Better Live (2026)
Believe Me
till home has lost its way
They gonna torment
us
all night and day
Don’t
look, look away
They hope you believe
what they say
Eyes can’t be erased
evil wears a masked face
You took away
You took away
It won’t take my heart
It won’t take my care
It won’t take heart
I will care
Believe me
I don’t break
I keep walking
Pretending I’m brave
Believe me
I don’t break
I keep walking
Pretending I’m brave
they take away
Believe me
I don’t break
I keep walking
Pretending I’m brave
It won’t take my heart
It won’t take my care
It won’t take heart
I will care as
As Before
How do you believe
in God at your age
I need to believe
that hell
awaits
How is this Livin?’’
no This Ain’t
Is this Livin?’’
no This Ain’t
How do I believe
in God at my age pl
I need to believe that hell
awaits
power protects power
power will kick you in the face
just give me some flowers
to mark the brave
How is this Livin?’’
no This Ain’t
Is this Livin?’’
no This Ain’t
as before the same
Life Stinks
Wanna stay with him
he’s my space captain
Ready set let’s go
I don’t know, I don’t know, I don’t know
He’s a Space Captain,
I will follow him
or just make a note
I don’t know 3X
& we are just cogs
do our best to clog
survive by eating you
and you do that too
It makes me cry
It makes me sad
It makes me cry
this life it stinks so bad
It makes me cry
It makes me sad
It makes me cry
this life it stinks so bad
Pressing on my neck
that don’t really track
take in what you see
I don’t know 3X
Every breath I breath
it’s a poisoning
depends what you need
I don’t know 3x
It makes me cry
It makes me sad
It makes me cry
this life it stinks so bad
It makes me cry
It makes me sad
It makes me cry
this life it stinks so bad
that life it stinks
that life it stinks
that life it stinks
that life it stinks
The MATTER
What’s the matter with me?
It ain’t like I can breathe
When the storm clouds
Calm Down (then)
I’m gonna scream
What’s the matter with me?
It ain’t like I can breathe
When the storm clouds
Calm Down (then)
I’m gonna scream
Be quiet
Stay calm
Keep your eyes way down
get out on the street for me
stay inside
be free
Be quiet
Stay calm
Keep your eyes way down
get out on the street for me
stay inside
be free
What’s the matter with me?
It ain’t like I can breathe
When the storm clouds
They’re weeping out loud
wiping the gas off the street
All eyes on everyone one of them
All eyes on everyone one of them
Be quiet
Stay calm
Keep your eyes way down
get out on the street
stay inside
Get free
Be quiet
Stay calm
Keep your eyes way down
get out on the street for ne
stay inside
Get free
When the storm clouds
They’re weeping out loud
Gonna take what we grieve
What’s the matter with me?
It ain’t like I can breathe
When the storm clouds
Calm Down–Some Day
I’m gonna scream
I’m gonna scream
I’m gonna scream
Paradise
I could be young
I could be free
Ain’t that the way
It’s supposed to be
Every breath that I breathe
The steps that I see
All been laying out for me
punches I take
the blood on my face
my mother wipes it off
erase
I want my paradise
I want my paradise
The children are empty
so are the streets
look out on the world
covered in screams
There is a fear in my bones
and a shake in my hold
Cramp on bone
you Call me home (Pause)
That's her hand on my face
her love
can you
HOLD and
radiate?
