L'Audace

Have the miles tamed you? I could change that Pick apart the order blind and the former stop Pick apart the little lines and the borders drop And that’s where I am traveling To the edges like I’m Shackleton Win hard, lose hard, but I don’t abandon ship Throw the raft away Let the roar take place Understand that there is no safe Just nets in the way trying to hold my shape In my wake I want freedom, I want poetry, I want danger, I want sin I’m a heretic, I am arrogant, I’m American, now let’s begin In the core of the storm, when it rips up the floorboards And it gets to your forlorn heart Yeah we’re all war torn But I go so lightly, lightly And bottle that lightning that’s stored up inside me To incite those like me They’re looking for juice, I’m looking for pulp They’re looking for a purpose, I’m looking for a pulse Don’t gimme fiction, gimme fire, I won’t be pacified You feel your chest drumming? You feel them strings humming? That’s blood. Vibrate. Vibrate Have the miles tamed you? I could change that And we could argue about what constitutes insane Who’s got the tooth and who is subdued but that is inane We could run blame or we could be flame, I’ll leave it you I’m taking the stairs, lames wait for the lift I’m changing the shape, round off the square Scared? stand there and stare, or move Throw em a rope, we’re leaving tonight I cannot build in the sand There are no lines There are no maps There is no plan We might not make it but damn we’ll be gutty, and that’ll be something I want freedom, I want poetry, I want danger, let’s get bloody I’m bleaching the bones of each of these old ideas and ideals And they’re welcome too but they’re busy cleaning the throne For the same old same old, without backbone I’m at the Sedlec catacombs thinking about permanence and ephemeral Set it in let it go I’m high concept and a few loose brush strokes I’m light it up, I’m see what glows, and I’m fully woke I dance like dice rolling I’m out here tightroping I leave that mic broken, your mind open, and that mold broke in two Give me bold, give me brave, give me weak Build it up, tear it down, take a piece Make it loud, make it growl like a beast I’m the fire in the belly And it speaks like it’s wild Like it’s now, like it’s free Like it’s all that it is, like it’s me Take the wind or the feet, take the win or defeat Have the miles tamed you? I can change that