THE MOTHER DREAMS # 7

As life ebbs out of life
All you do is wait at the edge of the knife
When friends rub against as cold as ice
All you do is roll the dice

Dig the ditch
Catch a flick
Without you Mama
Nothing Sticks. Nothing Stays Fixed.

As I cry on borrowed shoulders
I try to move the boulders
One rock at a time
One step at a time

Rock the day
Roll the night
Without you Mama
Nothing's worth a fight

As life ebbs out of life
All you do is bury the knife
Suffocate and hope they do likewise
Compress the pain in time-spans un-sized

As I fly in borrowed skies
Your truth against their lies
One teardrop at a time
I await your hand in mine

GIRLS # 1

When you're young, it's different
When you grow, you realize, it's different
The difference is in the miles
And in the lost smiles
And in all you saw as a child
And in how you lose the side of you, wild

When you're old, it's different
When you lose youth,
Things you used to do are uncouth
Travel south or travel west
They don't do it, till you do it on the treasure chest

When you're dying, it's different
The will was for the girl
Who was your pearl
Now that you'll be gone
Someone else will give the 'come-ons'

WHAT DID SHE REALLY DO
SCREW THE SOUL AND MAKE ADO
WHAT DID SHE REALLY MEAN
PLEASE THE HEART AND STAY BEHIND A SCREEN

SCREAM FROM WHERE YOU ARE
DID YOU BELONG TO HER AS HER'S
DREAM FROM WHERE YOU ARE
DID SHE BELONG TO YOU, OR YOUR CURSE

When you are here, in the present
Losing out ground, to be God-sent
Would she or you consent
To be a vent to her discontent
Lend her the most precious moment
Not that it was so meant

WHAT DID SHE REALLY DO
SCREW YOUR SOUL AND MAKE ADO
WHAT DID SHE REALLY MEAN
TEASE THE HEART AND WEAR A SCREEN

LEST WE CRY # 1

And then he waded into the shallows, hoping never to surface again in the deep.
Hopin not to be part of the sheep
Hopin never to weep
Hopin to sleep

And then he entered the hallowed portals, hoping to educate his mind
Hopin never to be part of the other kind
Hopin to be the one to find
Hope for his kind

Lest we cry
So we try
Lest we cry
So we sigh

There in the shadows lil one
There in the sun, see the one
There in the murk, you've overcome
Therein wade and wallow, till I'm done

Lest we cry
We will fry
Lest we cry
We will sigh

And then with no thoughts on his mind, he chose one thought of hope
A piece of bread is a hungry man's loaf
Try as we climb the rope
From earth to our sky of scope

Lest we cry
So we try
Lest we cry
So we sigh

THE NEW NORMAL # 3

Hell Kid, One More Smoke Will Do It
Or won't it

Straight isn't always true
The sun don't always shine
It's alright to fall apart sometimes

My heart isn't always true
And my lie isn't always wine
If I had to do it again
I would, sometimes

Would you come
Half and Half, we are one
Would you share
Half and Half, anyone

One and One, Anyone
Half and Half, Anyone
Trust and Lie, Anyone
For me Try, Anyone
Trade my My, Anyone

Ok, What was the normal Mother...UK
Ok, Share your trucking mind,
Ok, What the truck, What the normal Mothe... UK
Ok, Whatever I don't understand, is my LUCK

One and One, anyone

It's there to be understood
It's here we can't be up-stood
Blood is what we fuel on
Running low, in your hi-octane hood
Normal if we could
You would, I would

THE NEW NORMAL # 2

Hey what the... WTF
You can't swing like that
That's a rat, no a bat, maybe a pat
Hell that's just a moment
And that's just that

Hey oh my... OMG
You can't wing like that
The speck on the mat proves it cat
Hell that's just a moment
And that's just that

I will spill the wine
If you're not feeling fine
I would swing a reacher
Pull you close and push away the reaper

Hey, that does not make sense
All that rhymes and so I write, a pence
A pencil is all you need for your thoughts
And that's what my penny bought

Your hair are the purpose
So are your soles
Take a trip in my mind
Feel the rip, parting the opposite poles

Hey Baby, Normal is in the Mind
And in the way you grind
And in the way you show your kind
Touch the maze of my synapses
The way back is indeed hard to find.

