Porcupine

The Cutter

Who's on the seventh floor
Brewing alternatives?
What's in the bottom drawer
Waiting for things to give?

Spare us the cutter
Spare us the cutter
Couldn't cut the mustard

Conquering myself until
I see another hurdle approaching
Say we can, say we will
Not just another
Drop in the ocean

Come to the free-for-all
With sellotape and knives
Some of us six feet tall
We will escape our lives

Spare us the cutter
Spare us the cutter
Couldn't cut the mustard

Conquering myself until
I see another hurdle approaching
Say we can, say we will
Not just another
Drop in the ocean

Am I the happy loss?
Will I still recoil
When the skin is lost?
Am I the happy cross?
Will I still be soiled
When the dirt is off?

Conquering myself until
I see another hurdle approaching
Say we can, say we will
Not just another
Drop in the ocean
Ocean...

Watch the fingers close
When the hands are cold

Am I the happy loss?
Will I still recoil
When the skin is lost?
Am I the worthy cross?
Will I still be soiled
When the dirt is off?

The Back of Love

I'm on the chopping block
Chopping off my stopping thoughts
Self-doubt and selfism
Were the cheapest things I ever bought

When you say it's love
D'ya mean the back of love?
When you say it's love
D'ya mean the back of love?

We're taking advantage of
Breaking the back of love
We're taken advantage of
Breaking the back of love

Easier said than done you said
But it's more difficult to say
With eyes bigger than our bellies
We want to but we can't look away

What were you thinking of
When you dreamt that up?
What were you thinking of
When you dreamt that up?

Taking advantage of
Breaking the back of love

When you're surrounded by a simple chain of events
Eventually you'll shack those shackles off

We can't tell our left from right
But we know we love extremes
Getting to grips with the ups and downs
Because there's nothing in between

When you say it's love
D'ya mean the back of love?
When you say that's love
D'ya mean the back of love?

Taking advantage of
Breaking the back of love
What were you thinking of
When you dreamt that up?

We're taking advantage of
Breaking the back of love
Breaking the back
Of love

My White Devil

John Webster was
One of the best there was
He was the author of
Two major tragedies
The White Devil and
The Duchess of Malfi...

Change in the never
Do I get the choice?
Chancing forever
When do we get the spoils?

Now that love is upside down
It's down to us to say that
Our monkey brains
Content to laugh
When laughing wanes
It's time to change

Me on the when
I will be him
You on the then
We will be them

Here it comes again
Knocking on its feet
Here it comes again
Knocking on its feet

Don't say it's like
On the barrier...

Is it enough now
To tell me you matter
When you haven't a clue how
To bring me to tears?
How many leaves must you crumble
'Til you believe what I told you?
That your lies are just stumbles?
Breaking your legs on the way to

Changing the never
Do I get the choice?
Chance in forever
When do we get the spoils?

Clay

Am I the half of half and half
Or am I the half that's whole?
Got to be one with all my halves
Is my worthy earthly goal...

Are you the heavy half
Of the lighter me?
Are you the ready part
Of the lighter me?

When I came apart
I wasn't made of sand
When you fell apart
Clay crumbled in my hands

On with a life-low
Statues and halos
Am I the half of half and half
Or am I the half that's whole?
Am I the half that's whole?...

Are you the wrongful half
Of the rightful me?
Are you the Mongol half
Of the cerebral me?

When I came apart
I wasn't made of sand
When you fell apart
Clay crumbled in my hands

If we exercise just some control
When we exercise our sum control

Oh isn't it nice
When you're heart is made out of ice?...

Are you the heavy half
Of the lighter me?
Are you the ready part
Of the hesitant me?

Am I the "shall" in potential
Or am I the "suck" in "cess"?
Pools of delusion deluge me
Am I the more or less?...

When I came apart
I wasn't made of sand
When you fell apart
Clay crumbled in my hands
When I came apart
I wasn't made of sand

When I was the Cain
You were the Abel

When I came apart
Clay crumbled in my hands

Porcupine

There is no comparison
Between things about to happen
Missing the point of our mission
Will we become misshapen?

A change of heart
Will force the veil
Nailed to the door
To all avail

There are no divisions
Between things about to collide
Hitting the floor with our vision
A focus at some point arrives

A change of mind
Will force the veil
To hit the head
And set the sails

A change of skin
Will shed the tail
Hung on the wall
For use again

A change of heart
Will force the veil....
There is no comparison
Between things about to happen

Sick as a pig this pork is mine
I'm pining for the pork of the porcupine
I'd best be on my best behavior
Best behave yourself, you hear?....

