There's a part of you that's still holding on To all of the things you're afraid may be gone Struck dumb and paralyzed and shakin' with fright Afraid to recognize that you might be right Like a bird with a branch thrust through it's lung You can't let go of what you can't become Life burns to ash on the tip of your tongue Because you have forgotten from where you come I was pinned under a pillar of falsified stone Demons of my psyche rendin' flesh from bone Harsh designs on my muscles my spirit is meat Praying for a deity take me off my feet As the jaws of death clamp down on my waiting skin Closing in on my life, notifying next of kin The Earth is my mother but the sky is her origin Original lineage summon power within CHORUS: I saw the moon it was like it was calling my name Bid me to come like a moth dancin' around a flame I was so afraid I would one day have to come down Do anything just to keep my feet off the ground The mindborn shackles that bind earth-bound wings Keep your mouth muzzled though your heart sings Sweet thoughs of the air your terror denies Though you walk the streets your eyes watch the skies Like a fish with silt clogging its gills You're holding onto wishes that you won't fulfill Dodging your dreams with gusto and skill You deny your desires cause you know that life kills You won't take the plunge but you still hold your breath Possibilities taunt you with your distress Not afraid of monsters or dragons or death But that you'll try and fail and have nothing left CHORUS There's a part of you that's afraid to let go Of the awareness that you have no control Submit and let the current pull you along Learn to accept that you might be wrong Like a dead soul afraid to go into the light You resist the potential with all of your might Find the strength to dare the will to release Take your leap of faith down through the trees Limbs growing tendrils feathers forming from hair Gravity is a lover not a burden to bear The world unveling its petals to a mind unaware The first archaeopterix born into the air The line that divides the earth from the sky Is only illusory, a trick of the eye You can orientate in the heights and the depths When we meet again you will owe me a debt CHORUS So when you sink into the depths of despair For you're looking for heaven and you find it's not there But the path of your eye has travelled too far The Earth itself is flying amidst the stars

Around the universe the blood wheel turns Inside the heart godhead fires burn Divine heat carbon is given birth A hard rain of ash cascades down to earth Whispers of the past coat wishing land Child of volcanos mixed into the sand Fertilizing blooms that thirst for power Till the lava flows overcome the flowers Newborn skies cry salty tears Sirens singing hymns of a million years Their tired voices lost in the fountain Like a clot of dirt cast into a mountain If in the end there's a mind to feel It will be debating if what it sees is real But none of this is known to the veil of skin Universe erupts flowers bloom again CHORUS: Perhaps I am lost in a world of confusion Perhaps I am a slave to a master of illusion But I believe we're in Nirvana And it moves through the wheel of Samsara Around the sun worlds spiral through time Up the endless steps our spirits climb Then upon the summit we sink to the floor Revel in the bliss and then rise once more Universe dissolves in a cloud of ants Mandibles clicking in a timeless dance Out through the in and in through the out Join again into the void without one doubt That the veil of darkness abyss and death Is the starry womb that bequeaths our breath I've felt the black hands stroking my heart Take a tender knife and cut me apart Disembowel my soul so that life can feed Spread across the world plant me like a seed Eons dividing the earth from the sun Sun extending hands join again as one

There's a sick, sick place inside our souls It screams in pain at a world it can't control A terrible monster that haunts the skin The desperate child that's locked within So angry, angry, with the wide earth The helplessness that we learned at birth It lashes out in vain to keep the world at bay Flappin it's gums it's got nothing to say Sick and tired ashamed and bored The ongoing torment of being ignored Humility is such a bitter pill And sucking it down can make the ego ill Retrain your urges submit your toys Resist temptation to fill the world with noise Giving in to the tongue can make the heart weak When you got something to say you'll be able to speak CHORUS: The way of me is the only way to be Shun the unbelievers, push them into the sea The way of me is the only way to peace If you're not with us you're with the enemy Fighting battles you've no power to win Abstract vendettas against imaginary sins A vicious cycle of arrogance and anger Leads to crusades waged against strangers Layer after layer of paranoid guilt Pushes you to the point where you're ready to kill Actions are driven by emotional reactions The suffering of others gives you satisfaction You dream up fresh threats to social mores Politics giving birth to a holy war Neighbours are converted into enemies When you believe the ends justify the means Ideology is the great slayer of men Right is defined by whoever wins We divide the world into us and them Cause we are afraid to fight the enemy within Chorus Lights Cameras Action, it's time to go live, Another hour of distraction to excite the hive, Here's why to lock your door, here's why your country's poor, Here's why not to trust the different looking fellow next door, Cause he's got plans you can see it in his smile, It's clear by the way he carries bags he's hostile, A guy with the same last name did this, How will you feel when you find out he does the same shit? We're the citizens, they're from someplace strange, You can tell by their smell, their skin tone, and names, And our god bless country don't have room for them, And on behalf of white people, we must condemn, Anyone who doesn't drink Jamba Juice, or eat beef, Or have a name like Betty, Jenny, Kenny, or Keith, So if this doesn't make you want to defend our glory, Check back at eleven for the rest of the story... Chorus

