1. Modern Man
Iīve got nothing to say, Iīve got nothing to do,
All of my neurons are functioning smoothly,
Yet still Iīm a cyborg just like you,
I am one big myoma that thinks, my planet supports only me,
Iīve got this one big problem. will I live forever?
Iīve got just a short time to see,
Modern man, evolutionary betrayer,
Modern man, ecosystem destroyer,
Modern man, destroy yourself in shame,
Modern man, pathetic example of earthīs organic heritage,
When I look back and think, when I ponder and ask myself "why?",
I see my ancestor spend with careless abandon,
Assuming eternal supply,
Modern man, evolutionary betrayer,
Modern man, ecosystem destroyer,
Modern man, destroy yourself in shame,
Modern man, pathetic example of earthīs organic heritage,
Just a sample of carbon-based wastage,
Just a fucking tragic epic of you and i
2. Turn On The Light
I had a friend who kept a candle in his pocket,
He used to touch it when the wind was blowing high,
I guess it made him feel like he could buck the system
And when it flickered out we laid him down to die,
Turn on the light,
Turn on a million blinding brilliant white incendiary lights, (yeah)
A beacon in the night,
Iīll burn relentlessly until my juice runs dry, (yeah)
Iīll construct a rack of tempered beams and trusses
And equip it with a million tiny suns,
Iīll install upon the room of my compartment
And place tinfoil on my floor and on my walls then Iīll
Turn on the light,
Turn on a million blinding brilliant white incendiary lights, (yeah)
A beacon in the night,
Iīll burn relentlessly until my juice runs dry,
And Iīll burn like a roman fucking candle
Burn like a chasm in the night
Burn for a miniscule duration,
Ecstatic immolation, incorrigible delight
3. Get Off
Lacivious,
Itīs all that I can think of as I drag my feet, searching like diogenes,
Dangerous,
The adjectives of the decade and of your alluring intricacies,
Yes I see your green-screen mentality,
And I can feel the sting of its consequence,
And I know I shouldnīt, but itīs too much to ignore
And emotion I deplore,
Every time I look at you, I just want to do it,
I can clench my fist right through it, but I just want to get off,
Rectilinear,
This direction weīve been heading never realizing we are on a runaway machine,
Angular,
The momentum that does turn us one step further on our ladder,
One more turn toward the east,
I realize your green-screen mentality,
And I know itīs shared by many more,
I know itīs impossible but Iīm damned to find a way
To revolve the other way,
Every time I scrutinize I just say "screw it,"
Weīre on a ride down a blind conduit, and I just want to get off
Ah-ah-ah-ah off
4. Blenderhead
Flying through a dark prismatic tunnel on a carousel,
The earth is turning and you know it very well,
Your mind is reeling like ten helicopters wheeling
And youīre gonna hit the ceiling like a mallet on a bell,
Hey, blenderhead, theyīre starting to ask questions,
Your transgressions are a danger flashing sign,
Challenge conventions and radiate your splendor
And feel those flywheels turn your blender... head (yeah)
Tally up the gleaming ventured on a wishing well,
Each shining trinket has a story it can tell,
Your moments pining like those tales all intertwining
Can become the rusted lining of a deep neglected shell,
Hey, blenderhead, you ask so many questions,
Your confusionīs a life-affirming sign,
Break from tradition and carry on with valor
And feel those flywheels churn your blender... head (yeah)
5. Positive Aspects Of Negative Thinking
Letīs gather īround the carcass of the old deflated beast,
We have seen it through the accolades and rested in its lea,
Syntactic is our elegance, incisive our disease,
The swath endogenous of ourselves will be our quandary,
Weīve nestled in its hollow and weīve suckled at its breast,
Grandiloquent in attitude, impassioned yet inept,
Frivolous gavel our design, ludicrous our threat,
Excursive expeditons leave us holding less and less,
So what does it mean?
