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The Sickness Unto Death
07:23
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All the leaves of evil adorn the way to nirvana
Pagans for the reaper;
What yesteryear’s come to pass will set us free
Broke when the seal’s read;
Oh dear God what will be
Do what you please til
All the stars collide to end your sleep
Vigil by the tree at dusk, the leaves have all fallen down
When the dawn is breaking the rooster crows at last
But not for me
Why did you leave us here to die
To cut the cord with no goodbye
The brightness burns
The eyes look to the light
Too late to call out when all the blood came falling on my hands
They’ll burn the children, their ashes will just mingle with the sand
You’d be the apple of my eye just to be there at my side
Pushed off the cliff before we fly
As fire ignites the wasteland, a newborn is heard to cry
I will have the last laugh, you can have the rest
On bended knee
And so you’re sucked into this hole
I’m guessing heaven only knows
The laughter in your suicide
The tugging at your sleeve
Hours by the wall
Held the stare
To burn so bright, a night light
So self aware
When mother calls me, I will sleep at last inside your bed
On every page are images to never leave my head
The sunken angels screaming for now and evermore
A manic ocean tide still elusive at the core
Trailing after the scent, the darkness will manifest
Would take a single droplet to shake this pale unrest
Stand on my feet
Everything is so divine
Look at me I’m right on time
Climbing up an endless vine
Why won’t you sleep at night?
Come now away
Raised in pain
Strung up in hate
Locked out the gate
Harken with fine ears; the midnight sounds and now they’ll empty me
A waste of my years; a moaning lisa on a picture’s sleeve
I couldn’t wait to see inside so I climbed into your heart
Eternally in this divide as it echoes from the start
Don’t let me be buried alive
There’s got to be another way inside
I’m looking out where the blood is shed
And I’m a stranger to all of it
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Hold my eyes
Angel of mine
Hold my light
Let it shine
Old joy, meat cow, burnout, cold ground, lullaby, cavalry, hummingbird, dead sea
Kept in the dark, A ghostly heart
A vile machine of violent green
All is as one under the sun
There’s nothing’s new to do with you
I’d reach out my hand but you’ll just let go
Cause you’re my angel in the snow
You ride into town on a horse of gold
Freezing softly in the cold
Take all control, just skin and bone
A birds eye view, master of the cue
And in the lounge where laughter sounds
You’ll have me alone inside of your home
Say it! “My life is a waiting time",
“A light that will never shine"
Talking in a shadowland
Standing outstretched in the mist
A figment begging to exist
When you find your shell it will be yours to sell
But you know it all so well
The time is grey, you’re in the hay
Out on the ship you take the slip
A rotten device that bleeds from the ice
A beautiful lie you’re rolling a fixed dice
There’s nowhere left to go
I can not feel the words
Just leave them for the birds
I’m living in the 21st century
Whoopee
Lucky me
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3. |
Pesach
04:48
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Can’t end this way, break up the day
It came to stay, we’re in the way
The automatic freefalling static
i’m in the rush; can’t go to sleep
Captain of the ship lets sound the band
I’m reckoned with, I’m in demand
I man the stick, Can’t handle it
I’m on the row body and soul
Laughed at by crows; that’s how it goes
You’ll be deloused; Take off your clothes
A hearse with riders, Drip drunken drivers
Dead children run on naked ground
Mister medallion; no faith so blind
You’re circumspect, out of your mind
You come to kill upon what will
When firing you give no sign
Glory is mine just sign and stay this line in my favorite hole
It’s in the design; i went for the orphans
Smooth operator. A smooth operator!
Guess it could stand to reason
Silence of a small room louder than a ceremony
Everybody has their season
In a little drawer where the will is the testimony
Why hath ye ghost forsaken us?
My will will rot me. why let it stop me
Comer of shadows, one with the gallows
It’s come to this; such is in a kiss
Once formed a question, it made me restless
Was on the front; tip of the tongue
Can’t feel it much; Cold to the touch
And now you’ll see this part of me
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4. |
Amouria
05:17
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Wake in a panic coming out of hibernation
Winter dreams of horrors unknown
As quickly I’m broken my thawed heart has spoken
A long lost stolen song
And still it comes out all wrong
Amouria
Tell me what is in store
Are we all accounted for,
Dealt the true cards of chance?
Foot caught in a snare
Trying to get to the air
If only I could breathe
Into your lungs I would seethe
Amouria
Helpless I only wanted what’s true for me
Helpless I only wanted what’s true for you
Fear and trembling, the weight of this reality
Where will all the children go?
I was shameless, no one is blameless
From this cross we all grow
If I knew I’d let you know
Amouria
When the moment was now
I lost my sense somehow
Did you so much harm
Bent on living this pride hates forgiving
But that was never me
If only you could see
Amouria
Helpless I only wanted what’s true for me
Helpless I only wanted what’s true for you
Fade away, we all fade away.
Real gone - These shores we all fall on.
