Lyrics

The 

Somnambulist

V1:

Remember when you were asleep

Wasn’t that much better

All cozy comfort in the sheets

Wrapped in a big dream sweater

You may not be having any fun

But you’re not hurting anyone 

Go back to sleep

V2:

Remember when you were alive

Isn’t this much better

You had to have so much drive

And be a real go-getter

You may not be getting

anything done

But you’re not hurting anyone

C:

Go back to sleep

And dream of a world where

nothing’s changed

Go back to sleep

Though your waking life is 

rearranged 

There is no pain

There isn’t anything

It’s not even real

It’s all the same

Tattered visions divined

Just to make us feel

V3:

Remember when you were awake

Isn’t this much better

You made a deal with that snake

Now you’re this forever

You may never see the setting sun

But you’re not hurting anyone

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Black Paint

V1:

I hate the ticking of a clock

Can’t stand the beating of my heart

Show me a mirror and I’ll break it

Frozen image, work of art

I smell the cycles of the moon

I can feel the building shake

I always feel like I move

It’s almost more than I can take

C:

Take your hair

Dip it in black paint

Paint your tongue, black

Never look back

V2:

I’ve got an unquenchable thirst

My skin is sensitive to touch

Sensations always hurt

But I never felt that much

In regards to theft blame the thief

No tree left un-hewn

Consider my patience tested

I won’t even leave a ruin

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Snake Goddess

V1:

I want my bones to crack

I wanna be too hot

Permit any attack

Be it minor or not

When will the day come

When I push too hard

Realize true form

Or end up scarred

C1:

I may be different

In the bad way           

That gives me no right

To do and to say

All those 

terrible things

The terrible things that I do 

My claws buried, deep 

Into my palms

Blood flowing free

Psalms 79:3

V2:

See all minor acts

As an enormous offense

All my victories

Call for indifference

My world feels small 

As small as it is

And when I push out

I feel no resistance

C2:

You may be different

In the good way

But that gives you no right

To do and to say

All those terrible things 

The terrible things that you do

My claws buried, deep 

Into my palms

Blood flowing free

Psalms 79:3

B:

They call me poison

Because I am poison.

I am the rash

Feel proud of your treason

No meaningless task

Completed without frisson

No minor distraction

Ignored no matter the reason

I am the poison

And I will leave

None left to bury the dead

C3:

I may be bad

In the good way

But that gives me no right

To do and to say

All those terrible things 

The terrible things that I do

My claws buried, deep 

Into my palms

Blood flowing free

Psalms 79:3 

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Anatology

V1a:

They don’t make glasses

Or braces

That can fix this

Most people don’t even know a thing about it

V1b:

I am alone, I am afraid                         

Part of me wonders

If I’ll wake up still

I’m out at night, I don’t know why

Lingering instinct or newfound thrill

I wanna sleep for a thousand years

But I can barely manage four hours

Birth of a star, or something worse

Relentlessly blasphemous 

C:

Only the good die tragically

Only the bad live in infamy

So let’s be bad, let’s be bad

And live forever

Only the good guys

Have something to lose

The bad don’t love

They have nothing to bruise

So they can’t die, they can’t die

Let’s be bad

V2a:

They don’t have doctors

Or nurses

That can treat this

Most people don’t even know a thing about it

V2b:

It’s in the blood, It’s in the bones

If I could rip it out I would

I am the wolf, I am the man

Indeterminably bad or good

Don’t make me laugh, 

don’t make me cry

Don’t let me down, don’t let me die

 God of the sky, 

 a failed sun

 A raging storm

 in front of everyone

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City of the Living

Intro:

Things

Things could be worse

You’ve still got your health

In spite of the curse

V1:

Is it the same thing

To want to be the wolf

And actually be the wolf

Who made the monster

I turned out to be

Was it me

C:

I don’t want to want you to be

The person I want you to be

But I do

So I stay far away from you

V2:

Knowing I’m the problem

Doesn’t fix the situation

But It doesn’t hurt

Spine of wishbones

Overdue books and delinquent loans

Red alert

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Show Pony

Intro:

Some day I’ll die

And if I don’t 

So much the worse

So much the worse

V1:

I was finite

In a probably finite world

But now that’s changed

The rest of my life before me 

unfurled

Are we alive

Or just loaning life from god

And paying our debt by falling in love and losing it all 

Ca:

In a million billion years

Our planet won’t still be here

Will I

Cb:

I’ve got powers beyond imagination 

More than mere prestidigitation 

But how far will I go

To reinvent myself 

I keep all the things I don’t want outside in

No such thing as a perfect prison

Use all the silver you want

Nothing at all will help

V2:

