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Three White Souls
03:16
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As I awoke I saw the strangest sign
three white souls
and they pressed their bodies next to mine
And I reached for my robe
I became paralyzed
And they looked in my eyes
I felt so sick inside
These little men beside my bed
are pressing something to my head
My body rose in new rebirth
we soared above the reeling earth
And I, through hindsight, still can see
their vacant eyes
And I'm still paralyzed
I awoke a hand was touching me
It's just my wife oh god it's all a dream
well, I think, I can't recall too much of anything
but there's a voice that echoes in my brain
"Don't close your eyes
don't turn your face
we are the superior race
Don't be surprised
the earth's our home
we built the pyramids of stone
The books you found
were meant for you
we wrote them so
you'd be confused
You were not planned
you just evolved
from fowl and fish
and apes and frogs
We're power, life
and energy
You're measly spools
of chemistry
Your kind will die
one thousand deaths
for that I harbor no regret
For you
are animals inside
a gilded cage
And we
are the one and only
human race."
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3. |
Light That Shines
02:58
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Your eyes look empty
as Orpheus sings
you sink into your bones
she said she wants to be alone
The lantern flickers
cobweb shadows cast
and dancing in your room
a plague of eyes are watching you
She wakes to find
eyes that shine
a light enduriescent
It takes her hand
then pulls her in
to the nonexistent
light that shines
all around you
light that shines
The spider crawls
beneath the door
she lays so innocent and pale
Oh Valerie you are so frail
Blow out the lantern
kill mad shadows
hang your robe upon the nail
There's something shouting
from the well
She wakes to find
eyes that shine
a light enduriescent
It takes her hand
then pulls her in
to the nonexistent
light that shines
all around you
light that shines
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4. |
Sardonica
03:57
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Seven dreams Sardonica swears
look beyond your tangled hair
Meet me here behind the shed
they said you were dead but I don't care
I don't care
though not immune
from my friends
I'm feeling you
Love you now
Loved you then
horrified
the only friend
I want to be in love with you
I don't care what they do
Underneath Sardonica square
can I touch your tangled hair?
Feeling free
don't turn back
you can be here
for you have found
I love you like no other will
I don't care if you've been killed
Sardonica swear
I don't believe
I've seen you in your grave
It doesn't matter to me
that's okay
I love you anyway,
anyway, anyway
anyway, anyway
look beyond your tangled hair
Sarah Field take off your glasses
Don't immune your fingers from me
I have seen one thousand hands
caressing me with ultra violence
I have seen the instruments
of fortune and derived
I have seen you years from here
in some other time
Seven dreams Sardonica swear
I can touch your tangled hair
More or less and otherwise straight
could you meet me here at eight?
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5. |
Kelly
04:25
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Spider Stanley
03:31
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In a ghost town
past the prairie
In the distance
I see Stanley
by the fountain
beneath the gallows
webbed and swinging
with a spider smile
The rope contains his pale remains
is he a carcass or a hive?
Though his soul has passed away
the spiders make him "still alive"
His eyes sprung open
they looked like tiny eggs
Then they sparkled
and sprouted tiny legs
His mouth then sputtered
I'm from Lancaster
In his mouth I noticed
a tarantula
The rope contains his pale remains
is he a carcass or a hive?
Though his soul has passed away
the spiders make him "Still alive"
Here he comes Spider Stanley
Here he comes Spider Stanley
I slit his side the meat poured out
then flipped about like tiny trout
I slit his side the meat poured out
then slid about like tiny trout
I slit his side the meat poured out
then flipped about like tiny trout
I slit his side the meat poured out
as all the spiders crawled out
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7. |
Raymond's Reflection
01:43
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Raymond falls
from the picture frame
off the wall
down the drain
Raymond calls
down the canisters
Raymond crawls
to Manchester
The shadows all fell down
Raymond puts them in the ground
A mushroom with a frown
told him all the clocks wound down
Raymond raced
the picture frame
he did embrace
His wife was there
he screamed
but all she did was stare
Raymond sprawled
across the empty hall
in pool of tears
he swept across the
hemisphere
The shadows all fell bound
Raymond shouts to slow them down
His wife awoke and found
Raymond in her dressing gown
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Transcendental Meditation
elusive amidst conversation
Alluring, I'm devoted to you
through bloodstained drapes
and fire assaulting
Transcendental grace
Transcendental grace
Lotus, cites commandments
floating into subtle ramparts
The soul is not a pedestal now
It's not so tempted endowed
with phrasing riddles and facts
it's not abrasive in its
Transcendental grace
Transcendental grace
Yes you know that you
couldn't get higher than this
It's not affirmed though it bleeds
through the coral exits
It's never known to be any more
higher than this
It's never known to be graced
in the fire
Transcendental grates
Transcendental grates
Transcendental Meditation
elusive amidst conversation
Sit Lotus, cite commandments
floating into subtle ramparts
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9. |
Dawn
03:58
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Dawn, I was alone today
stranded in my room
aborted and alone
Dawn, don't go to sleep tonight
Kelly's in my room
she said she never really went away
You said she'd passed away
Her ghost is haunting me
Then Dawn says
"Oh stupid child
I don't believe you
so be on your way
Oh Stupid child
you want my honest opinion?
