A1. CAESAR
Caesar’s got a crown of laurel
Caesar’s playing all the good shows
You dump your lead into me
Your arrows go right through me
Your fetial heralder
Prostrated at my altar
Caesar feels that he’s entitled
Caesar’s population riled
You pierce your lead into me
Your arrows go right through me
You roll me in the carpet
My stone god’s house has crumbled
A2. ANOTHER TIME, ANOTHER PLACE
A cubit of plastic
A fix for the modern age
It comes with a filter
That you can replace
But you like the old one
They used to make
In another time and another place
There’s someone on your arm
You’re feeding her some old line
You used to mean it
Now you’re killing time
And there in your mind’s eye
A different face
From another time and another place
You spend your life looking through a dark mirror now
Well at some point, you just lost track
Can’t go back but you wanna go back
Keep pushing forward
And turning away
To another time and another place
Out at a party
Under the neon glare
Is this supposed to be fun?
Am I supposed to care?
Warm bodies are moving
But lacking the grace
Of another time and another place
Well my heart was beating
Now it just aches
For some other time and some other place
Keep pushing forward
And turning away
To another time and another place
Another time and another place
A3. MARY KATHARINE
Light hits the window
Where the curtain fell
Mary is the easter after winter nights in hell
First ray of morning
On the ecchoing green
Seven years of labor and the ghosts have fled the scene
I don't care
If my band don't go nowhere
All I want is to dazzle in the eyes
Of Mary Katharine
Words yet unspoken,
Formed of alphabet parts,
Congregate, like wax they imprint Mary on my heart
She is the deluge
Menacing the gates
She opens up her mouth to sigh out comes the month of May
I don't care
That I'm not a millionaire
All I want is to dazzle in the eyes
Of Mary Katharine
She is the deluge
At the gate
I don't care
If I'm not a millionaire
All I want is to dazzle in the eyes
Of Mary Katharine
A4. THROUGH A DARKENED GLASS
Shakedown 1998
Me younger than yesterday
Brush the dust of history
Off my shoulder
As my cup of promise
Runneth over
Oh ooh ooh
Through a darkened glass
Oh ooh ooh
Through a darkened
In the valley of the stone
Clanging cymbals ringing drones
Happy zeroes pulsing, prophesying
But the speaking water
has been siphoned
Oh ooh ooh
Through a darkened glass
Oh ooh ooh
Through a darkened
I can see it there
Sand turned to water
I see my father’s helm
And a view from a great wall
Oh ooh ooh
Through a darkened glass
Oh ooh ooh
Through a darkened glass
Oh ooh ooh
Through a darkened glass
Oh ooh ooh
Through a darkened glass
Oh ooh ooh
Through a darkened glass
Oh ooh ooh …
A5. NO HELLO
Children’s toys and silly games
The boy child sings his dumb refrain
Echo to Narcissus cries
I know you are but what am I?
Black and white school conviction
Perched upon a stylite’s column
The revolution nearly won
As soon as all the washing’s done
Stubborn afternoons in bed
Was there anything I could’ve said?
Every start’s really an end
There’s stitches where you lose the thread
The summer loves they left and came
They all spoke soft, they all had names
I screamed at night just like a child
And watched them vanish from my side
Now you ask me why
I can’t equate the stardust that illuminates your eyes
I can’t predict the motion of you to or from my side
Until the day the sun’s suspended frozen in the sky and dogs can fly
There’s no hello, ‘cause I’ve said my last goodbye
All her secrets cast in wax
Her heart under the plexiglass
I tried I tried but I fucked up
Let’s get back to the dumb chorus
The summer loves they left and came
They all spoke soft they all had names
I screamed at night ‘til I was sore
Then rearranged some major chords
Now you ask me why
I can’t equate the stardust that illuminates your eyes
I can’t predict the motion of you to or from my side
Until the day the sun’s suspended frozen in the sky and dogs can fly
There’s no hello, ‘cause I’ve said my last goodbye
A6. NINEVEH
I swore I got it right this time
On Via Atri we laughed at the purgatory shrine
Vergini outside the crypt
A woman crosses herself and tightens her lip
And you said
I want this
And you said
Don't worry
And you said
I'm making up my mind
Nineveh belly of a fish
How can I speak of The Word after going through this?
And you said
I want this
And you said
I'm sorry
And you said
I'm making up my mind
Nineveh ghost in the hall
Cheap trinkets and postcards are no love at all
A7. TWO ARROWS
Two arrows son of Venus
Two arrows tearing love apart
One set to rousing passion
The other rout it from the heart
One shot to pierce the marrow
One lover spinnig from its charms
Next lead and poison arrow
Drove his loving sweetheart from his arms
Two arrows pointed at us
The gods will slice a membrane
Just for their entertaining
Hold fast, where do you run to?
Am I the cause of your distress?
