LYRICS
CHAOS
For want of a nail the shoe was tossed
For want of a shoe the horse was lost
The one who would one day be your love
Neither here nor there, below or above
Chaos is simple
Subset of space
Path interrupted
Chaos displaced
The errant breeze of a butterfly’s wings
That fans a wave in a distant land
Chill on the neck of a love collapsed
Drunken fever it will be the last
Chaos is complex
System of time
Randomized patterns
Chaos refined
If I told you that I loved you would you disappear?
And if I followed you would you return to love again?
Endless longing in a life inscribed by space and time
A single story out of branchings etched by yours and mine
Hopeful stories wait on randomness
Patterns of love and loss are limitless
Chaos creates its own beautiful mess
Where we’re neither cause nor consequence
Chaos is beauty
Order sublime
Effecting disaffecting
Chaos is mine
If I told you that I loved you would you disappear?
And if I followed you would you return to love again?
Endless longing in a life inscribed by space and time
A single story out of branchings etched by yours and mine
Our vision simply is not large enough or small enough
To understand the enormity of all this stuff
We are uniquely strange attractors for the powers that be.
And in the end the chaos brought together you and me
You and me
You and me
Brought together
You and me
BAD BITCH
Lush life, fast cars and show ponies
So much of life lived vicariously
Sipping wine like a fake socialite.
Trying to live a dream you can’t achieve
Soulmates come and soulmates go
When they’re fucking everyone you know (and you know)
Karma’s a bitch. And then you die alone.
Revenge is a dish that’s best served cold.
Bad bitch
You’re all you ever talk about
Bad bitch
Though no one else could give a shit
Sad bitch
You’ll never really love yourself
Bad Bitch
And your soulmate’s fucking someone else
Pretend friends. Let you tag along.
Even though you weren’t pretty enough. (Not even close.)
Could’ve sworn they were ride or die.
It turns out that was quite the lie. (Bye bye)
Bad bitch
You’re all you ever talk about
Bad bitch
Though no one else could give a shit
Sad bitch
You’ll never really love yourself
Bad Bitch
You hung your hopes on someone else
Bad bitch
You always were the ugly friend
Bad bitch
Third wheel in the club with them
Sad bitch
They have everything you lack
Bad Bitch
And they talk about you all the time they talk about you talk behind your back
And nobody loves you
No they never loved you
And nobody wants you
And nobody trusts you
Nobody wants you
Nobody loves you
Nobody trusts you
MARVELOUS WORLD (LOSING SEASON)
Winter comes in but once a year, yet feels never ending
In a hole, through a veil of grey, like reality is bending
Days take years, years take days sometimes
Always behind
Losing season. Pulls no punches.
What a marvelous world. As we bury the dead and move on with no care in the world
Always hits you when you're down
Too scared to look you in the eye
Always hits you when you're down
What a marvelous world
Bury your dead on the Fourth of July, it’s a celebration!
Bury those thoughts in the back of your mind
Fireworks sent towards the sky…
You weren't ready to say goodbye
Neither was I
Losing season. Pulls no punches.
What a marvelous world. As we carry the weight of the pain and the sorrow we’ve earned
Always hits you when you're down.
Like an ill-gotten gain, somehow deferred
Always hits you when you're down
What a marvelous world. As we carry the weight of the lessons that we’ve never learned
Always hits you
Marvelous world
Losing season. Pulls no punches.
What a marvelous world. As we carry the weight of the pain and the sorrow we’ve earned.
Always hits you when you're down.
Like an ill-gotten gain, somehow deferred
Losing season. In the trenches.
What a marvelous world. As we carry the weight of the lessons that we’ve never learned
Trying to find some common ground
What was lost can now be found…
WHISPER
i. Numbers
Sitting high above, unseen to all
Aim is true
In the limelight
This will be your night
The players take their places
Cast in their unlikely roles
Awaiting activation
Unaware of what’s to come
You were a hero
Or so you thought
They were preparing you for more
They were preparing you for war
Purged your conscience with a word
A solitary note
That left you with no choice
You swear you heard a voice…
It was a whisper
Just a whisper
Was it a whisper?
Shhhhh…
ii. Queen of Diamonds
Queen of Diamonds in your hand
Sent to kill the sons of man
Guilt of crimes you can’t confess
Living blind obedience
iii. 1954
1954
Pinned down on a ridge
Soil and sulfur
The smell of gasoline
You fought with dignity
They said you saved their lives
Medal of honor. Hero of stolen valor
Memories of a room
In a place you can’t recall
Little old ladies
Your back against the wall
Circle of terror
Revolutionary soldier
Was it all just a dream?
iv. Fever Dream
Spinning around, turning over, dream repeating, faithful soldier. Never-ending, lucid slumber, stand for nothing, stand for no one. Spinning around, turning over, dream repeating, faithful soldier.
Spiraling down and spinning around and up again
Voices in your head
v. Louder Than Bombs
Louder than the bombs they sent for you
Voices in your head demand the truth
Don’t know who to trust and who to kill
Satisfying lust with cheaper thrills
But it was only a whisper
Could’ve sworn it was a whisper
Or wasn’t it a dream?
A whisper to a scream.
vi. Mommy Dearest
Mommy loves you, she’d never let you down
You can tell her anything
Mommy needs you, to do this one thing for her
Do what mommy says; you know she’d never lie to
You
She’d never lie to you.
In this light, You look just like your father did
Come lay with Mother
You’d never hurt her (would you?)
vii. Revelation
Instrumental
viii. Glory
In the waning moments
Of the day
The deed is all but done
Arrange the sacrifice
You are the chosen one
Prepare the way of the Lord
For you are on your way to
Glory.
You’ve finally arrived.
And now you’ve found the answers
And now your soul can sleep
And now the scores are settled
And no one else shall weep
And now you’ve cleared your conscience
There’s nothing left to say
And as you pull the trigger
You’re going
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