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Here's some lyrics to a few unreleased, new songs...

FINAL COUP OF THE LAST MILLENIUM

And in this age,
These final days
Of the most absurd
Comic tragedy.
This fiction...
These days of lightspeed sunsets,
What we once found
Laughable...
These demons come to life.
We find ourselves
Bound to our seats
Retelling dreams,
The outcomes of which,
While left open to interpretation,
Offer a sad simple truth.
A cancer.



TAKE THE TRAIN
Why take the train when you can take the plane?
Why live for pleasure when there's so much pain?
Why look to mountains when the buildings call?
What's an avalanche to a building's fall?
I saw a dove flying in the wind
Looking lost but hopeful
Got a fascination with things that fly
Like hawks and doves and time
I sometimes look up in the sky
The streets are so disturbing
People playing at concrete Godscan see through the cracks of the lies on their faces
Well, Mickey Mouse built a house
And what do you want to bet
That the bricks aren't made of clay
I looked up at the sky today built a cottage industry propaganda machine
And plastered it white as naivete
Joe McCarthy's corpse is smiling in his grave
While the talking heads give a little nod and wave
Teacher, tell the kids to stay away
The Rosenberg kids can't go home today
Joe McCarthy's ghost is chasing me again
And I'm knocking on the door - Good God, please let me in
Stop your knocking now, please go away
The Rosenberg kids can't come out to play
Why take the train when you can take the plane?
Why dare to dream when there's so much pain?
Why speak when you may be misunderstood?
Why look at the sky when the money's good?
Why look away when you can watch it slide?
Retaliate rather than look inside
Why take the train when you can take the plane?
Why live when you can die again and again?



BODY BUILDING

Boiled down to bleached white bones and fused
Sticks and stones for breakfast again
Because we're building a body
From the ground up
We're building a body of work
Stripped of mortal coils of flesh unleashed
The meat is off the bone
And the tools we use are sticks and stones
We want more than dirt and worms
Stuck here while the world turns
Rise up
The world turns
Rise up
The world turns
From darkness into light
From stillness into flight
Touched through skin
United by blood
Connected by nerve
And the skeletal remains
Where do they hide the venom and bile?
Haven't had stomachs for a long, long while.
We want more than dirt and worms
Bone stiff while the Earth turns
Without this structure
Of script and lyric
Of smoke and mirrors
And contracts unsigned
And contact unkind
Our empty battle a collapsed fiction
War, and I can't see the enemy
Because the enemy is me
And death always wins
Bone against bone
Ground down
And from the ground up
Building a body
Building a body of work
Building a body of work
Morning, noon and night
From stillness into flight



Ebullition Records G7


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