Cristopher Lucas

5

I.O.U.

You haven?t seen me in a while
You gave me hell and all I did was smile
You sure did take me for a ride
But you bought the tickets and you stood in line

I never touched you like you said
But that?s all I know that you wanted
So go and say just what you like
Take your big mouth and take a hike

If you?re comin? up north I?m goin? down south
Where you?re gonna be I don?t wanna be there
Fall asleep with gum in your mouth
Wake up with gum in your hair

There?s one thing I?ve gotta say
You didn?t mean much to me anyway
One more thing you oughtta know
It didn?t take much for me to let go of you


I owe you nothing

3

5th Grade Lover

In her lip-gloss my face turned red
I caught her lunchbox upside my head
Got her name all over my book cover
I guess she must be my 5th grade lover

Her glitter made me wanna go back to school
It?s summer way way back in 82?
For a sticker on my BMX bicycle
I kissed her but she wasn?t my tricycle

She was all unicorns and rainbows

At recess your friends say that you don?t care
But you always let me cut in front of you in the line to 4 square
I?ve got your pencil with the funny bunny eraser
As I watch you drive away, watchin? me from the window of your mamas? pacer
I?ll see you on Monday, don?t you be sick

To kiss your lip gloss till my face turns red
And catch your lunch box upside my head
Got my name all over your book cover
I guess you must be my 5th grade lover

One day I said I?d hold you in my arms
But you moved away
So long

Dim Light Parade
Cristopher Lucas



She was only thirteen
Daddy said, ?Come home straight from school!?
But he was just a fool you see
Cause thirteen never listens

Oh, come on it?s cozy
I read it in a magazine
I?m just goin? to the mall
And she?s gone

She follows the Dim Light Parade
Drinkin? whiskey with lemonade
She?s down the road and through the gutter again
?I?m too young to be an old maid
I can?t sit around all day
I?m a teenager now I ain?t gonna be afraid!?

Well he said, ?baby, you?re grounded,
Why can?t you be like all the other kids?
With a bow in your hair, flowers and a nice long dress??
She said, ?daddy what?s wrong with me? I?m a mess?

She follows the Dim Light Parade
His pants are low and his eyes are slayed
Her mind is blown from the cocaine
She can?t stop a rollin? train
She told her friends she?d never do it again
But that was before he?d had her made

Hoo hoo hoo yeah I?m OK

But you can?t stop a rollin? train
Yeah she follows the Dim Light Parade
Down and through the gutter again

Hoo hoo hoo yeah I?m OK

1

The Cost

I won?t take I?ll earn when I must
The free air I?m breathin? I ain?t thievin? for my trust
I?ve got loves and I?ve got loves that I?ve lost
And the losing of the trust?s the beginning of the cost

Trust
Yeah I?m livin?
As I gaze across the lies that I?ve been given
We?ve got needs and mouths to feed
Struggle don?t discriminate religion race or creed
Thieves
Is there honor among thieves?
Cuz I don?t wanna have to alter up your sleeves
Baby needs shoes on her feet not cardboard in the street
And the seed that I sow is the destiny we reap
In god
What do we have?
Doesn?t it seem like we?re lookin? at the butcher from the slab?
We need time to forgive the wrong relieve the wounds
And evolve into the strong
With trust
You?ve got to offer all you can
Straight from the city with iron in my hands
Not guns
I?m talkin? nickels dimes and these
Dollars if you can
Benjis if you please
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I?m not a pretender
Don?t wanna be a repeat offender
A big spender with no cash where was that stash
Receiver or sender? I?m back in a flash cuz they really couldn?t hold me
I was the one you were warned about, I know, my mother told me
And you strut through the old yard
Pretend that what?s gone soft has really stayed hard
And really believe it that live could still be good
You told yourself to trust yourself and now you knew you could
Good
Yeah-well life can be tough
That?s my middle name
A diamond from the rough I cornered the market for the game
I ain?t sayin? I give up I ain?t sayin? put me down
I can trust in you to hold me up above this lethal town
I?m not a pretender
And I know trust knows no face or gender
And the choices that I make tell the future life will render
The light I?ve seen
The past was mean but now it?s been
On to meet my queen
Know what I mean?
Freedom

1

Hitch

Every time I think I?m free and clear
I see you in my eyes and hear you in my ears
And every time I erase your number you call
Every time I get up from the ground I fall

You?re my hitch

Just won?t let go

2

When folks think that it's an in-opportune time to shine, I'm gonna shine. When things are looking down, I'm going to look up. I the long race I'm takin' mine right to the finish line. Don't count me out.

