Bevel

The little boy woke up with the sleep still in his eyes
No food was in the kitchen but he didn’t know to cry
His mother didn’t even seem to know he was alive
So he went out searching, didn’t know what he would find

He had seen the Good Book, couldn’t read between the lines
He rushed out of the door, and left his fear behind

He said to the lady with rough hands and soft embrace
Help me find the meaning of my life in this place
She said, “Son, it’s simple, just take my hand and see.
I’ll take you to the river and how happy you will be.”

He went down to the river
He went down to the river
He went down to the river
And he jumped right in

The water pulled him deeper, he was looking for release
But he didn’t know the truth would leave him in the arms of peace

So he closed his eyes tighter and said inside his mind
I’ll travel down this river and leave this life behind

He went down to the river
He went down to the river
He went down to the river
And he jumped right in

The water’s cool
The blood is thick
But this world has made him sick

Close your eyes
Feel the flow
Float away
And let it go

He went down to the river
He went down to the river
He went down to the river
And he jumped right in

Lyrics by: Karin L. Nicely

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Kindred Soil

Driving through the battlefield
A shiver runs along my spine
For a moment, I am dreaming
Living in another time

(Shots exploding in the distance
Cannons echo through the hills)

No vision comes that clearly
Fleeting feeling in consciousness
Hardly breathing, I lean backward
Lay my head upon the rest

Spoken:
You are the Mother of the Earth
Your sons’ blood has seeped too long into your flesh
They use their minds to create destruction while
Locking their hearts in an impenetrable steel tank

Cry for their foolishness
They are proud of their wars
tactics
power
strength
technology
country

Cry hard, Mother
Because one day your tears will fall only upon
Lifeless dust
Your sons will be gone
And will have pulled your silent daughters
Along with them

In the garden, we are working
I see your hands there in the dirt
A vision briefly comes to tease me
Other hands and another shirt

Who knows just where we’ve been
Maybe loving long ago
Maybe other lives are resting
‘Neath the ground in Gettysburg

Was it in Gettysburg?
Was it in Gettysburg?

Lyrics by: Karin L. Nicely

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Puppetmaster

Tear it down
Build it up
Finding ways
To fill your cup

Upside-down
Rightside‚ round
Pick your eyes up
Off the ground

Pull it tight
Turn it loose
Now your neck is
In a noose

Close Your Mind up
In a Shell
Know a Secret
No One Tells

No Solution
Just Confusion
Till You Cry out Loud Enough

Little puppets
Dance for glee
Think they know just
What you need

Puppetmaster
Pull the string
Get her to do
Most anything

Now you‚ve got them
Thinking thoughts
Tie their hearts up
In a knot

Never knowing
Truly joy
Each one another
Pretty toy

Where are you going
Ruled by your ego?

Lyrics by: Karin L. Nicely

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Endymion

He’s come to the edge of reason
But cannot separate
The quiet hour of midnight
From the dawn’s prismatic light

Selene, his lover throughout the night

Somewhere, hidden in his soul
Is the gem of truth you seek
Locked away in its guarded sphere
It may disappear

Endymion
Keeper of Dreams
Before the night is over
Endymion
Can you give her the keys to your slumber?
Endymion
The Silent Sleeper
Forever lost in the night beneath the dawn

He’s journeyed to the edge of the world
So far across dark seas
Somewhere out there on the horizon
Is the doorway to understanding

Selene, his luminescent vision

He’s become his own reflection
Looking in to what he knows so well
He’s entered so many worlds
And fallen into the prison of your spell

Endymion
Keeper of Dreams
Before the night is over
Endymion
Can you give her the keys to her desire?
Endymion
The Immortal Sleeper
Forever bound to the darkness beneath the dawn

Endymion

Lyrics by: Rowen S. Poole and Karin L. Nicely

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Hyperspace Minefield

Everywhere I turn, I can’t get away from it
Everywhere I turn, I think these things again
I don’t understand the reason
Why my mind wants to descend

Unexplainable visions draw me
Nearer to the place I fear
Speeding onward, ever faster
My eyes play tricks with my own tears

I am running through a minefield
Every time I turn around
Don’t look now–we’re getting closer
To ending up on hallowed ground

Every time I see the black abyss
Every time I see the warning signs
A single destination beckons
Terrifying in its delight
Unavoidable situations
Close to danger every time
Guide the course, now hold it steady
Give our reasoning some rhyme

I am running through a minefield
Every time I turn around
Don’t look now–we’re getting closer
To ending up on hallowed ground

Will it ever get to you?
Will you ever find the truth?
Will you ever turn around
And find out what you already knew?

Shadowed reflections in your mirror
A tortured soul for all to see
Receiving emotional shockwaves
It’s a hyperspace minefield
That locks you away

Dangerous thoughts infect my dreams
Enticing rhythms calling me
Thinking about it,
waiting for it Consequences of foolishness

I am running through a minefield
Every time I turn around
Don’t look now–we’re getting closer
To ending up on hallowed ground

Lyrics by: Karin L. Nicely

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Dreamcatcher

Unseen hands control my dreams
Nothing in my mind is what it seems
Cultivated kisses on unconscious lips
Diversionary dreams leave no regrets

Shades of night slip into darkest den
Iniquity calling to be my friend

Don’t try to drag me down
Don’t try to drag me down
Don’t try to drag me down

Blue-light shadows just spin me around
Seduce me sweetly with a wall of sound

Psychotropic souls seek their own sixth sense
To devour the floor without recompense

