• Lyrics: play full screen play karaoke
• Zdzislaw - Rishloo
• Weevil Bride - Rishloo
• Turning Sheep Into Goats - Rishloo
• To Tame The Temporal Shrew - Rishloo
• The Water Is Fine - Rishloo
• Terras - Rishloo
• Systematomatic - Rishloo
• Shades - Rishloo
• Seven Rings Left - Rishloo
• Scissorlips - Rishloo
• Romance Of A Dead Kingdom - Rishloo
• River Of Glass - Rishloo
• Pandora - Rishloo
• Omega - Rishloo
• Narcissist Code - Rishloo
• Lovely Room - Rishloo
• Keyhole In The Sky - Rishloo
• Katsushika - Rishloo
• Illumination - Rishloo
• Harliquin - Rishloo
• Freaks & Animals - Rishloo
• Feathergun In The Garden Of The Sun - Rishloo
• Fames - Rishloo
• El Empe - Rishloo
• Eidolon Alpha - Rishloo
• Downhill - Rishloo
• Disco Biscuit - Rishloo
• Diamond Eyes - Rishloo
• Blitz - Rishloo
• Alchemy Alice - Rishloo
• Rishloo - Rishloo
• Harlequin - Rishloo

I've crawled this corridor once before
to the shadows where it ends
Peeled back all of the paper doors
to remind me where I've been
Seeds to be sown,
who would've known
The balance fractured
this far in
who left this
way open?
Unguarded
paths chosen
all guilty
they stand in judgment of,
those who would travel and
all are guilty
to swing the pendulum,
to eat the temporal
they all know harvest time is coming soon
I hold a fragile light
before faces stone ascend
Luminous for what it's worth
in an amber ragged mist
I left this
way open
I wanted
paths chosen
all guilty
they stand in judgment of,
those who would travel and
all are guilty
to swing the pendulum,
to eat the temporal
we all know harvest time is coming soon
Listen spoke in broken words
To those who would try to hide
Beckoning the Earth to draw you nigh
Make your vendetta of the ground,
sundered ground lover

And in the end we caught our weevil bride
She was arraigned in garments' genocide
We took her home to where our mirror stood, like she knew we would so she smiles
She sings oo-oo-oo, I've been here before
Many years ago, before the war
And it goes on and on and on until you're gone
And I just need to know that everything is fine and everyone's alright
They take our tongues and give us guns, two coins for the ferryman for when you're gone
The weight of souls drives his boat ashore and he sails no more
Staring out across the end he sings oo-oo-oo I've never been here before, even years ago after the war...
... chiseling the granite from our dusty eyelids, harvesting the stones we throw
We caught a virus from the periscope inside us, we caught a virus from the periscope
We caught a virus from the periscope inside us, we caught a virus, we caught a virus
Star-struck freeze frame capture that coin-filp fateful harmony-muted feedback
With your cold hands on the foreheads so feverish and frantic while madmen lay your landmines in the ballroom
And I want some, yes please
Send us back as amputees with starry rags and shiny things
Let me back into the sun
How many times must all this be said?

And may every seed you sow stretch out your mortal skin
So you dreams can grow to know the web you weave within
The healing process has begun, carving lessons on our arms
I hope you'll always look with love on the early days
Reaching, reach through the healing
Finding out you found your way home
Got just what you wanted, didn't you?
Stopped the whole fuckin' world, didn't you?
Are you happy now?
Tracing pathways in the sand, clutched tight to trembling whims
For the moment whole enough to know the feeling when
Curiosity still calls, if only I could have grasped

pass between the in between
to evidence the things unseen
by travelers who've past beneath
till waxed and flaxen unkempt hair
is standard where they hold me here
to seperate the spirit from the shape
feast upon the eyes
breath of life falters
waiting for the sign
borderline course to wonder
is the shutter shy the film is fading
seen through pallid eyes the joy and waking
wholly satisfied to cauterize the two that feel alright
seeing white light
stepping outwards to embrace
all the phantom static in play
all these virgins calling for haste
see the satyr rise
to feast upon the eyes closing
she is strange oh this death dealing diva
speaking coarse with reluctance to me
we will dance where the fever bereaves us
to escape from the fortune she weaves
I'm ashamed when the flames sell me fire
for the lantern I've made from my skin
can the stitches hold on through these travels
if the hunger removes them within
as I race through the passage I find you
and we dance till eternity ends
and the void is not full up nor empty
when the song of our empire begins

