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High Signs

by Elliott Power

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1.
Leaf Year 05:22
I am a leaf and I travel down winding paths With a home on a river that sinks with every spring Smiles all around like guns loaded with laughs Lives from the barrels of the faces on a wing Where the sun still speaks of a breeze that can sting If you're a rock and you stay with the one that you love I'll leave you steady through the thunder and the rain To pour someday on a child and a dove Bound to the city from the branch where I came On the heels of a century but I'll always be the same Oh what is the colour of change when you are free? Oh what is the colour of change when you have been silent and rearranged?… but now i'm born again I am a leaf and I travel down dirty streets With a home on my back and shoes on my feet Smiles all around like guns loaded with love The bruise of a kiss on the lips i'm thinking of How does it feel when you're living from above?
2.
Time still swims through the riches dream As the squidgy rips passages from my open spleen From my shelter an angel waltzes into a dream Silhouetted by a century Pride's rusty face to an oil drum suitcase A pupil pales and it flies open to his embrace As the gun buries his golden heart Beneath the playground where children chase The dreams of popes and presidencies and the adopted face Out of the womb and into the light The candle dimly burns and the dove takes flight Till the cradle shudders at the shadows of sight The blind man sees through the novel of his disease Into open centuries Dogs dressed in daydreams creep round the fence As the junkie of the jamboree sits in silence The carousel he dissects dismally In the toy box of his memory In the high chair the choo choo train of apple feed From the spoon of security Out of the womb and into the shrine A photo fantasy red carpet so fine A trophy and a thrill for a harlot anodyne Shari Lee gathers flowers for free From the cracks of a paved century A janitor drops change into a brooding coffee cup of an ageless night As the sun rises anew and lights all the coke lines and half wines in sight A tycoon chases gin and flees from inner sin as the roulette reveals the right To flee from the now yet be here somehow for the squeal of the sow has left the reaper to endow Everything he sees as a blizzard without a breeze bringing him to his knees I'm staring at you and you're staring at me While the postman travels high speed this moment we do believe and the letter ties together lost leaves living on the same tree Out of the womb and into the light The cord slowly swings while holding you tight The heavens where we live till the clouds turn grey As space begins to speak and seconds smile today Through childhood courts and teenage trials we glide and grow like the grass with the soil on our side Your master sells freedom from the pawnshop where we play For in God we trust he'll buy us a way To the flow of the cash like the blood in our veins Your spirit is free from the body in chains A solution so sweet like the lollypop you love The unwrapping of fate as the checkmate creeps above On the chessboard of clones for the brothers in black They tell you you're free till freedoms attack From the face on the screen and the voice in the box The war zone defeat is where the trinity walks The pills crucifix in the canned factory If the food makes you ill we'll dissect you and see The money you've spent for the tubes in descent Your body's a figure and debt you must repent In the chair hangs the frame of an old age dove As the conscience it croons for the carefree cherub Through the raging of the tea and the silence of the news The wrinkles on your face are melting the blues Smiles on the wall a human cold sore Down the hallway once again like always before Under the sheets a lone burning star From the window in drift a cancer afar Now opens the shell of an oyster so tight The clam we now behold back into the light Where we see all that we have to be A second and a century
3.
The paper, the pen It shone the rock until the end Alive inside a colour crystal mind The picture is black Dwelling in the comfort of black She likes to pin her pretty pictures Now and then Much of her time she's escaped from her mind Between blue skies and rationality She wants to see like she is free and all of her dreams, they are what they seem An inverted choice for a mind that has a voice She only wants to set them free She wants to set them free She wants to set them free She wants to set them free She insists that they move and change very soon She wants a stable man to keep Keep in her life Maybe a wife If he gives up all that he can and then he stopped doing everything fun So they could stand one by one The drugs, the verse It's only a curse Her name has changed The opposite of what she became She likes to use the names of the criminally insane She's dark, her skin Underneath her colours have been No more She thinks a normal person is a bore Inside of her womb, she'll bare very soon A boy who will charm will come prepared and armed Against whatever she has to give Inside of her dreams, they are what they seem Opulent glory as well as the mystery She only wants to set them free She wants to set them free She wants to set them free She wants to set them free The daylight is night The moon is the sun and all the clouds are filled with rain Her thoughts in the atmosphere To house all her cares and everybody here will stare and wonder what will happen when we all die Is there a heaven in the bright blue sky? From here to there will we go anywhere?
