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Lazarus
03:44
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Lyrics translated from Colombian poet Jose Asuncion Silva (1865 - 1896)
"Come Lazarus", the Savior cried
and out of that black tomb the corpse arose
still in it's windingsheet
Smell, felt, saw, grew aware uttered a cry and wept with happiness
Four months later on the many shadows
of dark twilight in the darker silence
of place and time among the quiet tombs of an old cemetery
This Lazarus was sobbing there alone envying the dead
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2. |
Shelter Your Eyes
04:30
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If by your heart a dearest dream of lifelong sleeping came to your mind and left behind a
feeling still, would you find a broken branch of laurel passion?
The cloudburst has gone away leaving fog and dew, just what does this leave for you?
Maybe time for time to hold out what is true?
Tangible pane of looking back at passing thoughts seeks to remind your falling leaves of autumn dances
The daylight will pass away leaving fears of night just why does this make you cry?
Maybe nighttime steals lies from your eyes?
Can you tell lies from cowardly agreeing smiles whether you feel the honesty or not
Won’t change them, others may try to tell you what you’re thinking truly
the images burned away leaving cold hard truth, just what does this mean to you?
Maybe life requires lies to shelter your eyes?
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3. |
Impossible Gardens
03:16
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Instrumental
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4. |
If Seventy
03:22
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Lyrics from the ee cummings poem, "if seventy" which is available on many websites.
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5. |
Wickedness
06:20
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Born into wickedness
You stage an operetta
How can you pick a side
when you were born to follow till you die
The spider spins an answer
when questioned on the fly
You seek to be theatre
and play the marquee role as you cry
You trace the blue of tunnel
a vortex in conceived
as all the hurt around you
inspires make—believe you still can see
With eyes that drink emotion
You look from day to week
The minutes tease your vision
and rise to feticide you can’t hide
And now you’re left with feeling
too scared to dissipate
as if you have an option
but realize inside you cannot wait
So now a question beckons
as layers cast aside
What is the nature of evil?
and have you found a truth you cannot hide
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6. |
Blind Me Sane
05:41
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As the broken exiles wander
lost amidst the blue sky thunder
Water streaming from illusion
breaks the mind of resolution thought
Shadows crying
Longing for that peaceful feeling
Hoping to at least keep dreaming
Summer days are months away
I hope they die before they find me here
Ghosts are shining
White as lightning
Stay and fill my sight
Looking for the light unbroken
Incandescent, inconceived or
Hazy mist ethereal so
am I mad or have I seen too much?
Cloudburst calling
Supernature calls us all but
only some can hear her talk
The farther that we run away
from ghosts the more we drown in yesterday
Heaven falling
‘Seconds crawling
Bring the sky to earth
Locked into a transformation
Wrought with loss and much temptation
Mystery can shroud conclusions
Angels gaze through your illusive eye
Visions find me
Death behind me
Light will blind me sane
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7. |
and Run
04:02
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Run a whispered trail
Catch the silent veil
Pass an iron sail
run into the evening sky and run. . .and run...
Run a silhouette
Taste the tears you get
Say the word unsaid
Waste the friends you met
run into geranium aquariums of morning sky and run. . . and run...
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Seems your reply is not enough
to thaw the frozen
waste of vivisect emotion
...and in your sullen image you paint the world
(you will fall too far)
as if your sudden temperamental sentiment
(makes you different)
from me and all your overbearing art.. .pornography
(call to a god)
...you’re straining to poeticize the whispered lies
(once and always who am)
...your planet glides into the dust you’ve left for us
(passant malleus)
And up your sleeve a captive world
pretending mirth
a darkly hidden cock crow search
I seen the death you brought to those attached to you (draining life forces)
provision made for providence which you have gave (did you not claim us all?)
.must follow me or die in lost uncertainty
(praise be My name. . . too late!)
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9. |
Blew Angels
03:48
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Even the darkest night
lives with the pale moonlight
And as I close my eyes
why am I not surprised?
