1. |
Rattlesnake
06:00
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I called on the Rattlesnake
She stood there like a queen
I told her to come close
She swallowed me whole
And we went down
Into the light on the other side
I've never known a light like this
I called on the spirit
I'm lifting up alone
You lead and I follow
my life is yours
and we'll go down
Into the light on the other side
I've never known a light like this
Naked and Exposed
You're asking me to come back
I simply cannot
I've been trudging around your world for so long
Your fires are all raging
Your poets are all dead
We've got this new world for ourselves
How does it feel?
On the otherside
Is this for real?
Am I alive?
Am I alive?
Is it worth every fiber of my being to be inside the rattlesnake?
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2. |
Belly Of The Beast
04:27
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In the center of your broken heart
It's the bell of the second round
Separation shake it up and lock down
diver sweeper forgotten dreamer
it's the second round
lift your body
she wanna be your lover and you know you wanna squeeze her everybody wanna touch her and there's something there that caught you in the mouth
tripping up your words
starstruck lusting driven by the thrusting siren sorceress send me to the desert alone
I need to be alone
I got too much of me getting into something that is bigger than me stretching my reality topple all the boundaries that I set
set to keep you out
now you're in my bed
And i can't help but to be fully in the body of divinity flowing in the heaven that we lost
here to get it back
here to make our own
let a little heartache leave let a little light bleed lift the heavy sun up on your back and let it melt let it melt let it melt let it melt
Into the Belly Of the Beast
Nobody loves you like I do
Nobody fits you like you know that I do
Nobody gets this drug I'm on
It's in my skin it's in my blood
I'm a river
an old school sinner
licking up the wounds of a heart that's been
Unleashed
How many of you how many need to be unleashed
Unleashed
how many how many how many need to be unleashed
I couldn't get you
I couldn't get you in the dark
We need a code to violate
sit around the kill and claim our bate
see what's mine and you get your taste
get a little lower and you make it rain
Now I'm suckling the body pour it over on me
What I gotta do if I want three times in the morning
shuffle the light
suck up all the night
let it melt let it melt let it melt let it melt
Into the Belly Of the Beast
Nobody loves you like I do
Nobody fits you like you know that I do
Nobody gets this drug I'm on
It's in my skin it's in my blood
I'm a river
an old school sinner
licking up the wounds of a heart that's been
Unleashed
How many of you how many need to be unleashed
Unleashed
how many how many how many need to be unleashed
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3. |
The Great Unkown
04:52
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Well you say want a look at me
there's a penny in your pocket and you're trying to see
but there's a fog in your head and you're grieving a dream
All the ballers want your love
but you're a fickle young thing
look
Line 'em up line 'em up
and take them on a run round the merry go round of your love
See the way they come like we three kings
send them out to compose your symphony of
Something
but it's nothing
somehow
It's worth more than your cookie jar
There's a nickel on the floor and you're ready to invest
In the light of some great emptiness
You're an idol of attraction swallowed by a great mess
When the game is over where you gonna run
but to the corner of your helpless mind
There's nothing there but a half faced lie
You're tripping through the facts and taking them for granted like there's
Something
but there's nothing
somehow
Illusion Illusion illusion Illusion
where's you mind?
Falling falling falling falling
on all sides
Lost in the lake of fire
On all sides
Now you walk into the desert alone
the shame that you carry has a life of it's own
Your heart had worked it's head to the core
You walk into the river
begging her to take you down
Run along to any life you choose
the universe is making us the perfect muse
Line 'em up line 'em up
and watch them fall back
in the horror of
The Great Unknown
Like there's Something
but there's Nothing
Somehow
Illusion Illusion illusion Illusion
where's you mind?
Falling falling falling falling
on all sides
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4. |
Villains
05:53
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Villains
The Ones behind the curtain
Rolling out the bloodbath across the floor
Jesus
riding desert demons
Kicking up and screaming
through the night
How do I get next to you
and know my dark side?
How do I integrate you?
Into my one mind
Oh lord I try
I try so hard
Villain
Cast you out and leave you
pretend we got everything in control
Villain
I don't want to see you
coming round messing up my mood
How do I get next to you
walk by my dark side
How do I integrate you
into my one mind?
Villain you're my new relief
we'll rest so easy
With none of that bleeding shame
I want that whole mind
oh lord I tried
don't try so hard
Maybe we can run him off a cliff
drop him in the mouth of an Irish priest
nobody knows the real value of the devil
nobody tries cause they want to stay level
but I know it's living in you it's living in me
you want to stay good but you're kidding me
with all your beliefs
hey what did you think
it's all a dream
Villain
I don't want to lose you
come and lay your weapons by the fire
We're hurting
we thought we had the answer
nobody can empty their whole mind
How do I get next to you?
walk by my dark side
How do I integrate you?
Into my one mind?
villain you're my new relief
We'll rest so easy
with none of that bleeding shame
I want that whole mind
Give me your whole mind
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5. |
Be Real
07:09
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It's just the death of my reality
that's all that's all
Now I'm left
With the stench of mortality
Oh reality
Did you see my head flying there?
