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Carousel
04:34
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Recognize where you’re standing
Where you’ve been and where you are today
Don’t forget what you’ve been given
Should you one day give it all away
So you’re walking on your hands now
Looking away from something distant, faded
All reminding of a million sighs
Slowly burning out, you’re cruel and jaded
I think something’s gotta give, now
With all of the lies and second faces found
Through the fire and dust I’m kicking
Given the time away, it's working out
If in this tangled life not living
Is part of the passion, I jest “just send me on”
An ancient dream, divine and twisting
In front of the eye and I play my last song
I am dancing in my head
And there’s a storm outside the window
And it’s in every tree and leaf that flutters
I am dancing in my mind
Sometimes it all rushes out of you at once
And you’re left with a cold, cold calm
So you say “how could I have been so…”
I am dancing in my mind
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25 Lessons in Hypnosis
03:26
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What’s a right mind?
What do you mean “get better”?
Run until you’re down
I’m a generator in the nights
The night
But then the cost
It takes you down
Run until it’s down
You’re giving it away
It’s in your eyes
Roll your eyes
Fighting it all the way down
Any event might set
Might slip, might seep in
The punks are selling acid on the corner, San Francisco
And every city is the same in the sun
Every religion is the same in the sun
And every religion is the same in the twilight
I’m a generator in the nights
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Good Heavens
03:34
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My exaltation
I cannot even count to ten
Run my mouth, meet some people downtown
I aim to pick back up again
No need to worry
I found a way to feel complete
You can get it in tonight
Never when you would like
But you can get it so cheap
Now you’re off chasing the light
Man, you can’t kick it as easy as you’d like
If that’s a matter of fact that you don’t address
Go ahead and take what you find
My precognition
Says I can do it if I try
You’re such a clown
You don’t know how you sound
Better to keep it all inside
If I don’t worry
I cannot let me down, you see?
Please understand, I just do what I can
I don’t see what else I could be
Now you don’t know who, when, or why
It’ll all be over and done with in due time
But it can never be as good as it gets
You left that moment behind
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Knife
04:44
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You talk too much
I talk to no end
That is to say
We talk in circles
And when I’m high
I get sore
I must admit I let the moment
Take me o’er
I lit me up
Let it begin
And O, for shame
I am indebted and akin
To some disguise
From which born
Was an affliction
To the house of my adored
And I confess a certain turn
Unto my passing spirit and to thee
Something came through
When the wind blew snow from the trees
I talk too much
I talk in no
Order and dissipate
I walk in circles
So I was high
I got bored
I must admit I let the fever
Take me o’er
You’d given up
Not given in
Deep into nothing
They could feel it caving in
To some demise
I went forth
And in my final hour
I was something more
And I confess
That I did turn
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Book of Saturn
04:21
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“The sign of Capricornus is rough, harsh, dark, even blind; the impulse to create takes no account of reason, custom, or foresight. It is divinely unscrupulous, sublimely careless of result. "thou hast no right but to do thy will. Do that, and no other shall say nay. For pure will, unassuaged of purpose, delivered from the lust of result, is every way perfect."
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Repetition Compulsion
03:22
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Sally was in the back, Joanie was riding shotgun
The moon hung high above the pines
Charlie had a switchblade somewhere out of sight
And a lucky strike kept behind his ear
Joanie had a bad encounter with a man at a bar
And millions more day after day and every night
Some things are best kept black and white
Erasing oil painted neon lighting flesh
A silent horror behind her eyes
Sometimes we don’t intend to prey on one another
There’s a system for the sick and a practice for the damned
When the post-impressive modern takes a toll on your mind
You got to find a way to shake it or there’ll be another innocent one dead
They pulled into the gravel driveway and approached the hollow house
Lit a candle and checked the time
To Charlie, her life meant nothing. Sally was just a toy.
The clock had read 2:55
He told her to take the armchair
He said “Sally, have a seat in the armchair”
Well, that switchblade came a-swingin’
Sliced his throat, drained him dry
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Midnight Launderette
04:42
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Are you still in denial?
To think you would invite some truth
I see you took the knife out
I bet you’ll hand it right back, won’t you?
“Could you attempt to smile?”
Could you be any more in my way?
Who were you as a child?
I wish I could have seen, some days
Think what you want and
Say what you’re feeling
Just keep repeating
I know the days feel more like moments
And every moment just turns to tears
I try to tell you what it takes to break from this
But you always bring it back to here
TV on with the light out
Do you hear anything that I say?
You’ve got us all divided
Keep acting like it’s all for our sake
I’m leaving for the night, now
I guess I’m checking out like you
What did you want to fight about?
You’re dying to break into my room
You had your chances
But they were fleeting
No intervening
If there were many more years for trying
If there were any more time to lose
Did you consider that the story would end like this
By now it all depends on you
I know the days feel more like moments
And every moment just turns to tears
I try to tell you what it takes to break from this
But you always bring it back to here
So I was once a child
Why do you throw it all in my face?
You’re gone
There’s nothing but a life to waste
This place is haunted
I do believe it
Nobody needs it
Is this what you wanted?
I think you need it
Leave me to feel it
I know the days just feel like moments
And all the moments feel like years
We take a step in some direction to dare I say bliss
But you always push it back to here
If all the days still feel like moments
And every night brings you to tears
Well there is nothing I can do to convince you of this
But you’ve got to take the blame from here
I know the days feel more like moments
And every moment just turns to tears
I try to tell you what it takes to break from this
But you always bring it back to here
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Ghost
04:16
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Entertainment
I want to get you there
Well, you talk so sweet but it’s all you do
I want to know what you want me to if you think I should
Entertainment
I want to get you there
Well, you cut so quick and you know you do
It’s all the same equation every decade or two
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At Eternity's Gate
03:52
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Dying like a bug
a short rise and I’m falling like the sun
Unsettled, unjust like the rent
How could I care when I’ve been paying off the mess I’ve been in?
A need of open arms, a needle in the skin
A fortress on the surface, a feather in the center, a serpent in the pit
A failed attempt to make a solid ball of fist
I tried for days but I couldn’t scratch the itch
A future wide awake, a present set to fit
A fortress on the surface, a feather in the center, a serpent in the pit
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Joanie, Get Up
03:20
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Why right now?
No, I couldn’t make it go up right now
Oh, but I can make it alright right now
Oh, if I could make it go on right now
Oh, but I can make it and
You might say that it all sits well
We’re in the same position and I don’t know how
But you cannot image, yeah well that’s makes two
I’m dying to believe I could explain it to you
But I’ve tried through all my life
And it has never kept me sane
And in all my time
I’ve had a million amends to make
You might say that know me well
It’s not the same position and you don’t know how
But then I can imagine that you sometimes do
So why do I resist it if I don’t know you
Well
Round and back around
Oh, if I could make it go on right now
Oh, if I could make it go all the way
Oh, it keeps ripping my heart right out
Harder to anticipate now
It’s all my time
And everything I am today
But in all my life
It’s all the feeling that I can take
You might say that you knew me well
But I’m glad I quit trying to explain myself
Well I like you, but the show inside
Is a dream and thus enchanted by a starlit night
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