The song from which that batch was hacked and paraphrased - Oceans - has such good lyrics that it was easy to find good haikus in and between the lines. Turning Oceans into that batch of haikus has given me a deeper and hopefully better understanding of that song. Even though I have probably listened to Oceans hundreds of times before, I don't think that I paid any attention to what it was really about until I started reshaping it into a haiku.
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All that's sacred comes from youth
Believing in truth
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Got nothing to do
Scream and cry out for some more
Who is that call for
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Shouting out for Who
Can't say it belongs to you
Wasn't meant for you
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There's a common rule
You can't say you hate something
And then do it too
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Storm the room to find
Nothing but a big fuck you
All there is for you
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Table's set for two
Not for a crowd or a few
There's no place for you
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A dedication
It becomes naively true
When it's Not For You
Just need and want someone there
Helps keep my mind clear
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It gets so absurd
Static shoots through the atttic
Angels can be heard
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Not trying No Way
I can't make a difference
At least not today
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Called in my angel
To see what she had to say
There still is No Way
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No Way attitudes
Ocean of my platitudes
Water's dark and gray
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Stopped and I won't try
Called an angel asked her why
Alone where I lie
He's got wings look at him now
Has so much to give
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Wants us to know why
Strange spots are seen in the sky
It's him up on high
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Delivered his wings
Now he can unlock the chains
Imprisoning things
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Floats down to us here
Stabbed by small men who don't care
He still wants to share
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When he's seen up there
It's not for him to ask why
He's Given To Fly
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Love that is received
While it is given away
It still can be saved
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After he is gone
People will look to the sky
Where he once would fly
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We all live and die
Some will be Given To Fly
Nobody knows why
Thoughts are too big for his size
He's off on his ride
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He hasn't been back
See his picture on the wrack
Moving past too fast
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He's home and laughing
Catching up on the flipside
On break from his ride
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The strain creeps right in
He's surrounded by bullshit
Off He Goes again
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He's the same old friend
Don't know where the trip takes him
Lets nobody in
To want to say I need you
Just want you to breathe
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I Just Breathe and see
My wanting and needing you
Makes a fool of me
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I just need to breathe
Free of all my wants and needs
A fool just for me
I've still got my inner sense
Glimpse my innocence
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Up so high I shake
I can touch the sky I scrape
Golden boughs won't break
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Hear what the leaves said
Newspaper crowbar can't go
Upside of my head
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Up here in my nest
Takes one breath to fill my chest
I can get some rest
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In My Tree I see
Sidewalk trashscape down below
Nothing there to know
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In My Tree I see
Friends that have forgotten me
No one there to know
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At home in blue sky
Way up in the air on high
So light in my nest
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Knowlege In My Tree
It's been growing up with me
It will set me free
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In My Tree a nest
Only place where I can rest
Sleeping innocence
Railing at the presidents
And at their servants
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Nursed him for a night
She made contact with the fight
An aid in his flight
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Helped him hide away
Not so sure that he should stay
Not sure what to say
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Wanted him to stay
Forked him over to the state
Now he's far away
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She glides on today
When she couldn't hold she'd fold
Just gave him away
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Folding's not an art
Sowed the seeds of her dissent
Within her own heart
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Turned herself around
At home she's so far away
It's all just a waste
If you don't know that by now
Then I've been a fool
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Just Breathe and you'll know
How much that I still need you
And how I want you
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I'll always want you
Won't be a day without me
There to let you know
Saving up a sunny day
Nothing to believe
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Nothing like a poem
Whisper through a magaphone
A voice all alone
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Little that he needs
There is little that he sees
Nothing As It Seems
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Don't need methadone
Occupation's overthrown
Bittersweet it's home
What an excellent line!
I agree, that is a good batch.
