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confessions of a headless man

by Eo Ipso

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down 03:42
Once there was a young man With trouble in his heart And wrath in his hands So he took up a sword And he went down There he found a dragon red With fire in its mouth And horns on its head So he raised up his sword And smote that beast down That wasn't all, he was still filled with rage So he climbed the white mountain Encountered the sage & they fought in the wind And he threw that sage down ... Then the young man threw his sword away And came into town On a midsummer day And his heart found a lass And so he knelt down He took that maiden by the hand And ask if she would make him a man And she looked in his eyes And she took him down ... Years went by & he awoke With his bride by his side And a word in his throat And before he could speak it His death took him down Through the wide world The old man fell Until at last he came to a well And in it was his life And so he bent down The man, he tasted every moment he lived And for every mistake He asked God to forgive And then his eyes filled with light And he no more went down
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sain't 03:25
The high road is filled with dark angels If they make you fall will you land on your feet? The devil he loves his religion Cause after all the worst poison's most sweet And which of us is more filled with sin And needs more savin'? The thief prays that he'll be successful As he creeps through that darkened door The rich man he prays for protection But all the while his heart's set on more And which of them is more sincere And who does God hear? Loose women don't want no answers All they're after's a roll in the hay Alike the virgin who wants some attention And'll do anything to get her way And which of their heart is more pure? I can't be too sure If shame is a stab at redemption Then guilt is preemptive judgement I'd rather be wide-eyed than shameless I'll take my excess, regardless of regret Cause in the end without gravitas I'd surely be lost It's one thing to judge a man's actions And another to see why they're done Who among us has got true intention More often we're the bullet than the gun And when we're called before that white throne Which heaven will we call our home?
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I refuse 04:39
at the end, of the tracks of the train, that I wrecked in the life, before the life before the life, in which we met body parts, severed limbs contradicted the children that we watched, for a spell on a lawn beneath a bell & I've known guilt, I've earned shame but the fact that remains is that I've live to see these wound healed upon my flesh and maybe I've paid my debts but I refuse, to rescind all the word, that I spent in the depths of intoxiquence and desperation and if you close the blinds and leave to lie, the painful sigh you sighed while I crouched in my heavy corner a world away from your birthing bed and what was it the little girl said...? before he father died while I sat upon the short blue slide immersed in pain, from a broken heart without end or seeming start as she ran past, and I asked: "What to do with this sadness?" & she said: "Benjamin all you have to do is feel the pain, until it goes away." but I refuse, to undo all the choices and abuse made upon a time while misinformed or else living a willful lie I've been unmade, laid to waste barely livin' day to day but I was rebuilt by washing hands and tying shoes and repeating myself a thousand times: please don't scream & stand in line and for that while you were to my side ...(verse missing)... and I refuse, to amend the furtive looks, flirtatious texts with "Please forgive"s and "Nevermind"s for not being yours, wishin' you were mine may friendship rule the distant ships that cross the seas that contradict actualities of human life only so much love, only so much time so sister be my maiden fair I'll tech support, critique your hair and someday, where the spirits mingle I'll save you a seat at the funnest craft table where we'll be served snack by worryless angels uncrossing stars so far as we're able
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elementvm 04:13

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A collection of informal recordings of my poetic songs.

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released May 27, 1979

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