Background affair, background affair
The factories are closed
The cupboards are bare
It's a background affair, background affair
Background affair, background affair
The problem's unclear
It's not really there
It's a background affair, a background affair
A background affair
It's a background affair, a background affair
The batteries are flat
A dark age is near
It's a background affair, a background affair
We don't really care
A background affair
But there's hope near
It blows through here
Like cool air
You feel all fear disappear
But there's hope near
It blows through here
Like cool air
Your mind's clear
Your mind's clear
Married with children, and a dog
To a man who hits her when he's wild
Overbearing, undercaring
Keeps her like a frightened child
She's made a man inside her head
Whose gentle, good and strong
And he can take her far from the carnivore
How far?
Shangri-La far, there she will belong
I need you near (get out of there)
Sanctuary (get out of there)
No one comes here (get out of there)
We live alone in nowhere (get out of there)
Stands in the kitchen wishing hard
Staring out at distant stars
Raise the baby, change the other one
Pray her man unveils his heart
She says this and consoles herself
It's just an empty stage
It's just an empty stage I'm gone thought
How far could it stretch?
How far could it go?
I need you near (get out of there)
Sanctuary (get out of there)
No one comes here (get out of there)
We live alone in nowhere
He won't find you (get out of there)
And I'll unwind you (get out of there)
Cause I really do care (get out of there)
You trapped in fear and you have to get out of there,
get out of there
Get out of there, get out of there
Get out of there
Half an hour passes
She moves, takes the phone receiver from the wall
Dials a number, dials another one
No one seems to hear her call
She's tried her friends, they can't help with her
private hell
Slowly she drifts further away from him
How far?
Well, see that star?
That's how far she could go
How far?
See that star?
How far could she go?
I need you near me
Sanctuary
No one cone here
We'll live alone in nowhere
Get out of there
Get out of there
We wander lost forgotten hills
Blue sky, green grass, we are still
The mists enfold us gently smelling
Breeze in our ears softly telling
of the days of light and laughter long ago
They trace us, taste us, touch our hair
Show us a castle and show us to their lair - to their lair
And the rolling moon rocks on by
We dance until we start to cry
We've got feverish sweat and aching bones
But please oh God, don't take us home.
It's pretty cool but we can't rest
The purple sun sets in the west
We prance on gold - red summer lawns
Dragons-blood evening, the buzz of swarms
of lawnmowers mowing summer lawns away, far away,
I realise we really are quite far away, far away,
far away, far away
And the rolling moon rocks on by
We dance until we start to cry
We've got feverish sweat and aching bones
But please oh God, don't take us home
Please oh God, don't take us home
I want to stop my crying
I want to stop my crying
But she's lying there dying
How can I live when you see what I've done?
How can I live when you see what I've done?
What can I do if she dies?
What can I do if she dies?
What can I do if she's lost?
Just the thought fills my heart with Pink Frost
I thought I was dreaming -
so I didn't heed her screaming
I'm so scared
I'm so scared
She won't move and I'm holding her head
She won't move and I'm holding her head
She's lost...Bye Bye Bye
She's lost...Bye Bye Bye
She's lost...Bye Bye Bye
Pink frost...Bye Bye Bye
I'm really not lying
I'm so scared
I'll have to stop my crying
Now she's dead
What can I do if she dies?
What can I do if she dies?
What can I do if she's lost?
Just the thought fills my heart with Pink Frost
Sitting in a foriegn setting
Bands in backgrounds always play
Their phoney lonely cacaphony
It didnt have to be this way
Some place alone, yeah yeah
And no one known, yeah yeah
So far from home here, yeah yeah, yeah yeah
Oohh oohhh, ooohh
I really didn't choose to leave you
To tear myself away so long
To travel and unravel all the fabric we'd sewn
So now something's wrong
And the world we used to know has gone
Some place alone, yeah yeah
And no one known, yeah yeah
So far from home here, yeah yeah
Years of awkward confrontation
I'd like to set your mind at ease
But stuck here in these muddled ages
I find the words won't please
Where could we dwell
Within our past alive and well
Escape from all that's hard to bear
To where the child that you were creeps near, without
fear
Scary things aren't always clear
To hide in fiction and nostalgia can be eerie too
You cannot drive and stare rearview
Oohh oohhh, ooohh
Some place alone, yeah yeah
And no one known, yeah yeah
Our anchor broke, we rode on the swell
To big glue waves, they rose from our land
By dawn's first light, miles from our land
A band abandoned
Tied to the ocean
Out in the open
Roll with the motion
Ride on the wild ocean, ocean
We drifted far as we fought with the sails
Some lives were lost, there are so many tales
Of bridges burned and repaired through the year
Our course is clearer
Tied to the ocean
Out in the open
Roll with the motion
Ride on the wild ocean, ocean
The ocean, ocean, ocean
The color's changing constantly
From lavender blue to deep green
Time is still when you're out here
Separate lives leading nowhere
And all together getting pretty tired of this ocean
Out in the open
But don't rock the boat, don't cause a commotion
Time will tell if we will go home
For here we still have freedom to roam
So someday home may no longer be there
Tied to the ocean
Out in the open
But don't rock the boat, don't cause a commotion
Roll with the punches
Ride on the wild ocean, ocean, ocean
Ocean, ocean, ocean
On the ocean, ocean, ocean, ocean
The ocean, ocean, ocean
The ocean, ocean, ocean
On the ocean, ocean, ocean, ocean
The color's changing constantly
The color's changing constantly
The color's changing constantly
The color's changing constantly
I'd look at you, and perhaps you'll smile at me
Loving my kaleidoscope world
The stars and planets just glide on by
Cold and patient like white gods' eyes
We smile a lot, loving our kaleidoscope world
It gets a bit cold so we turn on the heater
Things are great but that makes it neater
We'll never die in our kaleidoscope world
Come along baby we'll live in our kaleidoscope world
Come along baby we'll live in my kaleidoscope world (etc)
Kaleidoscope world
We go for a swim in the deep of space
A thousand colours reflect off your face
The stars surround us as we sail on through our kaleidoscope world
Don't need a red light bulb - I can see Mars
We've got a stereo and electric guitars
The sounds we make echo on through our kaleidoscope world
Like this...
