NOTE ON BATHROOM MIRROR

Mirror fastest guy on the strip
fastest mind on this ship
hey check your mirrors
on a bathroom mirror
she writes her name
and she writes my name
yeah check your...

fastest ship in the fleet
with my princess up front seat
hey check your heading
note on bathroom mirror
hey check your mirrors
yeah check your mirrors

blankets for cold nights
we will need them
where we're going

OFF THE GROUND

can you hear, hear the bell.
the church bell, the church on the hill.

the sound is off, it's off the ground.
have you seen, seen the men.
the dead men, the office men.

they are men of the sky.
they're off the ground

SATURDAY NIGHTMARES

the door was not locked so i went on inside
i had been there before and i knew that i was out on
thin ice
i was meeting someone but no one showed up
and when trouble came by i tried to find a friendly
face in the night
but whoever i was looking for was nowhere in sight
i chose sides
i lost the fight
whatever happened to saturday night?

it was dark like december and the sun was on the run
staggering through the streets and my fear i tried to
make my escape
i lay down on the pavement, tried to rest my head
but i woke up from one nightmare to another full of
words i'd never heard
i believe they were my friends but then i saw them as
ghosts
and now i wonder if maybe those ghosts had been mine
all the time
though i think there was a reason for my actions, who
knows?
tonight i've got a reason and the reason is it's
saturday night
now I see the reason why

now i see
i see the reason why - i've got a ghost that i can't
escape
a gloved hand in the night
you're my misguiding light
you are the ghost that i can't escape

SOMETIMES

this place it makes you wonder
well it just doesn't figure
somehow i can't help thinking somewhere there's something
missing

sometimes i check that i'm still breathing

the billboards claim there's a place far away on the
other side with palm trees and white beaches
somehow i find doubt about it

sometimes i check that i'm still breathing
sometimes i hope i'm only dreaming

THE BASTARDS HAVE LANDED

headed into their world.
headlights off.
we're not.
despite the sign.
welcome at all.
don't let them know who we are.
don't let them know where we're from.
sorry sir. we were just trying to get home.
waiter. serve us our drinks then leave us alone.
don't let them know what we've got.
because they don't know what they want.
but right or wrong.
it's their call

THE BIG SLEEP

I need a shot to remember
The sun is challenging over my head

A long night
Takes clear eyes to know the enemy

One last chance of a death trap
One last flight out of my head

Sick and tired
Weary eyed
You'll be my open eyes

The night has tired
It's been a waste of time
The morning sleeps with open eyes
The lost youth lost it once again
Nothing they do will ever mean anything
But they've been robbed of nothing
Not a purpose, not a name
Beauty hides in your eyes
A long override of science
My hope lies in you now
I'm heavier than a broken heart
You are the rendering of a dream
Let's go
Now

THE BLACK BOX

i figured it out
there's nothing to hide
because there's nothing inside
i think i finally figured it out.

it fell into place
there's nothing to see here
there's nothing to feel here
i think it finally fell into place.

time to go or everything will
stay the same and this will only hurt
this confusion must have an end now

i'm going away
i'm going away
i wanted to stay but now
i know i have to go away

time to go or everything will
stay the same and this will only hurt
this confusion must have an end now
hope tomorrow will be better
i'm so tired this is going to hurt
but this confusion will have an end now

THE BONES OF GENERATIONS

I got a suit
I got a black suit
You got horns but I got a black suit

I got a band
I got a black band
You got thorns and I got a black band

You got a shield
You got a black shield
I got a point but you got a black shield

I got a wish
I got a death wish
You got a badge but I got a death wish

The truth I know can not be bent, oh no
It has been raised as a monument to the dead
The truth they say is stated in the Book of Revelations
The truth I know is mounted on the bones of generations

I got a mark
I got a black mark
You got a book
At least you've got a book

THE CONTRACTOR AND THE ASSASSIN

Oh, the demise of the empire!
Receded and dark its walls began to fall

The alliance, no one saw it die
The scene of the crime was not checked for evidence
Now it is all gone

The theory seems all too easy
You see, the thesis is said to be dead and so are you

Name the contractor and the assassin
Memorize the face and the plates and the prayer

Throw your oars overboard

THE HOUR WE KNEW NOTHING

across town the fires
break out all around.
far off the sirens
bleed for the unsound.

waiting for nothing now.
but waiting is all
that we can do for now.
before we fall