I'm awake
But I'm asleep
I'm lost in awe
So what can you keep
And the longer we leave it
The worse it'll be
And the more that we look
The less we will see
And the further it goes
Where will it stop
And the higher you climb
The deeper the drop
I'm a man
Yet I'm an animal
I hunt and I gather
I write songs and parables
The more we invent
The more we gotta lie
And it won't get any easier
No matter how hard you try
And the more that you love
The more you will grieve
And you're stuck with yourself
And you can never leave
I'm alone
I'm part of the crowd
I speak to myself
And I think out loud
Living in the future
I'm living yesterday
God pulls me towards Him
Then He pushed me away
The more that you get
The more they can take
And they patch us up
But still we must break
No one cares if I die
No one cares if you live
I can't remember anything now
So why can't I forgive
Forgive all the insults
Forget all the slurs
Pay the Devil what's his
And give nature ??? [3:47]
In dreams of snow I fell through the ice
Here come the avalanche
I lay in darkness for a thousand years
Considering my life
And the sky was grey/red/dead [0:50]
And my blood was so red
No brain freeze, no brain thaw
Halfway in an afterlife
The crystal shapes of a thousand flakes
Considering my life
And the clouds were asleep
Beating down on the lake
I hear 'em talkin' so far away
As they try to dig me out of the avalanche
Maybe I don't want another thousand days
Considering my life
And I thought about you
All the things we would never do
All the things we would never do
I am the doctor
With my stitches and shots
Up to my neck in patients
The haves and have-nots alike
With my skill and my training
With my discernment and nerve
With my learned colleagues or alone
Towards the unknown I have grown
As I follow the vein
As I straighten the bone
Now it seems to me this one has gone
A sweet exit from this life
Notify their husband
Please inform their wife
Diane, did you make that booking for me and my wife tonight at that, that new restaurant? I most simply adore it there.
I certainly did. 8 o'clock, table for two, Dr. Peterson.
Oh, jolly good. Boy I hope they've got the duck on tonight.
Nowhere is such a bad place to be
No one goes in, no one comes out
Nowhere is kinda wild and free
You should take it from me
Nowhere
Sometimes seems like everywhere
Why can't you take this nowhere from me
Nowhere is such a great place to be
No thoughts, no dreams, nothing it seems
Nowhere's a kind of purgatory [pronounced "purga-tree"]
You should take it from me
Nowhere
Sometimes seems like everywhere
Why can't you take this nowhere from me
Nowhere is a strange place to be
Is there anything better
Is there anything worse
It's neither friend nor enemy
You should take it [from me]
(Nowhere, nowhere) [repeated several times]
Nowhere
Sometimes seems like everywhere
Why can't you take this nowhere from me
Nowhere
Nowhere
Nowhere
Nowhere
Nowhere
Nowhere
I wanna warn you we are under surveillance
Why there's a camera on us right now
Sewn in the mist as the snow falls
White falcon in a black sky
Grey car on the side of the road
And the indicator intermittent indicating
I feel like I swallow my mind [1:03]
And I sign my own non-release [1:06]
Please don't pay me in cash
Dash it, oh what a hash up
Mash-up
A trashy cold mess
I thought it'd be easy to find
I thought you were coming alone
I thought I wouldn't mind the pain
Sin is always unpleasant
Neither of us ever present
I resent it
What have I got to gain
Got a house on the edge of the forest [1:59]
Frozen lake and the blackest pine
So warm sitting in the kitchen
Watching the storm through double glass
Someone knocking at the door now
And the calculator callously calculating
I feel like I jumped the shark
'Cause I park my own giant stag
Flag me down my bagman
Rag me down my bone man
Home man
Saggy, saggy, baggy, alone
I feel things that you don't see
I see things that you can't feel
I thought I could deal with the hurt
Sin is always unblemished [3:01]
I never feel replenished
At the finish
I'm just back at this town
[starting around 3:48, barely audible]
I wanna warn you we are under surveillance
Why there's a camera on us right now
Sewn in the mist as the snow falls
White falcon in a black sky
Grey car on the side of the road
And the indicator intermittent indicating
Got a house on the edge of the forest [4:15]
Frozen lake and the blackest pine
So warm sitting in the kitchen
Watching the storm through double glass
Someone knocking at the door now
And the calculator callously calculating
I feel like I jumped the shark
Because I park....
