Behind the old and creaking wooden door
They take them down – They take them down
Some had seen but now they all were gone
Into the hours that take us to the dawn
They took them down – They took them down
They took them down
The next thing that I had to say was “more”
We found them stumbling through the corridor
He does not know he has to go
Please I had my friend to tea today
Nothing then had fallen by the way
To bring me down – You bring me down
Eyes that send their greetings from afar
They’re taking from tomorrow maybe more
They turn you down – They turned you down
They turned you down
Greedy eyes are bringing you the law
Greedy hands extending from the claw
They hunt you down – They hunt you down
They hunt you down
The time has come when it will surely be
The fury of ten thousand years
It flashes once then disappears
I stand by and gather tears
It's all because of you
It all comes down to you
It's all because of you
It all comes down to you
There's only one of you
There's only one of you
All men face a thousand tests
Springing from their loneliness
Lately I've abandoned rest
All because of you
All because of you
There's only one of you
There's only one of you
The fool who caused a thousand rifts
Was feeling psycho-generous
Holographic litmus test
That I'll explain to you
I'll explain to you
I'll explain to you
Collector, collector
We have what you’re after
Your source of amusement
No one is wiser
Concealer, concealer
The trophy draws nearer
We give you the dealer
Maimer and healer
Collector, collector
We just want to find you
We’re coming much closer
Transact and admire you
We need a revision
To the deal we’ve been giving
It’s drawing much nearer
Reward the revealer
Bring us your best and your bold
We’ll give them back when they’re cold
We’ve been waiting for you, like we said we’d do
We’ve been waiting for you like you told us to
We wait for you
I’m out in the oblivion
Drowning at the living end
Suffer this world and be done in the oblivion
Crowded at the living end
Give us your heart and your goals
We just want a part of the whole
We’ve been waiting for you, we said we’d do
We’ve been waiting like you told us to
Like we said we’d do
Well the sun came out today
Just like yesterday
Hey, put that mirror away
Don’t want to look this way
Well the sun came out today
When you coming
Space brother
You been here before
Are you coming
Space brother
You've been here before
I'll be here
I'll be here
I'll be waiting here
I'll be here
I'll be here
I'll wait here for you
I was thinking
Space brother
Thinking you were near
You take care now
Space brother
Wait for the sound
You run, you see, you will fall down
I had it all
Now to take the final fall
I had it all, had it all
Wait for the sound
Wait for the sound
It's coming down
Wait for the sound
We are in possession
Of the most destructive explosive
Devised by man
We have just begun
To use this weapon
Against your homeland
Evacuate your cities
Surrender
I have you to blame
For nothing
Will be the same
I have you to blame
I'm sick of me - I'm sick of me
I hear my voice - I want to scream
I'm sick of me and what I see
In your eyes when you look at me
Eyes that say I'm beautiful, they are so wrong
I don't belong in your company
Hands above the clouds and underground
I want to join with you somehow
I'm sick of me - what I've become
I loved you more, more than anyone
You think I'm so wonderful, it won't be long
I don't belong in your company
You don't know the half of it and if you did
You'd want rid of my company
My eyes say you're beautiful - They are not wrong
And you belong in my company
I'm sick of me - I'm sick of me
Because of you what you must see
I'm sick of me - All I can say
I look at you - Make it go away
I still say you're wonderful, the way you are
The way you are in my company
CODA 99
I want it
I love it
I need it
Run singing tiger
Like you've never run before
Run if you want to
Right across the floor
Beware the stinging viper
That lurks outside the door
Run if you got to
Til you can run no more
Run singing tiger
Like you've never run before
Run if you want to
Right across the floor
Beware the swimming hydra
That's moving from the shore
Run if you got to
Run and run some more
Run for Paul
Run for Silas
Run for Julie
Who’s that staring from the walls
Who hovers by the corner stalls
I know what to do
Who’s that making eyes at me
From deep behind a mask of grief
I know what you’re coming to
Rough, Rough, Rough Ruffian on the stairs
I’ll do what you want me to
Aren’t you tired of what we do
I’ll bring you off in sensurround
Ensure you never touch the ground
I’ll do what you want me to
I’ll take you to the bitter end
Pretend to even be a friend
If that’s what you say to do
I see myself, I have to ask
How long can one such as myself hope to last
My lips are grey, my head is cold
The season of the overload
Rough, Rough, Rough Ruffian on the stairs
The stairs are gone, the building’s cracked
The human race is cutting back
Rough, Rough, Rough Ruffian on the stairs
I gotta go, you gotta sleep
Just one more drop to get that peak
The cooling stars, the deadening night
Come back to me, push back the light
Rough, Rough, Rough Ruffian on the stairs
(Fuck with me, don’t fuck with me)