I think you're slipping away"
Dawn, her shadow's haunting me
I saw it in my room today
oh can't you make it go away?
Dawn, Kelly's been touching me
she slipped into my sleep last night
she said she's trying to find a place to stay
You said she'd passed away
Her ghost is haunting me
Then Dawn says
"You stupid child
I don't believe you
so be on your way
Oh Stupid child
you want my honest opinion?
I think you're slipping away"
Dawn, seems Kelly needs a friend
death is very cold she says
and she doesn't want to be alone
So Dawn, I'll take my life tonight
The razor slits my veins
I'm bleeding white bright light
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10. |
Julia (Is Scared Of Me)
02:34
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Late at night when Julia's in bed
I take tiny pills and lose my head
In this state of mind
I lose all sense of time
And I don't care 'cause Julia
is scared of me
Julia's been sleeping at her friends
I made small incisions on her skin
She tells them I'm unkind
I do it all the time
But I don't care 'cause Julia
is scared of me
She says that I'm too mean
I love to make her scream
But I don't care if Julia
is scared of me
Julia where are you going
don't you want to stay with me
The sheets were torn
the blood is warm
Julia why are you so afraid of me
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11. |
Windsor Field
02:56
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Her body was found in Windsor Field
A victim of strangulation
Her body was draped in parasites
a cranium split invasion
The image of her death was magnified
in the reflection of insect eyes
The masses swarm her body slit
in Windsor field
His body was found in Windsor field
a victim of Crucifixion
His body is riddled with decay
His face was beyond description
And the horror of his hammered hands
Excites the crowd
See them running from the ambulance
produce a shroud
I'm not quite right
Isn't it so?
I'm alone tonight
Isn't it so?
Would it be alright
to break into the mausoleum
I can be found in Windsor field
hiding in Bronswik gables
Collecting the bones from Windsor field
hiding them in the stable
When I reach the pentacle
I'll take my place
I'll be a human pendulum
a swinging grave
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12. |
Hey Old Man
02:51
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Hey old man
What are you going to do
you are all alone
your world's falling in on you
and your sight's gone down
till you can't recognize
your friends now from your foes
and the young men pass you by
Hey old friend
does no one come around?
Through tears you reminisce
for soon they'll put you in the ground
And since his wife has died
he'd gone down, down, down
He prays god will take his life
He's gone down, down, down... down
Hey young man
what are you going to do
when your time has come
your world's falling in on you
and your sight's go down
till you can't recognize
your friends then from your foes
maybe then you'll realize the old man
that you passed by
and never said a word
one day you will be
and you'll see just how much it hurts
when your kids don't come around
and you're down, down down
Your wife is in the ground
you'll be down, down, down...down
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13. |
Jennifer's Attic
02:24
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Not lanky, the ghost in the "bodaget" hat
Quite frankly, his body's too swollen and fat
Black spiders, possessively coiled in his locks
Swings chanting, he sits in his chair and he rocks
With his eyes displaced
and his tempered face
He looks quite out of place
he waits, decrepit and grey
Start screaming, the clown in the opium daze
Bright streaming, euphoric he creeps with a gaze
Mom's sleeping, he silently slides down the hall
He's watching, while Jennifer plays with her dolls
He remembers when
She'd always play with him
but he's been put away
dust in his lungs
decrepit and grey
Black lantern, cast shadows on everything
The attic, where Jennifer throws away things
They pile up, the skeletons of her youth
They slip out the gables and onto the roof
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Canteen Eel
02:10
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A glowing life
floods the web
It weaves its frame
against the bed
In ebb and flow
it will not yield
the scissor strength
of the canteen eel
The canteen eel
will lay his eggs
while nesting there
between your legs
The canteen eel
will sting your heart
with mercury
and missing parts
The canteen eel
A glowing life
beneath the stream
A slither fish
A sticky thing
The midnight lamp
just couldn't peel
the scissor strength
of the canteen eel
The canteen eel
will lay his eggs
while nesting there
between your legs
The canteen eel
will sting your boils
with mercury
and midnight oil
The canteen eel
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15. |
The Waiting Chair
03:24
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Sits in her room and she cries
cries at the moon
no not there in the sky
but there in her eyes
come rain or come shine
she cries
Tired of the facets of life
she turns to her side
in her diary writes
I'm alone tonight
Friday night, every night
pray that I die tonight
She dresses up nice
she's going nowhere