Purple-haze halos invade my eyes
What you said then was no surprise

Sultry-sick voice in this smoky dream
Maybe all it is, is what it seems

Don’t try to drag me down
Don’t try to drag me down
Don’t try to drag me down

Frenetic energy in your intellect
Just how do you know what you’d expect

Sleepless now in the moonlight’s gaze
Silent dreaming out of phase

Don’t try to drag me down
Don’t try to drag me down
Don’t try to drag me down

Lyrics by: Karin L. Nicely and Rowen S. Poole

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TV Talk Show

Look the camera in the eye
Show ‘em all how you can cry
Microcosm of our world
Silly boys and stupid girls

Scream your head off on TV
Give ‘em more profanity

I don’t want to see your hatred anymore

Spewing hate, abusing love
Can’t you see we’ve had enough
Foul-mouthed teens in an ugly phase
Audience sits there in a daze

It’s all a game and nothing more
Don’t even know what you abhor

I don’t want to see your hatred anymore

People sit there mesmerized
“Give us more!” comes from their eyes
Anger rules the love possession
Never heard of self-discretion

Look the camera in the eye
Show ‘em all how you can cry
Microcosm of our world
Silly boys and stupid girls

Who’s behind this degeneration?
What evil lies in condemnation?

I don’t want to see your hatred anymore

Lyrics by: Karin L. Nicely

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10th Moon

Nothing could ever equal this
Nothing has ever come so close
No reason to explain it
I don’t even understand
Why Time so quickly steals the sand

No rules, no reason
Smooth as satin
Ever pleasing

Private sanctum hides delight
Golden moonlight’s aura bright
10th Moon rising
Our mysterious friend
Binds together as Time suspends

Inside, you find no emptiness
A quiet place to go
Whispered secrets, calming voice
When all is fair you have no choice

Sweet sounds in harmony
Turn melody to memory
You’ll never know what this all means to me

The compass of Fate’s wheel
Sends candles slowly burning
Clove-scent dances on my breath
As flames transfix your eyes
To link our minds, uncivilized

No rules, no reason
Smooth as satin
Ever pleasing

Soft breezes in the heavy air
Open all the pathways there
Step inside as the 10th Moon rises
I surrender now; nothing left to do
Awaiting dreams in the lunar pool

As the 10th Moon rises

Lyrics by: Rowen S. Poole and Karin L. Nicely

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Agent of Chaos

Agent of Chaos
Looks down on the world
Feeding his hunger
On loathing and dread

His hawk-like stare
Devours the scene
The beings below
Cannot feel the dark gleam

Intensely he waits
For the walls to come down
He readies himself
To wreak havoc around

Confusion sets in
On unknowing minds
He laughs to himself,
“How can they be so blind?”

Harmony’s failing
When words all deride
And no one is listening
When anger divides

Perched on a spiral
Enveloped by dusk
The burning below him
Gives off a sweet musk

Agent of Chaos
Dances for the world’s demise
Element of Chaos
In everyone’s eyes

Communication
Has ceased to exist
Confusion is thick
In malevolent mist

River of fire
Flowing like wine
He thinks he’s the ending
But can’t see the real sign

Agent of Chaos
Dances for the world’s demise
Element of Chaos
In everyone’s eyes

Lyrics by: Karin L. Nicely

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Far Side of Eden

Crying and crying
Pain out of bounds
Everyone’s talking,
but there is no sound
Gaia’s own heartache
As the smoke swirls around

Black rain falling–falling down, down, down
Sickening tempests
As the factories rise
Choking our ambition and blinding my eyes
Naked trees dying
By the cruel roadside
Soon our children will have nowhere to hide

We are living on the far side of Eden
Wisdom of the ages
Lost in the dust
Of technology’s eruption as it’s gaining our trust
Bitter winds blowing
In terrifying gusts
Fed by our growing material lust

Pacification
Greets the disgust
As the tide of complacency keeps eroding what it must

Lyrics by: Karin L. Nicely

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Stormchaser

Thunder breaks the night
The pleasure of fear
Electricity’s brilliant flash of light
Inside-out and outside-in
Oh yeah
Can we do it again?

Vivid clouds poised above you
I feel the hunger in your silence
Can’t you see?
I don’t want to be Lost alone in the violence
I want to sail into the wind
Oh yeah
Can we do it again?

Animal sounds
Close to consciousness
Underlying
Close to crying
Entwining, thrilling to obsess

Thunder Threatens again
Resonating
So invading
Are you close to the edge?

Within the storm there’s understanding
Gentle currents can be so demanding
The scent of sweetest-burning emotion

Move like water
There’s no other
Cover me
With the sea
Taunting eye
No surprise
Back for more
Even the score

Inside-out and outside-in
Oh yeah
Can we do it again?

Can’t you see?
I don’t want to be Lost alone in the violence
I want to sail into the wind
Oh yeah
Can we do it again?

Lyrics by: Rowen S. Poole and Karin L. Nicely

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Serene Sea

Blood-red flowing, seething down
Firefall licks parchment ground
Burning river comes to cleanse
And with its holy message send
Peaceful offering, giving life
Dust awakens as it swallows strife

Forge a pathway; cover sin
Getting out or getting in
Imprisoned in your current form
Our very nature brings us harm
Blinding heat to heal the sight
Blending day with calm of night
Liquid lava, molten flesh
Can you feel its soft caress?

Cooling serenity, there is no need to flee
Inside of me
The water’s deep, strong arms enfolding
My eyes beholding
Serene sea flowing down to meet me
Time keeps moving, it’s so soothing
I long for serenity

Lyrics by: Karin L. Nicely