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5. |
Down in the Water
04:14
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I went down in the water
It caught me up; the flame was gettin' hotter
Run into the wall: it’s all accidental
Awake in a dream - a hospital for the mental
And waiting to break the silence of passion
On the set of the stage to the means of the action
I went down to the wire
It caught me up in a sudden blaze of fire
Your cold red heart I’m begging to feel it
You keep it away and so I’m trying to steal it
Playing with switches and pulling on levers
The freefall of life in the fright and the fever
Don’t wanna stop you up
The many years free from this womb
It’s not for long and you die in a blue moon
Eggshells made for breaking
If all is for forsaking
Thought I might find you here in your empty room
I went down to the wire
I saw the love inside the muck and the mire
Break these vessels and call it virtue
A speckle of dust was never flying to hurt you
A wisp of soul must drag a cold corpse
You break your leg and now you're beating a dead horse
One step to fall from grace
I cannot rectify your wounds
Amalgamation in a dirty silver spoon
The fire of the twilight
Of dying rays of sunlight
While you are stranded on your desolated moon
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6. |
The Suffering
06:11
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I have to separate
There isn’t time to wait
All of the stars will fade to blue
Old dawn has come to fade
There’ll be another day
Wherever it is I’ll be too
Foggy light on the horizon
but I can’t see it through
Out on a stormy shore
You cannot give me more
I wanna know what’s true for you
For you, the love in my possession
A loneliness just grew
So quickly with the whip
Give me the cup to sip
I’ll walk into your point of view
It’s true your love will bury you
I guess that mine will too
Hum nature’s song
Have I heard it all along?
It’s all around here
All around here
And all around it grows
All around here
All around here
And everyone knows
Talk is cheap where’s the money
Don’t you laugh it isn’t funny
Governments just tell you lies
Aliens and circus spies
Take no pity
Have no pity on it
If it’s in your heart, it's in your heart
I’ll take you home when you’re all alone
You’ll breathe into my soul
And for this gift I’d give everything
As empty as I’m whole
And the water turns to blood
Your only friend is on the fire
So let me on the fire
And the trigger happy man fires when he can
It encirles, encircles, encircles you
encircles, encircles, what else you’ll do
Do the chicken dance hop stop get stoned
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7. |
Emblems
05:10
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Wear the flag to cover your rags
File under the tag
Or be part of the plague
Numbers are the know
And you’ll just have to let go
Til there’s no fight for control
Between your mind and your soul
Now we’re against
None of us sit on the fence
You’ll see who started this tribe
All of us joined in a pride
We draw up the laws
Our speakers speak for the cause
We set all new precedents
For all this that we’re against
Everybody’s moving on me
I think I’ll lay here in the moment
The safety of your point of view
Banners so high
That they blot out the sky
We’re so much different inside
And that’s no word of a lie
But how can it be
When anybody can see
They’re always speaking for you
But noone’s speaking for me
Everybody’s moving on me
Yes I’ll stay here in the moment
Safe inside your point of view
Under the torches of this trial that burns for awhile
Don’t waste me
Cause soon I’ll prove myself to you
Got a place on the side
You’re the pig in the middle
We kick you to the ground
And we make you feel little
Know what to know
Look at all of the others
How they know it the best
All of your sisters and brothers
Hey I’m your captain
Radioactive
Positioning the rank
Taking it to the bank
Hey I’m your captain
Radioactive
All that you once were
Is under my control
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Supersonic
04:13
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What is near just can’t be groped
Following an impatient hope
Empty looks and peaceful stares
Everyone cries but nobody cares
It’s supersonic
Now don’t you want it
It’s elemental
It’s existential
And if you got it
Then you can flaunt it
But when you’re speaking in tongues don’t you forget about me
I won’t hold you down
I won’t pull you down
No I won’t
Weariness becomes the chase
Lines are drawn without erase
Tangled up in circumstance
Absence in the way of chance
It's supersonic
Now don't you want it
It's elemental
It's existential
And if you got it
Then you can flaunt it
But when you're speaking in tongues don't you forget about me
I won't hold you down
I won't pull you down
No I won't
Spell of longing draws you out
Silence answers every doubt
Walking for no reason at all
Horizons beckon, forever's call
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Easycomer
02:43
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Your talk is rich you’re a victim on contact
A picture drawn - white innocence of a dove
'Be what you want, so you try just to be that
Now open fire yeah just give me the love
Easycomer come to distill me
Easycomer vying for health
Easycomer why can’t you kill me?
The hardest part is what you do to yourself
It’s not a race but still you’ll take every shortcut
I’m in your way but someone’s gotta be at fault
What does it take to be so conscious of nothing?