I want my paradise
I want my paradise
I want my paradise
You don’t know me that well
You just crowd out my space
I can no longer get to play
I don’t even get to play
Im as young as your son
I’m as young as he’ll be
STICKs + STONES
138.1 EbMinor
Red morning, down in dilly— hold on
Racing to me, Racing to me
they still got em
bone on bone - send me home
Racing to me, Racing to me
violence has a Pattern
Stick and Stones
ther chatter have a Pattern
Stick and Stones
violence has a Pattern
Stick and Stones
We won’t be defeated
With these sticks and stones
Despair my cries
burning grief
Racing to me, Racing to me
I hope you can flee
some where free,
Racing to me, Racing to me
We won’t be defeated
With these sticks and stones
All of them cowards
and devils
Stick and Stones
Evils needs a coward
And fools who sleep
Stick and Stones
While They Sleep
We don’t
Bang On Band Down
Sticks and Stones
bang on bang on bang in bang on
Don’t You WEEP
Mary, Don’t You Weep
That’s A Lasting Memory
Singing songs in a choir
held me up in misery
taking on your troubles
swallow up your fears
you can follow me
until you are here
Come and Love ME, Stay
Come and Love ME, Stay
Come and Love ME, Stay
Come and Love ME, Stay
I’ll be by your side
even when I am tired
I know you are afraid
who wouldn’t be
Come and Love ME, Stay
Come and Love ME, Stay
Come and Love ME, Stay
Come and Love ME, Stay
every breath that you breathe, they won’t all be happy
every breath, that you breathe, they won’t all be happy
Cue
limbs off the wind
painting kites
here's my life
it aint mine
finding windows
buried sand
if i was a lover i would
I take your hand
Nobody’s fault but mine
swallowing time
Nobody’s fault but mine
swallowing time
winter being son
daughter
summer go
and run
what you have
stars under foot
bury hate
Make for good
Nobody’s fault but mine
swallowing time
Nobody’s fault but mine
swallowing time
sorry i lost it
and cried and screamed
and left you there without a dream
Will you forgive me
hope you’ll atleast
forget the feelings
that sink down deep
Nobody’s fault but mine
swallowing time
Nobody’s fault but mine
swallowing time
(photo to the right - Andry Hardman (C))
DREAMS GO (2025)
Car Lines
When she’s crying, she cries
just to speak
They’ll be no hope, no hope
for peace
You’re only afraid
You’re afraid to die
Still calls out mother
Beg to find
When she’s crying, she cries
just to speak
They’ll be no hope, no hope
for peace
Changing doors
Rocking back and forth
Across small towns
Escape her in the dark
Paralyzing car lines
Drive but not
Paralyzing car lines
You drive, but not
When she’s crying, she cries
just to speak
They’ll be no hope, no hope
He hold her down
Waist sweat forms
Paralyzing car lines
They drive but not
Explains her life
& Where she’s from
It made her crazy
but not like for fun
When she’s crying, she cries
just to speak
+++++++++
you don’t know me anymore
When I am burning down your door
effacing to the clouds
screaming out loud, screaming out loud
Wound Up
Wound up
Letting you down
It’s the way I’m made
The way I‘m bound
I know your spark
I let it go dark
To see me smile
And scorn at my time
Does he hate me
Do I like that too?
Yet we remain, how could we stay?
Drowning in the blue
And the fog is thick and we can’t see
Over the mess we made
And I’ll clean it up
And hold it over your head
Should I try if I can’t forgive
Wound up
Letting you down
It’s the way I’m made
The way I‘m bound
Wound up
Letting you down
It’s the way I’m made
The way I‘m bound
Drive me under
And over there
You pick me, and drop me down
We ain’t got nothing to do with someone
If we ain’t got no one here
Should I try if I can’t forgive
Should I try
Wound up
Letting you down
It’s the way I’m made
The way I‘m bound
Wound up
Letting you down
It’s the way I’m made
The way I‘m bound
Wound up
Letting you down
It’s the way I’m made
The way I‘m bound
Revival
Just let me leave you
The way we are
It's not unlike me to beg
It's gonna take some
Take way the feel
& dis-Convince you I’m the one
Just let me leave you
And let me free
I need to hurt someone’s
Great held belief
Say I'm a victim
Or I led you long
Would you believe me
When I tell you I was wrong?
