COCOON
​
​
​
**ACT 1**
​
​
1. MOTHER
​
Oh, dear Mother, where is your child?
Lost and alone with tear blinded blue eyes
He's gone, I tell you, he's gone
Oh, dear Mother, I tell you he’s gone.
Tonight he dreams but dawn carries sin
When he wakes the Devil will dig his heels in
He’ll be gone, I said he’ll be gone
Oh, dear Mother, I said he’ll be gone.
He cannot hide, nor run from his mind
His will is no match for the poison inside
He's gone, I tell you, he's gone
Oh, dear Mother, I tell you he’s gone
It’s too late to change, he cannot be saved
His past has been salted his fate has been paved
He's gone, I tell you, he's gone
Oh, dear Mother, I tell you he’s gone.
​
​
​
2. INTO THE WOODS / COCOON
​
Spring Outside; desert in the mind
I weave and wind, veil and blind
Concealing tracks, once naked at the lines
Receding back, left behind...
Swaying amid the leaves
Of hollow-fisted forrest trees
Hidden as I loaf and lean
unseen, swaying...
Sin outside; penance in the mind
I'll spin their lies, into my own disguise
and I twist my head a final time
Then lay to rest, in the pines
Swaying amid the leaves
On hollow fisted forrest trees
Hidden as I loaf and lean
Unseen, swaying
In my Cave, in my Cave
I will watch the Shadows play
And I’ll wait
In the shade
They create
In my Cave
In my Cave, in my Cave
I’ll hear things I can’t explain
Or contain
All the same
I’ll obey
In my Cave
In my Cave, in my Cave
Where no detail can escape
I’m a slave
To the pain
That they paint
In my Cave.
​
​
​
**ACT 2**
​
​
​
3. THE BALLAD OF A BLIND MAN
​
The room, I observe
Angled and curved
Shaped and preserved
Everything as it should be
That asymmetric chair
Lamp-lit and bare
Undisturbed and rare
Moulded by the last to leave
A slew of April showers
Deafen the dawning hours
Nourish the blooming flowers
Between the sea and me
Cellar door, ajar
Uncoiling from afar
Curious and dark
Toiling in the memory
A distant voice echoes
In language I don’t know
Fomenting my window
But far too broken up to keep
Critics and other cowards
Litter my dawning hours
Perfume the wilting flowers
Between the sea and me
Cold, I discern
Study and learn
Measure and burn
Mutinous of all I see
Mutinous
of all
I
see.
​
​
​
4. DOPPEL
At peace and ease amid my friends
In revelry one day
I saw that crooked thief again
With furtive eyes ablaze
A surreptitious silhouette
All painted in the shade
Whispering in twisted threats
A curse upon my name
Creeping in the corridors
Prowling unopposed
Stirring every aperture
Disguised behind my clothes
Chained up in my head
I lay, each night (my mind decayed)
Body bled and left for dead
While the pendulum swayed
It swayed, It swayed, It swayed
The pendulum it swayed
It swayed, It swayed, It swayed
​
While the pendulum swayed
Body bled and left for dead
I lay, each night (my mind decayed)
Chained up in my head
Disguised behind my clothes
Stirring every aperture
Prowling unopposed
Creeping in the corridor
A curse upon my name
Whispering in twisted threats
All painted in the shade
A surreptitious silhouette
With furtive eyes ablaze
I saw that crooked thief again
In revelry one day
At peace and ease amid my friends
​
​
​
5. REAR WINDOW
Fireflies, high in the alchemy of night falling
Lit the eyes, of lovers tangled up in tomorrow
Gleaming wide, only to wane beneath a blue morning
Where were you, when I needed you?
Only you know
And so it goes, hung on the every word of my window
They ebb and flow; a multitude of faces come and go
Both friend and foe, eclipse the clarity of my shadow
Where are you, in this hour of need?
Only you know
Late at night, the Spider sidled down by my big toe
Spinning lies (the worst of all the rotten cheats I know)
“Wait!” he cried, “Hate is the left hand of your only hope!”
“Who are you? River Inscrutable -
Only you know…”
**ACT 3**
​
​
6. THE SPIDER
​
“You are so consumed with blame
You cannot recall the way you came?!