she sits up all night
in the waiting chair
Days spent in the comforts of home
she thinks she's alright
forgets she's alone
but when she turns out the light
she feels empty inside
she can't close her eyes
In the mirror she looks
brushing her hair
tears fill her eyes
the waiting chair
I sit in my room and I spy
look at the moon
no, not there in the sky
but there in her eyes
come rain or come shine
one day she'll be mine
come rain or come shine
one day she'll be mine
come rain or come shine
you will be mine
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That's Not Me
02:57
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Trapped in a melancholy town
with a matrix and a clown
Lost in a village full of dwarfs
and the rain keeps falling down
Look at the funny little man
and the antiques
Look at them cowering he said
that's not me
Trapped in a cellar full of worms
with an angel and a stone
You are a beautiful mirage
I would love to take you home
Stabbed on a sidewalk full of steers
where's my shadow
Limp to an overcrowded room
Here I am
And that's not me
that's not me
that's not me
Drunk in a Bowery saloon
with a tortoise and a child
Look see the serpent in his hair
Can you see the foxentile
You aren't serious to me
you're unfolding
Look at the Syralinx she said
he's not dead
And that's okay
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Pictures Of Lila
02:29
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Pictures of Lila
I found in my basement
she must have lived here
long years ago
the pictures are showing
her tender face smiling
this maiden named Lila
I'd much like to know
I dug even deeper
through the box in my basement
I found a newspaper
'May seventy three'
It seems our girl Lila
is now six foot under
and by now her eye sockets
eaten away
Oh, am I in love
or am I insane
for Lila's been staying
with the dead and the maimed
I found her grey tombstone
and here's how it read
"Lila was buried for Lila was dead"
Pictures of Lila
I keep by my bedside
the sun through your window
just brightens your face
oh give me some time
and I'll get you some flowers
and I'll get my shovel
and come to your place
I dug through the night
'til I found your coffin
I just couldn't wait
to lift up the lid
A noise from behind
ah, the men in the white coats
Goodbye my dear Lila
farewell I must bid
Goodbye my dear Lila
farewell... I ... Oh
Am I in love
or am I insane
for Lila's been staying
with the dead and the maimed
I found her grey tombstone
and here's how it read
"Lila was buried for Lila was dead"
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18. |
No Sun Today
04:03
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There was no sun today
grey skies were in the way
there in the silent rain
I'm walking home again
Just past the village square
I see your old house there
I'm walking down the street
there on pebble beach
I idle down with haunting memories
of empty church yards and cemeteries
and running through the open field
I'll race you down to the old Sawmill
I thought that we would shine forever
I thought that we were far too clever
to let our love slip through our hands
then disappear in the shifting sands
of time.
There was no sun today
not since you've gone away
here in the silent rain
I'm walking home again
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Underneath the derelict stare
the faltering footstep leads them there
to silos just beyond the chair
where Stanley reads from Baudelaire squares
Shiny spat on the vulture twins
as they cut their wings and paralyzed him
in his armchair, unaware the chattering skull
had sunk its teeth in the sputtering hole
And he'll make it back home tonight
as he's led through the air by a tattered kite
that cuts the sky with a fiery rage
as the vulture stands with a handsome gaze
Trapped inside a midnight fair
with a scarecrow ripping out his hair
when shiny boots take him through
the cornfield just behind the school
where Rudyard played when he was young
where the kite pulled him up and his body swung
In the death charade, death charade
let's all play in the death parade
Death charade, death charade
let's all march in the death parade
And he'll make it back home tonight
as he's led through the air by a tattered kite
that cuts the sky with a fiery rage
as the vultures swoop with a handsome gaze
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20. |
Sorry Dear
03:34
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As in the beginning I stand in the end
A silent vision, a sinister friend
I cut my wrist and bleed out the sin
I stand a martyr in the pools of my with-ins
Sorry dear, Sorry dear, I didn't want to
Sorry dear, I didn't want to leave you this way
I stand in shadows on the dark side of night
in discontent between darkness and light
This veil of innocents which tramples the skin
conceals the secrets that I held with-in
Sorry dear, Sorry dear, I didn't want to
Sorry dear, I didn't want to leave you this way
The moonfield shadows portray me in lice
the small incision he makes with a knife
I am the orphan of Oria Zine
He is the omen, the Orpheus
the valiant stranger
Sorry dear, Sorry dear, I didn't mean to
Sorry dear, I didn't mean to leave you this way
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