When we tell ourselves itīs only for a while weīve been deceived
And itīs only for a moment that the treasures of our day
Make life easier to complicate, the treasure thrown away,
Iīm so tired of all the fucked up minds
Of all the terrorist religions and their bullshit lines,
Of all the hand-me-downs from all industrial crimes
All the weeping mothers and those who are led so blind,
From the plastic protests and the hands of time
And the pursuit of mirth and all hating kind
6. Anesthesia
Everybodyīs talking about the girl who went and killed the delivery man,
But she looks so kind and gentle, it just doesnīt stand to reason,
I saw her right there just the other night as stately as a slot machine,
But when she looked my way something mad as hell came over me,
Anesthesia, mona lisa, Iīve got a little gun, here comes oblivion,
I never loved you, how did you find me?
The cops will never prove complicity now,
Anna..........,
All good children go to heaven!
I remember your face that august night
When we lied about the beautiful time to come
And that crazy old man who came much too late and caused a chain reaction,
Iīve been hanging out here for eleven long years like a church mouse
Wondering where the cat as gone
And looking at you now is driving me to distraction,
Anesthesia, mona lisa, Iīve got a little gun, here comes oblivion,
I never loved you, how did you find me?
The cops will never prove complicity now,
Anna..........,
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8,
All good children go to heaven!
7. Flat Earth Society
Lie lie lie... lie lie lie... lie lie lie...
Lie lie lie... lie lie lie... lie lie lie...
The full moon is rising over dark water
And the fools below are picking up sticks
And the man in the gallows lies permanently waiting
For the doctors to come back and tend to him,
The flat earth society is meeting here today, singing happy little lies,
And the bright ship humana is sent far away with grave determination...
And no destination,
Lie lie lie... lie lie lie... lie lie lie...
Lie lie lie... lie lie lie... lie lie lie...
Yeah, nothing feels better than a spray of clean water
And the whistling of wind on a calm summer night
But you better believe that down in their quarters
The men are holding on for their dear lives,
The flat earth society is somewhere far away,
With their candlesticks and compasses
And the bright ship humana is on its way with grave determination...
And no destination,
The flat earth society is meeting here today, singing happy little lies,
And the bright ship humana is well on its way with grave determination...
And no destination,
Lie lie lie... lie lie lie... lie lie lie...
Lie lie lie... lie lie lie... lie lie lie...
(x infinity)
8. Faith Alone
Heard a sermon from a creaky pulpit with no one in the nave,
I paid a visit to the synagogue and I left there feeling blame,
No one could tell me what to do,
They had not the capacity to answer me,
What the world needs now is some answers to our problems,
We canīt buy more time because our tender isnīt valid,
If your soul needs love you can get consoled by pity,
But it looks as though faith alone wonīt sustain us anymore,
Watched the scientists throw up their hands conceding,
"progress will resolve it all,"
Saw the manufacturers of earthīs debris ignore another green peace call,
No one could tell me what to do,
They had not the ability to answer me,
What the world needs now is some accountability,
We canīt buy more time because time wonīt accept our money,
If your soul needs love you can always have my pity,
But it looks as though faith alone wonīt sustain us no more...
What the world needs now is some answers to our problems,
We canīt buy more time because our tender isnīt valid,
What the world needs now is some accountability,
If your soul needs love you can get consoled by pity,
But faith alone wonīt sustain us anymore,
Faith alone wonīt sustain us anymore (round, x infinity)
9. Entropy
andom blobs of power expressed as that which we all disregard,
Ordered states of nature on a scale which no one things about,
Donīt speak to me of anarchy or peace or calm revolt, man,
Weīre in a play of slow decay orchestrated by boltzmann,
Itīs entropy, itīs not a human issue,
Entropy, itīs matter of course,
Entropy, energy at all levels,
Entropy, from it you cannot divorce
And your pathetic moans of suffrage tend to lose all significance,
Extinction, degradation. the natural outcome of our ordered lives,
Power, motivation. temporary fixtures for which we strive,
Something in our synapses assures us weīre ok
But in our disequilibrium we simply cannot stay,
Itīs entropy, itīs not a human issue,
Entropy, itīs matter of course,
Entropy, energy at all levels,
Entropy, from it you cannot divorce,
A stolid proposition from a man unkempt as i,
My affectatious nature I cannot rectify,
But we are out of equilibrium unnaturally,
A pang of consciousness at death and then you will agree
Itīs entropy...
Entropy, itīs matter of course,
Entropy, energy at all levels,
Entropy, from it you cannot divorce,
Entropy...
