Sleeping Too Long
t boudreau
I found this place it's just a blink away
Where the sky is always gray and the trees don't lay shade
The sun is gone
The hands of time they're tied so tight
I wonder is it day it might be night
Trapped within a dream there is a slight
Chance of dawn
I thought I heard so far away it seems
A babys voice strangled by a scream
Or was it yours whispering to me
I can't be sure
It's been so long Two Thousand years
Since my world went black and left me here
The only one it seems to survive
In this world
Well correct me if I'm wrong
But nearly half your life is gone
There's a change coming on you've got to be strong
So stretch your arms and wipe your eyes
There's a new day on the rise
Got no room to compromise
You've been sleeping too long
It’s all erased at least as far as I can see
The grounds as hard as slate so cold I tremble at the knees
My whole world it shakes or is it shaking me
I finally wake
Neglected
Little Miss Demeaner wasn't much of a dreamer
She never fit in with the other kids
She only laughed to herself, emotions are stealth
Never amused with what the others did
One morning alone while kicking a stone
Down the street to school just like every day
She decided on a whim that this day should begin
With a bang in the most devestating way
Another playground down - One more schoolyard tragedy
Another shattered town - One more childhood mystery
Billy the bully never understood fully
The sence of a tight-knit family
While dads over-seas and moms in the breeze
Probably getting in bed with the enemy
So a black eye here and split lip there
and three more days in detention hall
Send the folks a beware like they'll even care
It's right about time for a wake up call
Another playground down - One more schoolyard tragedy
Another shattered town - One more childhood mystery
The message on the blackboard reads 'every day is prescious'
Epidemic of lies spread like widfire another town is infected
As the paper lands on the front porch and no ones home to collect it
And the headlines burn like a flaming torch 'another child neglected'
Cabin Fever
- t boudreau 12-2009
Those insidious oaks are still tossing acorns
Which some folk’s say just make the winters long
Stuff a sack under that back door
Hunker down until the spring comes along
I gotta bad case of cabin fever
But I gotta say I never felt this fine
Should there come a day when it's time to leave here
They’ll have to carry me out in a box of pine
I gotta toss another stump on the fire
We gotta make another bump in that bed
To pop that jug you just might need a plier
Those tiny bubbles went right to my head
I gotta bad case of cabin fever
But I gotta say I never felt this fine
Should there come a day when it's time to leave here
They’ll have to carry me out in a box of pine
Cabin Fever I’ve got all the symptoms
Cabin Fever I've never been so sure
Cabin Fever you should try and catch some
In a cabin like this there just Ain’t no cure
She gotta bone boiled on the back burner
A sickle drippin on an old tin pipe
The lazys came and i tried to warn ya
Try and wake me when the moon gets ripe
I gotta bad case of cabin fever
But I gotta say I never felt this fine
Should there come a day when it's time to leave here
They’ll have to carry me out in a box of pine
Mirror In The Mirror (C Maiorano / T Boudreau 11-09)
Windows of the soul stare back into the mirror of my own
Who's this stranger I gaze upon and where has his spirit gone?
Passing infinite dimensions Effigy of strength and weak
And everything that is between has never looked so bleak
The mirror in the mirror curious eyes are looking in
The mirror in the mirror endless life traveling
Reflection of beginnings end Expose the spectrum of life
Regardless how it presents itself in vibrant color dark to light
Dawn of time 'til eternity still shot of visual emotion
In the blink of a winking eye in the shadows of devotion
The mirror in the mirror curious eyes are looking in
The mirror in the mirror endless light traveling
Refracted images I recall, mirror my state of being
Specters of the past lay shattered, blind never seeing
Shards strewn in gray matter, assembly has begun
Into a prismatic puzzle the colors visually stun
Stop
T Boudreau
I was in a pretty good mood considering it was a Tuesday
And my head was on fire and the summer was burning down
I was coming off of a bender that started last Wednesday or Thursday
The second I heard you were thinking ‘bout putting me down
So I had to stop and ask if it was something I said
Lord I had to stop and ask if it was all in my head
As the day rolled on I could tell it was going to be a long one
Cuz that lunchtime buzz well it’s starting to drag me down
The corners of my mouth are starting to cry out for a cold one
Heard someone call your name but there wasn’t a soul around
So I had to Stop and ask if it was something I said
Lord I had to stop and ask if it was all in my head
Now the days turn the month into weeks it’s been years since we spoken
And all of my friends well they swear I’m better off without you baby
But I can’t seem to get through the stories without choking
Can’t seem to get through the day with out once thinking about you
So I had to stop and ask if it was something I said
Lord I had to stop and ask if it was all in my head