Hands clasped together to weather the snow Heart pounds each aching measure to not go it alone Hoods drawn and tethered to better face the cold And frighten off the devils of an unrelenting world In the spring on my life it seemed everything was fine In pleasure's presence we dined and love flowed like wine You and he together to treasure the sweet binds Of friends and lovers no other was ever left behind The streets were our comforts boulevards were a plaything Tapestries of sewer covers hula-hoop with a bee-sting In bliss we are smothered stay true to you feelings As spring turns into summer humid hues of the clouds sing Junebugs in gestation incubating a fresh youth That knows more of confidence than it cares of truth A mighty tree won't grow without layin' down its roots Beckon me to come and taste forbidden fruit CHORUS: Running through the forest with wolves on our tracks If I slipped and fell behind would you stop and look back Through the shifting of the seasons it all seems so strange You tell me that you love me I tell you things change Racing towards the solstice kindred souls brace for impact A prayer inside your heart that you star will stay intact Trepidation you're debating the price patience exacts Afraid that a broken heart will always show its cracks Summon strength to struggle for the love that you need Soul infliction you must muzzle the convictions you bleed When she laughs your fear retracts goddamn now you see In hidden colours names carved into trees Love and laughter that you're after meets you down by the fire To be together's all that matters with a dash of desire Serenity and comfort that sweet July acquired Tore Lucifer asunder Seraphs forming a choir In the heat of summer ice could not reach my heart Others may grow old and die but we would not be apart A path to paradise our quest seemed only at its start September's drawing flies provides a canvass for black art CHORUS Autumn weaves a wreath of worry upon a furrowed brow For sheathes of wheat will surely be tread before the plow The depths of desperation that every heart endows Will not wait until tomorrow for all we have is now Months filled with laughter until silence they stray Blue skies of youth soon fade to mute grey Kisses burn to cinders as bitter years old sway Temples of resentment built from things you won't say A box of unsent sentiments and tender rhymes Yellowing reminders fill out the tear stained lines To think that you've held on for all this time But you should have told her while she was alive

They dance their tortured rhythm on the threshold of starvation Masturbation of a psyche that has twice denied salvation Consternation of unholy gateways withering frustration Incubation of a fever that awaits probate in desolation Life's a sacred whore who denies you that which you do not deserve Confer with aching muscles tussle with a pound of verve Exert the force to stir your ego you've not the will to swerve Diverge from your desires fires burn you down to the nerve Your sysiphean desire to acquire yourself a lover Who manifests your requests and attests to no other The behest of your flesh skins you down to the knuckle For the lips they may tempt but provide you no suckle CHORUS: Everyday and every night We make our way up toward the light Tempting beauty greets our eyes Flaming hearts our wings ignite Cause I'm ugly, ugly, ugly But if I can stand in your shine I'll suck up some of that lovely Maybe then I can make you mine They glance sidewinder enshrined in their lush vocabulary A reliquary of tainted thoughts betroth their poisoned sanctuary Levity of their psuedo-smiles belies their deadly gravity Integrity of functions succumbs to the compunction to depravity Invert that which you cherished to obtain something worse Furtive chances perish when your confidence becomes a curse Revert back to idle claimes that you had made it first Convert to the same old same as your hopes disperse Contemplate the sweet escape that you cannot manage Despite the respite that your failure has now granted Reaping the fruits of the seeds of jealousy you've planted You made your move so now you will take the damage Chorus Hello my friend, How have you been? Me I'm back to scratchin' my face and leaving scars again, I can't conform to the norm, even if I tried, Sayin' I don't wanna be like others, would be a lie, I'm not outta my mind, I'm doin' just fine, But sometimes I feel the need to pluck out my eyes, Although I don't, betcha think I'm a joke, Approach, can provoke, guaranteed a sore throat, I'll facefuck your ambitions with a gentle stroke, Rape your fuckin' fear, bitch say I won't, I'm not a part of anything, no affiliation, Never had a nickname, no abbreviations, I still wanna be cool, make all the honeys drool, Hang out at the pool, with my friends from school, My apologies the Smoke And Mirrors left me cloudy, My mother lied, there's really nothing special 'bout me, Chorus

