The Lover and The Madman

   Another Search Party

Down and out when you're not with me

I have searched the people around me

One by one, their bodies come with me to you

Down and out when you're around me

I'm not sure what to do when I have you

Round and round your body comes with me

Leaves no trace by stepping in my shoe prints

If I keep going in circles

Dare I say

If I keep going in circles

I will pay for it

I will pay for you

Remind me where we go

Please

Down and out when you're not with me

Down and out when you're around me

 

   To Bate You

The carnivore is stark raving mad and his violence is coming to you and his eye-lids be waking soon

Bored, so...

The carnivore is stark raving drunk and I promise to do what I do and I promise he'll be watching you calling me over

Call me on over

The carnivore is making me sad with his talents and perfect servitude and his God-given, great attitude

Still boring, so...

The carnivore is dying to laugh and I promise to do what I came here to do and let him sit back and think he's watching you calling me over

Call me on over

His evils intrigue us

 

   Devoured In the Parlor

And as the mistress drank of the candy

I heard a whisper

She must have missed me

Devoured in the parlor by the power above her

She thinks of her daughters

Bring back my lover

Found a bullet in me

Pull it from me

And as her blood pools

She's found the bottom

Down through the floor boards and into the water

Descending under covers

Under everything above her

She thinks of her family

Remembers her family

I once was happy

Found a bullet in me

Who put it in me?

 

   Yesterday Night

Yesterday night you welcomed me aboard

Tomorrow abroad

You've tricked me 'cause I'm boring

Looking ahead

With your hands on brow

Straight-edged swords

Scattered around

There they are infesting Master's meat

Wearing torn-belly fleece

Your pores stay on fire

Every orifice seeking oven-mitts to breath

Look in on me

Although Jesus is Son

We'll end up on his knees

But I can relate

Seems I've always walked while staring at my feet

Afraid to look up

Afraid to bare any witness to the passing days and weeks

Stealing the bodies of beasts

And now I'm becoming their feast

What does this even mean?

You tell me

 

   Tragic Tails Contest

Do me wrong

Hand me your gun

Don't look back at me so alarmed

You act like I've just given you the worst shock of your year

Well, darling

You don't know the half of it

The table's turned

Now what have you got?

Show me those teeth and lay down the law

Quit looking at me like I'm an alarm

I give you promise

I won't go off

Blaring in your ear

O

But baby

You're gonna hear from me

It's a tragic tail

Put your hair in tight little braids

Wrap them around your neck and start a prayer

Do me wrong

Set the alarms

Do me so wrong

Just finish me

Now that you're gonna run from me

You will use yours and I will use mine

You do know madness like this

Don't you?

I am the one who drives you mad

You use yours and I'll use mine

The bullets are yours

I've lost mine

Careful love,

Of the coming crime

If you take me out

You'll have no alibi

 

   You Have Three, Right?

You're killing me but you keep me coming back for more

You're amnesty is about as real as any Santa Claus

And honestly

You're a bad graft of symmetry

Hey,

Alienate-or

Bring me back some f*****g funny

I always save some for later

I'll polish it

Give it the very skin from my spineless back

'Cause honestly

You give a bad rap to symmetry

You nasty thing

You're throwing up the very same s**t you've been feeding the rest of us

For symmetry's sake

I plan to keep you here to entertain me

Right up there on the shelf

Yes,

Now you're my new pet stone

 

    Requiem For Another Dead Thing

We're you not born for me to love?

All the times to which we laughed at the sound of our own tones

We've calmed us down

All these times you've said home was in the air

All around and found impaired

Every time

When I went blind you set my sights in hand along your spine

And you let me have a little too much wine

Let them come running flat while we coast and carry past throughout time

I'll give my mind to lunacy if it means you'll stay with me for all time

 

   Foxhorn

Carving out the backs of beasts

Loving every structure and the knowledge can be found clinging to its teeth

Such accompanies being alive and well

Above and below like bullets on the fly

Upon entering the wastelands

You give a ghost a gun in hand

He finds the emperor by the end and gives the man the ghost at hand

Two say to one

Now use it on yourself

If you do, I'll know but I'll never tell

Just give it a little shot

Turning around, he'll think he heard the shot but the thought went away

Now he knows how the beast persists

The beasts excelled  at walking like a ghost

 

   Honey

The lady likes to sway but now she's got the spins

The medicine don't work for her

I wish it did

 

   Pale

It's alright to stay away

It's alright to punish me

Send me to the pale

I suggest you stay awake

You can't trust just any one waiting in the pale

If only I'd known what I'd give to you

I wouldn't be starving myself with you

I've got parasites in mind

Soaked and skinned and smeared with ink and wine from the mimes waiting in the pale

They've picked up your voice today

Now they've silenced my favorite things you say

Now I chase my tail

Running circles in the pale

If only I'd known what I'd do to you

I wouldn't be starving myself of you

Didn't you see me out in plain sight?

