When push comes to shove
watching the sky above
the stars may stay near when you move
the people will see the things you can't prove

Now wash that hair with your fire
and watch the flames lick the air
let your mind burn with desire
and always remember to dare.

Crumpled beneath the wind
now it's barely a whisper
of the feeling that once ached
so deliciously.

Drag, burn and rock me in the sea
chain me to the rain
I need the breast of winter
I want to be more vain.

I dream of woods where I can walk
walk and smooth the thoughts
and fall into the shine

I miss
the kiss
of the moon
the breath of freedom

Would a monster blow
the frantic smear
behind the rust?

I said, shake me till I empty
squeeze me to free yourself
now I
am bloodless, boneless, empty
while a lake of skin is near me
infrequent and eerie.

Surrounded by mirrors in this place I've discovered
I smashed them, destroyed them, wanted truth uncovered

Broken up, glance downward at my fragmented reflection
a piece of me is trapped in glass, at least that's my conjection
the catch is that these mirrors are breaking ME up
even though it's only glass I break.

This glass will leave a gash in me
a gash that's deep and jagged
I'd like to drink the blood from me
and heal the skin that's ragged.

I'd catch a piece of broken glass
catch it in my teeth
let the blood flow through and in my mouth
let it flow and show and flow.

I used to wash my fingertips with my tears
I live and I drive myself over my fears
now I'm
what?
maybe I'm the one who is frankenstein
they may tell you to just quit tryin.

I didn't think the reflections were ugly
I only wanted to see

Then I was left with myself
turned the wrong way
and myself is missing.

So there I was
hanging on to the earth
by the ragged edges
to see what the rest would look like
from there.

I heard the moaning of dying angels
in a heart that melts like stone
ruptured fragments of virtue
the music was only a drone

The sounds we couldn't hear
the thoughts we couldn't think
what we weren't allowed to know
had us tumbling on the brink.

The sky was of fogged crystal
the earth was broken glass
the backs of children bristle
they see their world, so crass

Hush of melody speaks the shattered wings of silence.

Lives lost, lives stolen
hearts pained, hearts broken
or save a life, help a soul
what's ingrained, and what's your goal?
I know/that you don't
I know/that you won't.

And I lose myself
from within myself
read the news myself
'bout my kin myself

And the dews aren't shining here today
and the pews aren't safe for us today
and this ROOs is getting old today
all the views are growing cold today.

And I lose myself
into pieces
my self

And who's to blame
in this sick game?
they're drenched in sin
amid the din

Who's to blame?
who'd they frame?
what guilt is in our institutions?
which prisoners wanted revolution?

Frankenstein, yes frankenstein
hey doctor, how have you made me?
with plans and hands so fine
the best will and future you bade me.

No palm could I be now, I'm pine.
it's too bad that this world had to jade me.
doesn't fit into this grand design..
there are those who just had to fade me.

They like to watch angels cryin'
they like the blade that frayed me
they'd love us to just stop tryin'
but you know your affection has paid me.

In a twisted and choking vine
always and only a blade be
you hacker, your spirits a fryin
on idiot's judgement you grade me.

When the flood of your fears has you pryin'
& the water of your tears dripped starts dryin'
then the fruit of your dreams will be flyin'
and your star will burn bright in orion.