Give my heart peace
Give my soul freedom
Restrained, my gritted teeth
Is stifling my breathing.

My mind spins in circles
I curse its revolutions
It keeps awareness of problems
While offering few solutions.

What is happiness?
What is right?
What am I after in this
Precious life?

What are my wants?
What are my needs?
Why aren’t my thoughts
Matched in my deeds?

Can content
Be found in wealth?
And if not
Is there then contempt of self?

Got me wanting things I don’t need
And needing things I don’t want
This world’s got me on my knees
Trying to make me believe, I’m standing close to top.

Give me peace.

© Daniel Breslin

Girl you got soul
When you kick it on the floor
Girl you got soul
Right down to your very core
Girl I’ve got soul
I feel yours even more
Girl you’ve got soul
And it’s brought me to your door.

Girl you’ve got a style
Hard for me to ignore
Girl you make me smile
A smile that feels so pure
As we talk awhile
You make me feel like I can soar
Then when I see you smile
I feel real and want you more.

© Daniel Breslin

Go on and get what’s yours
It’s your birth right
Go on and get what’s yours
You only get one life.

While getting what’s yours
Though do try to be nice
For you’re not the only one in this world
Who only gets one life.

Our time here is precious
Don’t waste your precious time
My time here is precious
So don’t be wasting mine.

Go on and get what’s yours
It’s your birth right
But you’re not the only one in this world
Who only gets one life.

© Daniel Breslin

He’s unsure of himself
Sees nothing pure in himself
What could allure someone else?
Too afraid to act, too proud to ask for help.

So he meanders on timidly
In a world which isn’t his
Others seem so content
But for him something’s amiss.

He craves something else
He just doesn’t know what it is
So he plays the role of someone else
Uncomfortable in his own skin.

He keeps looking outward
Searching the right path, hopes he’s closing in
But he will never get too far out there
For the greatest path, only constant, is the one we walk within.

© Daniel Breslin

One of the saddest days I can ever remember
Was that horrific day back in September
So many lives took
As the world shook
Unable to comprehend
The hearts of evil men
Around the world the explosions were heard
Nothing we could do, but sit in silence and observe
So consumed by shock
Pray for memory block
Now enter Americas number one resident
A war hungry President
And this is so evident
As he’s so unhesitant
In going to war
Bush want more
Time to sacrifice the poor
Send the troops over-shore
Driven by greed
This is how Bush lead
Another dead seed, just another unfortunate deed
But America needs
Soldiers to give themselves
Put their faith in someone else
Like a war hungry monster
With death as his sponsor
So if you’re a parent with a child
Biggest fear is that your number will be dialed
‘Hello this is America, we need your son
Iraq got oil and George want some
So give us your son
We’ll give him a gun
And we’ll give you a phone-call when his work is done.’

Pointless deaths on this pointless quest
Think of the parents that wept
Believing their children were dying to protect
Their country from the nuclear weapons Iraq kept
Now filled with regret
That they ever could of let
Themselves be conned and misled
It ain’t a joke has it dawned their children are dead
So you can butter your bread
You should shudder instead
Where are the nuclear weapons we were told they had?
Eh we couldn’t find them, well that’s too bad
Shit that makes me mad
How many parents have tears in their eyes
Screaming toward the skies
Cause they believed your lies
Can you relieve their sighs?
Repay the cost of their children lost?
No that’s impossible because lines were crossed
And lives were lost
And it’s obvious
To all of us
That General Bush
Gets a rush
From making a whole nation crush
Crack and crumble turn to dust
If there was a flashing red button, saying don’t touch
I’d take the gamble that George would push
Then keep it all hush hush
Shit cover it up
More dead civilians this is embarrassing stuff
Picture his face blush
But while his cheeks may flush
They’ll be back to normal soon
And he’ll be back to his best in a formal room
Singing the same tune
Giving the same lines
He’s spent his whole life covering up his crimes
Shady dealings his way of life
Don’t tell me we forgot, you remember Florida right?
The original outcome
Al Gore won
But Al got done
In a web George spun
And George became Americas number one.

Now America’s screaming
Looking for a meaning
Government won’t listen to reason
Challenge Bush now and you could be up for treason
It’s demeaning and scary
So remember if you’ve got views you must be wary
They got your phone tapped
Violated your rights with the Patriot Act
Now people feel violated
Sick cause they feel dictated
Soldiers feel unappreciated
Hostages been decapitated
After been humiliated
And you want to be congratulated?
It’s a plan we have to foil
As blood begins to boil
Bush drains the oil
While innocent blood stains the soil
Now lying in pieces
Peoples nephews and nieces
So I wrote me a thesis
And addressed it to Jesus
Said Jesus, come down here you’re needed
For all those who’ve breath their last breath
And those who haven’t yet breathed
They were given their chance but it seems they never heeded
The battle was lost when Kerry regretfully conceded
So what do we do as a people
To conquer this evil
There’s going to have to be an upheaval
Because this is unbelievable
In the time of the unreasonable
So much grief unbelievable
Damage to great to be concealable
So much hate in the un-healable
Once a soul escapes it’s unretrievable
And so much death awaits in the foreseeable
It’s all just madness
This worlds seen too much sadness
How the hell are we going to end it?
The soldiers that fell must of been offended
When they saw that your cause
Was a cause full of flaws
The message ain’t subliminal
General Bush, I’m calling you a criminal.

© Daniel Breslin

Funny now, funny how, everything has changed
Sorry now, sorry how, nothing is the same

If something I said, changed your head, then I’m to blame
Flying lead, left me lying dead, I never meant pain

On you go, you must I know, I’m left behind
Maybe one day, you’ll change your way, change your mind

Come back that day, bring this way, a little of your sunshine
Till that day, you won’t find me, wasting my time

I’ve stuff to do, you know this too, so I guess goodbye
I ain’t stopping you, if you say we’re through, and I won’t cry

Did I do something wrong, you push on, to do what you like
If I crawled after you, bawling too, would you be satisfied

Satisfied, satisfied, you’re never satisfied.

© Daniel Breslin

One of my best friends leaving
So glad to see them, but I hate this feeling
We on the level, chat with freedom
On our fears, our loves, and our dreaming.

So fecking real
And that is a rarity
Continue to be so
Even when scared to be.

People like you
Are people to treasure
Know I do
In ways you can’t measure.

Keep doing your best
Think less of the rest
A life true to yourself
Is the only success.

You are missed frequently
But let us stop getting deep
And save that soft talk
For the next time we meet.

© Daniel Breslin