1. LABELS

Blend
Faces spawned by dust
Salty taste of fame
Bitter, sweet
Lonely demented soul
Where to go?

In my place a statue frozen numb
In your place a set of numbers
Lonely tormented soul
Where to go?

Rage
Urge to recall
Saltier tastes of hate

Take me back to the day
For my renewal
Let the diversity of my blend
Be seen

Blend to choose again
To distort again
To label again
Wear your brightest of reds
Through the general inspection

Tend to your faith
Tend to your wealth
See through your greed

Blend
Faces spawned by dust

Seize the moment to salute you
We'll seize the moment to salute you
We'll seize each moment to salute you


2. STARDUST INC.

Venus the first of three
To congratulate me
Sincere apology
Apples and candy for your wounds
Sweets and sugar from the second
Of three

Stardust incorporated
Gentlemen
Hold your grudge
Seize the moment
To salute your saviours

Line up you merry ones
One at a time
In the name of monetary union
This is your dream
Your orgy

Odin the last of three
To overwhelm me
Sincere atrocity
A second go at the marketplace
The strongest to the highest bidder
Look pale
Show fright
Deny
Agree

Stardust incorporated
Gentlemen
Hold your grudge
Seize the moment
To salute your saviours

Line up you merry ones
One at a time
In the name of monetary union
This is your dream
Your orgy

Blend to choose again
To distort again to label again
Wear your brightest of reds
Through the general inspection

Stardust incorporated
Gentlemen
Hold your grudge
Seize the moment
To salute your saviours


3. EPITAPH

Await my breath
The colours blend to extract
Nutrition
From black and white

And off we go
Into the colour saturated part of you
Count me in
The fraud you're planning

Now the peasant lies still
For he knows the lot
Knows why and when and whom to blame

Set the controls for pleasant dreams
Speak the liars tongue
To wake the ancient gods

Set the controls for higher grounds
Trust me to fetter my thoughts
Count me in

That epitaph
Met my eye through the wilderness
Now the crescent lies still
For it covers the lot

Sweet saturation
When colours leave no space to fill
I dare you, count me in
Count me in the fraud you're planning

That epitaph
Met my eye through the wilderness
As a monument of that fraud
Colours leave the spaces in shades of grey
And those salty tastes
That labels the dissidents

Morning mist
One freezing night awaits your death
Salty taste
Lures that child to lick
That child lies still for it knows the lot

Final solution for the colourless
And I'm off
I'll count you all in

That epitaph
One freezing night awaits your death
Colours spawned by dust
Recall the saltier taste of hate


4. LAVENDER

Lavender
Returns to my consciousness by stealth
The smell that lured me astray
The paleness of my body
Embraces that warmth
That new warmth, from a distant sun

Behind those gates there's no one to tell
My invisible trail
The cleansing sleep is yet to come

It's staring right back at me
The oceans in my eyes lie still

Innocence
Silenced

Deceived
Cannot grasp what has been poured into me
As they watch me on that screen
As they lure my lips to taste that kiss
I see love in you my sweet
I see love through you

Silenced

Lavender
Filters through me as I recall
Alienation, indifference

This fate that has been laid upon me
I pray for stamina, for guidance
I pray for you my sweet
Am I one of the beloved
The wanted, the rejected
The cynics, the pure:

The beggars are the threats
We'll suffer our demands
Not yet will the slaves of passion and hunger be set free

As the sun awakes to meet its successor
This work of art, this portrait
Of what cannot be imagined
Will fade away
Lavender

...returns to my consciousness by stealth


5. RED ALERT

(Instrumental)


6. NERVE

Posture son
Delay faces twirl
Show nerve
Show bliss
A daring young mind
To me
That frightened son of yours
What does he do?

I've got the nerve you'll see

Skeletal excuse for a body
Who do you scare?
Delay bodies blend
Much obliged
But there are too few
Set adrift for the blissful memory

I've got the nerve you'll see

Blend faces spawned
I've got the nerve you'll see
A daring young is still a label

Posture son
Delay faces twirl
Show nerve
Show bliss
A daring young mind to me
That frightened son of yours
What does he do?

I've got the nerve you'll see


7. JUXTAPOSE 1: AS A REMINDER

Set this knob at eight as a reminder
Patience and confidence my friend
Courage and all of that
That rugged surface meets my cheek
Again

Behind these gates there's no one to tell
No one followed my breath
The cleansing sleep is yet to come

Their candid hearts lie still
Don't see an end to what will come
This rugged surface greets my cheek
Again

Am I one of the beloved
The wanted, the rejected
The cynics, the pure
Now who am I?

I recall that blessing scent
Lavender
Set the controls anew
As a reminder

Eat that pill as a reminder
Patience and confidence my friend
Courage and all of that
That rugged surface meets my cheek
Again


8. JUXTAPOSE 2: CONFRONT

We'll seize this moment to salute you

Raiders come to sign the last of my gifts
I give to thee with honour:
What was given yesterday
Spirals down into oblivion

This will be no more you see
I give to thee with joy: and all of that
What was taken yesterday
Not yet beyond remedy

My gift a capital offence
The eclipse of beasts and ghosts

Raiding beasts come to sign the last of my gifts
Put us all at witness stand

Fear is gone
Hope is gone
That rugged surface greets my cheek
Again


9. JUXTAPOSE 3: SUMMER SITS HERE RAINING

Welcome to the fall my friend
sit down by the fire
a seething mass of men you are
united by a thought
a wish

Apart from me you saw it coming
as the first night repelled its dawn
smelled the roses that were painted for me

I let them lie, let them tell me what to see

You're so scarce so hard to find
summer shows no grudge against you
summer sits here raining through the day

You let them lie, let them tell us what to believe

Stares that label you
enables you to hum along
summer sits here raining
in your shed in my shed
we gather behind our labels
and summer sits there raining through the day