Skull Creek

This city is a concrete coffin
I'm a speck in the muck I'm lost in
Day after day, smoggy clouds go by
And underneath ... all is only lie
(more and more, I die .. and more, I die)

And the sirens charge ... ten-deep brigade
And the chopper is just overhead
Ozarks sound good, how I wish I'd stayed
Hope that I return before I'm dead
(or I guess my soul will be a ghost
... calling, searching out Skull Creek instead)

Here, I can't think or breathe (where is home?)
The cracked mirror turns me towards myself
Here, heaviness won't leave (where is home?)
It's the kind of tired that sleep can't help

And the sirens charge ... ten-deep brigade
And the chopper is just overhead
Ozarks sound good, how I wish I'd stayed
Hope that I return before I'm dead
(or I guess my soul will be a ghost
... calling, searching out Skull Creek instead)

(Where is home? - Where is home? - Where is home?)

(c) Kay Irvin

Made In Hell

Tell me a tale that's a beautiful lie
Kiss me like I won't be here tomorrow
You grab that place in me that's destructive
Where I know this world's much with sorrow

'Cause while you love screaming, I love dreaming

Climbing, grieving, reaching out for Heaven
Reality bashing down, 'round so soon
Blood and tears seem to almost glow
Under a burning, alabaster moon
And that lonely place is one I know well
(what a match [we are] ... made in Hell)
And Hell in Hell, and Hell in Hell with Hell

All of my best intentions cry
Goodbye, fallen, goodbye, my damned, goodbye

It's amazing what you can get used to
I thought you were the best that I could get
I thought pleasing you was all I deserved
I've paid long with star-crossed scars of regret

'Cause while you loved screaming, I loved dreaming

Climbing, grieving, reaching out for Heaven
Reality bashing down, 'round so soon
Blood and tears seem to almost glow
Under a burning, alabaster moon
And that lonely place is one I know well
(what a match [we were] ... made in Hell)
And Hell in Hell, and Hell in Hell with Hell

All of my best intentions die
Goodbye, fallen, goodbye, my damned, goodbye

(tragic magic, tragic magic)
(we were, we were, we were, we were)
(once upon a time,... once upon a time)

(c) Kay Irvin

Vulnerably Yours

Where you end and where I begin
I don't care
Deeply drawn from unraveling
Heart in hand and an open vein
Blood-stirring
All consuming in traveling

My life's been filled with slow goodbyes
My world's gone black with hurt and fear
I sacrificed some sanity
To get to now, to get to here
I love you and can't get close enough
I'm most alive when I'm lost in you
Take this heart, light my eyes, love me back

Where you end and where I begin
I don't care
Vulnerably yours, suspending heart
Don't lead me to disappointment
Don't leave me
Alone with ache and torn apart

My life's been filled with slow goodbyes
My world's gone black with hurt and fear
I sacrificed some sanity
To get to now, to get to here
I love you and can't get close enough
I'm most alive when I'm lost in you
Take this heart, light my eyes, love me back

(I love you,... love me back)
(I love you,... love me back)
(I love you,... love me back)

(c) Kay Irvin