10. Against The Grain
Three thousand miles of wilderness overcome by the flow,
A lonely restitution of pavement, pomp and show,
I seek a thousand answers, I find but one or two,
I maintain no discomfiture, my path again renewed,
Against the grain, thatīs where Iīll stay,
Swimming upstream, I maintain against the grain,
Here labelled as a lunatic, sequestered and content,
There ignored and defeated by the government,
Thereīs an oriented public whose magnetic force will pull,
But away from the potential of the individual,
Against the grain, thatīs where Iīll stay,
Swimming upstream, I maintain against the grain,
The flow is getting stronger with small increments of time
And eddies of new ideas are increasingly hard to find,
You need all that the other has, itīs your right to seize the day
But in all your acquisitions you will soon be swept away,
Against the grain, thatīs where Iīll stay,
Swimming upstream, I maintain against the grain,
Thereīs a common consensus and an uncomfortable cheer,
A reverberating that anyone can hear,
It sings "leave your cares behind you, just grab tenaciously,"
This lulling sense of purpose will destroy us rapidly,
Against the grain, thatīs where Iīll stay,
Swimming upstream, I maintain against the grain,
Against the grain, against the grain,
Against the grain
11. Operation Rescue
It is an s.o.s. sent out telepathically,
Signs of our distress donīt allow complacency,
We need restoration now of our integrity
And a drastic bold reminder of our morality,
The rectifying troop is here, the ones weīve needed all these years
To stop the heinous wrongdoings and verify our moral benevolence as a people
Operation, operation rescue,
Theyīre here to right our fall, theyīve heard a troubled call,
Operation, operation rescue,
You wonder where they come from, but I just wonder why theyīre here at all,
Ya-ya-ya-ya-ya ya-ya-ya-ya
Life ever-after is what theyīre in business for,
See them brandish the key to their kingdomīs door,
Itīs persuasive, itīs a part of you and me
But itīs not overwhelming as they wish it to be,
If no one believed in fairy tales, thereīs nothing they could do but fail
Yet everywhere we look someone is trying to reassure our
Moral benevolence as a people,
Operation, operation rescue,
Theyīre here to right our fall, theyīve heard someoneīs troubled call,
Operation, operation rescue,
You wonder where they come from, but I just wonder what compels them all,
Operation, operation rescue,
Operation, operation rescue,
You may wonder where they come from,
But I just wonder what compels them all,
Ya-ya-ya-ya-ya
12. God Song
And did those feet in ancient times
Trod on americaīs pastures of green?
And did that anthropocentric god
Wane with their thoughts and beliefs all unseen?
I donīt think so, heīs up there with the others laying low,
Vying with those, who youīve traded your life to to bless your soul,
Have they told you how to think,
Cleansed your mined of sepsis and autonomy?
Or have you escaped from scrutiny,
And regaled yourself with depravity?
Now we all see, "religion is just synthetic frippery,
Unnecessary in our expanding global cultural efficiency"
Now we all fear this impasse we have built to our future (ever so near),
Ever so near, and oh so austere
13. 21st Century Digital Boy
I canīt believe it, the way you look sometimes,
Like a trampled flag on a city street, oh yeah,
And I donīt want it, the things youīre offering me,
Symbolized bar code, quick id, oh yeah,
īcause Iīm a 21st century digital boy,
I donīt know how to live but Iīve got a lot of toys,
My daddyīs a lazy middle class intellectual,
My mommyīs on valium, so ineffectual,
Ainīt life a mystery?
I canīt explain it, the things theyīre saying to me,
Itīs going yayayayayayaya, oh yeah,
īcause Iīm a 21st century digital boy,
I donīt know how to read but Iīve got a lot of toys,
My daddyīs a lazy middle class intellectual,
My mommyīs on valium, so ineffectual,
Ainīt life a mystery?
I tried tell you about no control,
But now I really donīt know,
And then you told me how bad you had to suffer,
Is that really all you have to offer?
See Iīm a 21st century digital boy,
I donīt know how to read but Iīve got a lot of toys,
My daddyīs a lazy middle class intellectual,
My mommyīs on valium, so ineffectual,
Thatīs what I yearn for (21st century digital boy),
Neurosurgeons scream for more (21st century digital boy),
Innocence raped with napalm fire (21st century digital boy),
Anything I want I really need (21st century digital boy),
21st century schitzoid boy (21st century digital boy),
21st century video boy (21st century digital boy),
21st century digital boy (21st century digital boy),
21st century sofa boy (21st century digital boy)...