If we were floating in a space capsule
I'd look at you and perhaps you'll smile at me
Loving my kaleidoscope world
Come along baby we'll live in our kaleidoscope world
Come along baby we'll live in my kaleidoscope world (etc)
He rises with the air
He doesn't have a care
The southern wind is warm in his hair
Breathless at the sight
The mountains on his right are crimson
As the sunlight's fading
Silver sisters fill the horizon
The cream of autumn's violet skies
At dusk the land will quietly shed its disguise
As both moons rise
Feigning surprise at their meeting of eyes
He has to talk to someone
Has to talk to someone
He's choking with emotion but there's nothing to say
There's nothing to say
Nothing to say
Below me on the land
The tide of silver sand
Stretches at the shade of my hand
An eyesore in the dust
The carcasses of rust
Are laughing at the careless parking
Eye to eye aglow with horizon
Time to fly away for a while
Chase my shadow over the valley below
I soar alone
Our crumbling homes are all overgrown
They've gone
I saw them go
I watched them leave, my family have flown
I have to talk to someone
Describe it all the someone
Emotions are imploding but there's nothing to say
There's nothing to say
They've all gone away
All gone away
Eye to eye aglow with horizon
Time to fly away for a while
I wear my leather jacket like a great big hug
Radiating charm - a living cloak of luck
It's the only concrete link with an absent friend
It's a symbol I can wear 'till we meet again
Or it's a weight around my neck while the owner's free
Both protector and reminder of mortality
It's a curse - I cannot shirk responsibilities
From the teacher to the pupil it's a gift to me
so I love my leather jacket and I wear it all the time
I've been searching for the hidden bay
well it's a long long way, the hidden bay
My baby's bathing in the hidden bay
well she bathes all day in the month of May
Well it's a far far cry from the city life
and one day soon I'm going to make that baby my wife,
and we'll bathe our lives away in the hidden bay
Maybe I'm a fool, a fool, a fool
Maybe I'm a fool, a fool, a fool
But baby you're so cool, so cool, so cool
Baby you're so cool, so cool, so cool
Each evening the sun sets in five billion places,
Seen by ten billion eyes set in five billion faces,
Then they close in a daze and wait for the dawning,
But the daylight and sunrise
Are brighter in our eyes,
Where night cannot devour golden solar power
Once we were dammned now I guess we are angels
For we passed though the dark and eluded the dangers
Then I awoke with a start to startling changes
All the tension is ended,
The sentance suspended,
And darkness now sparkles and gleams.
And it all seems larger than life to me
I find it rather hard rather hard to believe.
So I stand as the sound goes straight through my body,
I'm so bloated up, happy, I can throw things around me.
And I'm growing in stages, and have been for ages,
Just singing and floating and free.
It's a heavenly pop hit
If anyone wants it.
It's a heavenly pop hit,
It's something that we're humming as
We swoop low on trees, or we sweep under carpets,
We can dive into suns though its not recommended,
We can hover, silent, and listen, closely...
It all seems (all seems)
Larger than life to me
I find it (find it)
Hard to believe
So where was our home,
Well, our home was in tears,
For it's fruit has gone bad,
They'd been that way for years
Yet their lives are elastic,
They should be fantastic,
They should be expanding.
It's a heavenly pop hit,
If anyone wants it.
It's a heavenly pop hit,
For anybody,
Halo, can you here me?
Halo, fading in silence
I know you hear me
I know you’re there being quiet
Someday your song I’ll sing for you that finally says
goodbye
Right now the words don’t come tome
I’m torn apart trying
Love grows, but not when you’re absent
What they can do to trust, look what it’s done for us
How could it change from what it was so quickly to what
it is now?
After that mad year dreading this, the fear of finding
Far beyond reach
Far beyond hope
Where even dreams feature a sad lonely show
Halo (halo)
Halo (halo)
Halo
I can still touch you in my mind
I know precisely what you’re like
Follow your footsteps through the sand
Understand?
Last time we kissed
That night was a mess
Didn’t it rain or was it you?