Was I bit

Or was I born this way

I’ll need new clothes new shoes

And a new sobriquet

Am I the wolf

Or am I really just the man

Where do I stop and

Where does he start

And when will it end

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Overloud Heart

V1:

I’m shaky with my step

With every foot fall I feel

Like I might lose it

Are people looking my way

At an aesthetic as meaningless as counterfeit 

Fix my eyes on

Fix my eyes on the horizon

Wish I could think like them

Feel like the points

In an un-mapped constellation 

C:

I’ll need a haircut I suppose

But that’s not what you

Call that any more

I wake up late, I wanna die

I am a raging, burning civil war

If you cut me will I bleed

And if I do, what color will it be

If I’m asked I will not know

What it is that has become of me

V2:

Focus on my limbs

My arms and legs all

Working in tandem

I can get through this

Synapses shoot like memorandums 

This is why we

This is why we can’t have nice things

Silver intolerance

Curse the name of the king of kings

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Casio Argento

V1:

What words

Can you put in a song

To make people stop thinking

And just sing along

Show them your heart

Hidden in plain sight

Illuminated

In calcium light

Ca:

No one likes a slow song

They like em short, don’t play too long

They’re not looking at you

They don’t see that you don’t belong

Cb:

So play fast, and play hard

Play so loud that they turn around

If they sneer, or if they cheer

Meet any reaction with a

Wall of sound 

V2:

Play just well enough

So that they zone out

They won’t notice

When your words don’t rhyme

Center stage

Where they look through you

C’mon put on a show

I know you’re dying to

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Fix it in Post 

V1:

We’ll pave over plot holes

We edit out the lows

Like they do on our favorite shows

They all fix it in post

Take all day to get the shot

And if by chance they fuck it up

They’ll just have to use what they got

And they fix it in post

C1:

We’ll fix it in post

V2:

That much closer to death

We’re all holding our breath

We all slow to a coast

We make love like a ghost

Which tests well with the young

Maybe that’s why it’s sung

Can’t tell that it’s overdubbed

‘Cause they fix it in post

C2:

We fix it in post

V3:

You don’t see any pain

The colors are flush not plain

It all looks preordained

‘Cause we fixed it in post

Programmed artificial rain

Patterns on the windowpane

We got it spell your name

‘Cause we fixed it in post

C3:

We fixed it in post

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Size of Cinema

V1:

Let’s rob banks

Use our powers for

Evil instead of good

Ditch the loot

Drive aimlessly around the 

neighborhood

For god’s sake

Do one thing to make us feel alive

If I don’t leave

The house, I don’t think

That I’ll survive

C:

For the first time ever

I wanna run, I wanna bleed

Put my best face foreword 

I wanna rule, I wanna lead

I pray for power

I wish for some semblance of control

Disposition dour

As above, so below

Let kingdom come

V2:

They call me Errol) Flynn 

No they don’t

They don’t call me anything

Be the first to swing 

Lean into every approaching sling

Win every fight 

Even with your sisters, in a dream

Curl up your fists, asleep

Show them exactly what you mean

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Monomyth

V1:

There’s nothing like the silence the snow brings

When my telephone rings

My heart sings 

Too

Is it you

On the other line

Calling to change my mind

My heart beats

So hard that it skews my sight

We’re not gonna be alright

At the end of the night

C:

I am a siphon

I am a seave

I am a catalyst

I am a conduit

It’s the real world

With real people in it

I am a brush fire

I am a leaf

I am a hurricane

I am a monument

To the real world

The real people in it

V2:

Learning to love the silence 

My house brings

Now empty of your things

My heart clings

To

The old you 

Though you were never there

You were as air

My heart beats

So slow and with clean blood

Levies open after the flood

New flesh, new bud

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Take a Look at Virginia

V1:

I am the star burning

Through the midday sky

I am the long shadow

When the sun is high

I am mercury

Fighting a desert

Carving grooves in to stone

Nothing left to divert

C1:

But take a look at Virginia

‘Cause she’s doing fine

She’s got a hold of her limerence

And I’ve got a hold mine

Take a look at Virginia

Charlotte, Theo, and Elliot

And a wave of belligerence

Crashing over the parapet

But take a look at Virginia

‘Cause she’s doing fine

V2:

I am a heavy neutrino

I am a liminal space

I am a camera

I am an interface

Deep in the rings of Saturn

Thrive thieves and shepherds

No celestial bodies

Long remain un-tethered

C2:

Take a look at Virginia

Now she’s on top

She’s got a hold of her limerence

Nothing can make her stop

Take a look at Virginia

Pythagoras and Mandelbrot

Quiet heart now vociferous

A Guinevere for a Lancelot

But take a look at Virginia

Now she’s on top