Life's Wake 112006

DEDICATED TO PHIL ANSLEMO:
DIMEBAG IS IN YOUR HEART MAN.
CHEERS TO THE GRAVES WE SHARE
CHEERS TO THE TOMBSTONES WE FACE
IN COMPARISON, LOST FRIENDS SEEM LIKE STARS BEHIND CLOUDS
THERE, BUT LOST FOR NO GOOD REASON

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Inspired by some Phil poetry/lyrics
Thanks Phil. I don't blame you for Dimebag.
Nobody blamed Yoko for John.
They share a deathday.
Their birthday is renewed each time
some discovers the wingspan of their art.
Your's is the same tomb-mate.

LIFE'S WAKE by Kelly Frazier

A
It’s wearing out my life
It’s eating meat behind my eyes
It’s chewing into pain
The mirror just reflects again

B
Hammer my hand
Shake my head just for asking
Buried in shit
Given dirt just for masking

A
It’s fading out my skin
I can’t see where true blood begins
Rebuilding of my lies
My smile was razor thin disguise

B
Slash out my soul
Take my heart for pretending
That I had anything
That was worth lending

A
You’re staring at my past
Like a fuse that burned too fast
I’m living like C4
I’ll blow it like I did before

B
Thought I had standards
Thought I could solve
My love was just ink
My friends just dissolve

C
Into...
The wake of life – Time to drown some more
The wake of life – I swallow like a whore
The wake of life – A shot opens my eyes
The wake of life – Awake there’s no disguise


D
My friend’s wife is funny
Now he’s funny too

A
I wear you through with lies
They are me, it’s no disguise
I forgot who I am
I buried me and then I ran

B
Broke turns to cracked
Cracks start to leak
My chore boy can’t carry
The pain I speak

A
I’m digging up the dead
A shovel up beside my head
A white hospital bed
Please ask the doctor what I said

B
Crystals on glass
Were childhood dreams
That turned into glass pipes
And hissed propane screams

A
It’s Satan’s mistletoe
Kissed and then you chase for more
It’s God inside a pill
Each alter boy knows the drill

B
Bodies recover
But minds store their fuel
I turned into food
What you call Pavlov’s drool

C
Into the wake of life – It’s time to drown some more
The wake of life – I swallow like a whore
The wake of life – A shot opens my eyes
The wake of life – Awake there’s no disguise

D
My friend’s wife is funny
Now he’s funny too