WRENCHES AND SPOONS - The Phantom Limbs

i just wanted to sleep

i turned away from you

faced the wall

closed my eyes

and tried to be still

i had a dream

that we were making love

using wrenches and spoons

there were like these kitchen items

and levers and knobs

i didn't know what button to push

so i grabbed what was right in front of me

and pushed it as hard as i could

i had a dream

that we were making love

using candles and brooms

it seemed so real

i was almost touching you

cellophane kisses on plexiglass windows

caressing the doorknobs, fondling keyholes

it seems so real

i’m almost touching you

feels so close to the truth

no lights no lights

and then you rise to look outside

you love the sight of broken windows

i’m pushing and pushing - trying so hard to get in.

ramming my way into your brain.

i wanna penetrate your soul. i wanna crawl inside.

but all i’ve got is remote controls controlled by electric eyes.

ringing the bells and turning the knobs, trying so hard to get through.

keep rummaging through drawers, looking for tools, can't find the key to get in.

mating the wall - i installed it - now i’m crawling upon it

you look outside you love the sight of broken windows

i had a dream

that we were making love

using toothpicks and glue

CASTANETS COOKIE - The Phantom Limbs

get your

castanets cookie

‘cause everyone’s looking

drink, dance and get nookie

don’t press on the flesh

of the next one’s bet

it’s a tail

spinning round

right into the net

bent over backwards

your box just got

knocked

and the trollops will talk

‘cause their hangers are bent

forever walking side ways

and stepping into cracks

time to knock em back

get your

castanets cookie

‘cause everyone’s looking

knock em back and get nookie

you’re getting soaked

in the games you invent

it’s a tail

spinning round

right into the net

bent over backwards

you’re reeling and hooked

when you’re feeling the looks

get to you right through the glass

arms of octopi grab on to you

you’ll be heading to the sack

it’s time to knock em back

cancel it cookie

they’ll forget about you

when the morning comes

when the cement grins come down on you

you wanna wolf that smile right

off their face

hand-crafted crack-up game

dont’ wanna wake up the same way

but you can’t wash it all away

i know i know cookie

you can cry and cry and cry

you can cry and cry

but you can’t wash it all away

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ACTIVE VERBS - The Phantom Limbs

i'm shifting over to active verbs

i'm taking on a new pro-active slant

i won't reply with passive terms

when someone asks "hey, what's up man?"

i'll tell them that i'm doing something

not that something's doing me

i'll tell them that i'm making something

happen not that something's happening

i won't say that "i got the flu"

i'll say "i've flued myself today!"

i won't say "someone pushed my face in shit"

i'll say "i've shit my face today!"

and everything will change

a victim no more will i be

damn victim talk is killing me

drill it deep into my head

make the message ingested

genesis - speak it into being

genesis - beat it into being

genesis - cut out neural nemesis

genesis - delete contest consciousness

say yes say yes say yes say yes say yes say yes

say yes say yes say yes say yes say yes say yes

say yes say yes say yes say yes say yes say yes say yes

published 2003, The Phantom Limbs Displacement

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