4.
Smile little child, the seashells are in your eyes Smile little child, the seashells have arrived Go down to the sea A place to set you free Dance along the surf Skin and the earth Smile pretty one, the starfish in your hands Smile pretty one, life to understand Go down to the beach The sky beyond your reach Frail beneath the sun Mother nature's young Seashell girls are on the run Dancing the day and time has begun Settle the sunset, seal the sea Sleep without worries Sleep with the sea Sleeping to see Smile old man, the seashells are in your eyes Smile old man, the seashells still alive Go down in the ground Like everyone around Sign off on the stone Go back home
5.
Bums 04:32
Put on a smile, go out and face the day I'll do my best if it's ok Try real hard then you can hear my thought Never sure of what i've got But come with me We'll eat for free and show our scars to the sun and in return I'll ask you burn before we live as one I'm just a bum You're just a bum We're looking for more than food We're just bums Tell me now how you do use those eyes? So innate and worldly wise Crown of thorn with roses in your head Chosen angel in your bed So hold me close and push me down Revive my heart and rip it out Freeze my soul and hit defrost Remind me what it is I cost
6.
You're an artificial man What's a heart? You don't understand You were made in a petri dish By some human hand You developed in a tube Vitamins you ate over chewed Still you have to convince yourself When totally nude Take a walk through the valley of shadows Take a walk through the peaceful meadows With a happy hand Take a walk where the water is shallow Take a look where the sun is hollow and you'll understand You're a judgemental son You criticize and blame everyone Still it is the age old case of Left brain tongue I'm a frame made of bone Hit me with a tree made of stone I may break but crack a smile Whenever you moan It's the need for control Dragging angels down in your hole What you hate you compensate with ego I'm not angry anymore Guess i'll just forgive like before It's been fun but now you're fired There's the door
7.
You are the sun, you are the stars and every creature unknown You are the breath that breaks the cold The bonds that build a stone You are the fuel that feeds a fire You are the flame that we admire You are these and so much more But a voice calls like before "Hey, Hey, Hey, Hey" - Ego in my body You are a river, a water fall A quiet steady stream You are a wave upon a length and the hurts in between You are the best of everything You are the same as a bum and a king You smile in a tower of ivory With a voice on the balcony "Hey, Hey, Hey, Hey" - Ego in my body You are a spark, you are a shock Electricity You're here right now and here some more Divine energy If love is a lock that has a key Some struggle and some turn gracefully I am you and you are me But opinions do not see "Hey, Hey, Hey, Hey" - Ego in my body
8.
By the sleeping of the sun Lived a woman forever won She laughed a life and dreamed of tomorrow On a midnight air she blew Fields of grass guiding to A photograph on the door of tomorrow The road was open but oh so narrow From a ditch a baby shot an arrow Seep the hours passing by I saw the sign in the sky The solitary song of a sparrow Ready to live in another tomorrow By the dawning of the day Lived a man with a sea to say Swept away by the tide of time to follow To a secret shore on bound Another seashell girl he found From her hungry heart can love be borrowed? Many miles he traveled far Floating fears in a jar A bottle drifts and someone shifts to sorrow The road was rich like a pub to wallow From a healthy heart fell a broken arrow Seep the hours passing by Fading signs I wonder why Sailing on a cloud where sky is hollow Ready to live in another tomorrow Seep the hours passing by Every sound shields a sigh A lover's kiss two can borrow Still waiting a lifetime for tomorrow
9.
Home 02:59
Here Here is where my place is now To roam Here in this familiar town The air Fills the space that was always there The door The cure for when the heart is sore You are You are the pillow beneath my head Where I lay Till the weeks begin to shed Now The suitcase lays on the floor Till I walk Out into winter's roar Now I sit besides different trees and etch Etch in the bark what has come to be Tonight I'll stare up into the sky and try Try to fill the space between you and i
10.
I want to walk for as long as it takes till i'm brand new I want to talk till the breezes silence the sea I want to wait for the mist to part the mountain So I can climb to the top where the sun I can see To the top where the sun I can see To the top where clouds can carry For down below there's misery Will you be there if I travel the road you pave? Will you be there if I sink to an unknown grave? Will it be time for a fine wine if the glass I hold is empty? Will you be there if the moon stares and I trip on the garbage in front of me? If I trip on the garbage in front of me If I trip and I cannot see before the life I want to lead Is it true that all you'll do is remember All the sights and sounds that'll pass you by When you find that you're able to fly Is it true that all you'll do is surrender To the sights and sounds that'll pass you by When you try to use your eye The one that's in your mind To make you realize That the sun isn't as high When we meet up in the sky That's the story of my life

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released March 18, 2015

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