Sad Lovers & Giants - Treehouse Poetry

Toy Planes in a Southern Sky

Well you ask me what is right and wrong
Is there so much truth out there?
And I still don’t know whose side I’m on
I’ve gone through life so unprepared

Don’t be careless with the freedom of your choice
The days of darkness lie ahead
Caught in a wind of change
Like a toy plane in a southern sky
The childhood values we all learn
Flying toy planes in a southern sky
A fragile world of no concern

In the softness of those sheltered years
South of hardship and despair
All those secret rules and hidden fears
Was I so blissfully unaware

Liberal minded in a class without a voice
You phased my conscience when you said
“Nothing will ever change”
	

Lizard King

I look at you and I see myself
The death wish in your eyes betrays the man inside
I search for you and I find myself
A soul thrashing in darkness

Sometimes we lose control
Together we are strong
No man is an island
The crystal ship belongs to careless children
Look at the state you’re in
Hail! the lizard king
Riding a storm inside
No one here gets out alive

The songs you sing preach the purest sin
A voice made to disarm societies demands
But you can’t hide from the space within
Worlds crash in its vastness

You should have used it to gain control
Together we are strong
No man is an island
The crystal ship belongs to careless children
Look at the state you’re in
Hail! the lizard king
Riding a storm inside
No one here gets out alive

Songs of freedom songs of change
Songs that feel like revolution
Songs for people who are strange
Where did you go when the sky caved in
The parasites will find a loophole in your mind
The worms adore such graceful limbs

Like souls thrashing in darkness
Sometimes we lose control
Together we are strong
No man is an island
The crystal ship belongs to careless children
Look at the state you’re in
Hail! the lizard king
Riding a storm inside
No one here gets out alive
	

Still Restless

Parachute of Love

When will these feelings end?
Will my heart ever mend?
I don’t think so
Times are getting tough
Is it foolish pride
Knowing that I can’t hide in my ego

Words are not enough for a searching mind
In a changing world how can I be confident
When life is a crumbling fortress
Climbing the ruined walls inside my head
In an age of doubt everything turns out grey
When each uncharted day should be a rainbow
A parachute of love

I’m so unsure my doubt is the perfect cure
For loves placebo
And still it’s not enough for a searching mind
In a changing world how can I be confident
When life is a crumbling fortress
Climbing the ruined walls inside my head
In an age of doubt there are so many secrets (to talk about)
Everything turns out grey
When each uncharted day should be a rainbow
A parachute of love

Such foolish pride
Knowing that I can’t hide in my ego

And still it’s not enough for a searching mind
In a changing world how can I be confident
When life is a crumbling fortress
Climbing the ruined walls inside my head
In an age of doubt stumbling and falling
I’m staring skywards over the walls inside my head
	

Christmas on Easter Island

I run and I hide from something inside
It threatens every western lie in my heart
It’s the ghost of an ancient fear
That would surely bring our world to tears
Are we big enough are we strong enough to last forever?

Christmas on Easter Island
Like pagan gods you and I

I’ll gladly resign my part in mankind
And live my days as a castaway by the sea
But I think we’ve been here before
Nothing is sacred anymore
We must pay the price for the paradise
We stole together
Time after time, crime after crime
I tell you there’s a savage raping the earth
You don’t even seem surprised
Maybe you’ve been hypnotised
By the dream of wealth
Did you give yourself to yourself forever?
	

Criminally Sane

Well you laughed out loud
Like a morning cloud
In a clear blue sky
But you climbed too high
Open your eyes
I’ve seen through your lies
I don’t believe in heroes anymore
I don’t know who cares
I don’t care who knows
Apologies seem pointless
Must I shout to let you know
So many lies so thinly disguised
I don’t believe in heroes anymore
So many lies so thinly disguised
You think that you’re a hero
What a bore
	

Jungle of Lies

Sweetest of lies
The power of love that heals and mends
A sordid tapestry of pain
Who will notice when it ends
Everything has been defiled
Some are strong and powerful
Some are beguiled
Nobody sees the other side of what they are
A two way mirror hides the world
Tunnel vision from the heart
Everyone is paranoid
Sensitive emotions must be destroyed
We are the human race
A monkey with airs and graces
Is love just the will to survive?
Ina jungle of lies
Passion and fear entwined
Are you the one
I’ll know if we can still be friends
In spite of everything
I say we’re all lonely in the end
Memories will linger on
Constantly reminding us what we did wrong
	

The Sky is a Glove

Envelopes keep dropping through the letterbox inside my head
I watch them hit the doormat then explode into the room
I recognise the writing and I know that when I open them
Your words will change the rythm of this perfect afternoon

I’m floating by wearing the sky like a glove

I look out from my window ledge across the fields below me
To a cottage in a garden on a headland by the sea
Your letter holds a photograph
The faces seem familiar but the names are half forgotten
Like a stain that never cleans

I’m floating by wearing the sky like a glove
There’s nothing quite as certain as a letter from reality
Neglect your obligations and they’ll throw away the key

I’ve struggled in the curtains on the threshold of insanity
You say I’m just a dreamer but that’s all that you can see

I’m floating by wearing the sky like a glove
There’s nothing quite as certain as a letter from reality
Neglect your obligations and they’ll throw away the key

I’m cutting off the hand of fate to stop him interfering
With another dose of problems and an answer I don’t need

I’m floating by wearing the sky like a glove

The sky is a glove