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By Andy Brown

Take a flight
Through the valleys and cracks
That are the lines on my face.
And see what it's like
To live life from someone else's space.
Each one's from a certain
Insurmountable stress.
And each one brings me
Right to you
And one step closer to death.

Fish out of water

Fish out of water
By Andy Brown

Raining
It rains everyday
Everyday raining
since you left.

Crying
She won't stop crying
She can't stop crying,
thanks to you.

So go ahead
and live your life
Doing unto others
that which you wouldn't want
Done unto you.
And go ahead
and smile
seeing as how you know you can't hide those fangs.

Dripping
The dripping is so loud
The dripping will drive you insane
because the drops erode your soul.

Rushing
Get carried away by the rushing river
As the rushing rive carries you away
You always thought happiness was downstream.

So go ahead
and search the dark depths
of that bottle
And go ahead
and try to find salvation
at the end of a gun barrel
We'll laugh together in Hell.

Drowning
Can't you see you're drowning?
Help him, he's drowning.
Or so you wish I said.

Water
Like a Fish out of water
Being tempted by the droplets
You begin to remember why she hated the rain.

A Very Special Mother's Day

A Very Special Mother’s Day
By Andy Brown

Yes, I do remember you
The scent of beer and cigarettes
Are hard to forget.
Daddy doesn’t like you around much
But you bring such pleasure to mommy.

No, I don’t quite remember anymore
What happened on that fateful day
Is easy to forget.
Your hand traces along the cleavage
That divides my family.

One day you won’t remember me
I’ll just be another face
But now it’s hard to forget
How my tiny fingers
Found the trigger that day.

I can’t seem to remember much
About the trial anymore
With my memory, it’s easy to forget.
One old life gone, one new life here, and one life changed
On that very special mother’s day.

Of course, daddy remembers
He isn’t one
To forget a face.
This house is awful empty
With everyone in it.

When Broken and nothing met

When Broken and nothing met
By Andy Brown

I can clearly remember the day
When Broken and nothing met
Struck down and oppressed by
What we heard them say

Underdog
No expected anything from nothing
He would show them
Judgment Day would come
And he would have the last laugh

Wrong
Broken couldn’t help she was different
What you want
And what I want
Are never the same
Broken and disobedient
Are not the same

Cast aside and left for dead
The two crawled from the garbage pile
Dirtied by belief and principles
No one would want them
No one
Except each other

BrokenBattered
And ScarredNothing
Together forever
In unholy matrimony

Kiss the earth

Kiss the earth
By Andy Brown

Running
Every day running
As my feet hit the pavement,
Shocks are sent up and down my legs
Push myself away from the ground
Only to come back down
Hit
Shock
Push
The concrete throws me into the air
Dejectedly, I come crying back
My toes kiss the earth
And I’m thrown again

This hallway
It never ends
Echoes of my thundering footsteps
Bounce off of closed doors
This hallway never ends
And I’m not scared
For I know that I’m always at home
Running in my mind

There’s no escape
My thoughts will always catch me
And at the end of the day
I can smile
Knowing that the face staring back at me
Is my own
And that I’ve played the fool my whole life
Thinking that I could run away
From my own thoughts

On the Colors of human Nature

On the Colors of human Nature
By Andy Brown

Red
Blue
Red
I remember now,
Yes, you looked so beautiful
Red lips
Blue eyes
So blue
We danced that night,
If I remember correctly
What a dance it was
I think you screamed
I remember pulling my fist away
Your eyes looked so blue
My knuckles were red

Red
Blue
Red
Yes, I do remember
Blue
I can’t exactly explain it
You make me feel in such a way that
Nobody else
Makes me feel

I can always tell that when I’m feeling blue
You’ll always be there
Your face in my hands

Red
My hands…
My hands are covered in red
What have I done?
We danced last night
I remember now
My eyes were so blue from crying
Or were you crying?
Yes, you were crying
I was red
Angry
Sad
Angry

I can always tell that when I’m feeling red
You’ll always be there
My hands in your face

Angry
So angry
You make me so angry
Sometimes I can’t control myself
And I just
Blue
Red
Blue

I see the light now
Red
It’s coming closer
Blue
You’re screaming at me
Red
Men are knocking at the door
Blue
You’re pointing at me
Red
And suddenly, I don’t feel so blue

Red raspberries and white lips

Red raspberries and white lips
By Andy Brown

Raspberries.”

lay crushed and splattered on the floor,
as we knocked over the bowl,
stumbling to the bedroom.
The splatters looked like drops of Crimson

blood was pumping through my veins,
and I was breathing hard when she first said,
“I love you”
with her thin White

lips, bright blue eyes, and short blonde hair looked so amazing.
She was afraid to smile and show her teeth.
“Gee, I hope she doesn’t get tired of me,
And I hope my jokes don’t get

Old and tired we had become.
Where did the youthful years go?
Time might have passed,but our love never

“Left turn and we’ll finally be there,”
She said as we pulled into our new home.
The sun was shining and it was a beautiful day.
“Here’s to the rest of our

Lives were ahead of us, and we were still young.
She spent her days working, and I to my paint.
“What do you think?” I would ask,
and she would say, “I never liked red