You wake up in the morning and feel the change Optimism unbound it's a brand new day The derelicted past just seems so strange Peace walks within you, serenity regained You open up your diary and turn the page Edit out contempt and pain and rage The meek and talented take center stage Prisoners are released to earn an honest wage Tidal waves spare castles in the sand The left and the right wing are holding hands Emperors let go of their conquered lands Masters teach Zen to adrenaline glands Parents and priests don't seek to chasten All the children's seat-belts are fastened Our fears never interfere with passions You wonder if yesterday really happened CHORUS: Somewhere in the corner of our mind Lies the sanctity we live to find Around that ray of light our spirits swirl That our lives are just the nightmare of a perfect world The bum on the street's askin' for flowers Princes and kings relinquish their powers The only congress is flocking birds One whole world not split into thirds Conflicts are over before you know it Cops and generals get jobs as poets The whole world knows of no disease If it did healthcare would come for free All there is is peace we close the courts We don't need gasoline we can teleport Fertile earth beneath and blue skies above No desire for divorce cause we're all in love Everyone takes inches and gives a mile Cows give their flesh with a blissful smile No one is forsaken all have their place Watched over by machines of loving grace CHORUS It's the best damn feeling you could ever feel Then it's 7am and you wake up for real Leave a house you don't own for a job you hate Surrender your life put food on your plate Mass murder on demand on CNN North Korea has the bomb we're at war again Look out your apartment to a world so bleak If life is so vicious why not stay asleep Every living thing is born to sacrifice Our savage world won't become a paradise As hard as you may pray you cannot rearrange You've got to face there's things you can't change But no matter how wicked to world may seem There's always a place reserved for your dreams In the darkest night we find a way through As long as you're alive paradise lives in you

CHORUS: Sometimes I climb up that loving mound And I ain't never coming down Fill myself with that blissfull sound Hi-hats raining to the ground Feel that sense of sweet release Of my spirit coming free When I try to force it runs away This thing I cannot replicate I have this little drum I use it as a second tongue It converts my fear of failure into the freedom to run It calls my soul to action it's a message I must heed It provides me with salvation in my dark moment of need I feel it coursing through my veins I feel it pounding in my head And without its exaltation I would long ago be dead Its very name is movement and goddamn if I ain't moved Will you stagnate in silence or revel in that primal groove CHORUS For the time has come your mind is stroked excitement builds your life is stoked Your neurons sing like they're fired by coke a blowjob for your frontal lobes Whiffs of ozone puffs of smoke you're drawn into those dancing strobes Your chakras spin your karma glows the ecstacy within you grows So crack the cannula let's start the drip-fed psalms of bliss and art Like Moses sonic seas will part pump that rhythm into your heart Feel your traumas vaporized by songs that crack the liquid skies Feel the dance within you rise just like freebasin' Jesus Christ CHORUS I have this melody I hum it blows my pain to kingdom come It pulls the word out of my brain and pushes them out through my lungs Quench my thirst with acid rain and this saw wave sturm and drung Build soft temples of hard base from all the sacred songs you've sung For the rhythm has been my guide when the world's forsaken me and mine It converts static into salvation and stagnant water into wine It can sketch the troubles of my mind onto a page of crooked lines And the bullgod has your head now baby but that's just fine