"Neverender"

when you've gone about things all wrong
bury them here,
with the lifetime you would never regret
in savoring sleep,
what do you mean i toss
and turn everywhere?
i'll miss you when you're gone
in pretending that you meant
the world to me
with that you'd call me a liar
and in the making mistakes
you'll rest incomplete

(i'll be home) in graver mistakes dear mom and dad,
i write you in this letter (i'll be moving on) that states
when the new days begun (new days begun)
forget your son when he's out on his own

when the hand reads 7:30
and your night begins to sink
in the short but faster fall
anxious but calm retort
to a mirror that frames your face
baring the finest swell
when the day begins to break
like the tears that run across your cheek
stand straight and imagine you then
in the things and the way they could have been
when the thoughts they race across your chin
here in the Neverend

(i'll be home) in graver mistakes dear mom and dad,
i write you in this letter (i'll be moving on) that states scratched through
when the new days begun (new days begun)
forget your son when he's out on his own

point your gun in another direction
now that you've cried yourself to sleep
point your gun in another direction
now that you've cried yourself to sleep
here in there after the fire

(before you walk home) peace and figuring will he be home again?
(signal loss and stereo) with wide open windows will she be waiting for
(the sounds surround the overpass) with severed arm placement when the day's dark, old and dead
(a dead man against you) we'll write her a letter with long time passing

(i'll be home) in graver mistakes dear mom and dad,
i write you in this letter (i'll be moving on) that states
when the new days begun (new days begun)
don't forget son when he's out on his own

point your gun in another direction
now that you've cried yourself to sleep
point your gun in another direction
now that you've cried yourself to sleep
here in there after the fire
after the fire
(i'll be home to say i love you and i'll be moving on)

and I'll be bigger
and I'll be bigger

"God Send Conspirator"

Hold in your last breath and stare.
Assure me your metronome's left arm stick shift
is stuck on the right words in your ear.
Did you hear me loud and clear? In sight and out of mind?
Cautiously avoiding the cracks not to disturb your steadied arm straight line.
The facts before a climb... a plan before a crime.
Tired in the days that passed away
sporadically arranged across the floor when you've got it made.

Dear Mariah, the world's not big enough
for the both of us when we live in the same town, that's wrong.
Fight on fire (fight on fire), burn my hands till I
got nothing left to count my numbers on that's wrong, what's right?

Your wise ass comments could cheer you up.
The emotional disturbance: relax, deep breathe, sit back
from the space in which you stand, here and in demand.
Don't touch a fresh wound that bleeds
all over your carpets the stains, the story book remains,
and the page that states you've lied.
Accept and then reply, acknowledge the other guy,
Tired in the days that passed away
sporadically arranged across the floor when you've got it made.

Dear Mariah, the world's not big enough
for the both of us when we live in the same town, that's wrong.
Fight on fire (fight on fire), burn my hands till I
got nothing left to count my numbers on

Don't change your mind when all's been won
your words in time, with the loss that you'd let them go.
Don't let them fall if your grip's not strong
in time decide... with the words that you'd let them go
Don't let them fall if your grip's not strong.

Dear Mariah, come sleep in your own...
Well dear Mariah, come sleep in your own...
Well dear Mariah, come sleep in your own...
Well dear Mariah, come sleep in your own {bed}.

When eye meets eye be calm
We'll lie here alone locked the children in the floor.
When eye meets eye be calm
We'll lie here alone locked the children in the floor
When eye meets eye (your dreams can't last forever)
We'll lie here alone locked the children in the floor, in the floor.

Father figure wraps his face down
he'll be coming home to you.
(Who sat me down here?)
Your dreams can't last forever
Locked the children in the floor.

(Who sat me down here?)
When eye meets eye (your dreams can't last forever)
We'll lie here alone locked the children in the floor.
[to fade]

"IRO-Bot"

In our days we've mourned insignias
The passing glance unstamped
We’ve rendered ourselves powerless, unfortunate
The useless mend the fixed
And on every hour it detonates
My courage goes unlooked
The ride home through perilous
The land it goes, I will…

You’ve been a bad boy
You broke all the rules
You’ve been a bad boy
You’ll get yours paid in full

IRO-Bot will never die
My Robot will never die
You look down, but far from out,
And the paper reads, "You lose."
IRO-Bot will never kill.

A favor captain, a word with you
My systems gone and lost its mind
My right eye has done shed a tear
My gun I’ve left behind
Will systems take me home and dissemble me?
Will I be terminated with you near?
Alongside the others that I hold so close
If I'm to be killed, then when? by whom?

You’ve been a bad boy
You broke all the rules
You’ve been a bad boy
You’ll get yours paid in full

IRO-Bot will never die
My Robot will never die
You look down, but far from out,
And the paper reads, "You Lose."
IRO-Bot will never die.

In Keeping Secrets Of Silent Earth: 3 (2003)



The Ring In Return
In Keeping Secrets Of Silent Earth: 3
Cuts Marked In The March Of Men
Three Evils (Embodied In Love And Shadow)
The Crowing
Blood Red Summer
The Camper Velourium I: Faint Of Hearts
The Camper Velourium II: Backend Of Forever
The Camper Velourium III: Al The Killer
A Favor House Atlantic
The Light & The Glass
2113[Bonus Track]

"The Ring In Return"

[phone rings]
[woman walks to phone and picks up]

[woman:]
Hello.

[music begins]

[Man:]
Hello Apollo.
Where should I begin?

