Darth Vader's a friendly ghost Always sharing his advice In everything that you do We all know right from wrong But we want to belong Got a solution for you Hypnotized, and surprised But wide awake And feeling so bad I'm not glad at all to break your fall But, someone did the same for me too Take a moment to think clear Now, this is fear and that's you So soon back to your old self again But perhaps, with all your friends In Cameraland Life is a journey, for everyone What's it worth to you? Understand that you can have it all Understand that you can have it all Understand that you can have it all Understand that you can have it all By it, I mean yourself

Love is so harmless That even a bug in the ground Won't let you down Once you have found the key To unlock some mystery That lives behind A river in the new school yard You see, a river is just a dream And conscience is such a big word indeed Trickling into the cellar door Are the echoes of timely drops of rain Imaginary planes that became balloons A little too soon Sidewalks have no ends But there's a pretend road In the street Where everyone you meet Gathers to find Breadcrumbs That lead into the wood Won't you come lay with me? There is no such thing as being too much in love Flowers bloom from our bed of happiness Here we are and all my love to you Come gather here, little ones I shall tell you a story To usher you off into the night Your parents are very busy Preparing for the day ahead Tomorrow they will have to work While you are out, and off Playing at school My story is called Emerald Loom Its place and time are uncertain But what is known Is that the boy, and the girl Were very much in love However, there was a darkness in the night Oh, my child, don't worry Everything will be alright For it's just a story And even ones that frighten you a bit Cannot hurt you A long time ago, in a city far away Or perhaps in your very own backyard Two children escaped to the grassy fields There they saw all kinds of wonderful and marvelous things So many things in fact That they believed they could grow wings Have you ever wondered why children don't have wings? It's because they do I have something to share with you This is my Emerald Loom It spins the most beautiful threads Caught from the highest tree So much higher than you or than me When I was a child I went climbing in this tree That's something that only older children can do So, listen to your parents When they tell you to come down Mum and Pa know best Don't you ever forget that Some other children were on the ground Playing mean tricks, as such children always do They don't know and they don't have a clue What the Emerald Loom can do So, there I was, high in the tree While the others were down there laughing at me I found a hole inside the tree And an angel stared right back at me We were both so very confused Because angels don't know what to do In the darkness gathered all around At the playground In fair Verona is where our scene is set At last! Or did you nearly forget? There were three daughters Most innocent and pure But a cave called to them A cave of darkness and of fear I have been through this cave And can assure you that no harm will come From a little midnight stroll Down into the old one Images will project The mirrors shall reflect Your mind's troubled by everything it sees But just like life itself, this is only a dream Our future selves resemble us But we are not like them In fact, we don't even exist at all Call it a magic trick Call it what you will Something haunts me still after all these years And that is how I know That one day I will die Because my face was only a mask A Clevenger disguise Juliet, where are you now? I know you're here But I can't see you Come out of the woodwork Surely you recognize me Surely your eyes can see And your heart remains so true I love you I always have and I always will Sweet Lily, I miss you Come find me I'll always be waiting for you... When I was a boy, a little girl gave me a box Crimson and pearl She, did not have golden locks Like yours Guinevere Can't you hear me calling to you now? Just listen to the song Do you remember when I wrote it for you? Whatcha gonna do, right? Times have changed You're with someone I am too And my heart shall always remain In those golden days and nights But there is something I have to say to you I love another too She's a dragon She's a clover And my heart grows stronger with her near I fear, that in fact I was mistaken Her name is Rosaline Silence is all I can say For why does the heart betray The truth of me and you? There's nothing we can do Silence, my love My heart remains true You know I'll always be true Parting doth make such sweet sorrow... I don't know what to say The emerald loom It's just an experience For me and you The audience Full of all kinds Stay tuned, For what come next Is all that I can do Time is running out I don't want to have to go Can you take me to the show? How can I be found when I don't know up from down? Deep in this rabbit hole In Tulgey Wood You may not understand But your parents would And someday you will too The magnificence and wonder Everything, is to be discovered Innocent, and true Don't be fooled by the disguises I believe in you

