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Friday night with the elephant man:
Freak just wants to have fun.
Says, “I don’t know when the pain will end,
But I guess I’m not the only one.”
Friday night with the desperate man:
Can’t turn his face up to the sun.
Says, “I don’t know what the end will bring,
But I’ll lie back now and let it be done.”
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No heav'nly scales to set things right
No final judge of awesome might
No realm above and none below
And yet you still reap what you sow
Don't look for shelter from the skies
Or put your faith in cleric lies
It's best to stick with what you know
That you will still reap what you sow
Ev'rybody pays a price
For ev'rything they do
Ev'rywhere they go
Ev'ryday
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What Have You
05:10
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You’ve got the house that looks like a magazine spread,
And the job that pays like crime.
You’ve got the grand ideas busting out of your head,
And the manner so sublime,
But you don’t have me.
You don’t have me.
You don’t have me.
You’ve got detailed plans to conquer the world,
And the will to make them real.
Much too impatient to watch grit turn to pearl,
So you’ll take what you can steal.
But you can’t take me,
You can’t take me,
You don’t have me.
Just for a moment you were tender and real,
And through your eyes, the light was true.
But you preferred to mock the way that you feel,
And concentrate on well-to-do.
It hardly matters now—it was so long ago—
You were young and anxious—what did you know.
And no one told you things just go how they go.
You tried to run your life like some dog and phony show.
But you couldn’t run me,
You can’t run me,
You don’t have me.
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Memoir
05:05
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“Utter lies,” she demanded.
Tell me what I want to hear.
Let the others be reprimanded.
Here you have nothing to fear.
I don’t want something as simple,
As to know what’s really real.
Just the beautiful story
That won’t complicate how I feel.
“It’s no use,” she explained,
“yearning for the thing that’s true.
We all see what we want to see,
And do what we want to do.
I once tried to discover
What there lies behind the veil.
But compared to the fiction,
the facts are awfully pale.
Compared to the fiction,
the facts are awfully pale.”
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Your Silence
02:45
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You answered my question, with silence,
Silence that fills the room we share.
It’s like a kind of soundless violence, your silence.
It poisons the air.
Cross the floor, out the door,
I’ll come back here no more.
For I cannot abide your silence,
The bitter truth it hides from me.
Turn away, not a word to say.
I can’t see any other way.
For although you sit inside your silence,
The bitter truth screams out to me.
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Under Water
04:20
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Come live with me in our underwater world
We'll watch the tides unfurl
We'll float and we'll hover
We'lll dissolve like the air
Come live with my out beyond the shore
Panic no more
We'll glide with the creatures
They won't notice we're there
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Home With You
03:32
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Let forces of misrule
Sweep away the day.
Let chaos and calamity
Go outside to play.
Let drama kings and drama queens
Court doubt and disarray.
I’ll stay at home with you.
Let the world outside
Do its screwed-up thing.
Let others seek comfort
In shopping sprees and lunch-hour flings.
I don’t need anything
But what the quiet hours bring
When I’m at home with you.
If there comes a time
When I think to fly
Just remind me of the
Long days gone by
The silent moments
The murmured sighs
When I’m at home with you.
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The Winter Sun
03:01
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The winter sun
blinds without warming
like the cold, hungry way
you look in my eyes
I am the one
comes loose from my moorings
I am lost in the glare of your
ecstatic lies
Oh how I dream of a love like high summer
So steady and strong and complete
But now I live
like a prisoner of empty thrills
Your glacial touch--my defeat
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Sleep
04:11
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I’m wide awake.
Thoughts billow like flame.
Night bleeds into day,
All hours the same.
Teach me to sleep.
Teach me to sleep.
Cradle me down
Into my deep.
The world spins out.
Dark echoes appear.
My skin won’t cool.
My mind won’t clear.
What keeps me pinned,
just lying here?
Teach me to sleep.
Teach me to sleep.
Cradle me down
Into my deep.
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Sandhya Baltimore, Maryland
"Caustic rock diva" says SPLICE TODAY. Um, thanks? Sandhya/Sandy Asirvatham is a thinker and award-winning creative nomad.
Always finding wit and joy in the darkness. Throwback to the all-around rock/pop artist. INNOCENT MONSTER hailed by Rolling Stone as a "soaring rock album" that "balances darkness and mirth."
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