Norma Jean : Redeemer

Lyrics

1. A GRAND SCENE FOR A COLOR FILM

Sit down!
Return to sender, I've fallen off the hint of suggestion
Unlearning the strange devices of the world
It's the end of the earth or something like it, like it
The great universal coma has arrived

We are holding our hands towards the sun
Sit down, come on sit down
Let's break out the shotguns, we're going to town

Return to sender, carried straight from the womb to the grave
Your eyes have been paled to emptiness
All things have been carved out by the unceasing haunts
Of this, the great manipulator!

The holding of our hands upwards and around the eclipsing sun
Has become empty and automatic
Sit down, sit down, come on sit down
Let's break out the shotguns, we're going to town
Let's break out the shotguns, we're going to town

You've given us user-friendly grenades!
Just what are you trying to say?
Just what are you trying to say?
Just what are you trying to say?
Just what are you trying to say?
Just what are you trying to say?
Just what are you trying to say?
Just what are you trying to say?
Just what are you trying to say?
Just what are you trying to say?

The holding of our hands upwards and around the eclipsing sun
Has become empty and automatic
Sit down, sit down, come on sit down
The holding of our hands upwards and around the eclipsing sun
Has become empty and automatic
Sit down, sit down, come on sit down

Let's break out the shotguns, we're going to town


2. BLUEPRINTS FOR FUTURE HOMES

Like miracles
Like clockwork, and like miracles
You witnessed halos
But you failed to see its horns

The illusion of intelligence
A continuous sounding bell
And can you feel the interruptions in the air?
And can you feel the static?
I've never seen you like this
Seen you

Yeah, well that's what I said
Drive, drive the vultures home
You're killing me, just bury me
Yeah, well that's what I said
I said exactly what I meant
You're killing me, just bury me

Holy ghosts and talk show hosts
How I panic as you fail
Your conscience is a wolf
Walls are being built
Deception wears its veil
And time is fleeting
Her love just will not last
And far from men you hang and sway
With no defender
Pushed around by the noise of this carefree crowd
Time is fleeting
Love just will not last

I will not sleep
While you are throwing anchors
To a drowning generation

Yeah, well that's what I said
Drive, drive the vultures home
You're killing me, just bury me
Yeah, well that's what I said
And I said exactly what I meant
You're killing me, just bury me
Yeah, yeah, well that's what I said
Yeah, well that's what I said
Yeah, well that's what I said
Yeah, well that's what I said

Hell is empty, the devils are here
Hell is empty, the devils are here
I, I will never sleep


3. A SMALL SPARK VS. A GREAT FOREST

What did you say? Don't speak
You nailed down all your words on me
It felt like a blind guide
Leading me into quicksand
Fight fair, fight fair
Not all you hear is noise
Fight fair, fight fair!
Fight fair, fight fair!

I've earthed this seed so many times
Deeply held in this skin of bark
Branches made of ash
And forest born of flame

Restless and full of poison
Shattered by a sea of dialogue
Rabid speech, like dogs with teeth
With words like a beggar, that don't speak, that don't speak
Crouched and bent out of shape

Rip this tongue out by the root
And shake, shake these walls of this pale grave
A blaze, a blaze
Is set upon the hills
A blaze, a blaze
Is set upon the hills

A blaze, a blaze
Is set upon the hills
A blaze, a blaze
Is set upon the hills

Open grave from which a great
Forest will rise
The fire collapses
The corpses I've made
This should not be
Oh how we curse
The tongue is a flame
Let there be grace

With words like a beggar, with words like a beggar
That don't speak, that don't speak
That don't speak, that don't speak
Don't speak

Rip this tongue out by the root
And shake these walls
Shake these walls of this pale grave
A blaze, a blaze
Is set upon the hills
A blaze, a blaze
Is set upon the hills

Fight fair, fight fair!
Fight fair, fight fair!
Fight fair, fight fair!
Fight fair, fight fair!
Fight fair, fight fair!
Fight fair, fight fair!
Fight fair!


4. A TEMPERAMENTAL WIDOWER

We're not going backwards
We're not going backwards
We're not going backwards
We're just killing onward, today
And put that knife away!
And put that knife away!

My first thought, a dragon
My first thought, a dragon
My first thought, a dragon
Two contending marches
And put that knife away!
And put that knife away!

She'll sting you to death
Like a swarm of hornets
From the hive
Endlessly I drift
Into this distraction
Sign my name to shame
Press hard, there are three copies

You'll put me in the grave
You'll put me in the grave

We're not going backwards
We're not going backwards
We're not going backwards
We're just killing onward, today
Put that knife away!
And put that knife away!

Making progress like that of a dead man
Constant last words, the last word
The last words


5. THE END OF ALL THINGS WILL BE TELEVISED

All we know will be folded
A day of clouds
Creation waits...