These days I’m watching replays
Triggered in my mind’s eye, no matter how I try
I see our love in many lands, especially memories of
But Paris, Athens and Amsterdam, and ever London now is
Far beyond reach
Far beyond hope
Where even dreams feature a sad lonely show
Still, when I find I’m in your town
And I would love to come around
It’s only sixteen minutes there, on a bike
But I get feelings, can’t shake them off
Sometimes it seems I’ve been robbed
Halo (halo)
Halo (halo)
Tell me a story, tell me a story, let me drift
Tell me a story, tell me a story, let me drift
Make me think I'm not really in this place
Let your words run like summer rain down my face
Let your voice caress my mind like a loving touch
I'm not asking too much
I just don't want the worry of telling myself.
Tell me a story, tell me a story, let me drift
Tell me a story, tell me a story, frantic drift
Let me rest in peace, or in pieces let me die
Just tell me I can survive - if you want to keep me alive...
Frantic drift
Frantic drift
Frantic drift
Frantic drift
And you try to tell me about Jesus and your gods
but I've heard it all before
So I try but I can't say anything new
That makes me sick but I'm still doing better than you
Frantic drift, frantic drift, frantic drift, frantic drift
Say I'll be alive in the future after the war
And tell me things will be better than before
And tell me tales of lights
and time and space
and tell me there'll be problems
I can face.
I don't care if you're lying...
Tell me a story, let me drift
Tell me a story, I'm frantic let me drift
Oh tell me a story, I'm frantic let me drift
Tell me a story, let me drift
Wouldn't you like to see me fail
See myself and then turn tail
Lose all my drive and the music goes stale
But let me warn you I'm very careful
In fact I think you should be fearful
I still don't want to see you hurt
I still don't want to see you cry
You never tried to talk to me
You look upon me as way down there
Your flaming head up in the air
I still like you I think you're great
Talk with me, talk with me, talk with me, talk with me
it's not too late
Some day, some day, some day, some day,
some day, some day, some day, some day,
maybe, maybe, maybe then
if anybody is, it's me
I'm the Flamethrower
You don't need to repeat it, repeat it
I hared it the first time time time
Well, you won't stop by
And tell me what the trouble is
I couldn't care less, ha ha, but my double does
And he told me we're both superseded
So why not drop by, burst my bubble for me
So simple to be cynical
Respond to things with ease
Once an attitudes selected
Then behavior is a breeze
They think they've got it covered
But they've got it all wrong
Hard people make hard times far worse
Not the reverse
It's the contemporary trap
They want to tell you where it's at
When the past is thought irrelevant
Our destiny's black
For they've limited themselves
To an urbanite perspective
And the build-up, rear-down
Press-gang acid attack
Familiarity breeds contempt
And suppresses attempts
Familiarity breeds contempt
Sour seeds grown into stifling creepers
Bitterness feeds on a drive alive
And now my heart bleeds
Familiarity breeds contempt
And a row of resentments
Familiarity breeds contempt
Dawn draws near
Time flies quitely
Soft warm felt close by
I lie here quite still, it's a thrill
She, who sleeps alongside
A stranger last week is part of my life
I look at her with just one single sheat of cover
Sunlight playes above her
Will she stay and share some double summer?
Life never tires of great surprises
Love may have touched us here
And summers in the air
Eeverywhere
She seems very like me
The longer we spoke the more I could see
That if we were to join our forces
And combine resources
We could share this summer and enjoy its deeper secrets
Life never tires of great suprises
Love may have touched us here
With something we'll share
And some sometimes I hear distant thunder
Troubles bubbling under and I start to worry
Maybe she will crush my concerns so they scatter like
dust
Not a thing in this world would be stronger than us
If she said that she'd stay
I forever more treasure her trust, for that's enough
But maybe these are flights of fancy
When she wakes she'll leave me
Then I see her watching, and she's smiling
Life has the strangest way of saying
Love will occur here now
Here goes double summer, share it with one another
Here goes double summer, share it with one another
Here goes double summer, share it with one another
Here goes double summer, share it with one another
Here goes double summer, share it with one another
Here goes
I almost wish I could forget you
In reality I won't
Though Summer with my arms around you
Seems hopelessly remote
It won't be long
And our love is strong
It won't be long, it won't be long
if nothing goes wrong
I would tell you loves eternal
But eternity is such a long time
Which we both know we won't handle
With solitude so unattractive
But we don't have long
And now we've this greenhouse on
No, we don't have long, we don't have long
Has something gone wrong?
Aaahhhh
I'll try to delay this desperate deal
By mailing eight letters that say how I feel
For if you weren't here
There'd always be clear reminiscence
Sensing your presence
Don't be a stranger
And don't be - memory
Cozy in the North wing
Taking turns at Swamp Thing
Listening to The Byrds sing on the tape recorder
Praying that we might gain time and understanding
What's the use, the phone rings
Sends another order
The uncaring power to memory
So crippling in its clarity
Those spiteful spikes of sentiment
I'd love to make some sense of it
But I won't be long
And our love is strong
No, I won't be long, I won't be long
Has something gone wrong
Aaaahhh
Sensing your essence
So reminiscent
A forgotten flavour
Don't be - memory
Feeling resented
Unrepresented
Please don't regret it
Stay in bed till much too late
Scanning situations vacant
The face in the mirror looks withered and old
My skin is grey - I can't go out - I'm always cold
In the doledrums
On the dole
In the doledrums
On the dole
Counting down lonely hours
Drinking lots and taking showers
I no longer dream about the rest of my years
I'll check the letterbox - does anyone care?
