Tyranny Lyrics
I will come to you
I tread a thin line
I walk a jagged edge
I wear no life-line as I stumble on this ledge to you
What more can I do
I will come to you.
I chart a strange tack
sailin' on the tide
The wind lies at my back
As I'm sailin' eyes full wide, full view
What more can I do
I will come to you
I will, yes I will, surely come to you
I will, yes I will, I will surely come to you
Hey look at my face
Do you know why I smile?
There's nothin' you can replace
It's only been here for a while, for now
Well don't ask me how
I will come to you.
I will, yes I will, surely come to you
I will, yes I will, I will surely come...
Oh, I feel it so strong now
Oh, you know it won't be long now
Before we find our way
But for now we're lost with no words to say...
I will, yes I will, I
My Metal Boots
I got a brand new pair of shiny metal boots
And I know my thunder-walkin' affects your mood
Street strangers jumpin' outta the way
It's turning to my kind of day
Confusion whirls around
My walking can be felt 10 miles away
Vibrations keep the cameraman at bay
Well you call your mama to watch the news
I bang the ground like I got nothing to loose
make no mistake about it
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I'm coming your way (yeah yeah yeah yeah)
I'm giving chase to you in my new shoes
I'm banging your way (yeah yeah yeah yeah)
Feel my tremor shake your ground, shake it up
Well I might splinter up these wooden floors
And I can kick right through your bathroom door
I'm making noise in rhythmic time
and all these fractured streets are mine
There's no stopping me now
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Hey baby look out! Hey baby look out!
Well I got an old pair of rusted metal boots
This tired old frame might be collapsing soon
There's no-one left to chase away,
I wonder what I'll do today,
Maybe I'll turn around...
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Why Did You Lie
read in my eyes I can't talk about it
for so long it's been the same way
no words are fit to describe it
not that it matters much anyway, anyhow
i stood and waited at the station anticipating you would come
i had to wait in frustration wondering where you could be
i felt the ground shake under me, i heard kafuffle all around
a sudden fear came over me that felt familiar somehow
why did you lie?
(why do you think you lie to me, why do you think you lie to me)
why did you lie?
when did i last hear your name outspoken
or whispered in an affectionate way?
nothing i wouldn't share with all the passers-by
done in a hard and unapologizing way
i waited many times over what it would take to give it up
i must have counted all the headlights that came and went past my way
another dull conversation would briefly confiscate my mind
for just a fraction of an instant in an expanding waste of time
why did you lie to me?
why did you lie to yourself?
why did you lie to me?
why did you lie?
checklisting every possibility, more than i'd ever hope to memorize
wishing away systematically the dim reflections of tired eyes
why did you lie to me?
why did you lie to yourself?
why did you lie to me?
why did you lie?
Lost
feel the beat that's gonna take you home
feel the beat that's gonna take you home
There's proverbs on the pavement slowly written in colored chalk,
They're too obscure to matter to your walk.
There's a peace sign up ahead, dry-rotting vinyl ground,
There's flashing lights in the corner and a stacatto chirping sound.
Everybody's got a story to help occupy these hours.
Elaborating on the mundane is unavoidable now.
This quivering impatience as the meter ticks away.
This groove is unrelenting and I want to make it play.
Are you temporarily incorruptible?
Is there's nothing left susceptible?
Are you essentially unconnectable?
Are you there?
It's intellectually inacceptable.
Uncatatagorically unmathematical.
Let your heart decode the irrational.
Are you there?
Feel the beat that's gonna take you home
Feel the beat that's gonna take you home
Feel the beat that's gonna take you home
She's a new brand of chameleon in a jungle of naivete,
Parading in the rush hour of exclusive company.
She's a tall drink of peyote, that portabello charm,
and a touch of cosmopolitan that comes from a praire farm
Are you temporarily incorruptible?
Is there nothing left susceptible?
Are you essentially unconnectable?
Are you there?
Don't be emotionally de-radical'd
Or distastefully unfanatical.
Don't let your angst die in the practical.
Are you there?
