MINNESOTA RAIN

Chased by the clouds while searching for that inspirational sound
Don't know how I feel as the rains come down
Reverences shouldn't be this loud

Minnesota rain, if it stops, will I feel the same way as I do today
Traveled a long way to feel inspiration instead of pain

This is the price I paid to be lied at I hope this is not just another tourist trap
Just want to be in the audience and clap even if I can't dance
Putting away my fears me and the doves have different tears

Minnesota rain comes down at night hope it ends with the morning light
In my sleep, I have paisley dreams and the hope to see so many things

The Avenue I will take a walk so many people waiting to hear the art
Passing the square still hear his voice in the air
Dylan might have many colors but sound like no other

Minnesota rain pass me by just want a little more time
Just want to feel the purple omens this is where inspiration is home

©Copyright Thomas Dooley 2018

GENDER BENDER

What you think you are is never what you want to be

You try to skip the pain because you don't like the team

Living a lie can be a shame now you want to reset the game

A taker never a giver just a gender bender

Life is forever God is love and it is a forgiver

Evolution and creation is random so why don't you blame them

Genetics choose you but you think you have something to prove

Something different inside you think it is something new

When it is not like take off a sweater just a gender bender

Want to change your style with the cut of a knife

Want to reshuffle the cards because you don't like who you are

Wanting some attention but it is not the kind your getting 

You want to be free by skipping all the menstruating dreams

Want to make a change gender bender

It will never change your heart it doesn't make you any friendlier

Life doesn't get any better no matter who you are

The chooses you make you got to be strong

Only God can tell you what is right or wrong

©Copyright Thomas Dooley 2018

HOTTER

Why do you pick on me like I am a scab on your knee
Pick, Pick, Pick until I bleed
Band-aids are not free

If I am so different from you
Why am I the one that has to move
After all those things you do

I try to back away but you call me to play
I don't want to live my life this way
Time makes things fade will it do the same to my hate

212 degrees is the boiling point of water
For me, it does not get any hotter

MOTHER'S BREATH

Life is filled with regrets at every turn we make that second guest
Sometimes it comes down to life or death even when you think you pasted the test
The condition of love is an action or an intent a moment you never to forget

When things are not at there best you just want to feel Mother's Breath
Like a baby just want to suckle that breast to be held in her arms is the best

Believe what you want to believe the uneducated fruit is sometimes sweet
Freedom is everyone right that is why some people fight, and some will just hide
Arrested for believing over the border is a better life, who is it that lied?

When outside all there is fear what you need to feel near is Mother's Breath
Never to old to be held in loving arms there your protected from all harm

A reflection the best parts love is never far from the heart
Living out parental dreams seeing things they will never see
Sometimes you have to stand stronger and be a bit stronger

A connection that spans from earth to mars that feel is never far, Mother's Breath
At night will you see the same stars home is where you are

BLIND LIE

How high can you get before you look down and fall
Why do you hide when you claim you have it all
The truth may hurt but when you say it, it will not burn

Blind lie
You got the shovel you know how deep you can go
Blind lie
You got the rope the more you get you will still not touch the floor

Why do you lie?
Because it makes your ego sweet as pie
Why do you lie?
Because you want to see someone die

Blind lie
What is in it for you something shiny and new
Blind lie
You want to impress everyone are you having fun

Everyone is counting your lying words
When called out on your lack of facts
In  your mind, you start to squirm
You play the victim as you follow this path

©Copyright Thomas Dooley 2018

BROWN MAN

Lost in your own world never thinking you're the fool
Everyone loving you but are you really that cool

Brown man
Do you listen to what you say before it comes out of your brain
Brown man
Denoising the many generations of pain trying to make up for it the next day

Bought into a load of white tricks when did you make that switch
What is in it for you what is there for you to prove

Brown man
Clam what you say take your own blame
Brown man
There is more to life than your own fame

Pandering to the tower-man's ego
Is selling out your soul even when you've been told

Brown man
You forgot the ancestors paved a path for you
Brown man
Soon that path will be blocked to you

©Copyright Thomas Dooley 2018

 

THE NAME IS GOD

Your name never said the same way

With a pure heart, the meaning will never change
Ancient beyond the hands of time
Search past your own mind the name you will find

The name is God
Is the same no matter how you say it
Peace and love is divine goodness

The name is Jehovah
No need to say it over and over
You are a soul, and he knows you

The name is Dios
Your need for him comes and goes
He is always there even when you don't think so

The name is Kami
In your heart, you can believe anything
Even when freedom isn't a real thing

The name is Theos
No one can tell you what you already know
Why give a man all the control

The name is Shén

If you can't believe, you can't forgive

Remembering everything you did

The name is Shiva

A point of light I am like you

Manmanabhave is the way I think of you

The name is Allah

Same as it was when you were born

The same forevermore

No one has a claim to the name.

When all over the world it is said in different ways

©Copyright Thomas J Dooley 2018