Spine Filmography

• Graffiti Verité (1995)

• They Might Be Giants
• Tiamat
• Machine Head
• Page France
• Mortal Love
• Android Lust
• Amenta
• Chatterbox
• Time Will Tell

I've been dragging my feet across my back
And I've been rubbing my head against my neck
And I've been walking my fingers through my mind
And I've been feeling this feeling in my spine

It can't get any colder, no sun left, no light
It makes me even stronger, boosts my will to fight
So much undone
Let's get it on
No moral tells me so, there is no wrong no right
It's all that I do
It's all that I say
It's all that I live for
It's my only way
There's no point in waiting when there is no where or when
Blow it all to pieces and then build it up again
It's understood
So far so good
Start it all over and I'll see you there my friend

Bitterness infested,
justice is molested
Govern my contested ways
As a child arrested,
as a man detested
Happiness inside my pain
You hate my life
Because you see my strife
Could never understand or try
It makes me mad
Because it makes me sad
But I don't care why
You fake it, mistake it
Fuck it away
Your lying is trying
My dignity
I see right through your soul
Can't help but feel this cold
But this city made me so
Life filled with deception,
unwanted inception
Want redemption for it all
All my life
frustrated, pushed, alienated
Wait for me to take a fall
My faith has waned
Because I feel the strain
In my eyes it's all gone wrong
We'll rise above
From this lack of love
It won't be long now
You fake it, mistake it
Fuck it away
Your lying is trying
My dignity
I see right through your soul
Can't help but feel this cold
But this city made me so
Lead: Logan
I'm not the only one
Can't be the only one
No

You were my beliefs all rusting over
And I was the support within your spine
We noticed that the stars were all exploding
So we stared into the sky till we were blind
Then cut off both our arms and reached for nothing
And rewound the frames that twisted in our minds
And we watched their separate lives in backwards motion
So we ended up connected at the sides
And I wondered if the sky was just a ceiling
And you wondered if the ground was just a floor
Oh, how the world will make a fool of a believer
I was a believer once before
You will come home
You will come home
You will come home
You will come home
(x many)
But the airwaves in our stomachs never seem to find it funny
As we float above the ocean
While I loved you from a corner through the bridge and through the borders
Without motions
So we'll place all our remains within a freezer
And believe that they won't spoil
And I'll trade being your spine with another one
Who thinks that he can keep your bones alive
And I'll watch him till he finds that I'm your home
You will come home
(x many)

Imagine me forsaking you
Then you would know what pain means too
I have lost my soul, now I can't feel
And lost souls never really heal
Pain forever after
So now I celebrate the times of change
The change of signs of this new love

I'm searching for my god
To reach into his heart and take what I know is mine
Take a look at his face and tell me what you taste
When you put your tongue to his spine
This day it seems to me like an endless dream
Where I fall and never touch the ground
Get a little closer now
So I can hear him growl and drown in sweet sound
I'm searching for a face
I think it used to be mine
Hidden from his lovely eyes
I will share no secrets
I will tell him lies
I will do what I need to survive
He's not so pretty anymore 'cause I am sober now
Is that a hint of regret on his face
It's been a lesson for me but I'm still no wiser

There is no strength
There are only systems
There is no belief
There is only dogma
No more spines
Controlled by ambition
Only buckled car bodies
In which we are caged
This sick new world
This sick world trapped
In buckled car bodies
Asleep at the wheel
Out of control
Controls out of reach
Always crashing
In the same car
Democracy is a faceless dictator
It's branding erased
In repeated collisions
Under a tangled constitution
A squat, squalid slave
The scattered detritus
Of a freeway culture
There is no strength
There is only systems
There is no belief
There is only dogma
No more spines
Controlled by ambition
Only buckled car bodies
In which we are caged
A revolution
Is just a zero
It brings you right back
To where you began
Out with the old
In with the new
The only thing changing
Is who holds the whip
Peakhour traffic
In static dead air
Psyche mirrored in
A crash victim's fender
Every word brings
Smells of burning oil
We will all be
Hunched shoulders
Windows shut and
Air recycled
No direction
No fucking spine
We are in neutral
Careening down steep streets
Asleep at the wheel
Out of control
No one takes the wheel
Just pretending to drive
A new dummy
Every time we crash
Everything stuttering
Towards zero
No movement and no meaning
This world is all
Dimming headlights
Billboards cluttered
With empty rhetoric
The futile chatter of
A preprogrammed system
There is no difference
But there is a choice
There is a shell

Ice cold shiver,
Twitch crawling up my spine as this madness digs its
claws deep into my mind,
Futile is this lie, futile would be death,
Soul can find no solace; choke on every breath.
World of strife, I am numb,
No more life; I succumb.
Haunted by my sin; spiritual disease,
This world offers nothing to quench my soul's unease,
Where can I find hope?
How can I be freed?
Lie is overcome by pain,
What can fill this need?
World of strife, I am numb,
No more life; I succumb.
World of strife, I am numb,
No more life; I succumb,
World of strife, I am numb,

I never thought that I would be hopeful today,
I never thought that I would be hopeful today,
Don't say that you're not sorry.
This is my goodbye here's my farewell to everything you are and all the lies you had to tell.
Tell me what you are tell me what you are, Tell me what you are tell me what you are.
This is what you want, this is what you need, just because it is, doesn't mean it should be.
Tell me what you are tell me what you are, Tell me what you are tell me what you are.
And I'm alive, now that I'm by myself, don't tell a lie, everybody needs somebody.
I'm losing my mind, as you sing her to sleep, one day you'll realize, that she’s been dreaming of me, and when you find your spine you know where I’ll be
no matter how hard you try you'll never be me.
*????* for her as you fall asleep I nearly lost all mine tryin' to make ends meet for you.
Tell me what you are tell me what you are, Tell me what you are tell me what you are
this is what you want were you that in need a hand to hold let you take it out on me.
Tell me what you are tell me what you are, Tell me what you are tell me what you are
and I'm alive, now that I'm by myself, don't tell a lie, everybody needs somebody.
I'm losing my mind, as you sing her to sleep, one day you'll realize, that she's been dreaming of me, and when you find your spine, you know where I'll be
no matter how hard you try you'll never be me.
ba ba da
ba ba da
ba ba da ba da ba da
ba ba da
ba ba da
ba ba da ba da ba da
I never thought that I would be hopeful today, don't say that you're not sorry.
i never thought that I would be hopeful today, don't say that you're not sorry.
i never thought that I would be hopeful today, don't say that you're not sorry.
i never thought that I would be hopeful today, today.
I'm losing my mind, as you sing her to sleep, one day you'll realize, that she's been dreaming of me, and when you find your spine, you know where I'll be,
no matter how hard you try you'll never be me.
ba ba da (you'll never be me.)
ba ba da (you'll never be me.)
ba ba da ba da ba da (you'll never be me.)
ba ba da (you'll never be me.)
ba ba da (you'll never be me.)
ba ba da ba da ba da (you'll never be me.)
ba ba da (you'll never be me.)
ba ba da (you'll never be me.)
ba ba da ba da ba da (you'll never be me.)