- 01.None Except You
... and for days afterward i held onto the feeling you'd given to me
... and your face just remained like a flash in my eyes,
brighter than anything i'd seen.
you don't know me, but i'd sure like you to.
i don't know if i exist, but now i'm sure that you do.
i'd give everything away for one day with you...
- 04.Doll Faced Virtue
Little princess, with no need for empathy when we will
Gather at your feet to give you anything you need, and feel privileged just to have you hang around so we can look you
Up and down and wait for you to turn around and maybe notice all the things we have inside, things that you
Pretend to provide to get yourself around in life.
So, sorry to get in your way. it seems that i forgot my place... a means to your superficial ends. here, let me scratch your back again, sweetie.
Little princess, how could i be any use? might i assist with your abuse, and whatever else you choose? good thing you're pretty, or else you'd be no good to me, your fake concern is rather weak... i hear an echo when you speak, but it's ok... manipulate me all you need, for we are all
- 11.And Though We Fade Away...
come in tune.
learn to see what pay won't fix,
you can get for free.
everything that breathes should know this.
there's no recourse for wasted moments.
breathing fast,
- Artificial Light
I don't like artificial light, but I use it every night. No other way to see.. No the day won't stay for me.
And when the lights go out,
memory gets me around as I wander through the dark,
but I can't get very far.
And once again I find,
I'm no good at being blind,
and the light of every day can never be replaced.
- Just Go On
Clearing my mind again
watch the waves crashing onto the black sand
and stare across the sea
Glad to see something out of control like me
Remember where I'm from
Time spent like the sun in the ocean
And all my grave concerns
Will burn out with me never to return
- Liberated
Too unquestioning to see anything. find a way to run away from your own sight. always trusting in anyone who holds a
gun at anything that you hate, because you can't bear to relate.
do they believe their own lies? does it help them sleep at night? is it easier when you never have to fight to know that this is right?
try for one week to not eat. hear bombs go off down the street. watch people die at your feet. hear children cry as they bleed. try to ignore the hatred. try to feel liberated. don't you feel liberated now?
after all this time you think we'd now know, every time you're told not to question you should do so.
- None Except You
... and for days afterward i held onto the feeling you'd given to me
... and your face just remained like a flash in my eyes,
brighter than anything i'd seen.
you don't know me, but i'd sure like you to.
i don't know if i exist, but now i'm sure that you do.
i'd give everything away for one day with you...
- nothing follows, nothing stays
Quite dazed for this time of day,
Take concerns; roll 'em up let 'em float away.
Sunlight on my rested eyes,
Quietly lifting me right into the sky.
Can't focus until I slow it down,
The everyday hiss drowns it out.
I don't pretend to be in control,
Just a wave, changing shape let it go.
- Phantoms in the Sky
This is what you chose: to kill and be enclosed.
Sheltered by the news, 'cause it's difficult to choose.
So let us all decide what you should know,
and stay too busy to- keep up with the truth.
How about you ignore the world beyond our shores,
and leave the rest to me so you won't feel guilty.
See, I'm a guy like you... easily confused...
- Scattered Parts
I'm trying to stay true but I've got liars in my head.
Got pliars in my bed just to pry 'em off my neck.
They crawl up in my ear and try to keep me in the wrong,
and they'll be taking over if I sleep for very long.
I'll be saying things I know I don't believe,
I'll be reaching out to grab what I know that I don't need.
- Slow Devour
Right here beneath this cold, indifferent show.. A silent invasion I'm too weak to control. Through all resistance, you're gaining ground and you know the growing, thriving part of me that you own.
Don't worry, I need it. I'm oh so incomplete. Just hurry, come feed it so I can sleep.
Invade my braincells. Start replicating yourself. Lower my defenses. Start spreading under my skin. Undone and overpowered. Drawn into your movement. The slow devour takes me again.
All my convictions, slowly melting away.. Drifting.. Fading.. far away from this place.
- The Open Landscape
sweet little voice that repeats what "they" say,
airy like an open landscape fertile for thoughts that have yet to grow...
so allow me to plant everything i know.
every sign says turn away from this sweet little waist and porcelain face
so deathly pale but beaming with light to shine on my pathetic life.
i try to stay abstract and intact, but she pulls me to the flame,
and silences the words, and leaves me here again.
- The Postulate
if i wrote a book...
started a group,
and every time you heard my name
someone tried to control you,
and all the wealthy praised me as
they drew more blood for affluence,
and every time a bomb went off,
my name was used in its defense...
- The Way To Crash
i awake with a new sense of restless desire
for the things i can’t have without crossing a line
and it kills me to know
that i'd trade the sickness over the truth of you
and it seems we would come to appreciate
all the things that stay with us everyday
but we only see what moves
and i can’t help but notice
- Too Small
Don't want to feel that way anymore.
When will I stop forcing waves from the shore? It's such a chore.
And I'm too small. I'm too small to stop it all.
I don't need to reinforce my despair. I just need air to breathe.. like before. To repair. And restore.