In the doledrums
On the dole
In the doledrums
On the dole
But the benefits arrive and life goes on
The benefits arrive and life goes on
There's slumber on the land, dawn slow to break
And then rays rouse your memory
You lie awake and shake there
The last time you saw them gains such significance
The things that you'd hoped stop making any difference
So think about the fallen bravely in the morning
It'll take some believing later in the evening
When the sun's gone down and solitude surrounding makes
you wish they'd come around, only once more
Let them go, they just have to unwind
Don't hold them back, they must leave you behind
All's said and done, you can't keep them around
Bound up in dead web, dead web, dead web, dead web
I see there has to be a mourning after
I wonder whey the race to mourn the last though
And smother those soaked in sorrow
I hope I'm not unkind it's just an attitude
I found I don't mind much
I find it unfathomable
But as the sun goes down
A siren in the distance blows the loneliest of moans
And every time there's something in the sound
Shivers through my soul
Its starts my heart racing fast
Like purity in rock and roll
And then I grieve for those, the world's apprentice
undertakers
Wasting life on funerals and wake arranging
Bury their responses to the trauma
And the need for tears to flow
Let them to, they just have to unwind
Don't hold them back, they must leave you behind
All's said and done, you can't keep them around
You tell your friends you're just well built
but maybe you're fat. Have you thought about that?
You've got to bite that food, got to bite that food
You've gotta get it inside you.
You better try diet before it's too late,
or I'll remove your excess weight with a potato peeler.
You've got to bite that food, you've got to bite that food
You've gotta get it inside you.
Bite that bun, bite that pie,
you gotta drink that shake before you die.
You've got to bite that food, bite that food
You've gotta get it inside you
You've gotta get it inside you
You've gotta get it inside you
You're the king of the obese, you say you can't do anymore
but I'd like to see you as a prisoner of war.
You've got to bite that food, you've got to bite that food
You've gotta get it inside you
You've got to bite, bite, bite,
you've gotta get it inside you (etc)
You've got to bite, bite, bite, bite, bite
You've gotta get it inside you
You've got to bite, bite, bite,
you've gotta get it inside you (etc)
Cancer signs on are all wrong
Can’t seem to form a firm felling at all
Chilled to the bone alone in jeopardy
Floating on tones and sound I seize, here in the water
For the deep black sea, it longs for me
It thinks that’s where I belong
Ready or not, they’re here
Treading the water
Dreadful and dark things drew nearer (nearer)
Circling round they’re so close I shudder
Fins fan my face with delicate spray
Swelling and swaying
Scared all the small fish away
For the deep black sea
She years for me
She says with her I will stay
I’d consider swimming for shore
Arms are swollen and sore
Watching the awesome glide
Hear their unholy howl, as Water Wolves prow
I will think of something for sure
Dada da da da da, dada da da da da
Dada da da da da, dada da da da da
Dreading the water, pray they go away
Where are my wolves?
No sound
Then wind ships around and ripples are crowned
Crescent and wake appear
Overcome fear, overcome fear
They come over here
We’re thrashing around
We slowly spiral down
For the deep black sea longs for me
It thinks that’s where I belong
I sit here and wonder
I wonder what's out there
I wonder what's out there?
I hope they can hear me (3x)
Chorus
I'm making plans for the great escape
The great escape from here
I'm taking off for a better place
and better people who care
And no-one can hear me
No one can hear me (2x)
There's light and there's dark
and sometimes I just can't tell them apart
I'd rather drink a wishing well
if this is the way things are
Chorus
And no-one can hear me
No-one can hear me (3x)
No-one can see me
and no-one comes near me
I'm sick of the sight of those children of gloom
And those there spouting speeches
All their talk in speech balloons
You know, I'd like to educate them
Though I don't suppose they'd care
To dig around the roots that grew their boots, salutes
and hair
They're here to stay in this crooked game
that they're expecting to play for no return
So soon they learn for all their pain
They're tied up in chains that appear to change
We feel we must be others and that this is more than
that
If egos are inflated they can crush a people flat
Once we took a break and stopped and smelt and felt the
Dacchau air
If I'd thought I had a point I had it strengthen over
there
We're her to stay in this crooked game
That we're expecting to play for some return
But soon you learn for all your pain
You're tied up in chain, your fears have made
So Operation Degradation
Spring again to action
For that fairy-tale faction
And their custom-built crusade
We're here to stay in this crooked game
That we're expected to play for no return
And soon you learn for all your pain
You're tied up in chains your parents made
We're here to stay in this crooked game
That we're expected to play for no return
And soon you learn for all your pain
You're tied up in chains your parents made
And they were dangling by chains their parents made
Over there the row of trees is merging in with the
evening
And then blackness consumes the forest
Within there lies a glade
And a flattened impression of the love that we made
When I was young I used to watch TV
Now people love to tell me it was all fantasy
But they made it seem so real
They made it seem so possible
Don't ask me to forget them because I won't
I'll visit the glade and I'll watch TV
Is sustaining past illusion just insanity
When it makes me so much braver
I can turn to the world and say
I'm strong enough to face the oncoming day
Sitting alone at night in my dark bedroom
Trying to explain myself in a song to you
