Back at it again, a quarter to ten

I’m as safe as a hen in the lion’s den

You taught me how to put the mind at ease

We were so sophisticated hypnotized in Dali’s

                                                                                    ..Oh me and Dali

Impressionable daze and dank surreal nights

A toddy for the terrors and a bloody for the bite

                                                     Bloody for the bite

I remember Bruxelles fondly under a spell of slow depressants

A dripping wet aberration of blurring adolescence

This is what I’ve come to do

I know it don’t look good to you

I’ve got me one sharp booze tooth

My memories forget me, dead leaves in a purse

If the devil did pursue me, two coins I’d be worth

A nickel to pay my tab and a penny for a wish

Ain’t got no god to pray to, let me tell ya it’s a bitch

Swimming in the drink when the clouds turn pink

They seem to like me better when I’m hell bent for leather

Showtime in an hour time to devour the belief

That I’m sowing early seeds for lifelong grief

This is what I’ve come to do

I know it don’t look good to you

I’ve got me one sharp booze tooth

Woke up feeling funky from a gummy

In the biggest little city and the room was gettin’ dizzy

Scotch in hand, tryin’ a warm the guts

I blamed it on the weather but I’m just a diving duck

Look, I’ve been singing, ain’t sleeping for a week straight

The gig was down the street I passed out on stage

A little shook from all this deja vu

I don’t want to die but It’s almost like they pay me to

I turned around to find the coke man in the back

Got twisted up in red threads and eyelash

It ain’t my fault we’re all preparing for the drought

I felt this one coming, another blackout

When I came to the band was in the rearview

Floating high above the desert warped like a corkscrew

I tried to tell her it was hard to find my breath

I’m looking for true love and a swift death

Tiptoed through the doors of a bungalow

Edge of dawn the peaks just hit alpenglow

I’m feeling faint seeing stars at twilight

Were these pearly gates or just the spotlight?

I was too dumb to know which way the moon made you roll

And though we've only just met I swear you’d kill me if given the chance

But when I saw what we’ve done, my skin stretched tight as a drum

And I made for your waves and once they crashed on my knees

I knew I’d rather be washed away than part of the disease

Deep in the Blue there was a big boy named 52

There wasn’t much a whale like him could do

(Calling out) To an endless sea of deaf ears and foreign mouths

(Mile after mile) From the Arctic sea to the inlet of the Nile

(Year after year) From the single engine to the power of one man’s nuclear

(Singing his song) A hauntingly beautiful tune that wails to belong

(What's that smell?) They’re pumpin’ blood from my bed up through a well

(Is this what I see?) A darkness is loomin’ comin’ up to swallow me

(What's that taste?) I’d trade a plastic dinner to be tangled up in lace

(I keep seeing these signs) And I fear we’re running, we’re running up outta time

(I want to sound what I’ve seen) But I can’t seem to get through on this frequency

(How do I warn) These billions of creatures that starve or feed by the sun

(I hope that it’s true) The top of the food chain is smart enough to rescue you

(Hey Mister Blue) That’s something me got in common with you

(There's a place that I go) Where I pretend you and I can float

(Up to the stars) Above pollution and all them filthy cars

(You and me) Will swim through eternal space endlessly

(And we'll want) Nothing with our hands only with our hearts

(And we'll want) Nothing with our hands only with our hearts

(And we'll want) Nothing with our hands only with our hearts

(And we'll want) Nothing with our hands

You were born in a Tennessee storm

You were spun out your home

Like loose boots you came untied

Mother holds three aces for a very short while

She laid them down in the back of your mind

What a gamble was your life

You were born in a Tennessee storm

Father went out west to make his own

When you called in search of love

He said keep your chin up high and your eyes dry

You fell back on a broken crutch

No one there to catch you honey when you bluffed

Where was I when you fell down dead?

