Manual Focus

The Surface

Jumping is the hardest part
Falling is easy - you just fall
And accept your placement
If something breaks, it doesn’t make
All of this just another lost cause
Or just another phase
A change of sight, a new side
Just to keep the mystery alive
Fade with that light
Intro to nothing new
Have to leap while the door is open
The light might cover us again
But I was never so curious
As to ignore these walls and scratch the surface
Just leaving all the kindness and murder
To the others
Closing my eyes to feel the world turn from us
Directing sadist dreams
The blood flows quicker here at dawn
Until then we’re still alone
Distancing every scene
The smoke sways to his every word
But he can’t even speak clearly
But I was never so curious
As to laugh at the these walls and test the surface
But talking is an easy way out here
So I might take
And give back less than we ever could make
But I was never so curious
As to knock down the walls and break the surface
Just keep a high standard of dying
Straighten times bend
Keep bleeding upwards and rewriting the end
I can’t rewrite my end

I Should Forget

 It's not worth the sun's gaze anymore here
But that's the way all things break and lie in wait for the same
Time to leave and keep these streets they offer us day to day
And keep my head down to shed the weight that drains from the sun
All I know is to drown the flickering people
So they always stay just inside the frayed
Time that falls while movement halts and all brightens with your voice
Loudly quiet and articulate and just enough to shift life
And I forget what I should forget
All these motions have moved nothing yet
The longer I stay with my hands under
This falling painting the longer you're obscure
Flow through the waste of time I've left behind to steal
What no one owns for a second but we just feel close to it
I hope I get this right for none to see or believe
In what we do 'cause we're not real enough to be true
And I forget what I should forget
All these motions have moved nothing yet
The longer I stay with my hands under
This falling painting the longer you're obscure
And I forget the tune of that time
That we stood still, speaking in sighs
The longer I stay aligning all things wrong
The longer your thoughts carry this frog song
The longer I stay in here
The longer I stay in here
Watch out for me

Beneath

My halo,
How can I convince myself you're real?
How could you kill what I need to feel?
How can I trust you anymore?
How will you sound if I speak no more?
My halo,
How did these lies hold you up so long?
How will you sing without my song?
How did your light breathe drowning in faith?
How will you stay above without me beneath?

An Expert

I don’t know why he’s an expert
He knows no more than me
Yeah, he looks worse than me
And those kids aren’t made for TV
But she jumps just like a bunny
Yeah, she has ears like a bunny
But he’s content to wait and stand
Acting like he’s the man
That drew up all the plans
But they are, they are so dumb now
Developmental and stupid
Just crazy cartoon rooms here
The 70's are coming back
Scraggly hair, bell-bottomed pants
Are all the rave with the kids
But it’s too easy just to take
Myself out and make
All of these foundations shake
Far along I can break
And I just wanted to make
Knowing we could break
But all of this is too late

Backwards

This is not where I said that I would be
Waiting for nothing to bring nothing
How much more of this can I entertain
Before stepping off this plain?
This time frame will not double back for me
No matter how my stars align
All that's left here is this solid ground
But I don't trust what moves us around
Why is it pushing me to face
The small things
That fell out like twisted words?
Why is it backwards?
Why doesn't it rain when I ask
For it to fall and
Wash away your words

That turned this world backwards?