Burn away and shed the mask
Let the spirit pass
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Lives opened and trashed
Holding on it's dying fast
It's the Last Exit
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For better or worse
Won't even know what's been left
Swearing under breath
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Four days is not long
While the ocean forgets it
During Last Exit
You've gone wherever we go
Stars are made of stones
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Now you've disappeared
Only your light can be here
Can't take that away
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Can't save up on life
Got to spend it while it's there
Space grows between us
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Wasted days alone
Separated by Light Years
You shine on my stone
An ocean filled with crying
Knows what will be mine
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Feeling left behind
Sorrow grows when it's denied
Then it becomes mine
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Fools will stand in line
Faith and hope won't buy more time
Only own my mind
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I know that I'll die
Life leaves as each breath goes by
All that's left is mine
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Meaning left behind
Only know that I Am Mine
That is my own mind
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Feelings left behind
Only I can know my mind
And all that is mine
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The significance
It differs behind the eyes
Where there are no lies
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Lost behind the eyes
Innocents broken with lies
There's no need to hide
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Innocents broken
Lost one time between the lines
Nowhere left to hide
look forward to more
Walked the line with you that night
Wish it was real life
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I've got memories
An empty cup lost at sea
What life's got on me
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Lie alone and wait
Empty shell's easy to crack
Questions I can't ask
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Fight back in my mind
I Got Shit you'll never know
So much it don't show
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Love is just a dream
I Got Id that's not ego
Nothing real to show
Sent here for you to transcend
That's not Who You Are
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What you think and feel
Even if it isn't real
That is Who You Are
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You are Who You Are
Change leaves a mark on your soul
Won't change Who You Are
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Each piece has a part
Be Who You Are make your mark
Almost time to leave
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Winds of circumstance
Happenstance drives off the track
Words won't get you back
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Need not condescend
Don't bow before fucked up men
That you can't defend
No one knows this more than me
I come clean and new
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Gonna See My Friend
I'm thick and have too much thin
Make it go away
Loses sight of his savior
Devil's his jailer
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Tremors turned to quake
Smallest oceans still get waves
In a drowning wake
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Blame it all on fate
Faith in love and Tremor Christ
Know that it's divine
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Drifting by the storm
It takes time but not a life
Time to take the dive
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Devil's words are worst
Angels try to get there first
Wait for signs not lies
Can never be taken back
Nothing in the past
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She once believed him
Inside their shared prison cell
Nothing in the well
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Looking for something
Flies away into the sun
Doesn't mean nothing
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One day she stiffened
Over to the other side
Empty stares still lied
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He forgets something
Now destined to remember
But it was nothing
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He walks on his own
Thinks thoughts he can't help thinking
Nothing man's sinking
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Cursed the day that's slow
He caught a bolt of lightning
Had to let it go
how can i quit to be there?
can you see me now.
Things were so different then
This was way back when
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No one's safe from harm
It's a tattered coat of arms
Left here by the past
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The rise and the fall
Never know just what they saw
Thought they saw it all
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Paint you a picture
Shaded and shrouded in gray
Fire from yesterday
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It's hard to explain
There must be a way somehow
It's different now
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Forget tradition
It's so Hard To Imagine
Won't happen again
Dream about getting along
Awake dreaming on
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A punch to the head
Smile big with a toothless grin
My break's kicking in
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Supersonic gone
Truth be told it took my soul
Still won't let it go
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Supersonic goes
Leaves rhythm but clocks run slow
Don't need it I know
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Nothing I've been told
Cut to the crease I'm the fold
Put the shit in whole
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Gotta feel it now
Living life with volume loud
Need to hear the sound
Still have time right now I'm here
But not much longer
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Don't have much to fear
I'm still here the end is near
Then I'll disappear
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If you stay with me
I'll know I'm a lucky man
Then we can just breathe
Half his life wasted away
Needs love of a girl
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Drilled the pain alone
Money buys a getaway
Not love of a girl
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Fills his night with thoughts
All about and Of The Girl
Chose a heavy path
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Deals them off the top
Before he's carried away
Half life hand me downed
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Won't say he's empty
Fills his life up with the thoughts
Of love Of The Girl
Waves crash then go on their way
Others walked away
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The Man Of The Hour
He's taking his final bow
His goodbye for now
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The young men pretend
Where the old men comprehend
Gospel of the land
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The whole town came down
He's taking his final bow
It's goodbye for now
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Roads he paved for me
Broken seams and rusted signs
Shows love his own way
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The curtain comes down
The man takes his final bow
Goodbye just for now
Never imagined being
Moved by Sleight Of Hand
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Drifting on the side
As if moved by Sleight Of Hand
While dirt turned to sand
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No time waves goodbye
More time to dream to himself
On the other side
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Can't recall the plan
Wandering just like a man
Moved by Sleight Of Hand
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When he reached the shore
No new realizations
In his clip-on world
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A lost road he knew
Like a book read in his sleep
Endlessly by heart
The days pass where do they go
Spend time while you can
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Resign just let go
Realize there's no control
Just let God's Dice roll
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There's no place to go
Rusted minds will never know
Try to walk away
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Pouring too much thought
Down a hole it's overwrought
Will finish us off
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Nothing in the cards
It's driving your sanity
Not your destiny
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When will God's Dice roll
This monkey minded living
Is taking its toll
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It's out of your hands
You stumble as it crumbles
Just beyond your grasp
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God's Dice designing
Your life and will are riding
On your resigning
Nothing in your bank for me
I'm disbeleiving
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An unasked question
Long Gone in a tail light fade
Answer's far away
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This place brings me down
I will be what I could be
Away from this town
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Leave this all behind
Long Gone letting go of all
Won't look back this time
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This has no feeling
Nothing is everything
Then I'll have it all