The hands of time are swinging low
Before too long they’ll seize control
And what’s the point of suffering
When dust is all the years you will bring
Rough, Rough, Rough Ruffian on the stairs
(There’s a can of kerosene from this legendary ghostly
scene
It will always be there…)
Remember me to all your friends
That pretty crew of innocents
I kissed you once to make you stay
I kissed you twice now go away
Rough, Rough, Rough Ruffian on the stairs
Get out of the rain, boy – Get out of the rain
The water is rising, you might wash away
Climb over the wall, boy – climb over the wall
The dam it is breaking, you might fall
Lay your tough skin on this ground that you may be found
Take this hand I offer you (wish I knew what to do)
Look out on the water, look out on the water
Look out on the water out to the sea
Lay your skin and bone to rest upon these shores
Let the sharp breeze kiss you lips
May your silent heart be heard and be stirred
Listen closely for the sound ‘cos it growls for you
It won’t be long, it won’t be long until you’re through
The wind is raw, the water’s strange
You can’t afford to hesitate
You go down – wish I could reach you
Look on the horizon, tomorrow has come
The flare it is rising, night is done
The ice it is melting, come death in the waves
The water is rising, we must not stay
Stand yourself upon this ground, see what you’ve found
As a rock or a cloud or the hill
Here you be as you are
Sitting still
As a whisper you might not be heard
As a light in a lamp
One that burns bright and slow
You are known
Like a Titan who comes for his own
To an orphan whose keeper has come
As plain as an honest remark
Where a wave washes over a portion of sand
And is known
All is new
You are the one looked me over
You are the one said “come on”
Kept as the banks hold the water
You are the one makes me strong
Fresh as the face of the flowers
You are the rails I run on
Safe in the hands of no other
And as a wave washes over a fortress of sand
All is new
All is known
All is you
You are the one looked me over
You are the one said “come on”
Kept as the banks hold the water
And as a wave washes over a fortress of sand
All is new
All is known
All is you
As a rock or the clouds or a hill
Here you be
Where have you been my sweet cat Delia
Where have you been by the potting shed?
I have been sunning by the barnyard
With my eyes closed
I noticed no dead
Where have you been my fierce cat Freda
Have you been by the potting shed?
Nay, have I been gathering long grass
Chasing my tail
I discovered no dead
And where were you my sleek cat Celia
By the shed have your little paws tread?
Rarely would I be dallying thereward
Thru puddles?
I never encountered the dead
When all my cats were gathered together
And we did go to the potting shed
A violence so awful I care not remember
The stems and the petals
'A twisted and dead
The stems and the petals
I was beside you at night on the lines
You in a session that shattered the mind
Something exploding into your field
Some type of omen to you was revealed
You and I were talking as if we were alive
You were expected to contact the hive
Something beyond was preparing the siege
Talk to the wind that passes you by
There's work to be done while your carpet rides
Pressed to the ear – eyes wide blind
On the Hellphone
Wireless snakes are luring you in
Step right up – let Babel begin
When they call for you just let it ring
On the Hellphone
Do you hear? Anyone here?
The signal is clear…
Near
The call of the Hellphone
We're all on the Hellphone
The call of the Hellphone
Wily Creilly, was inside me
Painting pictures, telling stories
All about the world outside
All about the things he might have been
If he had bones and skin
Wily Creilly, cried inside me
Please don't hide me, just ___ me
Let me have just one small day
To operate your body - let me play
And I will be ok
The stars are out tonight
The birds - in sacred flight
And you ___ ___ and restrained
Not even walked I'm in pain
Wily Creilly, cried inside me
Please don't hide me, just untie me
Let me have just one small day
To occupy your body - don't delay
I promise I'll behave
Wily Creilly, you surprised me
To the ___ I was so easy
Wants to stop you running away
No - I think it's better you should stay
In the box I made
I despise you, I will destroy you
And I will always be inside you
You can never get away
I will have you ___ this very day
I been telling you
All tomorrows will change
I been telling you
I been telling you
Everything's getting strange
It's a watching machine
It's a watching machine
Yeah
We are viewing the world
Through antennae eyes
We can see who you are
Isn't that nice?
Before we had war
But now
We have sight
It's a watching machine
And it knows what it's seen
Yeah
We are watching you now
From remote satellite
And we've seen it all in the surveillance light
Now the walls have eyes
Isn't that great?
Once there was a choice
But now it's too late
It's a watching machine
And it's cold and it's mean
Yeah
It's a watching machine
It's a watching machine
Yeah
It's a watching machine
It's a watching machine
Go wake them up, take their pulse
Are they really living?
Go shake them up, break them loose
Are they really breathing?
