[supplied by Chieko Hashimoto]
1.Menagerie Keeper
Give em what they want to hear
Sell your vision of a world of fear
Why should they know
Why should they have to know
Jesus laughing in the other room
watching TV turns into an old cartoon
Colors flash against the wall
The hopeless hear the call
Menagerie keeper - you are the voice
Menagerie keeper - we made the choice
Menagerie keeper - all day long
Menagerie keeper - nothing's lost
Menagerie keeper - count the cost
Menagerie keeper - all day long
We all want a place to hide
We all want to be the one inside
You want it all
You thought you'd never fall
Menagerie keeper - looking at you
Menagerie keeper - broke the rules
Menagerie keeper - all day long
Menagerie keeper - cannot trust
Menagerie keeper - don't look at us
Menagerie keeper - all day long
Looking into their eyes
All they want is something justified
All they want is revelations
Explanations
Vindication
An indication now
Caught in a lie
No more alibis
Menagerie keeper - you were the voice
Menagerie keeper - we made the choice
Menagerie keeper - all day long
Menagerie keeper - no sacrifice
Menagerie keeper - we paid the price
Menagerie keeper - all day long
All day
All day
2.Soul Astray
I wasn't shocked when I heard
what happened to you
I saw it coming
but what could I do?
I see you in the dark, in my sleep
I never knew someone so strong
could be so weak
Your soul has gone astray
But that was yesterday
Did they hear what they said?
Did it go to your head?
It frightened me
when you cut off all your hair
All the people just stood out and stared
Your soul has gone astray
But that was yesterday
Did you hear what they said?
Isolation seems your only friend
cause you kicked me out
when it came to the end
The strength that you employed
you never did enjoy
No sympathy
Pathetically I found I was only a toy
The medics came too late
They pronounced at half past eight
and let you dissipate
[supplied by Chieko Hashimoto]
1.Eskimo (see Land Falls Lyrics) 2.That was Before Once when I was young I was taught about my rights That leaders never lie And to say my prayers at night But that was before And the myths are still exchanged That was before Children are taught the same old games Could there be more? Or just another sold Once when I was young I was taught we had to fight That we always win the war Cause it was our given right But that was before And the myths are still exchanged That was before Children are taught the same old games Could there be more? Is there something we're not told? Could there be more? Just another million sold They keep us here in the dark The newsprint hides the truth Faults have been misplaced Step into the voting booth They keep us here in the dark Confusing all the laws And if you have an answer They'll break down all your doors You can make it, you can take it It's your lucky day Hello honey, make some money Let's put some away But that was before And the myths are still exchanged That was before Children are taught the same old games Could there be more? Is there something we're not told? Could there be more? Just another million sold 3.Get it going We're all dazed by a memory Sit and think of another time Play my records till it's late at night It's all hazy Feel so lazy I'm not tired in my bed Another day that came and went But once you've got me going Run with me Never happy with the things I've got Need a spark No, I just need a start We all want something new There's not much we can do But once you've got me going Run with me Nothing lasts like you want it to But it's true for a while So once you've got it going Run with me 4.Angels (Saints cover song) 5.Layers (see Land Falls lyrics)
[supplied by Chieko Hashimoto]
1.Layers
Sitting in transit
Car fumes breathe up smoke up to the sky
A layer is ransacked in Antarctica
But don't get lazy
When they start building cities underground
And don't get crazy, to keep us on the land and all around
I'm willing to take a stand
To keep us on the grass and on the land
Fish are dying
As sunlight starts to destroy their basic cells
People are crying
And years ago we were the first to yell
I'm willing to take a stand
To keep us on the grass and on the land
Peek through the tinted glass
To see if it is safe to go out once more
Dried out seas of purple grass
And you only thought this could happen in a nuclear war
I'm willing to take a stand
To keep us on the grass, to keep us on the land
To keep us on the grass and on the land
2.For Nothing
Weathered home
Bricks and stone
'Til it's torn away for nothing
Passion known
to 2 alone
'Til it's torn away for nothing
Maybe there once was a day
When it meant more, in our lives
But it just goes away
It was something, now it's nothing
Friends you know
Come and go
'Til they slip away to nothing
Favorite sounds
Lost and found
'Til they slip away to nothing
Maybe there once was a day
When it felt right, in our times
But it just goes away
It was something that we had
And now we've thrown it in the past
Now it's gone
Novel thoughts
All used up
'Til they're thrown away for nothing
Utopian dreams
Too extreme
'Til they're thrown away for nothing
Maybe there once was a day
When it meant more, in our minds
But it just wastes away
It was something, now it's nothing. And it's gone.