Note. the first four lines in the last stanza are "stolen from king crimson"
14. Misery And Famine (2.31)
So proud a history, replete with sanctity,
Orbs in their harmony, they sing their code to me,
Have you ever heard yourself, the orbit you are in?
The terse, oppressive blanket thatīs instilled here by our spin,
Itīs misery and famine, itīs a force we cannot see,
Misery and famine, it compels us naturally,
Misery and famine, great ellipse, we bend to thee,
Misery and famine, just accept your vagrancy,
Others who bear no name, who feel that lifeīs a game,
My verse they will defame, we suffer all the same,
They pay no regard to their position or their speed,
But the firmament still covers them with its malevolent seed,
Itīs misery and famine, itīs a force we cannot see,
Misery and famine, it compels us naturally,
Misery and famine, great ellipse, we bend to thee,
Misery and famine, just accept your vagrancy,
"you look for meaning in things no one comprehends,
You feel no affinity to the rabble weīre in,"
Sources of inquiry have nothing to portend,
They will perplex us all until the coming end,
A feeling of despair, hungry and full of care,
We resent everywhere the fortune that we share,
"this world could be a better place" is a concept I condone,
Given our pathetic course our destiny is known,
Itīs misery and famine, itīs a force we cannot see,
Misery and famine, it compels us naturally,
Misery and famine, great ellipse, we bend to thee,
Misery and famine, just accept your vagrancy,
Misery and famine
15. Unacceptable
Irreducible is the word for today, plastic compounds and nuclear waste,
What the hellīs the matter with the people on this planet?
Have we all gone insane?
The stigma of industrial progress killing us over and over again,
Itīs one part per trillion... unacceptable,
One part per billion... unacceptable,
One part per million... unacceptable,
This mammoth pogrom set upon us courtesy of the usa,
Inexcusable are the men before our time, Iīd like to kick their ass
For what they left behind,
Cancer-causing chemicals, ozone-depleting arsenals, weīre all gonna fry,
So put your head between your legs and kiss your ass goodbye,
One part per trillion... unacceptable,
One part per billion... unacceptable,
One part per million... unacceptable,
One part per billion... unac(fucking)ceptable (x infinity)
16. Quality Or Quantity
Offer me eternity, and Iīll trade a cup of coffee and a time,
Looking for a handout on behalf of those who have so little time,
But who wants to live on just 70 cents a day?
Padding your pockets doesnīt make this a better place,
"cereal and water" is a feast for some you say,
Your price-tag on existence canīt cover your double face,
Quality or quantity a choice you have to make,
Dipping in the icing, bringing home the largest turkey from the field,
Breaking all the piggy banks, scooping up the booty,
Licking all the right holes, bolstering the payroll,
Why reduce life to a dollar amount per day?
And why let the world think this is the american way?
Your uneaten greens are a feast for some you say,
Survival and living are concepts you canīt equate,
Quality or quantity donīt tell me theyīre the same,
Quality or quantity a choice you have to make,
17. Walk Away
Shut off the tv and peel off those sunday gloves,
And Iīll stain the clean that youīve been counting,
Old mr. fletcher passed by here today,
After 40 years of toil he just up and walked away,
Fantastic the panic that showed in his eyes,
He shrugged when I asked him about it,
He said, "young man pay heed, you listen well to what I say,
Now there comes a time for a man to walk away,"
Walk away (walk away) Iīll be a parade,
And Iīll be determined that no one shall dissuade
On my way (dissuade) Iīll sure take some time,
To burn all the bridges that Iīm leaving behind,
He passed by again and he was shivering from the cold,
Iīm not sure but I think he was trying,
He told me about the weather and something old to pay,
"but tomorrow," he said, "Iīm gonna surely walk away,"
Walk away (walk away) Iīll be a parade,
And Iīll be determined that no one shall dissuade
On my way (dissuade) Iīll take my sweet time,
And burn all the bridges that I leave behind,
Walk away (walk away) Iīll be a parade,
And Iīll be determined that no one shall dissuade
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