Come to us now, pull the plug
This is your awakening
We are not alone, it’s coming home
Look: there’s something happening
Bring me the head of someone good – As if you could
Take me on a night ride to a righteous neighborhood
Wish you would
Promise me everything can change and be okay
Lie if you have to that’s the way to make us obey
Throw us to the wolves and wolverines
Kick us to the ground
Spit up on our hopes and all our dreams
We’ll never let you down
My, my, the book of life is floating by
Waiting for the axe to fall
You might stumble, you might crawl
Don’t go any faster, it catches up to you
It will pull you down
Because of what you know
It’s true
You might be the sum of all
Scratching through the firewall
Don’t go any further stranded out alone
I pray for you now
Be careful of your own
Waiting for the ice to thaw
This collapse awaits us all
Don’t come any closer
It’s what you’re meant to do
Follow me out
Vultures wait in the everglades
Staying very still they can calculate our fate:
Danger
Mosquitoes wait for the candidate
Staying very still though they undulate, they crave:
Strangers
But it's all they know
It's all that comes through
It's all they know
And all that consumes with a violence
It comes through in the silence
I want you to know
I want you
Vultures fly over passersby
With a hunting eye that is never dry and cries
When it's all through
Mosquitoes wait in the Bering straits
Hover high and low over frozen space
Hearts can freeze too
And it's all you know
It's all that comes through you
It's all you know
And all that consumes you with violence
It comes through you in silence
Vultures down in the underground
In a tunnel where they are often found
Surrounded but alone
Mosquitoes swarm until early dawn
With a life so short they can not afford
Delaying, playing, saying, praying
'Cuz it's all they know
And all that comes through you
And all that consumes you in the silence
It comes through you with violence
I want you to know
Now is the time I choose to go
It is my time I know
For a voyage like a dream
From the days spent you and me]
Yes I have, yes I heard, yes I know
You must go
Yes I love you, yes I'll always be your friend
Through the grave
So I take you out to sea, ashes for the universe
Universally...
Now you are free
Where am I now?
Baby a rain came tonight
And it seemed you'd returned
Down the river's way
Baby I'm running from the room
I get right inside the garden
Try to find you, try to find you
I wander to the ground, to the ground
My soil, it is you
Our garden stems from you, from you
My soil, you are true
I garner strength to carry on from you
My soil, my bloom
From sea you flew
To mist from sky
Your kiss arrived
And so
The awareness of you
In the darkness
Gets me high
My heart
In the darkness
Gets me through
In the darkness
Gets me high
The bus pulled up to the prison gate waiting to cast
the line
Flashpot lite cast the night ablaze and so it seemed a
sign
A sign that wasn’t something right
A sign that something could ignite out in the night
When the symptoms came together and everyone lost their
mind
I bound myself forever to number seven challenging the
divine
But there was nothing in our mind, as if the answer was
denied
And there were feelings there that no one cared to find
When the saints were called to jump into the heavens
We stood back and climbed
Some people stood around with frozen stunned
expressions
Pieces of the design – cuz there was nothing in our
eyes
There could be nothing you would find
There was no answer to what waits for you inside
Then tapped out into the ocean – everyone waits in line
I thought myself forever the old expression, suddenly
it was mine
Cuz there was violence in our eyes, this destruction
was supplied
As if the waiting all the time had some meaning we
could define
And I wandered this world looking for answers
I wandered this world in time
I wandered this world looking for answers that I just
didn’t find
Went down south out to ocean, braced ourselves for the
fight
Something proud drew from emotion as waves took hold of
life
They were waiting all the time, there was nobody left
in time
And in this feeling we’d arrived beyond the waste of
time
A long time ago I was inspired
And now I wonder has it all expired?
Past redeeming, numb of feeling
Where is any shred of meaning?
I don’t know why
Now it seems like something’s missing
Years flow the story goes
Narration brings the image closer
I know, I’m repeating all the same mistakes
I am the arm that’s bleeding
I am the storm that’s forming
I am the rope that’s coiling
Reaching for the waiting hand
So here I am calling, calling, calling
For a face in the crowd to shepherd me out
Lead me down the road
I was praying
Someone would find my hideaway
Yes it’s a long climb through rocky crags
To my jagged brain
Days of waiting, waiting, waiting
For a sliver of sound, cascade and rebound
Bring me down
I see victory
Right in your grasp if you want it to be
Always it was lurking
Never very far for your heart to see
This day it is your day, breaking like a wave
In the waters free, taking control
If you’d only agree, coming very close
It’s coming, are you ready?
