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Let's reinvent the impossibility of everything
Let's turn our backs on all the lives we've been trying to lead in outer space
Wave after wave of dead souls crashing against the same shore
They tear and fray in the bitterness of realities we've seen before
Don't talk to me about real life, I'm just waiting here to tear this all down
I've seen too many lives getting tangled up in their own futile attempts
Don't talk to me about the future
It's too fragile, the threat is too near
Let's drink in the popular neurosis and admit that
There's nothing left to believe in down here
And you deny me any right to fulfill the tensions I've seen
And you defy all the higher planes, is anything as real as it seems?
When time dissipates, our anger and lust will wash out to sea
And time will create and it will catch fire in the wake of what is to be
Suicide becoming so practical on a dying planet living on lightning rods
As we turn against our frozen alternatives we see the failings of the flesh
And turn our back on our gods
Chemical reactions exploding in my brain
As you close your eyes and insist your gods have disappeared
The neurotic contagion is spinning through the crowds
And there's nothing left to believe in down here
Let's reinvent the impossibility of everything
Let's turn our backs on all the lives we've been trying to lead in outer space
When time dissipates, our anger and lust will wash out to sea
And time will create, though it may never catch fire in the wake of what is to be
Suicide, the obvious question on a dying planet living on lightning rods
We turn against ourselves, having seen the failed flesh
And turned our back on our gods
Don't talk to me about the future
It's too fragile, the threat is too near
This is the popular neurosis, admit that
There's nothing left to believe in down here
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Bleed
05:05
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In darkness we fought unseen wars
By speaking innocent belief
We surmounted compulsion in logic
Breathing winds into the past
This vision comes down
And becomes my mortality
This vision against a desert sky
Is the truth, I answer, amazed
I cut open a vein of anguish
I betrayed anger with closed eyes
I reached in the black heat of oblivion before me
And tore out an unscathed soul
In one firestorm to another, I break through
To watch you holding your breath
A fist in plaster, I descended to the table
To search out what was left
I see no pain and I hear no evil
I could scatter it to the wind
I could keep giving my soul away forever
And remain numb until I’m let back in
I’m not trying to be Jesus
Don’t you see the sun blazing in the sky?
I still can’t answer to all that’s real
What I give will not lay down and die
I return to my great leap of faith
That made you my mortality
Why do humans tear pieces out of each other?
What makes me love you more when I bleed?
I can’t pull the ropes with my hands torn open
I don’t even know where they lead
We’ve got the horses trained to drag the corpses away
And turn our back when the animals feed
I spin the cartridge in my revolver
What the hell has happened to the sky?
And you, the unanswered question to new fates
Has honesty become so trite?
I spun out in a hurricane
Against the ground, burning with want
I awoke on the bare, dry earth
And the sky was fading hollow away
It’s all glass now, effortless and empty
It dries up, year after year
I’m shadow boxing, I’m catching lightning
Now that you’re the thunder in my mind
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