Give to me
My angel, my lover, my friend
Dissolving my mind again
Dissolving my world again
Take my dreams, my wishes, my hopes and my wants
And make them all real just once
Tonight
Fall away
Walking on water
To see if the surface still breaks
Further down
Uncertainty goes with its curse
Of questions of virtue and worth
Inside
Fall away
Walking on water
To see if the surface still breaks
And I hold on now to
Give in to this taste of
One chance to be broken
Falling here and I send for
My soul to be saved
Hold this light before my time
When I stand 'til I break
Watch this fallin' from the end!
Drink of the water, just swallow it down
To taste, absorb, below, below, below
And fear for the drowning
Drink of the water, just swallow it down
To taste, absorb, below, below, below
To fear for the drowning
And nothing can touch me now
And no one can bring me out
This ethereal comfort starts to wear itself thin
Dazed and back where I started
Feel this fear creeping in
As the nightmare grows clearer
I see nothing is right
and I see
Sideways
All I believed is lost and shattered and
Sideways now
This fragile cloak so torn and tattered is
Sideways
Forcing me to notice this world so
Sideways now
Failing, falling, breaking, turning so
Sideways
Just pull me in and shove me under
Sideways
Just hold me down and end what's left of me
I fall from the light
At peace here

I listened to your words, I sat at your feet
Then I watched you drown millions in suicide
Philosophies
Then I stand in the balance with gold in my hands
And weep like a beggar
In silence again
I want to know why
You just sat there, watched millions of your
people die
Without lifting a finger
Here we are at peace, if only for a time
To sleep in trance to scream

Hey you, I've seen you here before
In your eyes, prizmatic sight on and on as I defy
Denials, back from the broken glass
Sapphire visions and favored derisions with spiders on your mind shaking fists full of string as I
Tie me up in knots while contradictory impulse lusts
The dreaming loom is twisted and confused
The stories on the spools will weave us back into one
And here we find ourselves again
Tightrope decisions and blood-colored medicine a million miles from eye-to-eye
It feels much as it did before biting the tails in self-made betrayals
Forever repeating this deceit, so who cares if I...
... while spinning I spun you a web
While spinning I spun you,
Stammering words in a daze, seemingly starry-eyed followers mumbling praise
And all of the world is a stage, fleetingly these marionettes dance straight to their graves
With every desire on a string the future hangs perilously
It's the start of the tie that will bind and the last fraying strand
Spinning on the dreaming loom a web of lies and tangled truths

We're, if at all slaves to a pawn caught in a cautious lie, if at all, staggering weightless haggard stained cynical it all tastes sweet
Leave me to sway here if at all listing ageless wait, wait and see
Come here to rest and then cosset the crows who murder the raven and those who cast the losing die
Leave me to sway here if at all listing ageless
Wait
Trace these suicide shades uncovered through this pious lullaby praise to suffer while we brace ourselves shaking hands on the alter
See these paths to there end through the pulse of hate
And now walking along the earth
It always turns inward
To let their souls writhe
Silting softly it is wanting
Hate
Trace these suicide shades uncovered through this pious lullaby pray and suffer
Erase (erase...)
(HIDDEN TRACK) [I took a stab at this. So I think I made up some words to make it sound right. No clue.]
Deep, dark shadows where everyone lies
There's a circus working debutant conducting his spies
And as he turned he went into(?) a cheshire(?) grin and now everyone dies
In his deep, dark shadows where everyone lies
Shades...
Now he stands in the center with his cheshire grin
Peeling off offsimating(?) memories attacthed to their skin
But it's over soon, now red balloons keep us amputee's in
In his deep, dark circus where nobody wins
Shades...

