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Seeing Is Stealing
03:36
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SEEING IS STEALING
I swing by a rope more in hope than by grand design
Spinning a line about declining the sublime
Feeling so fine i could touch up the one divine
Man in the clouds with an eye on my time
Born in a star like some hot clever carbonate
Riddled with fears and stiffened by starchy hate
I sit on the fence and slowly i vegetate
Seeing is stealing and nothing is true
The welcome for me, is as welcome for you
Push all of the memories down
Crush future and stir it around
Roll flat with the trunk of a tree
Shape bake and send it to...
All of the bus queue are dead to me
All the poor rich men are fed to me
All of the good things are passing me
Buy all the matches and remedy
I woke up today, it was grey and not happening
The postman was late and the post wasn’t anything
I took out my knife and see it needs sharpening
Seeing is stealing and nothing is true
That man...clean hands...big smile...no style
Take all your fools and incinerate
Take all your schools and incinerate
Take out your hearts and incinerate
Seeing is stealing and nothing is true
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Seeing Infinity
03:56
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SEEING INFINITY
Wondering
what the world ahead will bring
God will save our souls
And bring death to everything
Now’s the time
Now’s the time to take it in
Yesterday has gone
And tomorrow’s to begin
When it comes.
It’s just a sudden thing
Takes your breath away
Laying there for weeks
We can run and dance
We can shout and sing
We can’t live forever
We can’t stay together
Heaven’s hope
Drinking water with the king
This water tastes of salt now
Throwing all the fish back in
A veil of cloud, of doubt of knowing we can’t win
There’s a million suns
Only one will let us in.
Sacred veil
Mysteries of man and tree
Liberate them all
Or is it only me
In the eyes
In the eyes of you and me
Do I see myself
do I see infinity?
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Pass The Salt
03:32
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PASS THE SALT
The wheel on the hospital trolley needs some oil, I fear it’s just not working.
I spare myself a smile for another time, when I’m no longer hurting.
I thought i heard you call my name.
I thought i saw the lights go dim.
If i knew that things would be the same.
I don’t think that i would feel so grim.
The scene in my head isn’t with me anymore, i guess it can’t be real.
If i dream when I’m dead then i hope it is of you.
Pass the salt, pass the bread, pass the place i hit the ground and scream.
The surgeon in the mask didn’t pass his last exam.
I don’t want him near me please.
And the man in the wig has been playing with himself.
I hope they treat me properly.
Close the curtain, close the curtain.
The light outside is really hurting.
I feel so light and I’m getting it for free, though nothing’s free i realise.
Nothing is the same when you look the other way.
And the doctor takes a look, as they come to carve me up.
And they’ll find that I am missing. I was never here at all.
The bridge that we were walking, has been broken up and sold.
I see you lying in the valley down below.
I never thought that it could ever feel so strange.
To give my beating heart to people i don’t know.
And when the partying has all gone quiet.
I think I’ll lie awake and watch the sky.
And i the summer when the night’s get light.
I see a place marked out for you and I.
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The Sky Ain't Blue
05:25
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THE SKY AIN'T BLUE
What’s in the bag that you’re holding it seems quite full
Let me look inside for a moment my life’s quite dull
Two packs of lies in disguise that I’ve seen before
Your enemies are on their knees just behind your door
Come away with me come away
You’ll see the night is just like the day
From a different angle
In another way
It’s in a dream that you see him and he sees you
You both ask for time to be stopped and for something new
There’s several myths of the world that just don’t ring true
They’ll come alive when you realise the sky ain’t blue
Waking up now from your slumber
See your tattoo, there’s your number
Put it in the system with the rest
I can’t look at you cos you can’t look at me now, it’s the law here, no one can be seen here, it’s a test
Everything presented every evening to the people to those near me on the TV is a joke
Everywhere you look you’ll see a clown you’ll see a crook and they’re writing out your histories in a book.
