Marked for life with circles,
longing for circular motion - movement in time
Swinging around,
run around again,
repeating tender moments,
and the same mistakes
Still I ponder at the sunlit window,
but cannot separate the blinds
to look outside,
if the circle is complete
And there I am,
my love for you goes in circles,
it’s never stuck on points of a line
Its tide rises and falls,
but never subsides
It rides like a Sunday drive,
or through minefields in a war
It never stops turning away,
if the circle is complete
Days will turn in circles,
from the alarm that sets you off,
to the frustration, the comfort, the restraint,
to the love, the hate, the fear,
to the compensation,
to whatever puts you to sleep,
rise and fall within it
MM 2000
Another room away from me
Wondering where I came from tonight
Wondering if the distance makes clear
The things I could tell you
The ways I could be to you tonight
The ways I could be right
Take the shit I took today
And bottle up and throw down
On cement watch it blow up
Into my last three days
I can amuse myself with this
You're just a bystander
Can I help myself and who am I
To complain about anything?
When you are just a room away
And in and out of sleep
I'm wondering about timing
And why it takes so goddamn long
To pull together
The things I could tell you
On cement watch it blow up
Into my last three days
I can amuse myself with this
You're just a bystander
Concrete to crack my skull
And bloody my fists
The sympathy I could win from you
It's all I wanted
Concrete to crack my skull
And bloody my fists
The sympathy I could win from you
It's all I ever wanted in the first place
MM 2001
You're so involved with everyone's
life. You will be some
solace for someone
who feels alone, estranged
from someone else
It's just a total insight you've got
for being between a rock and another rock
Too bottom-heavy to budge, you're so comfortable
between them. You want to talk to
whoever answers
You want to hear their words again and again,
to have similar conversations with different people
It's like you can feel the pain of their days and moments
They know you can hear them now
calling out to you
You're like a pillow to their headaches
You're like a sedative
when they're restless
You spread the waves of calm and collection.
You have constant breakthroughs
in understanding and empathy
You're so involved
MM 2000
The dive goes with your thoughts
racing right through your head
weaving inside and away
from thinking yourself out of sanity
A mission statement is written
Can you inhibit the movement
from one emotion to the next subject?
In conversation- you're thinking yourself out of sanity.
Keeping your ass in line
is what this is all about
Keeps the opportunity alive
for growth in your market.
Keeps the opportunity alive
to collect your thoughts
You have so much,
you have so much perspective
Powerless is so powerful,
only a misunderstanding
It reads just like a manuscript of preservation
You're thinking yourself out of a state
MM 2000
It's never daylight anymore
never just passing time
never means as much as it used to,
and it's always hard to find
the moments that you could ride along to,
the best days lasted forever,
and I don't even have the pictures to prove it
And you know I'm just inside my head,
looking for something real to complain about
I guess I don't even have that,
and that's why it's not worth talking about
And you know that it's not you.
Good days are never good enough,
or else you forget them
Bad days are never bad enough to scar you anymore
The cool people who don't talk to you
are not as cool as they used to be
They're hanging on
and it's so obvious to me
And when there'e nothing left to save
when there's nothing left to prove,
you are one of them,
they are one of you
MM 2000
You think it's a fake-out
Through the song and fever in your eye,
you're faking happiness
Out of your monotony, undercurrents flow
Simultaneously seeing through it,
I've a bid to see right through it
It's got to be to see you
and your hidden partner
You've got a word on everything,
delivered first and last
You will nose your way
into an inner circle
Love and hate are not a part of your interaction
I'm a part of your interaction,
and I'm just dying to see
who's hanging around with you
MM 2000
Eight years gone by so fast
Never felt able to totally put it together
Chapter by chapter – piece by piece,
you look so complete to me
But it seems
we are tearing you apart,
lining up allegiance and reasoning
It falls apart,
but someone has to pick up the pieces,
like they always do
Even shattered glass was once a window,
we looked through it together and apart
Day after day – why be surprised?
I’ve never been able to fill in the gaps
Eight years on,
the gap is widening
Moment after moment
Hot and cold
Turned on and turned off
MM 2000
A snarl with headstrong eyes
that dilate against the white light
Fury has an awakening
and water has a boiling point
This is a condition of reckoning,
this is a rule of thumb
I hold hands to test my confines,
confines you regain again
This is about space and timing,
even when I'm cooling out
I feel your tension inside me
and see its gaze fall from your eyes
that tear up when you laugh or cry,
it sometimes has the same effect
I could harness it or smother it
or make it explode
I could regain it
MM 2000
Laughing with a surgical grin,
wrinkles cracking the paint on my skin
If I had something to say I'd a said it
If I had a still-life instant I'd forget it
Like a graceful train wrecking,
it's a beautiful accident just waiting to happen.
I can't call for action or cuts
it's too much
I call my hands to the crutch,
I've got a motion in flux
I've got time
but I don't have no money or potency
MM 2000
