All Quotes by Aaron Weiss
“She put on happiness like a loose dress over pain I'll never know.”
“And so it goes, it's the Devil I suppose But it doesn't matter much to me.”
“Put music to our troubles and we'll dance them away.”
“I was once the wine, and you the wineglass. All things left were emptiness.”
“I'm not the boy that I once was, but I'm not the man I'll be.”
“If you look out and see a trace Remember me.”
“As we melt let's make no noise To tell the world our passing joys!”
“Her soul in the balance, my heart in her hands I made her a widow, she made me a man.”
“Tell all the stones we're gonna make a building... Reflecting any kind words, we'll let in all their blame...”
“Why pluck one string when you can strum the guitar?”
“Brother! I am far away from everything good.”
“When I satisfied each need invented by my eyes, Till it was nothing like I'd imagined.”
“You knew better than to pay mind to what people and the devil say.”
“He made the world a grassy road before our bare, wandering feet, Then crushed the stones into the softest sand between our toes...”
“And You dance inside my chest where no one sees You!”
“Oh, rejoice, the Cleansing of my lips... rejoice, Salvation of my soul! And you think I don't mean what I say?”
“I threw the stones down at the reflection of my image in the water And I'm expected to believe that any of this is real?”
“God is Love and Love is real, yet the dead are dancing with the dead”
“Please, catch for us the foxes in the vineyard... the little foxes.”
“So turn your ears, you musicians, to silenceOh, wake up, sleepers, and rise from the dead!”
“I was dead then alive, As scratch around the mouth of the glass, "My life is no longer mine."”
“Even the wind lay still, Tell them it's movement, movement, movement and... repose.”
“I said "water" expecting the Word would satisfy my thirst, When I haven't understood the first.”
“Stealing a bicycle chain as the handlebars crashed to the ground, But aimlessly drifting around.”
“Oh, doubters, let's go down...”
“You strike the match... why not be utterly changed to fire? To sacrifice the shadow and the mist of a brief life you never much liked?”
“Who's ever heard of a singer criticized by his song?”
“On a bus ride into town, I wondered out loud, "Why am I going to town?" I didn't have to wonder why I was laying down.”
“But if I didn't have You as my guide, I'd still wander lost in Sinai.”
“And You surround me, You're pretty but You're all I can see, I would never have laid in this grave of a body for so long.”
“Down by the tracks watching trains go by To remind me: there are places that aren't here.”
“Grape on the vine... why not be crushed to make wine?”
“The Son of the widow When He died again?”
“Caught me making eyes at the other boatman's wives, It takes a steady hand to navigate adulterous waters.”
“I drank a thimble full of fire and I'm not ever coming back.”
“I do not exist, we faithfully insist, Lord, I could never show you anything as beautiful as You.”
“When the dryness and the rain finally drink from one another The gentle cup of mutually surrendered tears!”
“A fish swims through the sea And all the oceans - ink?”
“...as I go showing off again Of that same exact feigned humility!”
“One day the water's gonna wash it away And on that day, nothing clever to say.”
“You made this world to look so nice I wonder what the next one's like?”
“What new mystery is this?”
“The invisible is seen among the shadows and the mist: But makes no reply!”
“There, strapped like a watch on my wrist Seductively sold and uselessly mine.”
“And all of what little joy in the world Seemed suddenly simple and endlessly mine.”
“Daniel broke the king's decree, I hope that there's such hope for me.”
“Blind as I'd become, I used to wonder where You are- These days I can't find where You're not!”
“The sun and the moon, I want to see both worlds as One!”
“The sun and moon are my Father's eyes.”
“Open wide my door, my Lord, to whatever makes me love You more.”
“The harder the rain, the lower the flowers in the garden bend: Than to continue to pretend that this never ends.”
“The needle's worn the grooves too deep!”
“I wrote a little song for you But what good's a single windchime, hanging quiet all alone?”
“The music our collisions make!”
“Given my tendency to err so on the sentimental side, The mistakes were mine.”
“A speckled bird, humbly inspired, And it made me smile.”
“Now you say you wanna be set free? A union with the One who never dies.”
“In darkness a light shines on you and on me.”
“What in her do I require? The face of gratified desire.”
“The trap I set for you seems to have caught my leg instead!”
“I do not exist, only You exist.”
“You wear a thin disguise, O, Light within my Brother's eyes!”
“The Angel of Death came to David's room, He said, "Friend, it's time to go."”
“But good Angel, don't I get a warning sign Before it's my time to go?”
“But I slew Goliath with the sling and stone, It's not my time to go.”
“The Donkey whispered in His ear: You'll ride someone that looks like me (untriumphantly)."”
“And the snake who'd held the world, a stick, a carrot and string Was crushed beneath the foot of Your not wanting anything.”
“You've got it all turned upside-down. But the One who looks out from your eyes looks through hers and through mine.”
“So may we old-fashionably suggest the Unmarried not undress?”
“You think you're you, but you don't know who you are, you're not you... you're Everyone Else.”
“As the Moon rose and the hour grew late, "Calling all volunteers who can carry back here, the Great Mystery's been lit once again."”
“In everywhere we look, Allah, Allah, Allah, in everyone we meet.”
“What effect is without a cause?”
“Let’s return now to the dust as the dust we are”
“I’m clearly not as handsome or caring as what you seem to want, but I’d gladly walk you home,‘cause those streets can be dangerous”
“Let's give up 'sacrifice' next Lent" Eh, that joke's long since been spent!"”
“We've both been untrue but i'm still counting on you like an invisible rosary”
“I often wonder if I've already died,Or if the 'I' is an unintelligible lie”
“Megalomania’s only mania if you’re wrong”
“Lord, for sixty-so years I've surrendered my love,and the rabble rang.”