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1. A Grand Scene For A Color Film
Return to sender, I’ve fallen off the hint of suggestion
Unlearning the strange devices of the world
Is this the end of the earth. Or something like it
The great, the great universal coma has arrived
Return to sender, Carried straight from the womb to the grave
Your eyes have been paled to emptiness
All things have been carved out by the unceasing haunts of this
The Great Manipulator
The holding of our hands upwards and around the eclipsing sun
Has become empty and automatic
Sit down, Sit down, Come on sit down
Let’s break out the shotguns, we’re going to town
Let’s break out the shotguns, we’re going to town
You’ve given us user friendly grenades
Just what are you trying to say?
Just what are you trying to say?
The holding of our hands upwards and around the eclipsing sun
Has become empty and automatic
Sit down, Sit down, Come on sit down
Let’s break out the shotguns, we’re going to town
Unlearning the strange devices of the world
Is this the end of the earth. Or something like it
The great, the great universal coma has arrived
Return to sender, Carried straight from the womb to the grave
Your eyes have been paled to emptiness
All things have been carved out by the unceasing haunts of this
The Great Manipulator
The holding of our hands upwards and around the eclipsing sun
Has become empty and automatic
Sit down, Sit down, Come on sit down
Let’s break out the shotguns, we’re going to town
Let’s break out the shotguns, we’re going to town
You’ve given us user friendly grenades
Just what are you trying to say?
Just what are you trying to say?
The holding of our hands upwards and around the eclipsing sun
Has become empty and automatic
Sit down, Sit down, Come on sit down
Let’s break out the shotguns, we’re going to town
2. Blueprints For Future Homes
Like miracles like
Clockwork and like miracles
You witnessed halos
But you failed to see its horns
The illusion of intelligence, a continuous sounding bell
And can you feel the interruption in the air? Can you feel the static?
I’ve never seen you like this
Yeah, well that’s what I said. Drive drive the vultures home
You’re killing me. Just bury me
Yeah, well that’s what I said. And I said exactly what I meant
You’re killing me. Just bury me
Holy Ghosts and talk show hosts
How I panic as you fail
Your conscience is a wolf
Walls are being built, deception wears its veil
And her charm is fleeting, her love just will not last
Far from men you hang and sway with no defender
Pushed around by the noise of this carefree crowd
Charm is fleeting, love just will not last
Like miracles like
Clockwork and like miracles
You witnessed halos
But you failed to see its horns
The illusion of intelligence, a continuous sounding bell
And can you feel the interruption in the air? Can you feel the static?
I’ve never seen you like this
Yeah, well that’s what I said. Drive drive the vultures home
You’re killing me. Just bury me
Yeah, well that’s what I said. And I said exactly what I meant
You’re killing me. Just bury me
Holy Ghosts and talk show hosts
How I panic as you fail
Your conscience is a wolf
Walls are being built, deception wears its veil
And her charm is fleeting, her love just will not last
Far from men you hang and sway with no defender
Pushed around by the noise of this carefree crowd
Charm is fleeting, love just will not last
I will not sleep while you´re throwing
Anchors to a drowning generation
Anchors to a drowning generation
Yeah, well that’s what I said. Drive drive the vultures home
You’re killing me. Just bury me
Yeah, well that’s what I said. And I said exactly what I meant
You’re killing me. Just bury me
Yeah, well that’s what I said
You’re killing me. Just bury me
Yeah, well that’s what I said. And I said exactly what I meant
You’re killing me. Just bury me
Yeah, well that’s what I said
Hell is empty, the devils are here
I will never sleep
I will never sleep
3. A Small Spark VS. A Great Forest
What did you say? Don’t speak
You nailed down all your words on me
It felt like a blind guide
Leading me into quicksand
Fight fair, fight fair
But all you hear is noise
Fight fair. Fight fair!
I’ve earthed this seed so many times
Deeply held in this skin of bark
Branches made of ash and
Forests born aflame
Restless and full of poison
Shattered by a sea of dialogue
Rabid speech, like dogs with teeth
With words like a beggar, that don’t speak, that don´t speak
Crouched and bent out of shape
Rip this tongue out by the root
And shake, shake these walls of this pale grave
A blaze a blaze
Is set upon the hills
A blaze a blaze
Is set upon the hills
Open grave from which a great
Forest will rise
The fire collapses
The corpses I’ve made
This should not be
O how we curse
The tongue is a flame
Let there be Grace
You nailed down all your words on me
It felt like a blind guide
Leading me into quicksand
Fight fair, fight fair
But all you hear is noise
Fight fair. Fight fair!
I’ve earthed this seed so many times
Deeply held in this skin of bark
Branches made of ash and
Forests born aflame
Restless and full of poison
Shattered by a sea of dialogue
Rabid speech, like dogs with teeth
With words like a beggar, that don’t speak, that don´t speak
Crouched and bent out of shape
Rip this tongue out by the root
And shake, shake these walls of this pale grave
A blaze a blaze
Is set upon the hills
A blaze a blaze
Is set upon the hills
Open grave from which a great
Forest will rise
The fire collapses
The corpses I’ve made
This should not be
O how we curse
The tongue is a flame
Let there be Grace
With words like a beggar, with words like a beggar
That don’t speak, that don´t speak
That don’t speak, that don´t speak
Don’t speak
Rip this tongue out by the root
And shake these walls
Shake these walls of this pale grave
A blaze a blaze
Is set upon the hills
Fight fair!
