Whole intentions
Viewer retention
I have lost my connection
To popular direction
So I sit with pen in hand
Coffee at side
Seems this detour was more than
A simple joy ride
Roses and palm trees
Laced with every temptation
How could we resist
A simple will of gratification
Stand and sit
Sleep and rest
So it again
Resilience is our test
The intrusion of delusion
Sets itself apart
By itself
Is quite a confusion
Look over here while I adjust this light
Walk a little more to the right
While I grab this pen
Magical intent
Disturbing ends
These games know no boundaries
Have gained such evil intent
An interpretation of truth
Easily becomes the golden standard
Not quite sure where our judgment lies
So we must see with our own eyes
Judge with our own minds
The age of spoon fed politics
Is a bygone time
Coffee in Venice
On the streets of LA
Caffeine buzz on the way
Open skies from open industrial canyons
Wall brushed with soft crayons
A mix of intellectual and visual
Harmonies
In lines of different tones and colors
Every world represented here
Music bass traps through the hall
While baristas subtlety call
The next customer
Transaction
To your complete
Satisfaction
Could we have known
That cobwebs would stretch
Over our path
Blocking our view
This is where we are at now
And no one knew
Boom
Clack
Psssssssttttt
Smack
Click
Ding
Espresso
Doom…clack…doom…clack…
The music burns the air
Down the conveyor
Dancing swirling
White shoes on concrete floors
Exposed raw steel constrains the space
Wood beams pop out
The swell on conversations mellow out
With every drink served
Waking up a city
While The OK king is sitting on the curb
Hope gives me hope
Energy gives me clarity
So I hope I can be clear
In hope and in energy
From east to west
Uneasy unrest
Wrapped up in humanity
Inhumanity
Lies become truth
Truth become lies
We have lost our ability to decipher the truth
And don’t care to sympathize
From the low to the highs
I hope we can somehow discover the truth
Realize
Banter from true lies
But it takes the average citizens to get involved
Even though our whole worlds have revolved
Around disorientation
It must stop and we must begin
People acting in collaboration is when people win
Tired of it all
Turn it off
disconnect
And reconnect with veins substantial
Consequential
Disturbing is the news
New news is now old news
Forget it
From coast to coast
We raise a risky toast
To love and opportunity
Peace through resistance
Growth through Unity
These times will be marked with
Fraudulent politicians
While plumbers and musicians
Unite on the streets
Of New York City
To say that we won’t back down
Lay down
Or roll over
Not until the fascism is over
Nor the rains have passed
We will stand together at last
United in diversity
United stronger through this diversity
For arrogance knows now mercy
And neither do we
No sympathy for idiocracy
No celebration in degradation
No hope in fear
No love in hate
We stand more united today
Than ever before
One man can not run the floor
We are learning the hard way
So let it be our takeaway
Love and action
Love and action
Love in action
Let’s act together
A Cup of Songwriting 