Suicide Machine

from Skydiving in the Bermuda Triangle! by The Reptiles

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"Oh...well actually, they all look like elves..."

You couldn't give me a stranger reason to exist in this here and now
No greater metaphor for pillars of dust
Stretching into the waxy sky and crumbling in a humid shift
Rationalizing on rapid catalysts or jump-start the likely extreme
Spinning out of a floor of breathing grey and white
Falling out in stunned hyperbole rifts!

There's always a clock over my head
Alluding to the thought and not the means
Lay a silver cross over the open wounds of her wrist
The futile end to this suicide machine!

I use Guerrilla warfare tactics to traverse the plane
Of unreal wants and things I do and do not accept
Carrying ice statues of human skulls, I gather them up
Throw them in the air and they shatter free
Give me giant rocks for my great iniquities
And make me talk about things I don't even know
Hanging from giant meat hooks over frozen rivers of gas
I refuse logic to wiry pillars of meat!

There's always a clock over my head
Speaking out of reason, so safe and clean
Lay an iron cross over the open wounds in her chest
The healing edge of this suicide machine!

Words relaying...words relaying
Thought delays - talk delaying
In your eyes and in my hands
No...the constant breaks
Reason taken. reason taken, taken out of context!

There's always a clock over my head
Illusion to the reason and the means
Lay a silver cross upon the open wounds in her chest
The futile edge of this suicide machine!

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from Skydiving in the Bermuda Triangle!, released November 10, 2017
All songs performed by The Reptiles
All music written by The Reptiles
All lyrics written by Kristofer Kempton

Cover drawings, title and logo by Kristofer Kempton
Layout by Randy Michaud for FrameWerks Graphics:
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