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two horses

Seven Horses
Seven voices - and one is screaming and one is singing and unremarkable through the noise I can hear that song
Everybody has their reasons little sympathies and treasons everybody knows a stranger's song

But you don't know what this means to me the tears I may cry from down so low my heart falls among the stars but it aint as if it's real no, it aint as if this means anything

Seven horses - and one is broken in a vision that's undeniable but this bridle just aint that strong

Everybody has their reasons little sympathies and treasons everybody knows a stranger song

words and music by D. Schramm

a door

Here And There
There is perfect darkness There in sympathetic rhyme There is something that will ever keep in time Here is not so simple Here a different sort of lie she's collected every sentence, every line

But I can't run away from that I can't run away from that So lay some coins across my eyes I can't run away so I won't run away

There a siren beckons There are seven seas to cross There is laughter from a child I had lost Here are deadly weapons Here a fever shuts my eye Here is silence and a sadness I deny

But I can't run away from that I can't run away from that So lay some coins across my eyes I can't run away so I won't run away

There is perfect darkness There, in sympathetic rhyme There is something that will never be defined

I can't run away so I won't run away

words and music by D. Schramm

an ear

Tell Me Again and Again
He threw stones from a bridge beside a lane he was walking to his lover he went slowly, reluctantly. To her face there is nothing he will say she was talking of his mother she so loved her, her saintly ways. Tell me again how your baby still cries tell me I won't ever see those smiling black eyes and I should close mine He threw stones from a bridge beside a lane he was walking to his father or his mother, he wouldn't say Tell me again how your baby still cries tell me I won't ever see those smiling black eyes and I should close mine smiling black eyes I should close mine

words and music by D. Schramm

some lions

Wild Innocence
I wanna go home take messages, unplug the phone I wanna go home tonight Wild innocence calls with some notion of storming these walls but I wanna stay home tonight I'll live in an old theater warm and safe and when all my world's a stage then nothing I'll do will mean nothing to you and that's nothing at all I tried to go where you go but stagnation is setting in slow and I wanna be home tonight My home has a strong foundation rock and stone and every mason knows that nothing I'll do will mean nothing to you and that's nothing at all oh....every day is yesterday

words and music by D. Schramm

a tome

She Gets the Message
She is waiting and she's watching her TV for a warning tell her what it's gonna be every evening, every day sitting by her phone In the morning there's a message from above she's explaining - changing "service" into "love" "here it says I'm someone new, here it brings me hope..." I concede you might wear the same face as me - a lonely man, a lonely man I am I'll never get it So why believe in forces that no one can see a lonely man, a lonely man I am I'll never get it right She is waiting for a message from above and explaining "hope" will always equal "love" "here it says I'm leaving you, here I walk alone." Don't run, run away just take my hand Cause everything comes to me and later on I'll see things right I concede you might wear the same face as me - a lonely man, a lonely man I am I'll never get it So why believe in forces that no one can see a lonely man, a lonely man I am I'll never get it right

words and music by D. Schramm

the figure of blind justice

Wild and Small
Who knows her, who knows him? who knows a single secret thing, easy to ignore? He took his place at number nineteen. beside Miss Shaw whose name, it had been painted on this wall. Then he rose crying he said "Tell me one thing.., what took her breath away?" When silence, held in better stead, may have meant a clearer head, an Innocent she stands. But with no respect for a conscienced pause they tear at her life and find a flaw eager to ignore. Then she rose burning. She said, "I'm not saying anything, I'm not even listening..." She took his breath away and in a wild, small space of time she's frozen in his mind She took his breath away and in a wild, small space of time she's frozen in his mind She took his breath away

words and music by D. Schramm

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01 june 04