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Lateralus 1: The Grudge Wear your grudge like a crown of negativity Calculate what you will or will not tolerate Desperate to control all and everything Unable to forgive your scarlet lettermen Clutch it like a cornerstone Otherwise it all comes down Justify denials and Grip it to the lonesome end Clutch it like a cornerstone Otherwise it all comes down Terrified of being wrong Ultimatum prison cell Saturn ascends Choose one or ten Hang on or be Humbled again Humbled again... Clutch it like a cornerstone Otherwise it all comes down Justify denials and Grip it to the lonesome end Saturn ascends Comes round again Saturn ascends The one, the ten Ignorant to The damage done Wear your grudge like a crown of negativity Calculate what you will or will not tolerate Desperate to control all and everything Unable to forgive your scarlet lettermen Wear your grudge like a crown Desperate to control Unable to forgive And sinking deeper Defining Confining Sinking deeper Controlling Defining And we're sinking deeper Saturn comes back around to show you everything Lets you choose what you will not see and then Drags you down like a stone or lifts you up again Spits you out like a child, light and innocent Saturn comes back around Lifts you up like a child Or drags you down like a stone To consume you till you choose to... let this go... Choose to... let this go... Give away the stone Let the oceans take and transmutate This cold and fated anchor Give away the stone Let the waters kiss and transmutate These leaden grudges into gold Let go 2: Eon Blue Apocalypse [Instrumental] 3: The Patient A groan of tedium escapes me Startling the fearful Is this a test? It has to be Otherwise I can't go on Draining patience, drain vitality This paranoid, paralyzed vampire act's a little old But I'm still right here Giving blood, keeping faith And I'm still right here But I'm still right here Giving blood, keeping faith And I'm still right here... Wait it out Gonna wait it out Be patient (wait it out) If there were no rewards to reap No loving embrace to see me through This tedious path I've chosen here I certainly would've walked away by now... Gonna wait it out If there were no desire to heal The damaged and broken met along This tedious path I've chosen here I certainly would've walked away by now... And I still may... (sigh) I still may Be patient, be patient, be patient... I must keep reminding myself of this I must keep reminding myself of this I must keep reminding myself of this I must keep reminding myself of this And if there were no rewards to reap No loving embrace to see me through This tedious path I've chosen here I certainly would've walked away by now And I still may And I still may And I still may And I still may And I Gonna wait it out Gonna wait it out Wait it out Gonna wait it out... 4: Mantra [Instrumental] 5: Schism I know the pieces fit 'cause I watched them fall away Mildewed and smoldering, fundamental differing Pure intention juxtaposed will set two lovers souls in motion Disintegrating as it goes, testing our communication The light that fueled our fire then has burned a hole between us so We cannot see to reach an end crippling our communication I know the pieces fit 'cause I watched them tumble down No fault, none to blame, it doesn't mean I don't desire To point the finger, blame the other, watch the temple topple over To bring the pieces back together, rediscover communication The poetry that comes from the squaring off between And the circling is worth it Finding beauty in the dissonance There was a time that the pieces fit, but I watched them fall away Mildewed and smoldering, strangled by our coveting I've done the math enough to know the dangers of a second guessing Doomed to crumble unless we grow and strengthen our communication Cold silence has... A tendency to... Atrophy any... Sense of compassion... Between supposed lovers Between supposed brothers I know the pieces fit I know the pieces fit I know the pieces fit I know the pieces fit 6: Parabol So familiar and overwhelmingly warm This one, this form I hold now Embracing you, this reality here This one, this form I hold now, so Wide eyed and hopeful Wide eyed and hopefully wild We barely remember What came before this precious moment Choosing to be here Right now, hold on, stay inside This body holding me Reminding me that I am not alone in This body makes me feel Eternal all this pain is an illusion 7: Parabola We barely remember Who or what came before this precious moment We are choosing to be here Right now, hold on, stay inside This holy reality This holy experience Choosing to be here in This body, this body holding me Be my reminder here that I am not alone in This body, this body holding me Feeling eternal all this pain is an illusion Alive In this holy reality In this holy experience Choosing to be here in... This body, this body holding me Be my reminder here that I am not alone in This body, this body holding me Feeling eternal all this pain is an illusion Of what it means to be alive Twirling round with this familiar parable Spinning, weaving round each new experience Recognize this as a holy gift and Celebrate this chance to be alive and breathing A chance to be alive and breathing This