Snake Oil

Every four years we pick a new liar
or keep the same one...
but nothing ever changes,
just the faces selling the snake oil
all the while corruption eating away
at the soul of a nation....
Is the truth too much to ask?

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Just go away

We've been listening
yet you've never had anything to say
gone are the promises
nothing's changed
and now we hope
you just go away

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Can there be me?

It's the lack of your physical pesence
in my life...
that makes me want to give up
the fight...
and sink into the blackness
of the sea...
darker than
the darkest night...for
without you...can there be me?

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Truth you can't control

Our fight for freedom
is our constant
the foundation of this nation
it's never stopped
and never will....
Freedom is a sacred truth
we pursue...
Foolish politicans...
Liberty is in our blood,
it's not a thing for you
to take, nor grant
at a whim...

Our fight for freedom
is constant, never ending
it's a truth you can't control

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We know the way

We want our dreams back
get out of the way
We want our country back
we'll lead the way
We want our future back
we know the way

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Each silent stare

Oh but for death
that dividing, estranging angel
of darkness.
My world so small, dark in isolation
except for my dreams, these still
a link in the chain.
My nighttime hope, here you still remain
Death leaves no dignity, we struggle in its call
when all else is still, the eyes alone alive
too weak to speak except with your eyes.
Tubes in your heart, hands gnarled in pain
nothing of your old self, now linked with death
shall remain.
They lowered your body in the waiting ground
newly dug, dark with moisture still.
The eyes of those you loved, bowed down
or upturned to heaven in prayer,
each word, each tear, each silent stare.

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Not much to offer

The only thing I have to offer
other heartsick lovers...
is the truth of my own pain.

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