3.Eskimo
In these days the eskimo
Dot our cities to and fro
Huddled up against the cold
In an igloo made of foam
Eskimo in the snow
He is sleeping
Cardboard home, he's all alone
Is he breathing?
On a bench in Tompkins' Square
You can always see him there
Or a crowded subway stair
His address is everywhere
Eskimo in the snow
He is sleeping
Concrete home, he's all alone
What's he thinking?
(And a thousand points of light
Still won't keep him warm at night)
Can't complain about the heat
When you're living in the street
Magazines, discarded clothes
He is buried to the nose
The cops they can't drag him away
'Cause it's here he wants to stay
Feels he's better off that way
Beats the shelters any day
Eskimo in the snow
He is freezing
Mattress home, he's all alone
The people hate him so
Just leave him alone
Just leave 'em alone
4.Alone
Car rides down a long dark road
Long drive from the walls of stone
I could die, so quiet out here at night
Car rides tonight (tonight)
No clock, no desk, no phone!
(Just to be so all alone)
No time, I'm wandering half-blind
Car rides tonight (tonight car rides)
No time, I'm losing my mind
Car rides tonight (tonight)
I see yesterdays and wonderful things
I want to be here tonight
But still the same thing happens again
I want to be here tonight
Ahhhh
5.Eyesore
A two-folded fist that makes demands I always miss
Hypocrisy always bothered me
Days when you sleep 'til you can't sleep anymore
Those are days in which I'll stay
So don't come near me anymore
I've had enough of your folklore
Your eyesore
A dollar is earned, and through the poor I finally learned
Work is not the only way
You can't see it but it's right there in your face
How's it feel to be misplaced?
So don't come back to me anymore
I've had enough of your cold war
Your eyesore
Wish you away, but it seems you're here to stay
It gets worse by the day
As the rainforests disappear
People like you are always here
Always here
Always here
6.Again (A Decade of Casualties)
"There She Goes Again" playing for her friends
Ask me why, I'll never see you again
Briefly heard her name, 15 ticks of fame
In the end, we'll never see her again
Ask her what she left behind
In a verse you'll never find
Stay at home and close the blinds
Didn't see the signs, lost without again
Must have been insane - Tears are mixed with the rain
Lost my way, I may not find it again
Is it strange the lights fell dead?
All those clips went to your head
Now you're what you were instead
Caught in bed, missed your cue again
"There She Goes Again" playing for her friends
Ask me why we never see you again?
Look at how we crawled so fast
Over splintered shards of glass
Make-up's smeared with the shots you had
Love is wrong, all the rest are gone
Never see, well never, never again
Ask me why
7.Aha!
She lives away in satin covered hands
Don't ask me what she said, it didn't have to be this way
Your hair it brightly shines
Your legs on top of mine
The smell of a rotting day
It didn't have to be this way
And in my mind the taste is leaving
But I can't stop thinking it's the only way
There comes a time
When life meant more to me
than the darkest sunshine
It didn't have to be this way
And in my mind it's all revealing
But I can't stop thinking
It's the only way
Aha!
What's she means to me is hurting
Peace on the land in the sand
In the days of summer
Lying on the beach out of reach
In the days of summer
The dying sun and the dying tide
You walk alone, you wait for a ride
And to the city you'll ask to go
But you won't make it
They have to know
Aha!
Don't do this to me I trusted, trusted, trusted....