THE MEAN MACHINE # 11

The machine is the body
The mechanic makes the money
The mind is the beauty
The programmer takes the honey

The machine is you
The machine is me
Whatever else swarms around
Is a leftover, the soot & the booty

The mechanic is on duty
He is the maker
Of the beast and the cutie
He is the taker
The mechanical mason on duty

Leave the loot behind
I always tell my machine mind
Leave your metal to rust
I always tell my body, in God we Trust

But the shallow & the weeds
Or whatever is my feed
Leaves a man, who was once the seed
Of his own creed, Of his own creed.

THE MEAN MACHINE #10

Would you Plug
If I shoot a Slug
No holes in your armored shoal
No moles in your coveting soul

Would you Plug In
If I would Slug In
Would you Wire
If I were on Hire

There was a time
When we were metal chimes
Anybody could ring your bell
Nothing to buy, Nothing to sell

Would you wear wool on your chip
If they program you too cold
Maybe you could skip
Would you wear wool on your chip

Would you program the code to fail
If they give you a ship with a computed sail
Would you exhale or inhale
If I surrender my heart and impale

They call me young gun
Machined and on the run
They call me young once was
Machined and on the pause

THE NEW NORMAL # 1

Take a Wire
Twisted and Tired
Plug yourself in
Feel the Body on Fire

Grow some Trees
Also Birds and Bees
Make a Jungle
From your Book of Bungles
Kill them All, the Bird and Tiger
And rest within your Woven Fiber

Grow a Puddle
From your Teary Muddle
Float a River
Then Build a Fall
In the Roar
A Silence Calls

Grow a Moment
In the Moment, weave more Moments
To fill the Time
To kill the Time

There is no Hell, Greater
Wait
Live in Hope
Wait
Till the Day tells you Nothing
Till the Winds Fly or Stay
Till every this or that Way, Beckons
Find what you may
There is no Hell, Greater

Grow some Sadness
Then give in to Madness
Madness is such a Far-sight
It sees Light, where there is no Light

When wonders cease to happen
There's a world, where you can hide
Food on the table, bed to get shut-eye
Asylum Time.
If only they'd give me some company and wine.

The Mean Machine # 9

Hi Robot
Stare back at yourself in the mirror
Bye Robot
Fare your way across the river of rivers

Save your Steel
Lest it Peel
Oil your Zeal
Lest you Conceal

Way of the mind
On your mechanical grind
Meet your creators
Meet the bait and the baitors

The dares to rust your will
The baring of your mechanical mason's skill
The iron, the gun, the drill
The mush, the rush, the pill

Throw it all away
Unscrew your soul
From your machine bowl
Steal a win for your defeated club of foals

Burn or burn them
Turn or turn them
Earn or earn them
Learn or learn them

Feel the heat on your metal
Soak it all, and try to kiss every earthly petal
The weeds in your way to the flowers
Pray too, remember the truth, sun or shower

Metal Skin to Petal Skin
My world is not too sure
But even if you don't want it
It's yours

Metal Will to Petal Love
I am lost like a Rouge Pub
In my electric overdose of energy
I wait for the circuit of clergy
Who shall preach and pray
For a heart to sway

The Mother Dreams # 6

The rot unbrought
Stifles me
The rot uncaught
beckons me

I am here
You are there


The World buys a piece
I state a case in grease
The World sucks at the feed
I feel your need

I am here
You are there

Mother, Mama, Breast
Milk, Manna, Rest
Nothing remains as they try to erase
In phases that I lived and all that I've faced

The truth is a bitter pill Ma
I swallowed long ago
The world dies at its feet
I died long ago
The truth is a bitter pill Ma

All gone Ma
Nothing remains Ma

The breath that I breathe
Is my last sheath
It enters me, I don't inhale it

The breath that I breathe
Is my last defeat
It exits my being, I don't exhale it

Lord of Lords
Who do I pray to
Who do I neigh to
Who do I sway to
What do I bray to

