i love you as the leaf,

on the bent shouldersof the working poor.empty pots, andnowhere to lay your head…pulling bent nailswith a borrowed hammerfrom a tumbling down shack!overthrow…if you cant change it,break it! take it back!break free of the cage!though the guns are pointed,stand up and dare!nothing left to lose,and everything to gain…overthrow..

earth burning, a new page turning,wont shut their eyes, wont buy the lies.midnite to dawn, something’s going on.men with guns decide who’s right or wrong.the weak are just the victims of the strong.too many strangers walking home alone….despair wearing faces, human traces,houses empty, homeless cities.suicides, lonliness hides,no connection, no direction.midnite to dawn, something’s going on.men…

choking on the fleshof the poor and subjugated.while birds of prey circle,bodies strewn on the streets;another martini, stocks rise and fall!the pipeline pulses, liquid death,the eyes of the childrengone to marbles in the dust.the prophets of profittilt their hats and turn away,leaving the stench of their greedon unmarked shallow graves.their god is dead, the world…

water from a rusted spicket.brass doorknobs,forbidden rooms,where spider webs coverforgotten books.and the chant of the ancientsrolls like thunder!strike the bell, mountains quiver!somewhere the gods of oldwalk deserted streets,while the shepherd kingsraise their flutes and play.and the old mad monkwalks into the hills,never to be seen,or heard again.black hooves, white snowthe taste of blood,the smell of…

only the heart knows the secretof where the wind blowsand that’s enogh for me.from drops of water the clouds are formed,that grow together to make the storm.from the thunder and the lightningthe rainbow is bornand that’s enough for me.the feeling that i have for youis the simple song i sing.your mind may not understand,but your…

cant pay the rent?i mean, do we get evicted?do we pack up our senatorsand congressmen, andload them on the backof an old pickup truck…and send them into the greatbeyond? what happens?do Native Americans get it back?do the Chinese take over?and who turns out the lights?