I get many inspirations in the bathroom

while showering or brushing my teeth

Life seems to be laid bare, like myself

and my mind opens to what’s beneath

What the hell's wrong with people these days?

Flipping pages of History too fast to read

Don’t analyze, rationalize, or compartmentalize

Be real and learn to feel; that’s the deal

Some hearts have one string, their Love vibrates near

Resonating at a frequency that only one can hear

Some hearts are six-stringed, their Love is like a song

Ever-changing music played for all who'll sing along

Some hearts have a thousand strings, sensative and responding

to the faintest high vibrations, or the deepest profound thrumming

Sinking into the imperceptible depths of humanity

          (Too shallow-minded for such a bottomless deep)

Slow water takes me down

Slow water makes me drown

Ego haud fides in Deus, non-Opus Dei; tantum in mihi

(I have no faith in God, nor his works; only in me)

Slow water takes me down

Slow water makes me drown

Deus mos iacio suus manuum super mihi in Dies Irae

(God will lay his hands upon me on Judgement Day)

Slow water takes me down

Slow water makes me drown

I live my life in paraphrase, just going through the motions

They tell me I’ve got everything, but I’ve got other notions

I wave and smile in photographs, Death waiting by the door

It gets a whole lot harder when you feel there’s something more

I walk the walk and talk the talk, my foot stuck in my mouth

In summer, sit and curse the heat; in winter, head down south

I wave and smile in photographs, Death knocking at the door

It gets a whole lot easier when you know there’s nothing more

A tickling at the back of the mind

A slow creeping notion

Or trickling old potion

Something stirring from deep slumber

Perceptions skewed

Facts misconstrued

A dimly realized lack of focus

Mental fingers grasp for knobs

Harsh light, no longer filtered gold

Everything disagrees

Nothing's born to please

Layers peeled back to bare bone

A force applied

A truth denied

No one noticed at all

Drifting in sweet Oblivion

(Chords: C Major, A Minor, D Minor, G Major)

When I finally see your face

And I feel your warm embrace

When you gently take my hand

And you help me understand

When I finally see your smile

It makes everything worthwhile

When you gently take my heart

I know we’ll never be apart

(Chords:  A Minor, E Minor, F Major, G Major)

There are times when we fall down

Our world comes crashing all around

And we feel we can’t go on

After all we’ve said and done

And it seems we just can’t win

But we know we won’t give in

‘Cause we know our love is strong

And together we can't go wrong

My anatomy,

as I've aged, is now overcome

by lycanthropy

Squared circle glowing

Fighters glare through sweat and smoke

Cheers, beers, boos and booze

Fun for Everyone

Lake Erie Queen, Coaster King

Cedar Point... Ride On

Forty years ago

Three days of peace and music

Changed the world… Woodstock

Gene, Ace, Paul, Peter

Demon, Spaceman, Lover, Cat

Rock and Roll All Night

I can play guitar

Better than eighty percent

Of all rock drummers

Please don’t wash away

all my dreams with the hard rain

of reality

Some people work hard

at pursuing numerous

ways to be lazy

For every bright light

there is a correspondance

of deep dark shadow

Somewhere along the way

we traded green fields and mountain days

for shopping malls and bluejean esthetics

Now everyone’s connected

communicating at light-speed

But nobody’s really saying anything

A wealth of information readily available

yet few know what it means

and nobody seems to care

We think we’re so alive

in tune and in touch with our world

But the truth is people are sleeping

I’ve got a lot to do

so get the hell out of my way

Jump back, flinching

startled by my resolve

Eyes to the floor

unwilling to meet mine

Don’t pretend to be offended

If you really cared, you’d be behind me

instead of just being in the way

I’m not tied to my past, nor yours

I’m not responsible for people’s misconceptions

You can’t stop me and you have no right to try

Who am I?  Just one in a long line

Each of us has their place in line

Each of us takes our turn at life

We ride the world, round and around

Circling the sun, year after year

Each a small part of a larger whole

Days and nights pass, one by one

Each person shares their days and their nights

For we are never alone in our hemispheres

The sun that warms me

is the same sun that shone

on Copernicus, Plato, Napoleon

The moon I see in the night sky

is the moon of the Incas

and forgotten souls

Both are as long ago, and both will ever be

Our forbearers toiled under that same hot sun

Yesterday’s poets drank toasts to that very moon

And generations to come

will brown their skins and kiss one another

under these same heavenly orbs

The line stretches long

perhap not long enough for some

but a place in line is guaranteed