The Politician
This is for the children
And fairytales they've read
This is for the children
We're chopping off their heads
This is for the children
Rake them up like leaves
Make them joust the reaper
See if they succeed
Pandora's box is open
Land dries and fevers sweat
Gasping for the rain showers
Confetti came instead
Playing in the sunshine
At the shadow's edge
Manipulation engine
It wears a humans face
Deception with a smile
The politicians wave
They're coming for our children
The danger lies within
The safety of our children
The radicals can't win
Pandora's box is open
But we still eat off gold
Our doctors and our lawyers
Will make sure we grow old
This is for our children
This is for our children
A Cruel Resolve
Absolving criminals
Lay waste and stand in pride
Misguided sympathies
Slip in and out
A doorless hall
Our fates will pay for what you do
As I fall short, weakened
A cruel resolve deepens
Hope may have lost meaning
But I can't stop seeking you
Nail down the wooden roof
Buried itself inside
It died, I saw the truth
A parasite controlling minds
What's left to prove
I'm yours to lose
As I fall short, weakened
A cruel resolve deepens
As I emerge, creeping
A crude resolve deepens
New eyes bring new meaning
And I won't stop seeking you (Seeking you)
No, I won't stop seeking you (Seeking you)
You, you
You, you, you (Seeking You)
You, you
You, you, you
Is Love
I have the loom to prick her
The magic's when I kiss her
Revealing every current
Dispatching every agent
Ink alive in water
Moving to the center
The echo of your chamber (Chamber, chamber, chamber)
This is off the record
I will be your trigger
Luck is probability
Luck is in my wheelhouse
The passing tone of car lights
The passing tone of midnights
I can feel you reaching
Revealing every weakness
Statistics match the story
The early days of flying
Take credit for the mistake
Forecasting 20 earthquakes
Babies on the network
Mama's got it easy
What happens in the ribcage
Stays inside the ribcage
What is this?
This is
Is this?
What is this?
This is
Is this?
What is this?
This is
Is this?
Combined with the video
The data will compel you
Got you shaking in your dark boots
This is just the prelude
Forever in my archive
Are you the honey in my beehive?
Or just an error in the baseline
What is this?
Is this?
What is this?
This is (This is love)
Is this?
What is this?
This is
Is this?
What is this?
This is (This is love)
Is this?
What is this?
This is
Is this?
What is this?
Earthrise
Bright sky of wonder
Paints my eyes with color
There's a window in the clouds
The Moon pulls me up from above
Earthrise on Luna
An empty sky of what could've
But gravity with you I'd do
I'd only go to space if you went too
Sunrise on Gaia
Content to admire
Luna waits up above
But right here is just enough
I'd only go to space with you, my love
Nervous System
Scratch and claw to reach the top
Hands and knees crawl out
At every turn there's doubt
Handcuffed to the voice in my mind
Yearn to hear the light
No such thing as sight
My rushing heart comes to a stop
Stuck with frozen lungs
But my mind still runs
The ground shake reaches my head
Meant to hold me up
Will it all erupt?
Whoa, whoa
Whoa, whoa
I've dedicated every breath
The realization hits
The threats fell from my lips
The melting heart of my maze hides
The self you can't evade
Face to face to fade
Lean in, prying deeper still
Flinging me 'round by the tail
Laughing, weeping, I can't tell
Flocking Snow
Winter you've been pouring down
Mending broken dams
Hallucinate a memory
Cyclone touches land
They sell me scarves and flocking snow
Intricate designs
Never gonna give you up
Hazy slumber time
Now they know but still won't say it
It's their game and you must play it
Maybe you find a clue
A moment of freedom
Then move on to something new
A fluke of a feeling
Your record contradicts your charm
You comfort me with lies
Racing to the canyons edge
Just ignore the signs
Now the wreckage contradicts your truth
As you squint into the light
A foreshadowing that's blindly lost
When you step into this fight
When'd we notice?
Dare not say it
Dish it out but you can't take it
Making and bending rules
Rounding up people
Feeding them to the wolves
Trite as the sky is blue, blue
Blue, blue, blue, blue, bluee.