Right Side Down
I'm gonna take a holiday from any form of rationality
and get right out of the way of my unthinking self
no pretending to escape from proletariate philosophy
never feeling any pain, or 'fessin' up outright
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I can't believe it's true, no no no no
I can't believe it's true, no no no
I can't believe it's true, that it was you who turned me around
right side down
Falling down Any Other Way to escape the rules of gravity
I think it suffices to say it didn't go my way
Perpetually moving between machines of hurrying and flattery
Smiling delusions of rain and a parched embrace
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Taken for a lonely ride, waiting for a laughter-silvered way of finding
an uncontaminated sky away from all the fabricated glare
well there's nothing much left to say to explain the things you'd done for me
I can't get out of my own way, but I need you in mine
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No Wonder
I'm finding a habit of losing my blues
I'm strummin' and stridin' not missin' my blues
I'm shakin' and wakin' without all my blues
I'm livin' like I'm not gonna lose
It's like an oasis without all the blues
Everything to gain and nothin' to loose
Like glidin' by on a riverboat cruise
I'm turnin' and burnin' out all my blues
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It's no wonder I'm in love
It's no wonder I'm in love
It's no wonder I'm in love
It's no wonder I'm in love
It's no wonder I'm in love
It's no wonder I'm in love
I'm turnin' and burnin' out all the blues
I'm carving an epitaph of the blues
I'll testify in front of you
the tragedy if you can't see through
the briar patches that make up the blues
you will not want if that's what you choose
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I'm flying and paralysing my blues
I'm writing the future and scripting the news
I'm wakin' and bakin' and shakin' my blues
I'm killing worries and pickin' up clues for flushin' my blues, and that's my news.
Don't Mean That Much
Suddenly I can see what's become of what was once held dear to me
So confused, and so alone, so adrift, so berift of anywhere called home
Don't mean that much to me
Dont' mean that much to me anymore
Fleeting trends, status quotas
And lip servitude to the symbols of reform
Primetime words and endless drivel
Constant updates of a distant rising storm
Don't mean that much to me
Dont' mean that much to me anymore
Brief cachet, dignity
Invitations to the WTCC
Celebrate without a reason
Mannerisms of the fashionable elite
Don't mean that much to me
Dont' mean that much to me anymore
no no no no no no no no no no no no no
Purple
Bruised up very well, I can't start a single conversation
Vacant, chopped-up, singled-out, very still and fall down
I'm wakin' out of a bad position, hearing voices still fresh in mind
But I wouldn't trade a second for the melancholy days we left behind
Do you know are you ever comin' back this way again?
Do you know are you ever gonna get to hang around
paint this town in your favorite color?
Finding ways unknown to me and a potent new feeling
No, I can't explain it, a door swung open now it can't be closed
I'm walkin' into a situation like I don't belong under this skin
Imagining a day forgetting everybody see's the hole I'm in
Do you know are you ever comin' back this way again?
Do you know are you ever gonna get to hang around?
Do you know are you ever comin' back this way again?
Do you know are you ever gonna get to hang around
paint this town in your favorite color?
I think I might be feeling the way I can't remember long ago
Floating like I'm waitless, unconcerned with things that I don't know
I spent a lot of time forgetting what to do when everything goes wrong
and then I finally realize the answer's right beside me all along
Is Your Child Home
Is your child home? Is your child home?
Is your child home? Is your child home?
I wish I were in a place outside of the hemisphere of desperation
amplified into a thousand words
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Get a life. Won't you get a life?
Well the insides are hanging out to dry you know
and the sun comes up and the wind did blow
Did you get a life? Won't you get a life?
Are you tired and bored? Or is your child home?
Everyday has brought a novel enterprize to entertain
Justification jubilee in tapestries of pain
In another mind in the back of another eye that's yet to wed
all the scenery and the walking-by of the networking classes
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Eternally you may wake unknowing anything you came here for
calculations obsolete by the backward place they live
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Drive You To Pieces
Wake me when the bitter cold is over
Shake me so that I know I'm still alive
Remember when the days would never end
and the nights would bleed into the light
It's enough, it's enough
It's enough to drive you to pieces
It's enough, it's enough
It's enough to drive you wild
Too late to tell the world your sorrow
You'll see the disappointment in their eyes
Can't wait for a brand new tomorrow
This time, it's time to get it right
we'll get it right
Wake me when the bitter cold is over
Shake me so that I know I'm still alive
Remember when the days would never end
and the nights, they'd bleed into the light
gonna bleed until the light
Media Freak
It's easier to live in the dark
It's easier to know nothing at all
A camouflage of secrets opened wide
A catalogue of noises in disguise
Trippin' on intentions, scrolling words below
I think I didn't mention the useless things I know
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Don't say, don't say another word just to kill the time
Don't take another piece outta me to color between your lines
The pixelated pages that are drawn
The aftermath of noise that lingers on
Morbid curiosity so motionless
Interspaced between the emptiness
Steady revelations never taking hold
Static intervention carried out alone
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Well we're just wasting time.......
