No Time Now
Words and Music by Gary Lenaire
©2017 All Rights Reserved
Is it the truth when I show you?
Are the words true if I told you?
For the words I say will fly away forever
And the games I played pretending now is never
Love the ones you love today without a why
For tomorrow we may have to say goodbye
Love leaves a trace
The memory won’t erase time that only lives in our minds
Love leaves a trace
The memory can’t replace the real love that we share in the now
For we love so much that we can’t let go
of ourselves, of the past, and tomorrow
Relive yesterday then future is your master
For time has erased the truth of now
For the games I played, pretending love is tomorrow
And the words I prayed, trading now for sorrow
Love the ones you love today without a why
For tomorrow we may have to say goodbye
Love leaves a trace
The memory won’t erase time that only lives in our minds
Love leaves a trace
The memory can’t replace the real love that we share in the
now
Stop The Bleeding
Words and Music by Gary Lenaire
©2017 All Rights Reserved
War, the first impulse
Brainless, their teeth are red
Bringing the burial
Until the last are dead
Once the first born dies revenge takes flight
Burning the flames of vengeance
They punish the innocent ones
I’m an echo from your past
And the future is fading fast
So listen now this voice is reason
Take the hands of wounded brothers
Make your stand don’t wait for others
The world needs love so burn the brightest fire
War, the first impulse
Brainless, their teeth are red
Never stand down
But know you are the one who wears a crown
See the fearless fire
Calling an end to time
Culling the ones who cower
mercy to all mankind
I’m an echo from your past
And the future is fading fast
So listen now this voice is reason
Take the hands of wounded brothers
Make your stand don’t wait for others
The world needs love so burn the brightest fire
I’m an echo from your past
And the future is fading fast
So listen now this voice is reason
Take the hands of wounded brothers
Make your stand don’t wait for others
The world needs love so burn the brightest fire
I know you know
I know you don’t believe this world is hopeless
Now we must believe together
Sharing all to love forever
Stop the bleeding now and be the answer
Wasted Fire
Words and Music by Gary Lenaire
©2017 All Rights Reserved
you see the moment has risen
and now the flame sets within
you’ll lose this burning to no one
and now the victory begins
who stands to fight for the fire
burn down the walls built in time
halls set ablaze by the demons
future and past snares the mind
time dies now
always the ones try to stop you
holding you down causing pain
so bring these fools to the fire
and change your mind to refine
leather and chains bring the metal
never forget who you are
wasting the spark deep within you
is over now
go chase the stars
time dies now
wasted fire
Little Stars
Words and Music by Gary Lenaire
©2017 All Rights Reserved
a simple sonnet
with little on it
it’s rhythmic device
pedestrian to mice
but man listen close
for this epitaph’s dose
is brawn beyond words
to see is believing
but believing is deceiving
when sight only sees the absurd
to set to song
or just hum along
so you’ll be the judge of this
what to hit and not to miss
so crank it up loud
or whisper them cowed
it’s all just the same to me
‘cause I’m just a source
a distant light’s course
that mostly goes fast unseen
learn to swim Hicks said
knowing the time of day twas read
21 and 50 years
Aquarius melts away to tears
the earth comes down with fever
blame it on du jour deceiver
a mother made by her own child
the serpent drowns in pools defiled
the nearest stars
look just like Mars to a naked eye
the Southern cross is 4 across
a fish brings water nigh
the age preceding
began with 3 days meting
its end is birth
to waves on earth
drown you sinners of faith
you knew all along
but hated the taste
of truth as it is and love as it gives
we die in the truth that life dies to live
Noah’s boat would never float
in seas divided to kill
Egyptians lose
the Dead Sea blues
man’s breath to fill God’s gills
a warming globe is cooling down
in ears that hear the call
of battle hymns and future glory
to down the Jericho wall
facts aren’t the truth, the life and the way
when faith blinds the eye to close at noonday
all things real are often concealed
from those who spiritually choose
to silence their senses and senselessly beg
to differ with obvious news
easy to forget
nearby constellations beget
signs revealed to watching eyes
but way beyond our simple view
the mass looks like a feeble few
from pews ignoring holy distant skies
far lights seem a stagnate par
in contrast to a closer star
fixed is just a point of view
all lights move, just not to you
the strongman near
dictates the fear
and sets the terms to be
proximity close
he rules our ghosts
so fooled and never free
lights that burn so bright to us
are telling truth in terms abrupt
dire beams are clearly seen
tracking trends most chief to be
it’s just a matter of time
distance, speed and crime
that makes us lift our boring heads
from self absorbed, distracted beds
we only stopped to look
when others loudly shook the warning bell
but who may I ask receives this great task
of sounding such a hell?
