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Prometheus
03:57
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Made of stars
Dipped in crude oil
Left to dry in the sun
I don’t know what you are
Though I’m sure we’ve met
a miracle – ain’t you one?
Lonely madman on a rock
Speaking in tongues
Lonely madman runs amok
I believe he would rather be
Born deaf
Never exposed to burdensome prayers and cries,
Promised to the sky
One would choose to put the fire out
Once hearing it all
sear and die
Shed your tears, Prometheus,
On our barren lands
May all the earthly drown
Then he said:
I’m not the one to help you see things through
I am just as lost and shooting in the dark
I can’t see far away
I only wish to see you shine and dare
Lose the limb you hold so dear it smothers you
Again
Again, explode in fireworks and rain down
Soak into the ground then sprout up all the way to the realms of men
Or are we robots, heaven-sent?
trained to waste away and never let go
I never let go
Made of strife
Wrapped in tin foil
Hanged to roast on a wire
I don’t know what you are
But I’m fine with that – and all the rest
It appears maybe I’m the one
Born deaf
Spared from the constant craving to muffle out
Noises from the ground
I could never be your counterpart
For you’ve seen us all
Sink too low
Shed your tears, Prometheus,
On our ample lands
May all the earthly grow
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2. |
Dark & Golden-Eyed
04:00
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They claim to have no anchors
No strings attached to no men’s land
Forever stray
In canyon echoes
No footprints in the sand
So dark they are, and golden eyed at times
Watchwords running down their wires
And I know that you know
We are never gonna get home
‘Cause our home has dissolved
Without us
Onboard of all
The ships that set sail and sank
My kind would choose to stay
Fastened to the mast
Fastened steadfast
When ageless gales
Raved right there ten feet down the plank
And promised the same fate
With just a bit of wrench
Just a bit of flight
The quenchless need for concord
Fetched you with no aim to requite
I’d bury all
Scores and records
To have that hill to climb
So stroke my cheek and lure me to your snare
Maybe I’m enough threadbare
Pale enough to rise
Keep pace with days & hail the race
That gives me names I loathe and incarnate
Unfold my body; wrap the world
If this is what it takes then
Be it so
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3. |
Ivory
05:39
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My rescue mission failed
Never needed in the first place
Maybe some other time
I float
Balance is a second thought
Hidden till the very end
But then again
Grace
Stamped on a battered face
Once in a lifetime this
Doesn’t fail to make sense
Maybe some other time
Smile
This should be the remedy
or otherwise a safe resort
It’s in the mind
It’s in the mind
That’s what they kept saying but I never chose to listen
cause I thought this knowledge was ingrained
And there was nothing really to embrace
All is in the mind, is in the mind
I’m, inside out, a thing in itself and as a thing in itself
I never get to learn anything else
No not a chance
Pass through me
I’ll take no offense
I’ll just get to keep the best of you for myself
All in all, it’s in the mind
Nowhere else but in the mind
Never satellites have shone so bright
As in this pitch-black night
Stranded in a minefield, I’m alright
And I’ll stay here till the tide goes high
And no matter what time tells
To the dwellers of ivory towers
We’re those others
Who are hell
It was nice knowing you
It was nice solving you
It was nice inventing you
And it was nice leaving you behind / It was nice living as a dream in you
My rescue mission failed
But the greater the void
The more it can contain
So come what may
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4. |
Twelve Mirrors
03:52
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Every brick we’ve laid has led us to the top
Oh this last one will have one tumbling down
Wind howls in the halls
Was it me, I can’t recall
Tore down the blinds and let it storm
As you were sitting still and deaf
And the mirrors stripped you bare
I watch you watching yourself
On the other side
Can’t just stay like that
So beautifully lost and fumbling
Someone may someday provide you with a guide
I will be there
No more
On the other side
What is it you find
On the other side
Keep in mind
That what’s left is right
Every brick we’ve laid has led us to the top
On the top we'll find
Only room enough for one to face the world
From the top you’ll see
Every war we’ve fought was just us ranging in
On where it hurts most
And I know what it was like
Standing up there in the light
All alone and watching
Someone else falling down
Maybe we’re supposed to think
That that’s the natural way of things
But I don’t want you to
I can’t expect to justify
One damage with another one
An eye for an eye
That’s not the way to live it through
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5. |
Unexorcise
04:09
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In that dream there was a house
And I was haunting it
Loaded with unexorcized love
Both making us laugh
And making as all sad
What if I butchered time
And that old part of mine
Would you still want
My bloody hand
In your hair
My morning man?
I’ve shut up
But nevertheless this joke has gone way too far
If there’d ever been a fix for anyone
They’re hardly going to hand it out
Oh dear god
I could have been blessed
And be a blessing myself
Rid us of the state of anxious hovering
Over that line in the sand
That’s it for today
Don’t even begin to picture the monster you’ve made of yourself
In the eyes of everyone else
With its gorge and claws
And its indecision and lack of response for those it has pained
Wide awake
Half-conscious, half-clutched, half-ignite
Someday I’ll make it right
Just wait
All will fade
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