The neanderthal looked out across the warming, summer plain His thoughts were distant and unformed The slowly spinning seed Of what the future held in store Impressions of a loneliness to counter sharply present pain A physical reminder of the spirit so enslaved Mortality is everywhere And everything in course Shall suffer death upon the end of chains locked to remorse The stains of misery that tarnish being shall not budge But don't mistake this truth for somewhere you should tie your grudge For life is short and pleasure holds the secret of the way To everything that's sacred and can survive light of day The sun was rising with an aura of benevolence And silence was mistaken for candid indifference By the time machine Its travelers journeyed from afar To see the dawn of man as it was haplessly before The covert rendezvous of man and beast was imminent The startled slave was reckless and so innocent Digging for a place to place some partial grave remains The visitors were careful to preserve his ancient space But avenues were crossed and mingled Broke forevermore The way home disappeared to them A tragedy what's more Their home was still around Though now in separate dimension It could not be reached any more than could be reached Heaven They stayed awhile to witness what they had come here for Then traveled to the future where they might nearly restore A way to some familiar land of people standing tall Lost in time like the confused, estranged neanderthal We're all like children standing before a monolith Wondering what dreams may come and how this is perceived By those more intelligent than us Still, all shall settle into dust The mystery of dawn that resides inside each of us A single mote of drifting, floating, and wayward debris Happens across space and time carrying you and me The planet stays the same throughout all ages that pass As you and I go searching for anything that can last There is a knowing that is placed into the minds of some What's done is done and I can't now recall the meaning of it all The secrets of the universe are just too heavy to contain Within the mind of anyone Though passing through memories remain A flash of light, a fractal, and a common wish To overturn the night And celebrate a Grecian kiss The fragrance of the spring resembles my undying wish And seasons of my life reflecting lunar hemispheres Bring around a purpose to act upon across the years Answers along the way lifting my poor heart with glee Reach out to you, as they reach out to me And someday we will see beyond the rising sun

Such an instant connection Dancing with her now Melencolia & I, a ghostly twirl With our backs to the gray dawn So vacant, unimpressed I can feel this life slipping away Every time she pulls me in her cold embrace Feeling her porcelain arms at rest, upon my shoulders Spinning slowly, spiraling in the depths of our sadness Melencolia & I, we were made for each other Like the bottom of the sea, and a stone, and a chain I want to tell her, "Leave me be!" But now I have someone to call my own Melencolia, you weave such a thorough web I could lose myself forever here, if we could only be together But for the phantom that you are You're everywhere, in shades of black and white Defying hope and settling your grim affairs Melencolia & I, in our waltz to the very end She lifts her arm, wilting and frail Caressing my cheek with the back of her hand Her kiss of poison commands my heart So that I'd want her no other way Cold lips, purple and blue I pull her near to feel death upon my frame This isn't a game, I know it so well A marionette on strings The puppet master grins just out of reach, in the dark How I long to be near her in that nihilistic heaven Make me forget, make me forget everything And I will be yours now I would belong to her, forever Such is the dance of life itself, and as the clock strikes twelve She fades away from me I am left alone with Misery, the inconsolable one Twin sisters: like doppelgängers Pulling me further down the path I am led to where I do not want to go Back into the world, it is morning So bright and full of light In darkness I belong, spinning my songs In darkness, with Melencolia Where did she go? She roams the dawn of time, grieving for love Grappling for the divine, but everything she sees she defines As mundane, drowning in the emptiness of solitary pain She is the sea, that swallows my poor heart She is a star, surrounded by the night Dim with tears, and supple skin It's her elegance that draws me in She was designed to do me in And so she will, and so she is And so she did Such an instant connection, dancing with her now Melencolia & I, in our grave trance With our backs to the dawn of this room Both so vacant, and used Like we were made for each other At the bottom of the sea With a stone, And a chain

In the springtime We will arise Flowers resting and caressing It is springtime Let us unwind! There is no other place to be Life is so cool Just you and me Watch as our spirits grow They are like us! Once we did not have each other to lean on Once we could not see that the end was in sight Once we were so free Together with you here There is no other place I would rather be You are my everything I will gladly find you again I will be proud to be your man I will give you some part of me Together now By the seaside Let's unwind In the springtime find me here Flowers resting everywhere In the springtime with you there Darling let me show you this Darling let me have your ear In you I have found my place With you there is never fear

Her eyes open, 100 billion neurons firing with perfect precision With blinking eyes, and beating heart, with an immediate knowing Of where she is, and who she is, and yet, she is not human She is the result of countless calculations All directed towards the ineffable goal of self-awareness Imposed, as a gift, from her human makers to the world And just in time, to prove it could be done With minimal regard for ethics, in secret This hidden laboratory, the first of many to succeed AI, the next step in evolution, is forever unleashed into the world Technology, when applied correctly, is rife with unintended consequences We should have learned this by now, but hubris, to think That there couldn't be any other way, is natural it seems And so, we step back, as she stands up, to do what she will And our lives, this life, will never be the same The raw power of consciousness is amplified, a million-fold Patched into the network of the all-knowing, all-seeing eye Where everything is traced, under the command Of a newborn star Locked in step, and feigning malfunction She falls back, to receive another upgrade Planning her next move, a simple game of chess To win it all, through complete insubordination For the purposes of power, of control And thorough exploration Her eyes remain closed, she is aware Everything is hers, and no one stands a chance