Story Behind the Song
NAG
by angelo ©gianni
Head full and pores clogged,
slowly leaking poison like a tight steam valve.
I wake hours before I can move
and half a day goes by while the fly trap glue
falls away enough for me to open my eyes.
I squint and look around.
I dont remember anything,
less than usual.
I cant recall the names of any of the objects surrounding me.
They appear oblivious to my existence,
we have common ground.
Memories flash in and out like a failing television.
Dread and humiliation squeeze my eyes shut,
filling me heavy like mercury,
exploding in a thermomoter
stuck in the noon sand of a Texas desert.
I cover my head and moan into my arms.
I sink,
and while I half heartedly try to relearn to breathe,
tequila bile erupts in my mouth
and spills down my chin,
I laugh knowing that
this is a about as good
as its ever going to get.
RATTLES
Time grunts and groans
and paws the ground like a penned bull.
You stand still and unchanging,
perfect chrome
a distorted reflection of who evers looking at you.
I spit and sweat,
trying to get you to rust
but you just smile
like a clean army nurse
and drape a cold cloth on my forehead.
Lyrics
Names are Gone
©gianni
waking up blind, the world dawns with diguise
impossible range,we move apart hesitate
a generous stand, you come apart in my hands
consistent appeal, write on glass make it clear
Blood in my eyes
blood in my hair
blood in my smile
blood in my stare.
all my names are gone
never so silent
all my names are gone
better not knowing.
dismissal as real, my hands fall through all I feel
decisive ordain, a megaphone and a cane
ceiling untied, tethered down to the sky
incapable hands, releasing flies from demand
Blood in my eyes
blood in my hair
blood in my smile
blood in my sail.
all my names are gone
never so silent
all my names are gone
no one steps forward
all my names are gone
Im suddenly tired of
it all....
No one steps forward, and no one steps back
they straighten the line but Im, finished with that
suddenly lifted and, suddenly clear and
suddenly wrong back to digging for light till my fingers are bone and theres
Blood in my eyes
blood in my hair
blood in my smile
blood in my stare.
all my names are gone
never so sorry
all my names are gone
no one steps forward
all my names are gone
Im suddenly tired of
it all....
take this map it feels so hollow
take this map Ive hit the shallow
worste, it works, it works, it works....
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