IT'S MY SIN
THE WAY I FEEL
It’s surprising what you will find there
When you look on beyond the facade
There are criminals posing as gentry
Reality surrenders to farce
And it’s real
You can feel it
You can see it
And hold it in your hand
It’s the way I feel
It’s the way I see it
A fatted lamb take control of the wheel
Build a hole that’s bigger than Hell itself
And blame it on someone else
It’s surprising what you will find there
When you walk on the banks of the quagmire
And the stench of it all overcomes you
The legacy is a swift reminder
And it’s real
You can feel it
You can see it
And hold it in your hands
It’s the way I feel
It’s the way I see it
A fatted lamb take control of the wheel
Build a hole that’s bigger than Hell itself
And blame it on someone else
Oh what drives you
What’s behind the motive
To change everything as we know it
For you yourself to live in
But what about the rest
What about the rest
You’re not the only one, not the only one
It’s the way I feel
It’s the way I see it
A fatted lamb take control of the wheel
Build a hole that’s bigger than Hell itself
And blame it on someone else
Why don’t you blame it on someone else
Go on and blame it on someone else
RICHMOND RD REVISITED
There’s a cold wind
Down the side of the bed
Makes me want to walk and walk and walk
So very far away
It’s these changes
Don’t come quick enough for me
I have sat in this chair and I’ve stared the same stare
For what seems an eternity
I would give it all
Even shed a tear
I would live a lie
For some return
The cold is getting colder
Every day I stay
The moss has grown and the seeds have been sown
I’m still here in this place
Common becomes foreign
Distance means a plane
I couldn’t reach you now dear
You’ve become so far displaced
I would give it all
Even shed a tear
I would live a lie
For some return
I have made my bed
Let me sleep in it
I have made my choice
Let me live with it
Ignorance is bliss
It is bliss
How long
I would give it all
Even shed a tear
I would live a lie
For some return
Nothing stays the same
No one stays on ice
But I could for now!
For some return
For some return
VIVA VOCA
If you stopped for a second
You will see that you were human
After all
And all those people
Who came to see you
Were the first to cut you
When you did fall
No art is so timeless
That it won’t get washed away
It may take a little bit of time
But it won’t be there one day
Time will comfort you
It will remove the jagged edges inside of you
And you’ll be smooth just like the mirror
Judging your decay
If you stopped for a second you would see
That you were built for a museum
And all those people
Who came
they stopped
Look what happened then
No art is so timeless
That it won’t get washed away
It may take a little bit of time
But it won’t be there one day
Time will comfort you
It will remove the jagged edges inside of you
And you’ll be smooth just like that mirror
Judging your decay
If you stop for a second
You will see yourself through the flawless skin you wear
And even skin with nothing on it can always rip and tear
And I say
No art is so timeless
That it won’t get washed away
It may take a little bit of time
A little
Time will comfort you
It will remove the jagged edges inside of you
And you’ll be smooth just like that mirror
Judging your decay
Decay will comfort you!
Time will comfort you!
SURPRISE
Comes as a bit of a surprise
To anyone and me
That the best Prophets are found
In the back streets
Pushing the shit up hill
Till it’s coming out their ears
Take away from the best years
Oh I believe….
(I will believe) in nothing
I could be wrong
Go on and surprise me
I wish it were so
Go on and surprise me
The sacred men with paper
Who set the wheels of motion spinning
Award themselves with things
They think they are deserving
But you don’t get any medals
For working on cold steel
Though it bites you to the bones
Oh I believe….
(I will believe) in nothing
I could be wrong
Go on and surprise me
I wish it were so
Go on and surprise me…
surprise me
Go on and surprise me
ALL THE BEST THOUGHTS
All the best thoughts they come when you are sleeping,
Daylight arrives and your hands are all clean.
The things you can do when you are sleeping
I can’t believe the things I’ve been.
Don’t deny what you can be.
Well the best thoughts they come when you are sleeping
You find out it’s only a dream
When it all fades away,
Some things still remain.
I have seen you there,
Dressed in white.
As saintly as you’re supposed to be
Caress me with that bitter shroud,
There ain’t no saints where I’m concerned.
Don’t deny what you can be.
Well the best thoughts they come when you are sleeping
You find out it’s only a dream
When it all fades away,
Some things still remain.
I have seen those eyes crashing
Coming right through the dark.
They come back to haunt me
I can’t get very far.
Oh no I can’t
All the best thoughts come when you’re sleeping
Daylight arrives and your hands are all clean…
And you’re not supposed to push me away.
WESTY GALS
So you see
‘I had a problem’
You hated my jokes
So you left me standing
When I found out
I had to move south
Couldn’t speak for at least two years
But now I’m up here
And the Westy Gals escape their time
They’ve got their $3.00 bottles of wine
And they’re feeling pretty mean towards your kind
Who wouldn’t be
A permanent loathing
Ingrained in the memory
Which I just can’t seem to shake off
It’s bitter and it’s twisted
It’s writhing inside me
It’s becoming part of my make up
And the Westy Gals escape their time
They’ve got their $3.00 bottles of wine
And they’re feeling pretty mean towards your kind
Who wouldn’t be
I’ll never go back there
But I never can leave
It’s like these nicotine stains
Forming on my teeth
But I will never do it again
I will never do what I did
I will never ever change my name
For no man
Aarh
And the Westy Gals escape their time
They’ve got their $3.00 bottles of wine
So who needs your kind
Who needs your kind
Tell me who needs your kind
Who needs your kind
IT’S MY SIN
All that is left for me now
Is nothing
And too many choices
The feeling that one gets
After hearing too many voices
I’ve left the trail, that millions before me
Have worn right down to the bitter core
It would take a truck
To pull me back
To the track
I don’t want no part of it all!