When a weird burning shape from a headlight outside
Slid from the ceiling to behind the piano to hide
Then extinguished itself on the carpet and died
The stars mingle inseperably
With the lights of houses that I seen
The shadows of the leaves on the walls shiver
In a vivid twisted frame of grey
From a streetlight outside, its time nearly expired
To make way for the oncoming day
No one
No one
No one can take your memory away from me
Some days I say will I give in to the oncoming day the
oncoming day
The oncoming day
I think of words to tell you
I find nothing fine enough to say
Nothing worth anything, nothing worth nothing
Nothing left in this lump of grey
That even vaguely says I love you, in a way that
pleases me
So I'll let the oncoming day say it for me
And in the days that followed
In the back of my mind
The black skies sunk on distant countries
No one
No one
No one can take your memory away from me
No way
No way
No way will I give in to the oncoming day
Theres a part of me that's in disgiuse
Though I fight to see it won't arise
I'd avoid your eyes, denying
Something dark and primal surviving
I have another side I try to hide
It can not escape, cause if it tries
There are defences raised around it
For I chose to keep it surrounded
Gotta stay on guard always
Wanna keep my caveman hidden
Every one has some off-days when we make bad descisions
Each man I've seen has some animal behaviour in him
Some can conceal better the male monster from the id
Got out, destroyed his cage
Saying thoughtless things with mindless rage
And I've seen him harm those I'm close to
With his charms he's so hard to see through
Gotta stay on guard always
Wanna keep my caveman hidden
Every one has some off-days when we make bad descisions
Each man I've seen has some animal behaviour in him
Some can conceal better the male monster from the id
The male monster from the id
I hurt you
I'm sorry
And I promise I won't do it again
And I'm meading all my errors
I really am
But my Mr. Hyde, he lies and lies
He'd take a superman to supervise
But imagine all the damage if the hidden man that took
live in Forbidden Planed survieves
I'm not like that every day
I'm not normally that way
You need convincing I can tell
I don't say this very well
I'm sorry
I hurt you
And I promise I won't do it again
I'm meading all my errors
I really am
The male monster from the id
The male monster from the id
The male monster from the id
Snow alights as dark sea grows
Then far below lies softly glowing
Snow turns slowly into water
I know deep down hidden in you submarine bells chime
Gold and groaning, sunlit toning, submerged sound
sublime
So the colder, deeper tolling
Reaches dissolution
You wish a vicious whirlpool go swirling round and
round
I can watch in wonder as your gaze shifts past my
shoulder
Just a glimpsed abyss that flashes at me
I know deep down hidden in you submarine bells chime
Gold and groaning, sunlit toining, submerged sound
sublime
Since the weakest currents bruise it
Someday I may lose this
Immersed in words sand miss you
Kiss foaming waves goodbye
I slice the surface here beside you
Lungs filled liquid yell I love you
Sound moves further underwater
Deep and dark my submarine bells groan in greens and
grey
Mine would chime a thousand times
To make you feel okay,
He feels them all watching, alone in a crowd
He sees only targets who whisper too loud
His mother has gone now, survived by her son
A soldier of fortune, an unfortunate one
I told them, I told them
To leave me alone
They were laughing at my voice
So I silenced their own
Never trust a man with camouflage gear
Never trust a man with camouflage gear
He's hiding from something, enjoying your fear
Never trust a man with camouflage gear
They're moving in closer
In darkness they hide I'm really not frightened
And I'm ready to die
Never trust a man with camouflage gear
Never trust a man with camouflage gear
Never trust a man with camouflage gear
Can you hear sounds forming in your head
Do they say more than you've ever said
Will you share them, will you hoard instead
People take so much, they use and discard
If you try to touch their rules are hard
They may still return your gifts unopened
Others made the same mistake
Men like Wilson, Barrett, Walker Drake
On the journey they were forced to make
People take so much then leave if you lean
You have no safe crutch, except your own conviction
It drives your lovers and keeps at bay the others
They flee the starving artist or bleed to feed his
heart
Hunger hunger
Hunger hunger
Hunger hunger
In New Zealand our volcanoes and towns
Rest together in peace, keep their roots in the ground
But that stone and wood explodes in a rage
If you can't accept a cage, then you threaten danger
Patrons will not feed you longer than they need to
Your all-consuming passion will leave you craving love
Hunger hunger
Hunger hunger
Hunger hunger
Hunger hunger
Hunger hunger
But we still have this
And we always bring
It's our best defense
We can drop it on anything
It's a soft bomb
Try soft bomb
Think soft bomb
Be soft bomb
It's strength from within
When outlooks are bad
And if pacifist impact
Sounds too much of a fad
Try soft bomb
Think soft bomb
Go soft bomb
Be soft bomb
Soft bomb
Soft bomb
Soft bomb
Soft bomb
Soft bomb
Soft bomb
Soft bomb
If you'd asked me at a concert standing by The Clean
I'd have said I'm okay, and this is what I mean
But now a little later a crisis has evolved
Those ancient complications remaining unresolved
They say you have to give them what thy want
Say you have to give them what they want
Say you have to give them what they want
Say you have to give them what they want
I'm tearing all my hair out with my hands
I'm tearing all my hair out with my hands
I know what they will never understand
I know what they will never understand
I didn't want to say that and I am
Didn't want to say that and I am
Didn't want to say that and I am
Didn't want to say that and I am