That don’t speak, that don´t speak
That don’t speak, that don´t speak
Don’t speak
Rip this tongue out by the root
And shake these walls
Shake these walls of this pale grave
A blaze a blaze
Is set upon the hills
Fight fair!
4. A Temperamental Widower
We’re not going backwards
We’re not going backwards
We’re just killing onward, today
We’re not going backwards
We’re not going backwards
We’re just killing onward, today
And put that knife away!
My first thought, a dragon
My first thought, a dragon
Two contending marches
And put that knife away!
She’ll sting you to death
Like a swarm of hornets
From the hive
Endlessly I drift
Into this distraction
Sign my name to shame
Press hard, there are three copies
You’ll put me in the grave
You’ll put me in the grave
We’re not going backwards
We’re not going backwards
We’re just killing onward, today
My first thought, a dragon
My first thought, a dragon
Two contending marches
And put that knife away!
She’ll sting you to death
Like a swarm of hornets
From the hive
Endlessly I drift
Into this distraction
Sign my name to shame
Press hard, there are three copies
You’ll put me in the grave
You’ll put me in the grave
We’re not going backwards
We’re not going backwards
We’re just killing onward, today
Put that knife away!
And put that knife away!
Making progress like that of a dead man
Constant last words…the last word.
The last words.
And put that knife away!
Making progress like that of a dead man
Constant last words…the last word.
The last words.
5. The End Of All Things Will Be Televised
All we know will be folded. A day of clouds.
Creation waits…
Get away blue collar instrument
Get away politicians and priests
Refined to consume
It will be laid down
On the necks of the pure
The proud and the damned
Your day will come
Turn the page, embrace your
Comforting company
The sun beats down on your
Comforting company
Everything is burning because
Tonight the south is on fire!
The south is on fire.
Creation waits in eager expectation.
Get away blue collar instrument
Get away politicians and priests
Refined to consume
It will be laid down
On the necks of the pure
The proud and the damned
Your day will come
Turn the page, embrace your
Comforting company
The sun beats down on your
Comforting company
Everything is burning because
Tonight the south is on fire!
The south is on fire.
Creation waits in eager expectation.
Anxious. Patient. Heaven will pause.
Get away blue collar instrument
Get away politicians and priests
Refined to consume
It will be laid down
On the necks of the pure
The proud and the…
Comforting company
The sun beats down on your
Comforting company
Everything is burning from your
Comforting company
The sun beats down on your
Comforting company
The seas are boiling
Out comes the light
Awake and rehearse
Out comes the demons
I never saw you
Out comes the mercy
Shutting down hell
Bite down until it bleeds
Out comes the exit
All things complete
O infamous city, full of turmoil, I’m terrified at your collapse
The kings, they shudder with horror, their faces distorted with fear
Endless empires gently brushed away in the blink of an eye
All Creation, wilted.
Captain, the ship is sinking. Have mercy.
Get away blue collar instrument
Get away politicians and priests
Refined to consume
It will be laid down
On the necks of the pure
The proud and the…
Comforting company
The sun beats down on your
Comforting company
Everything is burning from your
Comforting company
The sun beats down on your
Comforting company
The seas are boiling
Out comes the light
Awake and rehearse
Out comes the demons
I never saw you
Out comes the mercy
Shutting down hell
Bite down until it bleeds
Out comes the exit
All things complete
O infamous city, full of turmoil, I’m terrified at your collapse
The kings, they shudder with horror, their faces distorted with fear
Endless empires gently brushed away in the blink of an eye
All Creation, wilted.
Captain, the ship is sinking. Have mercy.
6. Songs Sound Much Sadder
We´ll be legends
We are smashed men, still moving
We’ve tried everything in the book
No stranger to failure, death with a steady heartbeat
Scratching into any surface it wants
Joy and beauty rejected so many times
A world of hurt, a heart of false hope
And while we thought that we were learning how to live
We have been learning how to die
I should have known, we will be legends
Our hopes and dreams, our worst nightmares
Our worst nightmares have now come true
Tonight when this deep sleep falls on men
Driven by an instinct more powerful than life itself
From horror to hope, from hope and devastation
And while we thought that we were learning how to live
We have been learning how to die
I should have known, we will be legends
Overfed and unconcerned
It came with teeth and claw
Oh, hated form of emotion
You have become so obvious
My friend, the fatal habit of being myself
Ok there’s hope step down with all your friends
We are smashed men, still moving
We’ve tried everything in the book
No stranger to failure, death with a steady heartbeat
Scratching into any surface it wants
Joy and beauty rejected so many times
A world of hurt, a heart of false hope
And while we thought that we were learning how to live
We have been learning how to die
I should have known, we will be legends
Our hopes and dreams, our worst nightmares
Our worst nightmares have now come true
Tonight when this deep sleep falls on men
Driven by an instinct more powerful than life itself
From horror to hope, from hope and devastation
And while we thought that we were learning how to live
We have been learning how to die
I should have known, we will be legends
Overfed and unconcerned
It came with teeth and claw
Oh, hated form of emotion
You have become so obvious
My friend, the fatal habit of being myself
Ok there’s hope step down with all your friends
7. The Longest Lasting Statement
Will the body be abandoned? Will it?
