The Face Of Our Time
You have the same eyes as me: red and watery, shocked in disbelief. You have the same mouth as me: words lie underneath, closed lips cannot speak. Bodies are mysteries inside. Blood is bursting bright inside intravenous lines. Don’t forget you saved yourself this time. We can yell all we like at the scientists in white. Blood inside broken veins, it keeps flowing knowing one day we all will die. All we know, no control, hold on now. Show your scars now, the face of our time. Talking to the ghost of my great escape. Now nothing is safe, everything has changed. Pictures of your frozen heart. They tore you apart but I still know who you are. X-ray, can you see through me and all the broken dreams that interrupt my sleep? I know how the story goes. Dead cells begin to grow, the things you feel but you can’t know. Blood inside broken veins, it keeps flowing knowing one day we all will die. All we know, no control, hold on now. Show your scars now, the face of our time.
Men In Uniform
You love a man in uniform. Well fed and he keeps you warm. Daily life in your social scene: don’t be late and keep it clean. Get upset but don’t offend your friends. Shut up you’re being childish. Negative, you bring me down. If I can, I’ll help you out. It’s alright if I keep my mouth shut. Yeah I’ve given up. Got no more to say. Nothing happened, everything is the same. You love a man who takes care of you: the easy way to make it through. The false hope of the middle class: what you ignore will come to pass. The rough life of the provided for. I want it now and I want some more. No one to love and no one to hate. Don’t have to try, and don’t have to wait. It’s alright if I keep my mouth shut. Yeah I’ve given up. Got no more to say. Nothing happened, everything is the same.
All You Need Is Love
I’m a mess and so are you. Can you see me now? Can you see me new? Hard to tell right and wrong. All I know, here and gone. All you need is love. All you need is love. All you need is love. Love is all you need. Ocean waves, I’m the one! Broken heart, hit and run. Cloudy skies raining down. Every king wears his crown. All you need is love. All you need is love. All you need is love. All you need is love. All you need is love. All you need is love. All you need is love. Love is all you need.
Control Machine Blues
The young look of fear that takes away my breath. The thoughts it’s hard to think that rearrange a life. The time you wish you had in a place that’s somewhere else. The time that’s moving still right past where I am. Now I need you here, falling faster still. To have and not to hold, to touch and then let go. If I could name right now I’d call it Angel’s Day, where every damaged soul gets back what they gave. Control machine, so so boring. Pretend that we breathe in a world we never leave. Take these arms, play me a song. Slip inside my soul and I will never know. How to live like this? What you said to me in a dark in sterile room, your face all caked with tears. And then I took your hand, my veins were bursting blood. It’s complicated now, but try to get some sleep. We can’t afford to lose because there’s nothing left to give. The things that I have left are the things I will defend. It’s inconceivable. Are you breathing still? It’s time for me to go, but I don’t think I will. Control machine, so so boring. Pretend that we breathe in a world we never leave. Take these arms, play me a song. Slip inside my soul and I will never know.
Tender Bones
Hey, who are you when you’ve given up? Are you dust? Are you love? Are you dirt? Are you mud? Slowing down until I’m still. Don’t go to church, don’t take the pills. What is broken, all cracked inside? Looking hard but never find. Run run away. Have your fun, have your say. Filled with light, filled with pain. Nothing to do, nothing to say. Laying down, losing you. Walking out, walking through. It’s a world standing on it’s head. I am lost with no regrets. An old guitar, a cigarette.
Ties Too Tight
Hey it’s a stupid world you know, and you know me well. Lots of pointless games to play. Please do what you can. Hey, wait a little longer now, it all starts making sense. And I think we stand a chance. Don’t give up so fast, it’s bigger than you know. Best now to lay low. Hey, they wear their ties too tight you know, tied around their necks. Walking one by one in line—watch them pass you by. Hey, everyone is young again. Go and find your friends. And walk forever slow. Tell me I don’t know. Confusion is the key. Take care when you leave. Hey, we’re heading to nowhere you know, and we come from nowhere. Come together, fall apart. Hard to understand. Hey, if you’ve got it figured out, please leave us alone.
Breathe Now
My mind is gone. Where did it go? And the sun sits still outside. There’s a light ray, it shines on to you. Can you tell me who I am? Is it difficult to understand when you look at my open eyes? Am I here or there or am I something that you don’t really want to know? Breathe now. It’s the one thing you can do. When the world turns blue it gets cold inside of your frozen mind. Trick yourself that you’re doing fine. Follow the straight line. And the path you walk—am I behind you or am I in front of you? Slower now, slower and slower. I can’t keep up the pace of your perfect world where everything’s nice and nothing leaves a trace. Breathe now. It’s the one thing you can do. When the world turns blue it gets cold inside of your frozen mind.
Everyone Everywhere
Everyone everywhere is perfect now. The time you waste, the time you spend: here right now. American mind, american eyes are closing now. Hospitals and rivers of blood are flowing now. To reconcile the disconnection that is found. Love cannot change what isn’t there. Stuck inside my bones, the fear that eats away. You are somewhere else. Will you recognize my face? Where have I been? So hard to tell. What’s the time and what’s the date? Am I here right now? The past that haunts my planned escape, come back now. Not to say, to say again, the violent sounds. Move so fast without regret, to turn around. To face the stars, the speeding cars broken down. Stuck right here, but your mind is somewhere else. Staring at my hands. Was it wrong to want you here? Reminded me too well that everyone is free. Time to say goodbye and hello again. The earth it shakes, the mind it breaks, listen now. Changing faces, different places, get around. Change forever, don’t say never: leaving now. Stories hide inside your eyes. Tell me now.
What Is Left (What You Get)
If you forget your history, train your eyes how not to see, train your ears how not to hear, teach yourself how not to feel: what do you have left? What do you have left? What do you have left? What you get. CEO’s in restaurants, pretty people at the bars: what do you believe in now, faceless people in the crowd? What do you have left? What do you have left? What do you have left? What you get. Prisons, schools, and hospitals. Brains are institutional. Now the future is the past. What we built not meant to last. What do you have left? What do you have left? What do you have left? What you get.
The Last Battle
We come here with our arms raised in no pain. A slight gain for you and your army, swarming around like bees in a hive. Where will you go when your queen dies? Down in the ground. A slight sound and not loud. Not even heard by the rotating earth. In orbit, life is microscopic. A dot with chalk outlines that fade away in time. Soldiers with guns against our heads. All the words I forgot I said. Saw the best things I ever had melt away. And all I can say is that I’ll see you again in a dream you will have one day. You have not seen the last of us just yet. You have not seen the last of us just yet. You have not seen the last of us just yet. You have not seen the last of us just yet. You have not seen the last of us just yet.
Awake
Awake doesn’t look that good. Hope is a funny thing, but you are awake. Today’s another day. Walking walking slow. There’s nowhere to go anymore except right here. Time to taste the tears. Walking through the walls. Catch you when you fall. Time is fast right now, but it will slow down. Our backs are on the ground looking up. The stars. Everything is here. Remember where you are. We are lost and found. We are lost and found. We are lost and found. We are lost and found somehow.
My One Face
You are there and there is alright now. I am here understanding time. It’s not fair. Watching waiting slow and sometimes fast. Please don’t forget my one face. Put it together now—what remains? Pieces of myself stuck in your brain. Can you see me smile? It’s been awhile and that’s ok. Your two eyes—I know you so well. Window inside—your world my world. It’s alright. Nothing is stopping you. Do what you do. Understand now my one face. Colors inside bright with shades of grey. Tied together tight you and me are free. Please remember I remember you remember me.
My One Face Postlude (instrumental)