1. DALE

I awoke in ember days
Wail with me
So as to fade out with me

Numb down this tender pain
Let me fade by your hand
Then follow me into my dale

Dig deep in the mire
Saving me
Sweet seed in the fire
Crystal flame

Numb down this tender pain
Let me fade by your hand
Then follow me into my dale


2. KILL THE COLOSSUS


Iron bars, cold patina –
Once renowned, now on cold ground
7-ton paroxysm –
Clank of chain, dungeon symptom
Thousand throats, screaming mob,
Crying havoc, trumpet sound
Run for life, godhead frown,
Raving massif, to trample down

Megalophobia

Cock your guns and
Kill the colossus

Black powder smoke
In blood-sodden lungs

Lance its flank
Kill the colossus

Iron bars, cold patina –
Once renowned, now on cold ground
7-ton paroxysm –
Clank of chain, dungeon symptom

Megalophobia


3. PROTOGRAMMER

War sleeps at the bottom of my heart
She sways at the bottom of my heart

Through the sound of battle
I hear you sing my name
Song gave birth to fury
With song will end all pain

Protogrammar


4. NOAH

Eyes wider than the sky fall into the light
Lungs of a lion, heart of a giant
All undone - immortal echo
Sleep in ruins til fragments guide the eye

And ever and anon
You’ll get seasick
On the tide of desire

Then dive headlong
In this sapphire ocean
And join our choir

You will not
Recall this summer
But we will
We will

Eyes wider than the sky fall into the light
Sleep in ruins til fragments guide the eye

And ever and anon
You’ll get seasick
On the tide of desire

Then dive headlong
In this sapphire ocean
And join our choir


5. SIDEWINDER

Sidewinder and the sniffer-dog
Medicine man reading bones on a rag rug
Cat eye for light to distil
Phenyl-ring-halo for void to kill

How close can you get
Without touching it?

Reap along crop circles
Every slave song cast shades of purple
No water out here, dry lips bleeding
Lysergic tear for color healing

How close can you get
Without touching it?

To seize your hand
As black fangs inject their poison
To seize your hand
As black angst injects a poison
To seize your hand
As I'm carried away by the wail of sirens


6. CORRIDOR

Thou shalt not halt
Neither your tears
Nor your wavering heart
Are to linger here

Find an unlocked door
Box up open sore
Turn the family vault
Into a beatnik lair…

Corridor

Narrow aisle
Last door ahead
Behind they say
The tired be in clover

Narrow aisle
Walls coming closer
Crimson eye
Glazing over

Corridor

In a gale remote
Where without a sound
Countless ship wrecks
Slowly ran aground

Thou shalt strive
Cause neither your tears
Nor your wavering heart
Are to linger here

Corridor

[We’ve been in this tunnel of light all along, can't you see?]