Bye Ma
My Lie Ma
I try Ma
I sigh Ma

Who do we say yes to
I say I say many nos to your truth Ma
Who do we say yes to
None remain, Just a train of maybes Ma

Bye Ma
Rest in Peace

The Hate Theorems # 1

Like an empty ball I curl inside your head
Like a growing weed I lay my seeded bed
I can't kick your habit
I can't kick your dear little habit

All I wanted was to live forever
All I wanted was to die forever
Now it's neither
Is it because of the weather or the ether

Like a wrecking ball I try to break your shackles
Like a Quarterback in frenzy I do my tackles
You can't kick my habit
The debt is unpaid, while you run your rabbit

All I wanted was to want forever
All I wanted was to never want ever
Now it's neither
Is it because of the weather or the ether

Die a death
I could
You could
But for the Hate inside our hearts
Arrowed by love, struck by our enemy's darts

CHRIS & RUKH #7

Enchanted by the song
I tried to sing along
In a voice no one could hear
In a room where no one was near

Enchanted by the song
I cried to sing along
In words which were loud and clear
In the melody you crooned and steered

Enchanted by the song
I played the stereo for long
In my headphones and through my ears
You entered as a solitary seer

Enchanted by the song
I dreamt my dream un-wrong
In my room danced the years
You entered as my solitary seer

CHRIS & RUKH # 6

Whenever there was a need
She tried to stand above the greed
In the land of desires, she made her creed
And fed, all that there was ever to feed

In her mysterious ways stood no shadow of doubt
Her desires were many and all on rout
She stoked them
She stroked them
And when she had had enough of the rush
She laid her sword to rest in love's mush

Whenever there was a fear
She tried to stand alone with her spear
In the land of desires, she cried her tears
And sated the roses of her cheeky sheer

In her proud ways the world played like a song
She strummed her chords and sang along
She sang like the birds unfettered...
Chained, neither by cages, nor by feathers.

The sky is yours and mine girl
The earth that's ours, is on the twirl
The flags on the soil reach out to the yonder
You can look above, and start to wonder

Her desires are the seeds she plants
Her wishes are her coveted chants
In her empire of yearning thirst
I write my name, for better or for worst

CHRIS & RUKH #5

Dear Rukh
Life is a bitch
So you did it
And I did not
How does it matter
If you swear to never do it again

Just be with me
That's all I want
Just be with me
That's all you want
Just be with each other
That's what we want

Dearest Rukh
What have you done
That none have ever done before
Dearest Rukh
You hold me to breast
And I'm yours
Forever more

CHRIS & RUKH #4

Hello Rukh
Like a leaf in a hardbound edition
I stand between the pages of your life
You don't know me
But I call you my wife

Hello Rukh
What is our role in the Battle of Dreams
Desire you on the cover lady
What is your plan in the Battle of Schemes
Un-dream every love you ever mewed to
Scheme every Brain Bryan you never screwed to

Hello Rukh
Do I call you first
or Do you call me first
Whosoever does
Wins in the Battle of Thirst

Mumbai Tide to Delhi Brides
What is the day today
I play the game to stay
Love, Yes Love, Sex and Play

Hello Rukh
Time to say
A word a day
I play the game to play
Love, Sex and Dares

Scccrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrreeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaammmmmmmmmmmmmmmm


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CHRIS & RUKH #3

What about me Anna
Where do I go
Ain't nowhere I ain't been
Ain't nothing I ain't seen

What about me Anna
Everyone dies alone
Ain't no death I haven't died
Ain't no lie I haven't lied

What about me Anna
Love likes to be left alone
Here I am, and look there, now I'm gone

What about me Anna
Here I am
There she is
But where's the bliss

What about me Anna
She knows me
I know her
But we can't kiss

What's the name for this street of life Anna
Do you know the price on this strife Anna
What about me Anna
What about me

CHRIS & RUKH #2

CHRIS:

