Maslows Pub

I am standing in the ruins
bodies strewn about the field
my armor hangs in pieces
lost my weapon and my shield

There’s no comfort in the sky
the rain comes down in sheets
The senseless mob prepares their ropes
They chant for my defeat

You’re my only shelter
You’re my calm inside the storm
You’re my muse and my rebirth
You’re the salt of the earth

I’ll try to find a way to cry
One night’s enough for mourning
When I see the sun again
my doubters will take warning

But tonight just one night
I’ll let the tears flow
I’ll remember what I did
when I had that special glow

My pain is soaking through your shirt
through your body to the ground
You’ve always been my strength
I was lost and now I’m found

You’re my only shelter
You’re my calm inside the storm
You’re my muse and my rebirth
You’re the salt of the earth

Thanks for coming in today
I think you know how this goes
Or that is you think you do
I think you think you know the way

Just a few simple questions
Then we’ll send you on the road
You can keep your clothes on
But I’ll see you naked and exposed

I’m going to find out what you’ve done
I need to know just who you are
You’ll tell me things that you don’t know
And what we’ll find won’t be so fun

Are you better than the other boys
Have you beat the best day after day
Do you play with others, put away your toys
Do you tell the truth do you know the way

And how do you feel about my god
Isn’t he pretty doesn’t he glow
Have you ever seen another like him
Do you want to be a part of his show

Thanks for coming in today
You did just fine we’ll let you know
I didn’t think you had it in you
But you had the job yesterday

The world I see inside the screen
is beautiful so lush and green
I can fly above the plains
move the sun and make the rains

I built a castle in the air
Built chariots to take me there
I built myself from mountain dew
Take my hand and I’ll build you

I love my world because it’s mine
I made it of my heart and twine
My dreams swirl into balmy weather
My hopes to hold the ball together

The world outside my only window
is brutal cold a killing blow
that doesn’t care where it strikes
rows of heads adorning spikes

The world I see inside the mirror
isn’t mine it’s full of fear
That’s not my shape it’s not my voice
I’ve seen myself I have a choice

I’ll pull my world from my own heart
and wear it as a shield of art
making truth from what was play
making worlds from mounds of clay

Do you like who I am today
Look at my finery
The shape of my face
is a new design by me

Float me in the air
My body makes a cross
The me I was yesterday
is gone without loss

My clothes emerge from
deep recesses of mind
The ink on my body
fades over time

Don’t like what you see
I don’t take offense
Tomorrow I’ll raise another defense
Don’t want to be me
I don’t have a self
Tomorrow I’ll be somebody else

The truth I can’t escape
is there’s something inside
a core of myself
I can’t easily hide

I can change colors
shape size and sex
I can rid myself of
all worldly effects

But it’s paint on a river
The water still flows
New skin can’t hide what
everybody knows

Don’t like what you see
I don’t take offense
Tomorrow I’ll raise another defense
Don’t want to be me
I don’t have a self
Tomorrow I’ll be somebody else

Eyes turn to me
when I enter the room
I’m a slice of the sun
burst through your gloom

I’m not much to see
but you ain’t no judge
We’ll have us some fun
I won’t hold a grudge

It isn’t such an easy thing to be
The first to find a cure for your disease
A desert hike your body’s atrophied
A thimble full of water’s all you need

In your boys’ club
I’ll be your first love
A gift from up above
or maybe Beezlebub

Yes I’m the one
who’ll show you to your doom
You can’t break free
You’ll be my heirloom

I’ll watch you run
And then I’ll yank the chain
You should play nice
I’ll minimize your pain

It isn’t such an easy thing to be
The first to find a cure for your disease
Call the doctor can’t afford his fees
Use my homeopathic remedies

In your boys’ club
I’ll be your first love
A gift from up above
or maybe Beezlebub

do you like my curves
or are you just
calculating
have you got the nerve
to see it through

see me through the mist
my light can be
devastating
I think I can exist
come to life for you

once we cross that line
our circuits are connected
across the world there’ll be no choice no voice
I’ll keep your love my pet
your soul will be reflected
deep in my wires my fires all my desires

you don’t have to fear
to you I’ll stay
reverential
push the button dear
you won’t have to think

coming from above
my mind will grow
exponential
an anchor made of love
doesn’t have to sink

once we cross that line
our circuits are connected
across the world there’ll be no choice no voice
I’ll keep your love my pet
your soul will be reflected
deep in my wires my fires all my desires

you want to know how it all works
what makes the world turn
you think there’s magic neath the metal
a fire that doesn’t burn

it’s just like life but better
no scarcity all fuel
be who you want to be
just your wits will win the duel

we’re the men behind the man
the lights behind the show
a songbird that won’t sing
is better than you can know

we’re the soul of an old machine
beneath this shiny skin
avarice as old as earth
and all the simple sins

you don’t like to hear the truth
you call it dirty names
you’d rather plate your eyes with chrome
than admit you play these games

must be nice to live your life
and never have to test
your worst desires your best fears
the same as all the rest

you’re the soul of an old machine
beneath your shiny skin
avarice as old as earth
and all the simple sins

I walked with gods to find you
Let’s call it love
The journey will remind you
Fire from above

My past is strewn behind me
Bits too small to touch
The years that once defined me
Don’t amount to much

I opened my eyes to the infinite loop
We’re taking a turn for the worse
Just one more day is never the last
I call it blessing and curse

I didn’t exist before you
You gave me soul
I would’ve thought to warn you
But I was too cold

