Have Mercy ©©

I’ve been walking down these streets 

From the time I could crawl to the door

I don’t know what it is but when I first stood up

The road beckoned me to places unknown

Down the road has the mystery

Of what’s not the same

Was I running away because I was afraid

Of what I might find if I stay

On my way I found love and let it slip away

I met the Devil and we danced the night away

I met God and he said “bitch”you’re to soon 

No mercy for you you’re going back

There is no escape from destiny

Because we are stuck in the cracks of our minds

Trapped between what’s right and what we want

Choices are never wrong just good or bad

This road snakes into tomorrow 

Leaving shadows where once was hope

My ghosts keep my spirit warm 

As I travel to places unknown

Walker

Whisky On My Lips ©©

The sky is falling

Rivers drown the empty parts of me

Years wash away as I get old

Until there is nothing left to see

As the darkness took over

The world turned cold and heavy

There was never a promise

The sky would never be cloudy

Into the wilderness to get lost

Far from any wandering eyes

So that all the parts of me  

Can fade away and die

The water runs clear over what’s left of me

So cold it burns

Each breath the flame 

The fire that life yearns

In the darkness i heal

But I can’t fix the pain

I can only embrace what won’t go away

And hope I don’t go insane

I don’t know what you see

When the night goes away

The parts of me that feel

Have nothing left to say

Walker

What I hide Inside ©©

Here I sit far down this long road

Alone and tired, glass in hand

Once it was full of courage

Now it drowns the pain 

Everyone is gone but I’m still here

You don’t know what I hide inside

Silence is the air the that I breath

You see what I carry on the outside

Every sip dries the tears I deny

Every drink blurs all the faces

Some left to soon others not soon enough

I raise a glass to the shadows that haunt my mind

Where have those who witness my life gone

The laughter, the songs we sang

The friends I would walk though hell for

Brothers and sisters to the bitter end

A picture in a frame on the wall 

There’s a woman, a man standing tall

They are no more yet the picture is still here

I try to remember what it was like when they were all still here 

Whiskey and beer is all that remains

The crowd slowly disappears into time

Their dreams left for me to lay to rest

Cheers one more time my friends, Mom and Dad

Walker

Say It Out Loud ©©

Darkness swallows the light as day turns to night

Shadows crawl out of the crevices of my mind

Showing me a past that never goes away 

Nothing will ever be the same 

It’s in the darkness my heart bleeds the most

There can never be salvation from the memories we keep

Show me what I desire not what you took away

Show me love not silence here in the darkest corner of my soul

I don’t want to know why you went away

I might have done the same

In the shadows there are no guarantees 

No promises that you have to keep

Stuck in the shadows searching for something I can’t explain

I don’t know what it is but It’s whispering my name

Maybe ghosts echoing from a past that doesn’t go away

The moon is a beacon in the sky to light the way

Walker

Those You Kissed ©©

The night is cold

The moon’s full face shines down 

What makes this a special moment

Is it the stillness of the night

Maybe the moon’s luring hue

Or maybe it’s special because off you

Lay your head right here beside me

Close your eyes and slowly take a deep breath 

Drift away into the mists of time

Between the dreams and desires we fear to explore 

The forbidden fruits of our hearts

We hide from prying minds

I remember your breath on a cold night

The heat of your being slowly escaping your full lips

It’s all a dream to be remembered on a cold night

When the moon is in full display for those who have found love

To wonder how they could have lost it

The night is over 

Open your eyes

Who’s laying next to you

Is it a dream or your desire that you see

The moon will always be there

Will you

Will I

Walker

Prove Me Wrong ©©

I walk alone through the darkness

A prisoner of this existence with me as its jailer

Sentenced to silence or exile from a world I regret

Countless souls stand by and watch in silence, helpless, alone

The streets are full of people just like me 

Lost in exile trying to find a way out

I don’t like what I see but what is there to do

When we fear loosing what little we have left

Times are changing as the light of the dawn

Rises between what’s a dream and what’s real

Exposing truths and lies twisted together 

Hiding from us what most of us don’t give a fuck about

We walk alone in a crowd of lost souls 

Looking for a way off of this carousel 

To drift away from all that is toxic to touch

Bitter to taste, harder to swallow

Together we hide in the darkness

Hoping to survive what we have little control over

In this dream it’s all real and the darkness is but a word

For we stand naked at the edge of the world, a witness 

Walker

Love Desire And Gravy ©©

One day I woke up and out the door I went

Where I was going I knew not 

I climbed a mountain until I found nothing but snow

Yet I still look up at that one empty spot in the sky

From coast to coast I wander

Across calm lakes and raging rivers I cross

Moving forth before I flounder and fall

So I can reach something I desire

Desire Is what blinds me to love

They say love conquers all but I stand here 

Desire is so strong when all you have is sacrifice

Love is a mountain onto another mountain

In the space between love and desire

There is only chaos in my heart

Take me to a time when I knew not

What toll must be endured to find love

Holding onto love is harder as desire fades away

The fires need to be fed so that love can seduce desire once more

Otherwise why did I go out into the wilderness

If not to find love too feed my desires

Walker

Thinking Back ©©

Laying here watching time drift away

Thinking about yesterday

All the way back to the beginning of time

At the first light of your dawn

We come from the darkness 

A womb that gave us warmth and security

Into the light of day for fate to swallow up

To be thrown up time and again

The faces of those you met 

Pass before your eyes like the stars in the night sky

The feelings we hold for each one slowly drift away

As do the years 

All hopes and dreams left behind

All the dreamers melt away into obscurity

The voices that inspire who we must be 

For there to be a future full of hope

Between the light and darkness 

Is where we breed life for hope to exist

It’s where we learn about pain and love

The cost and the reward

Are we the ones that are left behind

Are we the survivors of our own dreams

Or is this the nightmare that we created

To suffer for what we can’t have 

What have we learned for all the sacrifice

That we will do it all again and again

Until we get it right

Or it will be the end

Laying here looking at what is left

Thinking about tomorrow

All the way to the end of time

Where the darkness awaits your return

Walker