Revival or return
Revival or return
Revival or return
Just me leave you
And let me go
To cut the circle
I’m back living on my own
The flowers blooming when
I hear your name
At least that sounds right
when I’m drinking
The setting sun will make me miss your eyes
When all our words were lost in dreams that would not
die
Revival or return
Revival or return
Just let me love you…the way I do
Your fast and slow on what we could have been
I see your love in colors
Reminds me of him
The one you used to be
That held me
And would let me in
Revival or return
Revival or return
Just let me love the way I do
Just let me love you the way I do
The way I do
Creepin’
A lil’ flame burns in my skin
It’s burning out, it’s burning out for him
I squeeze every moment through
The way it was, the way it was with you
Touching silence, saving face
Just turn me off, turn me off away
Hey…
Quiet so it leaves me
But the shadow keep on creepin’
Quiet so it leaves me
But your shadow keep on creepin’
Bodies rubbing in the glass
I’ll make it last, make it last
Got accustomed to
My needs being met
Why bother anymore
We’re more than through
I was more to you
Than you… could
Quiet so it leaves me
But the shadow keep on creepin’
Quiet so it leaves me
But your shadow keep on creepin’
You’re creepin, You’re creepin
Quiet so it leaves me
And your shadow keeps on creepin’
Quiet so it leaves me
And your shadow keeps on creepin’
You’re creepin’, You’re creepin’
Baby
Wasted Me
I like your number
Gracing me
Absorbing it
Abiding quicker
See you waving in
Turn babe
You keep speaking on
The drugs move with her
Stop
Call it out
How I pray for you
Can’t touch or lick her
You’ll beg to be
Boy ridder
Your hands in place
Stand in hole
Hold the line
Wasted to me
You wasted me
I like your number
Lay it on
The past rain
Like something you said
It talks a lot
Wherever we go
In rivers dark
the weight of it all
You wasted me
You wasted me
The lace remains on seam
You know you wasted me
n-Kick ‘em in the head
Inconsequential thread
You gnash your little teeth
Inside in the bed
The bed we sleep
And when he stays too long
I kick him to the lawn
How dare he comes on strong
So flippant….
So flippant..
So flippant.
You wasted me
You know you wasted me
I like your number
Oh it's great to me
Your pants hang long
Kicking up the mud
You’re wary and wild
Those sad eyes
I am begging you now
To rip it off my skin
Li5a
(It's only a matter
Of time
Everything we love is gonna start to die)
It's only a matter
Of time
Everything we love is gonna start to die
It's only a matter
Of time
Till all we love has gone and died
It’s only a matter of time
Till all we love has died
At least we tried
At least we tried
At least we tried
At least we tried
At least we tried
At least we tried
And when you break me in… two
I said someday I’ll be on the floor
With you
At least we tried
At least we tried
At least we tried
At least we tried
At least we tried
At least we tried
And when you cry
I tell you to―- go―― on &
Let it all pour out
So you don’t hold, only to bore in
Question if I should be the one
to tell you
The darkest secret that I still
Hold
From you
At least we tried
At least we tried
At least we tried
At least we tried
At least we tried
At least we tried
At least we tried
At least we tried
At least we tried
At least we tried
At least we tried
At least I tried
At least I tried
At least I tried
She Knows Me
Now, I believe you when you say
I don’t test your love that way
We only started
The life
And we barely any time left alive
I never asked him where he’s been
Out finding what I can’t give
Now I believe you when you say
I don’t test your love that way
She knows me
Before
She knows me
Apart
I told him please let me lie
Cuz I had my fill of goodbyes
And I don’t cry
Hold that baby off the ground
Take, take every flower that comes
I don’t test your love that way
She knows me
Every part
She knows me
Every start
Dreams Go
Where do your dreams go
It's hard to explain
when I close my eyes
my dreams don’t stay
I don’t waste my time
on wishes and hopes
I do what I can
till I can’t do no more and
collapse with the sun
Baby when the sun
has set on me
yours will be the last breath that I see
Only taste the things I couldn’t be
Only see the stars I couldn’t reach
When I lay up on at night
I gasp for air
I don’t feel right
to own a thing
to love at all
for you
Where does your love go,
when I go away
when you’re not around me
your love doesn’t stay
I dream about ending
the way I will go
Your touch is delay
Your touch is delay I feel so alone
Baby when the sun has set on me
yours will be the last breath that I see
Only taste the things I couldn’t be
Only see the stars I couldn’t reach
What do you want, what do you need it?
Be all for you I can’t
What do you want, what do you need it?
Be all for you I can’t
What do you want, what do you need it?
Be all for you I can’t
What do you want, what do you need it?