"The Ring In Return"

[phone rings]
[woman walks to phone and picks up]

[woman:]
Hello.

[music begins]

[Man:]
Hello Apollo.
Where should I begin?

"Cuts Marked In The March Of Men"

Listen to the world out on the outside pressing in
are you ready on my mark?
fingers given names and with the last word they ascend
on the comfort of their well being...in arms
into something they can't stop but wish that they could kill
you're the answer to their prayer

[Chorus:]
in your last hour stand
you'll notice the one that you had loved in dreams is here among the others
chase it's you I want but if I can't have her
then why should I spend any more time in a world that's going to end pretty soon?
I need you now more than I ever did
I'll hand myself over for you
this comlink's lost its frequency and I feel that we're coming home short
here take me instead I'd rather not see her off alone

scattered amongst the killing streets the children slate defense
is god's work to have us fail?
rivered blood streams out the dead as bodies foul the air
I'll make peace when this is done
in arms...we storm
slowly the streets begin to fill with new flesh bound to bone
armed and ready it begins again...

[Chorus]

tonight we storm
tonight...

deliver a favor to my love [x4]

[Chorus]

"Three Evils (Embodied In Love And Shadow)"

Across the floor in the hand of where we drove the drill
A cautious ear to the mouth of your confession
Think of all the things we put him through
In the face of his god would he tell the truth?

Still recorded were the words that dribbled out his kiss
When eyes go blind in this man of what could once become
Sever the limbs off his torso in sleep
And burn what remains so the world may now see
No longer...will we wait for your answers
Back to the hell where you've come from
Think of all the times you once had
Write them in a letter that says "goodbye"

You'll listen to reason while you're face down in the dirt
You'll stomach the hurt and break for him here just how much he's worth

Slowly discarded were the remains of his lonely youth
Among the alley where the dwellers scare to notice
Picture a young boy in pieces and streets with leveled malfunctions
No name to be called redeemer
We'll fix him restore him...with the love is no other
Think of all the things you did before
Write them in a letter that says reborn

You'll listen to reason while you're face down in the dirt
You'll stomach the hurt and break for him here just how much he's worth

Following you across the interstate walking away...I'll fire on
Following you across the interstate walking away...I'll fire on
Following you across the interstate walking away...I'll fire on

On the wrong way out
On the causeway to neverwhere
On the wrong way out
On the causeway to neverwhere
On the wrong way out
On the causeway to neverwhere

Dear my friends in the time we've spent forever
after beyond this when will our nightmare ever end?
Dear my friends in the time we've spent forever
after beyond this when will our nightmare ever end?

Pull the trigger and the nightmare stops...
Pull the trigger and the nightmare stops...
Pull the trigger and the nightmare stops...
Forever you will, forever you will learn
[3x]

"The Crowing"

I fed the clues of a lost day killed in motion
But I thought of it so like there's no other way it could've been done
Will they size my fit for a puzzle I wish not to play a part in it.
A heart stained in hate, a feeling of fear will play circles.

But you, you were my favorite
But you, you know, you were my favorite

I severed my ties to shroud this body under the streets of this city
And wait for the day when I am summoned to walk across the face
Well, slowly but clearer now, in visions that play and plague memories
I loved them with all as the son should to mother and father

But you, you were my favorite
But you, you know, you were my favorite

Would I walk through the door, shedding the light of all life?
With the rise and reform, would I come as before?
Pray you're not the only one
Pray you're not the only...
If given mistakes, would I take them back?
If erasing them could, if erasing them would
But would they be the words that I would say?
Your face and a door between
I've parted three ways
For you, the Newo that I love... love...

Did you ever really know before my face shamed to break?
Did you ever really know before my mind scared to think?
Did you ever really know before my name son to these?
Did you, did you, did you come clean in the end from the start?

Dear Ambellina, the Prise wishes you to watch over me
Dear Ambellina, the Prise wishes you to watch over me

I fought the decisions that call and lost
My mark has the revelant piece in this
I will come reformed
In short, for the murders of those I court
I bless the hour that holds your fall
I will kill you all!!

I will call you out from shelter (I will call you out)
burn your wings you'll know no better (burn your wings)
I will call you out from shelter (I will call you out)
burn your wings and learn their letters (burn your wings)

I will call you out from shelter (Dear Ambellina, the Prise wishes you to watch over me)
burn your wings you'll know no better (burn your wings)
I will call you out from shelter (Dear Ambellina...) (I will call you out)
burn your wings and learn their letters (...to watch over me)
[fade]

"Blood Red Summer"

Faint white figures paint my sleep
please don't tell my secrets keep them hidden (you got it, you got it, you got it)
if the words that matter reach your face from floor
will you be wondering if, or (do I need what is given or honest)
does it cost me scarring if the words stay true
even number your nephew (I don't want it, don't want it, don't want it anymore)

[Chorus:]
and when the answer that you want
is in the question that you state
come what may
come what may
[x2]

in a pain that buckles out your knees
could you stop this if I plead (you got it, you got it, you got it)
so destined I am to walk among the dark
a child in keeping secrets from (will they know what I've done in the after)
in the sought for matter when the words blame you
in a blood red summer I'll give you (I don't want it, don't want it, don't want it)

[Chorus]

what did I do to deserve
what did I do to deserve
this? this?
[x2]

[ad libs]
wa oh wa ooooh
wa oh oh oh woah

what did I do to deserve
what did I do to deserve
this? this?
[x3]

what did I do to deserve
what did I do