Me I’m no unkempt shepherd
You run because you know not yet
I am the lord of Claros
I see for epochs past the sun
No secret unknown to me
I know every secret but your own
Two arrows flying at us
The gods will slice a membrane
Just for their entertaining
You know I really loved you
I really touched that burning wish
I hoped for your possession
But I could not face the god and live
You ran from me like Daphne
Fear pulsing through your laurel limbs
I held you as though grains of sand
You passed through me just like the wind
Two arrows pointed at us
The gods will slice a membrane
Just for their entertaining
Two arrows flying at us
The gods will slice a membrane
Just for their entertaining
B1. PUSH PUSH
Itinerant sons of benighted scum
Push push oh ooh ooh
See the most vile at the top of the pile
Push push oh ooh ooh
For a cash count you debase yourself
Push push oh ooh ooh
Terrorvision louts empty head big mouth
Push push oh ooh ooh
Itinerant sons of benighted scum
Push push oh ooh ooh
Your silver and gold will rust you’ll choke
Push push oh ooh ooh
B2. STIGMATA
I wanna make you crawl
Burn like an aerosol
A view from the wall
Stigmata on my palm
I slaughtered all your sons
They were the lucky ones
Phoebus overrun
Can't look beyond my sun
Stigmata makes me feel
Oh ooh
Gun powder on my wheel
Oh ooh
Stigmata makes me feel
Oh ooh
I wanna make you crawl
Burn like an aerosol
I haunt the midheaven
Stigmata on my palm
Stigmata makes me feel
Oh ooh
Gun powder on my wheel
Oh ooh
Stigmata makes me feel
Oh ooh
White heat to pierce my needle
Oh ooh
Stigmata makes me feel
Oh ooh
Gun powder on my wheel
Oh ooh
Stigmata makes me feel
Oh ooh
This wound will never heal
Oh ooh
B3. THE SHEEP AND THE GOATS
Speak to me softly and speak to me true
God knows the reason for all that you do
Nothing you see is untouched by His hand
His reign is endless he reigns without end
Speak to me honest and speak to me well
God is the thing that will save you from Hell
Guiding you to the perfection of one
Leading you from the Emperor of None
Speak to me faithful and speak to me low
Here are the sheep and beside are the goats
Why should he make some to hurt just He knows
Thank Him for His grace and do what you’re told
B4. A VIEW FROM THE WALL
[Whom the fates seek, from the high watch-tower let him fall … ]
B5. MAYBE IN A DIFFERENT WORLD
Stranded in Piraea
Tracing shadows on the wall
A ringing in my head
Like vespers casting out the gulls
And I know back home they're probably
Setting out the plates
They’re rolling out a strangled bird
And wine to be abstained
Seven years a stranger
But no pearl here to claim
And I can feel her color, warmth
I hear a voice but I can't trace her shape
But maybe in a different world
Our Christmases have come
Maybe in a different world
We’re walking in the sun
Maybe in a different world
That's blue instead of grey
Maybe in a different world (x3)
Stranded in Piraea
In the hard suburban sprawl
All my little promises just
Movement of the jaw
Seven years of labor
But no eucharist offered
And I can trace the letters and the
Accents but I cannot speak the words
Maybe in a different world
The stone’s been rolled away
Maybe in a different world
That’s blue instead of grey
Maybe in a different world
A new Jerusalem
Maybe in a different world
But not the one we're living in my friend
Maybe in a different world
I'm holding you again
Maybe in a different world
I’d be different man
Maybe in a different world
Another time and place
Where love is written on our hearts not
Trampled on and melted down in flames
Maybe in a different world …
B6. DEATH-WAX GIRL
Only love and hunger
Brought me to the world
Under bar lights chasing shadows
And the pall of memory I
Awoke in the apartment
Of the Death-Wax Girl
My mouth yearning for absorption
In her moldable smile
She said "hush" (x4)
Days we spent as strangers
On the Field of Mars
At night the candle burning
I reshaped her limbs
And no clay can match
Uncanny wax, the Death-Wax Girl
See the smile, see the color
See the likeness of the skin
She said "hush" (x4)
Television and perfume
And a bedroom built for lovers
Now become a tomb
Only love and hunger
Brought me to the world
Only eyes without perception
Teeth without a maw
And I tried to join my substance
To the Death-Wax Girl
But she melted my guts spilling
Like Zumbo's dead Gauls
She said "hush" (x4)
B7. FORMING
I put poison in my tea
I prick poppets in my sleep
Strange knots growing on the garden wall
Something tracing footprints in the hall
And it's forming
Forming without a conscience
Forming without a word
It's following ancient patterns
Something beyond absurd
Forming above the skyline
Forming below the dirt
White walls padded, lock and key
Laurel underneath my feet
Surface tension on the precipice
Black dust gathered in an evil mass
And it's forming
Forming without a conscience
Forming without a word
Following ancient patterns
Something beyond absurd
Forming above the skyline
Forming beneath the dirt
Nothing can ever stop it
Nothing can be reversed
It's forming
Forming without a warning
Forming without a word
It's following ancient patterns
Something beyond absurd
Forming above the skyline
Forming below the dirt
Nothing can ever stop it
Nothing can be preserved