Tangerine

TANGERINE

EMBRACE

Seagulls on the horizon

red sun rising

caught alone

dreaming

calling your name

Green eyes where have you gone

so lost and alone

green eyes

have you gone to Dhanari or Dublin

Seagulls on the horizon

black clouds

Gray storm's coming

caught alone

dreaming

need your sweet touch

miss your embrace

tears falling

as rain prays for you to come to me

I know you will be home

I will find you

with angels on the banks of Kilgarney

Seagulls on the horizon
midnight moon falling
caught alone crying in
quiet embers of your embrace

BLACK CROW

Barren tree branches clothed in winter snow
dead leaves dancing in arms of
lost souls with no name

cold winds caressing the watcher of lost souls
his eyes black as endless night
wings old and broken

days go by
black crow just sits and waits
watches days go away

one man alone
kneeling
praying in the garden of stones
one black crow
just sitting and watching
the stealer of souls
one man waiting
watching for the end of life

Broken branches
dead men dancing at the end of the world
wings broken /
 souls drifting cold winds of summer's end

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GHOST DANCER

shadows moving along the wall
Candle flame burning deep sorrow
as she dances slow and alone

other lives are falling
but
she keeps dancing
coming closer to my life
or
I closer to her dying

she's a rose so gentle
jasmine
sweet mourning love

as I watch her weep for sins 
all have done
Candle flame is burning
shadows dance closer to my dreams
she moves slow and alone
down by the river
soft
as white as mountain snow
a ghostly dancer mourning forgiveness
forgiving the mourning
she will never see again

Barren tree branches
dead leaves
waiting for shadows to forget

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WINDS OF SORROW

in these dangerous times
when will you know
when will you forget tomorrow
in winds of sorrow

some Saturday 
you will think it's Tuesday
some Saturday
you might come to see me 
In thinking it Thursday

easy to forget where you been
harder to remember you will go
In thinking it be
Saturday again in winds of sorrow

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ASH AND BLOOD

waiting up all night wanting to die
didn't ask much to live
don't expect much more to go away
setting footsteps to railway tracks
closing my eyes
waiting
waiting for the rumble of metal storms
just get the day over
stop tearing me this way and that
no more shelter from the rain
no loneliness
no rooms to live alone in again
don't want to be this way no more
no ashes and blood
no truth if lies
don't want to believe in anything again

waiting up all night
wanting to die
what a life I have lived
don't want no tears
no more being stranded
beware
signs of falling debris
no more shelter from the rain
no loneliness
just give me one day
one day
of
Ashes and Blood

closing my eyes
don't
no more than just
going away
no more than
just
the pleasure of 
not going away insane
in passages
of
leaving
don't ask for much more than
just going away silently
unknown
even to my own mind

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TEAR WALKER

So hard to reside
automatic gun
pictures of Saigon
dirt roads to nowhere
bridges broken and falling
written confessions
damaged laws
death certificates that lie
living with tear walking devils
bound to be burned done
pprosecuted to isolation
starved by being down
walking tears
wanting to drown

so hard to reside
walking dirt roads to nowhere
damaged by law
can't be this way
damaged
can't live this way
bound to be burned down
can't be this way

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SANCTUARY

Shenyuang
Mai Lai
Tiennan

take me away from violent days

Steven Bieko
Nelson Mandela
John F. Kennedy

someone please take me away from
this violent world

I pray every way every day
take me away
find me sanctuary far away from the madness
someone tell me
why do I have to stay where I don't belong

children of violence
dead children of Ireland
old ones sacrificed in Soweto

why
tell me why when you cry
there is nowhere to run
no escape
no sanctuary

revolution
exile
expatriotism of fallen sons
brothers dying

someone
some one tell me
someone must know
is there somewhere to go away from here

Sanctuary

Sanctuary

is there nowhere to go

sanctuary

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GREEN EYES

Distant shallow voices drifting
in Autumn smoke
soft rain falling
fever burning away the night
I try to remember when
when
we were together whispering
scaring away fear
when
you held me close
timid fingers touching my face
telling me
everything will be alright
everything will be alright
 just holding me tight
preying she would hear my voice
never leave me

I still see her green eyes
fell fever burning in the night
warm rain falling
tears forgiving my soul
telling me
everything will be alright
I promise
everything will be alright

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TANGERINE ANGEL

so far away from what I know
so close to being nothing
within
 this insane land
incarcerated to keep me away
from the seventh floor
fools messing with my mind
desauding corruption
but
They can't fool illusions 
of
an insane mind

so far away from what I know
living on the sixth floor
Chains on the door

still see her green eyes
burning in the night
forgiving what my soul will do
to run away from sanity

timid fingers touching my face
in drugged out sleep drawing out posion
tears sanctifying death

oh god

Where is sanctuary

Who will save my soul
but
the seven seconds I stay away
in bthr distance 
of 
her green eyes
in
the whispers of her name
as I step over the edge
where she said she will be waiting

thinking I might be crazy
for going away
escaping
with someone like her
someone
like her
with a name no child is ever given

the look in her eyes tell Mr
nothing ever had to be that way
if I don't want it to be

Green Eyes and the warmth of her visions
make it OK
that she must be crazier than me
living a lifetime
in
a distant name someone once called her

~ Tangerine ~

Tangerine setting fire to my mind
because
She knows me
Because
she understands why
we always dance in the silence of rains
walk by the river
with the understanding that we will 
Will never know why