1. THE TEMPEST
(THE SIREN'S SONG:THE BANSHEE'S CRY)

...ahhh...

I say!
Why do you grip so hard That way?
Of what is there left to be Afraid?
Let the waves elope
with your empty Remains
They erode your foothold anyway

They mosh, unaware, of their own might
Hypnotizing shoreward swallowing

They storm me, ganging up on me!
What's become of the home
that supported me?
They spit me back after drowning me
Then slip away
Dragging their fingers behind them

But you expel the salt/Sink down lower
Than the undertow would bring you
You just don't seem to see how
returning to them is so far beneath you

But then how come my corpse it rises up?
And it is my soul that has sunk?

Hear! That sound rings out
across, across the land
Over! the roaring waves through
every grain of sand
Is it of loss and pain or
made to seduce man?

Listen! The oohs and aahs of
Funeral spectators, death admirators
As they bathe in ritual memories
and fake tears

Life's underrated, jaded and hatred
Isolate you, so abandon your fears

And spread my ashes
like a bouquet of seeds
Far up, far out,
to show you what I'm made of
Kill the parasite in every co-dependent
Brain fallen slave to pull the waves

(Ooh ooh, ooh ooh/Ooh ooh, ooh ooh)
The pull of the waves
The natural decay
Of all that is made
Is how redemption is paid

But you expel the salt/Sink down lower
Than the undertow would bring you
You just don't seem to see how
returning to them is so far beneath you

Say, Dickinson,
who do, who do you blame?
For your! Romantic death wish?
And does it remain true!
That angry winds feel like a lover's breath?
That's why! you grip so hard - No!

It's simply condition, keeping me locked in
I could escape if I knew how to swim

Look, feel, you're aided
Wind, sun, and strangers
Have come to guide you
so the choice is clear

We'll spread your ashes
like a bouquet of seeds
Far up, far out,
So show us what you're made of
We'll kill the parasite in every co-dependent
Brain fallen slave to the pull of the waves

(breakdown)

Playfully badgering/Casually capturing
To escape the surface chaos is
to sink, not to swim!

You say! to release the stranglehold keeping me safely beneath

But as sea foam rises up
Tickles my lips and sinks inside
Doesn't the choice of future paths
become a matter of pride?

(Ooh ooh, ooh ooh/Ooh ooh, ooh ooh)
When I've struggled so hard to excel
Why is it so unappealing to survive?


2. ...AND THEIR EULOGIES SANG ME TO SLEEP

...ugh!!

All I heard!
Was the sound of fish who'd drowned
All I saw! was the inside of my eyelids
All I said! fell short of reaching open ears

Words floating, clouding the view
"See no, hear no, speak no evil"
Leaves you deaf, dumb, and blind
'cause the bad's all you'll find

A deeply heart-felt goodbye
To the part of me that died when I decided
To put others before me
Yes my heart fell asleep
Boredom and fatigue

I always... said I wanted to die smiling
To pretend I'm at peace
From my corpse beams a frigid, blank grin
And once hopeful eyes are sunken in

Like a... lullaby to the cradle
Is the... eulogy to the casket
All my... flaws swept under the table
To grieve... the porcelain doll that was me

Their solemn songs sang me to sleep
As my body escaped me

Their solemn songs sang me to sleep
As my body e-!!!

Such a shameful masquerade
Fleeting, frozen minutes on display
Why is evolution such
a shameful thing to say?
Can you feel your bodily decay?

Because I can sure-as-hell
feel my brain going blank
If my body betrays me
there's pollution to thank

This condition
infects my cells like it controls my mind
Internal army defend me
behind enemy lines!

Fragile vehicle of mine
Don't abandon me yet
There is so much to live for
That we so easily forget...

Fascination with the fear
The concept escapes me
All encompassing fate
How it wrenches our hearts

Torments our souls
And sings us all to sleep
To an eternal keep
No matter what beliefs
It sweetly sings us all


3. THANK YOU, PAIN

So, lowly criminal
Please tell me, how do you plead?

Now, honorable
judges, ladies, gentlemen of the jury
Please allow me to present my case

Ha! What case can you possibly present
To rip a man from his
family, faith, and friends? Defense?

Listen, before you convict
You see, I never did intend to ruin anything

Intent is a guilty conscience's
white flag against pride
So I find you guilty of the crimes

I know, although I don't believe
It's not only my afterlife I bereave
(Appeals will be denied!)

