Saturday, June 27

Shameless Delusion








Every Day Is Exactly the Same
Produced by Alan Moulder & Trent Reznor
Album With Teeth


I believe I can see the future
Cause I repeat the same routine
I think I used to have a purpose
Then again, that might have been a dream.

I think I used to have a voice.
Now I never make a sound.
I just do what I've been told.
I really don't want them to come around.
Oh no.

Every day is exactly the same
Every day is exactly the same
There is no love here and there is no pain
Every day is exactly the same

I can feel their eyes are watching
In case i lose myself again.
Sometimes I think I'm happy here.
Sometimes, yet I still pretend.

I can't remember how this got started
But I can tell you exactly how it will end.

Every day is exactly the same
Every day is exactly the same
There is no love here and there is no pain
Every day is exactly the same

I'm writing on a little piece of paper
I'm hoping someday you might find
Well I'll hide it behind something
They won't look behind
I am still inside
A little bit comes bleeding through.
I wish this could've been any other way
But I just don't know. I don't know
What else I can do.

Every day is exactly the same
Every day is exactly the same
There is no love here and there is no pain
Every day is exactly the same
Every day is exactly the same
Every day is exactly the same
There is no love here and there is no pain
Every day is exactly the same


Sunday, June 21

My Father, My Teacher



Father's Song 
- Gregory Orr

Yesterday, against admonishment,
my daughter balanced on the couch back,
fell and cut her mouth. 

Because I saw it happen 
I knew she was not hurt, 
and yet a child's blood so red 
it stops a father's heart. 

My daughter cried her tears;
I held some ice 
against her lip. 
That was the end of it. 

Round and round: bow and kiss. 
I try to teach her caution;
she tries to teach me risk. 

From The Caged Owl: New and Selected Poems by Gregory Orr. Copyright © 2002 by Gregory Orr. Used by permission of Copper Canyon Press. All rights reserved.