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)

The Lake

Drove out to the lake
Set my car alight
Burned it like a chain
Reduced it to a frame

If you look hard enough
There are always clues
And people determined
Hungry and bloodthirsty

You can weigh the body down
But the body will remain
Weighed double on your mind
At the bottom of the lake

Hide

This is a nightmare
What can I do?

Craving the pain
It's all I deserve
The physical pain
It's all I am worth

All you want
When you can't hide
All you want
Is to say goodbye

All you want

When you can't hide

All you want

Is to say goodbye

Ghosting

In this hidden cave a man is sheltering from the flood
Pressed against his magic box of lights and lights and lights and dripping blood
His eyes have long been bleeding from the brightness of the rays
It burns his skin and hurts him as he tries and tries and tries to look away

Living in fear
Living in fear

In the back of every taxi
In every cash-point queue
Round the bricks of every corner
The real thing could pounce on you
In the arms of every stranger
In the distance of each view
On the slabs of every pavement
The real thing could pounce on you

Salt-Like-Space

Out, on the edge
On the sawtooth of the machine
Plastic in the river
Where lifeless bodies dream
In a chambre of concrete
Lights dart across the wall
Salt like space
Makes corpses of us all
Dead from the day
Of fulfilling the conditions
And terms of a contract
Come drown your inhibitions
In the sea, go blank
And collapse into free flight
Now you don't feel a thing
You can be something else tonight

Cave Music

Under the mountains
If there is a cave
That is where
I want to be

Because no one could dig
A deep enough grave
To bury
My fear

Cortisol

You feel the ladders hit the walls
The people rushing to the gate
A full invasion force
I hope you're feeling quick today

The flickering embers of a sleeping fire
The shivers descending down a grid of wires
The master pretending like he has not heard
The tectonic bending of his island world

Power to agititate the tide
You are punching at the waves
The waves of meteoric size
Here comes the rage

The flickering embers of a sleeping fire

The shivers descending down a grid of wires

The master pretending like he has not heard

The tectonic bending of his island world

The flickering static of an old TV

The merciless tactics of the stones and trees

The deafening racket of a storm at sea

The naturally tragic grip on sanity

Fluctuations, fluctuations 

All crew to their battle stations

No respite from desperate fighting

Light from darkest saturation

Must have patience, must have patience

Trust despite the situations

Just to spite the cortisol

Hormones burning up the soul

Keep calm, carry on, nothing's going on

Stop and starting, broken hearted

Blanking out those loves departed

Sanctuary from the dark

Without a light it's impossible to find

And a broken mind just breaks up further

With no one to turn to, only matter of time

Before it turns to cold-blooded murder

Stumbling around a cave and flirting with a quiet grave

Fumbling for words to say, for ways of phrasing hopeless days

In the cave rely on touch, can't feel a lot but I'll say this much

It's fucking freezing so show me a reason

Show me a reason to put up with the teasing

To get up in the morning, to stay up 'til the evening

Nothing comes easy but it shouldn't keep bleeding

Editorial

I've got a voice
I know which way gravity points
I see faults
This is how humanity disappoints

Don't come plugging your poison to me

Aggressive little bastard
With misinformed opinions
You don't know the difference
Between illness and its symptoms

Don't come plugging your poison to me

Squelettes

A round of laughter
Comes from the cupboard
The door's wide open

Welcome to my bedroom
Des squelletes hang from their necks

I snapped them and stuffed them into the cupboard
Cuz I was sick of their endless laughter
Now I'm so tired I don't even bother
To lock the door or even to shut it
Now all I hear is laughter and chatter
So I break their necks and spit in their eyeholes
Smash in their teeth so now who is smiling
But it's too late, what's done is done and can't be changed
I...

The sound of fingernails on a wooden floor
Scraping at my temples

Fault

It's a funny thing to distrust the dawn
It's a strange way to live your life
When all light is breakable
And faith viewed through such bruised eyes

I think I can breathe again

Turning points are of such substance
As mythical creatures from stories
Jumping's not the same as flying
Birds have no concept of falling

I think I can breathe again

Tunnelling Of Years

I've been watching
Pieces fall from
A broken wall

Stone cracks
In timelapse
Coming down it's
Rubble now

In time you'll learn to fear
The tunnelling of years
Have gone by
Too tired now to run
And deadened down succumb
To dull life

No such thing as
Solid ground
Time can wear it out
No such thing as
Endless love
Time can rip it up

In time you'll learn to fear

The tunnelling of years

Have gone by

Too tired now to run

And deadened down succumb

To dull life

The days they just devour
No mercy in the hours
Have gone by
Whichever way life steers
The tunnelling of years
Is your guide

The Lightning Fork

The buildings never change

The faces never stay

The sun will always be

But weather's mystery

It frightens me

Off goes my imagination

Behind my blank eyes

No mortal shock compares

With dreams of this size

They're firing like an advert

And fuelled by escape

Sometimes I step too far through

Cathy's picture frame

We're silt in a river that never dries

They're trying to lure me down

A path from the origin of a lightning fork

Why would I choose?

And why aren't I blinded by it?

Why would I choose?

And why aren't I blinded by it?

The buildings never change

The faces never stay

The sun will always be

But weather's mystery

It frightens me

We're silt in a river that never dries

They're trying to lure me down

A path from the origin of a lightning fork

Why would I choose?

And why aren't I blinded by it?

Why should I choose?

And why aren't I blinded by it?

Why would I choose?

And why aren't I blinded by it?

They're trying to lure me down

They're trying to lure me down

They're trying to lure me

Perspex

Welcome back to the world

It feels like plastic

Like a virtual design

Or a bubble in space-time

It doesn't feel real

Of course Helen carried on

While I was in my coma

She's got a different job

And her life has moved along

It doesn't feel real

Something's numbed the cortex

It doesn't know it's awake

It thinks this is a dream

On a cloudy TV screen

It doesn't feel real

The moment that he leaves

She forgets him instantly

And she curls up back inside

Her sad screensaver mind

It doesn't feel real

It's like he never went away

But how much has survived

He's waiting for the moment

When he wakes up from his coma

It doesn't feel real

Wars, games, pain, love

I am asleep

Hope, family, romance, targets

I am asleep