from the album "Year of the Black Rainbow"
THE BROKEN
I followed your every move in a stride that wills disguise, little markings clue the find.Your red lips speak of painted figures, the teeth of mangled little listeners,
The thoughts that hide your rusty scissors there, and hooded men are swinging honesty across this violence, obscurity has no hero.
The world looks better when you're falling, grace to comfort enough to crawling.
Divided we must pray for the broken, no one could fix us.
We are, we'll always be the wronged.
Your touch seethes of emptiness, the callous tips against the brush, the world's now breaking off to crust.
The world looks better when you're falling, grace to comfort enough to crawling.
Divided we must pray for the broken, no one could fix us.
We are, we'll always be the wronged.
We're conspiring.
Where was your heart when we needed it most? Live in denial and I'll be your ghost.
There is nothing to let go, only time will let you know if you're worth anything,
You know that I'm giving up way too early, let the axis turn you free and destroy everything you love.
GUNS OF SUMMER
If this is my last chance, keep it, I don't need your jokes, I'm better off without the misunderstanding.If I am displeasing then leave me the reason to all our worth, would I truly care if we truly mean nothing?
Have we been fed crazy or will the curtain save me from my final pun?
No one will save us, you think that somebody cares while the water is rising up, let the cleansing begin.
Mother will they ever thank you? Instead we hide behind these foolish lies, ambitions told us otherwise.
Cold as Winter's Guns of Summer, point and watch them run.
Summer's will and debris in their son, this is your last chance, will you give up?
But in our turning towards the new and disregarding these old ways, will we gain some truth or suffer again?
Allow it as it breaks and showers our soul, rain down fire and burn us all.
No one will save us, you think that somebody cares while the water is rising up, let the cleansing begin.
Mother will they ever thank you? Instead we hide behind these foolish lies, magicians told us otherwise.
Cold as Winter's Guns of Summer, point and watch them run.
Summer's will and debris in her son, this is your last chance, will you give up?
There is only one judge, it is yourself.
HERE WE ARE JUGGERNAUT
Keep your secrets in the dark, nothing matters anymore, body's breaking, drive me crazy.This is not your place, no this is not your playground, it's my heart.
We were stupid, we got caught, but nothing matters anymore; so what, here we are, juggernaut.
Courage broken, lashed to scars, can this love be what I want?
Body's breaking, driving me crazy, it's your fault.
We were stupid, we got caught, but nothing matters anymore; so what, here we are, juggernaut.
So let's hang us a hangman, we'll bury our burdens in blood, become stronger, juggernaut.
Answer me, you've given all I could need, but your kiss won't leave me be,
(Did we take this too far?)
Cause your teeth just won't stop chewing out my heart.
FAR
I welcome this pain beating down on me, is it your eyes that choose not to seeAll I would do, if only you knew, all of my trust was given to you.
Please, this is what I can give, what else do you need from me?
I might be sick, broken, torn to pieces, so whatever this is, this thing that now I've become,
You hate it so much, you keep on running from it, no matter the distance, no matter how far.
I buried this hurt concealed in this heart, go lock all your doors, these cold steps will warm.
Please, this is what I can give, what else do you need from me?
I might be sick, broken, torn to pieces, so whatever this is, this thing that now I've become,
You hate it so much, you keep on running from it, no matter the distance, no matter how far.
THIS SHATTERED SYMPHONY
I'm giving up the one I love, I'll conduct the great disaster to scar my skin, to own this hurt.They offered their hearts and we tore them apart, they offered their blood and we left them so parched.
I don't know if I can give you anything you want.
Go on and give me the gun, never mind what I've done, they left me no choice.
Go on and give me the gun, let me blow them open, it's out of my reach, never mind what they think about me.
I don't want to say that with mercy we decay, converging closer and faster, does all I touch turn to dust?
And she confessed her love, only I shut her up as I took all her words and allowed them to rust.
I don't know if I'm the man you truly want to love.
