Oceanwalk

18, 97, 33, 64, 36, 77, 433, 18, 94, 20, 277, 13, 765, 40, 43...

40 steps to the end of the private lives
54 steps on to the upturned hand
233 steps towards the hidden garden
527 steps to the lion’s mountain
184 steps to the etching box
376 steps to the walking planks
433 steps to the watchtower on the sea
17 steps down to the beach

I saw the door and I looked through the entrance
Stare down night sky, dark patterns seeming endless
Broken friendship, dandy dog on leash
Door latch caught spot, shoe stomp on street
Tape deck plays, and the reels would spin
Suburb's sound close down as boom-bap begin
My red face high in the shade of the trees
As buggered blue moonlight passed through the leaves

Carry out my concerning deeds in the deprivation and the darkness
The com-com-comfort of a cave-dweller locked inside an apartment
I spark this with the marked mistakes of a minor learning
How to build a better book of matches by watching the fire burning
Count all my dreams on a pair of Pinocchio fingers
And trace the trail back home by the tumbling splinters
A silly beginner, basic apprentice aggression
In the absence of a master, trying to make up my own lesson

Who knew I would wait
I would wait such a long time?
Who knew I would wait
I would wait such a long time?

From the dreams to the leaves
To the cracks in the pavement
To the roaches and rats
To the armored-car's pacing
From the spies to the thieves
To the cross-eyed complainers, to the...
Ain't that long when you count out the paces
From the breach to the tracks
To the alias' statements
To the grief
To the crap that they all want to wade into
The forth and back
The forth and back
There's no turning back
And back
And back
And back again

Secrets explode whether you mean it or not 
I locked my dreams with the right keys, but I worked the wrong locks
The strong box screws split quick before I could retighten
I learned lightning strikes and leaves before language leaks "it lightens"
The waking of the dead to live and work with the freaks
I was a vampire roaming streets, when I'd have swears I 'as asleep
The beeping of the buzzer burn my brain the next day
I tried to brush my teeth, but never could remove the blood stains

A double life of moonlighting grows tiring from trying
If you got to work a day job, and keep the villagers from rioting
The list of lies lengthened longer, left life, laymen, honest
Invited the world into my home to show the bones stacked in my closet
A dumb little skeleton walking miles to chase a silly dream
Stubborn skull, split shoes, punctuated by abrasive feet
All the while stalking, walking awkward through the night
In the stomach of the suburbs with a dog by my side

From the dreams to the leaves
To the cracks in the pavement
To the roaches and rats
To the armored-car's pacing
From the spies to the thieves
To the cross-eyed complainers, to the...
Ain't that long when you count out the paces
From the breach to the tracks
To the alias' statements
To the grief
To the crap that they all want to wade into
The forth and back
The forth and back
And forth and back
I'm back
I'm back
I'm back
I'm back

From the dreams to the leaves
To the cracks in the pavement
To the roaches and rats
To the armored-car's pacing
From the spies to the thieves
To the cross-eyed complainers, to the...
Ain't that long when you count out the paces
From the breach to the tracks
To the alias' statements
To the grief
To the crap that they all want to wade into
The forth and back
The forth and back
And forth and back
I'm back
I'm back
I'm back
I'm back

Who knew I would wait
I would wait such a long time?
Who knew I would wait
I would wait such a long time?

From the dreams to the leaves
To the cracks in the pavement
To the roaches and rats
To the armored-car's pacing
From the spies and the thieves
To the cross-eyed complainers, to the...
Ain't that long when you count out the paces
From the breach, to the tracks
To the alias' statements
To the grief
To the crap that they all want to wade into
The forth and back
The forth and back
There's no turning back
And back
And back
I'm back again