everwhere you looked there was confusion, violence, drama and drugs so many righteous revolutionaries spouting utopian love everyone shrouded in purple haze then one day they woke up from their dream state they found themselves no more at peace than before older, meek, and conformed empty causes a bluster for the soul, a fix for […]
there’s a boy in crimson rags with a grimace and a spoon, and a little sullen girl face-up staring at the moon and there’s no one around to hear their lonesome cries then they pass away alone into the night why do we pity the dead? are you churned by emotion from voices in your […]
have you been to the desert? have you walked with the dead? there’s a hundred thousand children being killed for their bread and the figures don’t lie they speak of human disease but we do what we want and we think what we please have you lived the experience? have you witnessed the plague? people […]
sleeping on a time bomb, staring into space there’s an ocean of unpleasantries we are not prepared to face sitting on the fence post to watch the storm roll in and terrified of the damage it will bring when it begins it will begin splintered dreams of unity (our lives are parallel) so far from […]
so you say you gotta know why the world goes ’round and you can’t find the truth in the things you’ve found and you’re scared shitless ‘cuz evil abounds come and join us well I heard you were looking for a place to fit in full of adherent people with the same objective a family […]
The road is narrow, the horizon wide And to say what’s waiting on the other side Is so rewarding and the ultimate prize But what good is something if you can’t have it until you die? Desperate, tenacious, clinging like a grain of sand Watching its foundation wash away (wash away) Drunk with the assertions […]
“Drop dead, it doesn’t matter,” she said “It only hurts when I laugh,” she said “Sometimes it’s never a crime “To spend the day in bed” She made certain that the curtains were red To dream better by the light they would shed She leaned back, tilted her head And this is what she said… […]
No one here can show you where it is but I can point to a sign On the roof of the world without apparent design The frozen definition of a lunatic ambition to rise The air is thin, the future dim, dimension hard to find Up on a mountain encased in solar rays Beyond electric […]
We strike first and we’re unrehearsed here we go again to stage the greatest show on heaven and earth come on, get your money’s worth don’t wanna live (can’t live) don’t wanna give (can’t give) don’t wanna be (won’t be) E-M-P-I-R-E don’t wanna live don’t wanna be E-M-P-I-R-E We’re comin on fast and we’re built […]
The quickening is an ephemeral thing That only happens in the dark Like catching lightning in a jar And the pain that it brings Is just the promise of spring It’s madness on the way Oh, what does it mean… To come alive To come alive To come alive (To come alive) To come alive […]
