Rosie by Ken Cowdery

They say she’s crazy and she walks the streets alone
She totes her shopping bag and hums a single tone
Her heart is on her sleeve it’s there for you to hurt
Her teeth are stained and brown her face is smeared with dirt

Chorus
She thinks she lives in the David Davis mansion
She thinks she’s friends with the queen
She knows the mayor and his cronies call her baby
But she’s just lost in a dream

She had a husband once and thinks he is there still
She eats the garbage from the dumpster by the grill
And now she’s sleeping she is happy and content
She looks so lovely lying there on the cement

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And now the cold wind blows her joints all ache with pain
She walks through snow and sleet she walks through freezing rain
Her coughing never stops her hacking fills the air
And she is dying but the mayor doesn’t care

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Deceitful Girl by Ken Cowdery

Deceitful girl she is an evil savior
I’m so stupid and she’s sharp as a razor
She’s snakes and daggers in a soft and silky lady
A vampire kiss and now I am her baby

Blood and tears mix so sweetly
Fan the flames of love so neatly
Dance the cha cha dance the mambo
The devil’s jamming in the combo

She’s chewing hickory and drinking whiskey
She’s kissing me now and It’s making me frisky
The clouds are swirling and rocks are cracking
Dust is blowing and my bones are clacking

Sail the sea of love so bold
Dive into the deep and cold
Swim with mermaids swim with fishes
Bubbles twirl around my kisses

Love is like a wicked child
Sweet and mellow sharp and wild
It’s like a knife that cuts your soul
It opens you up and takes it’s toll

Now the lights are dim and fading
Into the pool of love I’m wading
It’s water’s deeper than the ocean
It’s magic liquid, like a potion

Now she’s looking into my eyes
It freezes all from hell to skies
It cracks my heartstrings like a whip
It spins me around and it makes me sick

Now my blood is black and burning
Round and round my thoughts are churning
It feels like madness mixed with flowers
It changes minutes into hours

Face the North say you love me
face the north say you will
spread your wings rise above me
land upon my window sill

Life's too short to deny me
Life's too short to play games
If you want, come and try me
Take my hand say my name

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Cardinal points are on my compass north, south, east and west
Feel the earth's magnetic forces draw me to your breast

Read my leaves kiss the crystal
as the suns sets close your eyes
Hear the wheels see them turning
See the sparks that light the sky

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Eat the dirt from the highway
Now the road is in your heart
Watch the clouds start to gather
Now the new world will be ours

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Diego Rivera by Ken Cowdery

Peitro my darling with your blue skin tan
And your squared off face and your angry young man

Red is the color blue is the pain
Diego Rivera Loves Frida again

Your dagger is bleeding sharp is your knife
Diego is calling he wants back his life

Red is my backbone blue are my tears
Frida says nothing can hold back the tears

The bars of this jailhouse cast shadows of grey
The cockroaches weep and they kneel down and pray

Red are my senses blue is my soul
We threw Diego deep down in that hole

To the top of the temple ten stories high
Climb there and tell me why he had to die

Red is my right hand yellow my left
My lover is calling me back to her breast

Words by Ken Cowdery

Words words words mean to say
Say to mean my word play
Round and round make a sound
Move your mouth up and down

Stuff comes out but what's it mean
Is there meaning I can see
Make your statement make it bold
So your story can be told

Take your words and write them down
In a book or on the ground
Makes no difference what we do
I will never understand you

There's no truth in poetry
They're just words now don't you see
Pretty words but they tell lies
They want us to think they're wise

Fields of cream by ken Cowdery

Buttercups and purple pups
I'm rolling on the ground
Beetlebuzz and flower fuzz
Makes such a lovely sound
Dandylions and birds a' flyin
are slowin' down the pace

Chours

Melting, melting away
Spinning , spinning all day
Melting, melting away
Spinning , spinning all day

Wispy clouds and doudy douds
weigh heavy on my eyes
Such a joy my sleepy boy
starin' at summer skies
flicker bugs and garden slugs
Are happy now today
Night decends and the world pretends
That love is here to stay

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Fields of cream and the mountains dream
Are things I do hold dear
The stream pours down and babbles round
It's surface forms a mirror
The calling sea says come to me
It beckons me to play
The waves roll in and I start to spin
It's such a lovely day

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Dance in the sunshine.
By Ken Cowdery

Dirty snow falls and plants all die
There is no joy in a November sky
The lakes are all frozen and winter is here
The world is silent it’s ever so queer
The rooms are all empty there’s nobody there
Nosound in the parlor no sound on the stair

D7
I just dance and play in the sunshine
G
In my head
I can float around in the slipstream
because I’m dead

Thearth is so peaceful so cool on my face
My body dissolves and then slips into space
I once was a dancer who played for the queen
I dressed all in scarlet and yellow and green
And now I am dancing to the devils own tune
Winter is leaving the flowers all bloom

You think I'm unhappy but really I'm not
'cause I am so grateful for the good things I've got
I'm just like a statue with lips that are blue
Come now and kiss me and be like me too
My skin is so stone cold my touch is like ice
And death is like gambling it's a toss of the dice

You can dance and play in the sunshine, in your head
You can float around in the slipstream because you're dead

Needles Needles
By Ken Cowdery

Wring out your brains Sop up my guts
You eat out my heart And spit out my love
Love is your tool you drill me with it
Put holes through my heart, why don’t you quit

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Needles, needles in my eye
Chipping fire from the sky
Promise not to tell a lie
Walking across the bridge of sighs