Peace on the land in the sand
In the days of summer
Lying on the beach out of reach
Feeling cold and number
I cannot hear what you mean
When you say it's over
Lying in the sand
I cannot stand
These days of summer
8.Open Your Eyes
Remove the guards and then the walls
Break the silence see it fall
Let it all down slow
Let it all down slow
Let it all down slow
Remove the wounds that won't heal
There is nothing to conceal
Let it all down slow, if you want to know
Let it all down slow
A burned out dream that wouldn't die
That you don't want to keep inside
Let it all down slow, break it down, let it go
Let it all down slow
Open your eyes, don't cry, this world is filled with lies
That were cherished, but now they should perish
All of this must be replaced, even though time won't
Erase from here all your fears
Lift yourself don't feel so down
This broken town must be razed to the ground
Open your eyes, don't cry, this world is filled with lies
That were cherished but now they should perish
Turn your back from the hate, in their minds it was too late
Don't give in 'cause deep within you know
You have to go
9.Landslide
Some other time
I will see the distance between us
Sensible minds
Buried in the thin line we walk
But feeling your impatience pull
We return to worn out amusements
A murmur of malicious tones
Blow away our brittle illusions
Through the landslide
Nothing ever gets around me
Through the landslide
Nothing ever gets around, nothing gets to overrun me
There is a fall
Farther than this moment of time (or so it seems)
Through the landslide
Nothing ever gets around me
Through the landslide
Nothing ever gets around, nothing ever gets to ground me
We are the ones who go out in the sun and come back so burned
We are the ones who would fall for the smoke and the mirrors,
bent and upturned
We are the ones that fly, before our wings have dried
Falling around our way
Falling so endlessly
Far as the eye can see
Falling so helplessly
10.The Sound
The sound is running on so you can see what you can't be
You can hide it for a few weeks long or see what you can't see
Hurry to the left, driving through the night
And you know what you should have
In a life where things aren't knowing
What it seems that you would grab
Well the only sound you ever heard was the sound of your own voice
Passing through the tracks of living 'til you see you have no choice
Hurry to the left, hurry to the right
'Til you witness our disgrace
It's a lie for all of us
That we fall down on our face
And you go home in the night
And you go home in the night
When the time is near
See her come once then disappear
If you like what you had
But you haven't got a clue
You must see at the top of things
It gets confused
And the homely days and other ways you saw just what was sacked
And you lost that grip within your hands, 'cause it wasn't point of fact
Hurry to the left, hurry to the right
And you see what fruit it brings
In an astral layer foundation
And not just simple things
~~~
And you go home in the night
Then you go home in the night
When the scene appears
Once and that's all and you die here
If you like what you had
And you still have no clue
You must see to the top of things
It gets confused!
And you hold me down a breaker sound, the wind out on the waves
And you love just what you're hearing 'cause it makes you feel so brave
Hurry to the left, laying to the right and
You threw it in the bay
In the hope for what is coming
From the dawn of the new day
And you go home in the night
Then you go home in the night
Still you go home in the night
Then you're home
[supplied by Chieko Hashimoto]
1.Asphalt Angels
Your words are life
Whispered nothings bathe the night
Won't let me breathe
Countless kisses smother me
And what it means
is still unknown
Nothing matters more
until you let me know
The road is wide
We're asphalt angels deep inside
And all I see
are tears to pavement
your life stories
And what it means
you haven't shown
Nothing matters more
until you let me know
The postcard said we're doing fine
Rain hits the roof and motel signs
Nearby the vacant pass us
On the highways
roads and byways they go
The road is life
We're asphalt angels in daylight
We clocked 110
Steel to rubble the chassis bent
And what it means
we finally know
Nothing mattered more
They would not let us go
2.All About Me
Feel so good now I'm the greatest
transparency she's ever seen
And I hear that I'm her latest
But now I'm worn out
I want to be cleaned
And I wished she never was
She wished I never was
Should have left it for a new life
All to wonder and still to be here
She wished I never was
She wished I never was
Never had the time
Never had the time to find me (2x)
and too late to think you will
I've become the degradation
Kill me off my valentine
She never was
She wished she never was
Never had the time
Never had the time to find me (2x)
and too late to think you will
Take this break for composure
Exposure reflect ejection dateline
And I wished she never was
She wished I never was
See we never were
We never were
3.Enslave Me
In whispers some are recognized
Insistence on a nursery rhyme
All makes my heart yearn
for a beach where we burn
and I had someone to depend on
Enslave me - treat me like a case of wine
Enslave me - world of sugar, world of brine
Your features try to see inside
Resistance for us a lie
My mind slides and burns
Find the bullet not the gun
But I need you to depend on
Enslave me - tie my heart with your twine
Enslave me - world of sugar, world of brine
Transcend us - I want to be all of you
Enslave me - let me make it through this life
Enslave me - drink me like a case of wine
Enslave me - world of sugar, world of brine
Transcendence - I want to be all of you
Enslave me - let me make it through this life
4.Ghosts
So we lay down in the haze
and ruffle the covers
But my mind it often strays
to previous lovers
you can't see behind you
if you close your eyes
Heard his wife of many years
say "John, I am leaving you
It's not the same without the kids
There's nothing for us now"
I can see behind the smokescreen
You erect a facade
to hide from all the things you left behind
The things you left behind
Well it must have cracked your frame
What happened so long ago
But the way you deal with pain
is living with ghosts and
You conceal your life in sorrow
Don't erect a facade
Don't hide from all the
things you've left behind
The things you've left behind
Well I know
there are things I take for granted
But in the end
The things I love I hold on for dear life
You conceal your life in sorrow
Don't erect a facade
Don't hide from all the
things you left behind
The things you left behind
5.Alley Park
Take the car to Alley Park
past your parents who sleep in the dark
By a lake with barely life
Not much in it, not much alive
Take my hand as we pick a spot
near the wasted in the parking lot
Twirl around in the ground
Dogs will bark but we won't hear a sound
In the twilight luminescent undertow
In the twilight luminescent afterglow
But many will wait and wonder why
their hearts are twisted giving out goodbyes
But you and I at least we tried
In the darkness I can see your eyes
In the twilight luminescent undertow
In the twilight luminescent afterglow
In the twilight
6.Blue Snow
(instrumental)
7.Worthless
Grasping at words that matter
Thoughts run unconscious in my mind
Lost in the dust that staggers
In light passing through the blinds
Spoke out loud till you listened
Out with your friends all the time
If your world should shatter
I guess I would think it was fine
And I try to understand
We need to grow but we never can
And I feel so worthless now
Counting the days you were in college
In summer your hair smelled like the pines
Leaves fall in subtle knowledge
Love, it obscures all the signs
I try to understand
We need to grow but we never can
And I feel so worthless now
It's all fading
Words you're saying
And it...
