POETRY FOR DAVE LEE excess >i'll never me any more< i'm sorry i forgot so all the time i couldn't have got what i get i don't understand what you want me to do take me in deep inside i can't use these ideas i can't hold that thought i never want to go back forever (for a bit) i know you don't see my point but try to understand that i need but don't want you it's hard to avoid these empty spaces in time it's all in my mind but i'll try to forget but i can't leave now i will see the truth again when i return >nothing standing, aligator donkey< i can't get away from this hallowe'en trusting a lie that can't be seen get away from this hallowe'en can't cope with life inside a dream repeat the dream what do i mean? i can't see i can't talk in this dream this is my life this is my dream this is forever as you can see nothing is me i cannot see laugh at me and see what i mean now you can see what i can't maybe you will this is my dream this is my dream this is what i mean come into my dream >thanks for the lie< how about a visit? i know it wont work but where's the harm in trying it can't get much worse it has to work stay in the rain we'll live it now they love me now i can't even trust what i think am i going to float or sink i don't feel it now do you see ? the clouds are escaping because you lied when the truth was bad do you think i can forgive you and forget what you said? >anti fungal poets< what is the sun trying to say? why does the wind scream ? why can't i stay? it's a beautiful place and it makes me sad 'cause i keep seeing your (beautiful) face life without you life with your smile the never days are suffering this isn't for you what can i do to get me through what can i do to get back to you but now you're gone i've almost said your name so now you can live forever while i die with shame >tower< i have friends that you cannot see close your eyes don't look at me i watch the river of traffic flowing past me like a dream time kills these people but you never die so as the view behind the door is fading with thought i can't be here not any more >incision< she drifts away and takes the incision tranquillized in her own world deprives herself of oxygen and everything she loved and all she ever wanted was this she knows it will go wrong she can already see the blood on the floor but she will live she will love again she will see these words deep in skin [tree] >state of dreams< take away the pain and i'm not me i'm so tired but dreams aren't life a perfect gift a perfect past i don't want me why should they? leaving heaven hundred miles to fall nobody here should love >words for the end< i'm in your blood a dead disguise but you can't heal me with the truth last time you lied last time i died forever till now this has got to stop everything must end what's there to cope with when this is the end >you< don't take me you'll only end up hurting me reject me i'll be fine don't apologise if it's what you want let it end while it's good but never say it was you cause it was me you know it's true >room 483< everybody's gone i want to stay no one's here i still cant cry all i thought i had went through me like a ghost empty mask of dreams breaks us apart underneath my shadow nothing will last when everybody's gone >alone between you< make me real please don't stay tell me, watch me care i don't want you but that's good as long as i don't need you we'll be fine together as one i'm real put in this box for the insects i love you at the end wait for tomorrow just don't let him see into my box >(remember) sunset lives< i doubt it's even here but we'll see when the day dies and we sink into these skies televised obsession can kill i am glowing inside your shell your obsessive hell i didn't think i'd ever get this far so thanks for that start a conversation with who are you? at least it's gone my own piece of time and i chose what i want but it never comes through you >fuel< i want to count the days i want to cross off the ways i want this reality but nobody wants me the midnight sun is dark as day please don't stay stereotype in the trees hiding from you is hard i've entered a different world now say you're not here introduce him don't be shy you'll end up like me eventually [bleeding donkey man] >below time (1)< don't think like that your time has come and gone whatever i might have said it was probably true writing backward lies into my warm breath i'm the first thing that you see trying to pretend you don't care about me >did you say forever< i will never know who she is 'cause she's not me and time is running out history repeats and all the people smile they want to say 'i told you so' but they can't even breathe but this time it's not over this time i will see if this is not the end it's nothing new to me >threethreeseven< i'm walking on the shards of your broken stained glass but you're not made to burn i don't know where you are or why you're here but i want to go home so leave me alone we don't love you we just want to see you again we hate you enough to give it back but we are not you blame yourself 'cause the monochrome brain is lost and i'm counting the days since our last mistake >the words that happen every five point two eight seconds< the truth i will never bring cause everyone knows my name my soul will burn and so will you if you want what i want then we can make it happen but don't get too involved i spoke to you a million times today and you're still real but no more the candle in your heart will soon burn out so now's the time to take the chance and tell yourself it has to end where does it come from? and what does it mean? you ask yourself but tonight holds no answers for anyone least of all you >you can't say goodbye with my hand down your throat< i've tried it and you're right it's keeping me awake through every night burn forever taking my place i'd love to see you running down that beautiful face initially friendship from so far away when did the lies start? when did your heart turn away? at least i can be safe for now 'cause you can't say goodbye with my hand down your throat >the candles in the cage< i don't know where you came from but i think i want to love you walk up to my night smile in your eyes and make this dream true if i knew what i wanted to know i wouldn't try to walk away if i wanted you i would not be here draw your own conclusion step on the brakes scream through those concrete teeth at least i can't hear you here these walls are too thick i don't want to leave you outside so throw down your cards this game is over >you began< you didn't want this to reach its real end i stand away this time but you still happened i hope i'm not again but then i've seen it's true so the wire that you came down tells me so much more i'm not who you want me to be but i'm still here i can't avoid your gaze and you don't know you're there you can't be her 'cause she wouldn't say that so i'm in love forever >right morning world< you only wake for the stars you only live for the death you only smile for the illusion of happiness i'd write to you but i'm sacred you're not alone so i'm stuck but this is the world of never this word is forever the people are gone and there is nothing left here for you >i love you tomorrow< if you're asleep i must have been a dream so waking you up will show what i mean photographs across the floor where did you get that face from it's not the one i knew you're not you i am true everyone is more than i expected put the colours away i'm not happy anyway i feel alive i'm not alone [please forget] >put away< you can keep the pyramids they remind me of you maybe i'm asleep because you're here imagine me above the tree and then you'll see how it's meant to be things i know pieces of you i hope i disappear before tomorrow and you never leave you don't understand i can't think i want you don't come back >i want to say< you think i'm gone and your head breaks free can't you see you're killing me with your vision of life and your a person to trust and you're everything else except what i need who are you talking to you're here so i think you'll stay while i break you nothing is more if the circle is broken i can see beneath your shell because you let me in you look more than real more than i feel what happened?