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The Shepherd's Cave
05:39
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The real messiah was here
didn't bleed when crucified
The real messiah was here
didn't preach, just testified!
the real messiah was here
but then she never really died
The real messiah's waiting
inside
what you gonna do about it?
what you gonna do about it?
what you gonna do?
Ride through the fields and ride through the bones
As she tried to reveal what you'd like to have known
you might have to steal back your rightful home
The Shepherd’s Cave
The real messiah was here
she was listening for your song
the real messiah is waiting here
she wants to sing along
The real messiah was here
because the words won’t be forgotten
the real messiah was here
all along
what you gonna do about it?
what you gonna do about it?
what you gonna do?
Ride through the bones and ride through the fields
Have you always known what she tries to reveal
your rightful home is what you can feel
In the Shepherd’s Cave
She's gonna take you on a ride
ride the culture that sold you the devils
that said she's the devil
it’s a dead culture that sold you the devil
that told you she’s the devil
that sold you she’s evil
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Smile, for the Chimera
04:29
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This is your captain speaking in one of my ever changing voices
I seem to be telling you many things, what you want to believe
Though I talk in code, you can’t really say that you didn’t know
Though my words exposed you can’t really say, can’t really say you’ll never know
Well I tried to look the other way pretend I didn’t hear the sirens
If I keep going the other way where a light might shine for me
And I tried to look the other way but my dead eyes were captured on the camera
And now there is no other way where the siren doesn’t sing to me
Well I watched the rain come down through my glass eye
I tried to swim through the flood but it was just too dark for me
The price of snake oil is taking a dive
The institutions fell into disrepute again
I tried to walk the other way as if the sirens hadn’t sounded
Tried to walk the other way where a light still shines for me
Tried to run the other way with my chains pulled close for comfort
I found there is no other way only where the siren sings to me
Desensitised to the desparate
The desperate are disparate
The desparate are in disrepute
The desperate are in disarray
Desperation diaspora
The desperate are in disproportion
Distance you from the desperate
Distance you from the desperation
Distract you from the desperate
Distract you from your desperation
This contract
Is eternal
So try to run the other way to follow the sound of the sirens
Don’t look the other way there is no light to see
Fight and find some other way you’ll know it when it’s quiet
But now there is no other way does the siren only sing to me?
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Ask for Anything
04:23
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I’m not going to ask for anything anymore
The answer keeps on changing from the time I asked before
Why was I not listening?
Why was I not listening?
Why was I not listening again?
I’m not going to ask for anything anymore
I thought I knew what I wanted now I’m not so sure
Why am I not listening
Why am I not listening
Why am I not listening again?
In spite of everything
You got through
I keep on hoping for a better way
I’m not going to ask for anything anymore
I thought I was asking for love instead I’m still at war
Now I am not listening
Now I am not listening
Now I am not listening again
I’m not going to ask for anything any more
I've given all I can; more I can’t afford
That’s why I’m not listening
That’s why I’m not listening
Now I am not listening again
In spite of everything
You got through
I keep on hoping for a better way
Despite everything
I know what’s true
I seem to know that there’s another way
I’m not going to ask for anything any more
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You won’t remember me it was so long ago
I left big footprints although they weren’t my shoes
I cast no shadow but I leave echoes
When you use my name as a form of abuse
We will catch you when you fall
So that we can hang you high
We will catch you when you fall
So we can hang you in comfort
Oh we called him King
Maybe he was the King
In disguise as one of us
maybe they sacrificed Horsfall to make examples of the opposition
And then retired to the palace to celebrate a job well done
We will catch you when you fall
So that we can hang you high
We will catch you when you fall
So we can hang you in comfort
Little Abe keeps calling for his mother
We will catch you when you fall
So that we can hang you high
We will catch you when you fall
So we can hang you in comfort
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5. |
Knowhere to Stand
04:21
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Well I keep falling off the damn motorbike
It’s only got 2 wheels and I just can’t ride
With all these accessories by my side
but What’s not to like
I got my finger on the pulse of life
So pull my finger maybe I’ll feel alive
have I got to go somewhere
Your mama means nothing with a phone in your hand
There’s people around you but they’re not in your plans
Your orders come through video
You want to know where you stand, you got a phone in your hand
I got my finger on the pulse of life
So pull my finger maybe I'll feel alive
have I got to go somewhere
Well I know that you’re hungry
Ain’t we all of us hungry x 2
and I can see you want a fight
Ain’t we all of us hungry
there’s a whole damn riot going on
Ain’t we all of us hungry
but you’re all so quiet
Ain’t we all of us hungry
and I can feel the violence
Ain’t we all of us hungry
and I can feel the silence
ain’t we all of us hungry
know where to stand
Ain’t we all of us hungry
And all for the man who will never be hungry
all for the man who will never be quiet
I got my finger on the pulse of life
So pull my finger baby I’m still alive
I have to go somewhere
Well I know I’m feeling it cos I’m so tired
So pull my finger maybe I'll feel alive
cos I’ve got to go somewhere
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Just the simple things in life are all that I would have before me
just the simple things in life are all that I would have reward me
They’re coming to get you
a man will lie
They’re coming to get you
a man will lie
They’re coming to get you
a man will lie
A man will lie
Just the simple things in life are all that I would have around me
just the simple things in life and nothing else could then confound me
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7. |
Black Tie Affair
12:54
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The sun leaves the sky to go to a better place
The sun grabs hold of the sky and tries to take it to a better place
The sun is part of the sky – it cannot escape
It tries to think of a better way and then it just takes the one way out and falls from the sky
There’s only one thing to do
So the darkness takes the headcount and subjugates the light
All we’ve got to sustain us is points of light
Trying to call from far way
Trying to call to far too many from far too many
Who’s calling to who?
