A Warhol

When I grow up
I want to be a warhol
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When I grow up
I want to be absent
gray
illusive
fate avoiding

If I grow up
I want to be a kid
staring
at filthy
gallery walls
emptied out
paintings

When I grow up
I want to be a warhol
white light
figure
eternally waiting

If I grow up
I want to be a sleep
soothing
wave
of
euthanasia
reincarnating

When I grow up
I want to be a wordplay
speaking
all tongues
concurrently

While
growing
down
today

"Goddess of the Corn"

Rocked by the wind in the cradle of corn
Trapped dancing mad in spacious fairy light
Swifter than the wind, colder than the snow
Keeping all the wise men in my sight
Come unto my breeze
Come unto my spell
Truly I am one
Of all who loves you well
Your cosmic mother friend
For everyone to see
Knows what her child is like
Knows what it grew to be

Now they have taken all your mystic powers away
But your reign of love has carved its special way
So why you crave the peace which I can’t give
To you my wonder child while you still live

Just tell me what you need, I’ll fly you at great speed
Where the most valued treasure of your youth lies hid

Children of the never ending morn
To the sound of thunder you were born
Wrapped in roses you shall ever be
Cosmic children you’re so dear to me
Fairies spreading life’s most wondrous seeds

Dew drop goddess of the four wild winds
Watch this broken world beneath your wings
No one equal to your beauty lives
No one such amazing gifts can give

Children, you were never false to me
I was ever true to make you see
You can now outgrow me and leave home
I was always loved but now I’m gone

It took me just a while to travel here
For you it was the journey of a year
Wild winds bore my body like a cloud
Demons, men and angels cried out loud
They have put me back on righteous tracks
Once I’m there there’ll be no turning back

"Fake Castles"

You started building castles in your youth
You remember twilight beaches and the sand
You remember old folks watching you
But never giving you a hand
It’s built of fantasy they say
It’s nothing worth our real attention
Every kid can build a castle
It’s nothing we should even mention

Now those castles are so fake
No emotion was included
Now those castles are awake
But you’re saying it’s illusive

Bogus, phony, never real
This is how your castles feel

Now you’re building castles out of glass
People live there, they admire the view
You remember shaking hands and laughing
Now your castles are true
They’re built of fantasy, you say
It’s worth the magic and the money
Every family wants to live here
In a way, it was worth all the running

Now you’re building your own castle
You hope to fill it with your blood
Give your best, you’re pumping more
As if your hard work ain’t enough
It’s all built on myth, you cry
I can’t build a safe place here
Sand and glass are good materials
Only for children and naïve dreams

Hey, on second thought, you cry
There’s my flesh and blood inside
Why not give it all a second chance
At least I can say I tried

That’s a place to bury me
With my childhood’s dreams, ideas
That’s the castle of my choice
It gives my memory a proper, childish voice

"Colossus"

My head of starry heavens shines above you
Chest of ocean waves controls the raging sea
Arms of silver clouds erect the giant torch
My belly is of brass and so are my hips
My eyes of brilliant sunrays, shooting so far
My mighty legs of iron, feet of iron and clay
My golden head might bend in front of majesty of stars
But I will never fall a victim to human decay

Sailors set your course upon my lighthouse
Sail beneath me safely in your sleep
I’m the gateway to another planet
Not just wonder of the world or myth
I am god, that’s how I show to you
I’m the heaviest body of the world
You were given wings to reach my astronomical height
I was given ears of air to hear you call

In the metals of my body lays the wisdom
You can hear it in the sun if you’re this close
But if you forget your feet are of this earth
Your soul will never have a chance to grow
Remember now the ancient days have found you
I’m your master in this human labyrinth
You were given clues to find the entrance in my eyes
But the only exit lies within your dreams

You only dream of giants and of gods
Building statues of their holy countenance
Ages of sand and of dust have gone
But my treasure didn’t fall to evil hands
With destruction, rulers said, comes creation
We are building high-tech cities on the ashes of old
My golden head is buried in the sands of distant Egypt
I believe I’ve lost control over my world