Shadow of a soul you
Come to me and wait for my approval
To kneel here Sacred is the ground I tread
Leave no footprints
perfect in your eyes, you fool
Lay the lesser down
This blood so dark and red
Won't eat away the chains
That hold you where I wish
Where I wish
Watch my every move so calculated
Hunted by the prey but sly, indifferent
Swallow all your pride the poison's
Better that way
When this scent arises new
Lover of a lie
Immersed inside yourself
Dream your fractured mind away inside this cell
Oppression, anger, fear and pain
Restrain the fire to hold the flame
To burn, to sear, to penetrate
Allowed a voice to scream my name
Grasp in your greed for the riches
Give up the hopes for your pride
Drink down the wine like a glutton
Follow the lust in my eyes
For I am the master so envied
Free to be wasteful and sloth
Fear now the wrath of my power
Counting the sins to stay lost
And weak and alone and ashamed
Afraid, so afraid
Of mistakes and failures to be
Perfect, passive and unquestioning
You're awake now, but far too weak
So wait
Worry, hide in shadow
Do not speak, do not dissent, and lay down
Take it, celebrate this pain
Tear away the covers
Useless vestiges of comfort
Pointless tokens of a difference
To hide from me
Throw away the balance
Senseless running without conscience
Endless circle or a spiral
We'll always bleed
The same
So lay down
Lay down slave
Lay down, down
Lay down
Slave
Lay down, down
Lay down
Slave
Lay down, down
Lay down
Slave

Where are you?
I'm lost upon this boulevard
And I'm afraid this plastic mask made room enough for all of us
Now Scissorlips has come to grips while chewing paper fingertips
That boulevards made boulevards of boulevards in endless strips
Sing your lullaby
Sing, sing, sing
I want hear it from your lips-what's it worth shining for?
Nevermind your thirst, nevermind the curses you utter vacantly
I can hear them scream from below, I still hear them screaming below
All we are is all we are, transcendental animals
Where are you?
I'm high above this boulevard
I left behind this passive mask to prove to us it's not enough
Now Scissorlips throws Scissorfits 'til bleeding's what the kissing gets
To fork the tongues of old and young, forever speaking opposites
... trying to dig up the love-you call this love?
For the love of loss, we find
For the love of joy, we cry
For the love growth, we sever
For the love of now, we never
For the love of peace, we kill
For the love of wealth, we steal
For the love of difference, confine
For the love of unity, divide
For the love of love, we hate
Who wouldn't want to disappear?
But I'm still here, I am still here
Having come out the other side wearing horrors that climb from our soul
And I am still here, I am still here
Falling facedown into the light, wholly naked I cling to these roots

Sleep now fragile
Cradle my hope
Dream 'til morning
Rising again
To uphold my claims to power
Promises bind
This place to me
Peace I have found
In a vision pure and simple
Here in this world
I am the king
Dreams trouble my conscience
With thoughts of those betrayed
Prophecies certain
Bring me to conflict often
But comfort has always triumphed
Against a change
Walking again
Among these familiar faces
Hearing the same
Praises they speak
All here is well
But somehow so unnerving
In the eyes of a child
The world looks bleak
Fears grow ever bolder
Threatening disgrace
All that will be
Grows clearer with every moment
Whispers turn now to shouting for my escape
Awake
Brashly you stifled warnings
See now the fruits of failure
Ignorant liar
Did you truly think
You could stay here awhile
And avoid your fate
Crawling, grasping, searching, reaching for a path
Through all this chaos choking on the ashes
Of a life that suddenly has passed
And as the screams subside
I slowly raise my head
To watch the final ruin

I'm sure that I'm fine but I heard there's a bath in a river of glass so I'll take it
I've always known that the smiles that were shown were plastic and hollow lines
And I'll be damned, your metaphor dollar-fed God got into my head
Hey now, plastics gather 'round now you're waitin' with your hands out for the blood flies to come and carry you home
Doubt is a crime and I caught me at last running circles in rounded-off places
Scanning for hope but these windows of gold play tricks on my eyes...
... why don't we pull apart, look inside the curtains of origins that imitate life
And where you are is where I'll be floating arms of azure seize
Who will you inspire?
As I watch this world below, and the world I watch grows smaller and smaller
Fear and love all collide and all at once
The piper plays green tearing the sleeves pulled up from the sea and thrown through the ceiling
Stepping stones so carefully untouched
You'll only leave this world alone
Strange that you think you can fly
Strapped to a stone in a blinked needle's eye
I'll be damned, your all-time-low just lowered again
Hey now plastics gather round now you're waitin' with your hands out, waitin' for the war flies,

