- 07.07 - To Tame The Temporal Shrew
Pass between the in between to evidence the things unseen for travelers who've passed beneath
Till waxed and flaxen unkempt hair is standard where they hold me here to separate the spirit from the shape
Feast upon the eyes the breath of life falters Waiting for the sigh a borderline crossed to wonder
Is the shutter shy the film is fading seen through pallid eyes the triad waking wholly satisfied to cauterize the two that feel alright seeing white light stepping outward to embrace all the phantom static in frame all these virgins calling for haste
See the satyr rise to feast upon the eyes closing
She is strange Oh this death dealing diva speaking cause with reluctance to me we will dance while the fever bereaves us to escape from the fortune she weaves
I'm ashamed when the flames sell me fire for the lantern I've made from my skin can the stitches hold on through these travels if the hunger removes them within
As I race through the passage I find you and we dance till eternity ends and void is not full up nor empty when the song of our empire begins
- 09.09 - Diamond Eyes
We are not machines
We are not machines programmed, encoded
We are so much more, We are so much more
Oh, the lights
Burning like fireflies caught in a web
Electrisity hums in our heads
We're overwhelmingly fearless
- Alchemy Alice
All the same
I Chased the Cheshire looked for all the same relief
And further more
I dug in further more than you can bury deep it's so
Sad to see so glad you found your own way out
Arraign your head with crowns invisible high
Remember why you're here is to inspire
- Blitz
I turn from the world but the world turns me
They show you the way but I can't even breathe
So I grit my gnashing teeth against a fence I
cannot see
And wish to fuckin' Hell there was no in-between
Secondly but first of all, just because and why
I list the constant questions I kept 'em all
- Dark Charade
I've been dredgin' the lake of my soul for a place I've never been
scattering the last of my thoughts to capture a whim
filled my lungs to limit
found why we stay in denial
on this unclimbed stairway
watching life go by
I'll make it easier on those of us who don't know that I am still here
imagining dial tone schemes
- Disco Biscuit
Who's there?
I've forgotten
Who said?
Run away
Run where
Against the wall's an armed forgotten
This amputee holds mending tools
- Downhill
I'm leavin' to walk the road inside my head
with cord in hand and powder breath I stand and wave goodbye
goodbye...
the systematomatic thinks, while buying blood on Broadway street where the old messiahs go
that pulsing through the atmosphere are answers to the questions you should know
don't let it go, or it's all downhill from here
- Eidolon Alpha
Oh Child, Deceive me
Enter the same the same as I
Moments pass as desperate contortions unfold
Seeking placid sanity a moment of calm
Cancerous anxiety and thieving doubt rain
Sheltering indifference to dignify rage
Begging for a line drawn in the sand to separate the prophets from the men then bittersweet the wicked so the guise of harmony can breathe again delighted
Hear me son the rivers dry again
- Elempe
Lyrics to El Empe :
One more charlatan goes mute
Safe in these halls discretely
I hold out for the rare when the silence is golden
Beg to join me here
To late now to be
Self redeemed for all of these dreams that you've wound tightly
Remain enthralled as breathing stalls the course of your mind
- Fames
Listen all you tired, you cold, you bitter masters
Starving the weak
The stories you have told cannot stifle the voices of need
So wager your tales against our dreams
Strangle, stall, monopolise, steal, and separate
Keep us all at odds and keep us all in hiding
Drifting from the relevant we can learn again
- Feathergun in the Garden of the Sun
Rubber like your lover's neck you tripped into the garden, you tripped into the garden of the sun
on you tried, unbuttoned eyes, imprelious telusion, tripping past your guard into the sun
these dreamers, so eager, throw their hands in the fight
I spy walrus tooth in the way outside of the shoegaze revolution
I'm seein' bright lights, silhouettes of knife fights and I see it all, I see it all
I'm seein' bright lights in-between the knife fights and I see it all, I see it all
I see it all through the wolves in the walls
- Feratu
On more night,
Then it's one more sun
That leaves me wondering.
One more fight
And I'll lose these wings.
My certainty falters.
- Harlequin
Try, seeker, try
To find this path of mine
I weave a simple line
Take care to watch my flight
Place your fingers here to guide me
Guide me under
- I'm Sorry. I Don't Want to be an Emperor
I'm sorry, but I don't want to be an Emperor - that's not my business. I don't want to rule or conquer anyone. I should like to help everyone, if possible -- Jew, gentile, black man, white. We all want to help one another; human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness, not by each other's misery. We don't want to hate and despise one another. In this world there's room for everyone and the good earth is rich and can provide for everyone.