With these silver arms I’ll stop the angry tempest
Hear me laugh as I divide the sea
Marble columns made by men start trembling
Heavens cry amazed by human dreams
You alone disturbed the godly conscience
With begging arms in Mediterranean sun
I alone have saved the ocean’s entrance
Ten thousand steps below the sea we run

You wanted a giant to guard your safety
Unmovable, eternal son of light
You got a graceful, all-mighty god collector
Protector of heart invisible at night
I saw you were building his image on Earth
Just to be ruined with one giant stone
Cut from the magical mountains of youth where
Legend has it my virtues were born

Two seductresses were sent against my power
Babylon’s and Hindu finest brides
But I stood there blinking eyes on the horizon
Sacred pillars standing tall against their tides
Every blink of godly eyes meant a daybreak
Gifts of fire, chest in arrow’s deadly grip
I said you won’t tear apart this ghostlike giant
I won’t move both legs at once in decision of defeat

I believed it took two pillars to protect us
I believed my legs were strong enough to stand
I believed it took a million years to break me
With a weapon you no longer understand
With my fate all ancient kingdoms collapsed
It was way too late to stop the turning wheels
Time believed that time has come for dying
For civilizations based on law and steel

Never will Colossus be broken in half
His holy oil cannot cease to flow
No more anguish in the distant ages
Humans keep on crying for all ages yet to come
Sailors keep on sailing thru those nameless now pillars
Turns out that they’re pillars made of salt
Colossus moves one arm, he’s very tired
Ships in laughter of the gods are gone

The tempest continues to play with the giant’s golden head
His eyes slowly scan the horizon to see if there’s anything left
Guilty of death and destruction, he desecrated our paradise
The way we treated him thru time this shouldn’t be a surprise
Standing alone in the waters, the sea turning red in his gaze
Two pillars diving the ocean, Colossus in evening’s haze
Many have tried to swim through him, they never had any ploy
Armadas once treated lightly in one move of hand destroyed

Colossus the brave in his legend never felt the flow of time
He agreed to be locked there forever between the sea and the night
Armed with the legs of a giant, secured by the tombs of his skin
Guiding us up to eternal heavens, supporting pioneer dreams
Colossus, the mighty defender, our tempest, our journey and gift
He saved us from nighttime’s intruders and buried their bones in his sleep
And now that the giant’s awake nobody can cross the lines
He drew on the ocean’s face, he drew on the moon when it shines

Two pillars dividing the tempest now, his clay legs against the sea
Basalt drawn out of the furious waves, dead city erected and steered
Above the golden angry head, it’s black now and obscene
Colossus tries to defeat his flaws, deal with the ocean beasts
He once loved a daughter of Albion, the demons he threw on the rocks
Crashing the ships of Columbus, never to see Indian shores
The legend remains as he tells it, his eyes have seen all the gloom
Colossus the mighty retires, the ocean will win pretty soon

Just slightly seen underwater, remains of a sculpture loom
Enormous, vast, inhuman, Colossus lies there doomed
Awaiting for discovery, remembering Greece and Egypt sands
Remembering more human history than humans understand

"Magic Living with Your Child"

Your love is like a honey tree
I keep on shaking, it comes back to me
Nothing hurts my heart at all
When I’m drinking on your sweet parole

Magic living with your child
Driving everybody wild
All I need’s just one more kiss
Till I know just what I missed

Charlie man has gone down low
Where clean-cut boys don’t dare to go
Blowing trumpets on white streets
Where the black-end corners meet

Magic living with your child
Driving everybody wild
All I need’s just one more word
Till my viewpoint’s clean and bold

Boredom weeps with saddened eyes
Tries to take you by surprise
I’ll keep shaking down your tree
You’ll keep coming down on me

