Category: Songs

By Athena Stairs, April 28, 2025

If you see me coming close
And then backing fast away

It’s because I can’t tell if
It’s to me that you’d say

All the things my heart
Has waited long to hear

I hate to say it’s true
But loss is what I fear

And I don’t want to mistep
Onto ground where unsure

If it’s my love you crave when
Being wrong’s hard to endure

And I don’t want to interrupt
If to another you are pledged

Finding good love is hard
I don’t want to be a wedge

So perhaps you can forgive
As my heart startles to flight

When drawn to embrace the
Heat of sunlight after night

Having had to dig in deep
Weathering many storms

Psychology developed mythology
Keeping this soul from being torn

As I struggle to keep in check my
Answering hail to greet your call

Unsure if its my company
Welcomed to reunion’s ball

Maybe I’m just getting closer
To my own time’s redemption

Maybe we are paralleling
Mirrors bright in reflection

But I feel your mode so keenly
When you are happy or if sad

Whatever the outcome
I must somehow be glad

Because I want what’s best for you
Without compromise or negation

It’s proof my love for you is true
When distance brings desolation

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By Athena Stairs, April 17, 2025

I remember long ago
When a ten to sixteen growing girl

My little sister and baby bro
The camping trips, neighbors we’d know

My mother’s green thumb garden
Turned from rubbish pile to bounty

Berries climbing long fences
And birds singing in pine breeze

Chickens, turkeys, rabbits, ducks
And the walnut, fruit, and lemon trees

The 4-H kids looking to me
As I taught them caring husbandry

But no one tells you where you can call home

And so I moved onto high school
And overcame my shyness

My friends were cool, the grades we ruled
And I aimed my sights at college

I ran cross country in the hills
Just up the way from our house

I dreamed of tending to the raptors
Rescued in the canyons

My best friend bicycled like wind
For competing in the olympics

We lay upon our backs and watched
The clouds form shapes as teasing

But no one tells you where you can call home

Right before I turned sixteen
My parents called me back again

My grandma needed tending help
In another town where I’d grown up

And so I left the things I loved
And the family most dear to me

I roamed the golf course greens again
But the swans were gone who raised me

I sought stability as could
And in time I met some new friends

Found my love and we moved on
To better towns by the ocean

But no one tells you where you can call home

Now my kids are all grown up
My mother’s pin upon the shelf

The cats are gone, the night is long
And I worry about my health

I think I’ll get to learn at last
How to create my own music

Would my grandfather be proud
Or would he still look to refuse it

That wonderful amazing man
Saw the classics fading like the land

And as a child I tried to tell him
That life was just evolving

But no one tells your heart to change
When the past is what you’re craving

And no one tells us where we can call home
Yeah no one tells us where we can call home

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By Athena Stairs, April 15, 2025

Ebbing tide
By fireside’s low

Creeping in
Too far to go

Up onto dunes
Where crashed below

Leaving gemstones
Smooth-tumbling after

While ears still
Listen for laughter

Yet hear only
Salt breeze blow

The stars come out
To gently shine

A kiss in dreams
Of love divine

And killdeers
Run along as they sing

With partners
To which they cling

Knowing there are
No finer things

Than caring for each other
And nourishment

Were I a bird
I’d fly to you

On sweeping wings
Shaking off the dew

To greet our own
Morning’s sunrise

For you’re always
On my mind

And I wonder
What will become

Of the hope
Of me and you

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By Athena Stairs, April 15, 2025

I’m not going anywhere
Pushed down to ground

By gales beyond control
Wild fires fiercely proud

Give me that sacred flame
Breaking curses that bound

These multiple years’ layers
Singeing wings into shrouds

Oh come at last consume me
Complete the process paused

Consecrate my soul as holy
To fly free again for cause

The world shall be our oyster
With love as its sacred pearl

As death gives up dominion
Wounds given grace to heal

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By Athena Stairs, April 15, 2025