Sketch me with pain shade with regret
Fire me in the sun to make me forget
There’s too much mud running through my veins
When it comes out, it pains and it stains

Chorus

Little footsteps in my ear
Get my attention listen here
Smile for me my sweet dear
While the world is still clear

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Dead by Ken Cowdery

His hair was black and is was like a dead thing
There’s a cigarette upon his lips
And his eyes are on you staring sharply
He just touched you with his fingertips

He’s a shadow of the man he once was
He’s a shadow of a breath of air
Dark and gruesome like a Thompson novel
He’s the man who real wasn’t there

He’s a bullet in the eye of justice
He’s a dagger in your mother’s heart
He will take the life right from your loved ones
He will tear your little world apart

He’s a desperate man along the roadside
He’s a viper with a poison tongue
Watch for him or you’ll be sorry
He will kill you even though you are young

Now the rain if falling by the graveside
Now the snow is falling in the air
He was here but now he’s long departed
Life was here but now it’s cold and bare

He’s a splash of blood along the pavement
He’s a thunderclap inside your head
He is pain and he is woe and suffering
He is standing now and you are dead

Bugamilia
By Ken Cowdery

Underneath a yellow sky
My lady smiled into the sun
She didn’t see the devil there
For if she did she’d surely run

Bugamilia,
Bugamilia
Bugamilia

I watched him as he took her down
Her screaming filled the evening air
I didn’t try to lend a hand
If truth be told I didn’t care

Bugamilia, Bugamilia, Bugamilia

Her sisters lovely as the night
Shot arrows at my startled face
I died with each and every shaft
My blood it didn’t leave a trace

Bugamilia, Bugamilia, Bugamilia

The angry moon looked down upon
The monkey riding on my back
My greasy skin and beating heart
Turned white and the sky was black

Bugamilia, Bugamilia, Bugamilia

Bugamilia sees me every night
She comes to me within my dreams
Her eyes cut deep into my soul
And waking doesn’t stop her screams

Bugamilia, Bugamilia, Bugamilia

Angelina

She was ice lime green and cool
Her lips were as blue as the sea
I laid like a corpse on the sidewalk bare
While her tentacles slithered around me

Angelina, Angelina Jolie Angelina Jolie

Her mind was vapid empty and cold
Her briliance it cut to the quick
She was trapped in the cell of her mind
Watching the universe tick

Angelina, Angelina Jolie Angelina Jolie

The kiss that kills is moist and warm
Like cactus flowers in June
And Angelina will do me harm
Under the laughing moon

And while the clock ran backward in time
I was old and alone
I heard her breathing the beat of her heart
A heart that was cold as the stone

Angelina, Angelina Jolie Angelina Jolie

Church of the locusts

A leafy green color spreads over my skin
it starts on the surface and sinks right in

And thousands of locusts are chanting in time
wickedly laughing they belt out a rhyme

Church of the locust king
Church of the dance and sing
Church of the never ending ring
Church of the brillient thing

The spidery web of their hypnotic song
Draws us in deeper and takes us along

Gliding like needles of steel through the air
The locusts encircle a vision so rare

Chours

Say your prayers like the manits do
Lift your face up to the sky of blue
Try to scream but you can't make a sound
Then you'll know that you are heaven bound

And thousands of people all chanting your name
Their flappers gyrating all one in the same

Rhythmically slapping the cold marble floor
Falling in through the window and out through the door

To the innermost depths and the outmost place
To the lonliest star in outer space

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Where it ends

You look like a killer in your voodoo death mask Walking through the valley of love
Sink your teeth into me baby like an angel from heaven above

With your two dollars shoes And your jailhouse tatoos Your size me up for the kill
You're painting my dreams full of yellows and greens It's giving me such a chill

And I don't know where or when
You walked into this room
And I don't know where
Then you'll know that you are heaven bound

Walking down the alley of twisted dreams, I met you in the doorway to hell
You took away my candy and broke my heat, then you pushed me into the well

The morning sun shines upon your face, and the moon is shining on your skin
If you open up your feelers and lay back down, I know that you could let me in

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Like a butterfly flapping inside my heart, and a rocket engine in my brain
Like a broken wheel made of jagged steel, you scupted me with your pain

Now I sit there in my old lawn chair a blank stare on my face
I thought I had a winner with my red king but you held the big black Ace

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Half a boy

He thinks he's pretty amazing
He thinks he's pretty unique
He dresses like a kid in a magazine
His voice is loud but it's sweet

He hangs with all the right people
Everyone around him is cool
He thinks he's headed for the ivy league
But he's just doing night school

He's half a boy and half a man

She thinks he's pretty obnoxious
She thinks he's stupid and vain
She tries to ignor him but he's always there
She won't even call him by name

His daddy bought him a pinto
ten ponies under the hood
He drives that beater like a muscle car
He ain't doing no one no good

He's half a boy and half a man

He follows her around like a puppy
He's boring in the extreme
She's laughing at him right behind his back
And he's too stuck up to see

He thinks she's crazy about him
He thinks he driving her wild
Her teeth are grinding and her fists are clenched
He's acting like a five year old child

He's half a boy and half a man

He thinks he's pretty amazing
He's sitting there all by himself
She took all she could and put him in his place
And then put him up on a shelf

She told him: You have a small johnson
You have no style and no taste
You need a breath mint and you need a clue
You really are a terrible waste

He's half a boy and half a man