The first good sex

We've begun to change forever
stripped away the protective padding
exposing the real
i sit up in bed subtracting and adding
the way i feel
about us continuing this together

The curse of the first good taste
now i know who you truly are
not just the job you hate or the cool car
i know your dirty laundry, your favourite channel
you're this living, breathing, feeling mammal
hell, i know your choice of toothpaste!

It was fine before we knew
when i was still falling in love with you
no worries
but tonight i sampled your soul
with no hurries
we took our time
establishing rhythm and rhyme
as i began to devour you whole
and i recall, right before you climaxed,
tensions heightened
for a second you looked almost frightened
then your body tightened and let loose
the exotic flavour of your love juice,
and in my mind, i asked:

Is this the end?

You have begun to change forever
looking at you, i dont see my friend
i see a change in the weather
we can never go back
after the first good sex
we cant just ignore that
i am me and you do what you do best
but not yet
tonight we were free
we'll change, but will we regret?
not me
cos you whispered something, in your look of fright
you said: "Thank you for being in love with me tonight."

Masquerading Hippie

Corrugated iron roofing
locked gate with burglar proofing
leave me out of it
i want to go home

protest fire illuminates the night
but i wont stay for this fight
we missed our revolution
skepticism dressed as evolution
give me my things
and i go home

4 by 2 and a half foot work space
you think they read humility in my face
or is it clearly humiliation?
masquerading hippie in a square nation
rebel without a clue
child was starving, what could i do?
i sold out for a loaf of bread
should i have been a poor husband instead?

on the frontlines with you chucking slogans
"make love not war" or "free fucking; no guns"?
i sold out to support my fam
there's no rallies on how to be a man
i sold you out without putting up a fight
so i could get home to my wife and kid tonight

Trying Interlude (The Love Rocks album)

Tryyyyyying

Tryyyyyyying

You got me
Tryyyyyyyying

Tryyyyyyying

I'm trying not to stare
trying not to care
about the way you're makin' me feel
inside

I'm trying not to show
but if i dont let you know
tonight
i'ma wonder all my life


listen....

Track 05 (The Love Rocks album)

...Had to be sure you knew

I've been lookin
but i'd never really seen
no, i wasnt blind
though i might as well have been

cos now that i see you
oooooh, how i need these eyes
why dont you slip on this see through
and just blow my mind

Lets get together
i wanna know you from you head to your feet
we'll stir the weather
with the storm we create when we meet
i'm talkin lightning bolts
a thousand volts
of steamy electricity
i'ma flood your dams
with the tip of my hands
baby when you meet with me

That spot on your neck
is what got me on it
now there's no turnin back
'less thats how you want it

cos i'm willin to do
whatever does it for you
lady when i get with you
its gonna be breakfast for 2


Lets get together
I wanna love you from your head to your feet
we'll change the weather
with the sounds we create when we meet
i'm talking lightning bolts
a thousand volts
of steamy electricity
i'ma flood your dams
with these here hands
baby if you just meet with me

lightning bolts
a thousand volts
of steamy sextricity
i'ma flood your dams
girl look at these hands
baby just meet with me
only when you meet with me
you'll never know till you meet with me

Track 07 (The Love Rocks album)

She's no angel, but she dont have to be
when she's mad at me
i'm still glad to be
part of who she is
she is who i live
i am who she is
this is proof of His
divine inspiration
she's my creation
and i'll fight for her
cos i want a life with her
i'm not always right with her
but i'm right for her
and we make it work
i know love can hurt
but i think its worth
all the tears we cry
and all the times we try
just to see her smile

cos without her i was nothing

hear me out, i aint bluffing
said without her i'm nothing
yes she turned me into something
something major
thats why i gave her
all i had to give
love her as i live
maybe she aint got no wings
but she's my everything

Man fulfilled

Here i am
steady your stones
i take loans
you break bones
this hurt is my recurring need
its worth it to nurture one's seed

I am here
void of fear
icy steel in my heart
long as i play my part
i cant be killed
this is man fulfilled

Deal your blow
i'll watch him grow
to justify all that i gave
he is master, i am slave
bargain terms now made clear
was i ever really here?

Eating for two

He doesnt move
brotha cant
breath turns to pant
and the room is spinning
world closing in
options thinning
tick tock
dude is screwed

Waitress eyes him from the counter
"fool better have my money"
she forgets all the static 'round her
and closes in on this dummy

"Thats 12.50, sir, plus tax"
brotha is deaf and blind
any other time
he'd be plotting to wax that ass
but fatherhood schools fools
he just stares at the empty seat
the emptiness of defeat

"Sir! Hey sir!
I got shit to do and kids to feed"
he doesnt hear her
others' wounds dont bleed
when all the pain in the world is his
"Sir you need to handle your biz."

He lashes out at her hand
going half crazy, this man
grabs her, frightened,
grabs her beside him
"Sir, you done lost your damn mind??!"
but he just stares at the empty seat, blind

"She sat there and claimed it was mine...."


p.s. for the record, NOT how i reacted.

Scratch that

I grow a beard because i can
to you its weird but i am Man
do i question your nails or lips or both?
why cant you leave me my facial growth?!

I scratched my balls way back in caves
and i scratched some more when we were slaves
now when i scratch you hiss "Behave!"
woman, you'll hiss me into my grave!

What do you expect when i have an itch?
its human nature so dont be a bitch
just let me claim my masculine birth right
Man and his balls equals love at first sight

Since the dawn of time and through the ages
the measure of Man has come in 2 stages:
the length of each individual facial hair
and the ability to scratch away and not care

We have left you your lotions and silly trinkets
so dont speak of my beard, hell, dont even think it
just turn a blind eye and dont stir up trouble
when i scratch my cojones and then scratch my stubble!

