I don't think I'm any closer now
Than I was at fifteen
I still don't know what I really want
Or how I really feel
Sometimes I think I've seen too much
Sometimes nothing at all
And sometimes I think I just forgot
What I was looking for
But I still need to believe in you
I still need to know you'll never
Never give up
I believe in you...
So how can you ever let
My hope turn to despair?
How can you ever stop
Telling me you care?
But I still need to believe in you
I still need to know you'll never
Never give up
I believe in you...
So how can you ever let
My hope turn to despair?
Tell me you believe it too
Tell me that you care
How can you ever let
My hope turn to despair?
How can you ever stop
Pretending?
hold on to the thread
the currents will shift
guide me towards you
know something's left
and we're all allowed to dream
of the next time we touch..........
you don't have to stray
two oceans away
waves roll in my thoughts
hold tight the ring...
the sea will rise...
please stand by the shore...
i will be...
i will be...
there once more.........
1969, Live version
Here comes the ocean and the waves
Down by the shore
Here comes the ocean and the waves
Dawn by the sea
birthes a hollow hair
Part of a figure head
It nearly drive me crazy
I am a lazy son
My death would get things done
Mostly they ho-ho-ho
But here comes the waves
Down by the shore
Washing the eye of the land
That has been
Down by the sea, down by the sea
Down by the sea, down by the sea
Here comes the ocean and the waves
Down by the shore
Here comes the ocean and the waves
Dawn by the sea
Insects are evil thoughts
Fought off by selfish men
It nearly drives me crazy
I am a lazy son
I never get things done
Mostly they ho-ho-holler
But here comes the waves
Down by the shore
Washing the eye of the land
That has been
Dawn by the sea, ...
I don't think I'm any closer now
Then I was at fifteen
I still don't know what I really want
Or how I really feel
Sometimes I think I've seen too much
Sometimes nothing at all
And sometimes I think I just forgot
What I was looking for
I still need to believe in you
I still need to know that you
Will never, never give up
I believe in you
So how could you
Ever let my hope turn to despair
How could you
Ever stop telling me you care
I still need to believe in you
I still need to know that you
Will never, never give up
I believe in you
So how could you
Ever let my hope turn to despair
Tell me you believe it too
Tell me that you care
How could you
Ever let my hope turn to despair
How could you
I am the west wind.
I am the sea gull.
I dance on the waves,
As they break on the shore line.
The moon is my sorrow.
The moon is my lantern.
I search for you so long,
These dark lonely beaches.
Oh where can you be?
This restless sea,
These empty nights,
Have swallowed me.
Look for something
Softer illusions
Soothe these vicious schemes.
There is the old one,
The wise one, the gold one.
I am the hunger,
The ache of the fiction,
And nestles in bones,
That he left for the vultures.
Death is my secret,
A child my illusion,
And life is the suffering,
That brings men to (something?).
Oh, where can you be?
This raging age,
This rotting life,
Is misery.
Lost in your body,
Cave of you screeming,
Longing to be free.
Then you have broken,
The spine of your madness,
Come over here to me.
Deep in the ocean
A thought of you carries me there
Move in slow motion
I float above you in the air
Over the ocean
Across the sea
When I think of the ocean
It is there to remind me
High on a mountain
I look at the valley below
The sun shines upon them
But I'm up here in the snow
Over the ocean
Over the sea
When I look at the ocean
It is there to remind me
Deep in the desert
One flower standing alone
Faith hope and love
So you think you're in the middle of the ocean
Stranded on an island of your own
Or stuck in the top of a mountain
Either way you're gonna say you're all alone
And I hesitate to say that you're a liar
I never tell the truth myself
But I tried to chase you down and I got tired
So I'm leaving you to you or someone else
''cause you never wanna hook up in the middle
And I'd meet you there to talk if you would show
But you answer every question with a riddle
And refuse to even choose to let me go
It used to be I'd tell you all my secrets
Giving you the credit you deserve
I guess you didn't care to lose or keep it
And we never quite connected from the first
And I wish I had a way to make it better
To rearrange the world and make you smile
But it's dumb to even think I had that power
And we haven't been that close in a while
And I don't even wanna try to name it
Explain it for the one who couldn't care
''cause all that matters is the way you choose to frame it
And I hesitate to say that you're a liar
I never tell the truth myself
But I tried to chase you down and I got tired
So I'm leaving you to you or someone else
''cause you never wanna hook up in the middle
And I'd meet you there to talk if you would show
But you answer every question with a riddle
I've got to keep on keeping on
I just wanna be beside you
Wanna do the best I can
Even though you've made it plain
You don't believe in love
I can't let you go
I can't walk away
Come on baby can't you see
All the need in me
Like the ocean speaks
To the naked man
The rhythm of your heart
Is like a sonnet
Pure and sweet
How you haunt my memory
Believe me baby
In this brilliant world
You're the best
You're like a porcelain charm
A perfumed smile, a teenage blush
You're like champagne roses
Come on baby can't you see
All the need in me
Like the ocean speaks
To the naked man
I've got to keep on keeping on
How can I live without you
Got to make you understand
Each species has a mate
And fate says you'll be mine
I won't let you down
Come on baby can't you see
All the need in me
Like the ocean speaks
To the naked man
The rhythm of your heart
Is like a sonnet
Pure and sweet
How you haunt my memory
I believe in angels
You leave me no alternative
You're like a butterfly
A gospel choir, a sun kissed sky
You're like sensual velvet
Believe me baby
In this brilliant world
You're the best
You're like a porcelain charm
A perfumed smile, a teenage blush
You're like sunshine roses
Come on baby can't you see
All the need in me
Like the ocean speaks
To the naked man
Come on baby can't you see
All the need in me
Like the ocean speaks
When the night will gather darkness
And black clouds unadorned
Only poets, dreams and madmen
If there is a love song left to sing
Then what I have is what I'll bring
Nothing more is more than I can give
If there is a light left in my eyes
It must be your reflection from the sky
Cause all I know is this
You are the wonder of my world
You are an ocean that I can get lost in
The first wind on my shore
You are the sunrise to open my eyes
And the dark night is no more
You are an ocean, You are an ocean
Every time I turn around
There's so much more left to be found
And every glimpse steals my breath away
So open up these eyes to see
More of you and less of me
And all my fear is turning into faith
You are the wonder of my world
I'm drowning in your love
I'm drowning in your love
Not coming up
I'm not coming up
When you look out on the ocean
And all you see is skies all painted gray
And when you look back on the notion
Yes, you see it's almost went away
And when you're acting like it just ain't right
All you see is almost gonna stay
And when you knowing that it just ain't right
The time has come
And the spell, has broken forever
It's time, I'm longing for home again
And I fly, from the eye of the storm I come
I see that shine, whereever I roam the land
I'm Alive, alive I'm riding back to the sun
Distant places, different traces far away from here
Distant places, different traces so far away
Over the mountains, over seven seas
I'm diving into an ocean
Gliding with the stream
Over the mountains, high over seven seas
I'm flying on emotions
Soaring on the breeze
A cry, the sound of my tragedy
Hear the sigh, with relief in my heart again
Peace in my mind, and I'm riding on the wind
She says that she likes the ocean
There's a house up on the hill
Where you can just make out the ocean
There's a woman there waiting for your hard work
And every breath she takes is like artwork
And I think that I can just about touch the ocean
There's 1500 miles between me and my next real smile
I think that I can just about smell the ocean
I'm full of unquestionable devotion
But I think I put a terrible thing in motion
She says that she likes the ocean
There's a house up on the hill
Where the air smells like the sea
I left my heart up there, rusting in the salty air
I tried to make it home but I lost the key
It's been 600 days since I laid eyes on your gorgeous face
I'm trying to make it home but I lost the key
I'm waiting for the Lord to set me free
I'm wishing that you were standing here next to me
She says that she likes the ocean
She says that she likes the ocean
There's a house up on the hill
(She says that she likes the ocean)
Where you can just make out the ocean
(She says that she likes the ocean)
There's a house up on the hill
It used to feel like home
(She says that she likes the ocean)
There's a house up on the hill
Where the air smells like the sea
(She says that she likes the ocean)
Even though I know you're gone
The memory lingers on
I see your footsteps on a sandy beach
That waves have been crashing on
Danger goes where emotion flows
I wish sometimes I'd never known love
It's dangerous the way I can't move on
lost and emotion
Only an ocean could know
The weight of the world on my shoulders
Thinking of you, my love
I wish I could drown out emotion
Until only the ocean knows
Walking down the boulevard
The water still calls your name
A thousand tides may rise and fall
But darlin' I feel the same
You said it's dangerous to love so deeply
I never cared I fell completely
It's dangerous the waves crash on the shore
But never repeating
Only an ocean could know
The weight of the world on my shoulders
Thinking of you, my love
I wish I could drown out emotion
Until only the ocean knows
Wash me away
Carry my heart on an ocean
Love has forsaken
Been taken to somebody else
I wish I could drown my emotions
Until only the ocean knows
And I still hear your song
It's in the call of the ocean
It has been here so long
Only an ocean could know
The weight of the world on my shoulders
Thinking of you my love
I wish I could drown out emotion
Until only the ocean knows
Wash me away
Carry my heart on an ocean
Love has forsaken
Been taken to somebody else
I wish I could drown my emotions
Until only an ocean
Only an ocean could know
Only an ocean could know
The weight of the world on my shoulders
Thinking of you my love
I wish I could drown out emotion
Until only the ocean (knows)
fading like a wilted flower
even in our finest hour
all the dreams you realize
are sleeping here with me tonight
hhmmmmm
words are falling off the pages
letters kept locked like birds in cages
feeling like I've lost my mind
here forever missing you
in dreams of lavish gifts we hide
but if you'd wake up near me here
you'll find that
I would be the water of waves in
oceans crashing on the shores of your body,
am forever sinking in your sand.
