JUST A GUY

We walk separate paths in life
You walk your's I'll walk mine
Even when it is the same destination
So stop all the predictions

Just a guy walking through life
Looking for what everyone is trying to find
Just a guy walking like a man
Through the water and on the sand

Need no directions from theories or lies
Not from someone who needs a plain to fly
Got my own mind and my religion is just to be kind
No one understands that they just hide

Just a guy walking through life
Looking for the good in everyone even one holding the knife
Just a guy had so many friends
None could be found in the end 

The fall of man isn't in Gods hands
Matthew, Luke, and Paul in their letters lied to us all
But who really lives with the guilt for the fall
The losing fight for foreign lands

Just a guy walking through life
Living with his own fights
Just a guy who only looks within
Giving and never getting peace is his only friend

©Copyright Thomas Dooley 2019

THE DARK NIGHT OF THE SOUL

To understand God is to understand the way the wind blows
No man knows the path of another to a destination he will never know
Chained to the emotions pressed by the weight of the ego
The words of a forgotten confession we will never know

Never cold, never warm, never to see the stormes
Not a place without an image or a face
Hidden behind the cloak of purity is the dark night of the soul

To remember God is to remember where unconditional love comes from
Not a physical choice its value is unmeasurable heard from one voice
The pounding memories of the past carried by a simple man
The unspoken words never to see redemption, never to be forgiven

Never seen, never touched its value is so much
The thought of past lives is the only space it takes
Hidden behind the crimson cloak of sacrifice is the dark night of the soul

God is not man and man is not God
Man is just a container for the soul
God is light no way to be contained
Now come the dawning light of the soul

©Copyright Thomas Dooley 2019
 
     

143

There are times when I am sad
There are times when I am mad
So I stop and think of all the good I have

143 what does that mean to me
An expression its a feeling
It is a way of being

There are feelings I hide
There are feelings I keep deep inside
So I stop and think of words to express them
I start to write...

143 is more than a number
It is something we all hunger to hear
A feeling so unconditionally clear

There are times when I am happy
There are times when I am glad
So I stop and look past the barriers to see you
That person isn't all that bad...

143 is more than a number
Add them up they become 8
That is something great

There are times when I become quiet
There are times when I become silent
So I stop and think what these numbers mean to me
Who expressed them when I was in need...

143 is more than a number
One is for I
Four is for LOVE
Three is for YOU

Now stop to think who said that to you.

Keep that number in your mind
See it with your two eyes
In the stranger next to you
Or the person you have known your whole life

Remember that I LOVE YOU

©Copyright Thomas Dooley 2019

I WANNA BE YOUR SMILE

No longer I can keep this to myself
A secret crush on you I must confess
It is only to you I can never tell

I wanna be your smile
Just want to feel your style
I wanna be your smile
To be that sweet thing in my mind

I see the pictures and videos you do
As you sing every woman is inspired to lead
The beauty of you has nothing to prove

I wanna be your smile
Just want to feel your song
I wanna be your smile
To hear that sweet thing all-day long

No longer you're the one to make commands
The power is at your hand without demands
Call me a friend or a fan just glad to be this kind of man

I wanna be your smile
Just want to see you in my dreams
I wanna be your smile
To hear you sing

©Copyright Thomas Dooley 2019

FOR ALL TIME

Never meet u before in my lifetime
Even though I see you in my mind
Ur  beauty would light up the night

You are the festival of light
You are the celebration of life
You are the party music I dance to
For all time

I call your silhouette my best friend
You inspire these words from hand to pen
They play your music deep within

You are the colors of the sky
You are the sound of the wind
You are the confidence is that I need to begin
For all time

Never lived life like yours If I try it would be a lie
Even though who I really am is lost inside
When inspired I run and hide

You are the creator of inspiration
You are the muse's boyfriend
You are the song to the words I write
For all time

©Copyright Thomas Dooley 2019

REINCARNATION OF HATE

Don't believe in dreams, don't believe in peace
How can he when thinks he has everything