You wait for your day in vain -
They may never pay the price you've paid
Your pride will not bring you peace
The dark you seek will be the void you keep
And don’t speak of defeat, I know
It’s hard to see, but you’re not far from home
Go! turn yourself around!
Unburdened by the crowd, you can still be found!
Look outside, see how the sun beats down?
Go and wear it like a crown - the time is now!"
​
​
​
7. MIRTAZAPINE
​
I close my eyes and unfold into me
I am an island; I am a hole.
A peaceful coil unspoiled by enemy
Or endless toil that never told
The moment opens up in reverie
My head unclips and tumbles down
Emotions ocean rushing over me
Kaleidoscoping / broken sound
A million Summers hum a halo in the air
harmonising with the soul
A distant thunder rumbles pale and unaware
A piece of mind, of mine to hold
Salvation’s ancient angel turning vividly
projecting coloured carousels
reluctant lungs succumb beneath infinity
redemption cradled in a shell.
“A close to suffering, at long last is here
I’ve seen the night, i’ve seen the dawn -
A kiss upon your weathered lips will quell your fear
A kiss from me will ease your scorn……”
“A close to suffering, at long last is here
I’ve seen your night, i’ve seen your dawn -
A kiss upon your weathered lips will quell your fear
A kiss from me and be reborn.”
​
​
​
(8. SEIZING THE VOID)
​
​
**ACT 4**
​
​
9. HOMELESS (PATH_1)
​
​
Hold me like you’re home
Hold me like you’re whole again
Own me with your harboured soul
and softness of your skin
Keep me from the edge
Keep my head from tumbling
As the fire dies
the wistful eyes
of night are closing in.
Sailing by the light
of a life I’ll never lead
Drifting from the hand
of the man I’ll never be
on a promise of relief
that forever retreats
I still believe
true love can breed
salvation within me....
10. HOMELESS (PATH_2)
​
​
Tell me
How did you sleep?
Etched in a solitude
​
Forever won’t keep
I’ve been
Reading you closely
Envy and loathing
​
Bleeding from you slowly
Raining
Entombing weakness
All consuming
Tolling untold secrets
Hear Me!
Elude the misery
Subdue the remedy
​
And give in completely
No more
Dying quietly
​
In a deep dream
​
​
Betrayed by hands you won’t see
Reaping
Every fleeting
Apparition
Thieving while you’re sleeping
Hear me!
Eden is empty
Wasted on beauty
Imagine all you could be
Tell me
How will you sleep
Inside your silk tomb
That your pride won’t let you keep?
​
​
​
**ACT 5**
​
​
11. FEVER
​
Another fevered heatwave crowns A vibrant sea of disavowed
That beat and drown and overwhelm The hollowness of nowhere towns.
My mind is a troubled mind tonight
A choir of birds sing on the roof, a song of polyrhythmic youth
Cloaking a palpitating truth; a masquerading sense of you.
My mind is a troubled mind tonight
Time racing through my body at a pace I can’t conceal
Being chased and chasing faces yet to be revealed
I plummet through the fog of all it means to be me
And seconds slip into the season of unending dreams
​
One moment high on hope only to wilt beneath the heat
You fill your lungs and swell with fire then exhale inwardly
I sermonise through broken blinds and bleed so bitterly
To be free or fade softly into obscurity...
A sudden rain exhales a sigh to soothe this ribbon wrapped insight
Parading in vain the aim to fight the dark in me as dark as night.
My mind is a troubled mind tonight
Amid the creaks of a kingdom defined by the lines of such ornate sorrow
I hear the winds of freedom sweeping as your name invades my throat.