One day the story will unwind
You will move past and leave the rest behind
Now it’s retreating
It is clearing from your mind
Though you can still feel it pulling
You’re aligned, there’s no returning
You are on the way down and down
Reach the ground
Icy wastes recede, permafrost gone
Spring intervenes. Always it was waiting
Flung like a leaf down to nourish the tree
Far underground where the roots are deep
Do you wait for me, do you wait for me now
All time long - all night long
Do you wait for me, will you wait for me now
All night long - all night long
Innocent? It could go either way
"Satan" has come... again
Bringing some of his friends
He has won - his boys are having fun
Hatred I can see you've won this time
Satan's angels swarm to catch the tide
Satan's angels fly
I'm only dreaming of a time when I'll survive
I'm only thinking of a way to turn back time
I'm only weeping cuz the sounds
That aroung around have all died down
Climbing up the fire escape
I can not move but that's okay
I tell myself that you'll be here
I'll wait for you, I'll wait for you
Wear away your heart – tear it apart
Deep inside your head – broken in shreds
Back behind your eyes – emptiness lies
The claws of a crayfish, it’s true
Pose little threat to a shrew
But we’re lost in a blizzard of sound
In hard armoured words we are drowned
Hard armoured words we were clucking
Like birds having heard but deferred
Until the worst had occurred
You and I were talking, at least I tried
You and I were walking
But you seemed to slide
Something was pulling you out of my life
Something was waiting
Inciting you to hide
Over hill and over dale, the poison pollen's blowing
happy trail
By the side of fetid pools they sat and talked of
following the rules
It's been gutting them to know it never ends -
obedience and sin
Lock down in the safety net, opiated by the television
Remember that you had a choice, opened up your mouth
and had a voice
All you need to know is what you've done, set aside a
future for no one
She began to question her conditioning; she ate the
apple hungrily
He was a less inclined to see his subjugation under the
authorities
They know you - they know you
She became what they would say was just an agitator in
the way
He'd become what was to some and enemy of the state
All we want to know is what you've done, set about the
future for no one
I said all you've got to do is what you've done, set
about the future for no one
By the side of all we knew
We knew
Worms in the soil are moving down
Birds in the air scope the ground
Snakes in the grass slither, it's true
And if you're a mouse, you'd better move
Animal games
All around and everyone plays
Animal ways
Be aware and very afraid
Cats in their trees are smiling down
Monkeys and bats just hangin' 'round
Out in the fields the buffalo graze
Wolves in the brush are fixing their gaze
And down by the pond the bears are in tow
Snatching some fish who swam much too slow
Meanwhile, an experiment...
Rabbits are treated with fresh lemon scent
And down in the lab beneath cold doctors' feet
The monkey's are trying to get some relief
Their comrades are tortured in front of their eyes
By animals meaner than any alive
Animal games
Most are nice but some are strange
Animal games
Seems to me we're all the same
There is light at the edge of a shadow
It's a glow that you might not detect
It's like gold at the tail of a rainbow
A treasure you can not collect
Friends I am calling, I want to be near
All that I have is in you
There is night at the edge of each morning
It is day that will always come through
It is life in mid-act of forming
Like a wish that can only come true
Friends I am falling but I feel you near
All that I learn is from you
Memory calling and focusing clear
What I now see is through you
There's a train at the end of the railyard There is a
train at the end
It is standing abandoned alone coming to you my friend
The vines are graffiti are growing the vines have
finally grown
The words have found their home
There's a star at the end of Creation
It seems very far and alone
Quasar is pulsing
The heart is still beating
Hope against hope to come home
Gravity's shrinking, it's floating away
Far, far from this place
Gravity take me and pull me away
My body to space
I always thought that it was true
I always thought that you had been there too
Among the million bits of sand
Everyday I come for you
I'll be there in your dreams
And you'll be there with me too
I always knew we were entwined We are three
I always knew that we three were entrined Three is what
are we
Beneath a hundred million stars
Every night I look for you
I'll be there in your dreams
Every night I wait for you
And you'll be there
We are all we knew
We are only what is true
Amid the hundred million stars
All my days I offer you
I'll be there in your dreams
And you'll be there with me too
All my days I offer you
All my days I do
I never thought that I was wrong
I always knew we three belonged
To some primeval family
All my days I offer you
You'll be there in my dreams
And I'll be there
It will be our deepest pleasure to invite you to our
ball
We will have cake and treasure – You simply must come
along
To our party, party, party, stay forever, say you will
Come be happy if you want to at the party, say you will
(only when you want)
The manacle is cut… It stops the swelling, but not much
The sense that they’re in control is what I’m dreading
Oh no
It’s our party, never leave us, pledge allegiance, say
you will
We will love you like no other, stay forever, say you
will
Speak only when you are spoken to
Listen for the signal…
It’s not nice to leave before the party is over…….
You simply must come along:
To the party, party, party, fun forever, say you will
Come be happy here forever at the party, say you will
You will do what we tell you
If you want to live
(only when you want)
Speak only when you are spoken to
Listen for the signal and begin
Here forever at the party, start the party, say you
will
Stay forever at the party
Listen for the signal
Orangutan waiting for the perfect vine
Orangutan don't you know I love your side/sign
Orangutan waiting for the other side
Orangutan motion from the other side
Orangutan don't lose your sand
That used to drive you wild
Orangutan you lose your sand
Waiting for the other side
Just waiting for the other side
Orangutan banging on the garden wire
Orangutan don't ya know I love your fire
Orangutan I wish you could go outside
Orangutan I'll see you another night
They say that you will be extinct by 2085
Because the space that is your place will no longer be
wild
Playing on the other side
Orangutan ain't it good to be alive
Orangutan don't ya know I love your mind
They say that you and I will walk together miles forever
They say that you and I we share a vine that can't be
severed
One star is appearing in the blackest night
One star is now forming, innocent and bright
One star bring me comfort, when I’m sad of life
One star is exciting, it is borderline
One star cold and icy, primitive and wild
One star it destroys you if you look into the light
That’s the star that I want when I’m out at night
But I know, yes I know, aye the burning light
But I know, yes I know:
Fear’s a bitter ride
One star is exploding in the northern sky
That’s the star above me, my iron satellite
One star it’s inside me
It’s the star I like
One day down, a day away, a day away
One day down, a day away
In Quentin Quick's cathedral, I was ensnared by
something evil
And snatched into the spotlight - A god to fool the
people
I'm stuck in this tomb – Everyday - I'm never gonna get
away
I don't like what I do - I don't like what I say, but
I'm never gonna get away
I can't be the one to free them - I am a puppet of the
Priests
There's no escape, they trapped me like some
domesticated beast
But something stirs inside me - An appetite that wants
to feast
Some accidental transfer and I have been unleashed
..I will be released
The times they are a'changing
One day down , a day away, A day away
You're never gonna get away, get away, get away cuz I'm
never gonna go away
You know I know it's over
And I will be okay
I know you know it's over
Will never be the same
I know I know it's over
But I will rise again
You know although it's over
I'll never go away
I will be okay
I leave you on the way
I have to go, you have to stay
And so I walk away
I did not want it this way
But he who understands
Must makes his plans
And stand alone
When faced with all the proof
The living truth, how else to go?