We thought hate died in 1945
But it came back in white sheets and pointy hats
The fight for freedom was it worth that

Don't believe in love, don't believe that justice is for all
How can we when the system distorts these things

Reincarnation of hate returns again in 1985
Slithering through the White House doors
Infected by hate poisoning ever floor this isn't America anymore

Don't believe in kindness, don't believe in respect.
Posting your thoughts and prayers make you attention-grabbing whore
Respect is earned, you have no hair so you can't get a perm

Reincarnation of hate for you hell has no place
With you at the door puts their reputation stake
As Channy cuts the lin in front of you

©Copyright Thomas Dooley 2019

DARE YOU

I dare you to say your free
With your red hat on and not know what that means to me
Saying the exact same thing as the commander of greed
You have no originality you don't know how to think

I dare you to say your free
With your read hat on, claiming no collusion
Alone in a room with Putin what you think they were doing
Comparing the hairs on each other's chest

I dare you to say your free
With your red hat on, excluding those who are different from you
Your culture is so boring, diversity is what create great things
Hate does nothing to uplift community

I dare you to say your free
With your read hat on, repeating all the lies you heard
"If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed."
Hitler said that your greatness represents that.

I dare you to say your free
With your read hat on, needing your gun for protection
When all it protects is fear and intimidation
You are the new slave to this administration

I dare you to say your free

©Copyright Thomas Dooley 2019

DINER

Three eggs medium, hashbrowns, and toast
Coffee, please as the noise of dishes crash into the bus tub
"Would that be all" she would say
"Nothing else thank you" I would say
Looking at the jukebox to see what Prince song to play
"Breakfast Can Wait" will go good with these eggs
In a flash, the cook brings me a plate
The tattooed waitress refills my coffee
Will her tip go to fill in the rest of the tattoo on her neck

©Copyright Thomas Dooley 2019

WET CHICKEN

The teacher warned me about you
Your just another cackling fool
The smell of you is just not cool

Wet chicken
Not enough sense to get out of the rain
Wet chicken
Always looking for someone to blame

Sitting on your stoop not minding what you do
So privileged sitting above everybody
If told to, you would eat the president's poop

Wet chicken
Not enough sense you got no shame
Wet chicken
Living in lire's cage, you gave your freedom away

Farmer Don whoring you out just for scrambled eggs
Taken advantage of one day will cost you thigh and a leg
You will be the Kentucky fried fool to the winning team he will serve you

Wet chicken
Strutting with nothing to do
Wet chicken
A FOX will make a fool of you and eat you


©Copyright Thomas Dooley 2019

QUALITY OF ME

In a place of no reputation, I look to my own destination
These dreams in this life are the cream, but there is much more to me

Quality of me
We all have dreams, we all have needs
But what is different about me goes so deep
Seeing the value in time looking forward to the next day's light

Work ethic is not about giving and taking
It is the value I get from a job well done
Even when I am the only one

Quality of me
Time should never wait on me
I should be in the moment and ready for anything
Every day should be about reality

Just because you give less
That is no reason for me not to be limitless
Service towards others shouldn't be faked

Quality of me
I might have feelings, but that doesn't make me weak
I am a soul with a higher purpose for humanity to be set free
Verifying every thought deep in my heart this is me

Only a fool thinks the world revolves around just one
Peace is not made from a gun it come from unconditional love
The soul never get tired even when it runs

Quality of me
I might have doubts, but that isn't what I am about
I have needs there much more than anything you can see

©Cpoyright Thomas Dooley 2019


NOTES:

PRIVILEGED LIFE

This life feels like it has maid wrong turn to our destination
Thinking the next turn will be our real liberation
No one thinking they just blindly listening
Responsibility is placed on the victim, for that there is no forgiving

Privileged life
Threaten by other people enjoying life
As they cut barbecue with a knife

A closed mind is closed to the diversity of life
It is a threat to the boredom of uncultured traditions
Pride in hate does not make anyone great

