Gone, Gone, Gone
My head is like an unblocked drain
My head is full of brains
My instincts are to kiss this train
I hear it coming
You're conscious says mind how you go
Your alter still says no
Your morals ebb
Your morals flow
Your mouth is running
The normal rules do not apply
And mine is not to reason why
Gone, gone, gone
My arms are like two shipyard crains
That may not work again
My fortunes wax
My fortunes wane
My sense is sundered
A cup that cheers a cheerless heart
The path I dare not chart
I look askance, not quite the part
Someone has blundered
Though all the rules do not apply
And mine is not to reason why
Gone, gone, gone
To all this grand old scheme of things
To all the pain it brings
To all those who pull the strings
I bid good ridence
To pass the time, to coin a phrase
I meant a million was
To counterfeit my salad days
And split the difference
Though all the rules do not apply
And mine is not to reason why
Though all the rules do not apply
And mine is not to reason why
Gone, gone, gone
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Enlighten Me
It was cheap at half the price
Took a shovel where a spoon would suffice
Now I can't see you
Now I can't see you
Regimental in my way
Detrimental at the end of the day
But you won't be told
No, you won't be told
I will be, I will be
I won't be frightened
I will be, I will be
I'll be enlightened
Word of pain you so to say
There's a splinter in your
Splendor today
I could believe you
I would believe you
There's a world inside your world
There's a glass house where the insults are held
But you won't be told
No, you won't be told
I will be, I will be
I won't be frightened
I will be, I will be
I'll be enlightened
Took a chainsaw to my mind
Did arrange I'd left a sad world behind
But all will be fine
Yes, all will be fine
I will be, I will be
I won't be frightened
I will be, I will be
I won't be enlightened
I will be, I will be
(You're shy _______)
I won't be frightened
(You try but still the words won't come)
I will be, I will be
(You're shy _______)
I won't be enlightened
I will be, I will be
(You're shy _______)
I won't be frightened
(You try but still the words won't come)
I will be, I will be
(Your chance had turned)
I won't be enlightened
I will be, I will be
I won't be frightened
I will be, I will be
I won't be enlightened
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Cut and Dried
You've seen enough
You've been too much
You've gone too far
And when thine lie offends
Thee prop against the bar
You ________ awkward stage
As you approach middle age
Hard to take
Hard to gauge
So goodbye cut and dry
Nice to have known you
But something went awry
And I've outgrown you
I slither awhile
before I shed my skin
And laugh when you said
there was no such thing as sin
No, no there is no greater me
The lad inspired by total greed
'Til it breaks
'Til it bleeds
So goodbye cut and dry
Nice to have known you
But something went awry
And I've outgrown you
And all your confidence
has gathered dust on shelves
And all those who lent an ear
Heard no good of themselves
No market here for sound advice
And those who seek must pay the price
Blood from stone
Blood of Christ
So goodbye cut and dry
Nice to have known you
But something went awry
And I've outgrown you
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King of Your Castle
Nature abhors a vacuum
I have read
Tell me how'd you explain
Your empty head
You hurt the one you love
Because you can
As if violence was a virtue
In a man
The king of your castle
Right behind you
How I'll blind you
A fist full of feeling
Blaming it all on lack of my love
The mad, glad days of romance
Were the best
When you kept your cards pressed tight
against your chest
But soon, soon, all too soon
She'd understand
And she'd see and feel
The back of your right hand
The king of your castle
Right behind you
Power blinds you
A fist full of feeling
Blame it all on lack of mother love
King Rad, God on a barstool
Hold your court
So self-centered, so deluded
So self-taught
Home bound sound as a pound
You've bought your round
Round one begins tonight
Behind closed doors
The king of your castle
Right behind you
How I'll blind you
A fist full of feeling
Blaming it all on lack of my love
The king of your castle
Right behind you
How I'll blind you
A fist full of feeling
Blaming it all on lack of my love
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Devilment
Devilment's accomplishment
The devil remembers you found
Your true vocation
To live beyond your station
________ leaves wrapped in quotations
Rolling out saliva on salvation
All the more
And all that you've been looking for
Floored by design
Speak as you find
Speaking as you find
All the one skin
All the one mind
Floored by design
Speak as you find
Speaking as you find
Staggering blind
As you chase time
Waste time
Blank expression, blank verse
It could get worse
If all your past preceeds you
To find the soul to take you
________ shout of indignation
Lost their worth
And meaning in translation
Unhappiness will quantify the moral
Floored by design
Speak as you find
(Speaking as you find)
All the one skin
All the one mind
(One mind)
Floored by design
Speak as you find
(Speaking as you find)
Staggering blind
As you chase time
As you waste time
As you waste time
Devilment embarassment
The face in your old mirror
Now Just hates you
And you _______ you
Eyes lost in comtemplation
Hands are trembling
Heads gone on vacation
And settled scores are all