Go on and give me the gun, never mind what I've done, they left me no choice.
Go on and give me the gun, let me blow them open, it's out of my reach, never mind what they think about me.
Little have they learned anything about me, meddling eyes that judge mistakes.
What awful things they say when backs are turned and no one's looking.
Go on and give me the gun, never mind what I've done, they left me no choice.
Go on and give me the gun, let me blow them open, it's out of my reach, never mind what they think about me in this shattered symphony.
WORLD OF LINES
This is the hidden truth, the world between the lines, where there is no understanding us.These lines have marked divisions the weaker seek to malign, with this looming precious ending there's no more room for reprimanding.
When the words are lightly thrown in a world that's caught in a writer's web, humiliation reigns.
Just leave us alone if it's not worth the letting go, it's trouble.
Communications breaking up, the static cutting the lines, this lying liar's had his turn.
You've managed nothing more than a pathetic attempt at attack, but this heart is everlasting, pushing forward, never crashing.
Just leave us alone if it's not worth the letting go, it's trouble.
State your case and go hide, leave us to your worst, I will never give in to the hurt of your lies,
Cause there is no hope for all your jokes and your plaguing insecurity.
Now I'll play your enemy, the only word you can find for me.
Just leave us alone if it's not worth the letting go, it's trouble.
(In this world of lines, the strong will decide.)
MADE OUT OF NOTHING (ALL THAT I AM)
Never mind all the lines, I'm coming, and there is no better part of me, you'll see the darkest light, the blind I'll be.I accept that you chose to forget the horrid thing you made of me, my dear, it is alright, it is so.
The laughing feels so good, but the world misunderstood all I said, there was no joke in what I meant.
Someone please come shelter me from all that I am and never again will I believe the same old story.
I've given up on all I loved for an honest moment of clarity, well I need to feel alright, please let me breathe.
In a life I made out of nothing, to cleanse this useless identity, will you hear all the world and its whys, just wait.
Will the later half be as good, well if only I misunderstood, I weigh all this judgement, I've been blamed.
Someone please come shelter me from all that I am and never again will I believe the same old story.
I failed you, there's no understanding in miracles when the worst, it always comes true, I am the nothing you have saved.
Someone please come shelter me from all that I am and never again will I believe the same old story.
It eats us like cancer, we're hoping for something, maybe an answer with all that you've done for me, I'll give you nothing.
It eats us like cancer, we're hoping for something, maybe an answer with all that you've done for me, made out of nothing.
PEARL OF THE STARS
Each night I wish to God he'd let her rest, this hurts me more than any man could bear.She's my angel from the west, there will never be one to take her place.
When you go, I will know, follow you to the stars, and when the world burns apart, there'll be a place for your car.
I'd give you everything if only I'd have known you'd take it, but you don't, cause you're you,
That's why I'll always love you, my Pearl of the stars.
The pills she takes, the pain of which she drowns; our baby sleeps next door, she's new in town.
I tell her how wonderful you were, I'll remember everything you were to me.
When you go, I will know, follow you to the stars, and when the world burns apart, there'll be a place for your car.
I'd give you everything if only I'd have known you'd take it, but you don't, cause you're you,
That's why I'll always love you, my Pearl of the stars.
IN THE FLAME OF ERROR
I hate everything I am becoming, this change is torture,There is never enough to give, only plenty to take, and this I wage.
When the ground parts from below, will it feel so? How can I gain from another when the other goes?
This hand, this hurt, my heart, I'll flirt with disaster, just know now man, the deal is off.
I'll be no good, this time defines, I'll put my touch around the grip of this knife.
These dirty hands just won't come clean, I'm a murderer, the worst these worlds will see.
Mercy, please leave her just a little bit longer, she's all my world.
My love, I apologize, with that you will see the end of days, just rest assured.
Cause they won't let her go and I remain so alone to work out a clever way to get her home, I will do what I must.