Don't have to look much farther,
Standing strong for you ,
I'd steal all the salt from the raging sea,
to bring back loves divinity today
pieces fall along the way
scattered thoughts of yesterday
if I could find a way
to put this back together again
a dream you keep inside your mind
and if you wake up near me
you will find
I would be the water of waves in
oceans crashing on the shores of your body,
am forever sinking in your sand.
Don't have to look much farther,
Standing strong for you ,
I'd steal all the salt from the raging sea,
to bring back loves divinity today
look what you've got
look what you've got
cause you're not getting any younger than
today
fading like a wilted flower
this could be our finest hour
all the dreams you realize
are sleeping here with me tonight
I would be the water of waves in
oceans crashing on the shores of your body,
am forever sinking in your sand.
Don't have to look much farther,
Standing strong for you ,
I'd steal all the salt from the raging sea,
to bring back loves divinity today
look what you've got
I was walking on my
Hands and knees
Searching for the ground
I had fallen from
And as I ran my fingers
Through the long string grass
And she found your ring and
I placed it on my hand at last
I won't cry, I won't cry
Looking up, I saw your face
Or was it just a cloud
Ooh (oh, ooh)
In a marble sky?
And you marched away
In your evening dress
And I waved goodbye
To you just like this, like this
(solo)
As I ran my fingers
Through the long string grass
And she found your ring and
I placed it on my hand at last
I won't cry, I won't cry
I won't cry, I won't, I won't
I won't cry, I won't cry
Down, down, down (not one lonely tear)
Down, down, down, down (not one lonely tear)
Down, down, down, down (no, not one stupid tear)
If the wind could bring the rain
I would save it all for you
Make an ocean to sail away
And begin again
They said, I could never change
That it can't belong to you
Then I watched you slip away
In the ocean's arms
I will never get you back
It's like fallin' down a wave
Fallin' down a wave
I will never get you back
It's like fallin' down a wave
Fallin' down a wave
If a star could light the way
That could take me back to you
And the rain could wash away
Everything I've done
Only melody remains
So I sing my song to you
As I watched you slip away
In the ocean's arms
I will never get you back
It's like fallin' down a wave
Fallin' down a wave
I will never get you back
It's like fallin' down a wave
Fallin' down a wave
Fallin' down a wave
I will never get you back
Like fallin' down a wave
I will never get you back
I will never get you back
It's like fallin' down a wave
Fallin' down a wave
I will never get you back
Like fallin' down a wave
Fallin' down a
I will never get you back
It's like fallin' down a wave
Fallin' down a wave
I will never get you back
It's like fallin' down a wave
Fallin' down a wave
I will never get you back
I will never get you back
I will never get you back
I got a thing for fish with no eyes
Who swim deep in the sea
With nothing to see
I've got a thing for mountians of sand
Left all to their own
To quietly stand
won't you help me now...
Take me to the bottom of...
Take me to the bottom of...
Take me to the bottom of...the ocean
I got a thing for mermaiden tails
Swim naked with me
Your hair of seaweed
I got a thing for sunken shipwrecks
With booty of gold
I don't care if it's wet
won't you help me now...
Take me to the bottom of...
Take me to the bottom of...
Take me to the bottom of...the ocean
Come with me
Into a cool blue stream
Bleed into oceans green
Lips open wide, drinking the tide
Reach for me
Here where the ocean sea melts
And you sink with me deeper inside
I'll make you mine
Take me down
Down where their voices drown
Down where the only sound
Echoes for me
Take me down
Down where their voices drown
Down where the only sound
Echoes for me
Floating away under the waves
Kiss me again, you'll tell me when salt on my lips
Cool fingertips under the sea
You're leagues across a room
The lighting's so dim I hardly see
You're talking and waiting for me
You're getting much smaller as you speak
You're pulling out your hair for nothing
What you say to me rings clear
I'm growing so big, so dumb and blind
I'm forty stories high
Don't run away from me
I tell you, my eyes are black as iron
I'm stepping on houses, trees, and towns
My crying makes everybody drown
I died right in the ocean
I died just like a whale
maybe you can be my ocean. but keep in mind, darling i'd, prefer to drown. so dream of me and i will be the devil fucking you. you know me...i hope youre sick of being deep. i cant stand being at the bottom of this sea without you. please sink. cause you can be anything here. you can be a dream, you can be my angel in the sea., if youre sick of being deep.
[Instrumental]
maybe you can be my ocean. but keep in mind, darling i'd, prefer to drown. so dream of me and i will be the devil fucking you. you know me...i hope youre sick of being deep. i cant stand being at the bottom of this sea without you. please sink. cause you can be anything here. you can be a dream, you can be my angel in the sea., if youre sick of being deep.
He who stands by me
Through the stormy weather
Through good times and bad
Always there for me
Takes me to the water
And quenches my thirst
My sweet inspiration
I wanna say
[1] - Your love is an ocean
Wide as the skies
A comfort to me
Time after time
Your precious love
Fills up my cup
Touches my soul
He who knows me better
Than no man on earth
Guides me to the mountain
Witness my rebirth
Makes me feel so worthy
To belong to him
I treasure my commitment
And it's because of...
[Repeat 1]
When I think of your love
A ray of hope shines through
And shatters the darkness I felt
Erase all the doubt
And the fears that chains
And guides me to your Heavenly place
Ooh
I know you'll always be there
Through thick and thin
I know I can depend on you
Through thick and thin
You comfort me with loving arms
Through thick and thin
Kiss my eyes
My eyes
Ooh, ooh ooh
[Repeat 1]
Sing it again, sing it again
Repeat 1 while:
You're a comfort, to me
I praise you, praise you constantly
I gave you my heart, gave you my soul
I want you to know that I love you
I give my praise to you
Liquidized emotion water takes you in deep within the ocean i could sleep for days hours only minutes thoughts of imagery lure you from your spectrum solve your misconceptions you and me under the ocean eternally deep in the ocean you and me equalize and deamonize performing of a ritual got to find the center meaning or your purpose i could sleep for hours only minutes only days underneath beneath the waves liquid and intangible you and me under the ocean eternally deep in the ocean you and me deep within the ocean feel so disconnected spiraling for messages i could sleep for days hours only minutes tangible specific you and me under the ocean eternally deep in the ocean you and me you and me under the ocean eternally deep in the ocean you and me liquidized emotion thoughts of imagery performing of a ritual got to find the center equalize and demonize i could sleep for minutes i could sleep for minutes only hours only days feel so disconnected spiraling for messages deep within the ocean deep within the ocean i could sleep for minutes i could sleep for minutes feel so disconnected
And God said,
Let there be the lights
In the firmament of the heaven.
Let there be lights in heaven to divide the day from the night;
And let them be for signs, for seasons and for days, and years;
And let then be for lights in the firmament to give light upon the earth.
And it was so, and God made two great lights;
The greater light to rule the day,
And the lesser light to rule the night; the stars as well.
And God set them in the firmament to give light upon the earth,
And to rule over the day and over the night
And to divide the darkness from the light.
Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters
And God said,
Let the waters bring forth, abundantly, the moving creature that hath life,
And foul that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.
Yes, the hopeless are those who never lose their hope.
And the heartless are those who never kill a foe.
The speechless are those who always move their tongues.
And the lonely are those who have the strongest bonds.
You've been waiting for a morning to come.
After years in the dark started hating the sun.
In the end you denied that it had ever shone.
And maybe you're right.
But is that what you want?
And yes, your feelings are justified: the only colour you know is the colour of night.
The matrimony with the devil: Your closest bond.
It's all in vain.
If that's what you want... Yes, the hopeless are those who never lose their hope.
And the heartless are those who never kill a foe.
The lifeless are those who think they're never bored.
And the infidel are those who never fucked a whore.
Life is sour, so full of maggots and bugs.
And you still it's too short to just give it all up.
Yes, it's all in vain, if that's what you choose.
But are you sure that's your wish?
It's your own choice to carry your cross.
I will pray to the Son
He was crucified for me
And I will pray to the Father
"You shall have no gods besides me!"
I will pray to the Holy Trinity
And I will pray to the moon and the sun and the stars
I will pray to Saint Luke the writer of the Gospel
I will pray to Saint Paul and ask him to cure my affliction
I'll pray to Mary second only to the Lord
Will pray to the moon and the sun and the stars
One God, or three?
Where does it come from
And how was it made?