The line of duty calls for
enforcement of laws
So you're our property now
Intelligence failed you somehow

Oh, what a shame that you play this game

Through senses, what can we explain?
Not joy, not guilt, not pain
Is love the same?
This senseless argument in vain
erodes my sense of shame
Who's to blame?

Thank you, Pain! God bless Suffering!
Thank you, Pain! For preventing me
from returning to the source again

So it shall be/Now do you see
the error of your ways?
Of rats and men you speak
Standing up tall but you are weak
A smiling thief!

We are all murderers, you see
But you let taboo human chemistry
blind your needs/Love is greed!
Logic won't concede
Think about the statistics you feed
Think before you plead

Through senses, what can we explain?
Not joy, not fear, not pain
is love the same?
This reckless argument in vain
erodes my sense of shame
Who's to blame?

(Danny solo)

Thank you, Pain! God bless Suffering!
Thank you, Pain! For preventing me
from returning to the source again


4. BIRD ELOPE WITH THE SUN

(Air like water/Water like stone
Birds elope with the sun)

Velvet quietus furtively draped over ears
Quartz underfoot and crystalline opal tears
Welcoming webs of gasping despair
Nival anaphora textures the air

Anamnesis waltzes through
Windows shut tight
and the fires are fueled
Reminding naiveté
of its magnitude's inferiority

Skyward stretching
Arms become thin and weak
Bony fingers comb the clouds
Then curl into fists, admitting defeat
Blood concedes to gravity's pull
Leaving hollow skeletons all erect

Perforating the skyline
An impenetrable cage
Like skin drawn tight
And canvas cracked with age

Escapist flights and lengthy nights
As some succumb and slumber awakes

Faces count minutes till noon
Solar ghosts
come kiss the moon goodnight
Grey memories for now

A thousand families, down will fall
Nival tears bury them all
Like absconding tides
Birds elope with the sun

A... barren desert soaked in bleach
A sickly pallor and opal touch
Hallucinating shattered glass
Falls as if the atmosphere cracked
And we are invaded by an emptiness black!

Oh!
The brain keeps the body company
The continent is a newborn
trying to breathe
Accepting his fate and falling asleep
The child is woman resting in peace

(Accepting the sleep as a blackness
Forcing its way in and pushing air out through heavy lungs
And heavy are the clouds that reach so deep
And smother the land in a heavy shroud
Eyes press closed and words are now visible)

The sky is an eggshell waiting to hatch

The ground is the air, the wind, the trees
The Earth, the water, the fire

Sculptors working the clay, carving angels
And gargoyles and columns
As pixies dance to appease the leaves
Faces that once turned to catch the light
Frown and turn desperately
down towards darkness
Float to the stiff, grey Earth

Faces count minutes till noon
Solar ghosts
come kiss the moon goodnight
Grey memories for now

A thousand families, down will fall
Nival tears bury them all
Like absconding tides
Birds elope with the sun


5. WAITING OUT THE WINTER

Which is more elusive: freedom or sanity?
When one disappears
the other... follows so quickly

Certain species/races/beings
Are gifted, you see, with the
Power to rob us of either
Should they feel so inclined to bother?

The land is run by a man-made set of rules
Described as holy or patriotic tools

Ethics are invented
although a consciousness is not

Adamant beliefs are highly protected
And when challenged frequently
emerge victorious

You can't speak, think, or feel
Severed wings never heal...
So justifies the kill

Wait out the winter
Under forced custody, oh-oh!
The static cold feels more...
More like home than this

Open-armed penitentiary... and we
Embrace the comfort of lost liberty

So fictile is identity
without self-governance
That's why free-thinkers always feel
so lost and desperate

And I just witnessed my first death
I watched the last escaping breath

I just saw a life turn into death
For them to claim it doesn't count
is reckless, blind, ignorance

A cry for help silenced/I saw her go
I don't know where a
Frightened stare became a lifeless glare

Suddenly she was no longer there with me
Although I'm there with her

I didn't know why
When it was okay to exhale

The excuse-making race decides
That breaking their own laws applies
But taking any life is wrong
I feel the pain for every one!

