1. SEQUOIA THRONE

Did you come here to kill or did you come here to die?
Or did we really think that spaceships would descend from the sky

Bending light and beaming forth across space time to see us scared in the reflection of their oil black eyes?
And stalk us as a predator like our movies imply?
They're not the ones who've come to kill us
Come to fill us full of blame
They're no the ones who hate us

And they are not the one's who mutilate our animals
Or travel through the stars
They're not the ones who cause us harm
We are (x3)

We are still life in cold blood
And we feel nothing
We are still life in cold blood
And we feel nothing

Hell bent on heaven (x4)

We are still life (x3)

They're not the ones who cause us harm
We are
Did you come here to kill, or did you come here to die?
We are still life in cold, we are still life in cold blood
And we feel, we feel

Stuffing corpses full of shit and faith
They bloviate about a future beyond the moon
To bring about another planets doom
To discover peacful life and beat our war drum to its tune
Unless my prayers are answered our end is coming soon


2. NO STARS OVER BETHLEHEM

I'll burn all the lives of this angel Illuminati
When St. Michael sized means find an end to justify

A belief to fortify this stained glass disgrace
Too beautiful to change or perhaps too scared
The truth behind our lives will be erased

A, a crusader begging for a crusade in which to die
Where lead locusts pierce the heart of men
And tie the tongues of those who lie

Cut the sinner, bleed redemption through the city streets
That resonate in prayers of this never should be

Someone plunged a dagger deep into God's chest
And when He groaned, it laid our entire civilization to rest
When He pulled out the dagger and marveled at the pain He could create
We stuck another in His back to seal creation's fate

So now, we turn from wealth in the height of all our poverty
A call that renders me ageless, turning the pages of a belief
That's greater than us all, greater than us all

Amen to the fools and the cossacks and the pulpits
Amen to the people who think there's still a way to help us
Amen to the people, Amen to the people, Amen to the people
Amen to the people, Amen to the people, Amen to the people
Think there's still a way to help us

I'll burn all the lives of this angel Illuminati
When St. Michael sized means find an end to justify


3. BLOODMEAT

Enemies of Khanate strung on hooks
Like pigs to slaughter, heads will roll
Heads will roll, throats will be slit
Blood will flow like springs of water
Heads will roll to the River Red
Across the ochre steppe

A thousand fathers killed
A thousand virgin daughters spread
With swords still wet, with swords still wet
With the blood of their dead

Now, Jin is upon us, he kills in silence after prayers
Genghis Khan is upon us, he slays his betrayers
Genghis Khan is upon us, he slays his betrayers
Thus still the fools of God will guard the city of our birth
Hold an ear to the ground, yeah, hear the sound
Clamoring and horses stammer as their gallop meets the earth

A thousand fathers killed
A thousand virgin daughters spread
With swords still wet, with swords still wet
With the blood of their dead

A thousand fathers killed
A thousand virgin daughters spread
With swords still wet, with swords still wet
With the blood of their dead

Tomorrow they will find us
Hide the children free of sin
We will meet their blades by morning
Protected only by your skin
Tomorrow we will find them
Seek the youngest of their kin
And we will meet them with our fury

And we will crush them all like vermin
We will crush them all like vermin

Enemies of Khanate strung on hooks
Like pigs to slaughter, heads will roll
Heads will roll, throats will be slit


4. THE DISSENTIENCE

Down the street half a block away
In a familiar place regular people
Agree with each other in smoke signals
Down the street half a block and
In a familiar place regular people
Agree with each other

Interprets the law as aging with its eyesight failing
The law is aging
Oh, yes it is
Oh, sitting across, telling stories
Eyes unclosed like books we've read twice
So sit across the table, feed me some lies

So cry ghost baby

So on the shelves lined with spines
The dust collects as scattered ash from an urn unturned
Spilling over someone regular and other such regulars

Cry ghost and boast of the friend of a friend
Who saw a strange sight or heard a strange sound
Now whisper tall tales of murder

Down the street half a block away
In a familiar place regular people
Agree with each other in smoke signals
Brought together to burn, brought together to burn

Interprets the law as aging with its eyesight failing
Interprets the law as aging with its eyesight failing

Somebody's little girl
Dreams of the things she's read

Somebody's, somebody's little girl
Dreams of the things she read
Of the monsters in her bed
Who hacked her to blood-meat

