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A Place on Earth
01:46
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Tall-tales / In youth we’re told / Of triumph and glory / Prove false when we’re grown /
Inside of me: warring divinity / Slain soul: once gold / Now: rotting and cold / In
shattered dimensions: Hope’s resurrection / Reality splinters: two permanent winters /
Fate falls in flakes ‘fore my eyes / I can hear the Furies cry: / “Do you believe what your
eyes see? / Hell is a place on Earth” / I do believe / My eyes have seen / Hell is
surrounding me / “Do you concede / If you were to bleed / They’d drain your veins / Your
sunlight and bring rain?” / Fairweather. Friends? Never. Heart suppressor / Pierce the
ether’s membrane / Innocence leaks like the pouring rain / Acidic and caustic / In pain /
Exhausted / Misplaced lust. Turn to dust. Friends fall to the rust / 5 months in / Falling
far from grace / Heavenly tears hail from space / Hell-fire reigns from an ancient age /
First song last. 4 months passed. My requiem mass / Loveless acres / Blood boils /
Under a black sun I toil / To iron oxide: the redox begins / I am / Chasing the wind
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Cracking On!
02:14
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Long gone are the days / When jealousy prevailed / Ripping suicide-sized holes / In the
fabric of this sail: my soul / The open wounds, blinding pain / A decade-long hurricane /
For today it waned, I learned its name / Truth be told, I’ll never be the same / Behold:
the birth of a man of might / Tempered steel, wings in flight / Descend and bend space
and time / I am who am and this life is mine / My heart beats free and out of time / I am
who am and this world is mine / In times of growth, prosperity / The rise before the fall:
decline / The trade-winds flow / Breathe and blow / to and fro / Westward on I sail / The
one-way, whistling wind won’t fail / Destroy the man with coward’s doubt / With lifted leg:
curb-stomp him out / Bloody sidewalk / Teeth cracked: gone / The tides have turned,
friend / I’m cracking on! / I’m gone / I’m cracking on! / Already gone / Thus begins your
slow decay / Drowning just below the waves / Sinking to your resting place / Ocean floor
/ Cold, black Bay
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The Yearlong Day
02:47
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Bent like strings / Stitched to my heart’s new sewn seam / Strong as Adamantium / High
above me / Starlight beams / The pavement gleams / And all I want to do is sleep /
Remembering, curbside: the night that my hope-bound heart died / Bright, pink ribbon
skies / I’ll never forget / In dreams I have tried / Slaughtering that sunset / Fifth of May /
Thus began the yearlong day / In the death of Spring, 2008 / Ease the pain / I made my
world a nightmare’s dream / Flying on wings of amphetamine / 2015: wings spread
again / Full-flight / Took an axe to them / Forced to face the day / Blue skies or gray / Let
the chips fall as they may / Tradewinds catching my clipper ship’s sail / Westward on to
the next heart / I am impaled / Time and again / Burning down at both ends / I lost my
dorm key / I can’t get in / To make amends / I’ve been a wrecking ball / I want to fix it all,
but / To the rust we fall
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I am heartbreak / Causing headaches, heartaches / Wax poetic / Whistling “Wonderwall"
into the Western wind / This is “Champagne Supernova” / Black rain / I’m your
earthquake / Meet my Black Dog: he can sit, sleep, slit, and shake / Blacking-out our
bleached-white clouds / Sonic distortion, fuzz-faced shroud / 8 weeks down / Falling
farther and farther behind / Blacking-out our bleached-white clouds / Sonic distortion,
fuzz-faced shroud / I am falling down / Blood-soaked skies / Tears in my eyes / Boys of
Light / Watch me rise / As I climb / Take the time / To apologize for / Tearing holes in
bright blue skies / Redemption? No, just severed ties / Glass and needles, rubber tide /
The Man-of-Wars bled out and died / Climbing a ladder to the atmosphere / Patchwork
dam to halt the tears / I’ll rain down hate on faux-Brigadiers / Caustic / Venom / Blue
skies die / I’ll scrap / Smash / Scratch / Attack / Claw / Give this my all
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5. |
End of Days After-Party
02:42
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(instrumental)
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6. |
Food for Worms
02:16
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Here is the man / Struck thrice, not twice / By electric blue bolts of shattering light / He is
the one / The Son of Man / Tossed away in God’s garbage can / Moving on / Attention
please / The specimen in Example B / He is the man / With sparkling teeth / The man
that Lady Luck came to see / Time and again / Let me be blunt / Statistics have shown:
She’s a fickle cunt / Because fortunes fall / As hard as Job’s / For the once-favored / On
this blue, round globe / We love, we lose / We fail, we learn / But one thing’s for sure /
We’re all food for worms / Dagger thoughts of doubt / Soil and worms / Cracked teeth in
my mouth / Clawing out the dirt / I’m going home / There: where the animals roam…
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Here, With the Animals
04:37
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Creation / The pinnacle of humanity / Brush strokes / Invoke a memory / Curiosity / The
tool of philosophy / But it’s we / That created / This beat / This two-part harmony / This
sound: bleeding the ear drum / Each string strummed is a mere hum / Compared to…
(crescendo) / Make that a three-part harmony / Violent,thrashing cacophony / And we’ll
waltz together / Through ecstasy / Alone in agony / And it’s here: I dream / Hearts swell /
Within each measure: I dwell / Destroyers: think us hedonistic, cannibals / Vibrations:
truly intangible / A place they deem inhabitable / Here, with the animals / Hymns and
