"ROADS"

For a while the roads ran parallel,
for a moment, became one;
But the moment passed, as did the while -
each road went on, as mile on mile
their paths no longer reconcile,
their time together done.


Who could say what really happened when,
for a moment, time stood still?
But the moment passed, as did the time
for hearts to sing and minds to rhyme;
and roads, now only rocks and grime,
go on outside our will.

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"C'MON!"

No!  Not ready!  Not ready yet!  Don't wake me up yet!  Oh... no...
Good Morning, Pain.
 
Now I have to get up because I can't stand lying here with you for another second. 
Maybe I could get up and you could just stay here? 
No?  C'mon!  ...just this once? 

It's good to be stupid when you first wake up - if it were otherwise I might give up
before I ever make it into the kitchen.
Hey, Pain - you want some coffee?

After the coffee, Pain says that I shouldn't take a shower,
that it'll hurt even worse if I try to wash.  But I'm not driving to the store looking like this, so I say, "No, I'm showering."

"Driving to the store?  Seriously?  Who are you trying to fool with that? 
I don't feel like going to the store, so you aren't going either!"
Hey!  How 'bout this?  Maybe I could go and you could stay here! 
No?  C'mon!  ...just this once?

It's good to be stubborn when you need to go somewhere - if it were otherwise I might give up
before I ever make it into the car.
Hey, Pain - you need anything at the store?

Made it back and it's evening now; quiet and dark, time to slow down. 
Glass of wine and a good book, pillows and soft music.
Slow down, slow down...

No!  Not ready!  Not ready to go to bed!
Please?  ...oh well.
I really hate sleeping with you, you know.

It's good to be drugged when it's time to lie down - if it were otherwise I might give up
before I ever make it into the bedroom.
Hey, Pain - just go to sleep, would you?  Or go to Hell - either one's OK with me -
No?  C'mon...
Oh.  Wait.  This IS Hell.

Goodnight, Pain.

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"GOODBYE, GEMINI"

Indulge me in a little 'blast from the past'... Ten years ago this winter.


                    “…You wouldn’t know a diamond if you held it in your hand -                     
                                                  the things you think are useless, I can’t understand.”
                                                                                                                             - Donald Fagan


  
I guess you never told your twin
that you said that you loved me,
or how it would be such a sin
to take advantage of me.


Did you just hope I’d understand,
when all along you knew
that only one of you loved me
out of the two of you?

                 Goodbye, Gemini.
          I’ve got to set you free.
          I just can’t live with half your love,
                 and you, and you, and me.

   
                 Goodbye, Gemini.
          It’s better that we parted -
         ‘Cause you’re not only two-faced,
                 you’re two-headed and two-hearted.


I set my heart on giving you
the time and space you needed,
and set aside what happened to
my needs, left all unheeded.


Did you just think I wouldn’t see
when you stopped paying attention?
That you are hot and cold like this
is past my comprehension.


                 Goodbye, Gemini.
          I’ve got to set you free.
          I just can’t live with half your love,
                 and you, and you, and me.
   
                 Goodbye, Gemini.
          It’s better that we parted -
         ‘Cause you’re not only two-faced,
                 you’re two-headed and two-hearted.


                                        ~:~:~:~:~
Convenient for you, isn’t it,
          to pass off telling lies
                    by saying it’s the other you that’s talking?
Your explanation’s just a bad excuse
          in poor disguise -
                    You two can stay right here and watch me walking  -  out.
                                           ~:~:~:~:~


                 Goodbye, Gemini.
          I’ve got to set you free.
          I just can’t live with half your love,
                 and you, and you, and me.
   
                 Goodbye, Gemini.
          It’s better that we parted -
         ‘Cause if I can’t have all of you,
                 I wish we’d never started -


          I didn’t know the love I gave
          could just be disregarded…
          But you’re not only two-faced,
                 You’re two-headed and two-hearted.

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"FLIP THE SWITCH"

("I must be somewhere...")

the switch is down the lights are off and there's no face in the darkened mirror, what?
what's going on?
so glad there's no-one here to see so bad when darkness falls in the daylight, what?
what's going on?
Flip the switch!
Flip the switch!
I can't keep disappearing like this!
There's no light
and I can't see -
Flip the switch and I'll be me.

the switch is down the lights are gone and I am nowhere anywhere nearer, what?
what's going on?
so hard to claw back to the top so pardon me i'm drowning in nothing, what?
what's going on?
Flip the switch!
Flip the switch!
I can't keep disappearing like this!
There's no light
and I can't see -
Flip the switch and I'll be me.

("I must be somewhere, you just can't go there,
look, there's a light, oh...
I fell asleep.
I must be dreaming, that's not me screaming,
I lay me down now
my soul to keep...")

And if I die before I wake,
what difference would it make?
Flip the switch!
Flip the switch!
I can't keep disappearing like this!
There's no light
and I can't see -
Flip the switch and I'll be me.

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"WILDCAT"

                                   
Jodie sometimes talks about the way the cloth of life is made -
Even as we weave the front, the back might be unraveling;
Time is always moving and the light of day is meant to fade –
Even while we’re standing still our life is swiftly traveling.


So I choose to make my own choices; turning from dissenting voices
- never be a puppet that somebody else is posing.
For every freedom I explore, opening another door
- somewhere in another place another door is closing.

                                             ~:~:~:~

          If you try to catch a wildcat and put it in a pen,
          soon the beauty that you saw will disappear – and then
          what is left of all that triggered your desire at first?
          ...Water has no value when you don’t feel any thirst.
                                               ~:~:~:~
 
Jodie sometimes talks about decisions other people make –
whether they make sense or not is not for her to say;
Everyone must for themselves decide which course is best to take –
hoping in the process to improve some future day.


So I choose to make my own choices; turning from dissenting voices
- never be a puppet that somebody else is posing.
For every freedom I explore, opening another door
- somewhere in another place another door is closing.


Time is always moving and the light of day is meant to fade –
even when we’re standing still our life is swiftly traveling;
Jodie sometimes talks about the way the cloth of life is made –
even as we weave the front, the back might be unraveling…

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