This is a top 10 song for me.

There are people nearby

I can tell because I can hear them

I can tell because I can see them;

I drove to a park today

It was empty and cold

Not even footprints in the mud

Now I’m drinking coffee at the shop

Typing out these required lines

And I can see the grey sunless sky

It is motionless beyond the glass;

Can it see me as well

As i am motionless beyond the glass?

Open one eye

Open the other eye

Take a breath

One day goes by

Rinse

Repeat

When we were on the range

And we were throwing grenades

I would try to send mine farthest

But no matter how far I sent them

The explosion sent shrapnel

Tearing through everything

Flying back to the barrier

I think maybe

You could airborne the explosion

Of not for the hot shrapnel

Ripping you to shreds

The olive knows

The best place to be crushed

Is in the centre of it all

Between the crushing weight

Of two extreme wheels of granite

That at least the oil of its essence

Given through obliteration

Might reduce their friction

And movement happens

I’m alone in a coffee crowd

But have surrounded myself

In a great wall of sound;

Don’t make eye contact

STAY AWAY

I’m here to drain you of life

Like a bloodless vampire

Disguised as an aging man

And when i depart

I will take a part of you

And you, you will be lesser

While i, i will be greater

Words are magic spells

Like

I love you

Like

I am powerful

Like

Your beauty burns the world;

But the secret

For the spell to work?

You have to believe it…

Speak the incantation

All you want

It is useless

Without belief.

Stand in the sun

Close your eyes

And notice

It gets cold

When a cloud passes

You know it

By the feel

You don’t need to see

Any forensics analyst

Will tell you

It’s the sudden change in direction

It’s the sudden deceleration

That kills in the end