Improvement is no redemption, unbelief is no diversion
Drenched in Blood, soaked in Grace
Take this body
Improvement is no redemption, unbelief is no diversion
Drenched in Blood, soaked in Grace
Take this body
A sound that is lasting (for) 2,000 years
The deafening crash of unbroken surrender
Are we safe from the wreck?
Who will take this body?
Who will take this fear?
There is now no separation
Who will take this body?
Who will take this fear?
We’ll run straight to the murder
The deafening crash of unbroken surrender
Are we safe from the wreck?
Who will take this body?
Who will take this fear?
There is now no separation
Who will take this body?
Who will take this fear?
We’ll run straight to the murder
8. Amnesty Please
Astounding! Let us consider our current state
A string of events and I tied the first knot
You´re an anchor and I won’t be drug down
Because no matter what
Burn this to ashes
Ashes and framework
A dying man needs to die, as a tired man needs to sleep
And there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist
Burn this to ashes
Ashes and framework
You are forgiven
But this just does not mean that what was done is okay
Trust is destroyed for you and me
What’s done is done and this will never be right
The sun has gone dry
So we can sleep forever
A string of events and I tied the first knot
You´re an anchor and I won’t be drug down
Because no matter what
Burn this to ashes
Ashes and framework
A dying man needs to die, as a tired man needs to sleep
And there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist
Burn this to ashes
Ashes and framework
You are forgiven
But this just does not mean that what was done is okay
Trust is destroyed for you and me
What’s done is done and this will never be right
The sun has gone dry
So we can sleep forever
You can be free to turn your back
I’m not holding a gun
I’m not holding a gun
Burn this to ashes
Ashes and framework
Ashes and framework
Trust has been destroyed for you and me
What’s done is done and this will never be right
The sun has gone dry
So we can sleep forever
What’s done is done and this will never be right
The sun has gone dry
So we can sleep forever
And I’ve been so bitter towards you
And I’ve been so bitter
And I’ve been so bitter
I’ve been so bitter towards you
9. Like Swimming Circles
I don’t care what you said
I won’t sink in the flood
But I listen to every noise
That you make and make sense of what you say
And I take note to every sound
We’re not the same again
Don’t you dare insinuate me
You don’t care what you create
You can’t swim in this flood
And you’ll swallow with every wave
That comes by and take take what you need
You’ll still swallow with every tide
We’re not the same again
Don’t you dare insinuate me
To hell with that!
I won’t sink in the flood
But I listen to every noise
That you make and make sense of what you say
And I take note to every sound
We’re not the same again
Don’t you dare insinuate me
You don’t care what you create
You can’t swim in this flood
And you’ll swallow with every wave
That comes by and take take what you need
You’ll still swallow with every tide
We’re not the same again
Don’t you dare insinuate me
To hell with that!
10. Cemetary Like A Stage
There will be no more color
Broken I stand here
A new creation
On the stage of history
Where map and compass
Mean nothing at all
The arrows are in me
My spirit drinks poison
I joined the avalanche
Just to feel alive
I remember sitting in
My mothers room
And I watched them cry
We’re not supposed to be here
Tonight I will sleep on the floor
Oh, such weight
All colors rushing back
Restoring frail life
We’re broken here
We’re ruined here
There are strangers
In my house
Tripping over
Themselves to
White wash this
Disaster
I am young but
I’m not blind
All colors rushing back
Restoring frail life
We’re broken here
We’re ruined here
The Voice of Heaven
Speaks with time
A new understanding
Dedication
This will never fade
I guess the body
Means nothing at all
Broken and unbroken
All colors rushing back
Restoring frail life
We’re broken here
We’re ruined here
Broken I stand here
A new creation
On the stage of history
Where map and compass
Mean nothing at all
The arrows are in me
My spirit drinks poison
I joined the avalanche
Just to feel alive
I remember sitting in
My mothers room
And I watched them cry
We’re not supposed to be here
Tonight I will sleep on the floor
Oh, such weight
All colors rushing back
Restoring frail life
We’re broken here
We’re ruined here
There are strangers
In my house
Tripping over
Themselves to
White wash this
Disaster
I am young but
I’m not blind
All colors rushing back
Restoring frail life
We’re broken here
We’re ruined here
The Voice of Heaven
Speaks with time
A new understanding
Dedication
This will never fade
I guess the body
Means nothing at all
Broken and unbroken
All colors rushing back
Restoring frail life
We’re broken here
We’re ruined here
11. No passenger, No parasite
Wake up. No passenger, No parasite.
Wake up. No passenger, No parasite.
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