Let the pressure go
Watch it fall away
Let electricity flow
Through your veins
In a hotel room
Watch the sunset drop
Hear your heart go boom
New York she’s in flames

Burn it down
The night is just a sound
The boys are coming ‘round
To take this town

No news on the billboards
The square is out of time
Avenues dipped in diamond dogs
The dolls are looking fine
Do you get out alive
With your sanity intact
Every nights a long goodbye
And vanity gets sacked

You’re top of the heap
Your king of the hill
The girls make you weak
Boys want to kill

27/10/2022 Thursday 586
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It’s only rain
It’s only pain and suffering
It’s a stain
That just won’t un-wring

Water is pure
Crystal clear
Reflects the sun
Ripples in your eye

We’re looking down
Searching for that gold
Blinded by the colours
All the lies we’re told

25/10/2022 Tuesday 584
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What do you see
When you look in the mirror
Are you a man
Or are you a sinner
An absolute beginner

You’ve lived a life
How much ya wasted
You could’ve lived twice
More to be tasted
All you did wrong
Woke up and faced it
Gave up the drink
From then on you chased it

Now we’re hanging on
Love you embraced it
Those days are gone
Unless you create it
You can’t say you’re sorry
When you’ve done nothing wrong
You can’t be a tribe
When you don’t belong
Stay on the outside
Look in the mirror
Once you were alive
You are a winner

23/10/2022 Sunday 582
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How did you get here
How did it come to pass
Made something of yourself
Not an insect under glass
The doors are always open
Just got to push them through
It’s not a new invention
Not a nail you’re a screw

Take the leap
Across the gorge
There’s no one hunting you
Make the jump
There’s no cost
It’s just you against you

Clap your hands at six am
Now you’re ready to go again
Move yourself and I will follow
I’m the ghost of youthful sorrow

Put it back
Leave it behind
Only glance
In the rear view mirror
Look ahead
To where you are
Here and now
Here now forever

18/10/2022 Tuesday 580
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I can get a little lost sometimes
When things get complicated
It’s hard for me to read the room
So keep things simple understated
I guess I never grew up at all
Or learned to live in an adult world
I saw the hurt we can do to each other
The pain we give is it any wonder

My hearts like ripped up clothes
Lying on the bedroom floor
I’m sitting at the top of the stairs
Is this dead thing worth fighting for

Just look out the window
Track the raindrops racing down
Like the teardrops on your sad face
Silent cries make no sound
Everything’s forgotten
A new day wakes the skin
There’s something in the air
The old wounds always sting

16/10/2022 Sunday 578
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