It can't...
It won't...
It will...
Hands need to hold warm hands
Hearts need to grow but they never can
And I feel so worthless
I feel so worthless now
8.Misjudgment
Mary said today's the day
when she'll finally learn
End the pattern, break the circle
books she will burn
But it just never happens anyway
Through the backstreets, up the doorstep
she crawls around
Silent passage through the evening
doesn't make a sound
But it just falls apart anyway
Started at the ending
A mystery undone
Another chapter fading
In her book In her words
Avoid the mirror, feel dishonest
Pounding in your head
Break the window, cry your eyes out
Hate yourself instead
Well, what did you read in there anyway?
Whispers in the printer
A voice without a sound
A theme that's turning bitter
In her book
In her words
In her world
What does it matter?
In the end it's all the same
And sometimes it seems
like it's the only thing that matters
But it's not what it appears to be
Not what you think at all
Not at all!
Stupid ways and wasted days
Misjudgment is a running play
Repeat the scene again today
Repeat the scene again today
9.Time To Go
Heard a siren call my name
I was tied to the mast
The fan was blowing air around
but it wasn't made to last
I don't know how I got so old
Please don't say it's time to go
Saw you going out last night
And I made up my mind
I heard you say you're busy
but my clock can tell the time
I don't know how I got so old
Please don't say it's time to go
Does it make me nervous
to cut through the frost
And when you think about it
the stone hides the moss
Yet I can't believe
that this start is an end
Not this "let's be friends" again
I don't know how I got so old
Please don't say it's time to go
Time to go
Time to go
10.Shattering Cold
Mattress madness - virtue killed
Rocking forward - but keeping still
Spasm gladness - when you're done
Chasm sadness - when you see the sun
In the shattering cold
Shattering cold
Inspiration - to flirt and tease
Indication - in saying please
You weren't thinking - was the gentle kind
Wish all over - to grab back the time
From the shattering cold
Shattering cold
You don't want to hear about it
Don't want to care
If time heals all wounds
then why is it still clear?
How long
How long in the shattering cold?
Still wears laughter - toast of the town
A subtle gesture - a silent frown
Keeps illusions - will never meet someone
No solutions - how far can it run
From the shattering cold
Shattering cold
You don't want to hear about it
Don't want to care
If time heals all wounds
then why is it still clear?
How long
How long in the shattering cold?
11.The Light
I'm staring into the light
that keeps this city bright
I watch it glow
I'm staring at the corner fight
His head turns crimson bright
I watch it flow
It is so surreal inside
as they turn aside
People coming home at night
subway horror sight
and they know
Soothed by a TV screen
or maybe some vaseline
They'll watch it flow
And in rewind I saw her eyes
Tears asking me why
All around me
to see who is on the floor
They surround me
but no one bothers anymore
Bothers anymore
They're smashing out all the lights
Turning off insight - do you know?
The multitude of the numb
Turning others deaf and dumb -
do you know?
And one day they'll wake up inside
but till that day you'll be
All around me
cause I can't take you anymore
Don't surround me
cause you can't bother anymore
And it seems we have Disney dreams
of a world of love
Anesthetize what we feel inside
and confide to above
All around me
to see who is on the floor
You'll surround me
but you can't bother anymore
Bother anymore