Privileged life
Threaten by historical truths who really owned whom
When true love was found jumping over the broom

What is marriage the beginning to everlasting romance
Or a contract where you only get half as the lawyers laugh
Unconditional love should be the goal of everyone

Privileged life
When there is proof you are wrong
But you lie with the same old song

Stick a needle in your eye there no way to explain your lie
Step on a crack to break your mother's back (is that what Sarah's children try to do?)
With no job you lost all your pride all you got is time

©Copyright Thomas Dooley 2019

GAZE

She got the walk you think you got the line
But you can't talk for you she is too fine

Gaze
You got no game
Gaze
You just so lame
With that gaze

Why you look at her that way
Like she is some kind of prey

Gaze
What you got to say
Gaze
When you see her every day
Look away with that gaze

You might be hooked on her looks
Got to get to know her so read her like a book

Gaze
This life is a maze
Gaze
If you want some
Personel fun is more than that gaze

Her feminity is a strength it will make you weak
Her voice so strong knowing right from wrong

Gaze
Can't hide from those dark eyes
Gaze
If you don't listen to the truth, it is just noise
This world is mine, and yours hold that gaze

©Copyright Thomas Dooley 2019

FIRST OF JUNE

Legend a rumor puts shame to my name
As the Kingsmen sing it every day
They still get paid as it fades with age

First of June
I am still the same
But everything is new

Sharing my birthday with flag fondling tyrant
Don't want to be associated with that
My conception is a good reason for calibration

First of June
I just want to hear that new tune
Just want to feel that muse

Art is where it all starts
Something this cool has nothing to prove
Keep doing what you do

First of June
I got to find my own path
No need for directions from any man

Get up and dance like you got, soul
Just want to let you know you are a soul
Now let everyone know

First of June
With responsibility in life knowing what to do
Just want to be in that mediated mood

BOY INSIDE

So afraid think I've lost my way
Every day in secret I would pray
Is anyone listening? what would they say

Some times I dream some times I lie
What I can truly be, I hide
From this boy inside

My darkest day my brightest nights
Looking at these words, I write
Will, they ever have their own life

Caught in a dream captured in a lie
Finding my way through life is the real fight
For this boy inside

Traveled the world to know who I am
Got to learn to be my own friend
This I need to do, in this journey with no end

Reasons I dream, reasons I lie
What in life can I say is mine
Who is this boy inside

I am much older now
Living with a lifetime of doubts
Still learning what I am all about

Is it me that dreams? Is it me that lies?
Too afraid to reach for that prize
To give to that boy inside

©Copyright Thomas Dooley 2019

   

KISS AWAY

Didn't forget how to pray
Didn't lose my way
I just don't claim a title or name

My thoughts of you come and go through the day
I just sit still inside and out thoughts of you light the way
It is just a reminder your just a kiss away

Sacrilegious is a myth when we don't forgive
We celebrate the torture of the son when killing is a sin
I just don't want to play those games

I try to control my thoughts and the way I talk
Just to be a good person is all I want
It is a reminder your just a kiss away

Preacher tells me the path to a place he has never been
Saturday laying with sister juice fruit
Sunday claiming to be better than you

Don't want to hide when I have nothing to prove
To be what you see in me is all I can strive to do
It is reminder your just a kiss away

©Copyright Thomas Dooley 2019

EMOTIONEL PLAIN

I wake up the same way every day
Get out of bed one foot at a time
Even when some times I want to stay
Got those morning pain I know I am alive

Emotional Plain
Everything I do to get away it is always the same
Emotional Plain
Wondering does it have anything to do with my name

Thinking the chemicals need to be in charge
We all live with mistakes living in the shadow of regrets
Why living life naturally have to be so hard
Making your way through it all don't fail the next test

Emotional Plain
Have goals I want to keep and people I want to meet
Emotional Plain
There is the dawn through the darkest day for that you got to stay

