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Sad Angel
04:54
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And if I held a crystal ball in my hands
and sailed on never ending seasons of sand
as lionhearted knights await my command
What would it take to make you see and understand?
And if I saw your real thoughts with my eyes and felt your well intentioned truths or lost lies
seeing as only blind men can - I can cry
at all the hell locked in hello or fond goodbyes
And if it seems the years have passed in my mind and silences replace the wave of sad eyes
or creeping darkness makes a stand in sunlight yet for the moment it appears I’ll be allright...
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2. |
Burn
01:56
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Instrumental
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3. |
Heroes
01:25
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Rickey Henderson
Isaiah Thomas
Joe Montana
Adolph Eichmann: Heroes?
John F Kennedy
Richard M Nixon
Ronald Reagan
Charles Manson: Heroes?
Cohn Powell
Dick Cheney
Stormin’ Norman. Bush & Quayle
Lizzie Borden: Heroes?
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4. |
Is There Really?
04:00
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Is there really time for all things?
Summer someday falls
For if there is such time for things
I have no time at all
In my daytime twilight world
I float and bounce off walls
But nighttime songs go on and on
as angels softly call
Is there really short term blindness
ignorance and bliss?
Or must we play a cardboard front
for fools such as this?
In my daytime twilight world
I feign attentive light
But nighttime songs go on and on
and whisper what is right
Is there really loneliness
when I am by myself?
Or is it more a shore leave
placing shells upon a shelf?
Is there really friendship when
the walls are missing bricks?
Are boundaries cracked and broken
by a sadness such as this?
In my daytime twilight world
I sometimes drown at sea
But nighttime songs go on and on
created just for me
Is there really?
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5. |
A Thousand Whys
04:11
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In a thousand windows
stand a thousand clocks
Singing songs forgotten
as an ancient lock
Held the universal
plan together strong
Yet today I wonder,
wonder what went wrong?
Dreams chaotic fill the void
As we move toward the paranoid
Am I killing time as I redefine?
In a thousand heartbeats
wait a thousand deaths
Will they all be painless
at the final breath
Is that old depression
rising once again
Many times I’ve killed it
but I never win
Are my songs my final friend
Left to save me from a bitter end
As my sight grows dim is the outlook grim?
In a thousand mirrors
laugh a thousand fools
as their ships are sinking
in life’s whirlpool
They might drown forever
without time to cry
They might live and never
care to question why
If we all sail to the sun
Can’t we join and go as one?
In the final round must we stay earthbound?
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6. |
Sand and Fire
02:32
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Ride the earthly form inside
Stay amidst your ever glowing patricide
Run the rabbit course alone
Winner of the race inscribes the resting stone
Sand and Fire
Test the wire
Rest the choir
Stake your last vampyre
Seen as if a childhood dream
Symbols reaching out resemble Halloween
Cast the stone into the pond
Break your fast impersonating Kubla Khan
“We’ve seen the last of this race I bet”
“I’ll not make my final wager yet”
“The sun has crashed into the sky”
“and sends its’ acid rays to purify”
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7. |
12 Years From Now
00:54
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Instrumental
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8. |
Looking for a Mutineer
04:04
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I’ve been told of legendary sycophants and warlocks of the outer lands
I’ve been sold a dusty crumbling compromise and truth I cannot visualize
I’ve been cold taught a lesson based on fear looking for a mutineer
I’ve been bold spotlight grabbing center stage then I seek to disengage
spirit come from distant sand — Alice in her wonderland all alone and stranger than — any other courtesan
fast and final sword in hand — lost amidst the hologram killing for the one who am — sainted sacrificial lamb
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9. |
Please Come Back
03:42
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And as the lights spin round the table
I can see it sinking fast
Just one more artificial fable in a world
of broken glass
(I wander through your mirrored past)
and say, “Hey, have you seen an empty dream and laughed?”
The hot and swinging fought the stable
But I knew it wouldn’t last
The truce uneasy as the hate forever
drained the simulcast
(I watched you slowly walking past
as if to say, “Hey, I will fight until the last”
I took a break to lick my wounds and plan my method of attack
How could I blame the loyal confidant
Who snuck out through the back
(I could not face the maniac)
And say, “Hey, madness feels so empty, please come back”
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10. |
Starve For Me
05:25
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The misty moon comes down and swirls with the surface of the underground
I have been there
And watching as the strings entangle with the living things I follow down
as if I care
About the dim uncertain shroud that seems to smile as it hangs around
just over there…and everywhere
A fence surrounds a place of lost and lonely dreamers and unfortunates
with no escape
No matter how they wish upon a star or bargain with the silhouettes
they cannot stay
So neither here nor there while arguing the merits of this solitaire They kneel and pray
iust like yesterday
A thinning patch of light is breaking through the cloudburst Sunday shining bright
if I can see
A way around the current nightmare of a strangers stare a random fight
will not find me
Within the haze a sunshine ray can make you sad but inadvertently you starve at sea...
you starve for me!
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12. |
Haunted
04:00
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I once again rewind the dream
to place your long forgotten scream
And if you die before I wake
I’m haunted by one more heartache
To see my eyes you might expect
a star—side night—light fatal wreck
But looks can be deceiving things
like blood the rose thorn sometime brings
Imagine if the world saw
your nighttime vision free for all
A fantasy you can’t explain
You sell your soul to entertain
And what they see upon the screen
or hear on radio in between
Is deadened by the Novocain
you’re sometimes sure you’ve gone insane
Haunted eyes
Haunted friends
Will the haunting ever end?
Haunted skies
Haunted days
Will it ever go away?
