RPM 2014 clenching teeth through an iron jaw your eyes are just slivers on your face rosy glow on your porcelain cheeks there is nothing not a trace happy, are you? losing sleep the weight is heavy you can barely keep afloat clenching…

from the album the Vulnerary Songs hard to not crawl up under a pile of rocks and die scrapping by on next to nothing swallow my pride protect and survive magazine it’s not loaded hope I get out alive all I seek what I got coming nobody has…

you used to be a person in your shell now you're just a shell so big inside your home the turrets face the lowly masses so big inside your home obvlious to the world as it cries out and the sun begins to shine upon our tiny world and…

little light, won't you rise little light, open your eyes can't you chase away the gray can't you chase the indigo away chase the indigo away little light, don't you cry little light, time to fly can't you chase the trouble away can't…

she turns the light on, illuminate the way, i'm close behind her, i'm being lead away, and feeling i'm holding, but cannot release fading, sorrow, fraily, follow, follow, moving, unconsiously, from one beat to another this beat punctures the…

so pleased to meet me now please, just go away no introductions needed, i've got nothing left to say so many stories that i really don't need to know this conversation's over, and i really wish you'd go oh please, go away, save yourself i…

RPM 2011 No explanations left to give apologies over She wanted more than the story, but nobody told her I hear the insane are hardly worth the medication But she'd like the story just the same, for when she gets older It's not the end…

RPM 2011 I sail northward against the wind My hope erased by the wages of sin I have no way to break the ice I’m frozen with chains of tomorrow I have no fear of getting through The feelings I lost without starting It’s our little game not…

RPM 2011 Wait for the room to focus Feeling around for closure The whiteness of my skin The pale reflecting eyes The beaty of total darkness Move to the door and open Room after room of sorrow Breathing through your mouth Flooding from your eyes…

rpm 2011 Like to feel the falling rain Shed my brittle skin Maybe hard enough to face tomorrow Find out soon enough, find out soon enough And the river is clean enough to touch And it washes away the bitterness Cleaner than the falling snow Melting…