1. |
|
|||
(Intro)
Somehow I found myself here today.
Awakened to these thoughts and feelings,
Or an oceanic sense of lucid dreaming?
A strange sort of spherical sensation,
With an overwhelming sense of apprehension.
An emptiness that thunders out
From beyond the mind's horizon.
So far beyond our reach,
Where consciousness coalesces
Like the billowing loom of thunder clouds.
The streaming runs of thought go
'Round and 'round and 'round.
Till the dancing funnels of wind touch down.
And the earth bows down in reverence,
Lest it should be torn to pieces
And blown into oblivi-essence.
And all who live will run and hide
And do what we've done since the dawn of time.
Everyone flees from the cyclone winds of
One's own mind.
But if one day we should stand on the canyon's edge,
Peer out through the beating rain, the pounding wind
You'll find that everyone is everyone
And everything is everything.
(Verse One)
Open up
Your hearts and minds.
'Cause I remember
Nothing.
One day now
It all falls down.
But love must keep on
Loving.
So start the show,
Here we go.
(Chorus)
Dark to light,
The day from night.
A roll of a mountain,
A rip in the sky.
Turning the dust to flesh
And ashes to breath.
A pull of a muscle,
A pin the eye.
An initial spark
To get this heart of mine pumping.
And another
To get these feet of mine running.
But sadly they've just taken me
To a place
Where all is devoid
Of your embrace.
So baby now we're falling
Baby now you're falling
Baby yeah, yeah
Baby now we're falling, baby yeah.
Tripping and tumbling,
Flipping and fumbling.
Flowing on the rivers of sadness
That have been forever rumbling.
But from dawn until now
Of all the paths that I could have gone down
Of all the valleys
That I could have been flowing through.
In spite of all the chaos
And all that has come between us,
How is it I still find myself
Here with you.
(Outro)
So somehow we find ourselves here today,
A feeling in this oceanic sense of lucid dreaming.
A strange sort of spherical sensation,
An emptiness that thunders out
From beyond the mind's horizon.
And all of us, we run and hide,
Do what we've done since the dawn of time.
Peering out through the beating rain,
The pounding wind,
Everyone is everyone
And everything is everything.
|
||||
2. |
Lost Her Way Home
05:37
|
|
||
(Verse One)
Donna fell and lost her way home.
Donna fell and lost her way home.
Now she'll never find her way home.
Donna fell and lost her way home.
Donna fell and lost her way.
(Chorus)
And I lay awake.
And I lay awake.
She'll never be the same.
A blooming flower in wilting hour.
And I cried today.
And I cried today.
'Cause poor Donna's lost her way.
The love was ours but now she's gone.
(Verse Two)
I grew up in sun and shine
But all of it was left behind.
For dreams that said they’d never go
Yet all of them have lost me so.
So I looked down the rabbit hole
And found a many sinking soul.
Sorrow's just another way.
Please don’t care. 'Cause I'm okay.
Donna fell and lost her way.
(Chorus)
And I lay awake.
And I lay awake.
She'll never be the same.
A blooming flower in wilting hour.
And I cried today.
And I cried today.
'Cause poor Donna's lost her way.
The love was ours but now she's gone.
|
||||
3. |
|
|||
(Verse One)
Waves pass through the water
While sound glides through air.
But light through the ether
Is how it gets from here to there.
They say the ether is made of
Something beyond a girl.
But what a surprise to find
It's actually made up of the way I feel.
(Verse Two)
Good days are when I laugh
And the light travels fast.
The ether is thin then
And allows the light to thunder past.
But lately the billowing sadness
That blackens my heart
Slows it all down and then
It makes the light, it makes the light go dark.
(Chorus)
Speed of thought
Speed of fright
Speed of nothing
The speed of constant…
Light got caught speeding
Drop its phase
Drop its physics now
Just like her lower day.
Slow the flash
Slow the beam
Slow the photon
The slowing of the…
Stream got caught slowing
It's alright
It's a universe
Just like her lower nights.
(Verse Three)
Light passes through the ether
As my emotions allow.
And now that the people know
They cheer me up by sending flowers.
But these days the torrents of sadness
That blacken my heart
Slow it all down and then
It makes the light, it makes the light go dark.
(Chorus)
Speed of thought
Speed of fright
Speed of nothing
The speed of constant…
Light got caught speeding
Drop its phase
Drop its physics now
Just like her lower days.
Slow the flash
Slow the beam
Slow the photon
The slowing of the…
Stream got caught slowing
It's alright
It's a universe
Just like her lower nights.
Light's all bent
Light's all blamed
Light's all hammered
The blindness of the…
Shamed wish for lighting
But there's none.
Blessed darkness
For all the enlightened ones.
|
||||
4. |
|
|||
(Intro)
So just hang on, beautiful one
'Cause when you're gone, you're only gone.
And what was then before you came
Everything will be the same.
(Verse One)
So heaven’s gone and far away.
Angel's bell has cracked and fell.
So what's in store for loss of faith?
Maybe hell will take me now.
(Chorus)
Go. Don't know where to go.
They sent me back home
Now I'm on fire.
Bones is burnin' everything I...