A Mudder is a horse racing term. It's the unusual favorite to win in "bad" weather. What doesn't kill us makes us stronger. That's my story and I'm stickin' to it! Thanks, Cris

The Mudder
(cristopher lucas)

You can call me the Mudder I run better in the rain
Although some things change I?m takin? mine right to the finish line
When it?s pouring rain splish splashin? puddles in the road
You?ve got drippin? clothes
Well let?s take?em off they?ll dry in time

Oh yeah but we?ll be wet
Who?s the king of the world?
Now don?t you forget inside you
Sometimes really deep
What?s dormant now can?t always sleep
You?ve got an answer for everything
The birds will fly and the bees will sting
Which reminds me, my you shake that thing
Come out here in the rain and spread your wings
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Why why
How could life be too beautiful?
And how could your life be so pitiful
You?d think you?re dyin? cuz you broke your heart
Smile wild
When it rains it pours
There?s always more
You can never be too sure
What?s in store or what this life?s for
Besides that man who?s keepin? score?
Glass half empty you?ll get your fill
I can see a drop of rain on your windowsill
(It?s raining it?s pouring the old man is scoring)
Nothin? against the sun and it?s harmful rays
But man why y?all hate rainy days
It?s the rain that makes the grass green
It?s the pain that helps you reach your dreams
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What?s that?
It makes you sick
Well I think that?s dumb
What?s wrong with a little optimizum?
It?s the rain that makes the grass green
It?s the pain that helps you reach you dream
You spect me just to sit and pout
Well that?s not what the rhythm of the rain?s about
And that reminds me baby you shake that thing
So git out in the rain and spread your wings

1

4

Lazy generation

Well I guess it?s all gone away
Leaves are fallin? on the ground and I think it?s autumn
Birds fly south just like me
I guess they?re all scared of the cold and getting? old
I got my lazy boy recliner
Got my pipe and my satellite T.V.
And I complain about everything
Still my nephew he loves me
I ask him ?you gonna write a song ?bout your uncle?? he says, ?we?ll see.?

But I know that he don?t know ?bout work he just knows bout playing
By the time I finish my supper he?ll have slept away the day
Lazy generation
And he?ll never see just what I?ve seen

Must?ve been uphill both ways
Six feet of snow in the good ole days and if I didn?t have shoes then why should they?
It?s retribution
Besides it builds character
I?m talkin? ?bout the colored folk, the golden rule,
The principles paddle and prayer at school the times have changed the world?s gone to hell
It?s disintegration
At the hands of an adolescent nation

Still you?ll never see what we?ve seen in this world
And the treasure that you?ll find could never stand up to the pearls of our generation

Cuz I know that you don?t know ?bout work you just know bout play
And by the time I finish my supper you?ll have slept away the day
Lazy generation
And you?ll never see just what we?ve seen

Sometime after the Korean war the country lost what it stood for
Lost out to lazy days and crazy years and hippie tears
A vacation from moral obligation
And I hope I live to say ?boy, you kids, you?ve found a way, I?m proud of you
But I guess I always knew it.?
Cuz I know everything,
Except for what goes on past 10:15
Still you?ll never see just what I?ve seen

Well you?ll never see what we?ve seen in this world
And the treasures that you find could never stand up to the pearls of our generation

Well he says, ?we?ve all got treasures who?s is better than the next?
The sophomore kicks the freshman as the junior studies the text of evolution
That old permanent solution
Trust the good in life there are snakes among us all
There are lazy rats and leaders, lovers and defeaters
And no one will ever see what everybody sees
No one will ever live to be as old as these trees
And in the falling of their leaves I see the beginning of another generation

And I know that they won?t know ?bout work they?ll just know ?bout play
And by the time I?ve finished my supper they?ll have slept away the day
The new lazy generation
And they?ll never see just what I?ve seen and they?ll never want to be what we?ve been
And by the time they get here I think they?ll know just what we mean

4

1

The forcast for earthling stars
And I intend to someday bring you back down to earth I intend to break you down and find out what you?re really worth and I intend to choke you with your tears to drown you in your fears I intend to test you til you fail lock you up and post the key for sale and I intend to make you the strongest man who ever ever even dreamed to live if I don?t kill you first I intend to someday bring you back down to earth I intend