rhymes arise in my mind / Rhythms and melodies bloom and unwind / Then I and the 5:
six strings harmonize / Light from the thing gold blinding our eyes / Hymns and rhymes
arise in my mind / Rhythms and melodies bloom and unwind / The 5 (minus I): no
strings harmonize / Light from the thing gold blinding my eyes / This is but a preamble /
A buzz, a hum, a fuzz-loaded gun / Sounds: sonic, to the world unknown / In these
songs, I’ve found a home: remote / Here
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It was a cloudy day / After a Roman night of rain / First waves began to buzz / In my
bones below / At the speed of salt / Racing thoughts followed me at a trot / Passing
through the gated walls / Wondering why they were built so tall / To smithereens: a
gentle heart / Butterfly wings: plucked apart / Stitched and sewn: return to start / Sorrow
to speed: decaying Descartes / Regulation: down / Dopamine receptors: drowned / I
was found by the Vatican City Police / Kneeling ‘fore a masterpiece / Divinity seething
just beneath / Shadows crawling out the walls / Following me down the hall /
Reverberations / Man-made God / Battering my cones and rods / In the halls / Paired
skin shines like an apple / Barely breathing in the Sistine Chapel
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Fallow Acres
00:42
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I’ve crossed rivers / I’ve climbed mountains / I’ve written songs / And stories about ‘em /
And at the end / Of every line / The sunlight fades / And the hero dies
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Blue & Gold
01:04
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The twisted, mangled valves / My heartbeat's slowing down / The Fifth of May / I'd have
to say / Began the yearlong day in the saddest way / I loathe each passing day on this
hope-abandonded rock / As it spins / And it's true: no one won and it was never fun / I
built a rocketship for one / And set my course to the dying Sun / Tearing through the
Autumn sky / Just to watch you die on high / "Born: big, blue, hot / In this void where I
will rot / Fit to burst / I'll do my worst / A supernova is stardust cursed" / And the skies fall
/ Stars cease to shine / I am winter / The rising of the Rhine / Sink with me / Let it be /
Decade three / Still drowning / Sing with me / O'er land and sea / A full-step down to
melancholy
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Bad Day Moonshine
02:37
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Every night the skies pour rain / On bended knee / I hope and pray / I plead: Please
ease me of the pain / I suffer all throughout the day / I wish I wasn’t born this way / I
wish I wasn’t born to be... / But time / DNA, hope asunder, torn a-fray / A boy /
Benevolent, a bit bent, brain-bashed, malevolent / A man: meant to let his body lie o’er
the River Rhine / Time wore / A warm heart cold, hard as stone, all alone / These days /
I fall asleep unbearably in misery / From dreams (waking) of all I can’t have / Never will
be / “I will march, the lion prides / Head held high, with lion’s pride” / I fell myself /
Beneath the pale moonlight / On that plateau / A decade ago or so / If there’s a God /
He wasted 6 long days / Creating tragedy / I’d bleed for love / I long for touch / Face to
face / Warm embrace / To kill the pain...
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13. |
Orphan Eyes
01:02
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(instrumental)
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14. |
Crocodile Tears
03:36
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The wry smile of the crocodile / Grins treacherous, his teeth beguile / Each canine is
poised to tear / Bicuspids drenched and dripping blood / Arctic heart, a ten-click stare /
Helpless prey in sinking mud / The tears he sheds: blossoming / Consuming hearts of
Valentine red / “For I suffered out my days / To likely die alone / Just as I was born /
Tainted blood, marrow, bone” / “In the early hours of this / This sad man’s final morn'
My teeth will splay his lonely heart / Dismantle hope apart” / “I’ll be smiling down / On
every sunny, warm western town / Below, lovers’ hands are clasped / My faggot flag inflight
at half-mast / My happiness did slowly choke / Deprived of air, in this fog: his cloak
The slow drag of my virgin heart / To the river bed, where my breath departs” / “These 5
men aren't your friends / You’re sinking like stone” / I’m still breathing / Salty eyes drip
on spinning wax / So kill the lights, disconnect the phone / Heart’s still beating
Buzzer rings on mute, knocks on deaf ears fall / Shallow breathing / My spirit's shine is
dulled / My warm heart's wish fell null” / Foaming and seething / Though tear drops I
hold back / Now I'm snarling and showing teeth / Wounds are weeping / A waltz along
the path to Hell / Wailing expiration bell” / I’ll be laughing all the way to Hell / Blue & gold
/ Callous & cold / And I weep, he smiles / Pitiless crocodile / The story is old, ageless I’m
told / Crocodile
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Fix bayonets / Charge into the night / Where the pale of the dead-valley light / Shines on
twisted limbs struck with fireblight / Hell’s hollow furnace and Death to the left and the
right / Canons set the autumn sky alight / And ceaseless thunder stirs the reaper to flight
/ "Someday / Everything you love will turn to dust / Somewhere in the middle of nowhere
/ A new world / Will be born unto the troubled son of man / And all that shines under his
eyes will eventually fall to the rust / Everything turns to black / Somewhere in the middle
of nowhere / Faces and names obscure and pass away / As night cannabilizes the day /
And the last light waxes and wanes / The Black Dog feasts at your sanity's grave / Love
and hope, space and time: disintegrate / As you rot in the black of the sun”
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(instrumental)
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