Means and Ends
Rare earth.
Raw nerves.
Who needs diplomacy
when he can have good TV?
Movie Actors, Rock Stars, and Presidents
So many in my class after those appellations went
Decades later, not one of the above from my friends
Seems that the means didn't justify the ends
President Thomas Jefferson
Penned our Declaration:
To end unjust Oppression
The Means are Insurrection
I live on poetry
Instead of money
Means and ends reversed
To alter the curse
Lifeblood runs thick
As stoic veins bleat out
Their passionate terrain
I will die knowing
What life means
So while money hawks circle
Chasing beer and dreams
I will float along
Making food out of song
Grace is sometimes hard to find
race from one side to another frame of mind
how long can you go before you lose it all
bow down before the future and watch them fall
linger on in this house of shame
finger pointing out whose to blame
I don't know how it came to this
cry all night for something i'm gonna miss
take a few steps tip the bottle for all your friends
break a few rules to get by with certain means and ends
can't stand to lose it all once again
rant about the wrongs between the lines that start to bend
to have died that night never thought it could ever last
few men live on to regret all things done wrong in the past
grace saves too few in the trenches of war
place your memories in a jar to put on the floor
be back when i have something to say
see her now and i know she can't ever stay