Even an empty room
feels the afternoon
breaking the windowpanes
making us all the same
Why must I remain to play the game
As your past at last may one day sound the same
Picture a looking glass
into a rainbow past
Maybe a waterball
would be nice after all
Tune from a music box
open another lock
Waiting to be set free
hoping eventually
When you spin and then make final plans
Summer flies and I am left alone to cry
If the final image is lost
in a never ending dawn frost
It’s not a reflection on you
or the rest who might think it true
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10. |
Song of the High Ones
04:41
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Hung I on that windswept tree for 9 long nights
Wounded by the very blade
of Odin’s blood
Offering myself to thee
bound to this tree
No man knows the roots I see
or where they run
We have read the book of runes
Knowing as we sometimes do
Empty words are treasured gold
Playing for a saviours soul
None gave bread nor gave me drink
down to the depths
I peered until I spied the runes
with roaring cry
seized them up and dizzy.. .faint
at last I fell
we have read the book of runes
Knowing as we sometimes do
Empty words are treasured gold
Playing for a saviours soul
From a word into a new
world led by words
From a deed into a new
world led by deeds
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11. |
Learning to be Free
04:09
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And then I say
there'll come a day
when we might play
To lose old friends
who wish me weak
'cause I won't be
Find a line within your heart stand for something right, be with me tonight
I don't care what they may say I will find a way be my friend today
And all I see
won't be the same
I've disowned shame
And what I feel
it surely counts
it makes me real
When the rain keeps falling off time has surely gone as I sing this song
Sleep and dream of things to be together you and me learning to be free
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12. |
Stood the Iceman
03:47
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A promenade from a picture show
An ice parade to a hell I know
You stand on your portfolio
Misguided Queen of all below
One last look
was all that it took
One final dial
of self denial
You seem to think that I should know
my place in this scenario
To bow my head in vertigo
while basking in your afterglow
Maybe before
forevermore
I can’t stay
with you treating me this way
A final smile shattered dream
depicts the damage you have been
You laugh but I know what you mean
You think it’s fun abusing me
Goodbye Ann
I’ve done all I can
Take yourself
and live on your selfish shelf
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13. |
Defunct
02:18
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Lyrics from the ee cummings poem, "defunct" available on several websites.
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14. |
DM+HC
04:21
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I will decide just what I will do
if you can abide by the unspoken rules
and to my heart I must be true
and yet it all depends on you
You made a promise to not turn away
I made a promise and here I will stay
and count the hours and the days
‘till I can see you anyway
How do I feel? I can’t say, I don’t know...but I know what I think and the dream that is so
and I smile before I sleep...
Will you come back if you know what I think? What would you say if you saw this blue ink?
or knew the schoolboy fantasy which I have built for you and me...
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15. |
Atlantis
04:00
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Surface explanations can’t return my lost Atlantis
Powder—blue directions cannot take me back
To a time of learning, safety, a place to run to
In a hornet’s nest I can’t turn my back
Do they really tell me, tell me what they mean
Words and actions that never resolve
In this furnished hell allowances free
Tell me why it’s so hard being me?
Camouflaging feeling borrow a knife
While the trusted couple steal your life
Smile and tell you that they did it for you
29 years later learn the unpleasant truth
What does a lone survivor do when he’s safe to find Atlantis before it’s too late?
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16. |
Headin' South
04:11
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Instrumental
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17. |
Goodbye?
04:05
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Trying to be lonely
Just brings me down lately
Can’t help but see everything in me…
When will your face leave me
Peaceful and quiet...dreamy
Can’t help regret everything I see…
Lost when you’re near
Locked in a rage
Seems like years not days
How can I find
Memories of old?
Reclassify my soul
Daytiming glass smiling
Eyes of the night crying
Still I remain trying to be...
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18. |
Same Time Next Year
01:57
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Instrumental
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19. |
AllHallows Eve
04:33
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Run to the north, to the north we’ll run
To make our final stand as one
Our wretched screams will light our way
(I doubt we’ll live another day)
When I am dead, promise me this
No epitaph, no goodbye kiss
The terror of their night—time ride
Will be forever magnified
Through empty hearts and heartless eyes
They stumble through the countryside
And find the blind
Alive inside
And huddled back against the wall with silver crosses
Burn their dead to bless them all and count their losses
We all are called to set the scene
Burn bright for me Allhallows Eve
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20. |
In the Walls of Eryx
02:55
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Come for the mining
(the money desiring)
to plunder on Venus
and steal her lining
The 7 foot creatures
(distinguishing features)
The 20 foot wall that won’t let me reach her
The days, they are passing
Provisions not lasting
the creatures have gathered
to watch my last—gasping
For traps have been set
our earth-greed forgets
that we don’t belong here to die like the rest
Trapped in the walls like a page under ink
I can’t hear them laugh but I know what they think
They won’t show their faces of passion or pink
I can’t see them laugh but I hear what they think
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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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