The years dictated changes, I always knew the would
We shared a common language that's seldom understood
So now a noise surrounds me, a million harsh guitars
The same incessant dance beat, those harnessed,
harmless stars
They say you have to give them what thy want
Say you have to give them what they want
Say you have to give them what they want
Say you have to give them what they want
I'm tearing all my hair out with my hands
I'm tearing all my hair out with my hands
I know what they will never understand
I know what they will never understand
I didn't want to say that and I am
Didn't want to say that and I am
Didn't want to say that and I am
Didn't want to say that and I am
More and more, more and more
More and more, more and more
More and more, more and more
How many years now of anticipating
I can't help hating the waiting and waiting
Believing that time will alleviate all ill
Or in the long run create some asylum
I've heard all the brilliant advise
I learned that everything comes in a price and that the
truth is harder
I was wrong
We're going to lose each other for so long
A sad waste, that bittersweet aftertaste
I don't want to face up the facts
I know the truth is harder, that right or wrong
We're going to lose each other for so long
Cause at the moment I'm boarding my plane
I don't know when I'll see you again
And our feelings may just fade away
I've been avoiding those questions, questions
There'll be a calmer time when everything's organized
Everything's simplified
No one persuading me to seek some prize that isn't
found anywhere
Just karmic injustice here but who do you sue?
We're going to lose each other
We're going to lose each other
We're going to lose each other, so long
I hope we can handle the yearning and learning
Cause we can't keep these wheels from tuning
It felt right that tender respite
Before the warm interlude drifted from sight
And now we lose each other, now we lose each other
We're going to lose each other for so long
So long
Cause at the moment I'm boarding my plane
I don't know when I'll see you again
And our feelings may just fade away
I've been avoiding those questions, questions
I've been avoiding those questions, questions
I've been avoiding those questions, questions,
Eyes, I've opened mine
I've seen they signs
We live in times designed to test, select the best
And train the rest to serve and blindly follow
Rise giants, can't have you sleeping so long
Start stretching, we need your strength to move on
Stand tall in defense of your land
Reach out lend us a hand
For it seems all cultures dream
They have a giant who is sleeping
Or a king who will return in times of need
To fight for setting his people free
They teach the kids which fads to follow
So they're unaware tomorrow
When another crippled culture
Dies in the shadow 'neath the corporate vulture
Rise giants, how have you slept for so long?
Start stretching, we need your strength to move on
Stand tall in defense of your land
Rise up to fight the force that draws us backwards
Back along the track we just came down
Everyday losing ground
For so few dare to move forward
Or even look all around
When people before could take it no more
They'd create a big friend like Gigantor
By getting in touch with force and much more powerful
stuff stored deep within us
For it seem all cultures dream
They have a giant who is sleeping
Or a king who will return in times of need
To fight for setting his people free
Free, if anyone asked me
I'd take the chance and shake the Red King
To see, if we are in his dream
The time's right, we should wake all our giants
We should summon them now to rise upon our enemies, and
like dominoes they will fall over
for I believer our destiny is lying in the eyes of our
Singing in my sleep
A word from the wise for the mindless
Hoping to keep all the silences out of my life
Singing in my sleep
A stinging reproach against violence
Hoping to cope with the pressures of musical life
Changing my values
A leader of people who're guideless
So doing add to collection
The title of blind leading blind leading blind leading
blind leading blind leading blind
Dangerous rages and amplified airing of anger
Repression of feeling
Preserved for a later date
The search for compassion
And attributes found in those younger
Finding, however, unaccountable harrowing hate
Craving reaction
A hideous terminal hunger
Starving for life in a world with so much on its plate
Singing in my sleep
Songs of such beauty and sadness
Earth's emotions enraptured
Satin doll
Satin doll
Satin doll
Satin doll
She was just my little satin doll
I met her down by the blossom tree
She has beauty like the moon far beyond my words
Like a sunset flock of firebirds, oh
Satin doll, satin doll, satin doll, satin doll
I can't take her no more
I can't take her no more
I can't take her no more
I can't take her no more
Satin doll, satin doll, satin doll, satin doll
Her voice disappeared over the hills
Over mountains made of blue crystal
She was just my little satin doll -
I met her down by the blossom tree
(Where is she?) In a rain forest. Satin doll
(Where is she?) In a sunny field. Satin doll
(Where is she?) Oriental garden. Satin doll
(Where is she?) In a paper temple. Satin doll
She was just my little satin doll -
I had to face you again
I had to taste you once more
Alone
I had to hit that wall
With you as my mentor
And watch my wretched flesh rot
Inhaling the stench of regret
Feeling life stripped from my vertebrae
Free in my toxin vortex
Peak hour
Sewer Side
I had to face you again
I had to taste you once more
Alone
I had to hit that wall
With you as my mentor
Rising from the bile of today
I refrain from that touch
The change is made within an innocent breath
A veil around an existence
Accursed with a solitary death
Dancing a line of unending decline
Over chasms I knew not to be
A wave of emotions 'pon desolate oceans
That drown in a lust to be free
Though birds may sing it is oft unsure
Does the joy of life from their spirits stem?