You lie

It's alright

 

   Microbes

Hold me down

Fold me up

Make me some plans

Make enough

Yell at me

Scream with ease

Humility's lost its touch

You're dancing on lines long crossed

Apologies land

I've made enough

I'm hearing someone tease me every quiet evening

Watch

Further still

You're almost here

Too close to see me

 

   Really?

Hey phony!

Who's laughing now?

You should've been long gone

At least a half a mile

You told me

You should've been louder

They would've shut you up but you could've been proud

I'll be kind enough to show you the door on your way out

So loony!

Yeah, you are

You know it

You should be locked up

I can show you why

Hey big s**t!

I think you've shot too many blanks

I've got a suggestion

That would look so much better pointed at your face

Don't you love infectious aliens?

You're dying

What part of that don't you understand?

You're entirely fucked up and I see that's all part of the plan

You're on your own time

Escaping enough times not to count

You've become a patsy and now I know you're clever and still hanging around

 

   Millennia

Millennia have passed along against all odds

Little love

All loss

No big applause

 

   Stretches of Road

You gave me laughing strokes

Too much like eating glass to choke on

I don't mind you savages anymore

That's a sorry f*****g load of s**t

If I swear enough, I know I'll bring you back

The magic man appears to pull s**t out of hats

Now volley your votes

Don't you go

It's time to stand beneath out trigger humping Lord of W****s

Of course!

You w****s!

Such w****s

You lent me stretches or road

Two cars were crashed by us folks singing folk

The music man comes here to take bits of all of us

Sorry 'bout your hole

I'm worried about our holes

But now everyone has some holes to show

You lent me stretches of road

Endlessly

 

   Dreams About Cliffs

Dear,

I leap

Flying is dear to me

Timing is everything

One moment's toast

Oceans

They rose for me

Ornate poses

As still as morning

2:18

On a bloodshot morning

Dear,

Next time

Early is late but fine

Tell me in case of surprises

One minute goes

Then it blows sky high

Pushing pandemic rise past our eyes

2:19

Blood thirsty mornings

I wanted you wanting me all on your own

 

   Back Surgery

Kill the witness

Who will bawl?

Spreading tetanus to us all

Lockjaw

The syndrome you have

It keeps the panic still

Left to lie in a muted bath

Through loud judgments, ask the over zealous

Scoliosis is easy to recognize

Be my loan to them

Save the witness to the ball

Hopes keep crashing  into brick walls

Intubate her

Let her crawl

Pump her stomach and flush black mould

Needles enter

I always knew it would come to this

Rooms on the spin

She'll decorate how she sees fit

Alone

F**k thy witness

He watched me rot

 

   Defense

Nightmare prophet

Race me to hell

As we go for some depth

I need you to know we'll be slow as we slip our bodies further below

I never mistook this life

This life for a home

So go on ahead and split me

Split me in half

When all of my abandoned slices seem to band back together in sleep

In order to leave one

I expect to leave them all

I'll escape in flight without my given wings

These happen to be the ones I've made

Yes, they are worthy

 

   Pirate Circus

The dots on the ceiling

They make my entrails cry

I'm maxed out beyond the point of caring about the darkest hour shooting through the night

Under gloss-ridden peelings

Reputable skunks lie

Even Poetry herself can't hide this nauseously biting,

Bed-wetting pride

I'm showing you what's worth not looking for and guiding myself back further and inching with clowns

Out on this plank

Broken believers

They're crippled and quiver with a fever

Not one woman in my pocket would listen to my fear of going up river

Faith cannot heal her

Not with me stuck in my collar

For ever in hopes of stealing some secret to living an eternal pleasure

Tell me,

Am I wrong?

 

   It Was This One Which Came First

Of all the feeble dreams to bleed out of this scene, this one was good enough to pick out for you

I'm here for you surrounding me

We've dodged the fallout

I'm waiting now

Patiently

To dull my fetal, autumn need

Of all the demons you brought along to plot against me, you chose who in fact?

