steve shaw

You're So Cosmic

I feel me melting into you

Don't singe your fingers on me too

You take and take all around

It's all you do to contain me baby

A lion's mouth and a dragon lady

You breathe fire in all I am I can't deny this

I didn't know that you're so cosmic

You burn the insides out of me

Your light inhibits what I see

It's all it seems that you are

A momentary connection in me

A light cycle contraption burning

It's all I do to be you, yea

I'm coming to…

Light burning through

Like sonic truth

Now welcome to…

Now welcome to your outer space

Because you're so cosmic

You're cosmic…

How Deep Are You?

Sing yourself a sad song

You are such the sensitive one

Save yourself another soul

And save the ones you thought you'd save before

Talk your coffee house talk

Lay your black beret down

Light another cigarette

The psycho-babble in your head is free

It's what you do to me

Sell yourself the new age

Tell yourself you're everything

Surround me with your magic fools

Your paper kings and ragged rules you'll see

What you do to me

Are you hypnotized

Or maybe paralyzed inside of me

If your looking glass is true

How deep are you?

Painting black on Monday

Smoking grass on Sunday

In your strange little crazy way..

If your looking glass is true

How deep are you?

Taken In

There's not a reason to be amused

Did your filthy little mind

Knock your rotten little memory loose?

Shall you ask me in if just for tea

Did you lace it with your lust

Did you roll your finger in towards me?

I don't know if it's you or if it's me…

You're 'round and 'round

Until you're done 

With all your insincerity

I'm taken in by you

I'm taken in by you

With all your merry sounds

My life is all planned out

Another dollar rolled from you 

I'm all that's taken in by you

Another dollar rolled from you…

Digging into someone that you've known

We'll just finish off this wine

And speak of that one time where we

Once were we…

Grey

Here we go again on a free ride to nowhere

With fear my only passenger

My body weak from lack of sleep

But no one really cares

Ten years of an otherwise unknown complication

Frustration is my only friend

There's lack or time and piece of mind

With no one really there

There's plenty of it to go around

Aspirations hit the ground

Created destination in a non-logic lab

Back door to a cliff

The first step is bad…

The colors blend like a photograph

On a palette all the shades

The blues are fine and the reds are warm

But all I feel is grey

These Days

These days are hard on me

These thoughts I  cannot bear to feel

Is there an end to what is wrong

Is there a place we'll go, and feel it so

We'll all just rise above

'Cause every dog has his day

Every will has a way

If passion's what you're after

Then your aim is quite deceived

I don't need sorrow

To lift this weight from me

Take the time, have a cigarette

Just exist, I bet you've been there yet to see

All the things there is to see

All the space unknown, the things we've done

And all of that will be

No, I'm not all right

No I can't even seem to buy

A little space in my own mind

In my mind…

Return

I heard the saddest song today

It took me back to Penny Lane

All has not been forgotten

All has been put beyond view

I tried to see what they had meant

I tried to feel what they felt then

No more tremors in New York

Forever tears fill their hearts

It's not just ordinary

It's more than life itself

And I don't even understand it all

Return the sun

Return the sun

Return the sun, where have you gone?

Where have you gone?

Return…

Shed

Jeez this is nice

Don't it make you fly?

Won't you come inside?

I don't know why I even try

The trees in you

Are the leaves in me

I hang on every word you say

And then I blow away, it's all the same

And here we grow 

While we sink so low

The sand is falling fast in my head

I'll make it last and turn it over again

Because it's a tragedy

What you do to me

I'm really not to blame

Shedding this skin once again

Jeez this is nice

Though I don't know why

I'm never quite the same

I don't recall your name, it don't relate

Dream No More

Born on the side of the river where the river flowed beneath the earth

I became the lost son inside my tiny little world

But we didn't know, we didn't care

What you were was what you had

Left with sound of the song no longer raging in myself

Left with a haunting sorrow, dreary shadows I have felt

But we didn't know, we didn't care

What you were was what you had

And we looked for a miracle 

As I dreamed of another world

But I don't dream any more 

I dream no more

Living with hollowed hearts behind the walls where we had lived

Breathing with hollowed souls that we had always planned to save

But we didn't know, we didn't care

What you were was what you had

Take another turn…

Take another turn you inside on what you've learned

Because I don't dream anymore 

I dream no more

What Is In

I'm not to walk across the water

I'm not to be your superman

I'm not to save your world from falter

What is it that you think I am?

