Power Lines
POWER LINES
Lines divide, lines connect
Lines expose, lines protect
Lines contract, lines expand
Lines supply, lines demand
chorus:
Lines—– dividing us
All these lines—– one-siding us
All these lines––––— are guiding us
All these lines
Lines unite, lines exclude
Lines are right, lines are rude
Lines withdraw, lines engage
Lines entice, lines enrage
chorus:
Lines—– restraining us
All these lines—– containing us
All these lines––––— sustaining us
All these lines
Lines—– protecting us
All these lines—– redirecting us
All these lines––––— disconnecting us
All these lines
Lines enforce, lines erode
Lines encrypt, lines decode
Lines entrench, lines command
Lines advance, lines withstand
chorus:
Lines—– instructing us
All these lines—– corrupting us
All these lines––––— obstructing us
All these lines
Lines—– refusing us
All these lines—– excusing us
All these lines––––— amusing us
All these lines
Lines are walked, lines are skipped
Lines are chalked, lines are sniffed
Lines are straight, lines are curved
Lines are clear, lines are blurred
chorus:
Lines—– excluding us
All these lines—– including us
All these lines––––— deluding us
All these lines
Lines—– inciting us
All these lines—– keep fighting us
All these lines––––— uniting us—–––
All these lines
Lines are traced, lines are signed
Lines inform, lines will find
Lines are spiked, lines are flat
Lines persuade, lines combat
Lines are drawn, lines are read
Lines feed life, lines go dead
SHADOWS OF STEEL
A city within a city
An island in a sea of concrete
As far below the captains in cars
Navigate the street
Luxury hotels
Exclusive upscale homes
Teeming residential
And commercial building zones
Dangerous designs
Sky high skylines
chorus:
Building on such a grand scale
Some wouldn't think it wise
Who are they to make a sale
And affect so many lives?
Some have said it helps to spread
And strengthen business ties
The arguments go on and on
While steel still fills our skies
A city within a city
A mountain in an engineered chain
As high atop the kings of the hill
Laugh and sip champagne
A shimmering high rise
Has blotted out the sun
And casts a shadow on
A decaying city slum
Executive suites
Rooftop retreats
LIFE LINES
Everything has significance
Everyone has reason to live
Every day its ups and downs
Every choice an alternative
If God and I could now converse
My questions would be one
Before there was a Universe
From where was it begun?
chorus:
Span the spectrum of existence
Untold time, unmeasured distance
We trust new instincts
And let go of old life lines
As we evolve and we decay
Into an infinite array
Exotic lifeforms
And more wondrous lifetimes
Everything has some influence
Everyone has something to give
Every door its ins and outs
Every "No" an affirmative
If salesmen selling Paradise
Had stopped you on the way
Before you saw the merchandise
Would you agree to pay?
BREAKING BARRIERS
Some people would suffer first
Than admit they were dying of thirst
We don't always see
Stubbornness at its worst
Some people won't even aim
Let alone take a shot at love's game
They figure the prize
Isn't quite worth the pain
chorus:
Emotions cause harm
When they're bottled up inside
Do yourself some justice
And confess your love with pride
Emotions leave scars
Time alone will never heal
Do yourself a favor
And tell someone how you feel
Some people look upon love
As a gift they are unworthy of
Too perfect to match
Let alone rise above
Some people programmed to think
Love is bought with a diamond or mink
Too poor to get past
"Can I buy you a drink?"
bridge:
Building barriers
Out of reason, out of fear
What motivates us
Even experts aren't clear
Breaking barriers
It's taking too much wine
To open up our hearts
And lay them on the line
POWER LINES 2
A division of labor, a division of power
Societies advance from the Age to the hour
We pride ourselves on our high-end skills
As if it didn't count on a multitude of wills
In robotic cooperation
chorus:
It's a line of power, it's a clash of forces
It's a knock down, drag-out war for resources
It's a battle to define a society
As a tool for the few or all humanity
It's a matter of remuneration for a measure of participation
An exchange of optimal health
A functional degree of comfort and wealth
For a modern mass population
From competitive species to insidious rival
Cooperation rose igniting our survival
They scoff at the cries of the "wage slave slobs"
Who freed up the time for the specialized jobs
And modern mass organization
(chorus)
SOLDIER X
A clenched fist in a face
A lovers last embrace
A boot print in the mud
Filled with a pool of blood
Ransacked stores, kicked in doors
Executions on the spot
Everyone dies as traitors or spies
Doesn't matter if they're not
chorus 1:
Prisoners march - Their fates all sealed -
Gunshots in the woods beyond the burning field
No mercy or recoiling at the screams of terror
When it really isn't human but genetic error
A boy condemned to die
Is put down in mid-cry
A mother and her son
Are ambushed on the run
"Cold and stern, beat and burn
Be as brutal as you can
Let none survive to crawl out alive
And alert them of our plan"
chorus 2:
Villagers lie - Their heads face down -
Silence falls over the charred and gutted town
No remorse or revulsion for the night of terror
When it really wasn't human but genetic error
It really isn't human...
VIEWER DISCRETION
Tripping over themselves they granted a god
Unlimited access to our souls
Promising Heaven but delivering Hell
Confession of sins as the camera rolls
It's Judgment Day come rule on Earth
But uncensored and more televised
This world they've created is Heaven x-rated
And viewer discretion is advised
chorus:
Inundated by conspiracies online
In a useless Information Age
Strangulated via digitized grapevine
Killing time in a cold-blooded rage
They cling to a stage where a god can judge us
Without our approval or defense
Where according to some what would Jesus do
Is pass judgment under false pretense
And it's Judgment Day, make no mistake
Now in session and secularized
This world they've created is Heaven x-rated
And viewer discretion is advised
(chorus)
Secret conversation
Lurid escapade
(And the camera...)
Useless information
Picked up and relayed
(And the camera rolls)
THE LINES OF SIGHT
The houses dot the landscape
Boundaries marked by fence and tree
The spaces that comprise
Our civilized society
A balance of organic charm
And uniformity
Nature and Humanity
At last have called a truce
And the houses stand in harmony
With the maple and the spruce
But underneath the tranquility
Under the days of sunlit rest
The faint but ever growing sound
Is a soul beating its chest
chorus 1:
Angles meet and lines converge
Patterns form and start to merge
Into the lines of sight
The houses hug the hillside
Borders flush, compact, and tight
A bright young girl with life in her veins
On a cold and rocky height
Surveys the hillside homes
In the early morning light
The person and the property
Are not to be defaced
But the lines that separate the souls
Are savagely erased
And every tear looks more like blood
And a chance to quench the thirst
For the carnivores of consciousness
Who are quick to move in first
(chorus 1)
chorus 2:
Shadows fall and shapes are freed
Colors run and start to bleed
Into the lines of sight
The houses line the lake shore...
OPPOSING FORCES
Opposites of equal force
Share a deadly magnetism
Allowed to run its course
It ends in cataclysm
Love in mathematical terms
Is an algebraic equation
A fatal formula
For mutual negation
chorus:
Don't mix matter with anti-matter
Don't add a minus with a plus
Whatever you do
Don't add the two
Don't cancel out the both of us
Elements of inverse state
Must be kept at a safe distance
Or suffer the same fate
A life of non-existence
Love in subatomic form
Is two free and roaming nuclei
If their flight paths intersect
You can kiss them both goodbye
Like speeding trains
On a one-way track
We can't switch lanes
Until one day...
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