La Finestra di Fronte

Now there's something about you
That's so fucking fake
Not much the actress
More a dummy in place

They've worked so hard
 to give you resemblance of taste
but you move so last season
 in all the wrong make...up

Could you be...
This shallow of a human being?
 Could you be...
Just a shadow of a real meaning?

Sounds like a voice!
Smiles like a face!
Nothing beneath
but PR and Marketing

Sounds like a voice!
Smiles like a face!
A breathing mannequin
with dimensions so great.

First time I seen you

You was all a mess

All regrets

La-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da

Now you have comfort

In sameness

Same as them

La-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da

 Here, look, see the audience
eyes wide, bright, and peeled.
Membranes of retinas
are discarded shields.

So ready to imitate
such rotting dead life.
They only need a push
 to throw away their desires.

Could you be...
So gullible a group of beings?

Could you be...
So clueless to a shred of meaning?

Sounds like a voice!
Smiles like a face!
Patterns, formulae
to set hearts aflame.

 Sounds like a voice!
Smiles like a face!
An edge-of-the-seat grip
on a sweet nothing.

Art is all glamour

And shamelessness

Arrogance

 

La-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da

Posture for the camera

You're magnificent

Maleficent

La-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da
 Now, who can give blame
 for the whoring of self?
The tried and the true,
slides easy from the shelf.

 Don't puncture me too deeply.
Don't linger in my head.
Get in and get out,
I promise to be good and entertained.

 Could you be...just trying to get by?

 Da DAdaDAdaDAda DA da DA da DAda

Sounds like a ruse...to set the right mood

Da DAdaDAdaDAda DA da DA da DAda

Suspend disbelief...PR, marketing

 Da DAdaDAdaDAda DAda DA DAdaDAda

 Too hard, too risky...for real meaning

 Da DAdaDAdaDAda DAda DA DAda DA da

The Abrupt Ending of the Honeymoon

Hey there, girl
That’s quite not cool
We’ve been doing real good
‘till we came to this room

We were all having fun
‘till it got shook up
Now, the room’s getting heavy
and I gotta stop

If you don’t step to me,
I won’t step to you
If you don’t fuck with me
I won’t fuck with you

I know. I know.
Time’s have been so hard.
And you’re spoiling real bad for a fight
But the way things are going these a days
Don’t wanna mess with me tonight

It’s a sore subject
You should know
Thought we were avoiding
the cold hard truth

Yes, you do things
that drive me up the wall
but you’re my one and only
I take no other calls

If you don’t step to me,
I won’t step to you
If you don’t fuck with me
I won’t fuck with you

I know. I know.
Time’s have been so hard.
And you’re spoiling real bad for a fight
But the way things are going these a days
Don’t wanna mess with me tonight

Hey there, girl
It’s time to be cool
You're blowing my buzz
By acting a fool

I was here relaxing
Till you just blew up
Now, my head is spinning
but I can’t get up

Please don't step to me
Too tired to step to you
Please don't fuck with me
Cause I can’t be fucking with you

Aw, shit...

Baseline

Baseline

Sounds like it coulda happened
might have even been me
Go grill the fly on the wall

A face I turn off and on
Have I relieved all your qualms?
Sure would like to help you but I...
Really wasn't there

Really wasn't there
Phasing up and down again
Half in, half out
No way to be sure

Really wasn't there
Sneaked out the back door
Probably like you say
The right opportunity

I see the tape you've got there
All the proof you'll need
So cool you got that at the time

Sitting there in plain view for you
No doubt of what he did
Sure he’d like to help you, but he
Really wasn't there

Really wasn't there
Just not so with it, bro
all lost in thought
not in the mood

Really wasn't there
Not gonna lie here, man
Things is as you see
And that is not me

Please forgive my self displacement

Wasn't really there
Wasn't really all there
Half here, half where
Partially aware

Wasn't really there
Wasn't really doing things
Never in control
Just a mind to be sold

Please don't exploit my ignorance

Entheos

In my brain
Outta my soul
Some creature crawling from a deep dark hole

In the cold cold night
The music came
So clear and gripping
I couldn't keep laying

What's your body?
Who's in there?
When your brain's the shell
For your other self

Two spirits in one form
That beast they tamed
Is quite adored

Two spirits in one form
Me, myself, and maybe one more

I woke up with the pen in hand
I wrote this song but I didn't know it
Can you tell me what I did
The melody came and I ran with it

In my mind
Outta my soul
Something that I can't control

If you own a muse
Then keep that shit
If she runs and takes off
What are you left with?

