All the kings

Right here before your eyes

Before you find

Another tyrant to mold right after me

Time after time

As you try to find one to sell me out

You won’t find loose ends

As I slip through the night

And you believe all that I say

I awake to the daylight

To find you bowing down at my feet

All the kings’ horses all the kings’ men

Long live the king

All the kings’ horses all the kings’ men

In trust like family

All the kings’ horses all the kings’ men

Long live the king

All the kings’ horses all the kings’ men

Let lust be the enemy

I’m all that you despise

Throughout your time

History will repeat you’ll always find me

Frame after frame

You try to turn me inside out

My shield newspaper thin

When I lied I was right

Right above all, all that you decree

now if you don’t mind I’d like to hide behind the flag of the free

And all the kings’men

words and music by ©2003MarkOcchiogrosso

Hypnotize

This feeling I cannot believe

It nearly brings me to my knees

I try to trace the thought and how I fell before

We are two hearts apart

One word ignites the spark

This time when I look deep into your eyes

You hypnotize me

When you hypnotize

You wink your eye

Don’t look at me

You tell me lies now set me free

Now I know the life I never knew before

From a distance I see you coming

And I know what lies ahead

Why don’t you take what you want and

Just leave the rest outside my head

Outside my head..

words and music by ©2003Mark Occhiogrosso

I know

You wake in the morning

Light on in the kitchen

Last night was more than, more than you plan for in a night

And in the fire light your will slowly faded away

You look in the mirror

Could it be any clearer?

The worn out face and if lines could trace all denials

Would they lead back to you in time to see the truth?

I know what you want

Lord knows what you need

Why can’t you be happy with just being who you are?

Throw caution to the wind

And start starring in this dream your living in

So time after time you try to see behind their eyes

But you’d be pressed to find anyone to despise, or think less of you

Then your own minds eye

I know what you want

Lord knows what you need

Why can’t you be happy with just being who you are?

Throw caution to the wind

Start starring in this dream that your living in

you know that i've

I’ve heard it all before

You’ll try to settle the score; it’ll drive you crazy

Just be who you are throw caution to the wind

Start starring in this dream that you’re living in

What else can I say?

You stay up late to contemplate

But you don’t know all the rules to the game

And it’s in vain

So say what you want to be true but I’m not the fool

Everything you want

And everything you need

Everything you got you got to believe they’re not the same

Everything you are

And everything you’ve been

Everything you’ll be, the future is yours to claim

Try to be happy

words and music by ©2003MarkOcchiogrosso

In Tennesee

This morning I looked out and

I saw through the window

Myself falling through gray skies deep in the shadows

No sooner did I retreat to pull off both of my boots

Then I remembered that I wear shoes

In tennesee

And everything I lost came back to me

Everything that makes me who I am

In Tennessee

Could it be life still has plans for me?

I won’t wait for the hereafter

I’ll savor this my only life

And step into the millennium light

So I went out and found out that

I’m not the only one

Who tried to find himself after alls been said and done

Like an aging cowboy on a horse that just won’t move

I guess I had to cut one last groove

In your eyes a tear and moonlit nights I fear

Oh have mercy

The waves of deep dispear sink me down into my chair

I guess it’s time that i come up for air

This morning I looked out and I saw through the window

No more falling through gray skies deep in the shadows

No sooner did I retreat to pull off both of my boots

Then I remembered that I wear shoes

words and music by ©2003MarkOcchiogrosso

Kosovo

From dawn till dusk

Each breath breathes the dust

And from deep inside

How hard they try

Not to cry the tears of pain

Tell me can you feel the pain?

The clock keeps ticking while they’re leaving there in droves

And while we’re learning the fires keep burning out of control

but are we saving the soul of kosovo?

Be still my heart this deadly art to inflict great pain

Each step lies a grave

and brings back all those fears

of those cleansed throughout the years

The clock keeps ticking while they’re leaving there in droves

And some of the leaders of faith have the world spinning out of control

but are we saving the soul of kosovo?

