DANGEROUS FRUIT
2008 (New release)

Twenty Slivers
The words stick even still
Sour tar beneath my nails
Inside the cracks
I thought I got you all out
Your gravity coming down
A quite prison even now
I thought I got you all out

And even with new skin and a different lie
You get under you get in
Every bullet I dodged in the blink of you eye
Twenty slivers in my skin
Even now you made it in
Even now you made it in
A thousand miles from me now
From your piercing glances
Even still
I can feel your eyes somehow
Ever word was paper thin
Every hill into a mountain
I thought I got you all out

Even with new skin and a different lie
You get under you get in
Every bullet that came within an inch of my life
Was it the flame you tried to kill
Your words haunt me even still
I’m afraid they always will
The words stick even still
And I’m afraid they always will….

When You Touch Me
It’s in your skin it’s in your eyes
in the brown of earth beneath your skies
it’s in your hands like the salt of the sea
when you touch me
when you touch me

I have this fire
frozen in my heart
I have this fire
frozen in my heart
It’s in your skin it’s in your heart
it’s your reason it’s who you are
it’s the wind inside the tree
when you touch me
when you touch me

It’s in your skin in your eyes
in your truth in your life
in your heart in your dream
in your mind what you believe
it’s in the salt beneath your skin
it’s how you think it’s where you’ve been
it’s in your reason it’s in your love

First Crack
Have you ever thought about it
have you ever gone this far
now I’m calling you out about it
have you ever gone this far
and it feels like a broken piece of glass
and it feels like a hologram at best
swollen words of emptiness
have you ever thought about it

If this is the first crack
it’s the one you can’t get back
it’s the one you can’t get back
now you’re shattering the rest
with your words of emptiness
Every moment a dying race
every word to save your face
swollen words of grace
have you ever thought about
have you ever thought about

Dark is Easier
Eyes are better off blind
Tears are better stone dry
The heart is better shut tight
When the numbness is inside
when the numbness is inside
Words on a page
Words like a ghost from a grave
Words took you away
And I know how to lie
I know how to lie (in)

The dark is easer
The dark is easier
The dark is easier
In the night
In the night
Love will color your skin brown
Life to the river where you drowned
Soles never touched the ground
And I will lay my body down
I will lay my body down
Eyes are better off blind
Tears now the pain is mine
My heart is bleeding your bloodline
Living inside living inside

Oxygen
I want to be your oxygen
just for a moment
I want to be that death defying
life defining need
I want to be your oxygen
just for a moment
I want to feel desire you
can cut thru for me

I’m on fire to be your love
I can’t breathe without your love
I can’t hold my breath that long
I can’t live without oxygen
I want to be your oxygen
just for a moment
I want to feel the savoring
the favoring of me
I want to feel your lips on mine
just like the first time
I want to feel the heat in your heart for me

I want to be your oxygen
just for a moment
I want to feel that death defying
life defining need
I want to be your oxygen
just for a moment
but you are you are
the oxygen the oxygen you need

Dangerous Fruit
A shiny fruit can burn
so desirable
you’ll never ever learn
to walk away
and is it ok
to wander down this way
is it ok
to wander down
laa kiss me…

Kiss me cool and kiss me quiet
touch me til I’m blue
it’s the strangest fire
dangerous fruit
Blinding the sun that burns
until it drowns you
you’ll never ever learn
to walk away
and is it ok
to cross the line this way
is it ok
laa

Stone China
In the east wind
in the silent prayer
with my sad heart
I felt you there
I felt you there
In the heated rain
with the night in your eyes
and the ache of happiness
you made me shine
you made me shine

Stone China
cold fire of blue
stone china
I could never get old of you
When the shadows fall
when the dark rises
in a swollen dream
you made me believe
you made me believe

In the east wind
in the silent prayer
with my sad heart
I felt you there
I felt you there

Recognize
Her eyes weathered deep and full
and mine wide open for the first time
I could never know what you know
I could never see what you’ve seen
and in a world of unfamiliar eyes
I could recognize

I could recognize your heart
I could recognize your heart
and I drift thru the days
trying to remember your face
trying to recall your eyes
I memorized
Are you calloused deep in
have tears cut canyons in your skin
and with your son at your side
and love in your eyes
are you stronger even then even when

Dirty and Clean
There is a ghost
deep in my throat
shoving it down
speak and you choke
every fire
sharpens the flood
throbbing and wild
stained in blood
and each little lie
making mountains
mountains I climb
wasting my time
wasting my time
feeding the fire
teasing the lies
with dirt in my eyes
Ohh dirt in my eyes….
Pissed it away
the heroes are gone
dirt in their sheets
rum on their tongues
somewhere between
dirty and clean
water and smoke
laugh and you choke
Ohh dirt in my eyes…
There is a ghost
deep in my throat
shoving it down
speak and you choke
somewhere between
dirty and clean
the truth and the lie
with dirt in my eyes
Ohh dirt in my eyes…
10 Guilty
Where would I go
How would I know
Where would I stand
If you never loved
You couldn’t show
You didn’t know
You’d never hold my hand
Long enough for me to
Feel past your fingertips
They’d never linger like
Your lips would linger on mine
You’d lay your eyes on me
Then lay goodbyes on me
Every everytime

And I charge you with this
That you really loved me
And I could feel it in your kiss yes yes
That you really love
And you wouldn’t admit to me
I find you guilty
Of really loving me
You were afraid
You couldn’t stay
You’d never say
The truth behind your eyes
You’d tell me lies
You’d criticize
But I wouldn’t buy it
Cause I could see right through you
You wouldn’t give me the time of your day
You’d only give me your nights one way

I wouldn’t buy it your coolness the quiet
Your lie is a riot to me
You wouldn’t give me your love
You were way far above
Like a dark brooding cloud
Over see

Bianca
Bianca didn’t have to ask
her skin was like leather
her eyes were like a deer’s
in the cold November weather
her favorite color was green
she offered up the only thing she could
silver beads

There on a street corner
on a cold November midnight
lost in the city
lost in her dark life
like a dirty postcard
passed around and used
when did your dreaming end
Bianca
She spoke about a man
who loved and left her
she said wasn’t any good
to go and remember
she’d been beaten down
she wore it on her face
how can someone take the cold
with that kind of grace