Magic living with your child
In the eyes that make me smile
All I need’s just one more squeeze
Tired of living on my knees

"Busker's Warning"

I’ve just seen
All the movies of the world
I just saw
Every face I’ve ever known
And I hope
I’m not late for any show
Cause I’ve been
Every actor, every role

It’s just an old, poor busker’s final warning
On a cold, thick, dead December morning

I just fly
Thru a ruined galaxy
I just float on any wave
That’s carrying me
It’s a black hole of my youth
You know it’s true
So I’m missing every word
I had with you

It’s just an old, poor busker’s final warning
On a cold, thick, dead December morning

I’ve just caught
All diseases of the world
I just cured
My young mind from feeling old
Your religion changes nothing
System’s shut
So are all distorted, blinded
Human eyes

It’s just an old, poor busker’s final warning
On a cold, thick, dead December morning

"Tylko Miłość"

Na problemy tego świata tylko miłość
Na faszystów i na klownów tylko miłość
Telewizję, mass produkcję – tylko miłość
Sekcje zwłok i rezolucje – tylko miłość

Każdej nocy wznosisz pomnik
I o świcie burzysz go
Każda wojna jest potworem
Który żyje z naszych łąk
Co żeruje na marzeniach
Czemu miłość nie wystarczy
Aby wygrać wszystkie wojny
I nie wrócić z nich na tarczy

Miłość nie wznosi pomników
Miłość – smutny koniec prawników
Miłość – koniec prawa i przeszkody
Miłość – tylko krok od prawdziwej swobody

Każdy biegnie i podziwia
Syntetyczne ułatwienia
Plastikowy kościół słabych
Megafony do zbawienia
Czemu stoisz w martwym tłumie
Jak zwierzyna anemików
Już niedługo nowe dzieci
Będą tylko z plastiku

Tylko miłość może jeszcze nas uratować
Tylko miłość może święte krowy pokonać
Tylko miłość – cicha prawda co za nią stoi
Tylko miłość – masz już swoje bomby
Więc czego się boisz
Użyj ich

Bomby miłości nie znają litości
Spadają z nieba jak wygłodniałe ptaki
Bomby miłości nie zostawią nawet kości
Ostateczne rozwiązanie kwestii ludzkiej kloaki

Zrzuć bomby
Zrzuć bomby
Zrzuć bomby
Tylko miłość

"Mistyczny Rytm"

Mistyczny rytm powala na kolana
Mistyczny rytm unosi w górę ramiona
Mistyczny rytm oczyszcza wieczny umysł
Mistyczny rytm obmywa duszę podłych ulic

Skąpany w blasku wyjdź na świat
Oblany światłem wejdź na górę
Spłukany sercem skocz w ocean
Złamany ciszą krzycz w wichurę
I kto usłyszy cię, kto pojmie
Jak wiele znaczy święty dym
Kadzidło Indii i kotary tego świata
Rozsuwa mój mistyczny rytm

Mistyczny rytm otwiera głowy w słońca blasku
Mistyczny rytm, już nie potrzebujesz kasku
Kiedy jedziesz autostradą dwustu pasm
To tylko włosy bogini wszystkich nas
Wszystkich klas

Czy to Jamajka, czy to Indie, czy to Meksyk
Wszędzie słychać jeden wspólny wszystkim rytm
Czy to Afryka, czy to Tybet, czy Syberia
Magiczni ludzie tańczą wszędzie chłonąc dym
Mistyczny rytm

Skąpany w słońcu rozpuść włosy
Spowity mgłą stworzenia przemyj swoje oczy
Nasycony śniegiem przebij swoje uszy
Usłysz wszystko dobrze po raz pierwszy i ostatni
Bezkresne karawany przemierzają cicho świt
Suną poprzez piasek, poprzez zieleń niosąc mit
Stworzyłeś wszystko, teraz patrz gdzie stoi człowiek
Mistyczny rytm już pulsuje w twojej głowie