Who died in the process
And who got paid a starvation wage? Shopcops protect
A terrifying place
Willing to serve you 24 hours a day
Slick etiquettes
A great masquerade
Fluorescent tubes illuminate milelong aisles
Aseptic floors
Colorful shelves: myriads of products, but all their content is the same
Fooled and deceived
Who made us fall for this sham?
Who made us swallow the bait that we need all that shit?
Place your blind faith
In every produce
Don't hesitate or enquire, just follow our rules
No one complains
Customer is king
Why would you bother, just enter the pin
Who made us fall
Fall for the myth
That we would be better off with everything at our fingertips?
No one realized
How somewhere along the line
We have surrendered to the great void in our lives
Overwhelmed by the immense selection
Exerted to cover our inanition
Afraid that there's something that we could be missing
We'd pay any price to buy everything
We stand in line and smile....Celebrate the great emptiness of our lives
Celebrate the great emptiness of our lives
Celebrate the great emptiness of our lives
There's a stubble field
On which a black rain falls
There is a tree which, brown, stands lonely here
There's a hissing wind
Which haunts deserted huts
How sad, this evening
Past the village pond: the gentle orphan, returning home
Still gathers scanty ears of corn
Golden and round
Her eyes are gazing in the dusk
And her throbbing lap awaits the bridegroom... returning home
Shepherds found the sweet body
Decayed in the bramble bush
A shade... I am remote from sombre hamlets
I drank from the woodland well
The silence of God
I can feel the touch of cold steel
Spiders look for my heart
There is a light that fails in my mouth
On my forehead cold metal forms
Spiders look for my heart
There is a light that fails in my mouth
I drank from the woodland well
You cannot make me feel guilty
I dont give a shit about respect
I wont join your moral masturbation
Im the prodigal son gone off the tracks
You cannot make me feel sorry
I dont give a shit about your pride
Im the cat piss on your carpet
The last crushing thought before you die
Dont fit in your picture
Dont fit in your world
Dont match all the lies you feed your kids
Feel no loyalty
This deal was made without me
Sure i never signed it
Your contracts dont apply to me
I'll fuck your dog
Do you still want to get along with me
I'll rape your daughter
Over the payment of asmall fee
I'll fuck your dog
Do you still want to get along with me
I'll rape your daughter
We draw your eyes to our images: Carrot and stick.
We've got a sense for what makes you tick.
The more out of reach, the more desperate you'll be trying to get it.
We're the sweet distraction sure to provoke a reaction.
We'll show you what you need: You can be sure this world is yours if you're paying for it.
Once we've got your attention we might sell you something you don't have the cash to pay.
Put it on credit.
Pay by instalment.
Sit back and chill: and wait for your consignment.
We make you pay to eat
We make you pay to sleep
We make you pay to breathe
We make you pay for any pleasures you could come up with
Now we reached our goals: We keep you stuck in a job that you loathe.
Now you're dead on the whole because you're bound to pay us off.
At the end of a tiresome day of repetitive work without having a say you crave for nothing more then mere dispersal:
Turn on the TV and switch off reality.
And here we are back again with our screens of perfection: The perfect distraction.
Fancy cars, furbished shopping marts: All that it takes to make you fall for our candy-bars.
What a fertile symbiosis: You help us pay our bills.
And in turn we assist you: Keep treading the mill.
We set the standards.
We embody all you ever wanna be.
We play with your insecurities.
Inside our squalid homes: a safe place behind security doors.
Sheltered from all we better ignore: the starving, the homeless, the dying, the poor...
Any utopia only makes us scoff.
It's all "ok" as long as all can be turned on and off,
As longs as we can relax in our comfort zones and explore the world with the remote control.
This city breathes death and disease.
A dying bastard on a drip.
Part of the myth.
They have taken whatever they could find: knocked on our doors,
Or krept inside: replacing everything with an image of it.
Who told you that the street never sleeps?
They've taken everything and sold you ease instead.
Now lean back: All you need is at your fingertips.
Pale screen shines down on you.
Sniggers and takes you for a fool.
Tell me what are you gonna do?
Suck up the praise.
End of a meaningless day.
The next one will be strictly the same.
I refuse to shroud my past
These walls in here allow no rest
Tomorrow morning I'll be dead
But this place will burn before the sun will drown in the ocean
And nothing will ever be the same again
Yes, you can put me to the test
Or you can cut my tongue at last
Ideas are wandering through my head
What if all that I never said were true?
And if everything that is happening were due?
Pouring whiskey in dried-out bodies
Coarsely hewn by wood and love
Deep inside them smolders slowly
Thick as yeast, green bitterness
Helpless, their eyes are blind
And all their thoughts are simple
Their ears are deaf
And all their songs are trivial
Their loves have gone sour
And all their looks are vacant
Their food is foul
The art they make lacks the challenge
All their minds are empty
All their thoughts are simple
All their songs and books are trivial
All their ears are deaf
Birds who once flew with passion
Now they're easily caught with bare hands
Locked in cages, learning their lessons
Bullets for the already-dead
Tasteless, our tongues are dumb
And all our speeches are hollow
Our minds are numb
And all our books are hollow
Our lobes are sour
And all our looks are vacant
Our food is foul
The art we make lacks the challenge
All our minds are empty
All our thoughts are simple
All our songs and books are trivial
All our looks are vacant
Birds who once flew with passion
Can easily be caught with bare hands
Locked in cages, learning their lessons
Bullets for the already-dead
Can you still see
The stars
The Sky
Then layers of grey?
They're fading away...
Can you still see the stars?
It's hard to think of the ocean
With the sweet stench of piss in your hair
Morning air still invades every wallpaper cell
Year after year after year
All these years those walls were empty
Curtains yellowed, now white of mold
Lardy plaster, the paint is peeling
From the ashtray: swathes of blue smoke
Corrosive waters
Black rain falls the seventh time
Unyielding minds of coal
Jaws open wide
They changed the beds
Yearly white sheets weeping like shrouds
This is the chamber where their god spent his final hour
Can you still the stars through layers of grey
Or have the city lights taken their place?
The stars are fading away
away
away
away
Eyes leap at the bait
We march in circles under Jupiter's sway
Eyes fall prey to the cheat
For the great blue cold now reigns
Adamantly taking hold of every bruised, battered heart
And every slack, weary limb knuckles down
For we shall bend to the cause: the open sea awaits us all
Surrender breeds no remorse
We suffered through the ordeal
They came to get me in my dreams
To take me down to the ocean
Only in death shall we be sage
And see that heaven lies behind
And we shall quake, reading those words on this book's final page: for the great blue cold now reigns
For the great blue cold now reigns
Certain and endless, it seemed
But every petty grain of sand
And every bone will be washed out to the sea
Numbness unfurls in each and every brain
The coast now is clear
The air is thin
And as your own plot unfolds
It gets more difficult to bribe
The magistrates of your own psyche
What will you say when all the lights go dim
And the cup of disappointment is full to the brim? For the great blue cold now reigns
For the great blue cold now reigns
Only in death shall we be sage
When every ocean has dessicated
And we shall quake, reading those words
Lo! Death has reared himself a throne
In a strange city lying alone
Lo! a strange town, lying alone
Death has reared himself a throne
Far down in the west
Where the good, bad, worst, and the best have gone to their eternal rest
There, shrines and towers:
Death has reared himself a throne
Time-eaten towers that tremble not
resemble nothing, nothing that is ours
Down, down in that town, shall settle hence:
Hell rising from its throne, no earthly moans,
Shall do it reverence.
No rays from heaven coming down
On the long night-time of that town
But light from out the lurid sea
Streams up the turrets silently
Gleams up the pinnacles far and free
Up domes -- up spires -- up kingly halls --
Up fanes -- up Babylon-like walls --
No swellings tell that winds may be
Upon some far-off happy seas
No heavings hint that winds may be
On seas less hideously serene.
But lo, a stir is in the air!
The wave -- there is a movement there!
As if the towers had thrust aside,
In slightly sinking, the dull tide,
Acquiescently beneath the sky
The melancholy waters lie
The waves now have a redder glow
The hours are breathing faint and low
And when, amid no earthly moans
Down, down in that town, shall settle hence,
Hell, rising from a thousand thrones.
Shall do it reverence.
Down, down in that town shall settle hence,
Hell, rising from its throne, no earthly moans,
Shall do it reverence.
There are open fanes and gaping graves
Yawn level with the luminous waves
But not the riches there that lie
In each idol's diamond eye
Not the gaily-jewelled dead
Tempt the waters from their bed
So blend the turrets, shadows there
That all seem pendulous in air
While from a tower in the town
Death looks down
But lo, a stir is in the air!
The waves have now a redder glow
The hours are breathing faint and low
And when amid no earthly moans,
Down, down in that town, shall settle hence:
Hell, rising from a thousand thrones,
Shall do it reverence.
Far down within the dim west
Where the good and the bad and
The worst and the best
Have gone to their eternal rest.
Waves have now
A red glow
Hours breathe low
The sun is a luminary whose egress
Is an opening of the sky
Which is found on the west
And in the east lies its ingress
The sun is rising through six openings
And there are six through with it sets.
The moon uses the same
And all the stars, they guide their way.
First there goes out the greatest light
whose name is the sun.
It's round just like the roundness of the sky;
filled with light.
