The Law Is an Anagram Of Wealth

So Quiet Here

So quiet here
So hushed and stilled
So silent here
Such longing calmed
And tempered here
So quiet here

Swirling shades of evening
Circling the light
Last escaping traces of the day
Streak the sky
Paint in water light
Blends warmth
And breath of breeze
And endless endless reaching here

So quiet here
So hushed and stilled
So silent here
Winding down
To stopping
Gently
Here

Fragility

My words are all stripped bare
Tonight I want something else
Something different
To make some kind of clarity
Of everything that's over us
That's hanging in the air

Coming in on the darkness
Sounds of small voices
In many different tongues
Codes coming in
Music mingling
From lands I've never seen
Places that I've been
Where strangers have given more to me
Than I could ever dream of

Oh make it clear tonight
Fragile world
Whatever's hanging over us
I'm reaching out beyond it now
Turning shadows into light

Fragile life
He's fighting beyond all this
Turn his shadows into light

Words all stripped bare
Fragile bodies
Small voices carry through the air
All this life inside of us
In a darkened world tonight

Nightship

The ship slips out from the grasp of the harbour
Out of its hold into the restless water
Silently
Steadily
Edging away
Silently
Steadily
Pulling away

I feel my heart swell
Surge inside me
Rising and falling
Waves that take me
Silently
Steadily
Onwards
Away

Slow-motion world
Night glimmering blackness
Deep as the stars in the far-off darkness
Lights caught in time
Far
Far away

Bound to the earth
Burnt through with fire
Loose on the water
Moving through air
All traces pass sooner or later
Behind and beyond
Far
Far away

Seize The Vivid Sky

Out
Into the coming on of night
Out
Into a fiery failing light
The day is almost done
Earth spreads
I stretch
Two lines set against the sapping sun

And I seize the vivid sky
Paint bright colours with the spectrum of my eye
Take in every breath deep enough to fly

Away from the lies these changes have forced into our lives
Up into a tranquil place that's constantly denied
Far from the crushing power which brought me to my knees
Earthbound
Justice stays always out of reach

Disobey
Defy
Take your own time Fly

Out
Where hours unfurl
Loosen from our hands
Out
Where tirne is only shadows cast across the land
The day is almost done
Earth spreads
I stretch
Two lines set against the sopping sun

And I'll make my way to where
The warm scent of soil fills the evening air
Everything is waiting quietly out there

Away from the lies these changes have forced into our lives
Up into a tranquil place that's constantly denied
Far from the crushing power which brought me to my knees
Earthbound
Justice stays always out of reach

The Haunted Road

Driving the steel
and black wheels
turning
onwards
without destination

Pausing in moments
for something familiar
Some trace of knowing

Distanoe approaches
blurs into passing
Colourless void without change
So much to long for
takes so much effort
So much strength to contain

The haunted road
The scattered ghosts
of years of days and nights
Driving these wires of darkness
Fleeting shapes in the lights

Violent landscape
Internal dreamscape
A journey that constantly tells
Leaving places
Losing each other
We lose whole parts of ourselves

I Of The Storm

Uproar!
Riotous fury
Furore
I of the storm
Asking for more
Calling for more
Making the most
Settle the score

Make it stick
Cut to the quick
Armed with fire
Implore!
Wealth is another spelling of the law
More
More
Calling for more!
Vengeful flames
Laid at your door
Bum!

Buming the silence
That's cut to the core
Eye of the storm
Rain down!
Drown
Worn
Warn
Tearing it down!

Chain of thought
Chains of thought
Everything
Rationed and rational
Coming to naught
Down
Tear it down!