To grace the skies yet shy away
From the eyes that most adore them
All that is hurt and all that is loved are one
Does the blood on these hands
Now dry in the heat of the sun?
Admist a sea of tranquility
Must I writhe on a desperate shore?
A spirit and mind no longer aligned
With an honour I cannot restore
Guilt shall feed the nightmares
That I slumber with this eve
Tomorrow I must walk among the shame
How sad it is, a mind that
Harboured such control and pride
Do I only have conviction
When my opinion lives in isolation?
Is this portion of reality
A frail and tangential foundation?
Who mapped the course
To this quizzical, grotesque junction?
I can't romanticise these demons anymore
I can't serenade another empty balcony
I can't endure one more eve on this fetid ship
With the insincere bounty of a mutinous soul
The machine grinds ever on
With a radiance perceived by wretched eyes
That lead me home again when I'm blinded
By the truth within my lies
I can't romanticise these demons anymore
I can't serenade another empty balcony
I can't endure one more eve on this fetid ship
I fear the path we walk is my decline
That greater deeds, through fate, I shan't perform
So long was spent defining how to shine
'Twas never learnt that rays are best when warm
To ashes unfulfilled we stagger hence
My neuron, my nemesis, you lead me
Through every nightshade vision one can sense
Inherent in my art is to feed thee
Perhaps the path traversed shall never grow
Yet such conjecture is naught but sorrow
The greatest seed may yet be left to sow
Midnight brings us closer to the morrow
To ashes unfulfilled we stagger hence
My neuron, my nemesis, you lead me
Through every nightshade vision one can sense
Inherent in my art is to feed thee
This phoenix I must fly into the sun
I decline April's fall
High time to refine and vacate
Still I'll miss such listless bliss
This path was the last recourse
Lucid hopes
Chaos merchants
Mingling thus
Socialise this conscience
Dream that dream
Spirits will employ
The slaughterhouse to guide you here
Nexus to hollow lies
Jaded is the ocean view
Redefine your anodyne
The company profits today
I imbibed
Every drop to survive
To keep alive
Lifeless wills that I scribed
Elucidate
When the depths take my hand
Blinded by the moment I claimed this mire
A refuge from amentia and an epoch of desire
Labouring alone beneath the mirror of the sky
Transcend this foul elixir
The firmament is nigh
I won't concede I am a relic of the damned
I have scribed
Every word to survive
To keep alive
Lifeless drops I've imbibed
Elucidate
When the depths free my hand
Blinded by the moment I claimed this mire
A refuge from amentia and an epoch of desire
Labouring alone beneath the mirror of the sky
Transcend this foul elixir
The firmament is nigh
I won't concede I am a relic of the damned
Time conceives you like a tide within the ocean's eye
Never shall I love another earthborn face
And I (the knave, the fool) will stay inept
Condemned to forge a barren hell
To deify and then dispel
That summers' love....... in winters' rain I wept
At the vista on the edge of forever
Where the party is culminating thus
Iago deals a hand again
That I have not the wit to comprehend
Above all else our birthright to be shackled will remain
And paths we choose can only be so wide
To greener pastures hence?
(Who knows?)