There is something about
The breeze off the ocean

So raw in wild mystery it
Sets one’s soul in motion

The sun rises in the East
But always sets into West

Giving strong sense of home
Bones never forget nor regret

I suppose its the same anywhere
West side has certain impulsions

Different from any other direction
To those drawn by its compulsion

We feel it in thrums of heartbeats
And through wind-whistling calls

As the world spins ever onward
Compass needles’ pull enthralled

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By Athena Stairs, April 14, 2025

Comin’ over
The horizon

Anticipated
Trajectories

Monumental
Collision

Hearts
Frissoned

Propulsion’s
Attraction

Dislodges
Stationary

Pulling
Onward

Toward
Venus

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By Athena Stairs, April 10, 2025

Breaks in reality
Rarely relaxing

As they ought to be
Normally regrouping

Displaced incongruities
Marginalized legitimacy

Moments fragmenting
Sense of self’s integrity

Looking for a way out if
Only through tidal spouts

Grasping forelorn shores
Wind blown never mores

Hailing ships and planes
Ashamed of fear’s pain

Carnivals speed past
Desert island flares

Astonished no one
Notices or cares

Imparts impression
Of love as a lost art

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By Athena Stairs, April 10, 2025

Pressures on us
That dominate

Suppress our
Understanding

Where before
Open-handed

You always knew
And only cared to

If could avoid
Responsibility

And in your
Wintering

Half-shelled
Glimmering

I never knew that
You needed me

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Ripped up joints and
Spinal cord damage

Not eating well and
In fact I’m famished

Can’t touch them feet
Unless legs are bowed

Fingers spasm
So do my toes

Neck stretched too long
So I’m singin’ this song

Bo Jangles scramblin’
When trippin’ on lawn

Defacing pride though
Stay masked as I hide

Pain and overstim
Roarin’ like thunder

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By Athena Stairs, April 10, 2025

Pretend with you
Not any more

If you can’see that
Our love’s a door

And the things that you say
Make no difference anyway

If you don’t act upon them
And get on the floor

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As rules crumble
Yet truths maintain

What’s false falls away
And we can rebuild again

Without weight of stones
Forefathers had engraved

Transforming once premise
Into inclusive manifest gains

By Athena Stairs, April 10, 2025

I’d like to talk with you
About important things

To understand you better
Learn what we both need

Don’t want to douse your fire as
Searching for ground’s stability

Insecurities’ overcompensations
From a life’s banished desolation

Causing automatic clinging to
Shade’s safety under the trees

Literally learning to walk again
Requiring careful treading land

Yet maybe I’m just nervous to be
Taking your hands’ instant flying

Having been bound too tight while
Admonished for instinct’s aspiring

I get the feeling you wouldn’t care
What anyone thinks of our union

Exhilarating as I need some time
To get used to us before the world

Welcomes, opinions, or challenges
I want to secure our hearts’ clarity

Fame, fortune, fancy to quiet venues
Can be adventures we share together

What I crave most is our souls’ tethers
Wrapping us so tightly in any weather

As if we can’t move or breathe
Nourishing each others’ beliefs

Harnessing energy of trust
Generating heat of life’s lust

Our wings unfolding as we expand
Reaching love’s higher dimensions

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By Athena Stairs, April 9, 2025

Do we have
What it takes

To overcome
Our tendencies

Those petty jealousies
That turn love to hell

Because here come
Mary, Jane, and Nell

Fawning over you
Like a rock star

They’ll only take you so far
Until they’re done with you

Feeding frenzies glutting
From affection given easily

While I’m forced to watch
When you’re not here with me

How can our story be different
From cycles that went on before?

How have we changed, grown to
Deserve walking through that door

When success relies upon fame of
Fans cheering, demanding more?

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By Athena Stairs, April 9, 2025

If I’m a fool
Waiting for you

Let me know
And I’ll go

I can strive to
Reach those heights

And entertwine
Through venues

But if I’m not the one
Fire that gun

So that I can
Try to forget you

Does it matter
That I love you?

Does it, my love
Matter to you?

Am I the one
You dream of

Or am I just caught
In the crossfire, again

Thinking I’ve found
My long-lost friend

Comin’ ’round the bend
Like Moon River Tiffany’s?