Chased
Why do you break me
Just to fix me
Just to break me again
We've got some problems
But I can't say
If they're common or rare
I measure good days
By the sad days
That take their toll through despair
It can't be a mistake
Or just a test that
That we hope we won't fail
I know we're chased by the rain
I know we're running from the pain
Ooh, ooh
Ooh, ooh
Just stop running from the rain
It will wash away your pain
Just stop running from the rain
It will wash away your pain
And let you live
Let you live
Let you live
Let me live
Let's just live
Beyond Edit
Ooh ah
Ooh
Ah, ooh
I'm the null
Perished thought, now free
In a limitless world I breathe
Cast me in any light you please
The flower, the stem, the seed
Just outside any dream you dream
Nothing here can escape my reach
Every torch, every light you see
So far beyond any code you can edit
If I'm asked to create my own heaven
Run through loops of our first years together
You're there waiting for me like you promised
Reel me back to a time life was honest
Who's now here to save you
Here to claim you
Who's now here to save you
Here to claim you
We're now here to save you
We will claim you
I'm the null (Don't fear)
Perished thought, now free
In a limitless world I breathe
Cast me in any light you please (We won't fear)
The flower, the stem, the seed
Just outside any dream you dream (Please don't fear)
Nothing here is beyond my reach
Every torch, every light you see (Don't you fear)
The flower, the stem, the seed
Multiply (Same Cloud Twice)
I'm throwing rocks at crows
And I swear that they just seem to multiply
And the man hands you pills and a bill
Cause your starving inside
But can't you see
They're all just selling you lies
When you sign off
Crows will appear to sing
I still hear you
Ooh, ooh, ooh
And I rub one eye
Scratch my head
Ignore the rapping at my chamber door
Yeah it's funny to guess
What the others will say
When they find me again
Underneath the hardwood floor
When you sign off
Crows will appear to sing
I still hear you
I still hear you
I still hear you
I still hear you
Hear you
Hear you
Hear you
Huh, kinda funny how you never see the same cloud
The same cloud twice
Maybe that's how you know this is all real
Hear you
I still hear you
I still hear you
I still hear you
I still hear you
I still hear you
I still hear you
I still hear you
I still hear you
I still hear you
I still hear you
I still hear you
I still hear you
I still hear you
I still hear you
I still hear you
I still hear you
I still hear you
I still hear you
I still hear you
Hear you
Hear you
Hear you
Ooh, ooh, ooh
Piranha Tank
Misses Earth
What causes you to ache?
There's no replacing you
Cracks and lines reveal your state of mind
Blame me but don't break cause I'll die losing you
I'll be a shade bluer
Toned down, hushed up
Can't breathe
Mars red without you
Screwed, screwed, screwed, screwed
Spinning days
Each time I reach for you, you're there
And I've become rather attached to you
Systems lights are flashing telltale signs
The hissing sound of love story's conclusion
And I'll be a shade bluer
Toned down, hushed up
Can't breathe
Mars red without you
Screwed, screwed, screwed, screwed
I'll be a shade bluer
Toned down, hushed up
Can't breathe
Mars red without
Screwed, screwed, screwed, screwed
Mephistopheles and the Yellowhammer
Listen
I don't think convention is working anymore
Can we talk some more about this term collusion
You can be the hero
And I'll take all the blame
Since they trust you
You can easy slip the poison pill
All ears
Speak and all will listen
You've had them for some time
Adjectives describe you
Harmless yet persuasive
Calculating, patient in minute increments
Fabricate a prison there is no escaping from
Enticing
I'll become the monster you feed straight from your palm
Turn your back and one day
People below
You can't see
You won't see
You can't
People, bow low
You can't see further than stones
That you throw
Trust me I'll make every little thing so easy
Bite Your Tongue
Little feet kicking up dandelions
Wishes come true as they float away
Holding hands in the garden
A million wonderful days
Now a gun
They tell me don't run
My face pressed into the sand
Bite your tongue
I've held my breath too long
Choking on ashes of your burning law
I'm so done letting my life be run
By a machine that shows no love for me
Why, why, why
Why
Rain soaked days
Washing the mud away
Sun, sun, sunrise
Rise
Ultraviolet Fantasy
Wake to find you next to me
Stirring from our winter sleep
Between the earth and sky
It's all a new part of me
These silver wings
No gravity to hold me down
We're here to live it's guaranteed
But reasons are a mystery
It never crossed my mind
That we're just butterflies on the freeway
The colors here all call to me
An ultraviolet fantasy
My spirals fly so high
Oldest friend come chase the breeze
You're perfect you with perfect me
There's no such thing as time
The giving sun is all around
We flutter through the metal clouds
It never crossed our mind
That we're just butterflies on the freeway
That we're just butterflies on the freeway
If by happenstance I get away
I'll write a better song for a better day
I wish I never knew
I wish I never knew
I wish I never knew
I wish I never knew
Guess I'll never know til it all ascends
Who controlled the tide
Who controlled the wind
That brought me here to you
I wish I never knew
But for now it's okay
That we're just, whoa
That we're just, whoa (Whoa, whoa)
That we're just, whoa (Whoa, whoa)
That we're just, whoa (Whoa, whoa)
Focus In
underneath the illusion
there is a sneaky probe at play
the intrusion is soft then loud
it's okay to use them
'cause everyone uses them today
let us all jump together now
atoms splitting so fast spinning
the colors blur into one
breath your breath in pulses racing
two bodies blur into one
focus in
pierce the lies
unravelling
your design
life is the giver
on the receiving end you stay
feels too heavy to turn around
life is the killer
she's on the hunt and I'm her prey
feels too heavy to flip over now
it's over now
birth to ending given taken
the humans blur into one
chanting praying screaming daydream
the sounds all blur into one
focus in
pierce the lies
unravelling
your design
we're unravelling
all I find is a world of blurry skies
focus in
You Don't Need Me
you don't need me
I need you now more than ever before
it's confusing when you're not who you were
perfect oddity
divine rarity
you brush away for what?