To have so much faith in nothing at all
Fight for control and see where it gets you
Cover your tracks and hide under the rug
Make no mistake, there’s not a thing you’ll grow into
Would take so little just to pull out the plug
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10. |
Alien Son
03:29
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There you are inside a dream
Can’t hear even as I scream
And looking very cold, dreamlike and can’t be told
I’m holding just to hold; fossils lost the mold
A monkey in the middle plays a rubber fiddle
Much too far across when I wake up cold
Reaching out to hold, pull you out
My little alien
My little alien son
Winds rushing through my head
Blow on embers; the living dead
Imprint of memory, the only place for me
Cloudy as can be, a mist upon the sea
Forces against stay obtuse, sources of the abuse
A light for other eyes, I feel it there but I know
I got to let you go. Let go
My little alien
My little alien son
Peasant children
Destiny of fools
Don’t you keep them away from their family
Keep them away from their family
When you whispered in my ear
A little angel bigger than the fear
Selected by the hunt and born under the gun
We're in the races run, bastards - every one
Eternally it seems, the setting of the dreams
Where we can play for free - just you and me
Come along and see; hands free
My little alien
My little alien son
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11. |
Hall of Mirrors
04:44
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Don’t stop baby, don’t you ever stop
Up up up, bottom to the top
Nothing here remains, take all that you can take
Enter under cover, leave it in the wake
Visions of war foam from the mouth
Death in the trenches, north eats the south
Skull-faced talkers talking out of turn
Diamonds in the rough just dying to be heard
Justice at the stand where everyone’s a judge
Order in the court wink wink nudge nudge
Kidnap the kiddies, pass around the hat
Sharpen up the fang, learn to chew the fat
Money talks freely, dollars are a will
Silent voice is stupid: tell us what to kill!
Back with the tests. What’re the results?
Clean bill hell, bear no faults
Chorus
Spotlight on, everybody look at me
Show a little something, hide a vacancy
Flex a little muscle, execute the power
All eyes on you - pretty as a flower
Point of the finger: "get down on your knees"
Pointed right back: "I don’t eat that cheese"
Know your own value, forget the rest
Keep it safe in mind; don’t ever take a test
‘Nothing’, so you say, ha ha how ironic
The way you move your lips is practically iconic
Word is the bird and don’t mistake the passion
Cheers to the peers when hatred is in fashion
Fuck fuck baby fuck you too
Kids in the back don’t ever have a clue
Stand up straight, wait for a master
Wait for a number, practice for a camera
Chorus
Figment of the mind behind a false door
There you are behind, pacing round the floor
Duty outside keeping up with the external
Days go by, dying is eternal
Phonically demonic, sonically insane
Thrills of the flesh and tonic for the brain
Groovin' to the beat with all you are on clearance
By the time you’re gone noone knows your disappearance
Loyalty is fun you’re my one true friend
Nothing is forever; blame you in the end
When you’re not looking, what I’ll claim is mine
I, the sole witness, silently divine
Need help now, will it work like it should?
I can’t be good I can’t be good
I just can’t be good I just can’t be good
I swear I really try I swear I really do
Tired and weary, frozen in fear
Everything I do gets reflected in the mirror
But it won’t really help me, noone helps you
Disconnect my head when I’m feeling blue
Everything on time
Everything in line
Wax until it shines
Loneliness is me
Beaten to the knees
Seeking the police
Dust thrown in the wind
Endless till the end
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12. |
Stigmata
04:19
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Come unto the lowliest form
All of you so tattered and torn
What is it to be a human being?
Spoken like a child in his youth
The bearer of a fantasy’s truth
And you laugh a liar’s laugh at the lie
Intoxicated until you die
Welcome to a world within limits
You were born to die in it
Victims of the infinite
Have a suck of the lemons
Taste the flavor within
In a world within limits
At the altar of it’s precedents
Reason never fails to take offence
On the question it cannot start
Smothered in the crux of the heart
Silence is the presence of faith
Never does it say what they say
Darkness at the face of the leap
Keeper of whatever you keep
With dove like wings my bird will sing
The echo within is all that I am
All as it appears shatters in the mirror
So run to the ledge, just drop off the edge
I feel so high I could fly
Never have I felt so alive
Poison my little black eye
Fall down from alien skies
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13. |
Create, Destroy, Create
03:17
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There’s no culture fit for me
I am an orphan’s industry
Of the abyss
The place your eyes always know to miss
Come bring your metal, break me baby
Punch a hole through my wall
Bloody up your knuckles, come and take me
I’m sailin' for the waterfall
It’s not my revolution
My revolution is free
It’s not your revolution
Your revolution is me
Walking the strand
It’s in every grain of sand
And where the river bends
Flows a will that won’t ever end
Charmed, to be sure, so pleased to meet you
What is it you’re waiting for?
Break out the bubbly, noone else to
Pour the gasoline on the floor
It's not my revolution
My revolution is free
It's not your revolution
Your revolution is me
A fire cracks in a cave on a mountainside
Thunderous sound
May their honey never dry
You missed the memo you’re late don’t blame me
The futures already in store
Flood the whole world, see if you faze me
Walk in through an open door
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