Cedar grains cling
to woven skin upon walls
I know frail truths feed
borrowed dreams grown cold
and from here I beg
release and hope
I hope
Breathing through these lines Innocence
lost among the torment
of grace within the storm
seeking darkness in the dawn
While the emptiness divides
every purpose with the light
I fade I fade
Without a key without a sound
without a chance to hold the light
it reaches in between the seems
to tease the madness and the grief
To curse the walls to cure the need
To curse the damned who damn the need
The need to know what lies beyond, beyond the walls
Turn the Key (turn the key...)
And set free
this I swear
It's not enough for me to die alone
Uproot these veins that fail to bleed

god this must, must be for certain
if you are here
raise my world an ossuary
staring through the gate wide-eyed
did you think I'd salivate and beg
don't sell me tones of liberation
standing in a cage
may you find that
in this sinister lapse we'll heal our side
save your tears my child
take it, hold it, keep it know
we choose this suffering
there they stand
straining to scrutinize the sage
string me up these soap box augers
seeking out the ways divined
here from the citadel it's claimed
serpents waiting in the shadows
keep us from the dream
may you find that
in this sinister lapse we'll heal our side
save your tears my child
take it, hold it, keep it know
we choose this suffering
I pushed the button and I pulled the trigger
I killed our brothers and murdered our sisters
I am the pattern, the plague, and the prison
and I tore the wound and let it bleed
may you find that
in this sinister lapse we'll heal our side
save your tears my child
take it, hold it, keep it know

Crown all the thieves and you worship the liars
And bow down before every whore in a tie
Lost to the end though the sun also rises
And those who would dare bring the turn of the tide
Arrogant serenity
Falter on the scale when I weigh you
This doubt may breed desires
For truth
For truth
Glare just long enough to convey your displeasure
As drops, one by one, start to fall in the pool
Blurring the sight of a misplaced alliance
Where deaf lead the blind, and the blind lead the
fools
Ignorant security
Falter on the scale when I weigh you
This doubt may breed desires
To look deeper than the surface
And to dare to understand
All the mysteries residing beneath
These reflections of a purpose, false impressions
of a past
That exist only to serve the elite
Fuck all these complacent sheep
Chasing after every prize
Begging at the masters' feet
Happy to ostracize
Fuck all those who will not see
Further than the mirror's lies
Fuck you and your vanity
It's too late, we're out of time
To stand idly by and wait
So why don't you take this chance
And find a place to
Feast on the wealth of your self-indulgence
While the meek and the worthy change
This world again
Gnawing away at your precious elegance
I hope that you like the taste
For there you shall stay

I try and remember a night before this
The mirror reflects, but it lies to me
I breathe in the breeze open-eyed to feel this
And slip into arms dipped in wine
To sleep
In a house of gods, in an empty room
There will be no scars and I will be there
Soon
I will be there soon
I glance at a clock lost in time, it's bleeding
Past echoes of rain I cry out for peace
I slip past the door painted red to save me
And offer my own, lose control
And release
In a house of gods, in an empty room
There will be no scars and I will be there
In a house of gods, in an empty room
There will be no scars and I will be there
They may believe that there can only be one end
But I will not wait until the blood is on my hands
Serenity is just a choice of breath away
Condemn each other, but forever I will stay
In a house of gods, in an empty room
There will be no scars and I will be there
In the house of God, in a lovely room
There will be no scars and I will be there
Soon

The high road is always a balance beam chipping away our ankles, and I think it's high time we embraced the visual
On my way home I saw a keyhole in the sky and I tossed around my reasons for the cost
Divide and dissolve the seams that weave deep within my head
We're losing light, and in this despair I'm finally aware that I am not one to learn so fast
Straining across this great expanse where the weight of the world rests, and the air is thick with crushing emptiness
If only I could lift these feet up from the ground I'd circle 'round the world I know, I know...
... we, like marionettes off our strings fling limbs at our passions and hope to connect with impossible dreams