Track 02 (the Love Rocks album)

Breathe easy
i'm doing fiiiiiiiii- iiiiiiiiiine
please leave me
gotta do tiiiiiiiiiiii- iiiime

dont let the wind blow
think i'm seeing phantoms
they're haunting my window
never knew that i had 'em
travelling space
oh
and they've all got your face
the haunting features of a crush

breathe easy
i will be fiiiiii-iiiiiine
please leave me
i gotta do tiiiiiiiii- iiiiime

call me a doctor
and tell him i'm haunted
got nothing to offer
but you're all that i wanted
you've got me possessed
yes
i feel sick in my chest
that painful weakness of a crush

cant breathe easy
i need to get fiiiiii- iiiine
it wont levae me
until you are miiiiiiii- iiiiiine

breathe easy
i wanna be fiiiiiii- iiiiine
dont leave me
say you'll be miiiiiiiiiii- iiiine

just breathe easy......

To all those painful weaknesses in my chest, past, present and future. Breathe easy, the lot of you!- Rich

Track 09 (The Love Rocks album)

Pasty with blur
what makes me differ
i cant bends spoons
God kissed the moon
and placed it in your eyes
so cry until they dry
all i can do is try

keep on forgetting my lines
no use in betting this time
we owe too much
bone to the touch
you filtered through the sand
but rocks dont understand
no i cant be a man

paint running through
i'm tainted with you
filtered through the sand
but rocks dont understand
i'd love to be a man

no rocks cant understand
i'd have to be a man....

Track 08 (the Love Rocks album)

You say you need room to grow
i gotta learn to let you go
but its all fine with me
take your time and be

Cos i aint tryna block your way
so i wont holler "stop" or "stay"
i'll say "its all fine with me,
just take your time and be"

but you'll still be my girl
when i go to sleep
that dream is mine to keep
so dont lock your doors
tonight i'm exclusively yours

we'll move into a nicer house
aint that what you're iced about
its all fine with me
we'll find rent for free

and if we cant work it through
i aint got no beef with you
its all fine with me
just take your time and be

i'll just turn out the lights
and go to sleep
you are my dream to keep
so unlock your doors
tonight i'm exclusively yours

and when we look back on
the days where we went wrong
i know i'll hope to see
you trying to be
exclusively for me

and you'll still be my girl
when i go to sleep
cos you're my dreamgirl to keep
unlock those doors
i'm always exclusively yours


special thanks to the goddess who inspired this through a conversation ages ago. hope you're finding you.- Rich

Back-up (The Beach House Re-visited)

Cosy
is how i feel in your ride
as we just glide
slowly
through the city
i feel pity
for these bad guys and crooks
with their envious looks
while we got groovy sounds, both heads noddin
look out you clowns, its Batman and Robin
and its cool that i'm in the passenger seat
next to you for me is next to complete
cant nobody steal our mojo
together, we got too much
so forget about the po-po
we're Starsky and Hutch
and while you're shifting the clutch
i'm playing super navigator
rescue me for now
save superman for later
this is where i love to be
cruisin vigilantes, you and me
no crime tonight but dont freak out
we'll go throw a party at my beach house.

The Beach House

You're made of light
thats why you're lost in the dark
they're trying to steal what shines so bright
that glowing beauty in your heart
but you cant let go
you're the best person i know
and not just cos you're terrifically undecided
or the home of such infectious laughter
like God created, with his attention undivided,
my own personal joy and gift wrapped her
i know i should share you with the rest of the world
as long as you promise to still be my girl
thanks to you, i'm growing into a man
its not important which one of us is older
when you're troubled , lean as hard as you can
just be sure you dont break my shoulder!
it'll kill me when you have to go away
cos you're the one hug that always keeps me warm
i'm building a beach house and you can come stay
when you need shelter from the storm.



To my side kick, my best friend, my hippie: DC, whatever you need, i got you. I was wrong; there is still beauty left in this world and that beauty is you. Not just cos you got boobs.... (though they help).... but cos you got heart. When shits gettin you down just listen to Katt and "get some f*ck it in your system and see if that dont change your perspective... MURDERED? Murdered WHO???!!!"
Lovin you.

Forget you not

I'll build a time machine
right?
yeah, i'll just build one tonight
go back and wipe the slate clean
i mean
they figured out gravity and space... stuff
you give me an hour
-i know its tough-
but give me an hour
and i swear i'll set things straight
"I've got the power"
haha
it was a joke... no, wait!
i'll just... please... ummmm
Come back, sit, please come

I'll....
just give me a sec...
okay i've had this idea for a while
but its...oh! what the heck:
roofies
huh? whaddya think?
i'll pop a couple in your drink
watch you sink those babies down
and... haha.... all our bad days go "poofies"
-okay i swear no more jokes or fooling around-
but that'll work
you'll forget all the times i made you hurt
or every time you diminished my worth
basically everything that led to this
cant wait to hold you in my arms and kiss-
Ow!
There's no need for you to get pissed
i'm trying to fix things but i dont know how
at least i'm trying
you're just... oh no... stop crying
each tear you shed is me slowly dying
so dont
i'll.... we just gotta...
you think i'll give up but i wont
i'll find something, there's alotta-

What about weapons of mass distraction?
no, i heard what i said
been there done that?
you watched fatal attraction?
remember when she clonks him over the head
with...i dont know a bat?
that would do it, you know?
be like we never went through it
the "ugliness"
short term memory loss
i could pull it off, i guess
we didnt choose for our paths to cross
yet here we are, well you kinda left
so i guess its just i not we
i say roofies it is for my memory theft
to forget you but i got me.