An apathetic eye beholds the news
The frequency of chaos darkens the room
Automated key-stroke habits form
Inter-disconnected in technical cocoons
Fearful of the silence deftly swept away
Forgotten in the stillness of an ancient holiday
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M-Theory (Instrumental)
Instrumental
Marshmellow Frankenstein
too bad you had to go away
never had the time to get to know you
no way, no way that I can stay now that you left me standing here all alone
it's too bad, baby it's too bad, it's too bad, why did you go away from me?
too late, too late for me to change
by the way, I'm not who you think I am
In many ways, in many ways I'm just like you
I got a soft exterior and made up of spare parts
it's too bad, baby it's too bad, baby it's too bad, why did you go away?
too bad, baby it's too bad
I wish I could've had another laugh with you
ha ha ha! Yeah!
many days and many nights I try to fit together all the pieces
of a distant memory....
it's too bad, baby it's too bad, baby it's too bad, why did you go away?
too bad, baby it's too bad
I wish I could've had another laugh with you
The Devil I Chase
Peering through an open door I catch the look of a glaring face
All these eyes are trading stares in another claustrophobic space
Wandering without intent, an inattentive derilection
Sneaking past sincerity, without resolve, without direction
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It's so hard, I can't take it anymore
It won't go, it won't go, it's won't go away
It's so hard, I keep falling to the floor
It won't show, it won't show, it won't show it's face,
the devil I chase...
Soaked in tired sleeplessness, wasting afternoons away
Unable to avoid the scorn of mirrors or the light of day
Silent walls of tension break and fall apart and rise again
I drive on straightened lines I find to serve the means to a crooked end
But there's a bend...
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Prolific noise and restlessness rocking back and forth and down
Tomorrow comes incessantly, stalking me and bearing down
it never makes a sound.....
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Jump over the Wall
no more waiting, no more time, no details for a grand design
no deletions, no dissent
no more shapes getting out-of-bent
jump jump jump over the wall, keep banging out the bricks just to watch 'em fall
jump/jump/jump/jump/jump/jump over the wall, sparkin' up the engine when it stalls
flipped horizons, said goodbye, no more vanities to advertize
no more phases of wax and wane, no degrees to shift us out of frame
jump jump jump over the wall, light fire to the pistons when the motor stalls
jump/jump/jump/jump/jump/jump over the wall, keep swinging at the base and watch the mortar fall
watch it fall....
no more words to pull and tug...
(deleted: no more tyranny of the smug)
high velocity innocence wrapped in orbital resonance
jump jump jump over the wall, accumulating altitude after the fall
jump/jump/jump/jump/jump/jump over the wall, lighting up the blackdrop on a desert sprawl
nothing certain left to find but variations in the flow of time
no sense of why identified and so much wonder left to occupy
jump over the wall.....
jump, jump over the wall.....
mesmerizon mysified, no neological diatribe
i didn't fake it, could not pretend or draw a pictogram or where and when
Crooked Mile
Never never never never never never said I'd go that way
never never never never never never said I'd look this way
everytime, everytime,
you look around you look around you hear a sound of me
my hearts afloat upon this boat that's yet to sail to sea
I would walk a mile with you
I walk a crooked mile
Never never never never never never said I'll walk away
I never never never never never said don't look this way
I would walk a mile with you
I walk a crooked mile
I would walk a mile
I walk a crooked mile
Run aground
you've run your soul to sea
the siren's song pulls you to me
I turn around
walk a crooked mile
walk a mile
walk a crooked mile
