Tuesday, 7 December 2010

Curves And Corners (*The Next Generation*)

I'm hooked to a drip
I can't help but sip
The dirty nutrients
They feed my deviance

One thing I know
I fear the window

Darling you gave me hope
When I could barely stand
But now I just can't cope
Get out while you can
Cuz this scene will explode
And the fragments will never land
Up in space they'll float
With the house and family we planned
Our world goes up in smoke
No one understands
How an entity just broke
I crushed it with my own 2 hands
I love you
But I could not be that man
I love you
But I will never be that man

Sunday, 28 November 2010

Kate

Water on terminals
Frightened animals
Organs and cuticles
Insects are cannibals

Get the fuck away from me
It's a disease
A disease

Monkey politics
Swamps the scientist
Had enough of this
Transduce onto the wrist

Get the fuck away from me
It's a disease
A disease

So man the switches at the tracks
Check their actions, check their facts

It's a disease
A disease

Black wires are bearing
Tempers are flaring
Errors are glaring
Patience is wearing

It's a disease
A disease

Monday, 22 November 2010

Static

Time is not my friend
So says the ghost in your corridor
Roaming aimlessly for the sake of its existence
Around the rooms of ancient lives

Life passes by
Life passes by
Life passes by

Outside of time
The ghost is sitting in your living room
Stuck with eternity to contemplate the past
Time is a predator and promises are its prey

Life passes by
Life passes by
Life passes by

Friday, 19 November 2010

My Basement Game

I have a basement game
A fantasy I brought to life
In a rustic house with no neighbours
And you are going to play

You see, I'm a misfit
And the world has crippled me
'Til the sick and twisted side
Is the only portal of escape

So put your memories aside
Lay your connections to rest
For you are now no longer
A matter of consequence

You are just an object
Squeezing thrills down my spine
A revenge for all the torture
And bleeding in my mind

Break my rules and join
The frozen severed head
Reverberate the cellar
But the pity in me is dead

Each time I turn the vice
Your screaming gives me life
Because this is my domain
And you're my basement game

Thursday, 11 November 2010

All The King's Horses

My monster has run out of words
He can smell blood in all directions
His claws dig deep dark trenches
His big white teeth are smiling at me

My monster loves this princess
She waits among far off lands
He lives in swamps and smiles
My monster and me close our eyes

All the kings horses and all the king's men
Fucked about a bit, gave up and went home

Looking back now I can see why you'd be scared of me
All my mistakes hung like Christmas lights from the ceiling

Sunday, 5 September 2010

Adieu

How best to show
This blast could blow
At any time
I tick, I wind

So what surprise
I am selfish with my time

I love yet still
I make you doubt
Just like I al-
ways joke about

So what surprise
I have fed you laughs and lies

What am I doing here?
This is where normal people come
To socialise, have fun
So what am I doing here?
I should be locked up out the way
So I can't wreck your day
Adieu

A tendency
To say the right
Thing with un-
intentional spite
Can be forgiven
For a while
But when you wake
I'll rake your eyes

So what surprise
We are living in denial

What am I doing here?
This is where normal people come
To socialise, have fun
So what am I doing here?
I should be locked up out the way
So I can't wreck your day
Adieu
Adieu

Wednesday, 18 August 2010

Here Comes The Orchestra

Power to the people in their state of weakness
Please forgive this world of cheaters
Born with artillery and taught these cheap tricks
Mothers hand them down with their feathers and treats
It's a treasure 'til they're severed and the severed grow weary
Put a blade to their vein and bleed out theories
Pleasure it was measured as they wrestled free
Knowing life is never as the kid perceives
Kids'll just shout and kids'll just dream
Too big for their doubts, too big to concede
They grow up and leave, their predictions'll creak
Under the pressure of reality
The boy is on the road to a terrible collision
The boy is on the run from a medical condition
The boy is in the loop of a spherical decision
And whichever way he chooses he will end up in submission
Whichever way he loses, so why take action?
Just find a distraction, anything that will
Take his mind off this enveloping darkness
Gotta be ruthless, you gotta be heartless
He locks himself inside of his bedroom
He won't be coming out any time soon
When a tree falls and nobody hears it
You know it's safe to go disappearing

Turn up the tunes, get lost or get moving
Take out the blade for sake of just proving
This is no joke there should not be music
It's not easy to get that through to me
Treading on a wire, strings are swelling in my mind
Now they're spreading to my eyes, violins they leave me blind
Going schizophrenic aren't you hearing what I hear?
The line between pretend and real has disappeared
At some point the lid is gonna blow off
Then it's time for the star to show his skills off
He'll show his true colours, he'll take the mask off
And the mothers will be screaming for the others they've lost
When the damn breaks there'll be no restraint
There'll be no escape, no one will be saved
And the doctor I once went to with this complaint
Will be named in the newspapers the next day
Watch your heartbeat it's a daydream, come and see
What does it mean, how could they be possibly?
Which is which me, did you just speak, was it me?
It's a daydream but it seemed real, could've been
So we must be seeing same things differently
This is nuts we cannot stay here, I agree
But it's just me on my own here in a room
Don't know who I think I have been talking to