I'll flirt with disaster, just know now boy, you're out of luck.
I'll be no good, this time defines, I'll put my touch around the grip of this knife.
These dirty hands just won't come clean, I'm a murderer, the worst these worlds will see.
Save me from defeat again, this is war; murder the one so close, while she trusts you curse, die my darling.
If only you know how lovely you glow in the flame of error.
I ask too much, please turn back the clock and take me instead.
How have you come to lose the only thing, the other one to your two?
I've become the wrong in everyone's sleep, please burn me a god.
WHEN SKELETONS LIVE
She wheezes out her dying wish: come closer, one more moment, one more kiss; and I love her, I give her all I can.Her body sinks, her heat released, the curtain swings, this time she leaves, I will remember all she's done for me.
But only I forgot that I'm not ready to let her go.
As all time moves, you'll be riddled with doubt, you'll mourn to pull through, but love is dangerous.
When skeletons live inside your closets, thick and thin, you'll fear that no one will hear us sing our songs.
The truth is relevant, but not for long, cause love is our downfall.
I'm sorry this life cuts out everything and leaves you to scrounge for nothing.
There's no chance to try and mend, what's been broken can't be bent, so the past remains the past until present.
The cradle sways this black disguise, this chained coffin breathes our time's demise, all these shackles deceive just how long I've grieved.
I made my move with no worry or doubt, let them live as they do, my eternal reminder.
When skeletons live inside your closets, thick and thin, you'll fear that no one will hear us sing our songs.
The truth is relevant, but not for long, cause love is our downfall.
I'm sorry but the hurt's not going away.
I'll bury all the past, everything in it's place, give us the monster.
THE BLACK RAINBOW
You were all that we needed to believe in our doubt, the hurt we allowed.We had sworn to believe them and scattered across our memories found.
You were all that we needed to believe in our doubt, the worst, I'm afraid, the hurt we allowed.
We defined the lines and crossed into a great unknown to read all the words we left out.
In all, we all are truly afraid, in all, we are, of the one thing we can't be.
In all, we all are truly afraid, wishing one day we could be strong.
It's over, it's all coming apart, while you were sleeping we were stealing your heart.
It's over, it's all coming apart, now I never let this go, I sang.
It's over, coming apart, I know, you know, you know.
from the album "The Afterman: Ascension"
THE HOLLOW
"All Mother, are you awake?""I am always awake. What do you require of me?"
"You'll stay with me, won't you?"
"I'll be there every step of the way."
KEY ENTITY EXTRACTION I: DOMINO THE DESTITUTE
If you had the courage to stop me from turning into what would be the worst in everybody's eyes,I'm no angel or the devil of your conscience to tell you who to be, good, bad, ugly, or otherwise.
If you had good common sense your choices would be gleaming flawless, I want no part in this self-deprecating worthless chemistry.
We made our beds to lie in them proud, proud of our great mistakes,
This warring knife, the flash of its blade, turn about face, I implore you, brother,
Don't walk away, don't walk away from me, cause this is our war.
You think they have it all while you were left with nothing, you've taken the fall for them to walk all over.
You made your bed, so soft and comforting, these dreams await, the Great Good Morning.
We made our beds to lie in them proud, proud of our great mistakes,
This warring knife, the flash of its blade, turn about face, I implore you, brother,
Don't walk away, don't walk away from me, cause this is our war.
We've got you by the throat, all you want to be.
Welcome all to the everlasting all-time low, please put your hands together for the ever-failing one man show: Domino!
Ladies and broken gentlemen, the undisputed champ of misery.
And in this corner we find his challenger, the pride of Utopia, the greatest thing ever.
If you could recall one moment of your past that defined you to be, that made you the man we've come to love, all of the above.
This disaster binds us absolute, a thousand lies you tell yourself that no one ever loved you right,
But I would do anything for you, the question fits the question mark, your signals crossed, your message lost.
This wall won't hold forever, your time has come, it's now or never.
