#progressiverock #powerballad #rock #garagerock

I had a strong vision for this one but wasn't sure how well i could execute it since it's a big ol song, & also a bit outside my wheelhouse musically. I think it came out pretty well! I could have pushed the production a bit farther but decided to keep it stripped down & kind of garagey.

painting my fingernails gold painting my nostrils cold it's the end of the world as we know it too heavy for superman time for a poet to say it we blew it

alone. in a league of my own, a zone that you've never known cut to the bone here's

the broth. whipped to froth by the wind, with my larynx in tatters like clothes i should mend

i put wings on my words & they fly overhead painting my best pirouettes in the skies but the cardboard people, their smiles are dead & they cannot refocus their eyes

so what's the purpose of playing pretend if you're a real one you must be my friend i struck the drum & the cheshire cat grinned, "you'll keep good time in the march to the end"

sprawling over the sugarcane the godzilla of the cargo train whipping deadly confetti into the air

hear its roar rip across the plain it's the horrible hurricane best-laid plans of mice & men beyond all repair

watch out for ice! it's slippery! it's not so nice! real sickening

turn out the lights, guerilla radio! you're dead to rights, counterfeit patriots!

exhuming the doom of the whitewashed tomb with ear candy - it's now, & later will bloom into thoughts, where it falls on the good soil it's always been about luv n' haight but the boiling frogs

keep croakin they're never gonna be awoken you can be outspoken or get spent as a token what's the harm, when everything's broken, in a little bit of sleeping bear pokin be a brother but watch out for the faux kin they say they got your back but they're jokin music's hot, cause there's fire where there's smokin a sonic spa for the weary to soak in hold the sour sauna steam till you're chokin brain in frying pan scrambled egg yolkin every now & then the embers need stokin