by the Orphan, the Poet on album In Brevity

You always say snakes never sleep. Though their eyes close, they don't ever dream. So I'm tired, I'm awake. But how could this be so? Lying here in the dark, my belly's to the dirt with my eyes closed

by the Orphan, the Poet on album In Brevity

Tyrant, breathe me in. know my movement. Trace a line across, just keep your faith when maps can be so deceiving, when home won't look the same again. This could get ugly, but you'd say it in eloquenc

by the Orphan, the Poet on album In Brevity

I've watched men laying mortar and brick, to keep the thieves out but their own crimes in. did they know what they'd done, building not a fortress but a prison? siren songs calling out from the waves.

by the Orphan, the Poet on album In Brevity

Shine bright mansion, leave your lights on, 'cause your walls are too tall to clean the cobwebs from. Be strong be safe little table, you'll hold up their heads when their belly's full. I swear I"m go

by the Orphan, the Poet on album In Brevity

Stand up so tall, let the fire show your shape. don't you see what this is? know that you're more than it. If we believe, we can see more than shadows and smoke, and we'll find safety in our beds. Thi

by the Orphan, the Poet on album Starlight

Close your eyes, I swear I'll be there when you wake. Just dream of someplace better, don't let this room be a cage. Stay strong, believe it. Stay strong, and they won't see it. You'll fool all of t

by Foreground Eclipse on album Tears Will Become Melodies Tonight

The secret side of me, I never let you see I keep it caged But I can't control it So stay away from me The beast is ugly I feel the rage And I just can't hold it It's scratching on the walls In the cl

by the Orphan, the Poet on album Better Than This

thought we were, we were… I thought we were, we were… I was just day dreaming. You said shapes in the clouds, they aren't worth naming. And in that moment, blind to love. ‘Cause I lost sight, l

by Stevie Lujan on album Welcome Home

We are broken, we are bruised and bleeding and scarred But we're not hopeless, we stand tall, we stand on the cross A firm foundation, when we are weak you are strong We can see your adoptive arms sur

by The Orphan Brigade on album Soundtrack to a Ghost Story

Oh Harriet, Oh Harriet You stole my soul on the night that we met You bring me to a fever, you bring me to a sweat You bring me to my knees Oh Harriet Oh, trouble my heart Oh Harriet, Oh Harriet I'm

by Lifesavas, Gift Of Gab, J-Live, Lateef The Truthspeaker, Lyrics Born, Blackalicious & DJ Shadow on album Spirit in Stone

I'll keep this brief it's nice to meet you Though I can't get past your ego I never hold a grudge cause love is the way Hello hi hey... anyway When we do talk then I get sucked into Introductions to y

by Weather Report on album The Legendary Live Tapes, 1978-1981

by Nathan East on album The New Cool

by The Orphan, The Poet on album Translating (EP)

One day we'll find balance in this life Far from all that we've become For now I'll play the vagrant Ambition, my disguise Nightfall will never find me Cause I'll keep pace with the sun We wer

by The Orphan, The Poet on album Translating (EP)

Be still now and let the water calm down. Be still now, but finding yourself means more than waiting this out. I see my own reflection but let it be waves not mistakes I’ve made stealing my shape an

by The Orphan, The Poet on album Translating (EP)

Baby boy won’t you grow up so tall? Baby boy won’t you grow up so strong? Pick you up on my shoulders and walk down the hall, show you pictures in a frame of myself when I was small. Prodigal by d

by The Orphan, The Poet on album Translating (EP)

Cast away in the belly of a whale, we conspire as we confide in the earth to open up and swallow all our lies. We’ll pull you deep and far beneath a lullaby so sweet, singing titans to sleep. We wil

by The Orphan, The Poet on album Translating (EP)

Beat your arms against your chest in reparation of your fear. And we will march until death, ‘til our conscience disappears. Just take up your arms, and we’ll be heroes by the dawn. To the victor

by Will Smith on album Miscellaneous

Now, this is a story all about how, my life got twisted upside down. And I'd like to take a minute just sit right there, I'll tell you how I became the prince of a town called Bel-Air. In west

by Ralph Stanley on album Old Songs & Ballads