Know. Don't know what I know.
There is no more
And I'm so tired.
Heads is turnin' everywhere I go.
(Verse Two)
So I slipped in through the gate almost unknown.
All my border stamps were late. Seven days old.
Cold hand griped my shoulder blade, broke the bone.
Bloody nose and turned away, all the way home.
(Chorus)
Go. Don't know where to go.
They sent me back home
Now I'm on fire.
Bones is burnin' everything I...
Know. Don't know what I know.
There is no more
And I'm so tired.
Heads is turnin' everywhere I go.
(Verse Three)
So I stormed in through the gate and I yelled
Please just take this awful shell.
But in a flash I heard her say
Just like heaven, there is no hell.
(Outro)
So just hang on, beautiful one
'Cause when you're gone, you're only gone.
And what was then before you came
Everything will be the same.
|
||||
5. |
|
|||
(Intro)
Check…
Check…
Check 1.
Here's a story…
Here's a story…
Here's a story about a girl I once loved
And I'd still love her if she was still around.
It felt like yesterday but I'll say once upon a time
There was a girl who was far more beautiful
Than did her any good.
The amazing thing about it is she had no idea.
And nor did she feel compelled
To notice such things in others.
She just thought that's how the universe worked.
What she failed to take into account
Is the foundational self interest
Of all sentient beings
And that's when it all came…
(Well for her anyways)
That's when it all came crumbling to pieces.
(Verse One)
She was a girl who
Never thought,
Never guessed,
Never got.
In spite of all the life and love
There was to go around.
Beauty, purity, liberty, symmetry, serenity and energy
Are only for the ones who pay the price with others blood
And throw…
Down.
Steal that crown,
Taking that slave,
Spinning that head around.
You get it,
They get it,
He got it,
I get it,
Those people got it.
But bless her heart she never even stood a chance in hell.
(Chorus)
Oh when I came here I was lost and forgotten
Until then the sun rose in the dawn.
And I just meant to stay forever here running
But in three seconds I'll be gone.
(Verse Two)
She was a girl who
Never thought,
Never guessed,
Never got.
How many tears it took to take
The wretched tyrant down.
You get it,
They get it,
He got it,
I get it,
Those people got it.
But bless her heart she never even stood a chance in hell.
(Chorus)
Oh when I came here I was lost and forgotten
Until then the sun rose in the dawn.
And I just meant to stay forever here running
But in three seconds I'll be gone.
And I can't remember my name. It's forgotten,
And they all told me I was wrong.
'Cause I just meant to stay forever here loving
But in three seconds I'll be gone.
3, 2, 1…
|
||||
6. |
|
|||
(Intro)
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6… yeah,
It's like a waltz.
Left 2, 3. Right 2, 3.
Left 2, 3. Spin…
Very good.
Okay, here we go…
(Verse One)
Eyes follow
The rhythm of your soul's pirouettes
And little twirls.
Hearts and minds also
Spinning in time as this nursery rhyme
All unfurls.
(Verse Two)
Deep blue heaven borrows
From the ocean of colour you bring
To this otherwise dead grey world.
Tomorrow's
Sunrise is nothing in the world
Compared to your blue eyes, girl.
(Chorus)
So my darling don't give up
On these steps you're making up,
When it all has gone away
It's your dance that will remain.
So my darling don't give up
On these hopes you're stirring up,
When the earth caves in one day
It's your dance that will remain.
So my darling don't give up
On these dreams you're dreaming of,
When the sky falls down one day
It's your dance that will remain.
|
||||
7. |
|
|||
(Verse One)
There was a glassman named
Sir Nothing Nor Anything,
And one day he pristined
The perfect glass figurine.
She stood on two
With ballet shoes,
And see-through hair
Her shoulders bare.
(Verse Two)
Since then he's closed his blinds
With her remaining inside,
The people call his name
Keeps silent he all the same.
And in the dark
A fires spark,
Refracts through legs
Of perfect shape.
(Chorus)
Wherever we fall with all that's shattered around
The broken glass will surely follow.
And when we hit the ground all that keeps raining down
Is all the glass we couldn't swallow.
(Verse Three)
With pitchforks and the torch
The people broke down his door,
And when they flooded in
They cried 'a man full of sin'.
So he climbed up
To roofing top,
And kissed her hair
And then they leapt to air.
(Chorus)
Wherever we fall with all that's shattered around
The broken glass will surely follow.
And when we hit the ground all that keeps raining down
Is all the glass we couldn't swallow.
|
||||
8. |
|
|||
Instrumental
|
||||
9. |
These Subtle Lights
04:54
|
|
||
(Verse One)
Caught myself digging again
And all that I've found as I dig deeper down, my friend
Are these subtle lights
These subtle lights
These subtle lights.
(Verse Two)
Sunlight has all disappeared
I haven't seen it since yesteryear.
And all that I hear as throw the earth clear
Is this ringing in my ears.
And these subtle lights
These subtle lights
These subtle lights.
(Chorus)
Caverns with diamonds and
Riches from carbon sands.
Hoping you'll understand
If I return empty handed.
Emeralds and geodes and
All that erodes a man.
