The Hypnogogue

Ascendence

[rev. Mar. 24, 2023]

When the sea is boiling
And the earth recoiling
Kundalini coiling
Rushing like a current up your spine

And you know these days are strange
And that something had to change
Something always out of reach
Something no one else could find

When the weather darkens
And still no one hearkens

Strange time
Strange land

Your ascension is assured
Your ascension, your reward
Your ascension is assured
Your ascension, your reward
Your ascension is assured
Your ascension, your reward

And the universe changed its mind
And you don't want what you can't find
And you say I saw the sign
It's a sign for the blind

Into your heaven
I want to get even
Into your heaven
I want to get even

When the weather darkens (when the weather darkens)
And still no one hearkens

Struggle with my thoughts
In a dream, in a room
In a song, in a paper
In an article you read in The Age

Since I failed ya
Since I failed ya

Your ascension is assured
Your ascension, your reward
Your ascension is assured
Your attention, more and more
Your attention, a little more
Your attention, more and more

Ok
Ok
More and more

 

C'est La Vie

[rev. Mar. 25, 2023]

Hey they say, c'est la vie
Here comes the future according to me
On no they go how can this be
I won't fuck with that so good luck with that

Watch out tiger you're on the skids
Falling out of favour with the kids
You couldn't do what Joe Public did
You couldn't change her, you just estranged her

Oh yeah, you're so good
Fizzle and the drizzle, walk through the wood
Oh yeah, you're so bad
You blew that bonanza with the chances that you had

What if I told you
What if I told you it was true
What if I told you
What if I told you it was you

Ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh
Ooh-ooh
This could be better
Ooh-ooh-ooh
This could be better than you think

What if I told you (what if I told you)
What if I told you it was true
What if I told you (what if I told you)
What if I told you it was you

Ahhh

What if I told you (what if I told you)
What if I told you it was true
What if I told you (what if I told you)
What if I told you it was you

Hey they say (hey they say)
C'est la vie
Hey they say, hey they say (hey they say)
C'est la vie (c'est la vie)

Hey they say
Here comes the future (hey they say)
According to me (c'est la vie)

Hey they say
Oh no they go (hey they say)
How can this be (c'est la vie)

Hey they say
I wouldn't fuck with that (hey they say)
So good luck with that
C'est la vie

Ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh
Ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh
Ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh
Ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh

 

I Think I Knew

I think I knew what you wanted
Nothing made sense to me anymore
I think I knew what this machine has done to you
It's playing that song I adored

Hey
Can you help me to see
Well ok
Nevermind

I think I knew what you wanted
You find a way to turn this all off
I think I knew how one and one and one make two
It's playing my song too softly

I think I knew what you wanted
I think I better think it through
I think I knew where it all was leading to
Just playing my song just for you

Hey
Can you help me to see
Hey
Nevermind

Hey
Can you help me to see
Well ok
Nevermind

 

Flickering Lights

A vision of you
So water clear
A thought of it pursuing me
All through these years

Just one click
She disappeared
Maybe you're just being a baby

Walk on through the darkness
Walk on through the storms
Walk on through the roses and the bricks
And walk on through

An image of you
So damn indelible
Haunting me always
Oh so incredible

So tangible
It's almost edible
Maybe you're just being a baby

Walk on through the thunder
Walk on through the rain
Walk on through the brambles and the briars
And walk on through

You got the rest of me
You wanted none of it
You got the best of me
I wanted all of it

 

The Hypnogogue

[rev. Mar. 24, 2023]

When you wanted it
I was there
When you first went in
No one twisted your arm

When you tasted it like
You've been tasting it your whole life
'Cause you went under
Into unknown

Remember the music
Pulled out of your head
Piano trickery
Into the cans

Insulating guitars
Reptilian bass
Kick in your face
The sear in your heart

You won't get something
Did you make a reservation
You won't get something out of me
For tonight
You won't get something ??? [1:43]
I got no reservation
You won't get something out of me
For tonight

Losing strings in the garden
You finger the cymbals
Gawk at machine heads
Cast off your accounts

Suddenly we had too much
The organs were swelling
The moonbeams were burning
The arrows did fall

