A Collection

Serial Sleepers
Your transparent eyes always follow me
but when I look back, your glances flee
You are what others want you to be
You are the Dead
A serial sleeper
who slays with words instead
A corpse of a thousand opinions
a life not your own
I will rip off your mask
and now your cover is blown

Its time to wake the Dead
serial sleepers
climb from your beds
The time is now
it has just begun
the revolution is coming
to free everyone
So toss your veils aside
the dead have nothing to hide

Everyone arise!
Awake those who are dead
The sleepers who slayed with words instead.

What We’ve Become
This is the tension
This is where we fall
the battle is over before it begins
I can’t stand and face it at all

The seal has been broken
once we were standing so tall
and now our eyes are opened
to our failure in it all

The audience turns away
the choir turns its back
to step out on your own,
what could come of that?

Beggars and drunkards agree
they’re the ones to be freed
though unwelcome inside church doors,
they crawl to God on all fours

Our mission was to reach out
until now, we didn’t know what it was about
Prostitutes and gays looked on with scorn,
our future seems so forlorn
So face the congregation and take a bow,
the choir is so used to the preachin’ anyhow.

To You
Dear Girl,
I want you to know I'm thinking of you
although I haven't found you yet
I know all our dreams will come true
and then our futures will be set

Your the one that I'm meant for
and I'm meant for you
together we will walk in the church door
and happily say, "I do."

So don't move! Stay where you are
because I'll find you
Hopefully your not too far
but I don't have the slightest clue

I'm saving myself for you
I pray that you will do the same
and then our lives will begin anew
By the way, I'm Josh. Whats your name?

Your Eyes
Your eyes stare into mine
as if your looking into my soul
there has always been a fine line
between my dreams and your final goal

Your eyes are more like stained glass
Than a window with a clear view
clouded beauty that seems to pass
but I don't want this gaze to be through

And I, I must look away
you've gone too far, seen to deep
and eyes that now seem to betray
search for secrets they can keep