Love grows in crystal bands
And mining love, that's my plan.
(Verse Three)
Stop for a moment of rest
Strike a match for a cigarette.
Rumblings emerge from the ground
And falling in, all around.
Surrounded by
These subtle lights
These subtle lights.
Enraptured by
These subtle lights
These subtle lights.
(Chorus)
Caverns with diamonds and
Riches from carbon sands.
Hoping you'll understand
If I return empty handed.
Emeralds and geodes and
All that erodes a man.
Love grows in crystal bands
And mining love, that's my plan.
|
||||
10. |
Planck Length
05:37
|
|
||
(Verse One)
There was a man who woke up in early morn,
Wondering why his shirt was torn
And where was he before he was born.
Sat for about an hour in the shower stall
And watched the crystal water fall
But was he there even at all?
Delta 5
Minus 9
Inverse square
Over time
Carry 1
Retrograde
Vector of
E-magnetic wave
(Verse Two)
There was a man who walked out into the rain,
Missed his bus so he jumped the train.
Does losing one's self reduce the pain?
He got off early seeing a broken wall,
Written on it in letters tall,
"If you’re not big then maybe you're small".
Sine of L
Prime of H
Parallel
Cartesian Plane
Factor in
Low degree
Reduction
Quantum gravity
Root of pi
Multiplied
Beta X
Theta Y
Total sums
Equal not
Answer was
Smaller than he thought
(Chorus)
Hey-oh, there's no other way down.
It'll be some kind of time from now until we hit the ground.
It goes on, and on, and on, and on, and on, it goes.
We're smaller than a Planck length.
Suck it up,
Just got to let go.
Hey…
Hey-oh, this'll be some kind of ride,
Nothing less ever than some wild times.
It goes on, and on, and on, and on, and on, it goes.
We're smaller than a Planck length.
Suck it up,
Just got to let go.
Hey…
Hey-oh, we see no us inside.
1.6 x 10 to -35.
It goes on, and on, and on, and on, and on, it goes.
We're smaller than a Planck length.
Suck it up,
Just got to let go.
Hey…
(Verse Three)
If you're not big then maybe you're small.
That's what he saw. Paint still dripping off the wall there.
Some vandal's spray can lightning bolt bearing down
On him from out of nowhere.
This random string of words
Splayed across some random stack of bricks,
That line some random alley way
In some random corner of some random cityscape.
So he pondered where he was,
If he was.
What this 'awakeness' somewhere inside was made of,
The flicker of light the so called self is said to be comprised of.
Rule out the body in all of its change
It's astronomical but ultimately pathologic,
And yet he's seen darker days.
Well if not the body then how about the brain?
Throw this brain in another man's suit
And I think he might argue that he'd probably be there too.
But synaptic, plastic, elastic
Is the nature of the neuron.
And memories are all just cascades of brain sparks
That are made up on the spot.
Patterns that another lobe in some other part
Perceives as being the essence of who you are.
And personality?
Program a copy or two of you.
Theoretical. Identical.
A philosophical tool
Or volatile fuel?
For these goddamn no-branching rules.
If you're not big then maybe you're small.
Bullshit or base line state?
So he says to himself, if I even exist at all, man,
I'm smaller than a Planck length.
(Chorus)
Hey-oh, there's no other way down.
It'll be some kind of time from now until we hit the ground.
It goes on, and on, and on, and on, and on, it goes.
We're smaller than a Planck length.
Suck it up,
Just got to let go.
Hey…
Hey-oh, this'll be some kind of ride,
Nothing less ever than some wild times.
It goes on, and on, and on, and on, and on, it goes.
We're smaller than a Planck length.
Suck it up,
Just got to let go.
Hey…
Hey-oh, we see no us inside.
1.6 x 10 to -35.
It goes on, and on, and on, and on, and on, it goes.
We're smaller than a Planck length.
Suck it up,
Just got to let go.
Hey…
|
||||
11. |
Over the Edge It Goes
14:06
|
|
||
(Verse One)
All the pieces that I have
Of everything that I am,
I stash away inside
This shiny small, empty little box of mine.
And when I put it there
It disappears in thin air,
To keep it safe from you
From him, and her,
From all of us and even me too.
(Verse Two)
One day I found a beam
Of sun intended for me,
In arms I held it close
But smothered it and drowned it out in doing so.
And so I opened up
The box to store all I love,
Inside I hid it well.
Now there's nothing to show and even less,
There's nothing to tell.
(Chorus)
So many of the small things lost
Already in the box I've got.
Put it in and there's no finding
It has a way of forever hiding.
Bits and pieces of a makeshift man
Thrown together like a heap of sand.
All the sympathies and double-crosses
The water comes and then away it washes.
Keep it real and keep it clean
And think of everything I've ever seen.
All the parts of me that I remember
Are reconstructions of the 'who I wish I were'.
All the purities are better saved,
Any innocents that might remain,
Ever gone, forever out of contact.
The little box I have will never give it back.
(Bridge)
Over the edge it goes, further into…
No one knows.
|
Streaming and Download help
If you like Au4, you may also like:
Bandcamp Daily your guide to the world of Bandcamp