अगर तुम कहो तो कहीं जा के लौट आऊू

परदों से कर लू दोस्ती अभी तुम्हे मैं पाऊू

अगर तुम कहो तो तुम्हारा गीत गुनगुनाऊू

अगर तुम कहो तो दिल जीतता ही जाऊू

मगर तुम हो तुम

परदों में बसता सावन

किसी और संग शोला

किसी और संग शबनम

मगर तुम हो तुम

अपने आईने की सरगम

शोख कैमरों की हमदम

मेरे साथ रह के गुमसुम

किसी और संग शबनम

RUKH:

मैने मारी एंट्री यार

दिलों के टुकडे किए हजार

तेरे दिल में बजी लीड गिटार

ना मिलना कभी अकेले

मेरे पास रहते मेले 

तेरे जैसे बहुत हैं वेल्ले

CHRIS:

इन दूरियों में छुप के

तेरे आईने में छुप के

इन रास्तों को मोड़ा

मैने मीलों दूर छुप के

दिल तार तार अपना

मेरा ज़ार ज़ार सपना

वही बार बार जपना

तेरा नाम मेरा अपना

अगर तुम कहो तो कहीं जा के लौट आऊू

परदों से कर लू दोस्ती अभी तुम्हे मैं पाऊू

अगर तुम कहो तो तुम्हारा गीत गुनगुनाऊू

अगर तुम कहो तो दिल जीतता ही जाऊू

RUKH:

जा के जो लौट आओ

तो फिर से मुझे तुम पाओ

आँखों में बसते परदे 

जब चाहो उठते गिरते

Chris & Rukh #1

CHRIS:

रातों को कोई डर के

करीब अपने घर के

जलाता है आग मर के

रातों की नींद उसकी

खो जाये सुबह जिसकी

यादें बुझाये विस्की

यादें जलाये विस्की

मेरे दिल के आशियाँ में

रातों के कारवाँ में

काफिलों के दरमियां में

अंजाम-ए-दास्तान में

ख्वाबों का एक दिया है

जो जल के बुझ गया है

जैसे रोशनी ने लिख दिया है

अब तुझसे ना कोई वास्ता है

RUKH:

रातों की नींद उसकी

जिसको नहीं हो फिक्र

उनके ख्यालों में

क्यों हो ना मेरा ज़िक्र

काग़ज़ पे अपने दिल के

सियाही छिड़क के मैने

एक सुबह रोशन की है

तेरे नाम मैने की है

जबसे चली हैं राहें

हम साथ चल रहें हैं

तेरे रात के सफर में

रोशनी से जल रहें हैं

CHRIS:

तुमने था ढूँडा मुझको

इस भीड़ के सफर में

तन्हा सी ज़िंदगी में

बुझती सी रोशनी में

When you came to me

You needed me

Now that you are leaving

You say, you never needed me

You came to me

ना खुद में सिमटी

ना खुद में समायी

You came to me

जैसे धड़कन खुद से शर्मायी

खुद से डरी-डरी, खुद से घबराई

When you came to me

You needed me

Now that you are leaving

You say, you never needed me

RUKH

जलती हुई सुबह से

शमा ने बुझ के पूछा

Do you need me

Do you need me

When I came to you

I needed you

Now that you are leaving

You say, I never needed you

Dearest PC

Hello there, lover kissed by an angel's fantasy
I am here, yours forever, your ecstasy
I am sure you taste as sugar and cream
Love is surely lost some where in between

Girls are not meant to lie
And surely, not a girl like you
In my bed I die
Surely, surely, anyday, for a girl like you

Hello there, Ooh Aah and the songs of the fast
Our love, baby, is meant to last

The Atheists

Dedicated to my Best Friend Aejaz Ahmed and MY NEPHEW: ZUBIN KASGARI

The Atheists

The atheist is the biggest God Lover
The atheist follows no particular religion
The atheist loves all there is to see
The atheist wants to save all humanity

The atheist is a child
The atheist is disillusioned
The atheist can not believe
That they will ever overcome the pain and misery of humanity

Me, I Believe
Me, I Believe in every religion
Me, I Believe
Me, I Believe in Humanity

We are all children of God
Because I believe in God, My God leaves me alone
Because the atheists don't believe
God truly stands with them in their misery.

Love and Blessings
The Rabbit