Requiem

1) Canon

2) Reality

Reality
Is a bill to pay
Sitting in your bottom drawer
You’d hoped would go away
Reality
Never laughs or cries
Won’t listen to your arguments
Looks straight into your eyes
Reality
Is hiding in the cracks
Waiting to surprise you
It says now face the facts
Reality
Is someone else’s lie
Used to cover up their tracks
A clever alibi
Reality
Rains on your parade
Turns a spotlight on you
When you’re standing in the shade
Reality
Is cold light at dawn
When the party’s over
And the guests have gone
Reality
Is a contract that you sign
Agree to the conditions
On the bottom line
Reality
Is a total fake
Used to convince sleepwalkers
That they’re wide awake
Reality
Is different than it seems
It’s a ghost that sneaks away
We find inside our dreams
Reality
Makes you take a second look
Like finding your old picture
Hidden in a book
Reality
Is a perfect fit
Till the day you find out
It’s all been counterfeit
Reality
Is like a solid wall
Till you pass right through it
It isn’t real at all!

3) Talking During Dinner

The say the end is coming soon
And we’ll go up in smoke
And that will be the punchline
To the Cosmic Joke
They say it’s written in the stars
You can read our fate
And the constellations say
The hours getting late
Sometimes I think we’re chickens
Going peck peck peck
Till the farmer grabs ahold
And he breaks our neck
Meanwhile we’re
staring through the fence
As we run around
And we dream our chicken dreams
Think chicken thoughts profound
“Who you calling chicken!
I’m just the same as you
I’mnot afraid of anything
I’ve read the same books, too!”
You said I’d find a title
In your family background
And when you go to sleep at night
Your pillow’s filled with down…
Had wine during dinner
Just a few nights back
I think we were the lucky ones
When the wishbone cracked
We’re living in a henhouse
Filled with smiles and tears
We beat our wings while we dance
To the Music of the Spheres.

4) Signs of the Times

I watch a cloud drift out of sight
A madman’s screaming at a traffic light
An old TV ‘s laying in the street
A waltz is playing from a balcony
Six dead roses in the gutter
A baby smiles up at its mother
A helicopter flies around
A playing card lays on the ground

Another cloud goes drifting by
An old doll without an eye
A man is leaning on a wall
A boy drops his tennis ball
An ambulance goes speeding past
A street’s covered in broken glass
It’s not raining I hear thunder
It all makes me stop and wonder at the

Signs of the times

A dog is pulling at its leash
A plastic bag’s stuck in a tree
A car leaves an alley way
The park is closing for the day
A pigeon’s in a flower bed
A man is standing on his head
A blue bike without a chain
Another cloud rolls by again

Signs of the times

5) Strange World

It’s a strange world
You hear people say
Going on their way
To the cemetery
Strange world
Carrying our sacks
Up upon their backs
And we find out
They were empty

From time to time
A holiday
Or some electric shock
Ascend in a hot air balloon
Or buy a pair of socks

It’s a strange world
Polishing their claws
We wait for Santa Claus
With a guilty feeling

Just a smaller version
Like a knock-knock joke
While we sit around
And listen
To a song sung by a goat

Such a strange world
Get it while you can
Become the biggest fan
Spinning on the ceiling
Strange world
Such a strange world

6)Dance of Death

7) Let’s Be Miserable Together

Let’s be miserable together
Let’s complain about the weather
Criticize the status quo
Could be fun you never know
To be miserable together.

Let’s be miserable together
Time is passing, it’s now or never
Think of things that people lack
Make up mean, nasty wisecracks
And be miserable together

Things are going straight to hell
And lately I just don’t feel so well
So if all this rings a bell
Grab a chair and sit a spell and
Let’s be miserable together

Let’s be miserable together
Like two birds of a feather
Sometimes life seems like a curse
Things just go from bad to worse
Sometimes seems like a curse
Then you wind up in a hearse

Things are going straight to hell
And lately I just don’t feel so well
So if all this rings a bell
Grab a chair and sit a spell and
Let’s be miserable together

8) City of the Dead

Everybody’s living in the
City of the dead
Though they always start out for
Somewhere else instead

They come home tired one night
Lay down in their bed
Next day wake up yawning in the
City of the dead

It takes some getting used to
In the city of the dead
Just doing what gets done
Just saying what gets said

Suddenly an idea
Comes slowly to their head
That nothing really matters in the
City of the dead

City of the dead
City of the dead
Everybody’s living
In the city of the dead

City of the dead
City of the dead
But does it really matter
In the city of the dead?

Then everything is OK in the
City of the dead
They drink their bitter coffee
And eat their crust of bead

And say that’s love’s a dream
Like that life they’d led
Before they started living in the

City of the dead
City of the dead
Now they’re living
In the city of the dead

City of the dead
City of the dead
But nothing really matters
In the city of the dead

9) The Candle

The candle light is fading
It flickers as it dies
But I still see your silhouette
And the light there in your eyes
Now it’s a just a glow
That Flame that burned so bright
That even in this darkness
I feel bathed in light
All the love we shared
And all those things we felt
Will burn forever in my heart
Though this candle melts
This night was filled with passion
Our hearts burned with love
Now through the fading candle light
We see the stars above

10) Everybody

Everybody has a shadow
Laying on the ground
Everybody lost something
That cannot be found
Everybody saw it coming
Still they had to wait
Everybody should know better
But now it’s just too late

Everybody noticed something
That the other’s missed
Everybody closed their eyes
Then they made a wish
Everybody has said something
Later they regret
Everybody will remember
What they will forget

Everybody has a head
Sometimes we lose our mind
Everybody has a secret
Just like I have mine
Everybody has a letter
That they didn’t send
Everything with a beginning
Someday will have an end.

11) The Secret

It’s said life’s an illusion
And someday we wake up
Rising like sleepwalkers
And drink a bitter cup.

Suddenly we’ll the truth
A magical surprise
Reality was just a trick
Played upon our eyes

Was it just a puppet show?
Did you lose or win?
Perhaps you are a hero
With a medal made of tin.

Standing in the ruins
At the end of day
Shadows fall
On broken walls
As lie just slips away…

I wonder if that day will come
Wise men say it must
When every dream and every hope
Lay fallen in the dust
What will be the hidden truth
Whispered low by death
What secret vision
Shall we see
When drawing our last breath?