The chariot in which it rises is
driven by the blowing wind.
The great light sets in the west
and returns by the Northeast.
In order to go to the east, it is
guided so that it shall reach
the eastern gate and shine
in the black face of the sky.
First there goes out
the greatest light
whose name is the sun.
It's round just like
I can tell you what I've seen
I can no longer believe
I can't tell you how I feel
I do no longer believe
There's no ambiguity:
If Venus shows all phases like the moon
The earth must revolve 'round the sun
But no one will believe me:
It's like nothing
Like nothing I've seen was for real
But it's all real...
I no longer believe
But maybe I should keep this to myself
I raised my eyes up high toward the night sky
I've been searching for the eyes divine in countless nights
Sitting out the goosestep
Of the long march of the Yes-men
As their gold card wielding wives
Are consumed by bitterness
It takes a lifetime to conceive
That your days in the sun are but brief
So they snivel, and repeat the echoes
That buzz off every screen
No wonder that the sociopaths
At the top of the human thrash pile
Refer to us as cattle: we are branded, sold and fatted
We're raised for a purpose
A drear existence on the work farm
And then a quiet death in the nursing-barn
"You must pay your dues", cries the humble mind
We're distracted with excuses
Why we can't reach for the stars
And so we never spring to arms
To claim back what's being taken from us here
Every single fucking day "If you can't beat 'em, join 'em", another one cries... We're distracted with excuses
Why we can't reach for the stars
And so we never spring to arms
To reclaim what we are loosing
I enwrap myself in black sheets to match the sky
And you would do the same if you just opened your eyes
But lets stay like this for a while
Let's just keep silent and immobile
Enjoy the pleasure of dying daylight
The cold kiss of a desert night
Out here on my own is where I feel....
Where I feel most at home
I'm stuck in between your flesh and my bones
I embrace the gift of dying daylight
The cold kiss of a desert night
I enwrap myself in black sheets to become one with the sky
And you would do just the same if you opened your eyes.
Eyes
Night
At this time of the year
The skies are mostly grey and overcast
A steady wind blows relentlessly
and time is passing by so fast
Let the rain purge the land
Wash it all away
The days are getting shorter
A long white foamy band: my solitary vessel plows through the turbid green water
Looming large, in the distance: snow topped mountains are drifting by
The whole scenery immersed
In a surreal yellow late-afternoon light
I've been here before
I know this scene
There are jellyfish in the foam
And then it all came back to me... How the wind played his gentle game
Nebulized and beguiled me
With your wisps sweet with lemon
And the bruisers on your chin
Spoke the truth
About our everything
And spared you a sermon... I've been here before
I know this scene
And the waning northern summer light
Reflecting in the freckle of your right eye
The setting sun's last desperate rays
[Instrumental with a quote from the movie:"The Life of David Gale"]
"What it means to be fully human is to strive to live by ideas and ideals
And not to measure your life by what you've attained in terms of your desires but
Those small moments of integrity, compassion, rationality...
Because in the end, the only way that we can measure the significance of our own lives
Is by valuing the lives of others"
"Fantasies have to be unrealistic
Because the moment - the second - that you get what you seek, you don't - you can't - want it anymore.
In order to exist, desire must have its objects perpetually absent...
It's not the 'it' that you want, its the fantasy of 'it'.
We are only truly happy when daydreaming about future happiness...
This is why we say: "the hunt is sweeter than the kill", or: "be careful what you wish for" - not because you'll get it: because you're doomed not to want it once you do.
Air filled with sand lashing in my face
I can't see you fifteen feet away
I can hear you somewhere in the distance
I have lost you
The air is filled with sand
Eroding my skin
I can smell you in the air I'm breathing
I can feel you everytime I'm falling
I can taste you
You're the sand I'm eating
I can't kill you
The air is filled with sand
Eroding my skin
All trees cast their leaves when you're around
All colors grow pale, all tones lose their sound
Air filled with sand
It's eroding my skin
All wheels stop turning
Now take the night-bus and begin all over again
Some things fade faster than you would believe
Some memories sway your thoughts for a while
Yet some might be etched into your skull so deeply they'll never grow pale
Sliding deeper and deeper into disaster
Don't want you to see the state I'm in
Where do I end, where do you begin?
Air filled with sand
It's eroding my skin
All wheels stop turning
Now take the night-bus and begin all over again
Sliding deeper and deeper into disaster
I'm on the speed-ramp going faster and faster...
Lets stay in bed today
The sun ain't shining anyway
Completely knocked out, unable to move
Dwelling in daydreams, I'm closer
I'm closer to you
I enwrap myself in black sheets
To match the sky
I no longer want to see
The bitterness in your eyes
You start killing the flies
You start killing the flies
This is the imperative of devotion:
A command to consistent actions
To defend our most heartfelt convictions
Against attempts of self-protection
To cut them down to size of reason
What we feel is true
I can't abandon you
I lost something forever in you
It all breeds only pain though I can't discard it
Grow to the sun.
We fell on rock.
Awoke with broken bones.
Crawled our way back at rugged dirt roads to find we're not alone and never wanna go back home:
We'll never go back home.
Drain me.
I can't find no place to rest.
What I've been searching for does not exist.
All arrows point inwards: The white in my eyes will shine.
All plans forgotten: I've drawn a brand-new sign.
Sometimes it all seems so tasteless.
We carry on just the same, regardless.
My heart is hollow.
All I feel, so shallow.
Show me someone to follow.
Give me something to crave for.
What I've been searching for doesn't exist:
You're my fetish
My favorite toy
Pierced with needles
I'm sure you'll enjoy
Gagged and hogtied
Spanked and caned
I'll always savour your grace in chains
I will flock you to death
Can you feel the thrill?
I will make you eat shit and control your will
I'm the master of the needle in your clit
There's no easy way out
If you faint I'll get you back
Mouse-traps hanging on your nipples
Saliva sliding down your chin
Thumbtacks under your tortured knees
Pain won't end, you'll never win
I will flock you to death
Can you feel the thrill?
I will make you eat shit and control your will
Since I cannot own you I just want to kill you
On their long journey that leads them toward the light;
Winston Smith shall be their guide
They are trying so hard to believe that two and two makes five.
Reason won't concuss the irrevocable truth
And if there's contradiction:
Keep the faith, burn the proof
In order to protect ourselves from the superstitions of priests and moralists
And the trickery of evangelists;
Let us be done with the idea of moral law:
Where do your values come from?
From inside yourself?
Or from some self-appointed moral cognoscentes
Who disguised their own ideas
As universal truth?
[whispered]
Trying so hard to believe
There are moments in life
When man with his louse-ridden hair
Casts wild staring looks
At the green membranes of space: for he believes, he hears, somewhere ahead
The wry hoots of a phantom
He staggers and bows his head: what he has heard is the voice of his own conscience
He is determined and alert
And with the speed of a madman he rushes out
Takes the first direction his wold state suggests
And bounds over the rough plains of the wield
But the yellow phantom never loses sight of him
Chasing him with equal speed
Sometimes on stormy nights
When legions of winged octopi
Which look like ravens at a distance
Hover above the clouds... moving ponderously towards the cities of men, there, in the dark, their mission is to warn them....
On such nights the dark eyed grit, sees two beings passing by
One after another
and wiping a furtive tear of compassion: which flows out
From its frozen eye
It shouts out "yes, certainly he deserves it, it is only justice being done!" Having said that, he reassumes his grim attitude
And continues to watch
And continues... to watch, trembling nervously, the manhunt
The phantom makes a clicking sound
with its tongue as if to tell itself it's giving up the chase
His is the voice of the condemned
And when its dreadful shrieking penetrates the human heart
Man would prefer to have death as his mom
Than to have remorse as his son
I have seen him making for the sea
Climbing a jagged promontory
Lashed by the eyebrow of the surge
And flinging himself down, into the waves
The miracle is this: the corpse reappeared the next day
On the surface of the raging sea... Which had brought this flotsam of pale flesh back to the shore
The man freed himself from his body's imprint in the sand
He wrung the water from his drenched hair
The man freed himself
From his body's imprint in the sand... Wrung the water from his drenched hair
We are divine.
Deities of the modern age.
The sentinels of humanity's cage.
We are divine.
Captivators of the greatest bane:
We're the phantoms you'll never see watching over your sleep.
We are in your dreams.
See our symbols again.
Won't get them out of your head.
They exude sensations of wealth.
Temptations noone with-stands.
We are divine: captivators of the greatest bane.
The sentinels of humanity's cage.
We let you breathe the foul air of supremacy.
We design your identity to complain with our needs.
Hear our slogans again.
They're made to linger in your head.
They gaze at you from the screen.
From all the glossy magazines.
We are the living proof for all the non-believers:
What can't be bought or sold is nothing but a fallacy.
We are the magistrates for all the great relievers.
Gods of the modern age:
Nothing can stop us
Nothing can halt us
Your children work for us eight hours a day.
You know that we give them the shittiest pay.
Your politicians do whatever we say.
We've conquered the earth and set up our flags all over the world.
We're twisting the facts.
Wherever you turn: Billboard attack
This world is ours.
Trust our knowledge.
We're here to share.