body holding me Reminds me of my own mortality Embrace this moment, remember, we are eternal All this pain is an illusion 8: Ticks & Leeches Suck and suck!.. Suckin' up all you can, suckin' up all you can suck Workin' up under my patience like a little tick Fat little parasite Suck me dry My blood is bruised and borrowed You thieving bastards You've turned my blood cold and bitter Beat my compassion black and blue! Hope this is what you wanted Hope this is what you had in mind 'Cause this is what you're getting I hope you're choking I hope you choke on this I hope you're choking I hope you choke on this Taken all I can taken all I can, we can take Taken all you can taken you can, we can take Got nothing left to give to you Blood suckin' parasitic little tick Blood suckin' parasitic little blood Suckin' parasitic little tick Take what you want and then go! Hope this is what you wanted Hope this is what you had in mind 'Cause this is what you're getting Suck me dry! Suck me dry! Suck me dry! Suck! Suck me dry... Is this what you wanted?! Is this what you had in mind?! Is this what you wanted?! 'Cause this this is what you're getting I hope, I hope, I hope you choke! 9: Lateralis Black then white are All I see in my infancy Red and yellow then came to be Reaching out to me Lets me see As below, so above and beyond, I imagine Drawn beyond the lines of reason Push the envelope Watch it bend Over thinking, over analyzing separates the body from the mind Withering my intuition, missing opportunities and I must Feed my will to feel my moment drawing way outside the lines Black then white are All I see in my infancy Red and yellow then came to be Reaching out to me Lets me see There is so much more and Beckons me To look thru to these infinite possibilities As below, so above and beyond, I imagine Drawn outside the lines of reason Push the envelope Watch it bend Over thinking, over analyzing separates the body from the mind Withering my intuition, leaving all these opportunities behind Feed my will to feel this moment Urging me to cross the line Reaching out to embrace the random Reaching out to embrace whatever may come I embrace my desire to I embrace my desire to Feel the rhythm To feel connected Enough to step aside And weep like a widow To feel inspired To fathom the power To witness the beauty To bathe in the fountain To swing on the spiral To swing on the spiral To swing on the spiral Of our divinity and still be a human With my feet upon the ground I move myself between the sounds And open wide to suck it in, I feel it move across my skin I'm reaching up and reaching out, I'm reaching for the random or What ever will bewilder me, what ever will bewilder me And following our will and wind we may just go where no one's been We'll ride the spiral to the end and may just go where no one's been Spiral out, keep going Spiral out, keep going Spiral out, keep going Spiral out, keep going 10: Disposition Mention this to me Mention something, mention anything And watch the weather change 11: Reflection I have come curiously close to the end, down Beneath my self-indulgent pitiful hole Defeated, I concede and Move closer I may find comfort here I may find peace within the emptiness How pitiful It's calling me It's calling me It's calling me It's calling me And in my darkest moment, fetal and weeping The moon tells me a secret, my confidant As full and bright as I am This light is not my own and A million light reflections Pass over me Its source is bright and endless She resuscitates the hopeless Without her we are lifeless satellites drifting And as I pull my head out, I am without one doubt Don't wanna be down here feeding my narcissism I must crucify the ego before it's far too late I pray the light lifts me out Before I pine away Before I pine away Before I pine away Before I pine away So crucify the ego before it's far too late To leave behind this place so negative and blind and cynical And you will come to find that we are all one mind Capable of all that's imagined and all conceivable Just let the light touch you And let the words spill through And let them pass right through Bringing out our hope and reason Before we pine away Before we pine away Before we pine away Before we pine away 12: Triad [Instrumental] 13: Faaip De Oiad "I, I don't have a whole lot of time. Um, OK, I'm a former employee of Area 51. I, I was let go on a medical discharge about a week ago and, and... [chokes] I've kind of been running across the country. Damn, I don't know where to start, they're, they're gonna, um, they'll triangulate on this position really soon. OK, um, um, OK, what we're thinking of as, as aliens, they're extradimensional beings, that, an earlier precursor of the, um, space program they made contact with. They are not what they claim to be. Uh, they've infiltrated a, a lot of aspects of, of, of the military establishment, particularly the Area 51. The disasters that are coming, they, the military, I'm sorry, the government knows about them. And there's a lot of safe areas in this world that they could begin moving the population to now. They are not! They want those major population centers wiped out so that the few that are left will be more easily controllable." |
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