My mind is a troubled mind tonight
​
​
​
(12. OPTIMISTIC VOICES)
​
​
​
Ovum
"Womb"
It’s kind of funny how lost you can get
Without ever leaving the solace of your bed
I can’t go out, I can’t stay in
Climbing the same four walls every day
Inflicts a wiry twist on your brain
I can’t go out, I can’t stay in
Locked up at home your mind can play tricks
Voices in the pipeline sing sorrow through the bricks
I can’t go out, I can’t stay in
Tapping my feet to the beat of my heart
Wasting a long day and dying until dark
I can’t go out, I can’t stay in
Strung out on nothing going nowhere with my time
Watching the window with love on my mind
I can’t go out, I can’t stay in
"Vernal Interstice"
The youth are calling out there
Errant at the seams, sailing elsewhere
I sold myself to the breeze
Lost in all I thought I should be
Bring me an old friend to blame
The inner dialogue won’t be tamed
I cannot well repeat the past
the parts have all been played
And I cannot speak of a truth
I can't begin to name
My burden weighs heavy
all the same
The fire will choke up the air
Hanging high on you low in my chair
My heart skipped out on a beat
The withered optimist beside me bleeds
I need her she’s my best friend
She holds me, this never happened
I cannot well repeat the past
the parts have all been played
And I cannot speak of a truth
I couldn't bare to take
My burden weighs heavy
all the same.
"Balloon"
I hold in my heart, the day is mine
No more wasted time twisted from clouded eyes
There’s a tone in my heart, it weighs my body down
The beat of summer’s drum will sound and drown it out
There'll be peace within my soul,
Fear will shake and fade and die
Love will give where fate had stole
The dark days will pass on
I hold in my heart, the day will be saved
Guilty hands will rush pain to an early grave
Feeling-crowded mind, defy me for the last time
Lift the sinking ceiling, shed the crippled light
I’ll find peace within my soul,
Fear will shake and fade and die
Love will fill where fate had stole
The dark days will pass on by
"Soliloquy"
Upright white eyed barefoot naked by the night
Your pose oblique and soft, numb in all your want weakened thought
Poisoned by the heart you'll steal, shaping all the aching summer feeling
longing died long ago, it took all I could take to keep you faking.
Upright tongue tied sulking by the light, a dying fire
My pain low and un-shown, the only words I weep are while you’re sleeping
Pleading with the Womb to weave you through the knee deep dreams and little meaning
Longing died out long ago, it took all I could fake to keep you taking.
You'll bleed me dry
You'll bleed me, my my
You'll bleed me dry
You'll bleed me, my my
"Leaves"
My shadow left me - oh my soul
Silence filled my home
Energy left me on my own
This house is not a home
The leaves turned brown
The sun met with the ground
A whole new shade of down
Loneliness will swallow me whole
Hollow my breast and my home
Emptiness redeemed your role
Fasten my heart with a home
Love left this town
To a broken sound
A whole new shape of ground.
"Wingless"
​
The light in sunless sky
And sight through blinded plight
A tide of still for the mind
She's lucent rainbow of Night
Of Night.
You hid the moon from thoughts
And held the wolf from my door
Your psalm was all, I was sure
But form shines from me no more
No More.
"Moon"
The sun has gone
And time is long
There's a creeping feeling
I don’t belong
The weight of night
Weakens my knees
A fear within me
Prayer won’t appease
The flaws I hide
Are too strong to fight
The sleeping demons
Show colour at night
And the moonlight
Perilous in white
The moon light
Faded pagan eye
"Wide Eyes"
Lights out, lights on
My soul is a fire
I am one too many things
and none are tired
Peace hides behind my eyes
Captive in my skin and bone
Never can my mind recall
Have I ever felt so unknown
Have I ever felt so unknown
People of the world lie still, not a peep
Wrapped up in their dreams and tangled in the sheets
A buttoned down hush covers up the street
Even silence is sulking, everyones asleep
But not me, I’m the last man alive
The only living creature with eyes pinned wide
I see all, so magnified
The burden of the day is the monster of the night
The burden of the day is the monster of the night
I can't stop the ringing in my ears
The ringing in my ears
ringing in my ears
ringing in my...
"Sunrise"
​
I cut my ear on a foreign sound
A chorus of unease on the easy ground
​
My window gleams and the dark appears
Offset silhouette ominous in the clear
​
Pale street lights hail and oscillate
Veiling detail of a crooked fate
​
Their eyes sing to me like infinity
Long and lean, looming at the eaves
​
My wits are foiled by a longing need to feel
Bound by impulse like a glue underneath my heel
​
Provoking me, so deliberately in sight
Laid bare and living through the dead of night
​
Out of reach, I see an owl in the tree
A black tom-cat coiled up in the leaves
​
No more am I the only lonely man alive
The only creature with it's eyes wide
​
The wind cries out, hollowing my name
The song resonates against the window pane.....
​