Feel the aura: sway and power.
Feel us everywhere.
The will to pay for the lowest stakes the global game.
The will to partake in the greatest bane: The modern age.
A prime mover only shifts the problem
If every complex structure needs an architect;
Then this prime mover must be even more complex than anything he created
Who made your architect?
Who made your architect?
Where does he come from?
You sure know the rules
To turn all heads to your menu
For this is all you show
... For this is all you have to offer
As she grows pale and old
This color was never your own ever since you bought the security of control
With then feet of soil on your chest to choke any whiff of animation
Bury all risks forever
Walk on blood-red sands
Soaked with the grief of coveting docile hands
Crushed by your own rocks
And this is what you draw upon:
Feast on the purity of breathing organic matter
No need to cut off her wings:
Your words lay like stones in her stomach
She takes everything
She's the queen of the food-chain
The last one to starve
Yes, it's quite hard to believe
That we all come from the same seed:
The scrub, the cockroach and the human being
It's hard to see how the perfection of complex organs was achieved without an engineer
But all you see is the human eye
On top of the mountain peak, so high
A steep wall of rock
Impossible to climb
Our imagination is left behind
But there is a gentle slope on the backside
And even worms have simple eyes
That help them distinguish darkness from light
From here it just takes a long long time
to the miracle of the lens eye
Our brains are accustomed to the scope of a lifetime
We will never be able to see how the sluggish vessel of evolution
Is slowly creeping up the hill
Uphill
There's no other solution
There's no other solution
Bread and games... or should we say: sugar and chains?
The blood of exposure: our sweetest drink.
Decapitate the confessor: the audience is waiting.
Watch all your achievement go down the drain.
Vengeance at any cost: now get in the ring.
You sure took precautions and still you drown.
Rise and fall: The higher, the deeper.
They made you flirt with divinity.
From now on you're free.
So stick your cock up her ass.
No need to cheat.
No need to confess.
Where is your secret?
Pull off the blanket!
Discard this veil of shame.
Mild rays of the sun will burn your eyes
After dwelling in darkness for the rest of your life
Mild rays of the sun will burn your eyes
After dwelling in darkness
Walking out of this cave
This forlorn place that I used to call mine
Now daylight burns my eyes
The earth is shaking
Times are changing
The Clock is ticking
Even down here we won't be secure
The ceiling crumbles
Over my warped head
Giving way to broad daylight
Am I already dead?
Mild rays of the sun will burn your eyes
After dwelling in darkness
In this cave that I used to call mine
Searching for shelter
Right after the raid
Cover up your eyes: the most human trait
Don't want any change
I prefer to stall
Why can't we appreciate the gift of free fall
Freedom is what scares us most of all
We duck for cover in our shelters and caves
Freedom is what scares us most of all
And our horizon is never more than 2 steps away
I'm about to faint
So much to see
So much to hear
So much to dare
So much to share
So much to feel
So much to steal
So much to taste
No time to waste
My tongue is burning
My eyes are watering
My mind is turning
I'm overloaded
My limbs are aching
My ears are bleeding
System's collapsing
I'm about to faint
So much to do
So much to try
So much to lose
Before we die
So much to feel
So much to steal
So much to taste
No time to waste
My tongue is burning
My eyes are watering
System's collapsing
I'm about to faint
So much to feel
So much to steal
So much to taste
No time to waste
I'm about to FAINT!
So much to feel
So much to steal
So much to taste
Tonight the earth opened up and swallowed quite a lot of all the pretty things
That don't mean anything to me nor to you.
Nor to anyone who likes the feel
Of cold wind blowing from the sea
And dead leaves falling from the trees
Whirling through the air
Like rotten vessels on their way
To the ground
Warm rain kept pouring down
The streets submersed in rising water
And all the clouds were looking down
Upon the people seeking shelter
They are afraid of being carried far away
To some place where they feel they don't belong
But deep inside they feel that maybe any place,
No matter how far away,
Would be better than home.
And no one realized the Gods in Heaven
We're giving all of them a reason to go
And no one expected the water
That now reached up to their throats
Swallowed by the earth
They disappear
A City of the blind
Their vile inhabitants
Abashed by their own lives'
Insignificance
The silent void of cogitations
Absence of signification
Committed to burn twice as long and half as bright
We're dashing forward with our eyeballs turned inward: until the end of time, the human eye
Staring wide-open into the horror of the mind, shall never ever sleep again
We have awoken from our sleep
Nevermore shall we be unheeding as the flock of sheep
Grazing ingenuously
Living blithely
Roaming insouciantly
Forgetting instantly
Every night
I'm swooping with the vast span of my wings
Into the death-throes of my memory: the eternal scourge of the human mind
I'm wandering in times which are not mine
Terrified of what I'm about to find
I'm trying to stop the past's rapid flight
I'm wandering in times which are not mine
Lost in between the shit and the shine
The snake of fear creeps into our hearts at night
Subdueing every mind at bedtime
What will it take to arrive
And cease trying to stop the past's rapid flight? How much more do I have to go through
To prove myself that I'm still alive? We are living in pain
The wind of the past will always shake you in the end
We're waiting for the day
When we will attain the ability to forget
For, every day of our lives, the present is painful
The future unknown
The sting of the past is what makes every moment unbearable
Put your hand in the hand
Of the man who stilled the water
Put your hand in the hand
Of the man who calmed the sea
Take a look at yourself and
A you can look at others differently
By puttin' your hand in the hand
Of the man from-a Galilee
Every time I look into the Holy Book
I want to tremble
When I read about the part
Where a carpenter cleared the temple
For the buyers and the sellers were
No different fellas than what I profess to be
And it causes me shame to know
I'm not the gal that I should be
Put your hand in the hand
Mama taught me how to pray before
I reached the age of seven
And when I'm down on my knees that's a
When I'm close to heaven
Daddy lived his life with two kids and a wife
You do must you must do
But he showed me
Free man, you shall forever cherish the ocean!
The sea is your mirror; you contemplate your soul
In its eternal waves that chafe and roll
Your mind's abyss is bitter as the sea
Both of you live in darkness and in mystery
Man, who has ever plumbed the depths of your being?
O Sea, who knows your hidden riches
Seeing the secrets you preserve so jealously?
You love to plunge into your image down to the core
Embracing it with eyes and arms: your very heart
Sometimes finds a distraction from its urgent smart
In the wild ocean's untamable roar
Both of you live in darkness and mystery
Man, who has ever plumbed the depths of your being?
O Sea, who knows your hidden riches
Seeing the secrets you preserve so jealously?
And yet for countless ages you have fought each other
With hands unsparing and with unforbearing breath
Each an eternal foe to his relentless brother
So avid are you both of slaughter and of death
Man and the sea
Man and the sea
Man and the sea
Man and the sea
Eternal wrestlers! Man and Sea
Unrelenting twins! Man and Sea - You have fought each other
Man and Sea - With unforbearing breath
Man and Sea - Eternal Wrestlers! Man and Sea
Man and Sea - Each an eternal foe to his brother
Let them carry me away
To any place that they have chosen for me
One day I become the stream
The stream that flows to the ocean
The moment of peace
Right before drowning
The final release when I'm becoming one with the sea
Whatever you do, you won't be saved
Whatever you hope,. its an illusion
Cause happiness can't be held in place
There are no one-time-solve-all solutions
There is no end
As far as I see
There is no future
There's only now
Just you and me... one with the ocean
I have been searching all around the globe
For a secret gate out of this world
Only to find there's no such place
The only peace I find is in constant change
I have been searching all around the globe
For a secret gate
Out of this world
Out of the cold
True sorrow doesn't flirt with hope
No matter how great it may be: hope rises twice as high
But spare me these seekers!
Leave me in peace
Down with them, down, down, down, down! That which suffers, does never hope
For they will no longer impress me
With all of the solemnity and with the voice of my greatest days: I call to you my hearth, glorious hope! Wrapped in the cloak of illusions
Come and sit beside me
On the tripod of appeasement
With a whip of scorpions I chased you! If you wish me to believe that
You have forgotten all the grief
Which my short-lived repentance caused you: Well, then bring along with you
The sublime procession - hold me up, I am fainting! - of all the virtues which I offended... and their everlasting atonements
Yes, good people
I order you to burn
On a spade red-hot from the fire
And with a little yellow sugar for good measure: to burn the duck of doubt
With its vermouth lips... which in the melancholy struggle between good and evil
Shedding teardrops which are not heartfelt
Creates everywhere, universal emptiness! It is the best thing you can do
Certainly, flesh and bone, you have no reason to blush: but listen to me
I don't invoke your understanding
It would spit blood at the horror you cause! Better forget all about it, and be consistent with yourselves! There were no constraints there
What have you done with me?
You ruined everything
and you don't even see
I still can't believe this is real
My mind plays tricks on me
Please wake me up and say it was just a bad dream
I can't talk
I can't think
I feel dead
All I see is red
I am sick
I can't get up
I see no way out
I need drugs
What have you done with me?
You ruined everything
I bet you don't even see
I want peace
Don't know where to start
I don't wanna feel like this
I'll cut out this heart
Feed it to the pigs
"They will cry aloud at last that the truth is not within Thee, for they could not have been left in greater confusion and suffering than Thou has caused, laying upon them so many cares and unanswerable problems.