Then like the tide went out
The ensemble were dying
A quick end in flourish
But that's another story

Well I got a jet
It's already late
It's already too soon
I'm ready to jam

Your tranquil apartment
The ambient music
Music for love time
Incandescent in [3:52] song

Now I stand empty-handed
At the threshold of silence
The end of performance
The end of a life

You won't get something out of me
Did you make a reservation
You won't get something ??? [4:18]
For tonight
You won't get something out of me
I got no reservation
You won't get something out of life

 

Albert Ross

Pretty as sin
The evening begin
Think I'm going back to sleep now

The greediest wish
The tastiest dish
Delicious encounter queued us all around
Now I want this forever

Everyone must want something
Everyone must want something
Somewhere you cannot go

The luckiest shot
The suckiest plot
Hot nights in the port I caught you briefly
You were such a good sport
You said I want this forever

Everyone must want something
Forever
Everyone must want something
Somewhere you cannot go

Everyone must want something
Forever
Forever
Everyone must want
Forever
Ever
Something
Everyone must want something

 

Thorn

[rev. Mar. 18, 2023]

If you want to see the future that's ok
If you buy all of the sky I'd say
Come back another day

If you wanna see your nature that's too bad
If you bleed and so you'll see

When you gave your notice
I was laughing in my office
The offers pouring in
And exploring all the offers all the way

And I wanna send a shout-out to all the ladies
I'm saying Eden it's coming back soon
As she walk through the dawn and the myth and the moon
Ecce to picae [1:31]

If you want to see the future that's ok
If you buy all of the sky I'd say
Come back another day

John the Baptist dressed in white
Mack the Knife dressed in black
I'm going down, lost in the town, I won't be back

Where have you been all day
Elysian Fields where we shapes take wing
What have you done all day
Written on the wind, sparkled in the sea spray/script

In the light of the morning
The cold and the grey

And I wanna send a shout-out to all the ladies
Bathing in the Tigris and the Euphrates
I'm saying Eden it's coming back soon
With new improved features and the garden all in bloom
As she walk through the dawn and the myth and the moon
Her teeth are chattering
Her feet are aching to be kissed

 

Aerodrome

A warm afternoon
And I'll be there so soon with you
Let us out a day
I'll find a way to break through
Running on a spot in the aerodrome
Journey so hot all the way home
I hate feeling this alone

They're gonna fade it
They're gonna fade it
You're gonna hate it

I wish I never said it
I wish I never read it
I wish I never bought it
I wish I never thought it at all

The jungle all crushed by a monsoon
Journey all rushed on a ??? [1:55] moon
I hate feeling this alone

They're gonna fade it
They're gonna fade it
You're gonna hate it

They're gonna fade it
They're gonna fade it
You're gonna hate it

Hidden costs of living
Now I'm giving this life
A burden of a Boomer
Now the rumours are rife

The echoes snatched away by the whispering wind
The serpent is hatched
New world begins
I hate feeling this alone

Ahh-ahh-ahh
Ahh-ahh-ahh
I hate feeling this alone
Ahh-ahh-ahh
Gonna feel so alone now
Ahh-ahh-ahh
I hate feeling this alone
Ahh-ahh-ahh
Gonna walk it away
Ahh-ahh-ahh
Hey
Ahh-ahh-ahh
Gonna live down by the sea
Ahh-ahh-ahh
If anybody lookin' for me
Ahh-ahh-ahh
I'm gonna be safe, I'm gonna be free

 

These Coming Days

Wallpaper like your favourite cafe
The paper flowers in the kitchen
Aeromatic pines, rambling vines
Fill up all of your days

Gardens on rooftops in the city
Speedboats moored up to the jetty
The Biblical palms, the loveliest psalms
Take up all of your days

And it happened again
And it happened again

Rusting steel chassis of a stripped down car
Spirit and it's a signal near and far
The beckoning hand
The welcoming land
Fill up all of your days
Fill up all of your days

The flying and the fallen
Finding yourself in a venomous heart
Three-thirty and you knock off early
Four-o'clock you're ready to stop