Usłysz puls tysiącleci
Już nie jesteś nagą małpą
Usłysz puls tysiącleci
Miasto nie jest już twą klatką
Usłysz puls tysiącleci
Tak daleko do nirwany jeszcze
Usłyszy puls tysiącleci
Mistyczny rytm rozrywa powietrze

"Ice Age World"

We’re just children
Ice age children
We’ve been living in the cold
Too long
We’re just dreamers
Ugly dreamers
We’ve been dreaming out this
Frosty alien world

Must get out, must leave fast
Must get out, leave it now
Must remain, must fulfill
All desires, all the wishes anyhow

We’re just sinners
Little sinners
We’ve been sinning since this
Ice age world was born
We’re just leaving
We’ve been leaving
Always hoping for escape
From all the wrong

Must get out, must leave fast
Must get out, leave it now…

We’re still children
Mindless children
Seen the slaughter
And atrocities of ice
It’s a wasteland
Sordid wasteland
Reaching deeper than
We’ll ever realize

Must get out, must leave fast
Must get out, leave it now…

We’ve no feelings
Warmer feelings
We’re just living on our own
Amidst the cold
We’re no wiser
We’re no stronger
We’re just cruel and very slowly
Growing old

"Hazel"

I was sitting dead on the sidewalk, I’ve walked around thirty miles
I left you on the left side of street, my heart was stuck on the right
Traveling like an empty shell of dust and times long past
Weary in the night neon light, disgusted but willing to last
I was thinking about your tambourine, your clothes and smell of your hair
I hardly knew a good man here, I was casting a nervous glare
Sitting wishing the pain would end, secretly craving for life
Better than the dirt I know and shorter than highways of strife
I smoked another cigarette when I caught a glimpse of your eyes
You played a golden trumpet saying how come you got so wise
Took the pen and wrote me down a poem to learn by heart
Many here are sore and depressed, but few of us cure it with art

I raised myself from the curb and I saw angels sharing a drink
Talking loud on people too proud to admit they fell from the brink
Madness, sadness easy friends, if they come around once more
Pass your lady a secret note and bolt all the doors with love
Someone gave me this old key, I believe it’s a magic thing
I was thinking on all you said to me, I believe we lost the ring
Don’t you cry, if you allow I can make you a paper one
I see your dress and it gets me obsessed with pearls and diamonds and sun
If I meet you later on when everything’s settled and free
Gypsy eyes, you hypnotize all the fools except for me
Don’t talk to me, just walk with me, I’ll show you a couple streets
I once knew in the wintertime, all of them were neat

Tears fell from your tired eyes you cried to the depths of my coat
Says how come we’re doomed to drown while sin and falsehood float
Said just take my hand, relax, we’ll drown like we never knew
Score of life, the ruby knife and things I could sell to you
I’m a thief of consciousness, child, I’m precious to the streets
So don’t you hang your head down low and don’t you ever weep
We will make it one more time, there’s nothing to hold us down
Turn the shadows upside down, walk out and enjoy the clowns
Hear the singer sing a tune or see how a poet writes his part
Nothing in this world can make two hearts like ours stand apart
Hours pass with wine and smoke, the guitars you enjoy
Simple thing to make you content, I’ll just show you a brand new toy

We walked down where death alone reigns a quiet world
Cemeteries don’t turn you on, I believe you said it before
Didn’t spoke a word to me, I was reading quotes and truths
Finally written down in stone, just like they always should
Some were wise and some just words of breakfast quality
Asked me must we stay down here, this cold is getting to me
Feel my hand, it’s always warm, don’t worry about the frost
Running down my spine all the time, it’s a feeling of something lost
Can we find a table here, a waiter is coming our way
Dressed in white he’s asking me what will I order today
Have a cup of coffee, sir, you look so faint and blue
Your lady might wish something more, pour her simple truth