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By Athena Stairs, April 7, 2025

City of the urn

My years
Have wasted

What can I do
Oh

What can I learn
Oh

To get my self

At last away
From you

Oo yeah
(Launches)

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By Athena Stairs, April 7, 2025

Deep frustration of
Lifetimes wasted

As I walk along
Misleading roads

Rubbled by others’
Broken dreams

Looking for answers
Never found or fleeting

I hear their calling out
In desperation’s quest

So many before
And after me

I have learned
And understood

Yet it’s not enough
If I can’t have you

My mind’s held
Singular imagery

Feels my heart
Still aching empty

Bleeding out
In yearning

As tired eyes
Search horizons

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By Athena Stairs, April 7, 2025

Falling like water
Love pulls me into

Your spiral energy
Coalesce-swirling

Heartbeat synergy
Creating rhythms

Healing schisms as
Given permissions

To enter valley of
Souls’ prosperity

No one knows how to
Find it on their own

They just know that it
Always feels like home

Searching far and
Wide for the key

The deepest yearning
Leads to you and me

If you tell me that
You feel it too

There’s nothing we
Can say or do

That will banish us
From its shelter

As long as we stay
Vulnerably aware

Falling like water
Coalesce-swirling

Heartbeat synergy
Given permissions

To enter valley of
Souls’ prosperity

Embracing ecstacy
In love’s eternity

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By Athena Stairs, April 5, 2025

Breaking vigilance
Amid the violence

I see you reaching
For hope’s dictates

Ethereal forms
Transcending

Carbon into atoms
For souls’ remaking

Redeemed
Unforsaken

As planned by
Sleep’s awakening

Your sacrifices were
Beyond satisfactory

Granting clemency to
Those who’ve grieved

Opening arms now to
Claim your own needs

Do you see the way unfold
Paved by rebirth’s flame?

Battles fought and won
Have only just begun

Tempered warriors’ truth
Wields mightier from love

Remove gloves so that
Hands may reach anew

And know my heart
Believes in your truth

Caramel

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Dedicated to the band Sleep Token

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By Athena Stairs, March 30, 2025

Tell me about your fire
How it’ll take me higher

Are you free to fly
Across them skies

I’ve been dreamin’ of
Fittin’ us like a glove

Baby don’t promise what
You ain’t got free to give

I can’t take what belongs
To another lover not over

And don’t leave her for me
When you both got history

‘Cause I can’t be the one to
Break up established family

But if the lines are all crossed
And you’ve already been lonely

Needin’ another mama to
Supplement as supporter

Honey open your lovin’ arms
Let me climb in gettin’ closer

‘Cause there’s just too much time
We’ve been needin’ to make up for

You let me know how and where
To meet you on that dance floor

I’ll break apart these chains ’cause
I’ll have somethin’ worth strivin’ for

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By Athena Stairs, March 31, 2025

No one’s callin’ out for me
Crashin’ in the front room (eee!)

Tension’s easin’ slowly but
Still feelin’ brunt of gloom (mmm)

Two dogs and one cat I’m
Hopin’ keep their vigor

Betta fish and ammonia snails
With plants ’bout in containers

For a moment no one’s dyin’
Leakin’ blood, ooze, or saliva

No one’s teeterin’ on edge of disaster
For spinal snap or chokin’ on cancer

Holed up in bed like a possum after
A near-miss attack-grabbin’ predator

(Death be like that)

Client cancelled from a time conflict
Income’s crossin’ into red – sh**’s thick

What would you have me do – I’m askin’
Synapse-stickin’ muscles to bones again

I’m tryin’ to rewire but
Hittin’ same walls again

Sure could use a friend
Offerin’ out their hand

Keep on searchin’ for my soul
Tryin’ to restart dead engines

But oomph ain’t got no
Up-n-go like it was doin’

No get-up-and-go just no
Up-n-go like it was doin’

Ain’t got no up-n-go no
Up-n-go like it was doin’

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Song starts slow, speeds up, gets tangled with some bump-in howl-yodeling with some heavy strum open chord strummin’ – haha! A guy and gal are singing, harmonics interweaving and then separating playfully, ear cringing.