You can smell the future
As it happens again
You can smell the future
As it happens again
You can smell the future
As it happens again
You can smell the future
[repeated, overlapping lines]

 

No Other You

[rev. Feb. 10, 2023]

Sun Kim Jong
Well she got in my song
Running ahead in my head

Sun comes along
Nothing can go wrong for her
She's laughing out loud
She's making me proud

And justice is hidden
Then love comes unbidden
I'm kidding
There's no other you
There's no other you

Sun Kim Jong
I feel you belong
Blessed sister
Double happiness

Sun comes along
Mute sings a swan song
She's running amok like fuck

When the spell is broken
Then love is awoken
I'm joking
There's no other you
There's no other you

(No other you
There's no other you)

 

Succulent

(I wanted to take this opportunity to move on together
Stop
Stop
You make a ??? [0:40]
Stop)

Who imagined you
The nuts and the bolts
The end of the night
Charging me up like 1,000 volts

Drop me a line
'Cause I synced and I'm hooked
And turn on a light
I'm checking it out and this place is booked

The feeling peeled away
The ceiling flaking down
The hotels are all empty
So I'm kneeling on the ground
(I'm kneeling on the ground)

Who imagined you
The veins and the blurs
The start of the race
Trashing my ski, crashing your curve

Drop me a line
Line up for the queue
Excuse me user
I'm wondering who on Earth imagined you

The feeling peeled away
The ceiling flaking down
The hotels are all empty
So I'm kneeling on the ground
(I'm kneeling on the ground)

I am the voice in another room
Entombed in the depth above your heart
Voice from a gloomy future
Voice from a gloomy past

The hotels are all empty
The feeling peeled away

[faint, mostly unintelligible words in background from 5:04 to end]

I am the voice in another room
Entombed in the depth above your heart
Voice from a gloomy future
Voice from a gloomy past

Voice from a gloomy future
Voice from a gloomy past

Voice from a gloomy future
Voice from a gloomy past

 

Antarctica

[rev. May 10, 2023]

Antarctica
I hear you calling me all through the night
Antarctica
I feel you holding me so cold and white

Antarctica
I feel you watching me and take a big bite
Antarctica
I hear you calling me all through the night

I'm coming on board
I feel your hand on my shoulder
I'm coming on board
I feel your hand on my shoulder

Antarctica
Well I've been calling for days
Antarctica
I've been freezing today
Antarctica
Yeah you've been under my gaze
Antarctica
Well I've been calling for days

Well I was out there
(Yes, yes)
Well I was out there
(Yes, go on)
Well I was out there that day
(Yes, yes)
Well I was out there that day
(Go on, go on)
Oh no I can't go on
(Yes, yes, go on)
Oh no I can't go on
(Yes, yes)
Oh no
Oh no

Down on the cold side of town
(You take the easy way down)
The fisherman in the shack
(Water so cold and so black)
The scientist in the graveyard
(Sea lion marching up the boulevard)
Doctor and his wife who ran away
They don't care
The walrus and the carpenter
They don't care

 

Second Bridge

[rev. Sept. 30, 2023]

I'm sorry I was miles away
A black cloud left me here
With a lack of remorse
Of course we've been blown off course
A source of the present
The moon as a crescent

The master and the servant
The dragging of the currents
The pressure of the distance
The measure of insistence

They say
This isle is full of noises
An intruder in the burrow
Hand within the hollow

Follow me down
To the ruined town
The tears upon the pillow
The shock of the first hello

The weather on the window
A shadow of a widow
Today they wake up to a nightmare
The choking of the shallow
The weeping of the willow

I wanted to (possession) be here for you
I'm home too late, I'm fading out
We loved you (repossession) even greater
Than you ought to
Than you ought to know

The terrain upon the surface
The meaning of the purpose
I'm nervous about the delay
Chatter of the carriage
Married to the damage

We'd love to (possession) be here for you
We're home too late, you're fading out
We loved you (repossession) given greater
Things you ought to
Things you ought to know

Today
I came to in the morning
I was writhing in the undergrowth
DA says you're under oath

Tonight
I go to my sleep backwards
But then I live life forwards
Are we completely normal