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The Water

Do not disturb the water
The man once said to me
for those who've tried are no more
Quite mysteriously

They spoke of love and life once lived
A place called home, where all was his

It all burnt away, he said with a tear
and all i'm left with is this empty fear

As you see my friend we've much in common
But theres once major difference
you're not in a coffin

So feel free to take a swim
Test the waters he said with a grin
for I see you know which way to go
Dont make me push you in

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Wind

Sitting in my car
Christmas Eve loving from afar
The peoples hatred infect my veins 
Call by fall life brings the pain

The bird isn't happy without it's other
Alone in the night - it plucks it's feathers
The blood flows through the tainted greyness 
It's so Fu*king sad how circumstance makes us
Believe in a world where all is one and one is all...
You used my feathers to break your fall

Yet still I pull
Heart on the floor
Beating still but made a fool
No Blood flows from my gaping wound
Just a hole that still hurts
when the wind blows through
So with these feathers dotted along this empty cage
This year left me nothing but the end of another day

Addam Hughes
Christmas Eve 2010

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December 15

Only in theaters, Rater "R"
You'll come to my life
Seated from afar
Watch me now, without your help
I've killed this time and still with health

It's not even ten
Yet I feel i'll do it again

I hated this year, more regret than you'll care to hear
Still, listen to this song
My impaired lyrical version of a life all wrong

That months for you
to end a dream and start anew
Next years for me
To end my life of hypocrisy
Your life is with me, but i'm not a member
I hate this month...Fu*k December

I think that today i'll get a new book
to steal my reality from that fatal last look
Trust in faith...it's a new way to go
Except for my life, i'll rhyme what I know

So there is a dead man walking
Away from my fire
I scream with new hope
I can't handle liars
And emotion i've found
Has nothing to do with it
only the few
Live freely outside of it.

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Awkward Lies

Bald man on the TV
Lower your soundless voice please!
Unscrew your mind to him my friend
For it seems they come in peace...

Here is your world, your managed little lives
Put up your walls and dodge your awkward lies.
Look at this mess, you're given this test
To fight for what you believe, what you "want this to be"

I"m just killing time
watching the tube, i'm just fine
And once again I kill this light - I go to bed
I hate my life.
I can't dream of this anymore
I know I won't because I didn't before
Dodge your lie, live your life

Here is your world, your managed little lives
put up your walls and doge your awkward lies
Look at this mess, you're given our test
To fight for sweet relief and what you want it to mean.

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Drama of Our Earth

Life sucks then you die
Isn't that how it goes?
Our words swill like smoke in the dark
And the eyes of chance have closed

There was never anything
Now
That i've time to think

Even if we played it right
Knew our parts
Practiced every night

This drama of our earth 
would change not a shade
Our performance not noticed
Our Debt still unpaid

So why continue?
Every single night?
Why bother with the clothes?
The make up, fake trees or lights?

Theres not audience to applaud
no flowers thrown
No shed tears
Just the taste of ash 
as we take our bow
and watch the smoke clear

I guess theres no reason
Why our show still goes on
Our highs and lows
Displayed on our faces
For all and none to look upon

My best chance
Is a guess
That one night for one show
We'll play our parts with such
Perfection
That it not mater if anyone knows
Its just a dream that may never come true

But if it does, i'll stop my show 
Buy the first ticket
seated in the front row
For another, Different act
One never before seen

A show where the actors are happy
and the storied have meaning




Addam Hughes

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A Flame Once Burned

Oh well...Here I go again...
Whispering obscurities to the paper with my pen

Sleeping slowly - The lights are always on
Feeding my vanity
with your memories long gone

It's always just like this
A flame once burned 
Damning the righteousness
Of the things you said
Or rather I didn't say

The lives that we live - or another rainy day

The phone rings and time talks
My day passes and the wick is all I've got 


Addam Hughes  4/18/08

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One Claim

How does one claim change the fate of a man?
Tell me, how does that fate change the way of a land?
When all he wants to do is make a new home
He left it all behind for the man on the throne

Its easy to say what you need 
When you know where you're going
When you first start to bleed
I bet it's easy - to be that man
When a murder of crows is at your command.

When you've walked with your knuckles
Dug deep in the sand.
The stories start to change 
When the time starts to bend

We all pass down what we've learned from the "man"
But I bet it's different when it't given
By the very first hand...

It's given never taken, only festers within
When your told where to start
But not where to end.
I bet it't easy to be that way
To blind yourself to life
To follow sheep the whole way

So how does one claim change
The fate of a man?
Tell me, How can that fate change
The ways of a land?

When all he wants to do is be at home...
But throws it all away for a shot at the throne.

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A Bird Alone

Flying around in my bitter cage
I haven't eaten in three damn days
These bars you see
Have been the end of me
Now listen to this story

Hatched and raised with out any mother
I met her in the east, on the north west corner
All was good
Until one day he stood
We held on and apparently it was understood.

We were taken away to this very cage
We lived our dream 
until that faithful day
The lock unhinged and you flew with out fear
perched upon the ceiling fan   
It was so Fu*king weird

You sand the song of last goodbyes and flew away
no matter how I cried
Not it's me, like never before
No eat, no sleep only pace this newspaper floor.
Now I sleep, I hate my life
I can't take it anymore

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Fixations

Hey, at least I write.
Its my only defense against the 
world
And its many red lights

I'm good to go, who hasn't seen
I'm always right there
Just passionately listening

There's so much pressure
On our situations
We kill this time
all with our own fixations

And think of the others
The millions of fathers, mothers,
Sisters and brothers
Who pass the time abusing 
eachother

And even yet, some main line 
For an even bigger hit
But screw all that and watch the
"Better half"
As they drive to the bank and Polish 
their "golden calf"

Yea, I'd rather write
It doesn't hurt a soul
Even when it bites

I don't hit women or hurt babies to 
vent
I walk my path home and pitch a 
New tent

Its really, really hard. Trust me
I know
when all you have is time to kill the 
pain below

So you like me
Bare these time quite bitterly
we sing. We dance. 
We get messed up no matter the 
circumstace

I pass this time the good, defying 
way
Life will come thru
Just move what's in the way

Human fixation rules both good and 
bad. Just stay on your feet and pick 
your own path.

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Dead Nerves

It gets you in the eyes when you roll out of bed
The colors all gone because the nerves are all dead

It doesn't care where you've hidden your gun
All it feels is your shame, and for him this is fun

Did you ever stop to think?
Or did you forget?
That our time spent together
Is worth more to regret?

Do you ever sit and wonder what you could have been?
Did you ever sit, wait and
Watch what could be born of such sin?