1. ARROWS PIERCE THE FOG

Whispers in the distance, blurred waves
Unseen torment, cruel games
Louder do the whispers come
Through unclear sight... burden dawns

These arrows through the fog
Piercing skin and bone
Embedded within so harsh
Suffering alone...

Shapes move in dancing trances
Gathering their aim
These dark imprints, circling...
Drawing bows of jealousy

These arrows through the fog
Cracking the sky with endless lies
Spectre legions, so grey in the shadows
Spilling blood upon the soil

But they are pitiful... worthless


2. ...ON THE SHOULDERS OF GIANTS

If I have seen farther
It is by standing
On the shoulders of giants
If I have seen farther
We are like dwarfs
On the shoulders of giants

We have seen the void
And the gloom that waits within
Not because our eyes seize the light
Or because we are giants ourselves

But because they elevate us
And by their immense stature add to ours


3. ENDROOM

It's as if you didn't notice
When you're in front, I'm behind
I'd tell the world
It passed us by

It's as if you didn't notice
Reassuring you left me without speech
I'd tell the world
The wind muted my words

It's as if you didn't notice
There were moments when I lost myself
I'd tell the world
We were playing hide-and-seek

It's as if you didn't know
I still see you in the morning light
I'd tell the world
It's better to have loved and lost

It's as if you didn't know
This is the last room that I'll see
There's no world to tell
That you meant well


4. ACTA NON VERBA

He ambles across the lifeless hardpan
Sunburnt hands propped upon gun-belts
Sandblasted eyes set sight on the soil
He squints and spits onto the bone-dry earth

Spurs strike silt as he strolls into town
Doors and windows shut up tight
A curtain sways in the corner of his eye
Plate glass splinters with his bullet's bite

Thunderous cries roar from buildings
Citizens stream out, brass cases take flight
Round after round hammers through the small town
With feet stuck like glue, every man he outdrew

Sunlight shimmers off a single gun-barrel
A smile splits his face as bodies hit earth
Pity him for his eyes are sandblasted
He ambles across the lifeless hardpan


5. TWIN SUNS & WOLVES' TONGUES

Be neither borrower nor lender
Be neither master nor slave
Be neither savage nor gracious
Be neither dead nor lust for life


6. TO GIVE MEANING TO THE MEANINGLESS

She's a wolf in sheep's clothing
But beauty's in the eye of the beholder
I wish we'd never met
So much so (that) it sets my teeth on edge

The blind leading the blind
Let's hope they turn a blind eye
A foregone conclusion
In a fool's paradise

Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread
Spare the rod and spoil the child
Why keep a dog and bark yourself?

Let not the sun go down on your wrath
You had your fifteen minutes of fame
Like a moth to a flame
Or just a fly in the ointment


7. SCOURGE

Mary and Joseph, brother and sister
Incestuous lust, ended with Jesus
Unfolded bud, unmarred, untouched
Although he feared disturb, in throws of teared perturb

Herself unveiled fondly to him
On her knees in a posture of prayer
Foreplay embark, tongue pushing past
Licking a path through her dust

Sweet blood rains upon the hay
The saviour's head her cunt flayed

Shunned and spurned in despair
One last rending effort
Her body loose, dribbles blood on the floor
Vomit the child from between her legs... dead !


8. NIHIL OBSTAT

Hardly noticed by those nearby
At least one witness drove on by
Flashlight blinds from the passenger door
Gunshots ring-out, ripping open a whore

Another young girl, battered and dead
One hand on her throat, my knife it shreds
Baby in the backseat
Watching mother turn to cold meat

Another victim runs round in a darkened room
Jagged nails in the floor, and no shoes
Tied over an ant hill to hear her scream
Hung by her thumbs and burnt in the sun