The joker rocks the fence
But in pastures, green or barren, we abide
At this vista on the edge of forever
Where the party has culminated thus
The deified can now ascend
To where I've not the wit to comprehend
With the currency of damnation
Her mind engulfed with loathsome thoughts,the devil and dismay
The burden of lifes' theatre and the stage on which we play
Autumnal sun, no peace upon that burning, pale skin
Frustration writhes around her yet the pain, it writhes within
Amidst the roaming clouds her seething feelings slowly burn
In knowing that he placed above all others shan't return
For time will pass and never shall he come again to grace
The wondrous glow he once professed to see upon her face
To death betrothed
Her union now a myriad of lies
As dry in every way as burning sands
In midnights' cover he covets another
The all alluring vesper lover
Left every grain to filter through her hands
Alone again to reminisce of when her eyes were privy
To the grandeur that is morn of every day
Resplendent still, she walks in ghostly mists of those betrayed
To mourn encroaching dusk and self decay
To fade as light into the night, forever incomplete
As one we will embrace the dusk
Of times we all lament
For every aspiration lost
And every fortune spent
Such hellish thoughts relinquished
In the nightmares heaven sent
Reflecting on the obsolescent
Moments that we gauge
Embody what is life
Is just the stigma of an age
A monkey is the king
Of every kingdom in a cage
Exquisite is the maya
That pervades in every way
As life, the subtle prelude
To a posthumous display
Embraces like a lover, as a thief
It walks away
As babes we thread dimensions
Of an aged infinity
From a past bereft of vision
To the darkness do we flee
The monkey may be caged but tell me
One must be remiss when their prospects of bliss
Will abandon all reason to blend with decay
A banquet of fools in the lunatic season
The cards that I've dealt are so vulgar today
Enchanted with the flow
I swim these streams
Of tears
Once torn apart
That meet as one
To dwell beneath the eye in realms of dreams
And thrive within the shadows of the sun
It is through this I will drift empty handed
With a destiny sailing half mast
This sun, may it set on obscurity yet
And arise when the now is the past
I cannot recall why I'm taking a fall
I'm abandoning reason
This blend is decay
I dine with the fools in the lunatic season
The cards I've been dealt are the cards that I play
Enchanted with the flow
I swam these streams
Of tears
Once torn apart
That met as one
And dwelt beneath the eye in realms of dreams
Where once a naive child learnt the ropes of life and pain
An ashen path has forged to view those remnants with disdain
As leaves descending earthward are a seasonal display
Within those trees and subtle breeze I fell to grace today
Where once a sheltered boy had learnt the sadness of his past
An ashen path has forged to burn the memories at last
As snakes discard their fettered skin and carry on the same
Without that flesh the life is fresh, as though reborn again
Shadows of a candle once adorned
With ambiance beneath a dying flame
Unending is the grief so long alone
The crying light to death reborn again
Reborn again
Reborn again
Today the snakes lie naked
And the land's adorned with leaves
And I rest upon the sunset
With a soul that's learnt to breathe
Today I fell to grace
Amongst a thousand rising embers
Beneath the sky they fade and die
You see me hang my spirits high
My dirty linen's out to dry
I've sought not freedom nor espy
Placating reason in the rhyme
A vindication of my crime
To ridicule the most sublime
Is an art I wish to kill
Now I'm crowning new dementia
With the thorns of yesterday
Liaising pandora
Laureate of disarray
Each eye through blindness finds it's sight
Each peak through valleys finds it's height
Each wrong through nil can make a right
For nil will excavate that strain
Nor subjugate the caustic pain
The linen doused within the rain
Again and again and again...
Now I'm crowning new dementia
With the thorns of yesterday
Liaising pandora
Laureate of disarray
And I'm breathing in absentia
Through the thorns of every day
Liaising pandora
The night sky lights the fallen star
To hold us in it's grasp yet mock us from afar
As cancer holds us all askew
To mourn the dying now and start a life anew
The shadows move the moonless breeze
Across the lustrous shore
As flames engulf
The anechoic halls forevermore
In fields the night is but
A thousand interwoven beams
To close my eyes and never rise
From interlunar dreams
My dying moment's searing kiss
The final proclamation
Of what I'll never miss
Beneath infinity I see
The radiance within
And what I loathe in thee
How did the source of all things grand
Become a mortal tomb?
How did such sadness stem
From love embodied in the womb
From earth the night is like
A calling home, or so it seems
To close my eyes and never rise
From interlunar dreams
The futility of being,
The heavenly despair
The gushing smears of pain
At last unfurled
As crimson love expands
Around a now eternal stare
I dream alone
Thirteen years
Inside your play
To rise one day
And find you dead
The world had fled
With much unsaid
My last paternal kiss
Thirteen years
I missed your touch
I missed so much
A life unfurled
That hand you held
That child you hurled
Against a razor fence
In mine eyes such hate did shine
Devoid of knowledge, ill-defined
Nurtured in protective lies
There is no conquest in demise
Nineteen years
Outside your play
I broke that day
And rose to feel
The distance heal
Drift now in peace
My last paternal kiss
A life unfurled
That hand you held
That child you hurled
My better self was always born tomorrow
Though the wings of failed seraphs I would borrow
As nights became obsessed with introspection
The days a contravention of reflection
Within the I'd a stranger did I form
A lily on the waters of a storm
I always searched the mountain for the chasm
The catalepsy caught within the spasm
I can feel no more as this empty shell
I can feel no more as this empty shell
Delusions in the grandeur of the dawn
When they finally claim you
All matter will cease, all dreams will expire
And with a dead angel's touch
And the loss of myself
The vapour will fade
Until the day that I join you
When you finally take yourself
Day will be night, all will be nothing
As the flickering candles that lit up our chess
Can burn no more
When the queen has fallen
Now I cower in this hollow room
Acutely aware that the time is approaching
When what I love above all else
Will be only my greatest memory
It's both tragic and symbolic
That in your darkest hour
Chagrined, I lie ensconced between the dreaming and the dead
Let my eyes perceive degrees and not directions
For the sanguine expectations that embellished prior years
Are the fervent hopes now lost in imperfections
The emaciated soul seeks to conceptualize itself
In an illusion to the temporary real
Within, thus beyond, we segregate our spirits
From the probing hands that touch but cannot feel
Through cognitive dysfunction aspirations stay utopian
Like dying leaves that to their branch still hold
Unaware their will may yet delineate futility
They agitate a flame already cold
Plagued with trepidation through the volatile states
Foreordination links me to the now
For even if I sought escape I'd only leave despair