There’s blood on the hands of those marching

And blood on the mind of the coward in command

Blood from the mothers’ and fathers’ hearts

And blood on the tiniest of hands

Tell me now that we all know

What we see now to be real

This place where we live

It’s a fragile life but we can learn

Not just from the lives lost

But from lives that we all touch

words and music by ©2003 Mark Occhiogrosso

Photo.bmp

I’ve got your picture on my windows’ screen

So I can see you no matter, no matter where I’ve been

I’ve got your letter, you fax and email too,

But I need a bit more of you

And there’s no more room inside the main frame

But plenty of room inside my brain

Heaven help me I’ve got this photo.bmp

And there’s no one out there

that lives up to what’s in my head

And as I surf cyberspace in vain

Someone out there’s made a fool of me again

She’s got my tail and I’m squealing like a mouse

I’m a click away from her but miles from her house

I’ll be free in time, the key to my demise?

My hearts online tonight

And I was afraid of Y2K?

I made that lousy damn upgrade!

Maybe I can find another pastime

Maybe I could shield the screen

and feel the green beneath my feet

but every time I turn to go,

the monitor glow invites me in………….

words and music by ©2003 Mark Occhiogrosso

Shades of fire

From deep inside you

A devastating loss no,

a moment of no concern

those tied up feelings

can burn right through you

somehow revealing the truth

shades of fire

don’t look don’t touch no

don’t play the fool

shades of fire

she’s too hot to touch oh

she lights up a room

you end up waiting

you wake up shaking

wondering what can you do?

those dreams of fire

won’t quench your desire

to feed the flame in you

we are who we are and there’s no turning back

the memories into passion

tell me, how could you forget?

was it so long ago when you we’re burned right from the start?

Was it so long ago, and she’s still here in your heart

Above the mantle, the photos of truth know,

No, a moment of no concern

With a single match and a perfect print

You, could burn a flame or two

Shoreline

Having the legs and showing her shoulders

Running around and browning her skin

Fumes from the heat rise blurring my vision

Sharks circle run picking up the scent

Asking myself, is this where I’ve landed?

Charting the course, it never showed me these signs

Paradise deep in troubled waters

These are the isles that bring men to sea

I will climb aboard this dream

And sail the rivers true you’ll see

It ‘ill take but one more day

To score my fate in the sand

I’ll stare at the shoreline tonight

And trend in the waves beyond the sorrow

Wade in the streams of deep moonlight

I hope that they find me whole tomorrow

Having to quench the thirst of her body

Swaying a bit and stirring below

Some of them wise, some with eye blinders

A shallow gene pool it’s steady as she goes

Turning about I see past my shoulder

Drowning mates who had failed to grasp hold

Look in these eyes though a bit weathered

Treasuring the wisdom is as good as gold

words and music © 2003 Mark Occhiogrosso

The last lullaby

Look at those eyes now there is a star

The way he crawls you know he’ll go far

And when they talk he hears it all

The little hands that rattle keys

And jumbled words that appear on the screen

With wisdom they claim they’ve never seen

And he’ll get the very best

I guess he’ll pass every test

But will he remember

The last lullaby he was read?

He masters this he masters that

No time for fun no time for that

Perfection calls? One heaven sent

And he’ll get the very best

I guess he passed every test

But can he remember

The last lullby he was read?

A father now but not a dad

It’s hard to be what you havn’t had

A wonderful life filled with one regret

Look at those eyes now he is a star

The way he walks he’s traveled far

And when he talks they’ve heard it all

And he’s got the very best

And he’s been put to the test

But can he remember the last lullaby that he read?

words and music by ©2003 Mark Occhiogrosso

When you fly

We can’t be sure that we’re over

As long as there’s no time to say goodbye

Then that day we’ll turn out much stronger

And no time will pass us by

No one can tell you that

We’re over now

No one can help you

Your on your own now

When you fly

And the wind is your only guide

Then the fall, the fall is a long way down

Your out on your own when you fly

Now is the time that I’ll take to say

That I hope we’ll always stay this way

Where we can be one and not over

With any doubt, just lean on my shoulder

It’s too sad to think of the times before

And just as bad to leave them outside the door

And when your silent prair holds you down you don’t make sound

Cause there’s no way back through the times you’ve seen

No way clear

words and music by ©2003 Mark Occhiogrosso

Windows

Well there’s clouds outside my window now

And I can hide from its darkness

But this feeling that my heart makes

And there’s rain outside my window now

And it falls with no grace

And how I miss your face

Maybe,

Maybe will learn this time

To reach out, redefine our love

And maybe then with hope in time

open windows of the heart

well there’s wind outside my window now

and it chills me you see

I need you next to me

and I see you through my window now

And the rain now has stopped

And I feel in my heart that

words and music by ©2003 Mark Occhiogrosso