Inside what do you find, will it be pain?
Will it be cold shame?
But know: there is a day
There is a way you can come home
So on and on I stay
I’ll try to hold on for that day.
Be still my sleeping slave
The night is open, a move outside, there’s nothing new
We have to find. The world is broken, the human eye
There’s nowhere left for us to hide
They’ll wait forever to turn you wild and lead you to
their side
Tomorrow’s motion will make it clear
Why’d you leave me here?
All that’s left behind – Fear: Irrational and sublime
Always in session, it’s me inside
I don’t believe I lost my way
A cold conversation cuz nothing’s there
Out on the streets so long away
Can you help me here, all that’s left is fear
Only thing to find – Fear:
Is it too much for you too soon, does it haunt you? Are
you afraid to follow through?
Is it too much for you too soon, like perfume when it
turns on you
Fear sucks the senses like a leak, feast upon the
emptiness that is increased
All you need is time but time recedes behind
I'd like to say I'm wrong, the passing years don't seem
that long
The stream of fate goes on and on and on
I'd like to say I'm strong, never do I feel afraid
Of all the mistakes I made along the way
Fear stalks the senses like a beast, feast upon the
loneliness that is unleashed
But all we need is time, all we need is time, but time
retreats behind
Through the eye of time go I
Stalk the senses, stalk the beast, stalk the senses,
come the beast
By the side of all we knew we sat and talked and sat
and talked
Up around the river bend i was separated from you
Up around the river bend we were separated in two
If you pass them at the station you must ask them what
they see
If you walk away without question you will never find
what you seek
All the worries were wrong - worse was what had begun
Did you diddle, did you daddle, did you run away from
the scene?
Where is sanctuary from the battle that is coming into
being?
There's no walkabout on the morning of the day of
catastrophe
If you wake up finding it boring, try ignoring what you
Don't you see?
Bring down the rain to wash what remains
Running down the fire escape I burn myself but that's
okay
Must keep on moving keep the faith that maybe we can
get away
Waiting for the winds to change and radiation blows
away
I scan the crowds for signs of you - I'll wait for you,
I'll wait for you
I'm only losing storms may be round me, there's no
illusion for me
If you walk away without question, will you recognize
what you see
On the morning of the disaster that is vaster than
you'd believe
All my anger is gone, only sadness hangs on
Worse is what has begun - is has begun
There's no illusion, stars may be lonely, no more
intrusion of me
There's nothing left for me, there is nothing more from
The ghost is very still
Captive of the past
Trapped inside of nothing
‘Cuz nothing seems to last
The world is thin and slippery
Difficult to grasp
Release might come
But what a price to ask
Again, again he walks again
Enacts the same talks again
He walks again, again the same
He thinks the thoughts
Again, again
Again you come to play
You just can’t stay away
But it’s not true
You do not have to stay
Little Monster go outside
Little Monster fly
Little Monster try
You probably know the story
Heard from many tongues
Seen around the neighbourhood
The repetitions one
An insect in the amber
Is as much alive
As this wraith that lingers here
This half-forgotten child
Little Monster leave this time
Little Monster fly
Little Monster try
Dragons live forever
But not little boys
The end could come from an orphan gun
Taken as a toy
Little Monster leave this time
Little Monster
Oh take me aback again, take me back again
Just take me back again to that day, take me back again
I still remember your face that day
I still remember your voice, seemed to strange
But I’m trying to remember the things that you said
Trying to imagine what must have gone through your head
And I can’t forget the swollen colour of the bleeding
I keep imagining a storm behind your eyes
You took up your tears and waved goodbye
For the last time
Now I take up my tears and wave goodbye
For just one last time
I could have done nothing
For a friend determined to go
I could have done nothing
How come I think I should have known?
I could have done nothing for a friend
I keep remembering all the words you didn’t say
I keep imagining all the clues that must have floated
away
But I can’t remember was it I who turned a blind eye?
Please help me remember on that day was I so very
blind?