We made our beds to lie in them proud, proud of our great mistakes,
This warring knife, the flash of its blade, turn about face, I implore you, brother,
Don't walk away, don't walk away from me, cause this is our war.
One by one, we are together, we fall together!
Brother, don't be afraid, we are together, we fall together!
THE AFTERMAN
She gave her heart to a falling star, when news filtered through of his tragedy, all the walls went up.Around a world she declines, as the tears from her eyes fall; no one understands, and no one will, all she has lost.
If he's not here then where?
When she found it there in the cold blue glare, the words distressed and unfamiliar where the feelings seared.
An emptiness had hung, and in her chest she clenched, reality settled as the memories raced while on the screen he lived.
She teared, "Your selfishness has robbed you of the man you could have been,
I wouldn't change a thing about you, I love you dearly, my friend."
If he's not here then where? My love, been searching for my Afterman.
MOTHERS OF MEN
In this space where nothing seems too right, our voice unheard in this quiet fight,This march we lead will breed our song, to them we're nothing, to them we're pawns, a desperate play to feel like we belong.
Now as we take up into these streets, remember, I depend on you as much as you on me.
Don't try to fake it, let's not pretend; we made you mothers, we made you men.
It's no surprise nobody listens anymore to what we're saying, to what was said,
And in your absence we promised you we'll behave,
So just keep running, everything will look better once you look away.
I agree, cause what's the difference, is there a difference we make?
(Your day will come.)
The rain starts dancing across our backs, these ardent words seize this heart attack,
Belief still strong we can make this change, the stage is set to occupy the brain, the stage is, we made this, we made it.
It's no surprise nobody listens anymore to what we're saying, to what was said,
And in your absence we promised you we'll behave,
So just keep running, everything will look better once you look away.
I agree, cause what's the difference, is there a difference we make?
Between the dapper villain in a Sunday serial at the podium, or another cog in the wheel, just another cog in the wheel,
They're both capable of making life hard, but no bandage can mend all these parts, so why do I give?
Between the dream.
Of making life hard, no bandage can mend all these parts, so why do I live with this?
No difference.
GOODNIGHT, FAIR LADY
(Goodnight.)Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, I have a story to tell you of one's slow decline,
When a girl yanked on the strings to break this man's heart.
Oh, Lord, I think I deserve a little better than this, I think I've earned it,
So I'll just keep humming this song and hope you follow.
Turn me over, roll me round to find the truth that I don't want found.
Don't believe everything you hear, I'm the snake waiting for you, dear,
And eventually you'll come to me, I know you will.
Your lipstick crazy, I'll make my pass, the drink turns over, the glass smashed,
And with a kindness and my smarts I replaced your pleasure with a friend at the bottom.
Turn me over, roll me round to find the truth that I don't want found.
Don't believe everything you hear, I'm the snake waiting for you, dear,
And eventually you'll come to me, I know you will.
It's my fate to be your biggest mistake, I'll tell you all you want to hear until you sleep, I know you will.
Goodnight, fair lady.
We can agree to disagree, maybe that was you then and now this is me,
Eventually you'll come to me, baby, I know you will.
KEY ENTITY EXTRACTION II: HOLLY WOOD THE CRACKED
("Caution, second entity identified.")Pick a number, wait in line, there's no medicine that can fix that mind.
Holly Wood, watch out, here she comes; Holly Wood, fucking a loaded gun.
Message panicked, unrelayed, naked waste, there's no help to give this one to keep her sane.
Holly Wood, watch out, here she comes; Holly Wood, fucking a loaded gun.
(Watch out, boy) she's a few cards short of a full deck, a joker in the game.
She's got a bullet with your name on it, no doubt she's a mental case.
Better keep that girl away, poor Holly Wood, she is cracked goods.
This may be the last time I say, poor Holly Wood, she is cracked goods,
She's cracked, and where she's gone there's no coming back.
Watch her fingers, she's gonna pull the trigger, then the party's over.
