Poetry Of The Deed
Turner Frank Lyrics

They're coming out of the walls,
Some invisible force is making things come alive.

They're coming up through the streets,
The same invisible force has taken over the city streets.

They're quicksilver wracked by some invisible beat.
Whatever is happening is happening fast and in tune with an unseen rhythm.

Right outside of your door the very stones come alive.
The force of life that’s happening is right there at your doorstep.

They are the spring in the step, the distant look in the eyes.
The people experiencing this force of life are characterized by their spirit and their detachment.

Put your Baudelaire away and come outside and play.
Abandon your boring books, come outside and engage in life with us.

Me and all my friends are poets of the deed,
We're more interested in action than in mere words.

We're exactly what this country needs.
We are what's missing from this society.

We scratch until we're drunk, we drink until we bleed.
We work hard to the point of exhaustion and then we play even harder.

We are what we believe.
We truly are what we believe in.

Pentameter in attack, iambic pulse in the veins,
We're using poetry concepts to convey our philosophy.

Free verse powered of the street light mains,
Our creativity is our fuel and it comes from everywhere.

An Iliad played out without a shadow of doubt
We're not questioning or debating our actions, we're living life to the fullest.

Between the end of the club and the sun coming out.
We party hard but we also know when it's time to stop.

Leave Kerouac at his desk, we have romance in our risks.
We don't need literature to inspire us, we live it everyday.

And here's what we believe,
This is our philosophy on life.

Before we get bored, let's be inspired,
Let's take any moment of boredom and flip it around.

Let's ignore the applause and set the theater on fire,
We're not looking for approval, we're looking to make an impact.

Fight every war like the drunks in the choir,
We're ready to fight for what we believe in even if we look ridiculous while we do it.

Put our art where our mouths are: Poetry of the deed.
We're not just saying things, we put it all into action.

So enough with words and technical theses,
We're tired of intellectualizing everything, let's experience it.

Let's grab life by the throat and live it to pieces.
We're taking control of our lives and we're not afraid of living it to the fullest.

We can choose, we can change,
We're in charge of our own lives and we can make changes.

And if we don't, we're just afraid of living life
If we don't make changes, it's because we're afraid to face life head on.

Like we're loved and in love and alive
We're living every moment like it's our last with passion and positivity.

To all the things we could be if we just believed
If we truly believed in ourselves, we could accomplish anything.

That life is too short to be lived without poetry.
Life is too short to be boring and uneventful, we should live it as if it were poetry.

If you've got soul darling now come on and show it me.
If you have the energy, come and join us in making an impact.

But life is too long to just sing the one song,
We're not just living one repetitive life, we're constantly changing and growing.

So we'll burn like a beacon and then we'll be gone.
We are leaving our mark on the world before we inevitably leave it.