You can stand, learn, still ignore
The weight of knowledge
cracks glass floors

Ink runs quickly/Blood runs slow
So wait for the rain waters
to flood the snow

Wait out the winter
Under forced custody, oh-oh!
The static cold feels more...
More like home than this

Open-armed penitentiary... and we
Embrace the comfort of

Disgrace yourself because you've
caged yourself in
Destined path's a dead-end

Eyes take snapshots from broken clocks
Motion slows to a sleep-walk
And senses shut down with the frost
And all is ending Mental hibernation


6. MARTYR ART

Awaken... as from a tormented sleep

With eyes...
anxiously looking to creep

Beyond this twisted
de...mentia displayed on the walls

Mysterious...
mindsets and ink-droplets fall

Muses take flight in an all out war

Shall I catch with open hand?
Or let it fall and start again?
Such words burn the skin

So Enter stage right/Mic in hand
Before the micro-cosm stand
Display my efforts after all
Don't expect them recognized

Hourly torture/Chaos ignite!
Beauty and art give a sign of life

But as/Balzac-and-Hardy-profess
The martyr will burn/For her canvas

Elusive horizon
I... I'm not a threat, you see.
I'm for some reason always on trial.
Object of detestation always on trial!

O, Solitude!
With thee I dwell!/With thee I dwell!
In our assiduous gated hell!

Trivial, this mind and spirit world
You can't compare their worth
To what is real

At its best, all critics must confess
This work can outlive death
So what is real?/So what is real?

Because I can't describe
Half the shit I feel inside

All your crimes targeted intent
Eviscerating innocence

I swear I'm not a threat.
Put down your defense/I swear I'm not.

And all I can do is watch in awe (in awe)
Feet raking the sand
Hands bound by molten ire
As the broad guillotine blade

Sinks into the horizon
Streams/Streams of burning gold
Burst forth from Ultramarine

Expansive veins reach towards me
Lending heat to the air

As the Earth is sliced in half and!
The dividing line approaches!

For every stage turned wonderland
For every sound turned song
For every song turned experience
For every hour drawn long

(breakdown)

Accablées de misère en décembre
Les muses se baignent en flammes
Noyées dans l'ombre elles disparaissent
Attendant le divin peintre de l'Univers, le Soleil

[English translation:
"Overpowered by misery in December
The Muses bathe in flames
Drowned in the shade they disappear
Awaiting the divine painter of the Universe, the Sun"]


7. GLOBUS HYSTERICUS

...yeah...

What says the tree to his friends the rocks?
When he lives and breathes and
They sit and mock

And he grows strong for centuries long
But one day dies and begins to rot

"We will last intact this way! And you
my friend/my friend you will soon decay"

"But I can breathe - am commensal
The shade/the fruit/the nests on bough

And if, with this, my time finite
I'm glad to have spent it doing right"

Rocks prefer to simply sit
To win none, lose none, just exist

(solo)

But nary should an ocean rise
They'd become sand
And disappear with the tides

When trees ignite a cyclic life
From plant to animal/To Earth and back

Whom even
when their roots are plowed
Have left exponential impact

Steel/Concrete/Technology
May stand intact for centuries
I say with actions...

But faced with wind, flood, or quake
Like toys will crumble, bend, and break
What you do with words...

And so the greedy/the greedy human kind
To conquer trees tall/mountains high

Erects gigantic splinters of steel, that Shame forests/Make mountains kneel

And progress spreads like moss on stone
Evolution dictates that men are prone
To outdo those that came before
"You see? We'll last forever more!"

(solo)
(We improve what nature made
we'll challenge mountains/transplant lakes
There is no confirmed master plan
We do it just because we can)

But foolish is the one who
Complacently thinks himself King
For centuries!

Because when time erodes the past
what remains are nature's things

Quite Shakespearean duels
those between parent and offspring are!

As Chronos devoured his son Gaia!
To Mankind so he starts!

Steel/Concrete/Technology
May stand intact for centuries
I say with actions...

But faced with wind, flood, or quake
Like toys will crumble, bend, and break
What you do with words...

We won't outlive our generation
but our impact surely will

This, the Rocks' humiliation,
when they witness we are still

Alive in what we've left for others
like Nature gives so selflessly

So pay respect to our true Mother
and take your rank amongst the trees


8. SWAN LAKE Op. 20
(Tchaikovsky cover)

(A Cappella by Alissa)



9. THE SENTIENT

Here once stood
One hundred million species
Undiscovered until extinction

Here once stood
Unnatural amounts of prey turned product
Mechanized slaughter

The sentient flaunted
their machinist super-iority
An ersatz compensation
for real instincts lost

Millennia of ancestry
Plowed down for modern industry
The solution to their housing crisis
Was in fact the cause

So why not humanity for habitats?