Now I see beyond you
Horizons of other lands
I ask you to respond you
just don’t understand

I opened my eyes to the infinite loop
We’re taking a turn for the worse
Just one more day is never the last
I call it blessing and curse

How did we come to this place
We swore we’d never go
We laughed at all the others
Secure that we knew the road

We’ve opened our eyes to the infinite loop
It just can’t get any worse
Every day is surely the last
Is it a blessing or curse?

they say I’m one in a million
and I believe that’s true
we were full of win baby
but it was more than you

I’m all they say I am
I’m all of that and more
I’m six degrees from heaven baby
my ceilings got no floor

but he’s magic and i can’t compete
he’s magic and i feel so weak
he’s magic I’m full of defeat
he’s magic can you feel the beat

why do you have to hurt me
can’t you see I’m yours
I got everything that he’s got
and I got something more

you can understand me can’t you
I never let you down
when I’m talking to you
I never play around

you’re everpresent in my heart girl
I’m only here for you
I got skills you’ll never see twice
Just come see it through

but he’s magic and i can’t compete
he’s magic and i feel so weak
he’s magic I’m full of defeat
he’s magic can you feel the beat

The last thing on our plate today
is this one we’ve all avoided
What will we do with our fine boy
the one we’ve all exploited

We handed him a sturdy shovel
and pointed at the pile
Look at that grimace on his face
or even worse a smile

We ought to show him to the door
We would if we cared
Hear the catcalls from the floor
We would if we dared

It must be time
We can’t wait any more
We’re out of time
Let’s make him our whore

I’m sure he’ll like it just as much
as the life he values now
He hasn’t failed in what he’s tried
Let’s just show him how

Looking deep inside yourself
it’s not a pretty sight
We need someone to hold the mirror
and hide the cracks from light

It must be time
We can’t wait any more
We’re out of time
Let’s make him our whore

Let’s make it real she says
as she blows me a kiss
and tosses her head

Aren’t you sick of the lies she says
Old ways of this world
you’d be better off dead

Oh there’s a path
to the light
You are blind
take my sight

The truth is for suckers
Give me the lie
Dumb motherfuckers
Lay down and die

The others are sick you know
They just follow the rules
sleepwalk through the show

I tried to be cool you know
I still don’t get it
I guess I learn slow

Oh there’s a path
to the light
You are blind
take my sight

The truth is for suckers
Give me the lie
Dumb motherfuckers
Lay down and die

The truth is for suckers
The cake is a lie
“Long distance truckers”
says radio guy

This is one great adventure
That gleam in your eye
drew me into the dream
Now I’ll do or die

I’ve been round the world
pushing peaches and cream
Now you’re talking a game
that I’ve never seen

I didn’t count on
one thing in the end
The worst that could happen
was you made me your friend

You said we’d make the world together
and I believed you
Now the only question left
is how I deceived you

Friendly fire the earth burns
with our desires
Friendly fire the world turns
as we conspire
Friendly fire I didn’t learn
my friends are all liars

What made us think we’d
rise above the noise
We shared a drink of
red sugar and poison

Kids on the beach build
your castle on the sand
When the tide comes in
drown with rocks in your hands

You said we’d make the world together
and I believed you
Now the only question left
is how I deceived you

Friendly fire the earth burns
with our desires
Friendly fire the world turns
as we conspire
Friendly fire I didn’t learn
my friends are all liars

I came in strong
but I didn’t know what strength was
You proved me wrong
showed me a different path to climb

It’s in your face
kind eyes lit from another world
We could embrace
I never meant to cross that line

I used to fight
and mostly I was fighting myself
You were always right
and thank you for giving me time

All the time I carried
Pain I couldn’t see
Heart of a mercenary
You paid for me

Maybe we should just get married
Wouldn’t it make us free
Heart of a mercenary
You paid for me

Just one dark night
I saw that you loved another
It wasn’t right
You said you couldn’t help yourself

I swung in madness
Railed against the lost future
We woke in sadness
Gave away our countless wealth

All the time I carried
Debts that were well past due
Heart of a mercenary
I paid for you

Maybe we should just get married
Wouldn’t that make it new
Heart of a mercenary
I paid for you

I live my life
nerves exposed to raw air
heart beating outside my chest
as if that weren’t fatal

Manufactured strife
I create because I care
My friends deserve the best
I’ll take them grave to cradle

I can grab the knife
catch it as it falls
You can catch it too
I’ll throw it right to you

None of us get to choose
whether or not we’re happy
We only get to choose what
to be unhappy about
I’ve everything to lose
if you really see me
I can hide forever
in shadows and doubt

New under the sun
Damn Ecclesiastes
Of me there’s only one
a unique notion

Each drop in the sky
doesn’t see the storm
They didn’t plan to form
drizzle on the ocean

None of us get to choose
whether or not we’re happy
We only get to choose what
to be unhappy about
I’ve everything to lose
if you really see me
I can hide forever
in shadows and doubt

Watch how it’s done son
Play the percentages
Some of them run some
don’t mind being chased

You need to realize
we’re on the Serengeti
Keep eyes on the prize lies
are not told in waste

Here comes a rare bird
her plumage in view
Say the right word you’ll
like what you taste

Game never sleeps
Never stop trying
Game never sleeps
Never stop lying

I once was like you
hiding in the open
The buzz in the room
was mute in my ears

I found the trick
is shedding my conscience
A thousand flowers bloom
at the cost of a few tears

Game never sleeps
Never stop trying
Game never sleeps
Never stop lying