38th Parallel - Wither

Forward he marches through scornful laughter Undaunted eyes set on hopes of here after A gauntlet of piercing stares line his way And condemning glares say all hate can say As he strides ever on steps In time with his hearts rhythm and rhyme to the end of his day Forevers seductive smile shatters sense And bids him acquiesce from this solitary life Chorus But we don’t see, we’ve made ourselves blind And we don’t care, we’ve closed our minds And we don’t move, we’re so paralyzed As we sit in heartlessness watching him die Dead to immunity, dead to society Fearing the slow decay of dignity the posterchild For walking deadmen longs for the now to be way back when Chorus And I see him everyday along his road Fading away manifest in the downcast, Recluse and outcast lepers of this age The innocent incaged by paranoid, misinformed minds Enter the champions of love (so called) singing loud Grinning as they spit out their words So proud are the hearts u nmoved by songs and ideals? Wading through the rhetoric to clutch something real

38th Parallel - You Are My God

Sneering smiles fill my eyes And laugh at tears that fall from the weight of unspeakable fears I wonder aloud in curious tones "Could I be proud when they hate me and mock me ?" What is the mind of the God that created meI am different; I am despised I am ever looking through the smallest of eyes But your eyes see what mine cannot see Chorus You are my God, you are life. You are the strength I need You are the love surrounding Broken hearts, you set me free. The world around m e is changing All that was familiar is fading Those I thought would never leave me left me cold All I have from the friends that forever I’d known All I have are names etched in headstones And the questions of meaning and reason These small eyes of mine can’t see past this one season But your eyes see what mine cannot see Chorus Show me your eyes Show me your mind Show me what you see Show me your eyes Show me your mind Show me all I need

38th Parallel - Who Am I

Made like a mirror to reflect his glory But the glass got smashed, bought a counterfeit story We gave into pride Sacrificed life, on that day we died inside Outside we ignited a rebellion, An infectious disease that labels us felons Cold and alone, ever wandering in search of a home Hearts breaking and shaking in time with our hearts vibrating We say bridges to yesterday are burned Seasons over, all those leaves have turned But we cannot look now We can only keep our gaze lock ed on the ground And here we stand with wide eyes as our world comes crashing down Chorus Who am I to say right ? Who am I to say you’re wrong ? Play judge, look you in the eye, Who am I to throw the stones I remember when trust went for free Sold for a smile on the face of a fantasy Truth found her home in the pages of fairy tales Decadent words formed the phrases for dreams that failed Now trust is a costly commodity Giving it away is the mark of absurdity And truth is a homeless traveler Hoping in the night to be found Chorus And we wave goodbye to our innocence And we wave goodbye to our ignorance And we wave goodbye to our nursery mindsets Abandoning cribs of complacence