Something free of fleas please
That doesn’t gnaw on the table legs
Something house-trained
That doesn’t sniff every crotch around
Something predictable
That people can work with
Not the prissy snarly one
Not the snooty judgment howler
Not the endless broken promise-maker
Not the lick your own wounds king
Something obedient and pleasing
That has no wicked sisters
Something that alphas with class
That follows just as poised
Something that grooms easily
That appreciates praise
Not the yapping whippet
Not the whining sludge
Not the excessive excuser
Not the lick your own wounds king

There’s a zero score game
Playing in my head
Neither side has the advantage
Neither side has fight
One team lounges in revenge
The other is frozen, so still
One team can’t rest without plotting
The other can’t see forward at all
One team wants to sleep all day
The other longs to know a next
I’m not rooting for either side
Cause they make a mascot out of me
I’d rather not be a part of it
I’d rather not be a part of any of it

I feel plowed over
I feel plowed down
Feel like fallin’ asleep
Just to keep from drownin’

Ain’t nobody’s fault
Just the juice in my head
Got me grindin’ teeth
Driven’ blind and dead

Water stay home
Water stay home
Can’t wash me over quite yet
Water stay home

I’m bothered by memories
I’m bothered by now
Each line of the marrow
Erodes in denial

There’s blueberry effort
That can’t buy a damn
There’s a dream that I’ve buried
Don’t know why I’m around

Water stay home
Water stay home
Can’t wash me over quite yet
Water stay home

I don’t give a grace
I don’t give mercy tears
I long for sweet handholding

But won’t

I recoil in terror
At the thought of might be
I should offer liberation

But won’t

I dress with caution
I pretend I’m wild
I should model belonging

But won’t

I can preach revival
I can lasso applause
I should gospel onward

But won’t

I love these people
In my own handicapped way
I should break the cycle
I should break the cycle

So you’re jaded
Who hasn’t been
But you are integral
Hope you see it
Cause what you suffer
We all suffer
What you long for
We all long for
It is an epidemic
It is a grand terror
So don’t check out
Stay and bind
Stay and mend
Stay and heal
People, they need food
Stay

My host for the evening
A high speed chase
Worries and ghosts and catastrophes
Circle and loop my brain
I’ll sleep when I sleep
But now I’ll just panic and plot
And torture the one I can’t forgive
In the most barbaric way I can
What a shell of a person I’ve become
When violent ends are comfort friends
Hey don’t we all have things
Evidences of darkness
Rattling around
And circling the drain
Don’t we all wish the demise
Of boys and girls who tried
To bully us to death
Or wrestle us breathless
I know for a fact
I’m not the only one dreaming black
I know for sure because
While you sleep
You stab and applaud

Big land of dreamy eyes
Like a knife to a broiled steak
Through and through that tough
More the thought of truly great
Than any actual star
Big land of trying not to lie
And Roberta is forgettable
She’s sweet enough to hug
But not memorable
In any meaningful way
Big land of live aid
And your left with nothing to do
But ask and re-ask and ask again
Or sit in a puddle of pain
Wondering who promises gin like that
Big land of these
Big big land

You catcalled my suspicions
Move along, Funereal and Glacial
I beg you, hurry up, move along
My low moan don’t get nothin’
Don’t get nothing outta you
I beg you, you languid
I beg you, move along
See your perch, like a gangplank
Summarizes you’re position
The big bright birds say
They tell me that you’re true
So why don’t you
Fall way back ten generations
I beg you cocky nudist, move
Move along, You
‘Cause you know full well
Why I need to end you
Sometimes I just need sunshine
‘Cause you know you whiners
All got thin skin
Sometimes I just need sunshine
Move along, You

Why Oh Why Oh Why
Are you asking me
If you can steer the ship
Safely home
It’s as if you think
That you must first ask me
If you can steer the ship
Safely home
To be clear
It is not necessary
To first ask me
If you can steer the ship
Safely home
Unless of course
Without knowing it
I am some
Tyrant of the sea
Some tyrant of the sea
Who appoints captains
Captains to vessels
Yet with fingers crossed
And a crooked smile
But I’m not that tyrant
I’m not
I’m sure
Cause I did commission you
Thus the party
Thus the pomp
Thus the gifts
Thus the map
Sailing is what that was all about
Leading is what that was all about
Getting the crew safely home
That’s your job
You are the captain
That’s why we call you captain
That’s why your room
Is called the captain’s quarters
That’s why you wear the cool hat
That’s why pirates hate you
And your crew prays for you
So to be crystal clear
You do not ever need
To ask my permission
To do the job
You’ve been appointed to do
Why Oh Why Oh Why
Oh Why don’t you sail
Steer the ship, Captain
Steer the ship

Save it for your wisdom bath, Julia
Save it for my vacation home
Serenade your regrets and wishes
And put your robe on over the whole
Carry hay to the stable beasts
Declassify your drone
Carry hay to your weariness
Pour concrete o’er His throne