I hear the sounds of doom impending
Morals bending, hate descending
Some actions are beyond defending
But some traumas go was past mending
And this story has no happy ending
My mind's upended I am not pretending
It's time you heard my side of things
Tectonic moods and seismic swings
I'd tie you to a chair and make you look in my eyes
And ask which you think is the real disguise
And I hope it hurts and I hope you're scared
And I hope it burns and it's only fair
That you know that brought all this on yourself
That you know that you caused it, created this hell
That you know you deserve all this fear in your mind
That you suffer and are tortured cuz death is too kind
And demons will come and cut open your face
And you'll tear off your skin with your teeth to escape
For every time you squandered love to satisfy a draught
We'll break the hearts of one more person that you care about
Do you hear screaming? I hear screaming!
Do you hear screaming, am I still dreaming?
How come no one else can hear what I'm hearing?
Must be time to go disappearing

Friday, 23 July 2010

Lucid

Charlotte dreams
Of movie scenes
Even when she's awake
She can't tell which is fake

While her back was turned
Justice was served
I could swear I was there
She did what the viewers
Wanted her to
And to hell with the consequence
And all shall weep for our hero

So colour in the blanks
Cover up the gaps

So let the strings swell
Let the theories all converge
In a dream world
Where our hero won't get hurt

The sum of a life on a circuit board
You sleep with the TV on

Monday, 19 July 2010

Curves And Corners

Hooked up to a drip
Can't help but sip
The dirty nutrients
They feed my deviance

Get out of the corner of my eye
Stop firing the patterns round my mind
Some are real and some are made of light
Which one you are I can not decide

Love can be like a guillotine
A box of smoke particles
I'm going crazy I am going crazy now

One thing I know
I fear the window
It knows too much
And dares me to touch

Get out of the corner of my eye
Stop firing the patterns round my mind
Some are real and some are made of light
Which one you are I can not decide
No one believes me but I've seen it with my own eyes

Love can be like a guillotine
A box of smoke particles
I'm going crazy I am going crazy now

My daughter is alive
A product of deep-mind

Tuesday, 18 May 2010

Big Plans For The Dead Man

Tell me will the questions ever stop?
Tell me will the hunt ever give up?
So transfixed by wall-clock-ticks we wait
Pressure builds while time's fresh kills are made

You were a witness to a descent
A broken vase and a hole in the head

Such a waste of loving plans
Such a waste of loving plans

Big plans for the dead man
The pavement cracks don't mean you any harm either
Big plans for the dead man
Who can't relax while there's still so much he hasn't done

Tell me will the questions ever stop?
Tell me will the hunt ever give up?
So transfixed by wall-clock-ticks we wait
Pressure builds while time's fresh kills are made

You made an enemy of the world
You got exactly what you deserved

Such a waste of loving plans
Such a waste of loving plans

Big plans for the dead man
Who bent the facts 'til they settled into his vision
Big plans for the dead man
Who daren't subtract all the losses from decisions

Tuesday, 11 May 2010

Tied To A Time

Seek and destroy
Search and discover
Such a beautiful
Way to get hurt
What did you learn?

So much for the dream
We had when we were young
To be some one

Angels running
Running for cover
While we wait for
Jesus to return
What did you learn?

So much for the dream
We had when we were young
To be some one

I know, I know, we're short on time
Just show, just show me someone who's satisfied

Remember the belief
We had when we were young?
The curse of the dream
We had when we were young

Blissful

And so did it come to pass that light forgot light
And drifted around the frontiers of sight
With a bemused look on its face as if to say
Why was I made this way if this contrasts some holy intention?

And why keep it just in range with promises to behave
Why not simply discard and erase and start again?
Confusion can be so much worse than pain
It's the cruelest of all divine inventions

So inevitably it set its own goals and it focused on those
It lined the roads with lights and wires and fireworks
And whatever it could to disguise the great problem
With hundreds of lesser ones

And then it whiled away its time out on the precipice of life
Like a dot looking only to its sides and filling up its life
With the fashions of the moment and this restlessness that no one
Could quite put their finger on

And in a dream
A prophet said to me
"Hell is revelation
Heaven is ignorance"

Monday, 3 May 2010

Memory Made

Memory made a superhero of you
How I long to erase that twisted memory of you

It's no comfort to hear it's in my head
No it's no comfort to hear it makes no sense

I take the blame like it's a great disaster
And I while away my tuneful ever after

It's no comfort to hear it's in my head
No it's no comfort to hear it makes no sense

Everything's changed, nothing has come to pass
I still remain right where you saw me last

I want to rescue you
I want to rescue you
I want to rescue you
I want to rescue you

How you have changed, drifted away from me
Still I remain lost in a memory

Tuesday, 12 January 2010

Planes

A stranger took my mind
Stitched wings onto its sides
I tore them on barbed wire
I had no interest in flight

Masters of disguise
Natural born liars
So sayeth the light

Planes fall out of the sky
And there's nothing I can do

Thursday, 7 January 2010

Hospital

Now we twist the knife
Claim another life
Now we cut the cord
Claim another reward

So tell me how are you?
Suggest how you'd subdue
The passionless bite of an organised killer

But you can't be blamed for the taste in your brain
This is how you're made, how you face each day
That's why we arm ourselves
That's why we arm ourselves

I tell you something terrible is coming
Innocence succumbing
To the wires twisted round its veins
One instant bullet bolt of lightning
One second redefining
All you thought you knew about pain
You will be dead before you even
Have a chance to scream and
Recognise a killer's face
And lay there bleeding from a shell
Ejected from your cell
And nevermore set foot in this place

But you can't be blamed for the taste in your brain
Welcome to my cave, this is how I face each day
That's why we arm ourselves
That's why we harm ourselves

That's why we arm ourselves
That's why we harm ourselves

Welcome to my cave
There is no escape
What madness awakes
Will crush your skull
And tear out your lungs