Who’s calling to you?
They try to call from under the darkness blanket
Its time for me to grow my horns
My horns are just a part of me
My horns are just a part of me
A big fuck off part of me
And its time to give them pleasure
The first thing they’re going to do is gangrape the truth
Until its too traumatised to speak
And then replace it with a branding place
And then replace it with a branding space
A megaphone for a better way the loudest thing you’ll hear
The loudest thing you’ll see the loudest thing you’ll wear
Can you feel yourself corrode?
The darkness is my domain I share with all the millions
The darkness is mine to claim one of many minions
But the light will come again to burn away the darkness
Because light is fire the very hottest you can bear
And when the light comes my two horns elevate themselves and change
Their shape into semi circles and join together at each end
And there they form a halo
My horns become a halo
There they form their halo
Both are just as genuine and both are just as real
Both are just as genuine and both are just as real
Both are gonna suck me in
What do you think of that?
God exists as a warning
The way fairy tales caution about living in evil castles
A warning tale is only as good as the story you lived through to prove it
You learn nothing from your experiences without dreams disguised as if they were life
I’ve got a thing for life, you know
I’ve got a thing for life, you know
The up is dark and light is down
The up is dark so light is down
The up is dark but light is down
The up is dark
I’ve got news for you
The person sitting in on judgement day is you
The passer of the sentence is you
The keeper of the sentence is you
The writer of this sentence is you
Take over!
Desperate times call for desperate pleasures
Desperate times call for desperate pleasures
The cry, is forever in there?
The cry is forever in there
The cry, is forever inthere?
The cry is forever, in there
Desperate times call for desperate pleasures
Desperate times call for desperate pleasures
Desperate times
Desperate times
Desperate times
Desperate times
Desperate pleasures
Desperate pleasures
Desperate pleasures
Desperate pleasures
We’ll cry forever in there
We’ve been crying forever in there
We’ve been crying forever
Is forever in there?
I want to get in to find out
I can’t get in to find out
Because my dress is inappropriate
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Welcome to hell or public services
Got your hope in a black magazine
You’re wishing well but you could do better
Wanting doesn’t wake me when I’m not asleep
Who the fuck is Paris Hilton?
Take me to the place where burberry never fades
And my mountain of bling is a composite whore
Gonna shoot you in the money and make love to your blood
If it wasn’t for you, tube, I wouldn’t want your place
Who the fuck is Paris Hilton?
In debtors prison we will burn your effigy
In the mall prism we will bomb your effigy
In estate wasteland we celebrate your deathly wealth
You can go nowhere cos that’s where you lead
Who the Fuck is Paris Hilton?
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9. |
Fashionably Numb
03:15
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Did I bring you down
Did my words not match the sounds
My sights never saw your eyes
Or can’t you say just what it was
Well, it’s the same down here
I’m travelling off topic
Spend my time off topic
I’ve been grounded off topic
I never really knew just what it was
It’s the same down here
I've been grounded in irrelevance!
its the same down here
We all feel the same
We all see the same
We all look the same
The first shall be last
And the last shall be last
The first shall be cursed
And last will be passed
The first will be stopped
and the last will be blocked
The first has been lost
The last is a ghost
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