Chris Corner

Summertime An' the livin' is easy Fish are jumpin' an' the cotton is high oh, yo' daddy's
rich An' yo' ma is good lookin' so hush, little baby don't you cry

One of these mornin' you goin' to rise up singin' then you'll spread yo'wings an' you'll
take the sky
But till that mornin' there's a
nothin' can harm you
With daddy an' Mammy standin' by

Half life wastes before it goes
It's funny how your bee sting touch never leaves me whole
It's not enough to stay here almost trying
You keep your last laugh watch this dying
It's just half time vertigo
And if you want an answer I don't know
If you had completed me
Don't think I'd be pleased with you
Don't think I'd compete with you
With half of me to take
Half life nothing I'd call home
It's lucky how these phantom limb bee stings never show
It's not enough to leave this falling kindly
You burn my star down twice as brightly
It's just your half light undertow
But if you need forgiveness I don't know
Half light breaks with nothing wrong
Just a corner of my bed where you don't belong
It's kind of you to notice no one's dying
You choked your last laugh almost crying
It's just your half life long to know
And if you need a reason so it goes

It takes too much to please me
Attached but no real feeling
High fives and corporate anthems
Nothing comes to mind

Kitemarked for true low standards
Where more wants all and no less
Just change with no real progress
Nothing comes to mind
I want higher
But nothing comes to mind

Give me a low five
I can't help myself
I'm a low five downsize no one else
Do you love yourself?

Altered states and egos
Potential less than zero
Found God in San Diego
Nothing comes to mind

I half expect to find myself
In full control of nothing else
Lost hope but learnt to hopeless
Nothing comes to mind
I want higher
But nothing comes to mind

Strike you down give me everything you've got
Strike me down I'll be everything I'm not
Count the questions on one hand you don't ask me what I planned
Strike me down should have asked me what went wrong
Strike me down should have stayed away too long

Strike me down give it everything you've got
Chance me now I'll be everything I'm not
Hope's the child of what luck brings
Points the faith in higher things
Ask me now fire at everything at once
Strike me down take it any way you want

Strike me down better left it all unknown
Shout me down should have left it all alone
Wash the questions off my hands
I'm the fate in no one's plans
Strike me down give it everything you've got
Strike me down I'll be everything I'm not

Now your future's got me told
Stopped breathing on my own
I curl to break consent
To print the facts in stone

Suppose for seconds you forget your past
Neglect to turn in think straight stand out last

And I curl now to help me find you out
We're keeping down and sleeping sound

Now your newspeak's aging thin
A pale and hanging faith
A devil sick on sin
Will curl against it's place

Itch to scratch
To strike my past from all it's owed
It's sold

I know you know my head's not in this now
Nothing you could keep so keep me down
Like the stones beneath the water that you walk on to be taller
The hands you stuck together when you prayed you'd wait forever
Just another fragile angel heart
Falling down on lead wings torn apart

The words beneath my skin
The ink that put you in
Destroying all the things you left around
Earthbound coming down

So what you have the nerve to call a friend
Is starved of all the sense to make amends
I'm the glass you break to touch but you never want me much
Like the view across the water from the shoes and two feet smaller
I know it doesn't pay to be this hurt
Falling off the morning getting worse