Me

You chose me for my self

You're done with me showing my teeth

The candy coating is causing bloating

Let me see

Coked-up

Nosy neighbors peek

BOMB BLAST!!

War on the beach

You saw me staring at the gore in the streets

You caught me staring at the gun

The gun on the wall

I saw you agree

You listened to me

Now we're on the walls

We'll be on the walls

We'll be all over these nice, clean, white-washed walls

 

   Great or Small?

This crush of mine is swimming far and further out against the surf

This crush for you takes every one of my blinks and sets you into flow

I am powerless to stop it

You splash and wave while I root myself into the sand until my head is even with yours and I am careless enough to stop it

 

   Freewheeling

Is it your point to vague?

See the goal?

It's in the corner

Are you looking for something easy to catch?

I just need to be able to carry it

Where are we going?

Back to the fort?

Well, that's just the best news I've ever heard

Things will be different the next time we go

I just couldn't remember all the things you said

I'll have to bring a howling man who won't be contagious

Rob him

Throw him back in the corner and make him right this letter to her

You will do this alone

If she knows my involvement, she will turn the sun into my eyes so no one, not they

You

Or

I

Can ever see exactly what got fucked up

 

   insofar

Slapped back to rattling in the pitch black

Say Attack!

Relax

Now watch them react

See how?

Make it speak it like a loud sound in and around town

Grab the daze a little sooner than a let down

Quantize with light in mine

Don't cry

No whining

Stick it to 'em

Let 'em have it

Your not getting any younger

They love the steal from you lately

F**k them and in the name

Offend me

Show your teeth

Open claws

In a wrath the other half of the act is the rapture climbing

In the mouth

Every month is God

God Damn You!

So sick of living, hearing about the Second Coming

On the run in the way

Easy in

Sinning men

Here to take a sacred place in this craze

Let's sit hear and talk about the truth

You can lie all you like

It'll do

You see the Truth is a scam

Just like you

And I've scammed all of you

Keep it in phrase

Dare not say

Keep them afraid

Dare not say

Whispers leave footsteps in the rain

This circus is focusing on the brainiacs in the hall

Get on the walls

Pealing off the paint of the law

See a rule?

Just smoke it already

I seem to have rolled it tighter than a Molotov C**k-tease in battle

We love the green sticky s**t and the Golden Goddess'

Effortless

Hour less

Deeper bass

Use your face

We don't waste any time without rhymes in this process we call life

F**k the Anti-love and the pricks of the hunt

For the roof's falling off towards the blizzard of the universe

Go get it Giddy

Really

Now!

Fighting off invaders of the silly sort

Go

Get an enemy

Ending in a vivid chorus of vocals

Now find the harmony in the rhythm of the gift you've been given secretly by a dawn I would never hail

Far, far beyond the blood-sucking underworld

With a nice telescope lens, I've fought for the sum of the one depicting your love like a pearl

 

   For My Will and The Way

For my will and the way

I threw the knives in my eyes

Then placed them in the fire

Walking far drunk on wine with apnea required

I was avoiding the far

I mistook my lacerations for roads on a map and in my value for dissonance I was born revolted

Avoiding thus far

I mistook some appreciation for an undying affection

In my value for a distant pride

I stand

Proud

I am

 

   Skewed

I can take you to a place I know without any nouns

The verbs you will have to bring along in your carry-on

We are as delicate as any pray

Be brave

This sky won't fall if hold it up

My language tends to sway when you're grinding your teeth

Sounds like you're chewing on sand from out here but you inform me that it's only bitter enamel

Habitual acts become ugly in our ventricles

We

The animal

We are loosing our tact

At summers end I won't care about the pretty people's permeated stares

To build this we need our wits

A strong force of will and a course back of bones

This garden of ours will be priceless

Protected in the tower

Our new Babel

 

 

    Address to Miss Belladonna

O

Belladonna, Belladonna

I'll be with you by tomorrow

In your laughter

I hear hollers

And I am learning what I'm worth

I've been strung up under water

There's a devil in my house

I've been peeling nervous skin long enough to hate that sound

In the gallows I have fathers

Lay as ghosts beneath the boughs

O

Belladonna, Belladonna

Who will dance with me tonight?

Everyone is in love with you

Reviews

[Pen Draggin']

So amazing. Yay now I can read lyrics to Insofar, you know I love that song. I love all of your songs. If I don't get to see you guys play soon I might lose my mind :(