So that, in truth, Thou didst Thyself lay the foundation for the destruction of Thy kingdom, and noone is more to blame for it."
[The Grand Inquisitor to Jesus, in Fjodor Dostoevsky "The Brothers Karamazov"]
One is supposed to be submerged in belief
Somehow by a miracle
And from then on to swim in it
As in the least ambiguous of elements
And even just a glance towards land
The thought that one perhaps might be there for something else as well as swimming
Even the slightest impulse of our amphibious nature is sin!
As the symbols of the metaphysics
Of the hangman are taken off
The walls of our living rooms
Humanity emancipates
Christ statues fall and die of age
Just like us in organic decay
The myths of the martyrs have waned
No longer do we mourn their loss
Their children dance and play their games
In the shadow of the great old white cross
Wealth heals all wounds
And alleviates any kind of pain
The shroud of collective oblivion coats
Any individual scars
The widows of the skeptical
Have passed away before they ever could retaliate
And those who baptized the world with the sword
Have long been buried and have not arisen from their graves
The guardians of righteousness
Have lost their immaculity
The rise of the enlightenment
Has defeated Christianity
But its legacy of fear and submissiveness prevails
In many brave man's heart and soul
The saddening conception
That humanity cannot choose its own destiny
With our lives based on the hope for salvation
The humanist paradigm is nothing but a charade
Condemned to inertia, a passive race
We wait and contemplate
And even in these days and age some people still believe
That earth is at the center of God's own universe
And that man was made the 7th day, evolution is a myth
And that even bones of ancient creatures are no evidence
Of the fact that we are not the end of the chain
And they won't leave their ship that is sinking
They refuse to leave their ship that is sinking
And while they spoke of grace and love
Forgiveness from above
They nailed thousands of non-believers
To their crude symbol of love
And they won't leave their ship that is sinking
They refuse to leave their ship that is sinking
The myth that man is the crown of God's creation
Breeds the excuse to deplete the earth today
The myth that man is the crown of God's creation
Supports our present anthropocentric misconception
And even in these days and age some people still believe
That earth is at the center of God's own universe
And they won't leave their ship that is sinking
They refuse to leave their ship that is sinking
The myth that man is the crown of God's creation
Breeds the excuse to deplete the earth today
The myth that man is the crown of God's creation
The soul must have its chosen sewers to carry away its ordure
This functions is performed by persons, professions, the fatherland the world
Or for the really arrogant: by the Good God himself
Christianity has been from the beginning
Life's nausea and disgust with life
Merely concealed behind
Masked by, dressed up as faith in "another" or "better" life
If He knew it all
If He knew everything there is to be known
That would mean that He would always know
What to do next to change the course of history
He could choose to suspend the laws of nature
He would always know the past and the future
But this would make His own knowledge untrue
For if He knew everything
He could not do anything different from what he knows
And even if he could hear our prayers
He could not encroach
There's no one here who knows it all
There's nothing there beyond the world we know
There's no one here who knows it all
Is there something there beyond the world we know?
There's no one here who knows it all
There's nothing there beyond the world we know
There's no one here who knows it all
Is there something there beyond the world we know?
There's no one here who knows it all
There's nothing there beyond the world we know
There's no one here who knows it all
I had a dream which was not all a dream:
The sun was extinguished,
And, the stars wandered dark-ling in space,
Ray-less, and pathless.
And, the icy Earth swung blind and blackened in the moonless air.
And, men forgot their passions in the dread
Of this, their desolation.
And, all hearts were chilled into a selfish prayer for light:
They did live by watchfires,
And, the throats of crowned kings.
Habitations of all things which dwell
Were burnt for beacons.
(Oh, Lord)
I lack strength (I lack strength)
To turn and leave you.
There's no confidence (I lack strength)
In my hesitation.
Happy were those who dwelt within the eye of the volcanoes.
Their mountain-torch: A fearful hope was all the world contained.
Forests were set on fire,
But, hour by hour, they fell and faded.
The crackling trunks extinguished with a crash,
And all was black.
The brows of men, by the despairing light, wore an unearthly aspect.
The flashes fell upon them; Some lay down, and hid their eyes,
And some did rest their chins upon their clenched hands, and smiled.
(Oh, Lord)
I lack strength (I lack strength)
To turn and leave you.
There's no confidence (I lack strength)
In my hesitation.
She was the universe.
She was the universe.
And, vipers crawled,
And twined themselves among the multitude,
Hissing, but sting-less.
They were slain for food --
A meal was bought with blood.
And each sat apart,
Gorging himself in gloom.
No love was left.
(Oh, Lord)
I lack strength (I lack strength)
To turn and leave you.
There's no confidence (I lack strength)
In my hesitation.
(Oh, Lord)
I lack strength (I lack strength)
To turn and leave you.
There's no confidence (I lack strength)
"I think that if the Devil does not exist, and has therefore been created by man, then man has created him in his own likeness and image"*
[Ivan Karamazov, in Fjodor Dostoevsky "The Brothers Karamazov"]
The devil sows in you a tiny grain of faith
And it will grow into an oak tree
You will dine on locusts
Even if I did not believe in life,
If I lost my faith in the order of things,
Were convinced, in fact, that everything is a disorderly, damnable, and devil-ridden chaos;
If I were struck by every horror of man's disillusionment,
Still I would want to live,
And, having once tasted the cup,
I would not turn away from it
Until I had drained it.
You are trying to save me.
You are trying to save me --
But, perhaps, I am not lost.
If I were struck by every horror of man's disillusionment,
Still I would want to live,
And, having once tasted the cup,
I would not turn away from it.
Is an unworthy, uncaring father still entitled to the love and respect of his sons?
You are trying to save me --
But, perhaps, I am not lost.
You are trying to save me --
But, perhaps, I am not
Lost.
There is no comfort in the idea
Of the eternal soul to me
How could it live on without the experience
Of the color of the sea?
If heaven was to be an empty white sphere
Devoid of anything that you could taste and feel
Without feeling need
I take more comfort in the idea
That one day my eyes will cease to see
What's right there in front of me
Are you prepared to face that one big question
Have you lived everyday as if it had been your last?
What would you see? What would you see?
What would be on Heaven TV?
What would you see? What would you see?
All that you never dared
All the things you were to scared to try
You haven't lived everyday
As if it had been your last
If heaven was to be a blank projection screen
For all your most secret dreams
What would you see? What would you see?
What would be on Heaven TV?
What would you see? What would you see?
All that you never dared
All the things you were to scared to try
You haven't lived everyday
As if it had been your last
The infamous inventors of eternity
Have ruled our lives long enough
They refuse to see that we are animals
We need to feed, fight, sleep and make love
What would you see? What would you see?
What would be on Heaven TV?
What would you see? What would you see?
All that you never dared
All the things you were to scared to try
You haven't lived everyday
As if it had been your last
Have you lived everyday
As if it had been your last?
Have you lived everyday
As if it had been your last?
They refuse to see that we are animals
We need to feed, fight, sleep and make love
And I tell you one thing
When all you put on the table
Falls short of all your great promises
It is not for us to resolve things
That are not of this world.
A world with God would be
Even more disturbing than a universe without Him.
For if He tolerates atrocities,
If he condones such cruelty,
Who would want to worship such a maker anyway?
They locked her up for thirty days
In a dark room under the roof.
They broke her will with the cane --
She'll remember everything.
You are trying to save me,
But, perhaps, I am not lost.
It is not your love that I do not accept;
It's this world of God's, created by God, that I cannot agree to accept.
I've dragged myself onto the ocean,
And stared all night into the sky.
The only lives I saw were far below me:
Black waters, full of life.
I, too, lived on roots and locusts.
I, too, have been in the wilderness.
I, too, was striving
To stand among the elect,
Among the strong and powerful.
You are trying to save me,
But, perhaps, I am not lost.
It is not your love that I do not accept;
It's this world of God's, created by God, that I cannot agree to accept.
I've dragged myself onto the ocean,
And stared all night into the sky.
The only lives I saw were far below me:
Black waters, full of life.
I, too, lived on roots and locusts.
I, too, lived on roots and locusts.
I, too, lived on roots and locusts.
I, too, prized the freedom with which Thou hast blessed us;
But, I woke up.
And, would not serve madness.
And, would not serve madness.
And, would not...
The kiss glows deep in his heart.
But, the old man adheres to his idea. (x6)
It is not for us to resolve things
That are not of this world.
I, too, lived on roots and locusts.
I, too, lived on roots and locusts.
I, too, lived on roots and locusts.