I can’t imagine what I thought when you turned to go
Didn’t I know, didn’t I know, didn’t I know
I felt December in the air but August was near
I felt December in the air but the Summer was here
Now I take up my tears and wave goodbye
For just one last time
I take up my tears I say goodbye
For just one more time – Goodbye
I take up my tears I say goodbye
know a boy who ached to touch the sky
All his life he tried to rise
And through the years he made a solemn vow
To reach the light and bring it down
Oh the kiteman fly his kite so high far up in the sky at
night
With string and dreams he sent his message high:
“if only I could likewise fly
I'd pass above the very stratosphere
Without a tear or care inside.”
Oh the kiteman fly his kite so high high up in the sky
Goodnight – and the wind in the kite
In the moonlight he rides, he rides
I know a boy who couldn't stand the ground
And always he was skyward bound
The saddest thing is he's up there now
But all he says is he wants to come down
Oh the kiteman fly his kite so high way up in the sky
The stars in the sky were lonely tonight
And so we lit a fire in solidarity
The rain it falls the wind will call
All things that bring prosperity
Take care, take heed, take everything you need
This always will be your sanctuary
Hey it’s me, I’m looking but I don’t see
Please just explain, what am I missing?
You know I try, I keep looking, I don’t know why
All I need is right before my eyes
Oh the size
I believe it now, it’s immense and wild
All this time, lost in the scale of my tiny mind
Small and alone, blind and confined
If I could see the night
Miles out in space the chemicals ignite
Everything moves, expands and collides
But I never knew the universe was wide
The stars will feed forever, as decreed
Blow dust and seed ever on their way
I can feel the sky
All of the world covered in life
Breeze through the wind with all it provides
Saints forgive me
I have chosen to wander with the wind
Beside the ragged nasturtiums
I have fasted but for them
Saints preserve me, I was broken
But that was then
Honour avenge me, be my armour
I will follow to the end
CATS 2
I was there, your dear cat faithful
Up the tree by the potting shed
Aye, but I was very careful
Nobody knew
I was thinking about you
Hanging lights electric blue
And neck restraints for two
I was thinking about you
Wonder if you’re thinking too
I do, I think of you
I said what I said, I said what I said
I said what I said: I want you
I was thinking about you (thinking I was thinking about
you)
Shredding paper like you do (paper shreds but won’t
forget)
Your signature tattoo
I was thinking about you (thinking I was thinking about
you)
Welding metal barbecue (metal welding lights electric)
Blue bell dreams of you
Blue bell dreams of you
I said what I said, I said what I said
You heard what I said, I said what I said:
I want you
You said what you said, you said what you said
You said what you said, I heard what you said:
I’m not sure about you
I was thinking about you, holiday it’s what you do
I do, I think of you
I've been running all my life
Like a chicken heading for the knife
Inside the farmer's pen
Most of me was left behind
In school where I first learnt to write
With my father's pen
Mighty was the sword I thrust
Until the words betrayed my trust
And secrets gave away
I was young and juvenile
Inferno hot and volatile
I had so much to say
And the children in the park are playing
Suspiciously they look to me
Like headstones in a graveyard swaying
Sometimes it is hard to see
That all we have is what we need
I'm always wanting more
When you're lost with no one else
It doesn't help to find yourself
It helps to find the door
And the children in the park are playing
And the headstones are silently waiting
History is littered with
Has-beens who have never lived
Do not look away
This could be your destiny
Unless you learn that you are free
And leave behind the chains
And the children in the park are playing
Waking
Up from the dream
I am alive in a walking machine
Robot
Answer my call
Nobody knows what it's like
In the virtual
Lately
Nothing means anything
I am alive in an adding machine
Honey
Don't be unsure
Metal is nice when the circuit is pure
Robot
Answer my call
Robot
Don't tell a soul
'Cos nobody knows what it's like in the virtual
By the ivory coast sits a man
In a most angry pose
He’s wasting away
As the buzzards peck little holes
There’s a boy by a pool
Who simply can’t move but to drool
Staring ever in to a silly grin
Trapped beside the pool
And across the way
There’s a man who can’t wait
His stomach growls and he salivates
Never to be satisfied, nor to die
Hour by hour I wait for my flower to bloom
It’s a hideous black mushroom
Odious spore of doom
And I crouch by the glass
In the underpass of the moon
Wondering what’s in store
Beyond my bolted door
And across the hall
There’s a man who just waits
He’s sick to death and he gives in to Fate
Never does he try not to die
By the ivory coast sits the suet man
Still in chains as day by day
The buzzard birds bite bits away
And he sacrificed himself
[No one moves, the rain won't come now...]
Panic, kerosene
By the side, gasoline
And the story goes
They left you here
And we'll never knkow
Why they disappeared
Smoking
Oh forest
You are choking
There's a rope around you
There's a sinking sense of knowing that you're going
There's a crater down where
Deep inside there's nowhere
[No one moves the rain won't come now]
The rain won't save you
There's a can of kerosene
From this legendary ghostly scene
It will always be there
While the trees are moving violently
Slaughter in the corner of my mind's dream
We are choking
Look to the sun...