The distance between me and you is the way I feel about you
Wishing I could be anyone else to you I must be a fool
A relationship is what you work for it not the job I don't want to do
I got to warm my self up just to be cool

Emotional Plain
Got to get away from you asking how I feel every day
Emotional Plain
Sometimes I want the distance but still miss you when your away


©Copyright Thomas Dooley 2019

MODERN CLOWN

Shame is all over your face
Symbols tattooed in random places
It is your pain you maid no sympathy for those tears

Modern clown
Can't tell up from down
Old school doesn't understand your sound

The millennials pray to you when you are not that cool
They say your smart but you act the fool
Like the Little name, you are a tool

Modern clown
Can't tell up from down
Pain for your laziness is your sound

Copyright Thomas Dooley 2019

  

REVOLUTIONARY SOUL

There is more then what you see
More than what you are told to believe
You can't have what you already own

Take back your peace it is more than anything
Take back your love there is beauty in every one
Take back your purity the way you live will make you free

Revolutionary soul
Much more than owning all the gold
Revolutionary soul
Much more than fame or what you think you know

A magician wants you to believe what you can not see
That is what the politicians strive to be
Putting a price on being alive all the time living a lie

Take back your joy learn something you didn't know
Take back your happiness when stressed you got to rest
Take back your dream so much more you could ever be

Revolutionary soul
Much more than being the popular one
Revolutionary soul
Much more than a rule that doesn't apply to you

Diversity is a mixture of everything even when some can't see
Some people limit themselves that is the opposite of free
Seeking attention from the one with an ego of greed

Take back your education it is the one thing you can do on your own
Take back your community this is where a leader should be
Take back your freedom than any time you can stop and admire the sky

Revolutionary soul
Much more than anyone opinion
Revolutionary soul
Much more than this container for the soul

©Copyright Thomas Dooley

BLESSED DANE

You struggle with choices but you dance through the day
Reveling your change but your beauty remains the same
With the many barriers on your path, you still make your way

Blessed Dane
Complex male feminity there is no other way for me to say your name
Blessed Dane
A friend, sister, and brother confidence is the identity, you maid

Your confidence is yours, not under anyone's control
Clothing, hair, and makeup does nothing for the true beauty of you the soul
God's acceptance, you never have to work for because it is only yours

Blessed Dane
No need to change your name who you are will always be the same
Blessed Dane
With nothing to prove you will dance like a muse today

Kindness and love is the makeup on your face
Smiling and laughing away the pain there are no tears to trace
All of who you are reaches to the edge and adorned with pretty lace

Blessed Dane
Is the name of the dance you do
Blessed Dane
That is the way I see you

©Copyright Thomas Dooley 2019

NOTES:

ORPHANED LEGACY

Sharing the sound is what makes it loud
Understand the many words that you heard
Complicated thoughts interpreted by the heart

This love sign is for every boy and girl
And all those in between it is for everybody

Orphaned legacy
There no waking from this eternal dream
We still got this life, and the inspiration will lead

On Thursday you died, but the vibe is still alive
As we remember you at the party every Saturday night
The music heals the pain nothing for the MC to say

Orphaned legacy
There no sitting around when you are in town
We still got this life, and there is much more to this rain

Don't pray for what has happened in the past
Lost in this artistic trances, watch the muse as she dances
Her beauty is left for interpretation of only one imagination

Orphaned legacy
There no need for clouds when we hear your sound
We still got this life, and this power of love is more than enough

©Copyright Thomas Dooley 2019

GREEN GREED

Leaders can't see the change going on beyond their own greed
Plastic in the seas the burning of all the trees
Hot where it should be cold something the almanac didn't know

Green greed
The rich can't see the change as they make the money rain
As the uneducated buys, their lies like its the newest style

What we got they can't have so they tax every man
Keeping their secrets is the only solution they don't know who their fooling
No proof to the lies they are tooling

Green greed
Ignorance is a political seed no way anyone to be free
As the world crumbles down can't see the dawn through the weeds