Get away blue collar instrument
Get away politicians and priests
Refined to consume
It will be laid down
On the necks of the pure
The proud and the damned

Your day will come
Turn the page, embrace your
Comforting company
The sun beats down on your
Comforting company
Everything is burning because

Tonight the south is on fire!
The south is on fire
The south is on fire
The south is on fire
The south is on fire
The south is on fire
The south is on fire
The south is on fire
The south is on fire

Creation waits in eager expectation
Anxious, patient
Heaven will pause

Get away blue collar instrument
Get away politicians and priests
Refined to consume
It will be laid down
On the necks of the pure
The proud and the...
Comforting company
The sun beats down on your
Comforting company
Everything is burning from your
Comforting company
The sun beats down on your
Comforting company
The seas are boiling

Out comes the light
Awake and rehearse
Out comes the light
Awake and rehearse
Out comes the light
Awake and rehearse
Out comes the demons
I never saw you
Out comes the mercy
Shutting down hell
Bite down until it bleeds
Out comes the exit

All things complete
O infamous city, full of turmoil, I'm terrified at your collapse
The kings, they shudder with horror, their faces distorted with fear
Endless empires gently brushed away in the blink of an eye
All creation, wilted

Captain, the ship is sinking
Have mercy
Captain, the ship is sinking
Have mercy
Captain, the ship is sinking
Have mercy
Captain, the ship is sinking
Have mercy
Have mercy
Have mercy
Have mercy
Have mercy


6. SONGS SOUND MUCH SADDER

We'll be legends
We are smashed men, still moving
We've tried everything in the book
No stranger to failure, death with a steady heartbeat
Scratching into any surface it wants
Joy and beauty rejected so many times
A world of hurt, a heart of false hope

And while we thought that we were learning how to live
We have been learning how to die
I should have known, we will be legends

Our hopes and dreams, our worst nightmares
Our worst nightmares have now come true
Tonight when this deep sleep falls on men
Driven by an instinct more powerful than life itself
From horror to hope, from hope and devastation

And while we thought that we were learning how to live
We have been learning how to die
I should have known, we will be legends

Overfed and unconcerned
It came with teeth and claw
Oh, hated form of emotion
You have become so obvious
My friend, the fatal habit of being myself

Ok, there's hope, step down with all your friends
Ok, there's hope, step down with all your friends
Ok, there's hope, step down with all your friends
Ok, there's hope, step down with all your friends
Ok, there's hope, step down with all your


7. THE LONGEST LASTING STATEMENT

Will the body be abandoned? Will it?
Improvement is no redemption
Unbelief is no diversion
Drenched in blood, soaked in grace
Take this body

A sound that has no sight
Two thousand years
Two thousand years until they crash never begging for return

I was stabbed through the neck
You will take this body, you will take this there, for the land
You will take this body, you will take this there
You will take this body, you will take this there
There is not a separation

You will take this body, you will take this there
You will take this body, you will take this there

We will, we will, we'll run straight to the murder
We'll run straight to the murder
We'll run straight to the murder
We'll run straight to the murder

We'll run, we'll run straight to the murder
We'll run straight to the murder
We'll run straight to the murder
We'll run straight to the murder

We'll run straight to the murder
We'll run straight to the murder


8. AMNESTY PLEASE

Astounding! Let us consider our current state
A string of events and I tied the first knot
You're an anchor and I won't be drug down
Because no matter what

Burn this to ashes
Ashes and framework

A dying man needs to die, as a tired man needs to sleep
And there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist

Burn this to ashes
Ashes and framework

You are forgiven
But this just does not mean that what was done is okay
Trust is destroyed for you and me
What's done is done and this will never be right
The sun has gone dry
So we can sleep forever

You can be free to turn your back
I'm not holding a gun

Trust has been destroyed for you and me
What's done is done and this will never be right
The sun has gone dry
So we can sleep forever

Burn this to ashes
Ashes and framework

Trust has been destroyed for you and me
What's done is done and this will never be right
The sun has gone dry
So we can sleep forever

And I've been so bitter towards you
And I've been so bitter
I've been so bitter towards you


9. LIKE SWIMMING CIRCLES

I don't care what you said
I won't sink in the flood
But I listen to every noise
That you make and make sense of what you say
And I take note to every sound

We're not the same again
We're not the same again

Don't you dare insinuate me
Don't you dare insinuate me
Don't you dare
Don't you dare insinuate me

You don't care what you create
You can't swim in this flood
And you'll swallow with every wave
That comes by and take, take what you need
You'll still swallow with every tide

We're not the same again
We're not the same again

Don't you dare insinuate me
Don't you dare insinuate me
Don't you dare
Don't you dare insinuate me
Don't you dare

To hell with that!
To hell with that!
To hell with that!
To hell with that!
To hell with that!
To hell with that!

Don't you dare insinuate me
Don't you dare insinuate me
Don't you dare
Don't you dare
Don't you dare insinuate me
Don't you dare insinuate me
Don't you dare
Don't you dare
Don't you dare

To hell with that!
To hell with that!


10. CEMETERY LIKE A STAGE

There will be no more color
Broken I stand here
A new creation
On the stage of history
Where map and compass
Mean nothing at all
The arrows are in me
My spirit drinks poison
I joined the avalanche
Just to feel alive

I remember sitting in
My mother's room
And I watched them cry
We're not supposed to be here
Tonight I will sleep on the floor
Oh, such weight

All colors rushing back
Restoring frail life
We're broken here
We're ruined here

There are strangers
In my house
Tripping over
Themselves to
White wash this
Disaster
I am young but
I'm not blind

All colors rushing back
Restoring frail life
We're broken here
We're ruined here
All colors rushing back
Restoring frail life
We're broken here
We're ruined here

The voice of heaven
Speaks with time
A new understanding
Dedication
This will never fade
I guess the body
Means nothing, means nothing at all

Broken and unbroken
Broken and unbroken
Broken and unbroken
Broken and unbroken

All colors rushing back
Restoring frail life
We're broken here
We're ruined here
All colors rushing back
Restoring frail life
We're broken here
We're ruined here

All colors rushing back
Restoring frail life
And we're broken here
And we're ruined here
All colors rushing back
Restoring frail life
And we're broken here
And we're ruined here

We're broken here
We're ruined here


11. NO PASSENGER: NO PARASITE

Wake up
No passenger
No parasite


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