Hello, I'm the whisper-clap man tuggin' on my sleeves, doin' all that I can do
Can you weather the moment whether the fortune comes before the end?
You should be satisfied as well
Now we're counting all the hours on the second hand for days
Mending ties with broken time in many different ways
If all of us spin 'round 'til every one of us is down
Impressing pressure in dialect forms
Ride the spiral seas beyond the storm
Learn and decide, fall 'til you fly
Take a breath and dive
Let's go, have you stepped to the edge, stared into the sea from the foot of your bed?
Have you woke in a dream to sleep through the meaning and mean everything you said?
You will be satisfied as well...
... just below the waterline I see
Just below the waterline I lay
Below the surface I believe there is a place of love and wonder where all we are and dare to be is fearlessly discovered
Wrapped within the motion of the unrelenting struggle, oh this sinking feeling seeing everything in double
Oh, what beautiful monsters
You're all beautiful monsters

Violent spinning darkness
Disaster unrestrained
Whispers of the ravaged, lost behind the rain
He lands among the fallen
Pushes out an empty hand
Shuts his eyes and turns away
Screaming out against the end
Tonight I cannot rest because I ache
Tomorrow brings the agony of day
To sleep perchance to dream of all that's lost
And all the things we'll never get to say
In the echoes of anger
Brought from silence too late
In this moment of disaster
There's a clarity
To hate
Now his days are empty, lonely lost and grey
She spends too many hours just trying not to break
Down before the others
Who will never know their pain
Or the endless years of nightmares
That never go away
Tonight I cannot rest because I ache
Tomorrow brings the agony of day
To sleep perchance to dream of all that's lost
And all the things we'll never get to say
In the echoes of anger
Brought from silence too late
In this moment of disaster
There's a clarity
To hate
Why? Won't someone tell me why?
repeated)
Won't someone tell me why (repeated)
Why?
I hate to remember, but I can't forget
I hate to remember, I just can't forget
I hate to remember this is all I have left
I hate to remember 'cause I'm tired of this shit

Try, seeker, try
To find this path of mine
I weave a simple line
Take care to watch my flight
Place your fingers here to guide me
Guide me under
One must lead the other
See, the way I bring
Can change easily
The end knows those who come
But each can run away with us
Place your fingers here to guide me
Guide me under
One must lead the other
Walk here softly through this door or never
Follow me into my sanctum
There are no words, so watch as I
Strip away layers, I strive to find paces
I reel from each image, a product of loss
Bearing away my wholeness, fooled by my own hands
Offer a useless notion to satisfy demands
Paint me again so deeply
Illusions from within
Make me a tragic canvas
For the dye inside my skin
Sorry you never asked me
Sorry you never tried
Grief you hold so shallow will pass away in time
Shards of my identity
Scattered here upon the ground
Fragments of a tragedy
Dig in coarse to bring me down
Kneeling in my agony
Reaching in to pick them out
Holding on so desperately
'Til they cut inside and drown
In this prison of my misery
In the vessel of my doubt
In the court of endless suffering
In the hall where I am bound
To these servants of a history
As they circle all around
They stand in their delight
I lay my hands upon these wounds and cry in empty ridicule
Broken words and Hollow truths
I've crept inside a sorrowful embrace
Cruel embrace
Await my claim
So stay away
Stay away

under this canvas he hides a dream
a trick of the type too cheap to be free
makes your burgeoning inquiry
more easily answered
oh a sight they have come to see
we shan't disappoint they've paid for a scene
and a scene they shall have indeed
this dark, dark evening
join us inside that's the way here come now
just step right up in line it's freaks, fools, and fire
come nearer, come closer, it's nearly time
you there and you there come one and all
it looks better in red my calico friend
let us brood on the hue of need
what finds your favor
no the show must go on instead
with hundreds of eyes at two to a head
and the blindness is thrice complete
when all stand watching
step aside make way for the star's presence
better beware there's light and glittering
gaze deeper, stare harder it's nearly time
you there and you there come one and all
so please
so have you ever wondered
where are the demons they told us of
be patient they're coming
shortly revealed to you and I
do you think you'll find a dead ringer, dead ringer
much still hides you curious minds
there's no hurry
my where are my manners round and round
why I believe they've all arrived
out, out from the wings
set all the props in place
lower the lights and wait
now in the middle let them watch let the spectacle rise
hold your breath the suspense
leads the elegant dead eyes
more than them will you spend
for the vision of your life
but the curtains fall down
look now and see
that's quite the motley disguise you've borrowed
my friend it seems quite odd but
you are the show you've paid for
step through the mirror
and now the circus spins on and on so