The way of life can be free and beautiful.
But we have lost the way.
Greed has poisoned men's souls, has barricaded the world with hate, has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed. We have developed speed but we have shut ourselves in. Machinery that gives abundance has left us in want. Our knowledge has made us cynical, our cleverness hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery, we need humanity. More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost.
- Katsushika
Hello, I'm the whisper-clap man tuggin' on my sleeves, doin' all that I can do
can you weather the moment whether the fortune comes before the end?
you should be satisfied as well
now we're counting all the hours on the second hand for days
mending ties with broken time in many different ways
if all of us spin 'round 'til every one of us is down
- Keyhole in the Sky
The high road is always a balance beam
Chipping away our ankles
And I think it's high time we embraced the visual
On my way home I saw a keyhole in the sky
And I tossed around my reasons for the cost
Divide and dissolve the seams
That weave deep within my head
- Landmines
This may be Where the Sidewalk Ends
far below me are shimmering surfaces
water-I need water
I've killed everyone here except for my daughter
she had sixteen points to make
five were heads-the other ten were snakes
chasing their tails, bringing her father down
- Lovely Room
I try and remember a night before this
The mirror reflects, but it lies to me
I breathe in the breeze open-eyed to feel this
And slip into arms dipped in wine
To sleep
In a house of gods, in an empty room
There will be no scars and I will be there
- Omega
God this must
Must be for certain
If you are here
Raise my world an ossuary
Staring through the gate wide-eyed
Did you think I'd salivate and beg
Don't sell me tones of liberation
- Pandora
Cedar grains cling to woven skin upon walls
I know frail truths feed borrowed dreams grown cold
and from here I beg release and hope I hope
Breathing through these lines
Innocence lost among the torment of grace within the storm
seeking darkness in the dawn
While the emptiness divides every purpose with the light I fade
- River of Glass
I'm sure that I'm fine but I heard there's a bath in a river of glass so I'll take it
I've always known that the smiles that were shown were plastic and hollow lines
and I'll be damned, your metaphor dollar-fed God got into my head
Hey now, plastics gather 'round now you're waitin' with your hands out for the blood flies to come and carry you home
doubt is a crime and I caught me at last running circles in rounded-off places
scanning for hope but these windows of gold play tricks on my eyes...
- Romance Of A Dead Kingdom
Sleep now
Fragile
Cradle my hope
Dream 'til morning
Rising again
To uphold my claims to power
Promises bind
This place to me
- Scissorlips
Where are you?
I'm lost upon this boulevard
and I'm afraid this plastic mask made room enough
for all of us
Now scissorlips has come to grips while chewing paper fingertips that boulevards made boulevards of boulevards in endless strips
sing your lullaby
sing, sing, sing
- seven rings left
Shadow of a soul you
Come to me and wait for my approval
To kneel here Sacred is the ground I tread
Leave no footprints
perfect in your eyes, you fool
Lay the lesser down
This blood so dark and red
Won't eat away the chains
- Shades
We're, if at all
Slaves to a pawn
Caught in a cautious lie, if at all
Staggering weightless
Haggard stained cynical
It all tastes sweet
Leave me to sway here, if at all
- Soundtrack
Lenni
And every day is much the same
I’m just glad to be somebody
Anywhere’s better than here
I wish for ones to lose desire
And I can’t hide from
My destiny
- Systematomatic
Hey you, I've seen you here before
In your eyes, prizmatic sight on and on as I defy
Denials, back from the broken glass
Sapphire visions and favored derisions with spiders on your mind shaking fists full of string as I
Tie me up in knots while contradictory impulse lusts
The dreaming loom is twisted and confused
The stories on the spools will weave us back into one
- Weevil Bride
And in the end we caught our weevil bride
she was arraigned in garments' genocide
we took her home to where our mirror stood,
like she knew we would so she smiles
she sings oo-oo-oo, I've been here before
many years ago, before the war
and it goes on and on and on until you're gone
and I just need to know that everything is fine and everyone's alright
- Zdzislaw
I've crawled this corridor once before to the shadows where it ends
Peeled back all of the paper doors to remind me where I've been
Seeds to be sown,
who would've known
The balance fractured
this far in
who left this
way open?