KEY ENTITY EXTRACTION III: VIC THE BUTCHER
You made this harder than it had to be, the absolute marker etching into me.You flashed your colours at me way prematurely, and now I know what you're up to, and it feels so good, it's right.
We've got your number written, reset the system screaming, hang your secrets, hang them up, hang them up now.
These sitting ducks in season, the march of little children, hang your secrets, hang them up, hang them up now.
The truth will cut you down to pieces, one-eighty-four, let's burn it down,
And if I can't keep from living with this regret, I'll need to change the way I think about us.
I listen to them chuckle as they eat, they're judgement hiding behind eyes and dirty teeth.
You think I care for all these phoney pleasantries when I want nothing to do with, I want nothing to do with your life.
We've got your number written, reset the system screaming, hang your secrets, hang them up, hang them up now.
These sitting ducks in season, the march of little children, hang your secrets, hang them up, hang them up now.
The truth will cut you down to pieces, one-eighty-four, let's burn it down,
And if I can't keep from living with this regret, I'll need to change the way I think about us.
Bye bye, baby, I'm bad company, and you don't have a mark,
You're the prettiest thing I have ever seen, come with me, I want to make you dirty.
One-eighty-four, let's burn it down, I'll need to change the way I think.
KEY ENTITY EXTRACTION IV: EVAGRIA THE FAITHFUL
("Heart rate: one hundred and nineteen BPM. Blood pressure: eighty-five systolic, fifty diastolic. Respirations: ten per minute.Pulse oximetry of eighty-three per cent indicates severe hypoxia and neurovascular compromise. Sirius, you are not well.
Caution, unidentified entity approaching.")
This sinking warmth through obscurity, beyond the sweet in between where and what you're doing,
There is a view of an uncharted place, where you're the brunt of a joke and everyone's laughing.
I am not who I seem, who you thought I could be, the support you could lean up against when you need.
I'm the dark when you want, the lights out at all costs, this is mine, that is yours, I'm the bricks in your wall.
Goodbye forever, my darling, whether I was everything you thought I'd be or not, I was a bad man to stop you, girl, from loving me.
A yearning loss to silence me, the struggle breaks the black and white, calling, transmitting.
The echo breaks, electric air, her pulse it stretches from never to everywhere,
And from the other side she'll save me, her courage, strength and heart beyond,
I wish she'd stay mine, but her place is in some other time.
Goodbye forever, my darling, whether I was everything you thought I'd be or not, I was a bad man to stop you, girl, from loving me.
Body separating, ascend and release, this tragedy is all my fault.
Reaching, desperately to salvage any piece, this tragedy is all my fault.
This hurt won't go away.
Goodbye forever (you won't be forgotten).
SUBTRACTION
The hurt across your face, your word against mine, the rhythm you repeat, the beat a hair behind, were you on my side?You gave your all but you gave it once, a lesson that you thought you could teach it when you want, subtract me from your heart, little takeaway girl.
One step at a time, you made us angry, all your love could hide, but we knew you were afraid.
We accept, we unaccept, we made up, we're breaking up, you've thought you had enough, but maybe you didn't know that this stage holds a show.
One step at a time, you showed us angry, all your love could hide, but we knew you were afraid.
Misery, I digress, no recourse, no remorse; let it be, I confess to every song that brought you back.
HOMECOMING
We are a living absolute, stuck in an anguished innocence,This moment loved, I greet the sun and wake from a war I could have won.
Well, in your arms I'll keep this memory to me, this kitchen floor won't reveal all the things I felt for you.
Please level with me, understand I'd do anything for you,
Seize any moment while you can, this void's coming after you,
Cause loneliness is why you hurt, just don't kill the messenger.
The dust a-dance against my breath, the world awaken slowly dressed,
A life unanswered in the light with questions scattered through the night.
And now my heart feels heavy, the weight will drag me down, you were the only reason they'd find me here tonight.
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