When we go to bed we’ll wake upon a world that’s dead, they said the world would be much better
But it’s getting worse for ever
Please please, on bended knees, I’ll be good now I swear.
Two fat nails through both your wrists and then they’ll leave you there!
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I be instrumental
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The End Of A Superhero
07:26
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The End of a Superhero
A home alone I’m really cold
A little tired and very old
The keys are on the table by the facemask, by the secret book the poisoned hook
I take the costume off one final time and lay it down next to the bedside all alone.
A final effort come and gone a final cry and now I’m done
A city begs in need of further heroes.
I tried my best, I wore my vest I more than passed the test and now I fall to earth to be forgotten.
The times have changed and rearranged the things we once felt mighty strange
The darkness of the end is here upon us bear down on us, no more superhero no more sacrifice, a rest would sure feel super nice, a soft bed where to lay my head, and words of comfort spoke alone before we’re definitely dead.
This planet has awoken and has spoken, and it doesn’t want us here.
Have I saved my last for best?
I know a simple trick or two
A sleight of hand an unplanned retroguard attempt to pull on through the substance at the heart of every living thing upon this earth, to form it and expand it and to heal it.
It seems to me no prize is greater than the will of that above us to succumb and succumb quietly as we are but enzymes in a greater being ill of us and trying as it might just to survive us.
No superhero such as me, no special power no symmetry should try to kill the beast on which we all depend, no truth reason religion nor the hope of steel-like skin, my isolation, lazer eyes , the need to fly, should ever win.
I know it sounds at odds with all the battles I have fought and the destruction I have wrought to gain the peace I’ve always sought.
Have I saved my last for best?
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Waiting For A Train
03:35
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WAITING FOR A TRAIN
Too busy waiting, waiting for a train to My destination my destination
Standing in the rain, waiting for a train to My destination my destination
Further up the line, running dead on time to My destination my destination
Looking at the clock, wishing i could be at My destination my destination
Where i’d rather be is where i feel more free
But i’m waiting for a train
And i’m standing in the rain
Where i’d rather go is somewhere that i know
But i’m waiting for a train
And i stand and wait in vain
Too busy singing, thinking i was swimming at My destination my destination
There is only me, a river and a tree at My destination my destination
Sitting by a lake, feeling like a fake at My destination my destination
Longing for my fate, the train is running late to My destination my destination
I can’t hold me back now
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Summer Song
08:03
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Summer Song
My eyes are opening, save me an answer
I have a song to sing, play me another
I end up wondering, waiting and lonely
Here comes the sun again
Oh no where do i go, where do i go now?
I seem to take a step back, take a step back now
You see the look on my face, it seems out of place
What chance of staying around and building my structure
It seems so commonplace, smells fill the air now
I think it’s just facade, i get so maudlin
Summer is the best of bad, let’s wait for winter
Here comes the sun again
My eyes are widening
Hear my calls and catch my falls
And wait to feel me,
to be near me
Try to steer me, fast and backward
Pace the change, to re-arrange
The people that i know
Softly softly
Like an insect, creepy crawly
Crushed and Horny
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Waiting In The Rain
02:15
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Waiting in the rain
I write these words sick of the profanity
Screaming bloody rage unleashing my insanity
As the storms pass....i sit and i decide
As the moon burns....i freeze on the inside
As the clock chimes....i’m waiting in the rain
Out flow the years dream screams of dreams
My sense of sense comes apart at the seams
As the clouds burst....i’ve fallen from the sky
As the stars die....i see them burning bright
As the world turns...i’m waiting in the rain
I build myself a little deeper
My climb a little steeper
I used to hate, the days were great
Lying on my back
I used to walk instead of running
Buried in my sack
I write these words sick of the profanity
Screaming bloody rage unleashing my insanity
As the clouds burst....i’ve fallen from the sky
As the stars die....i see them burning bright
As the world turns...i’m waiting in the rain
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