1. |
aporia
05:26
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lost behind enemy lines caught without a map, a compass
i don't even have my walkman so i get my news from
tv's in the storefront windows say the war is over now
i know they're lying in the hopes that i'll surrender share a glass of
absythe with the colonnel and the majorettes go marching down the streets
to beats of different drums i can hear them pouding in my head
they make me scream my secrets tell them how to crack our code!
our tanks are made of balsa wood! we ran out of metal years ago...
it started with a "left, right, left!"
they left us in the field said:
"here's your gun and here's a bullet too.
put it right between their eyes!"
and i wonder if they'd known the price we had to pay
would they still show an interest
in preserving interests anyway?
i hide inside abandoned buildings get my meals from garbage cans
i'm cataloging information waiting for the day the'll rescue me
from all my present danger i could accidentally give myself
away to some old man or child playing in the evening streets
they'd run off screaming and an hour later i'd be captured
i'd be strapped upon the table waiting for the first electric shock
the needles, pills and pliers gas that made me laugh one last time
i slipped away into the night another number on a grave
it started with a "left, right, left!"
they left us in the field said:
"here's your gun and here's a bullet too.
put it right between their eyes!"
and i wonder if they'd known the price we had to pay
would they still show an interest
in preserving interests anyway?
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2. |
silencing the cynic
04:35
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this same face
the aging speeds across
marking my countenance with lines
these same hands
the anger tears across
covering my startled face with blood
when did we forget we have to share this world?
diplomacy speaks i never opened my mouth
when will we forget the things that kill this world?
the war devils feed but never open their mouths
this same mind
confusion burns across
erasing all respect for humankind
these same eyes
desolation floods across
washing the innocence away
when did we forget we have to share this world?
diplomacy speaks i never opened my mouth
when will we forget the things that kill this world?
the war devils feed but never open their mouths
this same heart
no love will cut across
healing spread rippling in its wake
this same corpse
the spiders crawl across
weaving their delicate designs
when did we forget we have to share this world?
diplomacy speaks i never opend my mouth
when will we forget the things that kill this world?
the war devils feed but never open their mouths
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3. |
deadwinterwhite
05:14
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it's cold outside, it's snowing and i'm walking through the frozen fields
following your footprints in the freshly fallen white
oh i've never liked december and the mood it puts you in
too far away to smile your pensive smile
got locked inside your head again
it's dead again the conversation
silence slices through the air that's
thin and stale and growing pale
"i guess there's nothing left to say"
i say and turn and feel the burn
of your black eyes in my back
i'm alone with bits of winter
blowing through the open door
here we go again...
it's cold outside and raining and i'm walking through the flooding fields
following my footprints in the damp and mouldy earth
oh i've never liked this weather or the mood it puts me in
too far away to see your lonely eyes
i'm locked inside your head again
the threat again of conversation
tension mounting in the air that's
old and grey and peels away
i guess there's one thing left to say
you say "goodbye" i wonder why
it's your black eyes i see when
i'm alone with repercussions
staring through the open door.
here we go again...
it's cold inside your prison and i'm walking through neglected halls
following my instincts in the solitary dark
oh i've never liked this pennance or the hell you put me through
too far away to mean that much to me
i'm locked outside your head again
it's dead again, our conversation
hanging lifeless in the air that's
winter white and dead tonight
we're left with nothing left to say
you say you tried i know you lied
but your black eyes convinced me
i was wrong and you were perfect leaving
through the open door
here we go again...
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4. |
wilt (version 1)
06:15
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i wilt i wallow in despair
we never will grow wiser
i scream and rip out all my hair
prepare the tranquilizer
it's the only way to keep me silent,
the only way they keep me here
don't back away i'm rarely violent
undo those straps and watch me disappear
i wilt i wallow in denial
i smell the desperation
we're walking down that final mile
in ignorant sedation
"it's the only way to keep them quiet
the only way to keep them sane
a little war, a friendly riot
and pump some more tv into the brain"
standing in your shadow i wilt
eclipsed by your existence i wilt
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5. |
devolution
06:10
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ruined land of sorrow at my feet
you weep for this decay
my own thorny crown upon my head
i am a king today
we walk the shattered surface
winter fading through unnumbered years
the ghosts of boulevards
still whisper our existence through the tears
from behind the veil of pain
the vortex sucking marrow from the bone
a bleak and blighted
prospect aging hearts now slowly turn to stone
ruined land of sorrow at my feet
you weep for this decay
my own thorny crown upon my head
i am a king today
in old hollow halls of power
arrogance began to writhe and seethe
and from my throne i see the
huddled masses yearning just to breathe
and no one quite remembers
only stories of a world forlorn
of greed and growing anger
tension, violence, hate, disease and scorn
ruined land of sorrow at my feet
you weep for this decay
my own thorny crown upon my head
i am a king today
again we asked the question
which direction do we go from here
the wounds are slowly healing
but the scars will always be severe
we value wisdom now
we pray for our redemption to the sky
a new enlightened world
that came to be the day the old world died
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6. |
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please leave a light on or they'll be here for me soon
please leave a light on or they'll sneak into my room
looking thru the curtains, see the rippling of the lace
i swear i hear their voices, feel their breath upon my face
please leave a light on or they'll take me in the night
please leave a light on it's the only way to fight
the last thing i'll remember is the shadow on the wall
moving ever closer as my skin begins to crawl
please leave a light on can't you feel it growing cold?
