Tales From the Lush Attic

Across the plateau no clouds storm the sky Above the riverbed the world's run dry I beat the air, for those who hear And through the night my call goes out unheard I cry for company and get no word The silent groan, God only knows I stand alone The wind devides the empty shells below Deep in the valley night begins to grow The memory, the best of me From out the shadows something takes my hand To lead me homeward through a foreign land The silence grown, the palest eyes I'm the only one A mother's son, a father's pride How can I run and where to hide? I close my eyes and hope tonight My healing flesh will be all right; A baby cries, another ghost A different side to claim the most My blood gone black and down to dust So save my soul or let me die I'm still alive I'm on the other side Shaken down, lovely but cockeyed No wonder I feel nervous Lord, they don't deserve us anyway I want to burn these wings You can see how it's happening Still they're telling me to smack the enemy It's killing time! I should have known before Only bad's half as good as dead I can't go any faster, stuck like alabaster White as I know We stand in lines of old, staying cold Swallow all the anger Releases get away, coming down Across the fields of amber To the water, ocean far below As the mirror to the sun The colour of the evening, never let go Hold my stomach, keep it tight They're pulling out the breathing, let it go; If you ever change your mind Don't be caught alone, no, it's only me With all the hopes and fears combined It's hard to care for living anymore I wouldn't let you down again Inspired by hunger, fired by lust I sold the children's faces, painted gold Something moving taking hold Is gathering but never growing old I did everything I could just to say Believe me, you're not alone But with the winter in my bones Oh what else can I do now? It's only me I wouldn't let you down again Break back to back lately Oh and how they moved when I was Younger than this Get my spirit caught beneath the surface See me play dead today I love my daydreams, leave my doldrums Armies of priests All come to practice their party pieces Pounding like metal from side to side To shoot, to save And risk that horizon No smoke can shield, it stays unhealed Safe in our stillness At last we see him rise from out the earth I set the silhouette that leaves me scarred Lost my condition from the perfect star I caught the fire, can't help but see There's none to carry on I knew these plains before the world was mine With no escape in mind, I'll be resigned Inside alone, I know for sure The future's all gone

Submitted by Iron_Wraith — Feb 23, 2026

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So the certainty is I can get no air Getting nowhere at all Open-ended and suspended one by one In the slipstream And Harvest hold the horrorbag Emotion starts to lag With panache I keep a-crashing Through the sky No compassion have I Kick a kiss of superstition and I cry "Just a guide or I throw All the panic I can muster Threatening to the cluster"; The hangman's whore so obvious Discretion's such a drag But I know his apparatus snows my mind When it gets too far out Guard the ribs and fall I long to catch my breath, condemn it all As the number I become They count me out a volunteer See how they run in silence up all the belfry steps Each unaffected by the sight of the blistered skin; Someone to calm me till the pounding in my head stops Over the tens of thousands find no way out or in: Through the pandemonium, my heart is beating like a drum Barricaded in here, crawling's getting creepier With my head in my hands, all the heaven in my heart Get me out of here, let me get away Let me go from here, get me out away Get me out of here, let me get away Let me out of here, let me go today

Submitted by Iron_Wraith — Feb 23, 2026

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Helplessly held by the weeds, we are grown I tried talking sense to you, leave it alone; I give in to the weight of the kick So weary of waiting and hoping for this The two of us alone, no-one else to see I promise not to miss you and no more jealousy Careful of my gender, it comes, how it goes Love me tender so nobody knows Nobody knows the trouble I seen Each time they asked, I said something obscene The splinters shower down, I shelter from the rain Against the grain, against the moon I waxes and I wanes No ecstasy sent for taking a line Right through the stokehold they rip, run and shine; I awake and the feeling won't drop Each time they slam down, I swear I will stop The two of us alone, no-else to see The damage brings us closer to murder, can't you see? Here in my rocking-horse house I keep the curtains drawn; Inside my little head I hear them screaming out my name Here in my rocking-horse room I keep my eyes shut tight: Inside my peeping-holes I know that if they're empty I can sleep Don't you believe her, deliver a shiver to me Is this what you wanted? I'm haunted, my eyes grown cold I still got second sight I still can see at night Here comes the enemy, the beast in me Alive a little more On my hard shoulder The warning goes deeper than before I still got second sight I still can see at night

Submitted by Iron_Wraith — Feb 23, 2026