I lost what seemed to be a life time

Where has the time gone since I've lived

Another Sunday's gone unanswered

Another tired apology

I don't know what it seems inside

Do you see inside?

Let me be inside

Don't tell me what you think is in

Of your scenes of sin

And then you piss it all away

Come to me, Won't you come to me?

Will it happen soon?

On this side of soon?

Won't you bring me what you need…

Because all I want and what I have is not the same

It's this person that I've met inside

That's all together strange

My Leaving

Little miss sunshine, is there nothing good to say

How was your day?

I don't hear what they heard

I don't see what was seen

I don't cry when I'm hurt but now I see…

Take it all for what it's worth, I think it's in your grasp

Open up your soul, your mind will follow

Please, no more negativity

Do you hope in anything?

You've lost yourself and now you're losing me

They weren't laughing at you 

Their eyes were all on me

I think it's what you've become

No more humility

I know it never sounded real that you'd never feel

I know the sight of what you thought you'd see

The leaving of my sanity

The Sky Melted Today

Little girl come here, could you spare your mind?

That is, what I'm trying to say, could you share your time?

She never shows her eyes

She's too ashamed to cry and so she lives

A thousand plastic lies inside her head

Did you seal your number when you woke today

Did you find it your starlight magazine

He never seems to mind

Another week goes by and so does he

Lost in a line of numbers of his mind

Draw another window, sing another phrase

It's just the words that save you, it's your own escape

Through the window blinds

A flood of thought and time sweep over you

Stripped of your might, you're frozen in the light

Did you know, did you receive your degree

On the world and how it's closing in on me

Do you have the time for one more little word

And one more little walk through the sun

Did you know the sky melted today?

And no one's here but me

Violets at Night

I tried for years just to resolve

I tried for years to turn away

I tried forever and a day to realize

That what I see is not how it appears

They masquerade in cheap perfume

They hide their eyes in every room

They revel in their glory just to take away

Another side, another role, another shade

I held the sun once in my hand

It burned my eyes beyond control

And nothing ever grew in me again

Did you ever once see me and like it?

Did you ever notice I was dying?

It's what we had and what it all once meant to me

It's how I held myself and how I wanted it to be

Yes this is real, and I am not a lesser man

It's what I am, a fading yellow photograph

Somehow things never change

Well I don't need someone to show me there, it's everywhere

And now it's so surreal, but nothing is ever what it seems in light

Violets at night

King of the World

Come fly deeply, try to reach me here

Walk so slightly through my lightning here

And walk my way follow me to my universe

Can you even say you're lonely for someone

Tell it to the stars when you're alone

And you believe you will be answered

It will make you live, it will make you cry

It will sing your lullaby at night

Don't come between me and my universe

Can you even understand me while I wait

Ride into your own redemption, follow me for what I am

Look at me--I'm the King of the World

Fall into my capsule if you can

Ride into the realm of everything

Because I'm the king of the world

Won't you come into my world?

Evil Uncle

In one surreal fantasy, 

Just a wall away form the safety of my sleep

My evil uncle terrorizes me

In the stealthy silence, there's a constant drone of his machinery

And I dare not move for I fear him

I fear he'll sense me lying here

Oh I know he's standing there

My evil uncle, keeping things from me

He always said that these things would be just fine

And though he never planned on hurting me

He'll to beat, maybe kill me if he hears a sound

And now I know my uncle, always playing me the fool

And now I know my uncle, Uncle Evil in control

With the things he knows

And  now, his deception known

I suffocate in the terror of my darkened room

'Cause Uncle Evil, his machine continues on

Despite his inner self has been rotting for so long

And now I know my uncle, always playing me the fool

And now I know my uncle, Uncle Evil in control

With the things he knows