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By Athena Stairs, March 31, 2025

When tried to switch
There wasn’t warning

I’d be down in a ditch
When rain is pouring

Come on lil’ momma
This is gettin’ boring

Gotta muster oomph
Get momentum goin’

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You see me far away
Emitting high energy

So imagine if closer
Quivering pulsings

Trying to contain
Competing forces

I’d be clumsy giddy
Distracted graceful

Because your gravity
Tugs at blood’s flow

You know there’s
No slowing collision

In Forces of Nature’s
Hardwire inclination

Ah, darling, I’m worried
‘Cause I need you badly

I don’t want to wait for
Ok from mum or daddy

Yes, I want to be wooed
But I need your impetus

If I give it all to you too soon
Will sun still crave moon rest?

Or will the dust in all of the galaxies
Call your break from our synchrony?

Don’t you see I’m the key
To your alternate destiny?

Take that ride inside
Where we bend reality

Trip through that portal
To find Heaven’s waiting

Discovering new worlds
Ready for our awakening

It’s been there growing
Been a long time comin’

In the airways
In the elements

Like calls to like
Rules wild magic

It’s just a matter of
If you also believe

That I am the one
We’re meant to be

‘Cause I felt it then
And undeniable now

Looking over history
We’ve grown talents

Coming from wreckage
Of past love’s mistakes

Finding truth in ourselves
We never wanted to forsake

I guess many others also dream
But what I need’s been honed clean

That firebrand’s understanding
We’ll play dirty and counter mean

Any godd**n fool who dares to
F**k with our mantra’s obscene

Whether from family, friends, or society
I’ll be in the heights and trenches, baby

Just need to know you got my back
Can’t settle again for possibly maybe’s

Indiscriminant relegating negotiating
When all I want is for us to come clean

I’ve been workin’ the ropes
I’ve been searchin’ for hope

Not from anybody – in fact
I’ve been out of circulation

Because I can’t give away what
Funeral pyres’ grief made of me

Can’t be trapped by empty ones
Gotta get with a real man’s love

Through all this damaged reverie
Light that match for soul synergy

Come on now baby tell me truely
Do you wanna be the one for me?

I see your plans generating
Elemental world dominating

I don’t need the fame and fortune
Just need our hearts’ collaborating

I’ve got my own things to prove
And want to do them beside you

So tell me now baby tell me truely
Do you wanna be the one for me?

Come on now baby gonna set us free?
Give me the key to your Lamborghini

Set us on that roadway of speeding
Out of control until we’re colliding

If I’m confidin’ got to tell everything
‘Cause I want us to have it all honey

No, memory, I won’t slow
Heat has got me pulsing

All this death’s dominion
Let it stop its mourning

I’ve found a man evolving
He’s got fire at command

Lights it up in the darkness
Knows how to make a stand

I’ve been searching my soul
For too many years to know

You”ve gotta grab onto that
Second chance when find it

By Athena Stairs, March 26, 2025 Early AM

Baby if you want good love
Look no further – back up

You breezed by me too quickly
Expecting disinterest’s rejection

Bet you were surprised to see
Me lookin’ right back formally

No game was upon my sleeve
As I assessed you respectfully

I know we haven’t built a bridge
Both accustomed to isolationism

But our hearts’ common ground
Yearns deep for loving salvation

Still recovering from losses’ brutality
We could give each other tranquility

I’d step across lines if you asked
And showed me how to manifest

What’s needed to match chemistry
Igniting souls’ passions everlasting

By Athena Stairs, March 25, 2025

Well let me tell ya
Society’s outdated

Got me frustrated
‘Cause don’t identify

No alibi for ignorance
There should be bliss

Just knowin’ who we are
How we’ve come so far

Age is just for guidance
To protect the innocent

Once we reach maturity
Keep livin’ by integrity

Free will’s expressin’
Ain’t gotta hurt nobody

Seekin’ love in this new
Age of Aquarian reality

We all have need to feed
Don’t need envy or greed

Followin’ higher powers
No need for proselytizin’

