Ray Three

Please don't identify, one lonely swimming pool, between me and the sky, tell me it’s nothing, lies ripped from a sewer, you’d never offer, angst for a wedding night, no one behaves uncouth stuff that you'd get right, don’t want me to suffer, you’ll shed bad dreams too, act like a winner, bring sweetness to the light, not saved for the few, buttered dreams candlelight, to tell you the truth,, instead of this cruise, why not embrace everything, don’t ask me to fly, for fear of losing, I don't dance on wire, I’ve paid my dues.

Ray Two

We share jokes and put, hopes on those who reappear, geese rise among the lost, no one owns a crown, to be ushered in here, or put others down, those of us fussed, we'll always hold dear, what's been crossed, in our Ocean town, everything is clear, you know who is sound, someone to trust, she walks like the deer, with a hint of musk, everywhere she goes, she brushes away fear, never on her own, torches the falling years, each night a must, to bathe in happy tears, laugh before the dust

Ray

Get a ship to France, do you expect me to say, you can beg another chance, don't let me go acute, your life is framed, but you're no fool, fact is you're banned, once again nailed, too much love pranced, say what you want to, your lies are details, it won’t be smooth, don’t look askance, when I start to rail, passion can pass, shame doesn’t bother you, nothing more to say, you won’t need tunes, to slide down the scale, will you take my hand, look at me again, you haven’t the class, the door's your name.

Antonia Four

Can't get around the news, now you’ve dived away, no one tells the truth, you sailed before the Metro, finished up your days, left me with the loans, I haven't got a clue, what in heaven's name, we’re going to do, everything we call home, glistens just the same, the children saw you go, I sing hopeless tunes, trapped within a cage, everything here is blue, you just left us alone, as if it was some game, made jelly of our bones, truth’s a bitter fruit, to jump before a train, did you see it coming, hoping not to wait?

Antonia Three

Since you've gone away, I'll find something to do, but each night pray, laugh in the hurricane zone, see my face in whirlpools, you used me like a drone, tricked me every way, the blue still surrounds you, you say there’s no way, you’ll give me a loan, even if you want to, gardens need to grow, walls are turning grey, you say I’ll always lose, as if I’m on the make, don’t want to be alone, not saying it isn’t true, I carry bags of stones, my eyes shine like jays, I’ll never be in ruins, lying by the drains, love will find me soon.

Antonia Two

Clouds unfurl in the sky, death brings no easy due, even when you die, who cares what’s fake, it always is around you, burns forever in your grate, something deep inside, not just an ordinary blues, makes you want to cry, those barriers you raise, not to look a fool, when you should be great, however high you fly, love is not immune, it’s always worth a try, dies when you castigate, something lost in you, when you walk away, these troubled nights, I’ve had a few, no more questions now, I guess you knew.

Antonia

Like this ship at sea, I swear to the night, you will hear from me, you are a buzz saw, writhing with lies, hung by my cabin door, your lost fidelity, between moon and sky, shines like a painting, from the earth's poor, my terrible why, rises from the ocean floor, I’ll lay you in weeds, my lips strung tight, you need setting free, Here on the shore, I’ll do what's right, there’ll be no furore, just rock you gently, easy with the knife, call you baby, look into my eyes.