Put your hand in the hand of the man who stilled the water
Put your hand in the hand of the man who calmed the sea
Take a look at yourself and you can look at others differently
By puttin' your hand in the hand of the man from Galilee
Every time I look into the Holy Book I want to tremble (tremble)
Or when I read about the part where the carpenter cleared the temple (temple)
For the buyers and the sellers were no different fellas than what I profess to be
And it causes me shame to know we're not the people we should be
So, put your hand in the hand of the man who stilled the water
Put your hand in the hand of the man who calmed the sea
Take a look at yourself and you can look at others differently
By puttin' your hand in the hand of the man from Galilee
My mama taught me how to pray before I reached the age of seven
She said, "there'll come a time when there'll probably be room in heaven"
But I'm feeling kinda guilty 'bout the number of times to do what we must do
But we forget what he said, then we figure that he'll still make room
So, you gotta put your hand in the hand of the man who stilled the water
Put your hand in the hand of the man who calmed the sea
Take a look at yourself and you can look at others differently
By puttin' your hand in the hand of the man from Galilee
Everybody come along
Put your hand in the hand of the man who stilled the water
(Who stilled the water)
Put your hand in the hand of the man who calmed the sea
(Who calmed the sea)
I can't tell you how i feel
Can't show you what you must not see
It's deep inside and it's killing me
I can't face reality
It's all out of reach for me
It runs deep
Take me back to see the ocean
Bearing sound of waves devotion
Wash away the words corosion
That we left behind
Clean me up with wind and water
I'm your son and you're my daughter
I won't let this moment be slaughtered
In my burning mind
And when I'm lost inside the walls
I'd live this moment more and more
So blind I can't help it
Lost inside the walls
I need this moment more and more
So blind I can't help it
Searching ways for understanding
I would lose my boat stranded
Now I know I was defending
Castle on a sand
Take me back to see the ocean
City's draining my emotions
Let me have a healing potion
Oh lady, I'd fill a mountain, I'd swim 'cross the ocean,
for your love
I said lady, watch closely behind you, I'd search and I'd
find you,
for your love
Where you gonna go now, I will follow, where you gonna go
now,
I will follow you
Hey lady, I'd climb through your window,
I'd love you and end though, for your love
A guy like me, well I might not thrill you,
A guy like me, said I just might kill you
I won't wait around for you love
Where you gonna go now, I will follow
Where you gonna go now, I will follow you
Oh lady, I'd fill a mountain, I'm covered in lotion, for
your love
I said lady, I'd swim 'cross the ocean,
So lucky and chosen, for your love
Where you gonna go now, I will follow,
Where you gonna go now, I will follow you
Where you gonna go now, I will follow,
Where you gonna go now, I will follow you
Where you gonna go now, I will follow,
Lately, I've been thinking about You
And lately, I've been dreaming of You
And lately, I can't get You out of my head
Get You out of my head, yeah
Something about the ocean makes me rise up and praise
Something about the heavens makes me stand in awe again
Something about the sunrise reminds me of Your faithfulness
Something about the ocean and I'm lost in love again
I'll sing until I sense a smile
Upon Your great and lovely face
And till I know Your glory's in this place
Glory's in this place, yeah
Something about the ocean makes me rise up and praise
Something about the heavens makes me stand in awe again
Something about the sunrise reminds me of Your faithfulness
Something about the ocean and I'm lost in love again
Something about the ocean makes me rise up and praise
Something about the heavens makes me stand in awe again
Something about the sunrise reminds me of Your faithfulness, oh yes
Furisosogu hi wo abite kegarenaku kimi wa warai
Nanimokamo shiritakute boku wa tada hashiridasu
Yukkuri oki wo susunde yuku shiroku hikaru fune no you ni
Donna kaze mo nomikonde hitotsu zutsu nami wo koetai yo
Baby
Hate nai omoi wo kimi ni sasageyou
Nigirishimeta kono te wa hanasanai arashi no naka demo
Atarashii tabi e to tomo ni dete yukou
Mune furuwasu bokura ga miteru no wa
Dokomademo hirogaru OCEAN
Katachi no chigau kokoro nando demo butsukeatte
Hito wa mina sorezore ni ikite yuku sube wo shiru
Hitori kakushite kita namida wo
Ima koso misete kurenai kai
Kowagaranaide mayowanaide
Boku wa sono kokoro ni sawaritai yo
Baby
Hate nai omoi wo kimi ni sasageyou
Kawashita kotoba sono koe wa hibikitsudzukeru
Kisetsu ga kawattemo
Doko ni mo nigenaide onaji sora wo miyou
Kizuna fukaki bokura wo matte iru no wa
Shizuka ni yurameku OCEAN
Circling colors surround my face
I see the brightness of you
Try to spend my pain in you
It's all I've wanted, All this time
To travel the world with you
Is god up there watching you?
To spend a life with you
But the end is so much nearer
I go to the place where the ocean meets the river
The sky goes on forever in my mind and I can see it's gray
If all the reasons could be shown, and I could see you in the light
The flower in the pouring rain, would not be crushed beneath the rock
I'd die for you
Why do the seasons change, and why must it ever rain?
Why must the weekends end, and why must the sunset ever turn to night?
I don't know, why this all happens to me
Still I go on, I travel always towards the sea
I'd die for you
All's I ever wanted was for you to see
Before you my life was misery
As the river flows to the sea
I hear you calling back for me
I'd die for you
He who stands by me
Through the stormy weather
Through good times and bad
Always there for me
Takes me to the water
And quenches my thirst
My sweet inspiration
I wanna say
1 - Your love is an ocean
Wide as the skies
A comfort to me
Time after time
Your precious love
Fills up my cup
Touches my soul
He who knows me better
Than no man on earth
Guides me to the mountain
Witness my rebirth
Makes me feel so worthy
To belong to him
I treasure my commitment
And it's because of...
Repeat 1
When I think of your love
A ray of hope shines through
And shatters the darkness I felt
Erase all the doubt
And the fears that chains
And guides me to your Heavenly place
Ooh
I know you'll always be there
Through thick and thin
I know I can depend on you
Through thick and thin
You comfort me with loving arms
Through thick and thin
Kiss my eyes
My eyes
Ooh, ooh ooh
Repeat 1
Sing it again, sing it again
Repeat 1 while:
You're a comfort, to me
I praise you, praise you constantly
I gave you my heart, gave you my soul
I want you to know that I love you
I give my praise to you
Two ships passing in the night
Drop an anchor for a while
We'll share some company
We're the same you and me
It's in the air that we breathe
And there's no shame
Wide is the ocean
Sweet Gravity
And beneath the evening sun
If there's work to be done
I shall not falter
Swell shell ease
Swell she'll rise
I’ll take my seat there by your side
You won me over
Wide is the ocean, I long to follow,
Sweet Gravity
For every reason a purpose begins
A time and a place for everything
The sun will not burn you
The moon will not roam
Wide is the Ocean, i long to follow,
Words & Music By
Nick Granato
I can identify with the ocean,
Constantly changing, always in motion,
At times I find myself just rolling
With nothing to hold me back
No nothing can hold me back
Sometimes I feel just like an island,
Standing alone in the middle of silence,
Feeling so safe still surrounded by violence
With nothing to hold them back
No nothing can hold them back
I feel the wind and the waves all around me,
I hear them breaking on the shore,
I see the lighthouse in the harbor,
Calling me to her port, oh
Just calling me to her port...
Sailing my waters, friends & strangers...
Sharing pleasures, daring dangers,
Some drift off and some throw anchor,
With nothing to hold them back
No nothing can hold them back
But on my horizon the sun is rising,
Warming my waves, reflecting the skies,
Another day to reach and find
With nothing to hold me back,
No nothing can hold me back...
Still I can feel the current changing,
Pulling me from every side,
I can sense the deep impressions,
That I've left behind
From my raging tide,
Yes I can identify with the ocean,
Always changing like my emotions
Ever restless, ever flowing
With nothing to hold me back
No nothing can hold me back
With nothing to hold me back
No nothing can hold me...
© 2001 Song Harbor Music/BMI
He who stands by me
Through the stormy weather
Through good times and bad
Always there for me
Takes me to the water
And quenches my thirst
My sweet inspiration
I wanna say
Your love is an ocean
Wide as the skies
A comfort to me
Time after time
Your precious love
Fills up my cup
Touches my soul
He who knows me better
Than no man on earth
Guides me to the mountain
Witness my rebirth
Makes me feel so worthy
To belong to him
I treasure my commitment
And it's because of...