please leave a light on all of this has been foretold
my hands are shaking violently, my eyes are shut too tight
i'm wrapped up in this rage against the dying of the light
please leave a light on keep the dark from drawing near
please leave a light on help eliminate this fear
my heart is pounding quickly, the adrenaline turns on
if i falter in my vigilance i'm dead before the dawn
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7. |
analogous
05:03
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8. |
introspect
05:48
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she spreads her legs and sighs as
he sticks his death inside her
wider, wider
why oh why can't i be the one?
warm arms that wrap all around me
chasing demons that surround me
drown me, drown me
drain me dry and leave me here to die
that's just the way it must be
you always lose in the end
and the sorrow sets in
that's just the way it must be
you always lose in the end
and i'm alone with myself thinking torturous thoughts
she's in love with passion's fire
wrapped his heart with razor wire
liar liar!
look me in the eyes just one more time
flash that smile that's so endearing
all his sins now disappearing
fearing, fearing
failure and the whole thing starts again
that's just the way it must be
you always lose in the end
and the anger sets in
that's just the way it must be
you always lose in the end
and i'm alone with myself thinking torturous thoughts
(love me, please love me
i can't stop these torturous thoughts)
he wrote a note to try
explaining why he couldn't cry
goodbye goodbye
i guess this is goodbye
please don't be sad
when the found him shortly after
swinging from that broken rafter
laughter, laughter
no one ever even gave a damn
that's just the way it must be
you always lose in the end
and futility wins
that's just the way it must be
you always lose in the end
and i'm alone with myself thinking torturous thoughts
that's just the way it must be
you always lose in the end
the immolation begins
that's just the way it must be
you always lose in the end
and i'm alone with myself thinking torturous thoughts
love me, please love me
i can't stop these torturous thoughts
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9. |
pretension
04:48
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dressed up like jack skellington, turned out the door and off the light
and headed to the local club for goth/industrial night
and all my favorite posers are there i
see them with their dyed-black hair and
make-up runnning 'round in circles
looking deader-than-thou
and the dj's playing kmfdm, i see some friends and call them
over and we smoke some cloves together
drinking guinness, counting all the kids in
nine inch nails shirts, why are there so many?
"remember when this song was new?"
"i guess it's cool that it hasn't faded after all these years"
the polish on your nails is red and mine is black
and painted on your jacket is a skinny puppy logo
i'm thinking "should we dance to this?" out loud and you concur
and so we head onto the floor but soon return because
the music changes for the worse.
"the scene's not what it used to be and everybody's moved away"
"but why are we still here?" you say
and i don't have an answer
"that tattoo says current 93", you always talk too much to me
when we're together so i close my eyes and wish that i was somewhere else...
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10. |
a place for you and me
07:29
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we're wandering again
with doors slammed in our faces
oh will we ever win
and fill these empty spaces
we're told to leave again
there's no room for your kind here
but loneliness will end
for somewhere there's a place for you and me
we seek to open minds
through trials and tribulations
though some are ever blind
to blatant revelations
the night creeps in around us
and wind will chill the bone
though isolation's found us
still somewhere there's a place for you and me
we're neo-pioneers
when all the world is hating
erasing doubts and fears
the genesis is waiting
the road goes ever on
to meet the new horizon
but hope is never gone
that somewhere there's a place for you and me
we're barely holding on
we're laughing at each other
the warmth of coming dawn
can greet you like a lover
we're running out of time
to reach our destination
i only hope we find
that somewhere there's a place for you and me
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