There is a memory of you
Look to the sun...
There isn't much that you can do
Look to the sun
Owls burning
Fire swirling crown
Squirrels try to reach the ground
Walking in twos
What could they do?
Smoking
The trees are moving violently
Echoes of the footsteps of the arsonies
They will always be there
Is it lonely forest
Is it only for us walking now
Is it lonely forest
Is it only that we wake you
From the slumber of your deep misery
Look to the sun...
There is a restless forest
Look to the sun...
Isn't it wild, isn't it fun
When you've begun to look to the sun
There isn't much that you can do
Once for a while
I was by your side
Standing so close
But we did not smile
I saw you lose control
I saw your system overload
Go away, away, away
In the shadow of that night we cried
Like two lost cars with crashing lights
Once for a while
I was next to you
You looked away
Though you did not move
I wished to hold you near
I tried to reach you inner ear
Stay away, away, away
In the silence of that night we tried
To break the seal to what's inside
Like strangers on familiar land
We navigate but can't understand
Now I'm awake
I can see behind
You were afraid
I was paralyzed
I saw you round the bend
And knew the way that it would end
I wished to hold you near
And cheat the fates of what was clear
You are the one said come over
You are the one said come on
As a wave washes over a fortress of Sand
All is new
All is known
I can see wind upon the rise, here under glass I can see
Outside in formaldehyde waiting to set myself free
Up around the river bend I was separated from you
You became a citizen of a world held like a zoo
One step through the airlock
Where the chemicals can’t get through
Up around the river bend I was separated from you
Like the ocean drips from the sky I sit here just waiting
to be
I can see specimens in the jars, waiting to be
Up around the river bend the specialists changed you
You became a prisoner of a world kept like a zoo
Outside, real life – waiting for you and for me
Outside all our lives – awaiting the chance to be
Get away from me, get away from me now – it’s all wrong
It’s too late for me, it’s too late for me now – it’s all
gone, you have gone
Will you pray for me, will you pray for me now – all
night long
Up around the river bend
Up around the river bend Satan’s angels fly
Hey everybody don’t you know we can go outside
It is me again
Don't turn away
There is something to say
We are guilty
Once for awhile there was fire because of spark
Once for awhile there was light beside the dark
We are guilty
Through the eye of time go I
If you catch them at the station
You must ask them what they see
If you walk away without question
You will never find what you seek
Look away there’s no escape
When I was only just a sweet tired young thing
You were like the warmest fire
I sat on your shoulder
I sat by your side
And I said,
"Oh, no, hear the radiation
Coming closer from all five sides
No, no, feel the situation
I don't ever wanna kiss you goodbye"
goodbye...
You were merely just a saviour
Seemed to me like the grooviest guy
It was only very much later
I caught a look at your secret side
And I said,
"No, no, I won't see the radiation
It can't be such a dangerous high
No, no, reject the situation
I don't ever wanna kiss you goodbye"
goodbye...
When I was only just a sweet tired young thing
You took the dew from my eyes
I sat on your shoulder
I silently prayed you wouldn't leave me behind
Oh, no, feel the radiation
Coming at you from all five sides
No, no, erase the information
I don't ever wanna kiss you goodbye
Oh, no, feel the radiation
It can't be such a dangerous high
No, no, reject the situation
I don't wanna have to kiss you goodbye
Every night when I come home
A ghost stares at the phone
And the dust greets me from above
The sediment of what I have become
Every night I watch you all
Every day I know
Every night when I come home
Shadows start to grow
And the sun that stings from the west
Silhouettes you
My hungry eyes retract
Afraid the shadow's true
Afrid of fading too
Every night hear a rusty hinge
Make a sound of the dead below
Every night when my mind kicks in
The hands of time are ticking, won't let go
And like the dream in the silhouette
When the masquerading cabbage said,
"Well look at you, won't you look at you
Just 'cuz you have a head
you think you're always set to know..."