Because they are damned if they do
and damned when they can't!

Euthanasia is a crimeless death penalty
But it's still better than what they get

When tortured, brutally murdered
'Cause some fucking coward
can't make a clean living

So he picks on the voiceless children
"Well, they're not smart like us
they won't feel a thing!"
That's a fact? Please explain!

Why should we even care?
The things we destroyed
did not need to be there

It's survival of the selfish
The bi-pedal tyrant
goes down with his ship in the end

Here once stood invented laws and morals
Applicable to selective followers
And as such rules reserved the right
To control matters of death and life

(Oxygen... and Oceans...)

Metal rusts/Cement crumbles
To err is human/Not divine

Prayers are so intently mumbled
When proud man is forced to decline

(Yeah!)

Why should we even care?
The things we destroyed
did not need to be there

It's survival of the selfish
The bi-pedal tyrant
goes down with his ship in the end


10. WHEN THE BOUGH BREAKS

Alone... She was...
We face this journey alone...

Helpless and weak
Dependent on others' decisions and needs
But who's to say what is right?
To protect a soul, or to save a life?

Is it! A plague or a gift?
The ability to create
in the way of the Gods?

We are instinctual artists
Atlas had nothing on what we've got

When half a race
carries the weight of existence
And society shuns most circumstances

Reputation screams to conform
And cast out anything
deviating from the norm

The only way to believe your lies (oh-no)
Is to spread them far and
spread them wide (oh-oh-oh)

Creation like a limitless universe
But boundaries are what define size

Wake up! Remember nightmares by
sharing them upon gaining consciousness

Wake up! A flooded nation is soon to spoil
So wave your flags west!

Equality will never be attained
When blaming Eve
For the sins we've gained

A fighter until the end
But sympathy only kicked-in
Once she was dead

The sacrifice of a life
Or rather an exchange instead
Pity, regret, and sorrow turned into hope
But even then the newborn
Winds up dead

Black!!!/White, Wrong/Right
Quite!!! A simple hypocrisy!!!

Yeargh!!!

Since when is an accident a responsibility
If you play God once/I can play God twice
Give me the decision
And I'll handle the fight

(Oh no) Materialism now subsides

The only way to believe your lies (oh-no)
Is to spread them far and
spread them wide (oh-oh-oh)

Creation like a limitless universe
But boundaries are what define size

Oh!...Tradition exists
when no one has the guts to change

Someone asked me
What difference One can make one day

For we're the moss/the Earth/the stone
So let us do as did The Tree
For silence will long be ignored
And action recognized quickly

What if? I should have...
Hindsight always haunts me

A thousand Judases could never stop me
Slings and arrows disappoint and taunt me

But I'm not wrong,
and I'll sacrifice everything

Just because I know the way
since the beginning

Hindsight always haunts me,
and then the bough breaks!


11. CHLORPORMAZINE

I awoke to complex chemistry
So I went to a neuro-surgeon inquisitively to see what she could see

But she only knows what she's taught
So I turned to a tree
to see what he thought

And he asked
"When does three equal one plus one?"
The answer is birth – life's creation

Then suddenly the flames rushed past
Green turned to black
And life turned to ash

Because I believe in everything
I'm convinced of nothing
United we ran/Divided we crawl

It just takes a common enemy
to make a friend

Marry hope and fear/Invent a color

And so, it's gone as quickly as it came
Raging tides galloped forth
to extinguish the flames

And thus, was born a cloud above
But all else was gone
and one plus one equals one!

Because I believe in everything
I'm convinced of nothing
United we ran/Divided we crawl

It just takes a common enemy
to make a friend

In harmony with gravity
Always bring everything down

(instrumental break)

(Tear out your mother-tongue)
(Chlorpromazine incursion)

Flesh is food and bone is stone
A grey matter case
for inner demons/microphones

Fields of shells that lurk in murky waters
A bed of nails for a less traumatic slumber

Logic's taught but brains are sweet
We've served ours up
for the demons to feed
Project loathsome apathy redefines reality

Paranoid self-victimization
in a cage of skin rage

And intimidating lack of control
Bring a once bright life to stone and ice

(The rights of the voiceless
will be revealed)