WAILING WALL

 

That day we saw the wailing wall come tumbling down

Splintered marble, heavy clouds of dust

Sweeping through the shopping slums, a fall-out of lament

Stained the Stations of the Cross

 

That night we heard the motorcade come rumbling through

Opened our sleepy eyes

Hanging out the open window, I touched you from behind

In the flickering of flashing lights

 

Let go of me for I can’t take it anymore

This blinking love is but a weaponless war

 

The day the wall came crashing down

Was the day our love turned sore

The rubble hit us hard and brought us to the ground

Then things were lighter than before

 

Your heart and body have been all over the place 

Fashion your dress and get that grin off you face

 

I came to reason with you

Stop, listen, talk, like the living do

I came to reason with you

But you’re letting me down

The wailing wall came tumbling down

 

 

ORPHANED SERENADE

 

Where does the love go

that was spilled on summer nights

Where does the wasted love

wander today?

 

Disturbing the airwaves

To be heard somehow

I loved you then

Like I love you now

 

Where do the melodies go

of homeless songs of love

Where do the serenades

flow unutilized?

 

Hustling in alleys

To be found time and again

I love you now

Like I loved you then

 

Where do the angels roam

no longer flying high

Where do discarded angels

wander around?

 

Hidden like secrets

In grey suburban towns

I loved you then

Like I love you now

 

Orphaned serenades

Dragging through the airwaves

 

Where does the love go

that was spilled on summer nights

Where does the wasted love

wander today?

 

Enlivening worn out dreams

To never see the day again

I love you now

Like I loved you then

 

 

SAVIOUR ON A TRAIN

 

The departed

Meet me as I close my eyes

leave me as I ride way before dawn

Think of me, for I am just a dream away

The rider in the early morning sun

 

Cause I’m a train driver

I drive to pick you up in time

A train driver

This line’s oblivion-bound

I’m the train driver

Through the meadows in the morning light

The train driver

From over to underground

 

The departing

Look up, see me in the eyes

Only for a second to approve

I’m the chosen one to save them from their painful lives

I’m the stranger coming to the rescue

 

A train driver

Across the globe and through the night

Through the mist and through the rain

Across the river Styx I glide

A train driver

A saviour on a train

 

I’m a train driver

Rolling to where ever you may roam

I’m a train driver

I ride to bring the burnt-out singer home

 

The departed

Look up, see me in the eyes

Fearless they are captured in the lights

I’m the engineer, the chosen executioner

I’m the reaper at the end of night

 

A train driver

Across the globe, across the sky

Across the streets of faded fame

Across the river Styx I glide

A train driver

A saviour on a train

 

A train driver

Through suburban towns I ride

Through the woods, across the plains

Across the river Styx I glide

A train driver

A saviour on a train

 

 

SEASCAPE

 

On a summer’s day

Young boy running from the foaming waves

Speaking in tongues like a meaningless prayer

And waits… on a summer’s day

 

Sea of emptiness

Drowner in the distance fighting for his breath

Gasping for the meaning of his coming death

He rests…sees the emptiness

 

And in the fading light

Burning like a curse in the brittle mind

Picking up the soul of the drowning Christ

Inside…he sees the fading light

 

In the morning cold

Young boy carrying the stolen soul

Running from the waves as the future unfolds

Behold…in the morning cold

 

 

HOLD ON TO A SCREAM

 

Rats swarm through the harbour in an ominous sailor’s song

A million displaced words…to be undone

Ships bring inconveniences, way from overseas

A million displaced words…to deceive

 

The singer ignites so self-satisfied

Hold on to a scream full of dark desires

 

Watch it from your window through the stains of nicotine

A million displaced words…still to clean

Hold on to your loved ones even though their blood turned black

A million displaced words…remain intact

 

The actor holds his head and idly cries

Hold on to a scream full of dark desires

 

The mouth that moves, the taming of the fire

Predictions come in dreams

The howling of the wolf child civilized

A wordless litany

In his funeral shoes, the noble savage cries

Oh, mother of three

The night bird cawed and another year got by

Just hold on to a scream

Hold on 

 

 

CITY PARK MURDERS

 

Dark Hearts meet in the heart of the city park

Dog bites dog and the owners growl and bark

Ice-cream for a wandering child

Children for the Satanic rite

Feasting in the heart of the city park by night

 

Strangers take each other timidly

Robbers sharpen their knifes behind the trees

The lovers entwined in the pines

Didn’t see it coming from behind

How dark hearts meet in the heart of the city park

 

Dealers deal lime tablets in the city park

Fascist runes tattooed on their heads and arms

Two young boys freak out on LSD

Forever they will roam and be

Part of the lost souls trapped in the city park

 

Last gasp of the drowner in the city lake

The water farts and the hero’s always late

The murder remains unsolved

But the cats in the branches saw it all

How dark hearts met in the heart of the city park

 

 

MEANDER

 

Meander

Through the crooked city streets

Follow them as you please

I’ll find you in time

 

Meander

Loud and indiscreet

You the one-eyed urban queen

Who struck me blind

 

Catch the rain

And be a man about it

Catch the rain

Soaked but never mind

 

Meander

Conspire by the tracks

Milligrams of happiness

Going to your head

 

Meander

Elevate and drift about

Lose your way from cloud to cloud

Embrace the emptiness

 

Catch the rain

And be a man about it

Catch the rain

All the lovers in your life…meander

 

Careless in your wanton state

Your red curls dancing in ‘round face

But what we feel we hide away

Like starfish run ashore

Then smoke came curling from the tower room

The watchman to be knocked out soon

Oh, how your perfect body loomed

The drunken violin attuned

 

Meander

All through your fickle life

You’ve changed, but so have I

So, won’t you come inside

 

Catch the rain

And be a man about it

Catch the rain

Soaked but never mind

 

 

CAT SNAKE CRAWL

 

When I was your cat snake

When I was your pet snake

 

When I was curled up on your lap

you fed me microwaved rats

 

Luring at your body from my den in shadows

Shooting my venom when lovers came to close

 

It was when I was your cat snake

It was when I was your pet snake

 

The moon was obscured for seven nights

Distempered spirits blew the flames up high

My poor mother cried: ‘Lord the tarot cards were right’

And I was born a cat snake

I was born a pet snake

 

When I was a cold case

When I was an unsolved case

 

Anonymous soldier heaped up in a train

SS cannon fodder traverse the Russian plains

 

An erotic frenzy of men without names

Body to body, Mauser to carcase

Ignorant and chanceless

When the bombers came

 

As sure as Varg will kill again

And brave Vikings became missionary men

I came from the valley, not from the mountain

When the future seemed lost, I turned back and ran

 

I was born a cat snake

I was born a pet snake