[Stop]
Every night try to walk away
But hands of time just pull me back again
Every night at the appointed time
The calling mind won't go
Every day in the same old way
It's the sound of winding down
My starving ears react to the unrelenting howl
Every night come crawling in on your hands
From where I don't know
Every night with the monster lens
Steal a photograph of my soul
Every night with the six-inch heels
Strut strug right into my room
Every night feel the hands of time
Turn me back to the naked gloom
I am standing by the wire
Where there’s nothing seen for miles
Oh, hold me back against the rain
Oh no, feel my feet again
On a train of human cargo
I was standing in the crush
The rush to feel the air against my skin
Might never feel that again
On the train that brought me here
I was separated from you
They can drag my body broken
But that’s all that they can do
No I won’t
Feel the weight of the stone
I won’t wait
a. Supper's Calling
wonder what's for dinner tonight
If everything works out all right
I'll be feasting
So, let's see what's for dinner tonight
A treat below that beats with life
It's calling, beating, breathing, bleeding
I sense your presence, smell you near – sneaking,
hiding
I hear your heart and feel your fear – flowing, moving
Behold it soon will all be clear
My eyes, shining: hypnotizing
b. The Shepherdess
You've lost control
You've lost your way home
Out in the cold
You've lost your way home
You've lost your way home
You've lost your way home, out in the cold
c. A Brief History of Truth and Beauty
I will live again
Up from the air of my succulent lair
I will rise anew
Into the wind I will move my wings
I will feed again
Drain to the depths with my clean teeth and breath
I am beauty
I am beauty
Once for awhile there was light beside the dark
Once long ago there was fire because of spark
Secrets have faded, shadows have grown
We are just wanderers whose path is unknown
Unknown…
I am free at last
Take in a breath, there's no looking back
I go circling
Spying from high, I watch my prize
I will wipe the sleep from red glowing eyes and prepare
to arrive
This is beauty
(I couldn't ask for anything more)
d. Chupacabras Stomp
All that we have ever known
Is seeking love and wanting home
All that we have ever known
Is seeking love and wanting home
Creator
I bring the gift of everlasting dream
Creator
I bring the gift of life between the seams
I bring the gift…
e. Get My Goat
{{Instrumental}}
f. Study and Review
Secrets have faded, shadows have grown
We are just wanderers whose path is unknown
The path is unknown…
g. The Gift
I will live again
Deliver myself from waiting in stealth
I will rise again
Meet you alive on the other side
I am freedom
I am freedom, you couldn't ask for anything more
You couldn't ask for anything more
Creator…
All that we have ever known
Is seeking love and wanting home
…unknown
I am freedom
The sisters of illusion
Sell delusion at the show
It is said they've wed for wisdom
If it kissed them, they wouldn't even know
Still the marchers walk beside them
Inclined to agree: "If it's written we believe
It will come, you'll see"
The converts come together
They're gathered to begin
And they swear their oaths forever
Slip chips down into the skin
So the keepers are inside them
Provide them what they need
To transmit and to receive
When they're in, they don't leave
The convent is waiting it's time to go in
Gather the faithful let vespers begin
...and this is what they say
[Look what we've done
We've raised the stakes
The serpent has come
Oh, I feel it now
As surely as the shadow Of an owl]
Stole the raven into my sweet dreams
Like a cloud coming down
Disturbed my slumber like some kind of fiend
Rising up from the ground
And the signs will lead us in time
Will lead us in time...
Don't leave us behind
Just lead is in time
In time
Angels stormed through my mind like a swarm
Rushing in from the rain
A chorus calling, the voice so appalling
Predicts a great change
And in time the omens divine
Emerge from behind
To burst from the mind
Reveal the design
To lead us in time, lead us in time
Towards the sublime
Just lead us in time
In time
[10, 9, 8, 7, 5, 4, 3, 1]
And the signs will lead us
In time lead us
And time will lead us
In time lead us...
Look
What we've done
We've raised the stakes
The Serpent has come
There
Can't you see?
The cards reflect it most emphatically
Oh, I feel it now
As surely as the shadow of an owl
What can we do?
Imperilled is the paradise to doom
Oh, so many trees
Like lovers' lips locked eternally
But wait
Beware the saws
They're scratching out the forest with their claws
We breathe upon the land to grow
And root into the deep to know…
We dig into the sand to find
the grain of matter made divine
We cheat the death that night will bring
By everyday awakening
In the streets, yeah
I was drifting through the lanes
In the streets, baby
Everybody looked away
In the streets
I felt tension and afraid
In the back of my head
I feel terribly dead
Friday afternoon
Came a rustling from the room
I was strangely terrified
By the things I heard inside
Then a voice so strong and loud
Said, "It could be yours by now"
Saturday at 4
I snuck back to the corridor
And slipped into the room
Now I'm quiet as a tomb
And there written on the ground
In dust, "It should be yours by now"
And t's so strange
'Cuz in the back of my head
I still feel terribly dead
So just go away
Leave me chained to the wall
Just like you've done it before
Everyone knows that it's my regular show
Is my deliverance near?
I don't see it, I don't hear
Where's the trumpets blowing fire
And the angel-hosted choir?
I keep waiting for the sound
'Cuz it should be here by now
It should be here by now
But there's no change
In the back of my head
The monster wants to be fed
And I can't get away
'Cuz when you've done it before
What's it matter once more
Everyone knows that it's your regular show...
Once upon a time
In the blinking of an eye
The oracle was mine
Like the sage had prophesied
It was whispered through the clouds
My fingers are trembling
My hands have gone blue
My lungs are now gasping for air it is true
And I find my little self
Scared in this cage
But 100 Mg. would take it away
My wall it is cracking
My one safety zone
The door is in pieces outside of my home
And up on this roof where you'll find me now
100 Mg. taking me down
Sneaking through jungles of fall away ground
Tear at this forest try to get out
100 Mg. set your mind free
100 Mg. is all that I need
Finding a place in peace for a dream
Sorting out pieces of some ancient scene
Of a time when tears could freely flow
Before 100 Mg. dried up my soul
