HANGING BY A THREAD by Ami Saraiya
Hanging by a thread, twirling like kaleidoscopes of lips and glittered limbs. I'm dangling by my teeth again. Don't cut me down. Don't cut me down. Don't cut me down.....
I'm hanging by a thread. Spinning 'round my dizzy head with thoughts so filled with lead, that near death gives me this giddy feeling. I'll focus now, I'll focus now.....I'll focus so my brains don't splatter. There's these radii between you and I. Oh sanity, you keep moving lengths and you cut me down. You cut me down. You cut me down....
Hanging by a thread, watching while the rope unravels. I'll be landing on sky legs, so won't you meet me at the intersection. And you'll show me how, you'll show me how, you'll show me how to walk again. As the asphalt teaches me a lesson, you'll find the slots to put my sense back in.
PURGING PURGING by Ami Saraiya
Purging purging - not for real. Still keeping things I can conceal. Red Eyes glowing full of zeal, still keeps me yearning yearning.
Purging purging - not for real. Still keeping things I can conceal. A stone cold corpse I still can feel. It keeps me yearning yearning. It keeps me burning burning.
Red hot fires to boil the dead, even water towers still burn like hell. And they keep me yearning yearning. They keep me burning burning.
I'm pouring out in the rain, just trying to douse my flame. I'm rolling round in the sand. You know I'll just re-ignite.
Red hot fires to boil the dead, even water towers still burn like hell. And they keep me yearning yearning. They keep me burning burning.
CATTLE PROD HANDS by Ami Saraiya
They tortured me with their cattle prod hands. I'm lost to the world in this red tape soldier plan. With the blind leading blind, please rise this dumb while the marbles still roll in my head.
Don't say it's make believe - that it ain't real when it was. How could you play with me after what you've broken in me.
With your hands in their minds sculpting gray matter guns that shoot the marbles right out of my head.
Don't say it's make believe - that it ain't real when it was. How could you say to me after what you've made out of me.
VEGAS MOON by Ami Saraiya
Oh vegas moon, you don't shine as brightly as a man made flamingo bloom. I'm sorry, but it catches my eye.
The sky has no place for you
Vegas Moon
The sky has no space for you
Vegas Moon
In a valley of fools that drain my riches to rags.
Oh my desert of a billion pools, it'll suck you bone dry be you river or bloke
The sky has no place for you
Vegas Moon
The sky has no space for you
Vegas Moon
I guess it's the same old story
You know I thought I meant the world to you
But I just faded out quicker through your lamp shade, I just pale in comparison now
I'm guess I'm just another satellite to you
Vegas Moon
SOUR MASH by Casey Meehan
Sour mash and shooting stars
Keep your promises in jelly jars
And your good foot in the fire
Love the country, Love the town
I'm sorry that the church burned down
It's a shame about the power wires
my Sunday shoes don't fit right
I've had the blues since Saturday night
Somebody shake me, I feel I'm dreaming
Whittling the time away
Kindling for the judgement day
Don't get your neck caught in the holy spoke
Kisses kisses one two three
The scarecrow and the moon and me
You look like you make have seen a ghost
my Sunday shoes don't fit right
I've had the blues since Saturday night
Somebody shake me, I feel I'm dreaming
Somebody shake me, I feel I'm
Somebody shake me, I feel I'm
Somebody shake me, I feel I'm
dreaming
ARCHAEOLOGIST by Ami Saraiya
You found me down deep in rubbled compartments
The bare bones of me
You act like you’ve finally struck gold
But you don’t even know me, you don’t
My half decayed cell phone, the plastic sporks near
You cherish all that you see
Dust me off gently
Your hands how they excavate me
The ashes came down without any warning
I died without love that mamma said one day I’d know
Did she know about you?
Did she know?
You carbon date time - Does that mean you know why
Our half lives could never complete
Brush me off gently
I know that you’ve fallen for me
And in the laboratory room
No, don’t let them take
What made you love me
Up, Down, and Charmed by Ami Saraiya
I was up, down, and charmed
Walking on egg shells that crack
I like the sound of you marching back into my arms
And taking me down to a place where a new world comes in
And the snow kept a swirling around
Landing like soft little thought all around your head
And oh like an angel you glow
Won’t you make up your mind, I know you will
cause oh, you’ve melt into me
When you know, you’ll come back
and oh, you’ve melt into me
When you know, you’ll come back
We’ll find our way back home
Like the light
That carries it’s own way back
To the night
Where we will shine like stars
In the night
Memphis Train by Ami Saraiya
I got on a Memphis Train
It was time I had to leave
The words had almost dripped from the corner of your lips
When the bastards got a hold of me
I was m.i.a in Rotterdam
The pigs and walls were closing in
I was drifting down the hall to the scent of your green heart
When they turned into the air I breathe
I don’t wanna fall in love
I don’t wanna make a scene
The writing’s on the wall so baby don’t you start
Ain’t nothing gonna capture me
I got on the fire escape
And I ran across the rooftop fields
They loaded up their guns, the boys had thought they won
But I pulled the trick out from my sleeve
You see, my bullet it could ricochet
Hunting down what hunted me
I’m the fastest draw that you ever saw
So don’t you ever mess with me
I don’t wanna fall in love, I know what it does to me
Maybe we will meet again
When thoughts so old forget to win
I’ll be running down so hard and when I turn around
No one will be after me – No one will be after me – No will be there
I don’t wanna fall in love, I know what it does to me
Lullaby Song by Ami Saraiya
I'm gonna sing you a lullaby song
Well everytime I try to sing you to sleep
I dream of you all night long
I'm so tired of being green, I'm so tired of my heart being lost
I count the sheep that walk all over me
As I drift through this time machine
To a place where your eyes on me make me whole again
And I wonder if you think of me
Or even care that I'm gone
I'm so sick of fucking lying here
When I know you've moved on
I'm so tired of being green, I'm so tired of my heart being lost
Colder, Meaner by Ami Saraiya
I never thought that I would lose myself
Inside a man who’d leave me here threadbare
The warmth won't cover me now I don't care
The hollow’s sunken deep inside my skin
I’m trading my heart in for a colder, meaner heart
The scum that rises up to rule us all
They don’t recognize through all their scorn
Maybe they’re bitter to the end
Maybe cause they lost it all
They traded their heart in for a colder, meaner heart
I tied you up, but you made a cross out of everything
I tied you up, and I know I pulled you down
Just pull me out – just pull me out of this
I never thought that I would lose myself
I never thought…. I’d lose you
I’d lose you
I'm trading my heart in
TANGLEWEED by Ami Saraiya
I fell from the war in the sky
into Tangleweed
There was nothing else round not for miles
It was having it’s hold on me
I’m trying not to fight cause it’s nice to lose myself
It’s almost like falling in love with everything
It was all grenades all of the time
I pissed at the smell of steel
Across from the enemy’s blade
I stepped off the ‘copter wheel
I’m trying not to fight cause the ivy's lost my head
It’s almost like nothing I have to be
I’m trying not to fight cause it’s nice to lose myself
It’s almost like falling in love with everything