The hypocrite laugh at there own jokes
As the sing superstar lip-sinks to their own voice
Fake isn't the way your maid you choose to be that way

Green greed
Have no trust in what you see so you create your own reality
You got no cash so tell ever one the world is flat

This is not about you not about me
Not even about those who dream of the things they need


©Copyright Thomas Dooley 2019

NO TIME FOR REDEMPTION

What once was will be again
Just a dream I have in my head
Asking for forgiveness of the past will never end

No time for redemption
When your past is never forgiven
What is in this life that we are missing

You are reborn in the eyes of the lord
As the lobbyist just give you more
But in the political world, you're just whore

No time for redemption
When your future is a series of predictions
You call them missed communications

Blaming others for who you are
But claiming you're the greatest by far
You have no perspective on charm

©Copyright Thomas Dooley 2019

INTEGRITY

Has morel ground become sand and dust
We can't count on the things we once trust

No integrity in a lie when it is the truth you hide
Soft hands soft mind is the result of the ego's pride

The truth once was like steel now it is just rusting away
Optimism tries to heel in the darkness of the day

No integrity in selfish privilege when hate is your only message
Truth and lies today are blurred lines but no courage to acknowledge that

Is justice the cure for the pain or have we lost our way
No inspiring words to take us through these days

No integrity in peace an unfulfilled desire is our reality
Creating the ingredients for genocide as we watch Palestinian children die

God doesn't choose who lives and dies we elect our leaders to do that
Now they wonder why is everyone mad when it is in the past

No integrity in fear wondering what brought us here
Too scared to show you care when hate is all you hear

You come along way to forget yesterday when all you did was prayed
Now you live with a hypocrite lie acting like you care, but you don't even try

Integrity is the inner wealth
Integrity directs the moral compass
I would rather be poor with integrity
Than rich without a soul

©Copyright Thomas Dooley 2019

ORIGINAL MAN

Lost that dream in my heart
Came so far got to re-start
Even though I see the horizon it is still far

Just want to be an original man
Stay to my own path and stay out of the sand
Don't need a mystical deity to give me a hand

Lost that dream in my mind
The dream I had all this time
It is just another turn in my path

Just want to be an original man
No need for a fancy device or a tattoo
Free to do what I want too not out to impress you

Lost that dream in my life
She looked me in the eye thought she would be my wife
She turned her back never understand what I lacked

Just want to be a man of originality
That is what makes me free

©Copyright Thomas Dooley 2019

PLOT POINT

Trying to find inspiration in life
There is a choice in knowing wrong from right
Taking pride in the words that I write

Plot Point
A turning at the corner in the story being told

The hero might lose the fight
But will get the redemption in the light
In the end the responsibility you hold

Plot point
Where music get its soul

All she asks for is a little respect when he walks in the door
She knows she will love him much more
Not a muse but a living queen listen to her sing

Plot point
It is all in the words one writes

Say dear God before sleep at night
The sign will be a purple color filling the sky
Sisters can find strength through life

Plot point
Talking above all the noise

Robert would cross-talk in a conversation
No one thought it was art
When that is the way we all talk

Plot point
Discovering something you didn't know

Exposing your mind to an uneducated lie
Thinking you're more privileged than others
To be borne you had to have a mother

©Copyright Thomas Dooley 2019

MELLOW MIND

Lost my dream when you looked me in the eyes
In you I thought I found a new dream, it was just a lie
Truth to a lifetime now the choices was mine

Mellow mind
You gave me the fruit to try
But then you put me to the side

Lost my way in your shallow game
Thought I found another soul to connect to mine
Alone got to work through these lonely days

Mellow mind
You gave me friendship in my mind
Too afraid to tell what I felt inside

Lost my sight saw no wrong in you
Go out of my way with feeling to prove
It was strange to me it was all new

Mellow mind
You gave me loneliness
Did you take back everything you said

Lost my feeling and everything I believed in
For a long time thought we could be friends
Have not heard a word from you ever again

