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The Old Gods Waken
03:23
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Evil laughter, not my own
bells are ringing on the telephone
paranoia grips my soul,
I will never let you go.
Watch the window to the sky,
clouds are drifting through my eyes,
tears are dropping to the sand,
the lonely sea unites again.
I know nothing (don't mind me)
I know nothing (leave me be)
I know nothing (you believe)
I need the truth (to set me free)
Part the ocean beneath my eyes,
I stand alone where the seas rise,
a pillar of salt from drown-ed sand,
erect my form where storms begin.
Statuesque, the image lives,
a beacon to the minds of men
recalling dreams of ages past,
the old Gods waken, first and last
I know nothing (hide your head)
I know nothing (bring your dead)
I know nothing (shadows step)
I need to truth (to take my breath)
Bride of death, withhold desire,
how souls burn 'til they retire,
this tributary lasting fire,
twisting sinews merge and rise.
Imbue the conscious of the flame,
who cannot walk, restore the lame,
into the AYY'ONS!! they will tread;
even death may pass the dead
whose legions sail to what strange lands
by courses set forth on my breath,
and paths, then beaten, by design
of something latent in my mind.
Old Gods waken through all pasts,
this land is strewn with obelisks,
I reach towards, with all in time,
the ever-standing stones which rise
towards a sky which shimmers in
the blinding light of forgiveness,
enrapture all into the deep,
awaken from the dark of sleep
and
I know nothing (legions rise)
I know nothing (and join the light)
I know nothing (this bridge of ash)
Let peace now cross (forever last)
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In Something Dead
03:54
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Your twistin' strange visions
unfold in front of you
you don't know what it means
and you don't know quite what to do
like dreams, just as they seem,
so meaningless and hollow to you
you can't see anything that isn't there in front of you
Take the lines and take the signs out, signifying nothingness,
fables with no lesson learned, dilution of the holy text.
There's nothing to be inferred from metaphor, you know it's best
to put all of your faith in something dead.
Something dead, dead, dead, dead, dead
'nuff said.
'My God, my Lord! Why have you forsaken me,
I worshiped a piece of land, and blood on sand, and material gain,
I put my money in the bag, I wore the right clothes, wore the right name tag,
I did just as you seemed to say, so why am I in hell today?!!'
Take the lines and take the signs out, signifying nothingness,
fables with no lesson learned, dilution of the holy text.
There's nothing to be inferred from metaphor, you know it's best
to put all of your faith in something dead.
Something dead, dead, dead, dead, dead
'nuff said.
You can't, you won't, you could not and so you don't
ever follow back the thread behind the spine that binds the text.
Those pages, like sages telling stories so absurd,
the literal truth is lost to you when taken as just literal words.
Take the lines and take the signs out, signifying nothingness,
fables with no lesson learned, dilution of the holy text.
There's nothing to be inferred from metaphor, you know it's best
to put all of your faith in something dead.
Something dead, dead, dead, dead, dead
There was once a man so good,
there once was, knock on wood.
My messiah was so good,
my messiah, knock on wood.
My idol there upon the wall,
a symbol whose meaning is lost.
There was once a man so good,
there once was, knock on wood.
Your twistin' strange visions
unfold in front of you
you don't know what it means
and you don't know quite what to do
like dreams, just as they seem,
so meaningless and hollow to you
you can't see anything that isn't there in front of you
Take the lines and take the signs out, signifying nothingness,
fables with no lesson learned, dilution of the holy text.
There's nothing to be inferred at all.
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Come on fast, let's get inside
bolt the door, shut out the lights
when the sun falls on this town,
we know there's no place to hide.
It's always been this way
under the watch of the depraved,
the sickness spreads and stalks the night
in this God-forsaken place.
They don't know what it's like
when you're running in the night
and they're coming up behind again
when they're on the night shift.
They think it's passed, it's past midnight,
it's not over 'til the morning light
like a horror out of time
to those who remained blind.
They don't know 'til it's too late,
they don't know 'til they meet their fate
it's something that contaminates,
the madness of an unchecked plague.
They don't know what lies in store,
they hide their heads from a distant storm,
it's closer than it was before
when they're on the night shift.
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Fight Back
05:36
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Arm in arm my people stand
for those who died. Stand up, fight back!
We are brothers in this land,
and now's the time we take it back
Come on tyrants, send your droogs,
we do not care. Stand up, fight back!
Arm in arm the people stand,
the people of this free men's land,
scale of justice in our hand
to weigh the souls of evil men
whose evil wars are built on lies,
take thousands of innocent lives.
Now's the time we say no more,
cast the devil from our shores!
The devil plays his cruel charade,
tell your lies, I'm not afraid!
Hide behind your storm brigades,
but for your crimes, you're gonna pay.
Send the cops, the cavalry,
the national guard, I'm not afraid!