do you even know?
come to me now
it's so real that when it all falls apart
keep me safe -you
keep me safe by
seeping deep through my skin
do you even know what you freely ransom?
do you even know the myriad of blame?
do you even know or even think to question
what you have to lose
and what you have to gain?
you don't need me
I need you now more than ever before
it's confusing
perfect oddity
divine rarity
you brush away for what?
do you even?
Tree Box
tree or a box?
so which is better suited?
planted a seed
sometimes I feel uprooted
whenever the sun comes out
I am open
whenever the clouds let down
I will bathe and drink
whenever the wind blows hard I will dance
through the rhythm
stripped of my leaves
the cruelty of winter
whenever the sun comes out
I am open
whenever the clouds let down
I will bathe and drink
and if you need shelter here
you are welcome
and if there is fruit I bear
please take and be nourished by it
whenever the wind blows hard I will dance
through the rhythm
Depth
the moon is shaking
on the surface above
no way to call out
water fills your lungs
I will care
I will carry this to my grave
they won't care
they won't carry you
so strange
you use them to replace
the basic need to engage
creators of the new slave
I'm wildly out of my depth
the muffled sound of
an emergency car
I withdraw
I withdraw my consent
not that you
you never asked for it
so strange
you use them to replace
the basic need to engage
creators of the new slave
I'm wildly out of my depth
slave
Defibrillator
heart -lay indestructible
pulls strings but makes no move
won't gush with apathy
plays the fool
plans the coup
then bares its claws
then this love seizes my every cell
paralyzed the invader has taken control
all stand clear
we've got to save her
move
I'll stand clear
somebody save her
caged -I am a prisoner
to the power that now rules
lost is my will to fight
I'm the fool
fool for you
betrayed by all I once trusted
then this love seizes my every cell
paralyzed the invader has taken control
all stand clear
we've got to save her
move
I'll stand clear
somebody save her
10th Power
old life young body
you seem so well put together
vintage earth man
we will remember
only nature
nature trades you for me
darlin'
they can't stop what we started
with a pull so hypnotic
we can burn up and feel no pain
darlin'
I feel everything you do
to the 10th power
unfettered intimate data of
only nature
I see
only nature
nature trades you for me
guess the question is if I should
I could turn on you
yes I could
will I suffer like you do?
to the 10th power
will I laugh just like you do?
to the 10th power
I won't fumble like you
I won't f-
Aswim
why it hurts I cannot say
sparks burn then they fall down
love is cruel to whisk us away
then fade us to grey
sliding down -these snowflakes of ash
through funnels of glass
in all honesty
you've paralyzed me
stunned pure disbelief
when the world just kills what it breeds
what can I know anyway?
let's hug skeletons
under our thick skin
stripped down and locked up
in a red room with six walls
true -break them in
all in all and one the same
in this disarray
burying the bones that cling
to a life once lived
your new name now
is a broken vow
I could never give you up for good
I could never
won't stoop so low
as to leave you swooning
like you did me
in-reverse bleeding
it's so reckless
how you keep
for your own good
you should let me go
you should let me
all in all and one the same
in this disarray
burying the bones that cling
to a life once lived
your new name now
is a broken vow
I could never give you up for good
I could never
it's so reckless
how you keep me
Sea of Fire
charmed by the glow
spark in the night
getting too close
to ever see it's not right
dull as the dirt
dull as the knife
a dream -surreal
surprise
who what have thought it would crumble
down
but true love shines
beams from your eyes
rules by design
just words -the sound
decays
sweet for a second then fades out
so long
charmed by the glow
spark in the night
getting too close
to ever see it's not right
dull as the dirt
dull as the knife
but true love shines
beams from your eyes
rules by design
I wandered down
to the sea of fire