1. COMMEMORATIVE T-SHIRT

You try to keep your composure
I'm only having a laugh
The latest attempt at closure
Failed after 25 drafts

But I can still retain this
I can still collect
You're cashing in on misery
And calling in all your debts

Stop trying to keep your composure
I'm only having a laugh
The latest attempt at closure
Failed after 25 drafts

But I still can still retain this
I can still retain this
I can still retain this

Stop trying to keep your composure
Stop trying to keep your composure
Stop trying to keep your composure
Stop trying to keep your composure

And it comes as no surprise you never let go


2. UNFAMILIAR

During the laceration
All you wanna do is cry
At last that realization
How quickly fresh blood dries
Needs little explanation
It's gonna take a lot of time
Ideas above our station are below the fog in my mind
When I see, I see my signs

It's the same face presenting the same lie
If you keep walking sideways
If you keep changing your mind
It's the same face presenting the same lie
If you keep walking sideways
If you keep changing your mind
When I see, I see my signs
When I see, I see my signs

And obsolete your voices are

They say, that silence it sometimes pays
In war, silence it sometimes pays
They say, that silence it sometimes pays
In war, silence it sometimes pays

Souls and windows stops existing
And holes where his eyes used to be
Needle and thread hold together
His love for the dead and all who sail in her

Saw the seashore, unfamiliar
The water and oil, unfamiliar
Success and toil, unfamiliar
Unaccustomed, unfamiliar


3. TRAIL OF FIRE

I run a trail of fire, through the meadow paths
Guided by the river banks, Trees from which to hide behind
Keep running away from the fire
Keep running away from the light ‘til it's gone

Our hourless summers, At one with the ground
And everything I loved you for, A trail of fire from the door
It leads me to a hiding place
And I can hear your signs

And I'll hold this blade of grass, And I'll hold ‘til eventide
The dark that shroud your loving neighbor, he's the one who lit the paper
While the reason's unexpressed, And senses are determined
The innocent are voiceless, The voiceless are innocent
She becomes a little itch, Dig a hole out from the end
Say a prayer to ma
Hope that you reach the morning light the paper
Say a prayer to ma
Hope that you reach the morning light the paper

From them I strip the title, Extinguished and misused
And all our engraved memories, And unsuccessful remedies
I'm sick of papering the cracks, Extinguishing the fire tracks

Though torn from desire, I've torn from the strife
Lending pull of the door, But his fear of the war
Holy water and air, Where the walls went to play
As the ??? I'll ???, Took the wanting away

Questions, on top of questions
Don't think that answers are even here

Why do you run from me?
Running away from me?

Unsung Untied Alive
Unsung Untied Alive
Unsung Untied Alive
Unsung Untied Alive


4. SAVANT

The future age
cast asleep but the film remains
this aftertaste
all I want is that which I gave
master / slave
I burn fast on sinking ships
and I can talk
I place pride on tick and tock
this lonely silent shrine to dawn (lonely silence ran 'till dawn?)
rite of passage open doors
but I'm not frightened
master / slave
line and sinker take the bait
where others float
you and I crash land
where others float
you and I crash land

where I see us
in far away skies
I could not say where I am
lost
the darkness falls upon the day
where I see us
in far away skies
I could not say where I am
lost
the darkness falls upon the day
where I see us
in far away skies
I could not say where I am
lost
the darkness falls upon the day

'cause no one's there
'cause no one's there
'cause no one's there

where I see us
in far away skies
I could not say where I am
lost
the darkness falls upon the day
where I see us
in far away skies
I could not say where I am
lost
the darkness falls upon the day
where I see us
in far away skies
I could not say where I am
lost
the darkness falls upon the day

'cause no one's there


5. ONLY TWIN

Run, Tommy, run… did you get all you want?
Did you drink the well dry? And extinguish all the sunshine?
I didn't say that I felt the same, you just took it as read
As I closed all the blinds and put you to bed
And read you all the last rites.

It serves as a warning to me, just like most of these days do
Cuz I just wish that I coulda just left you there sitting in your own shit
Cuz I know that you would need to
See, cuz I've drove through all this before
And I've bought that skinny tee
With a big black gaping hole where the heart should be
That says, “baby, I renounce thee”

Don't you die on me now

A kiss is now a circus show
The bids are turned to neon glow
Through spectacles
Of rainbow red
You never feel
Your love 'til it's dead

Aaaahhhhhhhh

Well faith keep him
A stop and don't endure
No one ever paused
Empty as a hole and ever depleting

What I'm for makes this all
A bankrupt sea of love
Cannot swim above
Empty as a hole and ever depleting

I recoil from the blast
And look around me
though Neither friend nor foe
Empty as a hole and ever depleting


6. AN OLD FRIEND OF THE CHRISTIES

[instrumental]


7. SLEEPING DOGS AND DEAD LIONS

The slime looks so good on your face
One for charm, one for disgrace
CUNT!

And in the back of the truck I'll find the antidote
A ??? passage is (know/no) which(?) time to come for boats(?)
Your children will remember every word you say
Never doubt that you're leading them astray

But you're welcome
You're welcome
Now I think time is it coming for you(?)

(yelling shit…)
He thinks that he's right
But he's got it all wrooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong

You put the fun in dysfunction with a ???
To all who have a distraction/don't wanna have a distraction(?) ‘til the skies are blue
If you could hold your head up and find the sense to say
??? (inclination/of a nation) come your way

But you're welcome
You're welcome
Now I think time it is coming for you(?)

(yelling shit…)
(reasons portrayed)
He thinks that he's wrong
But he's got it all made
He'll tell you in spades
??????????????WTF??????????????

[the place where there should be a trumpet :-D]

Pronounce me dead, longevity- I can still find a way
Finding hard is easy, for that to make me see
Come into my hands, come
I know all well it's easy, what I'm looking at
Go… go, go go…

Saints are informed but I cannot appeal against this sentence
Saints are informed but I cannot appeal against this sentence


8. THE FRAME

I can hold you all together
You won't fall
With the troops that we assembled
And the bond we forged

Though this sketch is getting old now
The cracks don't show

Time won't change a thing when I'm gone
Don't grab the wheel too tightly, my son
Everything you need is done, I would've thought you'd won by now
Oh no, no, oh, no, no, no

I have been known to err the method
So don't presume this wisdom
When all that I am is time now
And the cult

Fruition in the detail
So that drives me

Time won't change a thing when I'm gone
Don't grab the wheel too tightly, my son
Everything you need is done, I would've thought you'd won by now
Oh no, no, oh, no, no, no

I am not the picture, now I'm...
I am not the picture, now I'm...
(I'm the frame)


09 - VORTHEES

Periscope extends the lens
Veiney hands can't mend
Your broken little baby's remains
We all fall to bits just the same
Eyes down for a full house
Yeah I love you long time
They christened me just to give me a name
Now know that I'm to blame

There was no man in his eyes
No lights to beam home those ships
Can't even extend out his arm
To go and cash in his chips
I wish that I could not so rightly place this
But at least I can say that I was there
That I witnessed his demise
But you my lucky son
Because of your size
You would not remember

This has sent your only son
To an early grave
What you thought was an accident
Was deliberate

There's a twitch in his hand
As I offered him mine
Our captain only cared about his crew
But you would not remember, would you?

And when that time does come my brother
And I should offer you my hand
You'll know just what to do
What not to put me through
You must remember...

Come your expiration
Come your sell-by date
And there is no companion
It'll be too late
All this misfortune is punishment
He sings of gods that desert him
He falls again
But undeterred he hides from the light