Somebody's little girl
Dreams of the things she read
Of the monsters in her bed
Who hacked her to blood meat

Down the street half a block away
In a familiar place regular people
Agree with each other in smoke signals


5. PALMS READ

As often as always
Evolution comes crawling from the sea
Alive with the urgency like suicide, like suicide
Convinced the grass is greener on dry earth

The march of serrated utterance like a soft cough
Muffled murmur sneaking through the lecture hall
They crawl across the island

Sound of waves
Embodied water
Sprouting legs, loud as gallop

All the young people
Who took a leap with no faith into a riverbed
That drowns about as much as it saves

Slowing down on the ground
Against the cries of gravity

Crawling on, half buried in the sand
Extend a hand to the smallness of death
Understand that only dying is this colossal

Creation, shedding skin
To find the perfect equilibrium like fossils
All the young people
Who took a leap of no faith

All the young cowards acting out
All the young cowards acting out
For the braves forever hurled
Into the waters of their indifferent graves

For a million years raise your glass
We will never answer where we came from
For a million years raise your glass in a cheer
We'll never answer where we came from
Only how we got

For a million years raise your glass
We will never answer where we came from
For a million years raise your glass
Only how we got here

As often as always
Evolution comes crawling from the sea
Alive with the urgency like suicide, like suicide


6. BLINDFOLDS ASIDE

We woke up as men but tonight, tonight we'll sleep as killers
As we break the cryptic morning with a bullet and a prayer
The steel never seemed more cold and agile
Than life never seems less vital and fragile

With a heart that's beating louder than my own
I watch a woman they call Kezia, I watch
A woman that I know, my hopes and my own future
Blindfolded to atone, to atone for

A sin I didn't care for but a sin that paid my debts
A sin that fed my children and burned my smiles and cigarettes

And no one ever said that hope would be so beautiful
And no one ever said I have to pull that trigger on her
I can't even still her trembling hands
That were locked up by the dutiful and the obligated

Five soldiers forever sedated with the 'No one's responsible'
Psychological drama of our social justice dribble

Her tiny steps tell lies about the choice I have to make
To resurrect a static lifestyle, to starve to death my own mistakes
Pull the screaming trigger and watch your carcass bleed me dry
Or drop the gun and try to shake away the blindfold from your eyes
Drop the gun, drop the gun, drop the gun, drop the gun

Sin, I didn't care for but a sin that paid my debts
A sin that fed my children and burned my smiles and cigarettes
Sin, I didn't care for but a sin that paid my debts
A sin that fed my children and burned my smiles and cigarettes

We woke up as men but tonight, tonight we'll sleep as killers
As we break the cryptic morning with a bullet and a prayer
The steel never seemed more cold and agile


7. GODDESS BOUND

Take everything your parents taught you
Throw it to the dogs
It's a forgotten flesh of something dead
It's blood drips from your jaws

Take everything your school has taught you
Throw it to the dogs
Left to be in the summer heat
It wreaks now of its rot

It speaks now of the fate that we all wait to be forgot
Just as mountains live outside of rocks
And time itself outside of clocks
I hope that love exists beyond our lonely bones
In the, in the pine box

From the bottom of my heart
At the top, at the top of my lungs
From the corner of my eye
At the tip, at the tip, at the tip
At the tip of my tongue

Take everything your parents taught you
Throw it to the dogs
It's a forgotten flesh of something dead
From the bottom of my heart

Well, take everything your fucking school has taught you
And throw it to the dogs
Left to be in the summer heat
And it wreaks now of its rot

It's everywhere, it's everywhere
It's everything, it's everyone
It's anywhere, it's anywhere
It's anything, it's anyone

It's a neighbor saving face
By saying grace today for yesterday's behavior
It's a neighbor saving face
By saying grace today for yesterday's behavior
Oh, my God

Live to fuck and fuck till death
Drink to sorrow and regrets
Live to fuck and fuck till death
Drink to sorrow and regrets

Take everything your parents taught you
Throw it to the dogs
It's a forgotten flesh of something dead


8. GODDESS GAGGED

Oh God
The sound they must have heard in the distance
A wilderness of sound and movement
Repeating itself across the narrows of the mountainside

