to me about life 
Until you’ve held a dead baby in your arms
And gazed upon her small lifeless body
And wondered what went wrong

A tiny hole in her heart
Or so it was they say
A massive crater in her mother
For now and everyday

She looked to be asleep 
And surely soon would awake
Exquisitely small and beautiful
All dressed in flowers and lace

Don’t talk to me about life 
Until you’ve held a dead baby in your arms
And heard the screams and mournful cries
Of a mother who can’t go on

Don’t dare to speak of god’s will
Or how she is in his arms
For this gives no comfort
To one who has lost it all

I held that child close to my heart
And begged for a way to make hers start
Share my lifeforce o little one
And let it make you whole again

As my tears fell upon her face
I slowly wiped them away
And felt that I had somehow failed
To bring comfort on this day

Don’t talk to me about life 
Until you’ve held a dead baby in your arms
And swore you’d bargain with the devil
For that elusive life-giving charm

This was o so long ago 
But she’s never far away
I can still close my eyes
And see her face to this day

I’ll hold this little one forever
Inside my heart and mind
It’s something that I’ll never forget
As I journey through space and time

If I was a pirate I’d sail upon your sea
Through your straits and calm waters to where your love will be
Past your islands and your reefs into your open sea
Into your deep fathoms where you’ll be waiting for me.

My treasure map will show me the way and shows me what to see
The X marks the spot where I know your love will be
My ship will follow the stars through your water so blue
Straight to your heart where I feel your love so true.

I drop my anchor as I arrive at the X
I feel your love as I stand upon my deck
I have found your treasure and am as rich as a king
I swim in your love as it washes over me.

There is no return trip from this voyage I am on
Why would I leave heaven to return to my world
I scuttle my ship and dive into your waters
I swim down to your heart where nothing else matters.

I drop my anchor as I arrive at the X
I feel your love as I stand upon my deck
I have found your treasure and am as rich as a king
I swim in your love as it washes over me.

My love is fluid as the water that surrounds me
It ebbs and it flows it know just where to be
Our oceans are one as we have always been shown
Engulfing each other til there are no borders known.

I drop my anchor as I arrive at the X
I feel your love as I stand upon my deck
I have found your treasure and am as rich as a king
I swim in your love as it washes over me.

You know I will always be around
To pick you up when you are down
My feelings for you I can’t define
Put your heart up next to mine

When you feel you need a friend
I’m there to lift you up again
You can catch me anytime
Put your heart up next to mine

Embrace me my beautiful friend
Let’s share a great big hug
Our spirits will play together
I have nothing for you but love
Embrace me my beautiful friend
Let’s share a great big hug
Our spirits will play together
I have nothing for you but love


My love for you it never weakens
I love you in all four seasons
Our time together is divine
Put your heart up next to mine

If the sky is falling down on you
There’s nothing in the world that I wouldn’t do
Remove your fears, make sure you’re fine
Put your heart up next to mine.

Embrace me my beautiful friend
Let’s share a great big hug
Our spirits will play together
I have nothing for you but love
Embrace me my beautiful friend
Let’s share a great big hug
Our spirits will play together
I have nothing for you but love

Be yourself, not someone else
You are perfect as you are
The inner light makes you shine
Put your heart up next to mine.

They were perfect with a love so strong
Then the two became one just like a beautiful love song
They grew and lived they aged and learned
They loved and they laughed but one day it all turned

He could not remember he started to forget
It started very slowly but soon all his memories left
He forgot his age he forgot his friends
He forgot his past he forgot where he lived

And then one day the worst one in his life
Forgot the most precious thing forgot she was his wife
Her heart was broken but she pushed on
She cared for him she tried to be strong

For both of them she kept the love
She always smiled she always hugged
He did not know her but he felt her gift
And then one day the fog began to lift

He looked into her eyes and he took her hand
He then said something only she could understand
I know I am different than I was long ago
But there is something about you that I really must know

Will you be mine and please marry me
It is the only thing I want it is what I need to see
I feel like I know you but then I don’t
The hole inside my mind can only be filled by your heart

She married him the next day and took away his fears
In fact, she married him every week for the next ten years
She was and still is, his two time wife
She saved his life not once, she saved it twice

When your heart is broken and can go no further
Your engine is blown you feel like young Werther
You know who to call I’ll be there in a hurry
I’m the tow truck of love there’s no need to worry

I can pull you from the ditch so full of pain
Get you rolling down love’s highway once again
If your love is flat and unable to roll
I’m there with a spare there will be no toll

I’m the Tow Truck of love come take a ride with me
24/7 service to clean up love’s debris
I’m the Tow Truck of love come take a ride with me
24/7 service to clean up love’s debris

You were in a crash your airbags deployed
Hit by a careless driver left on the side of the road
They might have thought you dead or just didn’t care
But I’m on my way with no time to spare

I’m the Tow Truck of love come take a ride with me
24/7 service to clean up love’s debris
I’m the Tow Truck of love come take a ride with me
24/7 service to clean up love’s debris

I’ve got a big old truck with a big ass wench
Just right for getting broken hearts out of the ditch
I’ll hook up my steel cable to your tiny little frame
And pull you from the ditch and get you on love’s highway again.

I’m the Tow Truck of love come take a ride with me
24/7 service to clean up love’s debris
I’m the Tow Truck of love come take a ride with me
24/7 service to clean up love’s debris

A thunderous heard chases me out of town
And I scream down the road on Route 1 Eastbound
I took their money and I had their women
Now they want my head but I intend on living

Poker is my game and I know how to win
I always play for blood be it mine or his
Lady Luck’s a whore but you can rent her for a dime
With her on your arm these cards will play just fine

What am I going to do
How will I get away
What am I going to do
Don’t want to die today

I do love the ladies that’s always been true
Old ones, married ones, girls in shiny black shoes
Ones wearing business suits and the maids who do the chores
Now their girls are women and their wives are whores

More money yes and definitely more sex
Greed is a demon and he’s not satisfied yet
I could have had just a little but I wanted one more
He screamed he was going to kill me as I hit the backdoor

What am I going to do
How will I get away
What am I going to do
Don’t want to die today

Come on baby gotta go much faster
They are still in my mirrors and it’s me they’re after
Route 1 is my last chance to get out and head down
Somewhere south of the border out of this town

I crest the hill doing a hundred and five
They’re still on my ass but I’m still alive
That road block ahead you know it can’t stop me
I drop her into low so I can pick up some speed

What am I going to do
How will I get away
What am I going to do
Don’t want to die today

Everything slows down when you’re moving that fast
The trees are a blur as I rocket on past
Ending this way is definitely not what I want
But we all knew it would happen, isn’t that the point?

What am I going to do
How will I get away
What am I going to do
Don’t want to die today
What am I going to do
How will I get away
What am I going to do
Don’t want to die today