Brothers left for lovers to fill their beds

2,000 miles west of the Mississipp

Your words they linger just shy your lips

So young mothers love your child

For he may go the way of the wild

And young fathers call your sons

After all, how the west you’ve won

And young brothers stick real close

For what you’ve got to lose, it matters most

Pa is a dyin’ from the penniless mines

Ma she keeps a lion to ease our penniless minds

West Virginia ohhh, we bled you dry

I stake down a real heavy sign

Gone to Texas on a fast dime

With a hot iron and a keen eye

Well it's no man’s land when I arrive

And with a pistol in my belt, I take mine

Ridin’ west of the 98

18 men, 2000 head for the staked plains

And they’re droppin’ like flies on the drive

12,000 gold awaits in Colorado skies

Because a man gets his hands on the trail

Ride home

Ride home

Ride home

Ride home

Red

(Backup lyrics to be sung in blue)

Draped in red, on the stage I caught you dancing

Like a storm you blew my leaves

Her waist winds like a willow tree

Draped in red, on the stage I caught ya dancing

Like a storm, yeah you blew my leaves

Her waist winds like a willow tree

Ringin’ her bell, I swear I hear morse code

Readin’ don’t let me go, see the story unfold

In a gust of allure, let the wind blow down your doors

I’ve got to rest my wings, to your nest I’ve been a wanderin’

Look at me girl, it's your eyes that do the talking

I can’t stand all this treadin’ lightly, I just want your body by me

Watchin’ the moon rollin’ through the clouds

She hardly opened her mouth, yeah but her words were so loud

I said, “say it to me easy babe, I don’t want to miss a letter

Tumblin’ all over my skin, tell me where do I begin?”

The curtains are torn from the ebb of her breath

Illuminates the sweat off her shimmering breast

Lost in the maze of a delicate smile

I’d proudly rove these turns mile after mile

Lie in my gem garden

Though I am dark carbon

I’m sorry my dear for being unclear at great cost

But the road that I’m on is filled with incredible loss

Approaching monoliths, an endless labyrinth of violent twists

I might admit it’s better not to fight but to submit

Sick seeds timber dark trees

I beat them down with two bloodied fists

Leave a trail of crippled cliffs, a mist of rock and wood chips

Alone at night I hear you cry

I ain’t gonna lie to you

I only dream of you alive

In the troughs of looming breakers, I’d rather crack than be a faker

My hull takes water faster than bailing can uncover

Rough seas ahead of me

It’s hard to stay afloat while I still breathe

The same air that she breathes, I mean can you believe she sleeps?

If I could I’d haunt her dreams

Curse her with paralysis

Unleash my maliciousness all night

Here lie petroglyphs, a crystal map to caves I must resist

Into the earth, a tremor quaking beneath the surface

The pressure is denser

When sense is thrown right out the window

I’m not sure but did you factor space and gravity?

I think you were needed too

Maybe on another plane

Maybe in another time, they required your mind

I was a goner, straight from the start

The day I was born was the day I became a Mark

Freedom, they tell me Freedom it's what I’ve got

While I’m cuffed to a hammer got chains in my heart

Mercy, they’ve got no Mercy for us

Be a good little boy don’t let our battery bust

Deep in the slum I met a wide eyed bum

He told me to fear what I’m supposed to hold dear

The heat in your chest is a crimson breath

Spread like wildfire sounds of lust and desire

There’s a riddle in your mind that you must unwind

The hand that you feed makes a soft brain bleed

The pit in your gut from the legs that you’ve cut

Down to a stump when the wicked say jump

I’ve got the Freedom to be bought

Freedom to be sold

I ain’t got the Freedom to get high

But I’ve got the Freedom to get low oh

I’ve got the Freedom what for?

Freedom go to war

I’ve got the Freedom to die

But I ain’t got the Freedom to ask why

The change that you made came a little too late

The stone come rolling back this is your fate

Sisyphus was kissed with rips on his wrist

Left to reminisce of the bliss that he missed

The snake in the grass hissed a charming tune

His teeth are moving fast his eyes did loom

Heavy in his head like a bull seeing red

How smooth what is said

‘Til his belly gets fed

Freedom from need

Freedom from gold

Is the Freedom I seek

A true Freedom to behold

In the morning with the sunrise

My heart a raisin, the sweet grape dried

When I open my eyes, I can’t say that I’m surprised

When there wasn't even a trace of you by my side

I’m piecing together the state of the weather

From the rain, the hail, the fire that we done spewed

I pull up my boots, I find coffee for my cup

But when I put it to my lips I don’t even recognize this mug

I’ve cried more than a tear over you

‘Cause you won’t let me cry where more are due

Girl, you’ve never seen this shade of blue

Oh but honey how can I expect you to?