Sick as a pig
This pork is mine
Pine for the pork of the porcupine...

I'm beginning to see the light
Beginning to see the light

Heads Will Roll

Partly politic
Heads will roll
Mostly politic
God must call
'Til the winning hand
Does belong to me

What if no-one's calling?
God, then, must be falling

If I ever met you
In a private place
I would stare you
You into the ground
That's how I articulate
The value of one face
The value of my face

What if no-one's calling?
God, then, must be falling...

When all the bottom has dropped out
And sadly times are the times I love
That's when all of the lights go out
Oh yes, did you know I came so close?

Partly politic
Heads must roll
Mostly politic
God must call
'Til the ruling hand
Does belong to me

What if no-one's calling?
God, then, must be falling...

Ripeness

I found a thing
In a bad room
Changed the shape of the world for long enough
Got the boat to
As far as I could afford it to take me
It was far enough

Mature you said
At the wrong time
Broke my aging skin
'Cos age was mine
Had a field day
Smelt like roses
Harvesting my thought
'Cos up was time

When you asked the question
Did you miss the meaning?
When you met your challenge
Did you go out fighting?

We will discover
Ripeness twice over

Sing your salt
Worth its weight
In God gold
Curse its fate

When you asked the question
Did you miss the meaning?
When you met your challenge
Did you go out fighting?

How will we recover
Ripeness when it's over?

I lost something
In a big room
Changed the shape of the world for long enough

When you asked the question
Did you miss the meaning?
When you met your challenge
Did you go out fighting?
When you climbed on top
Did you fall on shadows?
When clambering off
Did you fall on rainbows?...

How will we recover
Ripeness when it's over?

Are you fuel for the fire?

Higher Hell

Smack in the middle of today
Got to learn new words
Merely got to simply say
I think we all misheard

Cracked in the middle of me
Have to find my heart
Smiling equates with happy
But I know they're miles apart

Just like my
Lower Heaven
You know so well
My higher hell

When confronted by
Continuing the course
Will you open up
Or do I have to force
The words right out
Of your stubborn mouth
Stunted of course
Guilty in their growth

Just like my
Lower Heaven
You know so well
My higher hell

Crashed through the floor today
I couldn't find my legs
I suppose you live and learn
Learn it again and again

Smack in the middle of today
Got to find new words
Merely got to simply say
I think we all misheard

Just like my
Lower Heaven
You know so well
My higher hell

Gods Will Be Gods

How can you pretend
When there's so much at stake
That it's a different world
And your hands don't shake?

At the end of the room
In front of the bar
We knew that soon
We'd be making our mark
(Mark my words)

Why do you defend
The part you have to take
With your fingers on the world
Hoping your hands don't shake?

When you get the time
Why not think about
Connecting yours and mine
And turning in to out?
(Out of it and into it)

Back to the bar
I was feeling it
The hole in the floor
Was where I would sit

Positions will be lost
Things will fall in place
The falling will not stop
'Til we have found our face
(Let's face it, we're in Heaven)

Oh will you mention
My name
To one
Oh, will you mention
My name
To me

Gods will be gods but my one forgot I was made out of skin
And bones will be bones but when I came home there was no-one in
So where were you staying
While I was out praying?
Was nobody laying
The foundations?
The fulfilling
Of our killing

How can you pretend
That there's so much at stake
When it's a different world
And everything shakes?

Shake baby shake
Roll baby roll
Gonna hit the highest heights and
Never be told to
Roll baby roll
Shake baby shake
Gonna hit the highest heights and
Make a mistake

In Bluer Skies

What needs must be, I realize
I'm walking out from blackened skies
You say belief is in our eyes
But how can I believe in blind lies?

I'm counting on your heavy heart
Could it keep me from falling apart?

Have we been born to follow
Tied to a bitter reign?
Or will we begin to grow
Bound by this simple chain?
Will we evolve tonight
Sparkle of brittle stars?
Can we dissolve tonight
Held by your hungry arms?

I'm counting on your heavy heart
Could it keep me from falling apart?

Why weren't you ready
Ready to grow?
Was your heart heavy
Heavy with sorrow?
Hurting and heavy
We could have both been grown
Now your heart's heavy
Heavy with sorrow

I'm counting on your heavy heart
Could it keep me from falling apart?

What needs have been, you'll realize
I found myself in bluer skies
I know belief is in your eyes
But we can't believe in blind lies

I'm counting on your heavy heart
To keep me from falling apart