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the beginning of the end
06:15
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it’s the beginning of the end
and I’ve fallen like a soldier
the band has left the stage
and the great romance is over
been tryin to find a friend
when everyone’s a stranger
I turn on the screen
and it tells me I’m in danger
and I don’t go to church
cause I don’t need a savior
what do I need saving from
is it really such a drag to be here
they’re all tryin to get out
while they can
maybe babe we’re in the promised land
I feel lucky to be alive
I’ve looked death right in the eyes
oh lord
oh lord
what if they won’t let me in
what if I don’t make it to heaven
it’s the beginning of the end
and the darkness changes shapes now
we’re back and forth
through these dimensions
at a rate so fast it stays now
I won’t conform to the illusion
find beauty in the gray clouds
everything is prostituted
takes all your energy just to get out
and in their eyes you see they’re slippin
every shadow casts a doubt
I’ve never been one for forgiving
I guess it’s time to lay that down
everyone can feel it’s ending
and our spirits cling to the earth
born again like a cicada
and forever we will return
oh lord
oh lord
goodbye you age of innocence
you’ll have to carry me in
I gave my all to the wind
it’s the beginning of the end
and the final curtain’s drawing
the dreamers dip their pens
in the blood of a new morning
and the actor feeds their vice
with the crowd of dead applauding
the world’s at war with itself
the masqueraders plotting
there’s so much to see outside
the realm of your thinking
never underestimate the power
of what happens in the meantime
the pursuit of happiness
you forget what you were made of
it’s weightless all the risk
promise me you’ll never give up
oh lord
oh lord
my heart is calling again
back to the state of no mindness
I’m going to live in each moment
and nothing will truly ever end
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2. |
nothing to lose
04:44
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now is the time
but it’s bound to leave
an eye for an eye
is all I ever see
last time I saw you
you were lost in the heap
a needle in the arm
and a cross on your ring
it’s another pink moon
got those old cocaine blues
don't want to hear the news
I have nothing to lose
I guess I aim low
stick to the ground
and the roots
you’re in a world of hurt
and you're looking for proof
I say when will it end
and you tell me high noon
I don’t fear the change
that is comin soon
oh those misty mountain moods
got a record on the juke
and I’m wearing a dead man’s suit
I have nothing to lose
lost like a bird
in the city street
oh sweet surrender
and the drug of defeat
some call it alchemy
some say you’re a freak
they’ll never know
the eleusinian mysteries
in the evenings purple hue
I open my heart to my muse
even if I’m captured
no matter what I do
I have nothing to lose
you can give
your weight to me
I’ll fly it high
and set it free
this is not the land
of make believe
truth and consequence
the only majesties
and even if we do retire
we’ll live on
through our tragedies
Lilith
oh Lilith
let me fly on your wings
I’ll be released any day now
from these earthly strings
nobody keeps going
they all turn away
never give up
I was told by the stage
don’t you know
gold is for the fools
my intentions they are not cruel
I stopped following the rules
I have nothing to lose
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3. |
wide eyed wonder
06:06
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and now that the king is dead
a bullet in the head
he graced the cover of the times
we are just peasants in the street
never make ends meet
picking up the bread crumbs
like a dove
hey Henry Thoreau
it’s really not that simple
I’m barely hangin on
the common thread is gone
I fell asleep in life
and now a new day rages on
it’s just life on the farm
it’s just the price you pay
new lists of rules
to which you must conform
even though everything
could put you in the grave
hey Vincent Van Gogh
no stars in the dark night of the soul
they tell me I have a spirit of old
but I’ve got no place to go
and my heart's on fire
this wide eyed wonder
the ship has sailed
all of the dealers
have gone for help
don’t you know
only you can help yourself
first you must have a vision
that you’re blind
and now that
god did not save the queen
you’re questioning
even if there is a god
they built the world
like the pyramids
orchestrated without
a single hole in the plot
hey Joan of Arc
nineteen is far too young
to be a martyr
and I know I’m damaged goods
I never really ever left the woods
I believed the liar
with wide eyed wonder
what will you sacrifice
you’ll pay the fee
to feed your vice
you’re already going
the speed of light
you’re already speaking
with your mind
and now that
they took down the wall
we’ll begin again
to pick up the pieces
that were broken
every season has nine lives
you’ll never forget
where your thoughts have been
hey Carl Jung
I am what I choose to become
I drank all through the night
sang loudly “auld lang syne”
traveled through dimensions
space and time
and stopped to smell the roses
on my grave
nothing you can save
it’s all set to expire
no way to escape
the heart on fire
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in this your darkest hour
you watch the falling towers
you dream about
the days when you were young
you bridged dichotomies
drank poison like Socrates
smoked the same cigarettes as me
into your lungs
now you must start the fire
and bang the drums
some talk about tomorrow
but tomorrow never comes
now it’s day is done
like midnight you were melancholy
the morphine dripped into your dreams
you peered behind the wall
you built around yourself
oh time, what side are you on?
