I. Nowhere but Everywhere The rent is too high For my SSI And me I can see The housing unfair Here as anywhere My reality Neither here nor there But to wander free Between I suppose To go how it goes With nowhere to be Now but everywhere II. Who Matters Now Have you ever had the suspicion Some venerated tradition Or other apple pie for mother Some romp of the pomp of circumstance Has degenerated into nonsense finally Whatever it meant before after all? I have though I am so poor and small That no one who matters can see Me but you see it matters to the One who never mattered ever mindful of his chance Down here I never mind about up there anymore What was or what some clever someone does Though they have won their battle because they have lost their war Nor can they see forever for the Lance Forsaken I will not forsake though broken still not break Shaken I will give a shake to those who only take And wounds still fresh from where their pound of flesh was taken Are mindful of who matters now and who is mistaken III. Home Alone Given enough marijuana and Merlot I get by and can be happy even though Evicted unconvicted unrestricted To a place that does not want me anymore Wherever I live whatever I live for Is more than where for anywhere can be there Whenever I find it then I will be where Home is I suppose or home as I can be One who knows the only home I know is me My home from which I cannot be evicted I find in my mind in my own head instead Of what I cannot own but am home alone I get by and can be happy even so Given enough marijuana and Merlot IV. Everything Ends I stopped feeding the ravens when I got evicted but They are still out there and we are still friends They know in their bones of the skull beneath the skin and what I do too the hard way now how everything ends +Steven Curtis Lance Copyright MMXII