Much better than fooling around
Is when you work for you
And have something found

Two spirits in one form
One's your own.
One was just there.

Two spirits in one form
I think I'm one
But it's not too clear

I woke up with the pen in hand
I wrote this song but I didn't know it
Can you tell me what I did
The melody came and I ran with it

How many songs have I
 lost?
When I couldn't play what I thought?
Some fuck up and some forget
I know who i am but what's the rest?

Hamelin renegs

The pied piper caught his shadow moping in the mirror
"I'm sorry, man. It wasn't all a dream.
We took them all and led them straight down into the river.
What God will have us now?
No God will have us now."

"They were so meek and willing,
a chorus' silent screaming,
we played and played
until the last were gone
Have they seen what we've done?
They must know what we've done."

"Were our profession one of long and noble history,
We'd have recourse under a verbal contract.
As it stands,
they tied our hands.
We can't subsist upon a diet of rats
And no, no God will have us now.
No, no God will have us now."

They were so putrid, sneering
A hive of stuck great villainy
how could they not miss a chance to ride free
As it stands,
Our bloodstained hands
have saved a generation from neglect and hate
So, no, no God will have us now
No, no Good could want us now

He fell asleep and dreamed of trophies, feasts,
a wife to love,
and all pomp befitting a hero's welcome.
A perfect plan. A helping hand.
And yet...
You deal in filth and see what you've become.
So no, no God will have you now.
No one will have you now.

Tachycardia

Softly so softly
A thump in the night
Clasp your chest
and just try to breathe

You know me
They know me
It's no mystery
I will always make the same mistakes
Mistakes

Which vice did I run to?
Were they all out of reach?
I cannot keep trying to reflect
The same memories
Eating away at me
Here and there my best of intentions
My
best
laid
(plans)

The enemy's encroaching on the borderline
And soon there'll be nowhere left to hide
There's time. Still time to run and flee
But this might be the last you see of me
Of me

Not old in the body
But old in the head
A pounding heartbeat breaking in
Too much fun
Too much undone
Can I please take it back?
I have so much more for which to live
To live

Death's encroaching on the borderline
And soon there'll be nowhere left to hide
There's time. Still time for you to flee.
But this might be the last you see of me.
Of me.

Don't Darwin Me, Bro

Standing on the corner when a piano drops below

Or fishing on the lake when a trout jumps down your throat

Drunk and climbing walls when you lost your door keys

It's all safe until it's not

It's safe until you drop.

Just paralyze me now and I'll stop making mistakes.

Been trying real hard not to die in stupid ways.

Your last breath you're taking

Knowing you're a laughingstock

Out comes the exhale and the first of the guffaws

Here's your life

(Here's your life)

It's almost up

(Almost up)

You tried so hard and got so little in return

But now it's done

As dumb as it begun

(x2)

Cardiac arrest in another woman's bed

The kinda bad luck that can sever both your heads

You swore it wasn't loaded when you used it as a bong.

It's all smart until it's not

When you're your own headshot

Just pad all my rooms and put away all the sharp objects

I don't want final moments I won't live to regret

Your family's final memories

Farewell tears to shed

Were they laughing out loud or wailing bitter sounds?

Ba bah bah bah bah bah

Ba bah bah bah bah bah (to the tune of the previous chorus)

The ending comes

As dumb as it begun

Just feed me with a tube and keep my limbs restrained

I'm trying not to disgrace my family's somewhat good name

You'd think it'd be real easy

Stick to the beaten path 

It's all wise until it's not

When they catch you slippin' up

Ba bah bah bah bah bah

Ba bah bah bah bah bah (to the tune of the chorus)

The ending comes

As dumb as it begun