©Copyright Thomas Dooley 2019

DIASPORA GUILT

Is this what my ancestors felt
When leaving their homes for a better world
No longer I am on the path they took

Diaspora guilt
Now history is a bitter pill
Dreams scheduled to be killed

No compensation for the hate
Ignorance is the only food they ate
With another serving on their plate

Diaspora guilt
Now the truth is a bitter pill
No standing up for it get out your cameras and film

The privilege can't feel any pain
They have no sense of shame
It is always the victim they blame

Diaspora guilt
Now education is a bitter pill
The blooming youth just die and wilt

Reading, writing, and arithmetic no longer the way
Now it is only words of hate anyone can say
Thoughts and prayers will not make a new day


©Copyright Thomas Dooley 2019
   
  

MUSE ME

I can't lie what I am feeling inside
I would hide the words that I write
Some times so embarrassed I could die

Muse me
Inspire what I think
Inspire what I dream

You changed for the attention
For me to see you is a form of affection
Now I don't see you the same way, you lost my attention

Muse me
Inspire what I see
Inspire what I feel

Poetic words drip from his lips
As the needle on the album skips
Every word visual you know it is his

Muse me
Inspire the fire in me
Inspire something I can believe

One day your mixing drinks
So much with your dark eyes, you see
Now you call-out the commander and chief

Muse me
Inspire revolutionary dreams
Inspire them into reality

Lies feed on the plasma of the uneducated mind
The ego thrives as the communities hide
Facts with conviction will win the fight

Muse me
Inspire the need to just be
Inspiration should always be free


©Copyright Thomas Dooley 2019

DREAMING OF INSPIRATION

A hammock, a mattress, a pillow for my head
After a long day, I've earned this rest
Drifting away to a world without stress

Dreaming of inspirational food
For the body
Craving poetic nourishment

Counting the seconds go by
Past and present friends still lie
Deep in my mind

Dreaming of inspirational words
For the mind
Just to create one poetic rhyme

A coalition of thoughts in my mind
Thinking I lost everything in life
When I wake everything is fine

Dreaming of inspirational sound
For the soul
Only the purple omens know

What is the artistic process
But he hasn't told me yet
In the vault is where it rests

©Copyright Thomas Dooley 2019

THE ALCHEMY OF PEACE

There is a scientific equation to peace

Like global warming, it is what our leaders can't see

The alchemy of peace
Is one part you and another part me
Living in harmony

It is not a mixture of exploding things

It is the respect for life and all that it means

The alchemy of peace
Is the extraction of all impurities

Like war and inequality

There is no potion no magical elixir

It is learning from the past and being a forgiver

The alchemy of peace

Is the reaction of a dream to be free

In the incubator of the mind the only place it can be seen

©Copyright Thomas Dooley 2019

CULTURE WAR

No one knows who I am
Even when I tell them over and over again
Like a book, you have to read me from the inside out
Take the time to see what I am about

Caught in a culture war
Why does it have to come to my door
In the night of a racist mind, it is boring
In the educated mind, it is always morning

A young boy was thrown to the floor
Is this what he came here for
A young girl with a knee in her back
Call for her mama does she know where she is at

Caught in a culture war
Why does it have to come to my door
Call Nine, one, one when breaking the rules of etiquette
Everyone knows the fork goes on the left

There is so much to this world, I want to experience it all and get my fill
Standing in one places does not get you over the hill
People who talking lies with no proof
They complain when faced with the real truth (yes Sarah I am talking about you)

Caught in a culture war
Why does it have to come to my door
Our nation is built on cultural appropriation
So many are sensitive they call it racism

White girls wanting to be black
Black girls wanting to be white girls wanting to be black
Is there cultural appropriation in that
We should look into those facts

Caught in a culture war
Why does it have to come to my door
In a shrinking world, we have become sensitive
We should adapt to our differences

©Copyright Thomas Dooley 2019