1. |
Mental Control
02:42
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I know what it means to lose
mental control
pressures inside of your brains
fracture your skull
I know what it means
to let go of the wheel
when you're riding on air
& surrounded by steel
fortune it spins and the dice
can be kind to all
sooner or later your wounds don't heal
go on bleed 'til you fall
sometimes a cigar
is just a cigar
or it just might be
God's TNT
to blow you away to the stars
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2. |
The Shattering Thought
03:18
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phone call in the middle of the night
it's me I wanna talk
world war three
I saw it on TV
revelations book three
my brain’s wired and I hope you weren’t asleep
I looked at the picture and it fell off the wall
I heard the glass shatter that’s the devil's call
you think I’m paranoid?
well i think you're naive
I seen the black ships
upon the black black sea
business man
you wanna do some business
you got some land
way out on an isthmus
but you're a blind hitman
with a hand that shakes
in a fractured hall of mirrors
with blood dripping off your face
open up buddha-christ open sesame
jehova adonai mecca-lekka heiny-high
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3. |
American Messiah
05:00
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4. |
Organ Song
03:41
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I thought you were dead
until I saw you place your hand
upon the organ
everybody in the sanctuary
ran for the door then
the song that sprang
from your hand
began to soar
crawling through the dark
lamentations grind
this lifetime's errand
a tempting fate
I await
an end to be put to
I open the eye
iin my heart and look outside
foghorn at Mecca
the Book of Acts
hookworm, sun-spider
a living brain
I remain
in dirt darkness birth
who can open the channel
who can open the lock?
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5. |
Blue Darkness
03:12
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blue
darkness between the skies
night falls, stars align
darkness unmoved by sight
man is marked under the crescent sun
I loved you before the world begun
I’m staring off the edge of the world
I seek you across the silent sea
and vast tracts of infinity
& the wheels of heaven shine
sense springs suddenly
from what before was mystery
stone man, watch the shadows creep
from equinox to the longest night
signs and charts ascend the sky
even if i live or die
man is marked under the crescent sun
I loved you before the world begun
I'm staring off the edge of the world
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6. |
Thought Factory (Poison)
05:17
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it's poison, deadly poison
poisonous delusions & lies
the time tellers turn the world upside down
mass broadcasting curses on all souls
any honest man
gonna be in big trouble these days
days of computerized thought control
soon they'll all be in jail
we're gonna have to find some love
to cut through the noise
gonna have to rise above
the poison that destroys
I saw the news today oh boy
except it wasn't news just straight poison to destroy
our thoughts & our souls & our lives
complete mental poison
I think I'll go out to Alaska
or someplace where it must be clean
around here it's too dirty too filthy unclean
There's too much poison
Poisonous delusions and lies
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behind the juniper and rose
tangled in trumpet vines and night-shade
there is a yellow-jacket nest
it's humming to my troubled sleeplessness
just take me a little bit further down
to the garden of hypnotic tides, the ceremony ground
possessed, we run the labyrinth 'round
by the cycles of the skies & their echoes underground
mysterious Earth lain to waste
ten billion human souls marching through the flames
I think the death-squad's finished at the neighbor's place
because the camera crew is here to give it all another face
for how long can you afford to live?
and how much rage do you think your heart can contain
before it bursts into flames?
in the middle of your chest and then it boils your brains
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8. |
Shook Them
03:54
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some things moving through me
the wind is in the sheets
change is in the air
& the silent sibyl speaks
sickness and evil
are moving ’cross the hills
turning into something that
will ring your steeple bells
you can hear them on the radio
thooose evil spells
like demons rising
from the ancient pits of hell
fingernail moon
in the sky
maybe when yr dead and gone
you'll know the reason why
pick me up baby
in that sick sick evil car
let's burn some gas until
we've shook them devils far
change my transmission
my filter is quite worn
take me unto the dairy queen
I’m going to milk her 'til she's sore
I travel ‘cross this nightmare land
prisons cults and bars
plastic surgery strip malls
dead buffalo and drug wars
it's a schizophrenic power circus
blasting it's evil horn
from one animal to the next
let's see how freedom’s born
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