The cries of creatures crashing, kill them
The human voices heralding the hillside
Their bellows bouncing, ripe with resonance

From here the unimportant call
Receive the unimportant answer

Oh goddess, who bore us what we must have done
Goddess, who bore us what we must have done
Bury your daughter and pray for a son

The wind and the rain
Oh goddess, who bore us what we must have done
Spoke a language of wonder
Bury your daughter and pray for a son

To a species rising thickly to a dialog with thunder
From an empty space between no good with the rest
Clear the empty space between bad and worse
Language unravels and irony hurts, yeah

In the common place between hunger and thirst
The words that could find us, a blessing or curse
The words that can find us, the ideas diverse

Now can I hear the song without verse?
The sound, of the sound, of the sound
Of the sound, uttered first
With the burst into nothing so silent
So silent and soft

The sound, of the sound, of the sound, uttered first
Burst into nothing so smoothening and soft
The silence inside you when the music is stopped
The silence inside you when the music is stopped
When the music is stopped


9. SPOILS

Endowed with the art of casting
Names upon its beings
The humans claimed dominion
Over every living fucking thing

Proud as purpose
As they became to walk the earth
As they arraigned the common creatures

Caught within the corpus
Cursed, conscious human brain
Caught within the corpus
Cursed, conscious human brain

Every word ever written
Will fall short of its intent
Even sung or spoke or screamed
They will betray what they have meant

They will betray what they have meant
They will betray what they have meant

Language is the heart's lament
A weak attempt to circumvent
The loneliness
Inherent in the search for permanence

All the future ghosts
Who scratch their names in wet cement
Demeaning meaning as they shout out at the emptiness
Demeaning meaning as they shout out at the emptiness

Abstraction's the stake between the anima and animus
De flesh the word scourge of human destiny
Behold the world in other people, life is clarity

Endowed with the art of casting
Names upon its beings
The humans claimed dominion


10. NAUTICAL

The day civil glory dismembered my civility
I could have parted ribs and flesh like a different kind of Red Sea
Drowned the ancient east in western custom progress
And the least of all our pride and sentiments

Which turned out to be the closest thing
To a fashion trend that's ever been put on trial
Which turned out to be the closest thing
To a fashion trend that's ever been put on trial

The rest was cast off as denial of statehood and mastery
The ultimate form of treason is the treacherous use of reason
The treacherous use

Employed by the bastard sons of American
Fore fathers who keep this fire burning
With the flesh of their would be American daughters
Daughters, daughters, daughters

What will happen to our children when the least of us pass on?

Us who fought the monsters of our country's crowded closet
Us who dropped the bombs on goodness when we saw it wasn't flawless
Us whose youthful life was hostage to what harm did
Who fought the hardest to be swept under the carpet

And I'm still a cigarette, softly smoking on the edge of a metal ashtray
I begged this place to let me burn and it whispered, "Burn away"

The day civil glory dismembered my civility
I could have parted ribs and flesh like a different kind of Red Sea
Drowned the ancient east in western custom progress


11. LIMB FROM LIMB

Split the sky asunder, a noble huntress of the clan
In your left hand raise a sword, in your right hand cast a spear
Summon all the thieves and bastards hiding in the woodland

Crack their skulls in the cauldron
For invading our front and she'll stop the hammer fall
Just know this place could burn us all

We forge our weapons in the furnace
So our hides are like oak tree stumps
Tonight beg before me and I'll heed your appeal

With your final words be grateful you die by Irish steel
Do not crawl before us, your fate has been revealed
The heavens would not desecrate their games with your admittance

Do not beg before me, I will not heed your appeal
With your final words be grateful you die by Irish steel
Do not beg before me, your fate has been revealed
Do not crawl before me, I will not heed your appeal

Son of flesh I cast you out
Into exile for reverence
Flidais rides again
Flidais rides again

She is the forest, she is the rain
She is the huntress, she is the prey
She is the dusk and she is the dawn
She is the moon and she is the sun

See her bellow out, see her, see her
Bellow out in anger
See her raise an infant fawn
She is drawn by a God of sovereignty

She is here, she is gone
She is here, she is gone
She is gone

Split the sky asunder, a noble huntress of the clan
In your left hand raise a sword, in your right hand cast a spear
Summon all the thieves and bastards hiding in the woodland