“A natural”, proclaimed the fox
a blue moon shadow paradox
is waiting on your final word
I see you see, but have you heard
that what you say may last a day
but dawn has broken anyway
You’re worshipped by the local fools and taken down the whirlpool
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13. |
To the Moon
06:18
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As you walk into the mist
blinded by the life you missed
hate destroys the choice you made
As you mourn for yesterday
Floating on a spiral sea
Takes you far away from me
Unseen currents ebb and flow
Captured by the undertow
I can’t tell just where I’ll be
Mansion hail or misplaced refugee
Sliding down the mountainside
slips me up & takes me for a ride
I have walked 2 miles thru the daylight and the night for you
Late arriving can you feel me crying through the rendezvous
Time is shifting sand is sifting through my open hand it’s true
Leave the bloodshot eyes your counterplot is plotting lies for you
I can feel you near me soon
Have you sent my letter to the moon?
Midnight on the 1st of May
We could be together anyway
I’d accept an IOU
If you’d grant me one last interview
Sitting by your fireside
leaves me lost and ever mystified
I have walked into your dream converting themes to light for you
Thankless effort spent but what I meant to say and meant to do
missed the mark misplaced the bookmark miscellaneous I knew
how to say goodbye to Monday stake my claim on Waterloo
I can feel you near me soon
Have you sent my letter to the moon?
Midnight on the 1st of May
We could be together anyway
I’d accept an IOU
If you’d grant me one last interview
Sitting by your fireside
leaves me lost and ever mystified
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14. |
Mt Olympus
04:18
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If I count the days that have slipped by
Since you left your training for nearby
Barcelona booked on the red eye
I fly out to you in the night sky
Sometimes I’m convinced she’s an android
rather than a destitute negroid
Photographs of us in the tabloids
Show the world she takin’ the steroid
Sport from 29 and 95 a day
Cable TV mount Olympus you shall pay
Dressed in colors red white & blue she
Runs the fastest prison escapee
Training on the streets of the city
stealing cash she’d get away scot—free
Now she’s mine including gold medal
We’ll spend our lives together in the ghetto
If I leave our place without my stiletto
I’ll spend my life singing falsetto
Life on 29 and 95 a day
Famous for a moment only yesterday
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15. |
Ghost Ship
06:43
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It was late July at the cape of souls
when the sea grew rough and the weather cold
She first appeared as a strange red light
then a ship aglow in the midst of night
And the captain climbed on the deck to see
what the crew described as the devils seed...
Ghost ship on a windswept angry sea
The Flying Dutchman plots a course to bury me and I say
Specter with her company of dead
She rides the four winds of eternity instead
As the colour filled and the outline grew
it appeared her course was to run us through
At 200 yards we could see her crew
dressed in tattered rags — legion of the doomed
As her nameplate cleared through the ocean swirl
we resigned our fate to the underworld...
Ghost ship on a windswept angry sea
The Flying Dutchman plots a course to bury me and I say
Specter with her company of dead
She rides the 4 winds of eternity instead
Ghost ship of the lost and lonely sea
Her captain frozen at the helm no longer mortal being
I saw her as a sea bound funeral pyre
Burning closer on her course of lost eternal fire
“And with everyone sleeping
I’m the only one watching
As I guard o’er the midnight
and I pray for the first light
There upon the horizon
She appears as a vision
in a legend’ry sea curse
there will be no survivors
Of my crew I now question
of my last obligation
Should I wake and alarm them
or show mercy and kill them?”
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16. |
GOP
04:16
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Trains & busses & jets & limos
Pictures painted upon the wall
If I haven’t been round much lately
Leave a message — I will not call
Ask the mailman for my letter
(postage due won’t stop the flood)
Hurricanes & earthquake weather
Shape the party and stir the blood
I’d tell you if you were innocent
I’d tell you everything
I’d smile at your ignorance
I’d climb the G.O.P.
If our party line seems too drastic
Tough times call for leadership
We are all a wee bit fascist
Smiling from our gods pulpit
Armageddon comes tomorrow
televangelistic threat
Send your money — If you must borrow
we’ll add it to the national debt
I’d tell you if you were innocent
I’d tell you everything
I’d smile at your ignorance
I’d climb the G.O.P.
We refuse to take the blame for
car—jack plane crash politics
Unemployment fans the flame
”Our countries burning” read my lips
A thousand points of light could someone
tell me what the hell that means
Billionaires and right wing fascists
crowning George our idiot king
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17. |
Jesus for President
05:53
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And if it seems that sometimes we revere the predator
‘Come to the looking glass as I explain my weak link metaphor
Amidst a tightening vice grip
Adrift in an endless sea
We look to our leaders to help us
...we trust them gradually
I’ve added all the factors — I’ve found the common theme
I can reduce this improper world to it’s LCD
and if the average suffers
and if the plan falls through
and if the promise is broken
chaos reigns and I will too!
And through the years I’ve heard them complaining bitterly
but still they offer the sacrificial lamb greedily
alone with fire & brimstone
atone to a killing god
I watch as their mighty have fallen
I laugh at their pantheon
On to the reason I’ve come here describing policy
as your society crumbles make my mark and hear me finally
I offer lasting protection
I offer all that’s good
If you just cast down your weapons
and follow me in brotherhood
How many ways can I say this so you will understand
that we all fight for the same cause at home and in a foreign land
we must end all of the violence
at others and ourselves
that our religions provide as tools to reach their godly hell
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Mutiny in Jonestown Washington
Influenced by classic 70's progressive rock bands like King Crimson, Van Der Graaf Generator & Genesis - along with late
60's psychedelia from The Beatles, Procol Harum & Pink Floyd (with a little 70's Black Sabbath thrown in for good measure), Mutiny in Jonestown has always sought to take these influences and synthesize them into something new.
The band has released 42 albums since 1987.
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