Rubber like your lover's neck you tripped into the garden, you tripped into the garden of the sun
On you tried, unbuttoned eyes, imprelious telusion, tripping past your guard into the sun
These dreamers, so eager, throw their hands in the fight
I spy walrus tooth in the way outside of the shoegaze revolution
I'm seein' bright lights, silhouettes of knife fights and I see it all, I see it all
I'm seein' bright lights in-between the knife fights and I see it all, I see it all
I see it all through the wolves in the walls
Who might you be, who should you be
Killing with featherguns when they don't understand you're fighting for ground control
Stealing glances colorblind encouraging confusion, crossing all the boundaries undrawn...
... I'm hearin' white lies coursing through the disguises, I hear it all, I hear it all
I'm hearin' lost cries chorusing the night sky and I hear it all, I hear it all...
... hands bound behind withered backs, blindfolds laid on hollow eyes too hopeless to hear
Ready... aim... fire...

Listen all you tired, you cold, you bitter
masters
Starving the weak
The stories you have told cannot stifle the
voices of need
So wager your tales against our dreams
Strangle, stall, monopolize, steal and separate
Keep us all at odds and keep us all in hiding
Drifting from the relevant we can learn again
Orders enliven and take us down lightly
Fold these wings I know they've failed you
One more leap to fall beyond my knees
Leaving sordid idols in our wake
Lay them down side-by-side in visceral exchange
These, oh, these wraiths
Love them now forever as eyes consume the flawed
Holding on to, holding on
And stay awake
Bury your heads and lock up your cage
Lie so quiet and still
But know you can't hide from positive change
When questions burn inside the unfulfilled
So how long do you think we'll wait and see our
dreams denied
When each and every one of us has felt this
Tempest rise?
Rise
Here we are at peace if only for a time
To sleep in trance to scream
In silence for our crimes
Here we are at peace if only for a time
To sleep in trance to scream
In silence for our crimes
Here we are
If only for this time
To sleep in trance to scream

one more charlatan goes mute
safe in these halls discreetly
I hold out for the rare when the silence is golden
beg to join me here
to lay, to lay, to lay, to lay
bow to me
such a deep flood of these
dreams that you've wound tightly
remain enthralled his breathing stalls
the course of your mind
and join the line to march in time
right back with your throw
hollow minds stalk rope-less gallows
intent too wild all immersed
when eager eyes and sameness strangles concern
and fashion murders worth
hey you there on the outside
you there on the fault line
will you save us from emotion
will you save us from the cold tide
fuck you, you fool with your hand me down views
and your Valium counterpoint bullshit excuse
you wouldn't have a word if I hadn't said it first
so cup your little seed and beg, beggar, beg
beg until you cannot speak
I hold out for the rare when the silence is golden
beg to join me here
or stay where you stand there to deny all your faults
and beg to join me here
he's now forced to trace your muse

oh child deceive me
enter the same, the same as I
moments pass as desperate contortions unfold
seeking placid sanity a moment of calm
cancerous anxiety and thieving doubt rain
sheltering indifference to dignify rage
begging for a line drawn in the sand
to separate the prophets from the men
bittersweet the wicked so the guise of
harmony can breathe again delighted
hear me son the river's dry again
foretell the fates and lead us to the edge
let the prideful sinners bear the gold
and buy acceptance
breathe again
to waste away inside here
the years in turn your haunting words
have never left my ears
my mind no reckoning
pride is the mirror through which we must break
wretched, disfigured, confused, and distracted
here down in this cellar it's cold dark and manic
clinging indifferent privilege demands you
excuse your excuses, excuse your excuses and blame
you blame
fearful, deceiver, dim motives erratic
this dream too ambitious this vision too drastic
choke down rhetorical scraps from the attic
forever to stand there and still just refuse to change
just change
set the nightmare alight and
dance till these flames illuminate
the cause for the lie