And I’m warning you
Don’t you let in, don’t you let in
It’ll get you into trouble yes it will!
It’s my sin
It’s my gin
It makes me win when I don’t know where
I’m going
I never ever know where I’m going
I’m back at the place where the sun never gets a chance
To burst it’s head through the clouds
It never does when I am here anyway
I loved this place, I loved the people
But the people are gone and they’re all overseas
They’re laughing at me
That is where I want to be right now!
And I’m warning you
Don’t you let it in, don’t you let it in
It’ll get you into trouble yes it will!
It’s my sin
It’s my gin
It makes me win when I don’t know where
I’m going
I never ever know where I’m going
I want to go home
I know when I get there
Straight away I’ll want to leave
I can’t help this urge to squander
It’s my sin
That’s what I feed
That’s what I feed
And I’m warning you, warning you
Don’t you let it in, don’t you let it in
It’ll get you into trouble yes it will
It’s my sin
It’s my gin
It makes me win when I don’t know where
I’m going
I never ever know where I’m going
It’s my sin
I’M ALIVE
Have you seen that I’m alive
That my heart beats as loudly
As anyone in this room
Would it be bold of me to try
To secure your attention
To make you look this way
Shall I stand up and yell it in your ear?
Are you receptive to the things you fear?
I’m alive!
I’m alive!
I’m alive
I’m the centre of this universe
I’m alive
A living, breathing, thinking curse
I’m alive
But you’d expect me not to be
Well I’m a shadow of what you could see
A Phantom or a Cipher
A nothing of nothingness
A number totalling zero
Just wipe it off the ledger
It means nothing to you
Nothing might remind you
Shall I stand up I’ll yell it in your ear?
Are you receptive to things that you fear?
I’m alive!
I’m alive!
I’m alive
I’m the centre of this universe
I’m alive
A living, breathing, thinking curse
I’m alive
But you’d expect me not to be
Well I’m a shadow of what you could see
See, oh!
A shadow, shining
I’m creeping around your conscience
The nightmare, it’s coming, you won’t get away
Give up it’s too late
I’m hovering in your doorway
A Vacuum A Cipher
I’m alive
I’m alive
I’m a nothing I’m a Cipher
Just a vacuum, number zero
A shadow or a Phantom
I’m a Zephyr, I’m nightmare
I’m in your head
WAVES
City lights through the open blinds
The windows are crystal clear
The seediness overwhelms itself
And crawls into my head
Waves over me
And I’m too tired to sleep
And it waves over me
Over me
He says, “There is nothing now”
There is nothing here in my brain
The nothingness overwhelms itself
Wrapping me in futile pain.
Waves over me
And I’m too tired to sleep
And it waves over me
Over me
He says, “There is nothing now”
There is nothing here in my brain
The nothingness overwhelms itself
Wrapping me in futile pain.
For it would be too late
Would be too late
It would be too late
For me
JUMPING
Jumping
Head first
Into indecision
With my eyes and my ears closed
And I’m wailing on top of the voices
Don’t ask me, where to?
I just don’t know
And what makes it worse is,
What makes it worse is,
And I’m holding
Onto my choices
Like a diplomat
I run with the flow of things
And I’m scaling
Very high terraces
Shall I stay here?
I just don’t know
And what makes it worse is,
What makes it worse is,
I never got to tell you the story
Of how my life’s ideals
Were smashed on bitter rock
Oh how my belief it crumbled
Oh how it crumbled
And now it’s lost
Jumping It’s a good thing
It’s good to never know which way
You’re going to land
It’s fickle, erratic, enticing you in
If you’re weary, you can’t always stand.
And what makes it worse is,
What makes it worse is,
I never got to live like I’m supposed to
I woke and I was changed
I’m always looking backwards
Sometimes it gets so hard
It’s never easy
It never was
What makes it worse is,
What makes it worse is….you.
WINGS OF STEEL
Oh I! I could fly
If I only had wings of steel
If I wasn’t constantly pinned down and stifled
By the things I always thought would be so real.
It brings you down
Without your wings of steel
Without your wings you will float down
You float on down
Go on and trash my ideas You think I’m crazy.
Tell that I haven’t got a mind
I’m just a walkin’ talkin’ baby doll of productivity
You believe the things you hear all the time.
It brings you down
Without your wings of steel
Without your wings you will float on down
You float on down
Shape everything that is standing
Sort it all out into useful categories
Let’s hear it for mankind
3 cheers for the glory of mankind.
Chop down the forest, foul the water, mine a big hole,
Kill each other, kick the new born, gas the earth,
Nuke the bastards for all they’re worth.
Eternal plastic, oil leaking,
Killing the fish that you are not eating
All up economic pressure…
Let’s celebrate the winner and we can get down.
And we’ll all get down
We’ll all get down
NO IDEA
Ohwa!
You don’t know,
You’ve only heard of my name
You could if you wanted to
I have no idea why you feel must
Sometimes the weirdest things
Are so important
To some of us
But you do know…
You will fail
You will fail to see through
You will fail
You will fail to see through
So I spend some time
At a local bar
Where the stares come mocking
From the fake plants
I don’t know you
I don’t know your name
I have no reason to want to
So you can shed your light and stick it
In the places that you feel it should be.
You could if you wanted to
I have no idea why you feel must
Sometimes the weirdest things
Are so important to some of us
But you do know…
You will fail
You will fail to see through
You will fail
You will fail to see through
You could if you wanted to I have no idea
why you feel must Sometimes the weirdest things
Don’t mean that much.
Arrrrrgh…
You have no idea
No idea at all
In what makes my world go around