the righteous of course
who rides a white horse
whose lips “never” lied
but wrote the book on pride
greedy apes
will not escape
the urge to capitalize
a usual group with branded name
official badge, dominant fame
their interest wage is slavery, tax and guise
all seen life is powered from behind
the walls of glitter
and celebrated rhymes
the trillions seem a few
from a human point of view
the many look like a one off
while science bears the real scoff
from those who miss the encore
of lights above the top score
for they have missed it
if it a snake it would ‘a bit
we make up the whole
but fight to control
a pauper’s piece of dirt
if nothing else, to hurt
the other person’s name
to prosper in their blame
little stars are so much more
than the closest bulb on a quantum shore
nearer lights burn falsely bright
while the backdrop is the show’s delight
little lights are stupid dumb
but give them time and out they’ll come
for in their pact resides the fact
that added together
form they perfect weather
21 and 50 years
the 12th house starts its day in cheers
Aquarius, when sees dry land
retreats to skies and to the sand
but now is where it’s truly real
where we act, where we feel
the past and future always hide
the now exposing sincere side
that in this special spec of now
I am alive supreme somehow
memories and hope do blaze
like a nearby star in a summer haze
so real they spar with the now
your memories, thus, have taken vows
to reminisce but not recall
the present is when memories fall
keep me clean
avoid the past
and fight the future plans
to make this moment rerun stale
to make this moment last
to live is now
and nothing less
all the more
is meaningless
the little stars are coldly cleansed
like the sun seen through a distant lens
I can’t speak any louder here
my head will roll nearsighted fears
rest assured there is no room
in tomorrow and its faultless doom
for yesterday’s and future rent
is all but paid, all but spent
Vainglorious Hypocrisy
Words and Music by Gary Lenaire
©2018 All Rights Reserved
So vain you probably think these words are about you
You belittle others to think yourself big though you're looking up at us all
Snowflake we know you can’t take it like you dish it out
Glass jaw a tiny slap can knock you to the ground
All that you see is yourself in a mirror
Take all the credit so you feel superior
Burn down the friendships you made through the music
Entrusted power you learned to abuse it
One by one you alienated
One by one we let you go
One by one the future you fated
All but one can see that you lost control
Seemed so sincere once a upon a time
Said you see at 50 though you’re blind
Blind.
Something tells me you’re not what you believe
Something may deceive
All that you see is yourself in a mirror
Take all the credit so you feel superior
One by one you alienated
One by one we let you go
One by one the future you fated
All but one can see that you lost control
Together we were greater than any one of us, a fact that you can’t hide
A solo act of second best is the role you must abide
You thought you were the golden boy but found to be a toy
In the song of sincere you command the second fiddle
For this ten finger encore I give you my two middles
Taking Flight 1985
Words and Music by Gary Lenaire
©2018 All Rights Reserved
I witnessed light and then the darkness came
It knew my name Black as the night
Osiris tales I heard the lies for toll
Take me to paradise
Save my soul
Seek first
You shall find
Fool’s gold
Rainbow’s hind
I
I’m gonna fly
I wanna live
I’ll never die
Sunsets upon this darkened world
Edge of blackness in the depths of the girl
Beget the word, he speaks the sacred seed
I will need proof of eternity
Seek first
You shall find
Fool’s gold out of time
I
I’m gonna fly
I wanna live
I’ll never die
Set adrift beyond the shores of time
You have found the secret divine
He’s a priest and a king you say
Ghosts of future fame and yesterdays
Seek first you shall find
Fool’s gold out of time
I
I’m gonna fly
I wanna live
I’ll never die