I'm leavin' to walk the road inside my head
With cord in hand and powder breath I stand and wave goodbye
Goodbye...
The systematomatic thinks, while buying blood on Broadway street where the old messiahs go
That pulsing through the atmosphere are answers to the questions you should know
Don't let it go, or it's all downhill from here
Examples of the afterlife responding visions half the time and the other vertigo
Spun off the Earth a thousand times and caught the wind that purifies the soul
You should know, it's all downhill from here
Lost out here adrift in lights, it's wonderous
Weightless in clouds of colors the world will never see
And I am a figment of reality
Wrapped in the shroud of endless night I scream aloud
But no one hears, so I tell my stories to satellites
And I am lost inside a memory
The pattern picks the pockets of the palindrome
Back to front the loss remains the same
And it beckons to the East to give the West it's eyes
While the oscillating rhythm marks it's bones
To the young it gives a vision of the dead and gone
While the old recieve a passion to survive
And the pattern picks the pockets of the palindrome

Who's there?
I've forgotten
Who said?
Run away
Run where
Against the wall's an armed forgotten
This amputee holds mending tools
I look to the left to see the hand on the knife
Chiseled a glance improved the stone paradigm
Must hurry back before the end alls rise
Paradise
Employs the martyr
I'm too willing to take the name from them
Approach the clouds a winged imposter
To trip among the gods so proud
I look to the right to see my feet to the sky
Embellish the fall to encourage the lie
Must hurry back before the end alls rise
Paradise
Denies the lover
I'm to willing to take the name for them (for them)
Sever the scavengers' wings casting out from the heavens unbeautiful things
Beggars, orphans, willful widows clutch the ground hopeless, outcast, harlots trying to hold on we're all so willing to take from them
Take the feathers if you wish I will fly with or without them

We are not machines
We are not machines programmed, encoded
We are so much more, we are so much more
Oh the lights
Burning like fireflies caught in a web
Electricity hums in our heads
We're overwhelmingly fearless
When diamond eyes light up the sky, I promise you that we can change the world
When diamond eyes light up the sky, I promise you that we can change...
We are not your routines
We are not your routines despite what you've told us
We are all one, we are all one...
... when lights like freeways burning mirrors and melting skylines haunt your door
You should swing to connect, swing to connect the cord
Color, I see the rhythm in waves and onward still
Color, I see the rhythm in waves, the white and red, the red and white, forever we'll know
In and of itself, nothing is whole

I turn from the world but the world turns me
They show you the way but I can't even breathe
So I grit my gnashing teeth against a fence I
cannot see
And wish to fuckin' Hell there was no in-between
Secondly but first of all, just because and why
I list the constant questions I kept 'em all
inside
But you won't give your thoughts to me so I won't
give you mine
And you won't waste your words on me so I won't
waste
your time
You betray everything when you refuse to see
The truth of your trial is lost so listlessly
You watch us go by as we laugh and we cry
You look down and realize you're not who you think
Could there be anything?
Embracing the pendulum so I do not fall behind
And I'm weaker than the next in line
So I'll do my best to represent the evidence of
all that I've spoken
With a withered, twisted finger you're turnin'
back the time
With a withered, twisted finger you push 'em all
in line
And you smash to fuckin' bits your world when
everything's alright
And you smash to fuckin' bits my world when
everything is fine
With a withered, twisted finger you're turnin' back
the time
With a withered, twisted finger you push 'em all in
line
And you smash to fuckin' bits your world when
everything's alright
And you smash to fuckin' bits my world when everything
is fine
You betray everything when you refuse to see
The truth of your trial is lost so listlessly
You watch us go by as we laugh and we cry
You look down and realize you're not who you think
Could there be anything?
Embracing the pendulum so I do not fall behind
And I'm weaker than the next in line
So I'll do my best to represent the evidence of
all that I've spoken
Watch the world go by you
Each time
Feel this one day, forget the next
Live life through lies
Empty inside
Wondering why
Just give it up you're not for real
Don't know a thing about how I feel
You're just a lie because you try
To believe
What you won't see and nothing's true
If you give up and if you lose
And run away when things get gray
I won't be left when you confess
When you admit you're full of shit
I can't comply and take your side
I understand that's all you have
But it's just not enough
There'll never be anything
To justify your wasted life
You've fallen so far behind
And we're weak as our one best try
So I'll let it fall and die away and whatever's
left is forgotten

