Stranded Verse:
He Was All Alone Or SO He THOUGHT/ An Entire World BELOW His SKULL/ MILLENNIA// Ago PANGAEA// Began To FLOAT APART/ But Despite That DISTANCE// Those He Now KNOWS ABROAD/ Are There WITH HIM// Even THOUGH They're NOT/ The Bond That Music Forms SPANS INFINITY/ TRANSCENDS PROXIMITY/ He's By Himself, But Not Alone; Paradoxic CHEMISTRY/ Brotherhood Merges Germany, Canada And In Between; They Share Common INTERESTS/ People Who Constitute His SIBLINGS/ They Give Him Reasons To Want To Leave The Solitude He LIVES WITH/ Much Like A Star He Roams Planes Largely UNOCCUPIED/ But Just As Far// As Those STARS// Are NOT COMBINED/ He Takes A Step Back And Counts The Stars ACROSS The SKY/ There Are Many, But When You FOCUS/ MICROSCOPIC/ The Rest LIE// OUTSIDE// The OUTLINE// Of What You Decided To NOTICE/ He LEARNS His LESSON/ For Humble INCURS ACCEPTANCE/ While PRIDE// Can BLIND// The Stubborn And BLUR The MESSAGE/ That's Not To Say That Such Mistakes Would Not RECUR They're EXPECTED/ He's Always BEEN ALONE/ So Despite His New Family Spread Across This SPINNING GLOBE/ A Certain Degree Of Isolation Is STILL HIS HOME/
SG Verse:
A Lone Wolf Who ABANDONED The PACK/ He Went In, Head First Without A PLAN Of ATTACK/ He Had MANAGED To STACK/ About A GRAND In A SACK/ Buried Deep In Some SAND In A BURLAP/ Behind The Abandoned Building Where The LAND Had COLLAPSED/ It Was The DAY/ He RAN AWAY/ Unsure Of Where He Would HAVE To STAY/ But THAT'S The BREAKS/ He Didn't Believe In The Words He'd HAVE TO SAY/ "I'M SORRY"// Would Have Been End Of STORY// The Weather Added To This SAD DISPLAY/ Never Again Would He Ever Look His DAD In His FACE/ He Was Quick Witted, But He Had An Even FASTER MOUTH/ So-Called Friends BECAME// ESTRANGED// When He ASKED To CRASH The COUCH/ "You're A Useless BASTARD NOW"/ Someone They Would LAUGH ABOUT/ It Got To The Point Where It Was Well PAST A DOUBT/ That All Of His Luck, At LAST, RAN OUT/ His Funds EVAPORATED LIKE WATER/ He Took Refuge At The Condemned Building, Sleeping In A DILAPIDATED CORNER/ Burning Junk Kept Him CAPTIVATED And WARMER/ Years Passed By As He Began PAN HANDLING/ But The SADDEST THING/ Was The Reflection Of His FACE// In The Loose CHANGE// His DAD Just HANDED HIM/