The First Problem

Of all the aches that press
On the half-wake minds
Amid their fleeting conversations
Mine is in a garden

Of all the chronic pains
That stir us to complain
Swipe surfactant frustrations
Mine is in a garden

All the savage battles
The claw marks in your skin
They're perched upon a ladder
A fable of a plinth

Fovea

There's a surgical knife that I've carried all my life
And I can't put it down because I don't know how
To live devoid of everything I've ever known
It's all an illusion

I need my constants, my safety, my monsters
To filter my senses into tiny tasks
But what are thoughts without conclusions?
A sea of confusion

Business is defining, business is explaining,
Data needs aligning, structure needs dividing,
Numbers need resolving, info recreating,
Never stops evolving, never dies

Focus on what matters, bend it into patterns,
Break it into fractions, actions for reactions,
All these things need corners, all these things need borders,
All are ordered into pixel-lines

We're balancing on a pinpoint
On a library of assumptions

Books

You can't hear it,
It's blurred below a threshold,
But you can resolve it into numbers,
The most impossible numbers
For the tiniest events,
And balance it on a pin-point,
A library of assumptions,
As the reams of opinions
Dance their desperate moments
Like flames clawing at the air.

Anomalous

There is a point in the data
A surprise amid the noise
Where one man would evangelise
Another man destroys

What means more to you,
In your philosophy,
The countless repetitions,
Or the occasional anomaly?

Everything seems vivid
Out at the extremes
But that doesn't obligate it
To mean anything

Heuristic Fit

A signal chain is trying to deconstruct itself
An omnidirectional fit of heuristics
And it's doing its best to step outside of itself
But it's a Russian doll whichever way you look at it

In the moments that the boundaries degrade
It just gets crushed by the mass of information
All things at once are truth and instantly bleached
Are all its senses, overloaded, blinded in every way

Infinitely ill-equipped
Settle into a scale
It's a 2D world with limits
Where I feel most safe

So how to escape the semantic grid?
Something tells me it's there for our own protection
Where do you start, without a concept of starting?
When you can feel everything, but know nothing about it.

Tomorrows

Brace yourself for pain
Embrace the love, the loss, the gain
Well it's all part of it
Do you want to be part of it?
And teach yourself restraint
Well you are truly screwed either way
So just calm down now
Be a part of it

The days they tumble slowly over each other
We don't know where the roads end up

But I don't want to argue anymore
Just do what you want when you slam the door
I'm far too tired to try to make you see
Just do what you want for the reasons you believe

And all our yesterdays they light
The dusty, dusty way
To just one certainty
The day it murders me
And peace will calm you down
They say the second that you drown
You just calm down, now
Be a part of it

We don't know where the roads end up
We just know that they end

But I don't want to argue anymore
Just do what you want when you slam the door
I'm far too tired to try to make you see
Just do what you want for the reasons you believe
For the reasons you believe
For the reasons you believe
For the reasons you believe
For the reasons you believe
I don't want to argue anymore
Just do what you want

Running From Tornadoes

Behind this guise, an unendable time spent clinging
As years unwind, those electrical vines keep stinging
All this time spent running from tornadoes
Be my bubble in the storm
If only 'til the dawn

Lost at sea, destined permanently to run from
Stupid dreams, how the panic-field screams like thunder
All of this time spent running from tornadoes
Be my bubble in the storm
If only 'til the dawn

Another day comes to an end
And I can feel a calm descend

You remind me that there's light left in me
Light left in me
Light left in me
Light left in me

All these ghosts just step aside
I know (oh oh oh oh oh)
All this hurt and pain subsides
I know (oh oh oh oh oh)