Hazel had her drink real quick, and as the truth revealed
She understood that nothing’s right, and everything’s unreal
Have we met in earlier life, or have we met at all
Moon and sun danced before her eyes, cathedral bells did toll
Something’s changed within the street, can sense it in the air
So much trouble waiting for us, much pain we have to take
Everything’s invented, dear, discovered on the run
Everything’s OK with me, but I’m losing faith in guns
Heaven take me to a world where everything is plain
Gifts of new today of love are yesterday’s disdain
There’s no path for you to walk except the path of light
Though darkness welcomes you so warm into the womb of night

Neons of the city gaze, so alluring and intense
Tempt you for the first time child, you’re making little sense
Want to run just everywhere where the lights are opening up
Want to drown in every song, in every poisoned cup
I must keep your heart restrained, you’ll never give away
All the spirits that you have to such a darkened way
Second thrills and minute deals are rotten like the dreams
Of all losers, beggars, users, you can hear their painful screams
Begging for the torture’s end, night is no fair room
Underneath the surface sleeps the cruelty of the moon
Time for true romance, for sure, but also time of fear
On the edge of circling lights you watch me disappear

Can I catch your hand again, go back to city schemes
Thought I’ve heard some angels weeping over missing wings
Thought I lost you in the night, but here you come again
Want to show me bruises of experience and explain
Why you’re tempted by the shadows of escaping night
Must I keep you close to madness, easy friend of mine
Only she’s a helping hand when tramps and hobos ride
Hand in hand with you, my angel, you can never hide
From the ashes of tomorrow thrown right in your face
Bars and taverns of the city ain’t your kind of place
I’ve been through it, I’ve seen through it, now I’m far from home
Dealing with my solitude and a heart of stone

Here’s my suitcase, hand it to me, we’re bound to ride again
Catch the train tomorrow morning, too much smoke and stain
Gotten to my veins and hurried right up tired head
When you think about me, baby, don’t you get so sad
There is nothing I would change in this hopeless life of mine
Sitting on the sidewalk daily watching birds fly by
Watching people throw me dimes or spit into my hat
I’ve seen lots of men and birds, on many curbs I’ve sat
Streets don’t want me out of here, city claims its own
Beggar of a million streets and his little whore
It’s that simple in its eyes, we’re nothing more than that
Though I’ve seen a lot of blood and a lot of blood I bled

Down the drain and in the outskirts, marginal reality
Side line, minor, secondary, creatures never free
Peripheral in the mirror of another day
We are merely stones, my love, getting in the way
Hazel I adore you so I can’t forget your love
Kisses, breezes of a body naked, full of hope
In my bed you were the brightest star of galaxy
I must get out now, my love, and I need company
Out into the nights of forests, nights unkind and wild
I will take myself a wandering, and I take you, child
You will get to know a kind of life you’re missing here
Giant moon in silent trees and voice of god so near

I will miss the guitars surely, I’ll miss your melody
Took me high above the rooftops in the city dreams
I remember you so vaguely, imprecisely true
I can’t see the fragments of delusion you called truth
Somewhere far before our walk, before we met at all
I remember bums of magic selling me their souls
Said I was a thief, remember, said I’m one of them
Gathering just silent movies, pockets full of sand
Everything that fooled me was a part of greater plot
Everything that schooled me is a gift I’m thankful for
Someone said I’ve got no future, with this I can’t agree
There’s a mean old spirit waiting, howling deep inside of me

I can find some happiness, despite the lost year’s pain
I can learn your easy song and recall your favorite name
You belonged to someone else, well I belonged to storms
Baying over city nights, the nights I once adored
I was riding with the thunders just to see your face
Once I thought I finally found you, you left without no trace
Took me ages to explain the place I’m coming from
Took you seconds to accept my broken heart as home
I guess nothing stops us now, our hearts will roam the sky
Every night when lightning sings the blues of our goodbye
Every dawn that kisses you and lays you by my side
Is the dawn when it could end, the dawn when I could die