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52 Faces

52 faces aligned in symmetry
Behind bullet proof glass
Defying culture with their eyes

The fog still hasn't lifted yet
We won't see any stars tonight
We won't see anything if we linger on my friend
Because the stars have gone

Aleph Zero

There's a traitor in our midst
And a car crash up ahead
Powder white eyes
Debonair and paranoid

An incandescent fury
As I ask myself something
But I don't know the answer
This vitriol is plundered

Something extraordinary
Refreshes my memory
Sound-bitten reinvention
And facial reconstruction

A skin tight aesthetic
The scent of anaesthetic
The fate of our siblings
Will be decided tonight

And The Driver Wears A Halo

Watch as the sun comes down
Into the light come the people
With their wasted eyes they come alive into the wasted light

I will lead you with a drunken song on the streets tonight
Our wits are gone
And we were lost long ago

And the driver wears a halo
Screams to anyone who'll listen
But I'm sorry
We are alone
Yes I'm sorry
We are alone

It's like slow suicide
All the cars are side by side
Carbon monoxide is rising in my lungs

B-Movie Karma

Bubbles rise to the surface
Twenty four frames in one second
Someone is watching

This cathode ray junkie
Just killing time
We have nothing to lose

Our skin is jagged
But our heads are clear
Static hum and white noise

This 4am bible
Neon lights for eyes
Someone can see us

Together and happy
All in our own world
Symmetric and perfect

Science keeps the lonely warm

Cygnus X-1

In the cancer ridden lungs
In the rat infested homes
In the deviants’ wet dreams
In the rotting corpses spleen
Is where i learn to be free
Yeah i’ll learn to be free

On the soulless late night trains
In the sad and the deranged
In the dark and freezing dawn
In the dead and the unborn
Is where I learn to be free
Yeah I'll learn to be free

Czarina Catherine

There is no perfection
Like this contradiction
There is no purity
Only our insecurity

We will prove you wrong
We always do

There is no protection
From this psycho c-section
Your war torn cerebellum
A terrified equilibrium

Diagonal Argument

If you care so much carry your own coffin
Let me sit by my screen
I don't want to feel the gradual demise of hope

Don't crucify me I'm just drowning cats
You'll thank my when I have you safe behind my walls

And no skeletons at my feast
We will grow fat like we deserve
Could you brick me into my whole
And leave me with my effigy

Eye-Heart Logic

Within chaos there is logic
Mathematics is the language of nature
You can’t see the pattern but we can

Goblin Pornography

Sitting in his car
Not thinking too much
The sky was empty
Except for you

Floating in space
Waiting to fall
And hoping to fly

And he waved
And he laughed
As he drove away to the sun
Singing to himself

Without you where would I be

And he passed through towns
And people smiled
But their smiles were thin
A slimness comes from within

And waved
And he smiled
As he drove away to the sun

Getting closer
Climbing higher
To the sun

Holy Terrors

I've found a way to get ahead
I'm going to look into his eyes
And watch as his eyeballs drop

Lost my apetite
Saw animals fall like leaves
From trees to decay
Holy terrors cracking skulls
Lost my humour now

Splintered glass eye
Drunken insults
Filtered sunlight
A fuzzy memory

Jesus Was The First Zombie

Sitting in my room
Sitting here with no-one
We’re calm and we’re empty

I'd like to be a better man
But I am selfish and unkind
And all the darkness deep inside
Is going nowhere
Like me i’m going nowhere

Switch off the light
And fall asleep
Feel the warmth around my heart
Running round and round in circles
I head towards the stars

Distorted visions
And faded laughter take a hold
Won’t someone please
Save my soul

Knuckledropper

When there’s nothing left
We’re all in the ground
Rotting away
The brands will remain
Golden arches
Tombstones over my head
Saying this
Is the best that we can do

Metaphysical Import/Export

He took me to the hospital
And laid me down to rest
He would find the treatment
Try not to move he said

Trust me
Do I not have gentle eyes
Trust me
Do you not hear my soothing voice

I woke up feeling drunk
Like my head was underground
And my friendly doctor greeted me
With his friendly smile

Necronomicon

This is my ultimate party trick
The one you’ve all been waiting for
It would be wrong of me to tell you now
I don’t want to spoil the surprise

This is such a quiet town
We can hear your neuroses creeping up your spine
And through your neural pathways
It’s not a pretty sound

Stay cool forever

Didn’t I tell you
Didn’t I tell you what would happen
It can still be okay
We can still be saved

Samizdat

You are my only friend now
As we reach the end now
Some carbonized feeling
Melting plastic on the kitchen ceiling

You know that you’re the greatest
Of the serial number haters
If you could step to the left now
Someone else will be the best now

Please forgive me

Greek mythology might yet save us
Like the crosswords in the daily papers
And the fly paper on your forehead
Laughing loudly or faking instead

Carefree androids shop for diet coke
A pack of matches and a vampire’s cloak
What is it that you crave for
Your head caves in and your ankles feel sore

Smash TV

Slowly now
Take it
Slowly now

Buy a book
A thousand books
Burn the television to dust and drink the fumes
This is freedom

You’re not alone unless you're silent
You’re not at home unless you're safe
In this brave new world
We have no secrets

Somnambulance

Years from now
Past the fall of the west
His head was sore
And his eyes rolled back in his head
(All around was a lake)

Clouds of ash drifting past
His lungs they cracked
He saw the souls of his friends rising up

Hug me ‘til you drug me honey
Kiss me ‘til I'm comatose

Take My Things And Burn Them

I focus my eyes on something in the distance
To stop myself looking at you
Because you make me laugh and I don't like laughing
It makes me feel dizzy like falling underwater
And I hate falling so maybe I hate you
Maybe I hate you, maybe I do

I was wondering
If we concentrate hard until everything's gone blurred
Do you think we can change
Do you think we can forget
That we are happy and we should not be happy

The Flesh

Lying somewhere
Or anywhere
In a ditch
In the street
On a floor
Is a body
A corpse of a man or a boy
Bloodied and dead
The flesh was cold
It will smell to me like nothing on earth
And no-one will know
How it felt in the end

They Kill Us For Their Sport

An eerie blue glow from the city tonight
We're all going to die down here
They kill us for their sport

The wires have been cut
The lights have gone dead
She whispers a prayer
Don't be scared
Don't be scared
We know how this ends

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