new world orders spawn
it’s lining up like ducks in a row
so don’t try and kill your pain
use it to wake up
they keep creating the future
though tomorrow never comes
and now this day is done
martyred for those old regrets
you packed your bags and went out west
you trampled on the graves
of those who stole so much
you’re still your mother’s child
you run like river’s wild
just trying to catch the comet
before it’s gone
your existence slips through the cracks
the great empire goes down with the sun
they say do it tomorrow
though tomorrow never comes
and now it’s day is done
the hands of power
change behind the cloak
down the road at bohemian grove
they’re building a world
where there is no death
I know you march to a different beat
you only believe in peace
it glimmers in the picture of what’s left
sing all those voices now
play loud the harp of love
you’ll never greet tomorrow
for tomorrow never comes
and now this day is done
now the day is done
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5. |
a raging bull
04:29
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I wish that I could get high with you
like long ago when we’re wasted youth
philosophizing these modern fables
while never having a seat at the table
we were all alone
thought we were all knowing
it’s all right
it’s all right to go
you suffered long
you suffered like a raging bull
you’re hanging on your bones
your heart beat like a dial tone
following this ancient wisdom
it’s like the world gave up on us
passed us by like a city bus
inside us all there’s a little Cain and Abel
nothing’s changed since the dark ages
we were all alone
thought we were all knowing
change is knocking
change is knocking at the door
the kind of calling
the kind of calling you can’t ignore
you're' dancin on your own
orphaned by the heart that you call home
believin all this ancient wisdom
don’t ask why
you go in circles
if it’s something you don’t know
then you don’t know
eat the fruit
the tree of knowledge
going down in history
it's such a long way to go
a long long way to go
you should take it on the road
heart so full it could explode
finding out this ancient wisdom
everything you believe in is a ghost
so many things beyond your hopes
carrying out this ancient wisdom
I wish I could get high with you
but we both had to settle down
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6. |
no more hurt
05:10
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you’re safe from the outside
still afraid of your life
not a singer
though you hear the melody
as the rain falls on the trees
are you keeping time
or do you let it fall away
and blow on like the leaves
are you in your best mind
the vampires are out to get you
they blame it on their name
you can’t waste the moment
on their foolish games
it’s cold when you’re on thin ice
on the precipice of finding the light
you’re nobody’s lover
you don’t even love yourself
you created your own hell
are you reading minds
or staring deep into the void
ignoring the signs of the times
is this the space you must find
the vampires they don’t love you
they just want to taste your blood
a mainline to your heart
and your designer drugs
someday baby we will be free
no longer have to be paranoid
there’s so much I want to see
but I’ve never had the choice
no one can hurt us now
no more hurt
the vampires won’t have your energy
there’s a force field around your eyes
what they fear most is synergy
they know they won’t survive
your mind is like a wasteland
where forever glimmers hope
no home to come back to
so just take another toke
you’re safe from the outside
still afraid of your life
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7. |
holy war blues
04:43
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blue as the blood
that is flowing through our veins
from the outside in
we are one and the same
victimized by violence
like a rat in a cage
came a long long way
to start over again
there's no such thing
as borderlines
only these bridges
from yours to mine
light your fire darling
please don’t hide it away
if it takes all I have have
then I don’t wanna be alive
don’t want to be on the side
winning or losing the fight
the history books lied to us
made wrongs out of rights
the heroes were fallen
and hexed by their pride
rolling stones
left petrified
there’s no denial
of the changing tide
you lost the lines
you held inside of your palm
there is no love in holy war
destroy it all to save our mores
money and power are at the root
so many slain in the name of so called truth
it did them no good
to shed all that blood
generations of enemies
face down in the mud
they don’t fight like Ali
they hold a sword or a gun
like cowards they rob
from the innocent ones
all the voices cry in pain
driving down the lost highway
where now only
these roadside memorials remain
a flame like the sun
burns in my heart till dawn
out the boarded up windows
the band marches on
they beheaded the prophets
and gunned the great leaders down
now there’s nobody left
to meet out on the battle ground
head is full of only lies
wrestle with the hands of time
watch that they don’t
make a mime out of you
sacrificial lambs bring holy war
heaven's gate is knocking at death's door
since the beginning
we followed the moon
long ago they tried to warn us
of the coming doom
are you a prisoner of holy war
they always told you less is more
someday I know it
we will be free
and bury all the remnants
of this rugged history
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8. |
the future
05:41
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all of this will pass by
on it’s way
to the main event
come on babe please don’t cry
unless of course
those are just tears of joy
is there a way of life
there arez so many doors
it’s the only way I know
holding on I never can let go
it’s heavier than your soul
after all I’m just an animal
just an animal
why did I go so high
honestly
I was bored to death
they’re flying freedom flags
all it means
is that they lost a bet
you’re never satisfied
there is no reason or rhyme
you didn’t reach your goal
was the goal to find out what else
there was a gravitational pull
you know you have to find yourself
find yourself
it’s a heavy load
to take up this mountain
to chain around your throat
we must let things go
detach from all even if you choke
all my life
I’ve lived in sorrow
now I don’t give a fuck about tomorrow
do you think about the future
when you can do whatever suits ya
we’re all god’s children god is a woman
someday Aphrodite will fulfill her vision
the full moon hummin the second coming
it feels like it’s ending
well it’s always been ending
do you think about the future
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