all the same I chased the Cheshire
looked for all the same relief
and furthermore I dug in further
more than you can bury deep
it's so sad to see
so glad you found your own way out
parade your head with crowns invisible high
remember why you're here is to inspire
for what it's worth it's hollow pantomiming
what's it worth to you
to be sure lick the needle to be sure
your truly through
it's so sad to see
so glad you found your own way out
parade your head with crowns invisible high
remember why you're here is to conspire
called for my love these still waves
the fissures open to align
have some water friend your looking pale
this wasn't part of the design
beware the storm avoid the frozen rain
ash the passing dusty collar
setting spikes for their embrace
forgetting why your here it's to inspire
quit bleeding till they found us so responsive
draining out across the floor
seeping through the chasm frail and wanting
needing nothing less than more
curtain vague illusions from the sideshow
to dispell the fantasy
bleeding ever bleeding always bleeding
till the vein runs dry
here take this nail and push it inside
and fucking Hatter
you'll feel so much better as this nerve dies
in true Alice fashion

Shadow of a soul you
Come to me and wait for my approval
To kneel here Sacred is the ground I tread
Leave no footprints
perfect in your eyes, you fool
Lay the lesser down
This blood so dark and red
Won't eat away the chains
That hold you where I wish
Where I wish
Watch my every move so calculated
Hunted by the prey but sly, indifferent
Swallow all your pride the poison's
Better that way
When this scent arises new
Lover of a lie
Immersed inside yourself
Dream your fractured mind away inside this cell
Oppression, anger, fear and pain
Restrain the fire to hold the flame
To burn, to sear, to penetrate
Allowed a voice to scream my name
Grasp in your greed for the riches
Give up the hopes for your pride
Drink down the wine like a glutton
Follow the lust in my eyes
For I am the master so envied
Free to be wasteful and sloth
Fear now the wrath of my power
Counting the sins to stay lost
And weak and alone and ashamed
Afraid, so afraid
Of mistakes and failures to be
Perfect, passive and unquestioning
You're awake now, but far too weak
So wait
Worry, hide in shadow
Do not speak, do not dissent, and lay down
Take it, celebrate this pain
Tear away the covers
Useless vestiges of comfort
Pointless tokens of a difference
To hide from me
Throw away the balance
Senseless running without conscience
Endless circle or a spiral
We'll always bleed
The same
So lay down
Lay down slave
Lay down, down
Lay down
Slave
Lay down, down
Lay down
Slave
Lay down, down
Lay down
Slave

Try, seeker, try
To find this path of mine
I weave a simple line
Take care to watch my flight
Place your fingers here to guide me
Guide me under
One must lead the other
See, the way I bring
Can change easily
The end knows those who come
But each can run away with us
Place your fingers here to guide me
Guide me under
One must lead the other
Walk here softly through this door or never
Follow me into my sanctum
There are no words, so watch as I
Strip away layers, I strive to find paces
I reel from each image, a product of loss
Bearing away my wholeness, fooled by my own hands
Offer a useless notion to satisfy demands
Paint me again so deeply
Illusions from within
Make me a tragic canvas
For the dye inside my skin
Sorry you never asked me
Sorry you never tried
Grief you hold so shallow will pass away in time
Shards of my identity
Scattered here upon the ground
Fragments of a tragedy
Dig in coarse to bring me down
Kneeling in my agony
Reaching in to pick them out
Holding on so desperately
'Til they cut inside and drown
In this prison of my misery
In the vessel of my doubt
In the court of endless suffering
In the hall where I am bound
To these servants of a history
As they circle all around
They stand in their delight
I lay my hands upon these wounds and cry in empty ridicule
Broken words and Hollow truths
I've crept inside a sorrowful embrace
Cruel embrace
Await my claim
So stay away
Stay away