The crime you've done is far too great,
together, we will seal your fate.
Arm in arm my people stand
for those who died. Stand up, fight back!
We are brothers in this land,
and now's the time we take it back
Come on tyrants, send your droogs,
we do not care. Stand up, fight back!
Arm in arm the people stand,
the people of this free men's land,
scale of justice in our hand
to weigh the souls of evil men
whose evil wars are built on lies,
take thousands of innocent lives.
Now's the time we say no more,
cast the devil from our shores!
Arm in arm my people stand
for those who died. Stand up, fight back!
We are brothers in this land,
and now's the time we take it back
Come on tyrants, send your droogs,
we do not care. Stand up, fight back!
Evil men with numbered days,
tell your lies, I'm not afraid!
The mask has fallen from their face
for evil deeds, you're gonna pay.
The national guard and the marines,
send them all, I'm not afraid!
They won't protect you from your fate.
Criminals, The Hague awaits!
Arm in arm my people stand
for those who died. Stand up, fight back!
We are brothers in this land,
and now's the time we take it back
Come on tyrants, send your droogs,
we do not care. Stand up, fight back!
Arm in arm the people stand,
the people of this free men's land,
scale of justice in our hand
to weigh the souls of evil men
whose evil wars are built on lies,
take thousands of innocent lives.
Now's the time we say no more,
cast the devil from our shores!
For the crime of genocide,
you cannot bribe the blood away.
The culprit tells his vicious lies,
still it's time, you're gonna pay.
Send the cops, the cavalry,
the national guard, I'm not afraid!
I've seen your evil and your hate,
we've seen it all, we're not afraid!
Arm in arm my people stand
for those who died. Stand up, fight back!
We are brothers in this land,
and now's the time we take it back
Come on tyrants, send your droogs,
we do not care. Stand up, fight back!
Arm in arm the people stand,
the people of this free men's land,
scale of justice in our hand
to weigh the souls of evil men
whose evil wars are built on lies,
take thousands of innocent lives.
Now's the time we say no more,
cast the devil from our shores!
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A Visit
05:48
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Tell me, will you go
or will you linger by the rose,
waiting, who knows what for?
Between the river
and its flows,
visitors who come and go,
wayward, their boats to moor.
There was one who came today
before the light dissipates,
and I can see you in the stone,
staring up alone
where your gaze might meet my eye,
I'm so glad you could stop by,
and it's lovely
to see you roam
through a lovely home.
As they come and return home
will you linger by the rose,
, brooding,
there in the cold?
Our rounding river runs
into the black beyond
and to the quaking sea,
too still to break your dream.
You circle it in time,
embroidered through your eye,
and where reflections turn,
towers fall into the sky
jutting downwards
and it's so dark above.
... and as the rain now pours,
and beats upon the river shore,
through the sounds of wind and storm
speak loud the voices of the world
proclaiming all is lost,
their lonely voices echo on
from vistas darkened and forlorn,
their shadows cast across the storm.
Then at a crystal ball
a gathering of strangers waltz,
twirling in their shifting pairs
all across this lovely hall
and I can see you
and it has been so long
this place is always such a mess when I am gone.
There was one who left today
all is lost, you've gone away
I can hear you through the rain
piercing downwards through the lake
deep into these lovely halls of
tapestries and mirrored walls
roll the courses of the rain,
deep into my mirrored veins,
and in a myriad of voices only just to speak one phrase,
"All is lost," they whisper through the dark, as loud, then as a scream,
and on the marble stairs, in shadow there, like a stranger you fade,
it's always lovely here, though, now; this place will never change.
Goodbye
Goodbye
Goodbye
Goodbye
Goodbye
Goodbye
Goodbye
Goodbye
Lost, lost
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6. |
Palimpsest
06:18
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All across the centuries, waves are buried by the sea,
dirt is covering the leaves, newly fallen away from green
moon is crowding in the night, newly gaze upon your life
and you don't write from left to right,
you scrawl upon your life
the pages turn, turning into one
you, in overlapping lines
falling in through time
covering the letters that you write.
There are many pages which can fill you with regret,
all of them still blur within the ones not written yet,
falling, falling
number the leaves, number the sea.
All the times come crashing in and shine upon your waves of skin,
the earth is buried under leaves which draw their breath and turn to green,
sun is burning through the sky and it reflects back from your eye,
and you don't write from left to write,
through ages you inscribe,
the pages turn, zero into one,
and you can count it all you like
where run eternal lines
coming through the numbers you divide
and you don't write from left to right,
you scrawl upon your life
the pages turn, turning into one
you, in overlapping lines
falling in through time
covering the letters that you write.
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Carlton Heston Atlanta, Georgia
If you're reading this - Gods of the Dead is the good one. Listen to that first if you're going to listen to anything on here. It's actually pretty solid.
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