Whether man or woman
Leads in age or follows

Whether self identification
Leaves monoculture hollow

We’ve gotta believe in ourselves
Spread our wings like a swallow

Take our dreams to new heights
Where love’s sacred not borrowed

All the truths that God spoke
Were meant for wise guidance

Not for launchin’ as weapons
Spreadin’ hatred and violence

Pull those heads outa the sand
Let’s discuss inclusive parlance

‘Cause when each day is done
We all ache to have the same

Someone who’s got our back
And security without any blame

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“Will there come a day when wild magic comes to my bidding, reminding me what I should always know, allowing me to keep and create freely?

For now, I’m as a broken oracle, unformed and yet reforming where there should always remain something…

I am a mouthpiece nightingale, mutely seeking melodies that feed, arriving one moment to consume me – then flying away again, leaving me starving.”

By Athena Stairs, March 20, 2025 – Sleep Token Influence

Hear me out
I’ve got a boundary
I should have set before

Hear me out
No you can’t be
Coming to my front door

Hear me out
You say its not a sin
But I can’t give more

And all you think to do
Is lie and make me blue
Hear me out
Hear me out

Oh
If you could tell the truth
We’d have something to choose
Hear me out

Thats what you said before to me
You promised that we could be free
But then you went and said her name
And now its driving me insane

You never had any belief
You only steal the things you keep
And tear apart what we could make
You only know how to forsake

Hear me out

(Tbc…)

How to let go
Wait for you

Being ready’s
Hard to do

When unsure
Where to turn

All this desire
Aches, burns

Birds in flight
Know home

On the ground
I’m lost, roam

Searching
Pacing

Heart
Racing

Soul deep
Listening

For your
Guidance

There’s a place
We both need

Puzzle pieces
Fitting together

Through any weather
We’d stay together

Hearts inviting
Minds uniting

How do we find eachother?
How do we open the doors

Where we’ve been hiding
As weapons fall to floor?

Two hearts caught in time
Baby, tell me that it’s true

Could paths be aligning
Or will you pass through

Searching for love
Well I’ve been, too

How do we know
How do we know

How do we know
How do we know

What makes our blood flow
From our souls’ quickening

How long could it last?
We can promise forever

Maybe all that matters
Is that we keep trying

Reaching out to hold
Our hope as if a child

The-way-we build up high
With-out an-y touch

And-then-we crash back down
At-the-end of-the-rush

When-I look at you
I-see parts of-me

Once caught in-a-cage
Being giv-en re-lease

You-are
A gui-ding mir-ror

I-see
My-path de-li-vered

When-the eve-ning comes
Af-ter a-long day

And-the morn-ing dawn
When-it-all fades a-way

Your-voice it-gets in-side
Lifts-my wings in-a-rush

I ne-ver knew it-was-right
That-I-could feel soo-much!

And-when-the dark thoughts hit
And-I’ve run-out-of-time

I-turn-the light screen on
Op-en up my-mind

I-search-your voice for hope
Then-I find a-trace

Heav-en opens its-doors
My-life is gi-ven grace

Your-heart’s
Be-com-ing clear-er

Your-soul
Is cleans-ing pure

And-where I strug-gle
To be-lieve in-my-self

That-wall re-solves as if
It-were made of-silk

And-I-can see the path
Now draw-ing near

You-light-the way for-me
And-chase a-way all-the-fear

So-when-you doubt your self
Like-I of-ten do

And-see that bro-ken mirror
Star-ing back at-you

Just-take-a look in-side
And-you’ll see me-there

We-share-a love that-is-wild
Made-of myst-i-cal-air

You-are
A won-drous sing-er

In-spired
My-heart will shim-mer

(Thank you for all that you do, Alexander!)

(Posted on his “Broken Mirror,” Hotel Room Session #24 comments)

Climbing pinnacles to success
On my own for my throne

I encamp to reconnect
Sense of home long flown

These heights are so severe
Friends are found if earthbound

My own voice I can hear
When it’s the only sound