That you've been fighting for
Floored by design
Speak as you find
(Speaking as you find)
All the one skin
All the one mind
(One mind)
Floored by design
Speak as you find
Speaking as you find
Staggering blind
As you chase time
As you waste time
As you waste time
You waste time
You waste time
You waste time
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Thick Skinned World
Ungainly thing
Unworthy soul
To have to hold
To terrorize
Unsightly love
Unchecked unchanged
A love deranged
In thin disquise
All in a good cause
I suppose
'Come as you like
As a lifetime goes
A thick skinned world
Will feign concern
For reasons we
Have still to learn
Preserve the world
For baby's sake
For baby must
Accumulate
All in a good cause
I suppose
'Come as you like
As a lifetime goes
Chances have been wasted
Thrown to the wind
Grist to the mill
Gall is all I've tasted
Come away, come away
Come away, come away
Come away, come away
All in a good cause
I suppose
'Come as you like
As a lifetime goes
All in a good cause
I suppose
'Come as you like
As a lifetime goes
As a lifetime goes
As a lifetime goes
As a lifetime goes
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Freaks Dwell
Lost your reason
Lost your game plan
Sit you down
I'll set the scene man
Brilliant ___________
Bronze bohemians
Thought they were
A football team man
Let me take you to a hell
Where all the freaks dwell
Passed my god of woe
Pleasure pasture
Business sometimes
One more embrace
For the good times
Self-made man will
Unmake beds sure
Gagged and bound
And fights like hellock
Let me take you to the hell
Where all the freaks dwell
Passed my god of woe
Let me take you to the hell
Where all the heads swell
Pay no mind at all
Cross your heart and
Hope to prosper
All your sin will be forgiven
Needs they muster
Devil drives the biggest car
You've never driven
Let me take you to the hell
Where all the freaks dwell
Passed my god of woe
Let me take you to the hell
Where all the heads swell
Pay no mind at all
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Senseless
I will not wait, I will not see
The things you crave are lost on me
You took some earth. Gave it a name
You plant a cross and trade the blame
Dyed in the wool and dead of mind
You took your stand. Left sense behind
You stake it all on a sense of place
And lose your head to save your face
You've had your say
Close your mouth
If you know the way
Then point it out
Point it out
The ways and means as yet unclear
I only know where not to steer
I have no plan, but this I know
You're said your peace in God's main goal
You've had your say
Close your mouth
If you know the way
Then point it out
Point it out
All our voices out of tune
All our graveyards full too soon
What's the matter, let it drop
Stupid, senseless, make it stop
Stupid, senseless, make it stop
All our voices out of tune
(I will not wait)
All our graveyards full too soon
(I will not see)
All your money in the bank
(The things you crave)
How it festered, how it stank
(Are lost on me)
Lose a thing you hold dear
(You took some earth)
All our freedoms disappear
(Gave it a name)
What's the matter, let it drop
(You plant a cross)
Stupid, senseless, make it stop
(And trade the blame)
Stupid, senseless, make it stop
Stupid, senseless, make it stop
Stupid, senseless, make it stop
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Flaming Red
Failure's child is weak and mild
Wide-eyed sad and strange
A moment is the most
She'll hang her day upon
Others plan a life
Without the faintest hope of change
And belay all her knowledge
Of where hope has gone
In these ugly times
An ugly mind will have its say
And your betters would not
Have it any other way
Oh my eyesfor the sins
I may not shed
Burn like coals
Inside my head
Smoldering black
And flaming red
Oh my eyesfor the sins
I may not shed
Burn like coals
Inside my head
Smoldering black
And flaming red
Reconciled and pacified
By bread and circus clowns
Who keep you all in stitches
As they keep you down
Dust yourself down
Tell me what on earth
The fuss was for
'Cause what you've seen is nothing
To what's still in store
In these ugly times
An ugly mind will have its say
And your betters would not
Have it any other way
Oh my eyesfor the sins
I may not shed
Burn like coals
Inside my head
Smoldering black
And flaming red
Oh my eyesfor the sins
I may not shed
Burn like coals
Inside my head
Smoldering black
And flaming red
Oh my eyesfor the sins
I may not shed
Burn like coals
Inside my head
Smoldering black
And flaming red
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False Goodbyes
Whisper who dares
Your daylight glows
I doubt that it shows me
Covered in glory
A problem shared
Is entertainment
In your hands
Ain't life bland
What matter or
What consequence in truth
All our lives strange honor
In a realm of false goodbyes
Suspend belief
But keep it brief
Thereby hangs a tale friend
Hung from your wit's end
And is that all
The level best
That you can do
More fool you
What matter or
What consequence in truth
All our lives strange honor
In a realm of false goodbyes
Such dedication in the plot
Such animation and for what
A pile of nothing life is not
And when the crowd come out to play
I'll read the lesson for today
About the one that got away
What matter or
What consequence in truth
All our lives strange honor
In a realm of false goodbyes
What matter or
What consequence in truth
All our lives strange honor
In a realm of false goodbyes
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