Half Life

if you had completed me
don't think i'd be pleased with you
don't think i'd compete with you
with half of me to take

half life nothing i'd call home
it's lucky how these phantom limb bee stings never show
it's not enough to leave this falling kindly
you burn my star down twice as brightly
it's just your half light undertow
but if you need forgiveness i don't know

half light breaks with nothing wrong
just a corner of my bed where you don't belong
it's kind of you to notice no-one's dying
you choked your last laugh almost crying
it's just your half life long to know
and if you need a reason so it goes

 Low Five

kitemarked for true low standards
where more wants all and no less
just change with no real progress
nothing comes to mind
i want higher
still nothing comes to mind

give me a low five
'cause i can't help myself
i'm a low five downsize no-one else
do you love yourself ?

these altered states and egos
potential less than zero
found god in san diego
nothing comes to mind

i half expect to find myself
in full control of nothing else
last hope but learnt to hope less
nothing comes to mind
i want higher
still nothing comes to mind

 Lightning Field

strike me down give it everything you've got
chance me now i'll be everything i'm not
hope's the child of what luck brings
points the faith in higher things
ask me now fire at everything at once
strike me down take it anyway you want

strike me down better left it all unknown
strike me down should have left it all alone
wash the questions off my hands
i'm the fate in no-one plans
strike me down give it everything you've got
strike me down i'll be everything i'm not

 Curl

suppose for seconds you forget your past
neglect to turn in think straight stand out last

and i curl now to help me find you out
we're keeping devils down and sleeping sound

now your newspeak's ageing thin
a pale and hanging faith
a devil sick on sin
will curl against its place

itch to scratch
to strike my past from all it's owed
it's sold

 Destroying Angel

so what you have the nerve to call a friend
is starved of all the sense to make amends
i'm the glass you break to touch but you never want me much
like the view across the water from the shoes and two feet smaller
i know it doesn't pay to be this hurt
falling off the morning getting worse

 Empathy

but i can't be her brother
to empower her to become her
trawl through this forgiveness
my memory's so empathy low

this attitude beneath her
it's evident it denies us
proves herself to be closer
but not me forever not me

this sickness avoids all cure
imperfection my downfall
learn myself through symptoms
my memory's so
empathy low

 Superbug

slowly the signs will read you dumb
surely the times will feel you numb
i know the pains you took to show me
and i'm nothing but your superbug for asking

i hate to bug you on your certainty
never compromise - you're just always weak
you care but you don't show
too proud to catch the flow

under all the truth and facts there's faith enough
if you can't live on love alone it isn't love

slowly the signs will read you dumb
surely the times will feel you numb
i know the depths you sunk to show me
i want the life the world still owes me
and i'm nothing but your superbug for asking
answer - stamp me out

and i'd love to break your fall but no-ones asking me
answer - stamp me out

slowly the signs will read you dumb
surely the times will feel you numb
i know the pains you took to show me
you said it hurts your head to know me
and i'm nothing but your superbug for asking
anwer - stamp me out

 Flower and Silence

i'm amazed you eat you sleep you function at all
'cos my aims so weak i'd fail to get into my arm

was made the first to laugh
tried but the tribute short changed kidness
flowers and silence
was made the first to laugh
charmed but the weather broke me sober
i've never been colder

seen braver seemed braver since then
but never been
no favours no saviours no sense
it's not in me
so nothing's free ghostdrunk out of reach
so action this cared less never missed
and you preach you teach did i 'learn you' nothing at all
i'm too dumb to see but you stooped for someone this small

you'll always be closing me down denied me remind me i'm sold out
just skin and teeth
left black and bruised fucked up nothing new
was heard not seen wasted so nothing's free

 Cute Sushi Lunches

pretty down on this
cold feel excuses
one lane talk where art and life don't meet
can't see won't see
have have not me
hate like a child hates his hair cut
can't eat won't eat
cute sushi lunches

 Ten to Twenty

so fall like the snow too much too slow
so fragile to say hanging over everyday
a breeze with contempt to shame the others
a story's so thin to cater all your lovers

count me out your standards shadow trade in competence
ten to twenty answers shouting down on confidence
too easy not to share too vain for secret
there's fear enough in there a taste of need in someones cure

 Splinter

does it take the fireworks to make you look in wonder ?
would you give reaction to the cause i'm under ?
so coloured by you but your money messed it up
uncovered by you your monkey's longwhile had enough
you're like scissors in my coat
you're like splinters in my cup

i know you couldn't care me less
keep hoping it's all only token
you know i never had my say
if only you'd keep it that open
loser may have been but its so lost on me
splintered i will be when your peace breaks cheap
does it take the fireworks to make you look in wonder ?
would you give reaction to the cause i'm under ?
three colour blind you but your monkey messed it up
surrendered by you your monkey's longwhile had enough
you're like scissors in my coat
you're like splinters in my cup

 Wife by Two Thousand

no-ones broken no-ones beaten
i can see a rainbow near them
i can see a rainbow

never so confused just laughed out coast abused
aiming loosely your direction
always too extreme all cause and case to plead
striving hard to spite yourself
i think that i need some working on so work on me
i think that nothing's getting through so get to me
just another no name taken passing blame
christ knows how we get to be here

always coming clean all case and cause to bleed
trying hard to like yourself
never so complete just failing on its feet
chocking out these last few breaths here
i think that i need some working on so work on me
i think that nothing's getting through so get to me
just another no show scissors paper stone
christ knows why we geT to be here