Your love is an ocean
Wide as the skies
A comfort to me
Time after time
Your precious love
Fills up my cup
Touches my soul
When I think of your love
A ray of hope shines through
And shatters the darkness I felt
Erase all the doubt
And the fears that chains
And guides me to your Heavenly place
Ooh
I know you'll always be there
Through thick and thin
I know I can depend on you
Through thick and thin
You comfort me with loving arms
Through thick and thin
Kiss my eyes
My eyes
Ooh, ooh ooh
Your love is an ocean
Wide as the skies
A comfort to me
Time after time
Your precious love
Fills up my cup
Touches my soul
Sing it again, sing it again
Your love is an ocean
Wide as the skies
A comfort to me
Time after time
Your precious love
Fills up my cup
Touches my soul
(You're a comfort, to me
I praise you, praise you constantly
I gave you my heart, gave you my soul
I want you to know that I love you)
I give my praise to you
All this time I am trying to prove to myself
That I get by fine without drowning
I know these creatures well
They keep pulling me in to the sea
They keep me underwater
Just like she said to me
I'm lost in the ocean, the ocean
Don`t leave me here now
I'm deep in the ocean, the ocean
It`s getting dark here
All this time I am trying to tell myself
That I survive fine without sinking
These shadows of mine
Are waterbound and tireless
Surrounding me like clouds
Just like she said to me
I'm lost in the ocean, the ocean
Don`t leave me here now
I'm deep in the ocean, the ocean
It`s getting dark here
The shadows grow too near
It`s my time to burn
I have no fear
You know they never learn
I am lost in the ocean, the ocean
Don`t leave me here now
I am deep in the ocean, the ocean
Heard you cryin from the room next door
It's always, so hard to let things go
It's funny how the sound of tears can break
So softly, against this reality
Does anybody here ever breath anymore
Has anybody here ever known not to destroy
Themselves
'cause I'm falling, deeper, in your ocean
Does anybody here ever know just what's inside of me
'cause it will always be
Heard you laughin from the room next door
It's always, so hard to let me know…..let me know
It's funny how the thought's that make you hurt
Evolve, into a sea that burns
Does anybody here ever breath anymore
Has anybody here ever known not to destroy themselves
'cause I'm falling, deeper, in your ocean
Does anybody here ever known just what's inside of me
'cause it will always be
Just a lonely sea
Falling deeper in your ocean
Falling deeper away
I'm running from the future
And I'm looking at the past
I keep coming on to detours
And I'm overheated, out of gas
There's nothing left to keep me here
I've tossed it to the wind
And I'm too jacked up for sleeping now
Where the hell would I begin
Take me back to your ocean
Let the waves of mercy wash right over me
All my dreams and emotions
Go flooding like a river to your sea
My head is full of eloquence
And reasons not to be
The weight of this intelligence is like a stone
That's crushing me
I let it roll right over me
I'm down here in the dirt
I knew it was not meant to be
And now I'm back here from the hurt
Take me down to your ocean
Let the waves of mercy wash right over me
All my love and devotion
Go roaring like a river to your sea
I'm washing the blues away tonight
Wearing them down
And nothing that you can say about the world
Can change my mind
Floating in your sea
We’ve Been Strangers - LYRICS
All lyrics by David Johnson
Ocean
When you find out you're afraid of the ocean
Waves splash, they touch your skin
But you can't, you can't see where they end
On the shoreline, you see an endless horizon
Worlds clash as the tide comes in
And you don't, don't know where to begin
Over and over
Coming closer
Fading further away
All with the same glimpse of the unknown
As waves crash over and over
In and out of control
And you just don't know how deep
How deep this goes
When you find out you're afraid of the ocean
Doubt swims in, it pulls the current
And your mind, your mind gets caught in the spin
Over and over
When you find out you're overcome by the ocean
Waves drown, they drown all you've been
And you can't, you can't comprehend
Can it be now that love is motion
Love is motion
Over and over
Coming closer
Fading further away
All with the same glimpse of the unknown
As waves crash over and over
They drench your soul
They soak your soul
And you just don't know how deep
ocean take me to your shore.
I haven't been there in so long, so long
wind-blown sand on my skin,
Oh what I'd do to feel you again...again
And there's a girl i want to share you with.
she's so far away
you are her gift
ocean, bring her, down
ocean take me to your shore.
I haven't seen you in so long, so long
wind-blown sand on my skin,
Oh what I'd do to feel you again...again
And there's a girl i want to share you with.
she's so far away
you are her gift
ocean, bring her, down
baby, you know I'm dying and crying for you
to come on down to my ocean town
come on down and...
come on down and...
come on down and...
come on down to my ocean town
ocean town why don't you?
come on down and...
come on down and...
come on down and...
come on down to my ocean town
ocean town why don't you?
I said...
come on down and...
come on down and...
Leave now never return, or stay and face the dark.
Day of grief, disbelief, weak and weary faces
Falling and they're gone, but still remain, and tales are fading faster.
Glory days are few, and far between in living memory
(Chorus):
Days have gone down in the west,
And the cold wind, and rain fill my chest
And I rest
They sail across the ocean, and it fills me with emotion
To imagine such devotion take their place
Sail the Ocean for the ways of the world
Do not change by your choice to believe in a lie!
You should sail and see for yourself!
I've set sail for the horizont pale and golden red rising sun
I'm gone, all that is returning
Tales and half forgotten lore for time future in to past
The pale and distance promise of tommorow's wanderers wonder where my
(Chorus)
I wonder how we got there, and it all seems like a nightmare
I've returned from out of nowhere to my Land
And I wonder understand, I demand
That the moment you choose to believe, you deceive,
And you 're building your castles on sand.
Where we wander is the question
Told our tale and remains, mould and snow
There are no Gods to give us answers
Always keep in mind we're only children of the stars
And still we chase the rainbow
Running helter skelter out of mind until our
(Chorus)
Was need or greed the reason was it tantamount to treason
Was no worthy game in season, in their days
What was needed and the ways of the world
do not change by your choice to believe in a lie!
You should sail out and see where you stand! I demand,
For the moment you choose to believe, you deceive
I think I'll go down to the ocean
I think I'll go down and lie by the sea
Sit alone and watch the waves break
I don't think I'm ever going to leave
To leave, to leave
Find a girl that looks like an angel
Take her home just to be by her side
The kind of girl you'd love to marry
Someday to be your brand new bride
Your brand new bride
I think I'll go down to the ocean
I think I'll go down and lie by the sea
Sit alone and watch the waves break
I don't think I'm ever going to leave
to leave, to leave, to leave, to leave
to leave, to leave, to leave, to leave
Well I know I've got this mission
Things to do and things to say, every day
And if you give your heart permission
I know you'd feel the same old way
The same same way
I think I'll go down to the ocean
I think I'll go down and lie by the sea
Sit alone and watch the sun set
I don't think I'm ever going to leave
to leave, to leave, to leave, to leave
She'll be waiting by the shore
And I will be, I don't wanna be alone anymore
Anytime that you want to
I will be there for a talk
Just pick up that phone
And dial the number on your wall
She thinks that she needs sometime
To rediscover freedom
There's things she thinks she is without
There's some things that she thinks she is without
So then one day
She swam away
To live by, the ocean
The ocean
People say it's a little strange
How could a notion
Of emotion, yeah
I never wanted to live at sea
She don't wanna be angry
Just free
No she'll never get angry, with me
Yea Yea
Woo Woo Woo
Awaaao Awaaaaaooo
So she said anytime that you want to I will be there for a talk
Just pick up that phone and dial the number on your wall
She thinks that she needs sometime
To rediscover freedom
Theres things she thinks she is without
Theres some things that she thinks she is without
Then one day
She swam away
To live by, the ocean
The ocean
People say its a little strange
How could a notion
Of emotion, yeah
I never wanted to live at sea
She don't wanna be angry
Just free
No she'll never get angry, with me
Yea Yea
Woo Woo Woo
Awaaaoooo Awaaaaaoooo
Then one day
She swam away
To live by, the ocean
The ocean
People say its a little strange
How could a notion
Of emotion, yeah
I never wanted to live at sea
She don't wanna be angry
Just free
No she'll never get angry, with me
Yea Yea
Woo Woo Woo
Awaaao Awaaaaaooooo
Woo Woo Woo (Woooooo)
ocean hear my callocean see my fall
got a lot of you inside of me.
as i turn it up i turn around again
and the fatalistic way it does not bend
and i bite the hand that reaches out to lend-
any push to pick me up to start again.
when there's nothing wrong
everyone will stand by you
when there's something wrong
then there's nothing anyone can do.
ocean hear my call
ocean see my fall
got a lot of me inside of you.
as i burn the bridge and close the door behind
looking in looking out for a sign
livin' by the light of dusk within my mind
Oh, will you come and find me
I’m all alone in an army of restless souls
Nobody knows
It might be hard to decipher
A cry for help from a life you’re
Bound to see has had it so easy
What do you say when you know you’re wrong
And all you believed and built your life upon
Is falling apart, all alone in the dark
Peace like a river is surrounding me
When my whole world is a raging sea
Only your light is what my soul has found
Lost on the ocean
Washed away by desire
I search for you through the fire
When all my dreams are vanishing
Wide awake, the illusion of discontent
Only proving that I can’t seem to
Make sense of anything
What do you do when you can’t hold on
And all you believed and you built your
Life upon is falling apart
All alone in the dark
Peace like a river is surrounding me
When my whole world is a raging sea
Only your light is what my soul has found
Lost on the ocean
Starting over, seeking shelter
Led by the light of my deliverer
Bent and broken, lost on the ocean,
Starting over, I’m starting over
Peace like a river is surrounding me
When my whole world is a raging sea
Only your light is what my soul has found
Lost on the ocean
Lost on the ocean
Songwriters: Matt Brouwer
Welcome to the ocean
Welcome to the Earth
Welcome to the new time
Welcome to your life
Welcome to the Universe
It? s your life
So Welcome, yeah Welcome
See my eyes
See my body and my soul
Come inside of me
Tell me what you see
You got a fire
FIRE
Burn Burn Burn
Inspire my longing
Get my desire
For the ocean
Set me on fire
Come inside of me
Tell me what you see
See my eyes
See my body and my soul
Fuck the norm
Fuck the government
You got a fire
FIRE
See fire
Burn Burn Burn
Talibane Talibane Djihad Djihad
