CliffSongs

  Your Life   You want to go ungowned, You want to Walmart down. You want to facial clown, Fool around downtown. Well, that’s your life, That’s your life.   You want to leave your cave, Show them you ain’t no slave. You want to be all brave, Show off that fresh new shave. Well, that’s your life, That’s your life.   That’s your life, Darwin’s gonna get ya. That’s your life, corona’s gonna catch ya. That’s your life and that’s your line, But listen Mr. Liberty, You don’t get to play with mine.   Well now the CDC, Ain’t your reality. Sea to shining sea, Ain’t all masked up like me. Well, that’s your life, That’s your life.   You wanna hit the sand, Where the ocean meets the land. You wanna walk hand in hand, Breathe free air – ain’t it grand. Well, that’s your life, That’s your life.   That’s your life, Darwin’s gonna get ya. That’s your life, corona’s gonna catch ya. That’s your ...

  One Person   You really aren’t seeing me clearly, Are you? You really don’t know who I am. You really aren’t all that concerned, Are you? You’re looking right through where I stand.   You really aren’t listening to me, Are you? You apply what I say to yourself. You really won’t stretch a hand to me, Will you? You say “God will help you help yourself.”   And it’s lonely out here in the middle of the world, 8 billion souls that don’t see. And it’s cold out here while the world is on fire, Can I get just one person with me?   I’m really not seeing you clearly, Am I? Can it be that there’s too much to see? I'm really not hearing you nearly, Am I?  All I am hearing, Is a world that is screaming, Is the whole world screaming at me?   And it’s lonely out here in the middle of the world, 8 billion souls that don’t see. And it’s cold out here while the world is on fire, Can I get just one person wi...

Choice   Choice. A multi-edged blade held. Too loosely. Too tightly. Too many times. At all times. Choose well, and consequence smiles with favor. Choose badly, and consequence exacts what result remains. Choose not at all and consequence runs freely. Thus, we are the sum of choice and consequence – Active or inactive, results prevail whether we are willing or no. Choose. Choose more. Choose better. Choose as you will. Choose not to choose, but know this: The sun will rise in the east, The seasons will progress through their turns, Others will choose or not choose, And every facet of your choices and their choices, Every avoidance of choice of yours or theirs, Will coalesce to form the consequences of a grand combine as irrevocable as the sunrise. Life is a force as large as the universe. As long as we are part of it, it impels us to partake of it. In spite of the choices we make – Because of the choices we make. Nothing was g...

  A Fat Acrobat   It doesn’t matter what you tell them, They only hear what they hear. They come and buy what you sell them: It’s all just a better brand of fear.   You threaten the neighbors, You want to take us out of the game, And feed the wolves rattling sabers As long as you get yours, it’s all the same.   You grab all the everything as far as you can see, Dodging questions about your solvency. While re-announcing your ascendancy, And you shit in our rivers and piss in the sea.   You’ve spit in the faces of so many friends, While stoking our weapons and stroking your gun. Paving the way for another’s ends, Tell the little fat man you have a bigger one.   Insisting somehow that we trade on your name, You have made of us a global shame. Setting the fires, stoking the flames, As long as you get yours, it’s all the same.   You grab all the everything as far as you can see, Dodging questions about...