No, no, no, no

Ain’t no clear way to mourn because the truth is I’m torn

Between my father, my lover, my brother and my damn band

The weight of my world, it dangles by a string

The twine is unwinding

There’s this guilt in my heart from which I’ll never depart

And only time can tell if it’ll tear me apart

I’ve cried more than a tear over you

‘Cause you won’t let me cry where more are due

Girl, you’ve never seen this shade of blue

Oh but honey how can I expect you to?

I hope you never do

Death will find me soon, how long I cannot tell you

The way it’s going it won’t be long

The marrow chilled within my bones

The sparrow now a loon, from outside my room

Laughs death will find you soon, the woman she did pierce you

A slow red leak drains from my chest

My voice grows weak with regret

Color me a fool, my girl was cruel

My girl wide eyed, flushed lipped ‘neath the cherry tree

Snake eyes sidewind, tongue-tied in the grass he lies

Shift sides, so sly, she hides a knife between her thighs

Snake strike, mid-flight, throat sliced, she speaks the words, “good night”

My Girl traipse deep, bare feet, into the wood she creeps

Chick’s chirp shut shy, mother hushed, “beware the feline”

Claws climb pine’s rind, she feeds atop the tree line

And prowls for foul, her jowls growl, “so long wise owl”

From under the harbour I watched

Her shape shift into true form on the dock

Fragile thing was she bare just standing there

I fell for her as dusk’s breath cooled the air

Whispered, “my love I’ll protect you from harm”

When she leapt in I caught her in my arms-  She was slick, after long she was lost by dawn

Like a nautilus little miss listlessness

Grew a shell round this feared abandonment

Oh she slept beneath my heart’s coral reef

How I held her with the power of Poseidon's grip

But the cephalopod she remained unchanged

Let the wicked tide wash her body away from mine

Damn the Siren’s song who warned it won’t last long

Until she was gone then she left me in her wake

For her love I, I would comb the sea

Ain’t no other, no other fish for me

What merciless torture it must have been

To be warden over one’s own prison

To exercise agonizing discipline

You once asked me, “Is it more cowardly to stay,

Is it more cowardly to go

By my own hands

While I still have control?”

Upon thought of body, yours was strong

You were the strongest man I’ve ever known

Your strength only eclipsed by the wisdom you kept

In a crystal church that stood in your skull

Somewhere the disease could not reach

Your mind:

The Electric Cathedral

When your vessel expired, you were set free

And shooting from the top of your spires

Was birthed a new energy

A ceaseless stream of information

A celestial tributary

Vibrations forever emitting

From an electric monastery

My dearest Sarah I must bid thee farewell

For the badge of my courage must be forged in this hell

The noblest of men are steeped in a brine

An elixir of pride, gut and glory that transcend our time

The only peace that we’ll share will be the blood in the air

Raining down from our enemies defending the colors we wear

This gun and our love I hold close and are mine

And I’ll employ both in this great war to uphold the front line

You love your country don’t you?

The girls back home love no cowards!

What you are now is a weapon!

You my friend are an extension of the long arm of the law

These people are not like you and me, they’re filthy

You’re writing the pages of history!

If you die, they’ll remember who..

But if you make it through to the other side, they’ll fucking honor you!

Johnny found a hole in the line

Johnny seems to have lost his mind

I was there at the Battle of the Somme

Let me tell you Johnny ain’t the only one

The reaper rides in thick clouds of gas

Clasping and thrashing to end it fast

Out in the mud there lie my friends

I hear them call my name from no man’s land

The rain come down, I could get some rest

I whisper mother, I did my very damn best, my best, my best, my best

If you find yourself wanderin’ when you travel by night

When you’re trapped beneath the stars before mornings light

Ask your god “how am I living right?”

When you’re trudgin’ through trenches, when you pick up your gun

Aim it high and feel your mind slipping through enemy lines

Fear my son what you thought you might

When the lights go out, do you cower?

Do you fall to your knees? Are you devoured?

You are losing power, power, power, power

If  you find yourself howling at the mid-day sun

You might be an animal, you might be on the run

Now you’ll pay for all they’ve done