Lost somewhere in the air?
Thinking on a thing
I couldn't possibly relay
Now it's late in the night
But it's too late for dreams
Be real
Be real for once
It's just a moment of insecurity
Oh the loss
Of all purity
Now your naked
And filthy
With regret
Oh I bet
You never saw your head flying there
You just let it disappear
You never thought you'd be
One of those pirates lost at sea
Now your tied to the mast
And drinking from your flask
Screaming be real
Open your eyes
Tell me what you see
When you cry
Are there real tears
Did you ever stop and wonder why
Lend me your ears
I've got just one more verse
After all of these years
This is the one that will hurt
We're too old to be lost
Too young to be caught
By the threat of some lifeless law
What's real for you
Is torture for me
The paradise of a few
Is a world destitute
But you sit on your thrown
On your ass getting blown
Getting blown by your mind
For a hell of a time
And it's love that you crave
But you only want tits
And more steak
And your tied to the cross
Of the old patriarch
But I'm begging you man
Come down and behave
There's room for your sloth
We're all still depraved
And we're sick of your light
That you shine in the dark
Like a jail guard
Like a hustler
Shakin us down for the art
That we make to create
Not to put on your plate
And serve up to your tastes
It's for the boys on block 8
The washed up and dazed
The ones in decay
Just finding their way
The worthless and aimless
The diseased and contagious
The abused and the rapists
All locked up in cages
Look at the way
That they pose in your frame
it turns out that's all of us
Oh my god
Your one of us
So hoist up your axe
Lay it down on the sand
All of The beggars are free
They'll get what they need
And some may be forgiven
Just Listen
to the highway
Is it your way?
Or is it my way?
Who cares
Be real
Be real for us
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6. |
Fuck Yeah
05:17
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I'm not an actor
I'm an animal
On a stage in an empty hall in the dark
The director
yells action
and we scatter like moths to the fire
I don't know who I am
and I'm here on my own
In hell or something worse
Like purgatory
I forgot all my lines
So I'll make up a whole new story
i can't control myself
can't control anyone
Tear the skin right off your face
Blow up the whole human race
Run through your mind shanking all of your thoughts
this is right this wrong I don't know
Jump in the pool where the water is warm in the garden of plenty the goddess of love reappears
Fuck Yeah
I'm still alive
I'm a king
I'm a condor
Making sense of the highs of the heart
Recognize the bottom
and I'll make my way to the top
If I seem a little scared
I've been here
I've been there
Working 80 hours for a ruthless lord
who tied me to his copper bed
Singing don't do this and don't do that
and you'll get what you're not looking for
I can't live this way
I can fly
I can ride
Tear the skin right off your face
Blow up the whole human race
Run for your life it's an old dirty lie
This is mine this is yours I don't know
Jump in the pool where the water is warm in the garden of plenty the goddess of love reappears
Fuck Yeah
I'm still alive
Someday the sunshine will shine in your mind
The whole world is watching the bloom in your eyes
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7. |
Something About Love
03:31
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Love
is your forgotten body
kneeling with the Goddess of destruction
Rising from the depths of suffering
Love is your mistaken identity
Wrestling with the part of you you loathe
training all the parts of you to explode
in a fine escape
of feeling needing wanting seeking
love
has no end
Love
makes no mistake or error
guardian of perfection and the truth
burning through the nightmare of denial
in our collective
human frailty aging yearning
love
has all of us in mind
The void is locked within
and shone without
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8. |
Kingdom Illusion
07:41
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Telling all the kids to conform
Begging them to take your arm
Leading them through the rapture
with your poor old roving jewel
The meek are how they get their meat
Come on in and take a seat
Tell us what you're scared of
so we don't go in the streets
Did you forget about me
I didn't forget about you
I'm out here with the rest of them
and we're trying to hold up the seat
of the Kingdom Illusion
Where they feed us their poison
Slanging the gift of void
settle in for old bar stools
you're alive with revolution
come and get one more round
here's the way to keep you calm
slanging you to their old clowns
who spit you up out on the streets
and toss you into the can
Did you forget about me?
I didn't forget about you
south of loving Jesus
up north with a perfect view
of the Kingdom Illusion
They try to keep you on the gridlock
I say lose them
Baby baby baby light your head on fire
there's nothing there's nothing there's nothing going to keep you alive
If you keep running around and around
keep telling everyone about your rebel sound
How everything is changing
gotta keep your head down
take cover wake up keep quiet alright alright
I'll forget about you
If you swear that you never knew me
and we'll both breed more babies
walk out on the flooded streets
of the kingdom illusion
I can see the kingdom rocking back and forth
it's an illusion
Why can't you take me out of hell mama
I'm losing it
Oh lord, illusion
I got a house on the hill
looking out on the ruined world
I got my ice I got my ride
A couple cigarettes for the drive
going south on the I-5
going to find a way to forget
who I am
who I've been
how I lost my way again
Illusion
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