I'm gonna start a Friendship Revolution
A new Declaration and Constitution
Ain't gonna be no theft or destitution
As a prophecy in my revolution

I've been singing of you
For as long a I knew
That a love that is true
Is like a picture God drew

You hair's waving in the air
And I ain't got a care
Coz I see you over there
You're my everywhere

And it's a Friendship Revolution
Eternal love the only final solution
Everlasting end to retribution
In my friendly song of revolution

Would you read a book I wrote
Full of musical note
No need to stay afloat
This castle ain't got a moat

This is a Friendship Revolution
Mixing random words causes convolution
This cause ain't subject to dilution
Confusion can't kill this revolution

It's a revolution
One that you can't shun
No peace can be won
Without revolution

​Copyright (c) 2016 Joshua Ransom Packard

We're at an impasse
Life itself is on the line
Failing the eternal class
Opposing the divine mind

We've got weapons of war
Aimed at each others' heads
Killing's what they're for
Pulling triggers til we're all dead

Assymetric warfare
Doesn't seem like God cares
We claim Him each on our side
We run but can't hide

Dear God!
Hear my cry
Help us love each other
Before we all die
Dear God!
Set us straight
Before we all explode
In the shrapnel of hate

Pour Your love into us
Our souls as vessels of grace
To love is what we must
If we ever want to see Your Face

It's an atomic Armageddon
Mutually assured destruction
We're getting pulled into the maelstrom
Infinite gravitational suction

Bombs and terror
We're all in error
Eternal acts of vengeance
Everyone shooting
Terror recruiting
Violent plunge in a death dance

Dear God!
Don't forsake us
Help us love each other
Before Hell breaks us

Dear God!
Shine down your light
Show us how to love
Before might makes right

​Copyright (c) 2016 Joshua Ransom Packard

Write a song a day
For what is temporal won't stay
Ideas of eternity
Write a song a day for me

Don't give up
And don't ever
Let go of Life!

​Copyright (c) 2016 Joshua Ransom Packard

I want you
To have all you need
I want you
To thrive and succeed
I want you
To live out your dreams
To live, to love
To burst at the seams

I don't have much
To give someone like you
I lost a crutch
And wore out all my shoes
I felt so stuck
Felt so far away
But now I'm back
And I'm here to stay

I'm givin' all I have
Givin' all I am

I'm givin' all of me to you
To no one but you
I'm givin' all of me to you
The only life I know is true

Feel like you deserve better
But what else can I do
I don't deserve you
But what else can I do

Givin' all of me to you
All I have, all I am
Givin' to you through and through
All I will, all I can

​Copyright (c) 2016 Joshua Ransom Packard

I wanna talk with you today
About things I never say
Can I gather up all the nerve
Of straight paths I always curve?

I wanna write you a love story
Heroic virtue, eternal glory
Where two souls meet bright and true
Starring roles played by me and you

It's a story of crossed pathways
Present, future, and all past days
Closing in on some convergence
Volcano erupts love's emergence

It's a miracle
Irrefutable
I want to write you a love story
A crystal ball through which I foresee

Don't let it die
Before it's allive
What I don't say
To you from me
I wanna write you a love story

​Copyright (c) 2016 Joshua Ransom Packard

I drove over the side of a bridge
Landed in a quicksand ditch
Don't know whether I'm poor or rich
...Or which is which

Couldn't handle my loss of fame
A dozen years been outta the game
Lost everything, got nuthin but shame
...and no one else to blame

But me...
No one else to blame but me
Locked the door, and tossed the key
I was a bastard in the third degree
With no one else to blame but me

Thought that I had found the cure
Got tricked with bait and switch as lure
Dragged my soul through miles of sewer
...Til I found who you were

My mind was scourged and maimed
Til God Himself from on high came
Reminded me of my true name
...and took away the pain

From me
I had no one else to blame but me
But through me Christ could always see
I was slave to sin and misery
And only He could set me free
...Set me free

​Copyright (c) 2016 Joshua Ransom Packard

​Taking aim at a full time victory
In the name of full rhyme literacy
Storing coffers of words wonderful
Like diet vegetables alphabetical

Quirks grammatical and parenthetical
Purely suitable, sublime and beautiful
Education fruitful to beyond what's usable

Vocalizing vibrations and sweet salutations
More than mere information squeezed through dense inebriation
Delightful and dialectical
Tested, tried, and true subliminal
Intentional, conscious and un-criminal
Maximum value of the minimal

Vocabulary strained and flexing
As some Wiccan form of hexing
Green, and red and yellow directing
Like the parallel intersecting
Bite the apple to the core
Crush the juice into  some more
Dancing flavors back in store
Let it discover what it's for

Copyright (c) Joshua Packard 2015

She's right in front of me
She wraps around behind
Her bright eyes lined in my dark shadow
The soul opaque reflections of my mind


Tho' lonely for air grazed skin
To rub against her soft cheek
Her starry gaze marked in vectors
Paints the map to what I seek


With Raven locks about her hair


Her smile has always stirred the air


I have felt her presence everywhere


But like a ghost, she was not there


She's skilled with a sword
Yet makes peace out of chaos
She is but one with the sun
As dark arise he turns the day off


And Her flowing wavy locks
She waves like the ocean
Yes, she reflects the sun's
Flickering light in motion


Her gentle touch given with care


Her smile stirring the air


Her intentions always fair


O! My Lord, has Created her somewhere!

Copyright (c) 2003-2016 Joshua Ransom Packard

Gone not yet from memory
Still it's become putrid
I've wrapped up that path
Mirrors came hard to see
No one's sharing eyes with me
I try to pass out shards but just draw blood


I can easily say lines that rhyme (Art is easy)
Much harder to make even the cleverest lines contain
Even after maintain inside them what only behind is true
If anything being relative in the mind
The know that I see and the feel that I breathe
Crawling inside me, has it learned to relate to you


Your language don't fit with me
It wouldn't with you


Pass it on
Pass it on
Skip a generation
Simple minority
strong hands
In a world of feet
Make it by
It's disappointing enough to cry
The baby can't say
but knows why
No one writes this song before I die
I didn't write this song and it's died

Copyright (c) 2003-2016 Joshua Ransom Packard

I'm the musician who hates music
I'm this writer who hates words
Optimist who hates opportunity
The friend who hates you
This seeker who hates truth
Activist who hates action
Pleasure seeker who hates satisfaction




Doctor...hates health
...sneak/spy/dastard hates stealth
Minister who hates the scripture
Canvas painter who hates the picture [not big picture, but little used for small that is clear]
The dock watcher who hates shore
Measure the edge, it's always more
Doctor who hates immunity
Carry you higher with impugnity


Gatemaster who hates the key
The existance that hates the 'be'
I'm this user who hates drug
I'm the lover who hates love
Worker who hates to earn
All near I've hate to yearn
Motivator who hates to inspire
Sleeper who hates to tire
This one who shows who hates what you see
Illustrator who hates the portrayal that is not me
Servant who hates the service
Hate this structure, the method worthless
Hate what here was good, now is tart
On distance from start are apart
This is not beating hateful heart

Copyright (c) 2003-2016 Joshua Ransom Packard