When your dream is derailed
And you're impaled on the sky
And you die a thousand deaths
And your breath is the shadow of a sigh
That's gotta hurt
When you're freezing in the lava
And you're boiling in the snow
And you go a little farther
And you'd rather just not know
That's gotta hurt
I walked on a stage
I took a bow
And I had a song to sing, ha!
But you'll never hear it now
When you're crashing at your mother's place
Some other brother took the key
And you see the pale horizon
Smash into the mirrored sea
That's gotta hurt
Up in the limelight
I was like a lord
And a lovely lady gave me a rose
I suppose it was all they could afford
That's gotta hurt
That's gotta hurt
That's gotta hurt
That's gotta hurt
That's gotta hurt
Life is a sentence (dream of ten thousand years more)
Death's a guarantee (long, long, long centuries)
Men behave like beasts
At least the women all can see
And not some neo-clan
Pumping out DMT
Even the odds are crushing
(Listen to my advice)
Oddly I'm not even sure
The world swirls in space
The face of God you saw
Dream of chrome and nothing more
The wind, the wind across the plains
(...in the distance, the sea...)
Typhoon out at sea
No one at the helm
Overwhelmed by your duty
And finally you'll be set free
[Maniacal laughter with coughing]
Listen to me
Look at me
Standing here
So invisibly
Voice in a fog
A barking dog
A wheel and a cog
A sleeping log
Train whistle blows
Miles away in the mountains it snows
Only God knows
Only God knows
Time is short
But the law can be bought
You can sell your soul
And then just plug up the hole
Seal up the cracks
And they wheel in the racks
And they blow your stack
And you can never look back
I'm the king of the castle
You're a little bastard
I'm the king of the castle
You're a little bastard
I'm the king of the castle
You're a little bastard
I'm the king of the castle
You're a little bastard
Sooner or later
Back and forth
Cutting the strings that hold the things of this world in force
Determining the length of your life
Or the strength of your chi
We are beholding to the face
I go to bed a contender
But I'm a pretender
In the beginning
And in the end
Pulling the cords
Wielding a swords
It all depends
Burning your candle on both sides
Tanning your hide
We are beholding to the face
I go to bed a winner
But I'm a beginner
I go to bed a contender
I go to bed a contender
I go to bed a contender
But I'm a pretender
I go to bed a contender
But I'm a beginner
We found a Ouija board
In Auntie Doris' room
And we tried to contact the dead (ha!)
Trudy and Owen
Started pulsating and glowin'
It was doin' in my head
La-la la-la la-la la-la
La-la la-la la-la
La-la la-la la-la la
The rain was a'teeming
The eerie lightning beaming
You said we must be dreaming instead
It's no dream, Trudy replied
This Ouija board has got inside us
Now we're talking to somone
On the other side
You know you really gotta let go
Let go
You know you really got a lotta nerve
Let go
Let go
Let go
...paranormal plane is the origin of E.V.P.
Through living humans imprinting thoughts
Directly on an electronic medium through psychokinesis
And communication by discarded and scattered spirits
Nacent energies, beings from other dimensions or extraterrestrials.
Paranormal escalations of E.V.P. generally eschew production of...
You know you really gotta let go
Let go
You know you really got a lotta nerve
Let go
Let go
Let go
Let go
Let go
Let go
Let go
Let go
Let go
Roll the tide you darling
You left me in the 19th century
Beside you darling
Wandering in a cemetery
Your long hair flows all around you
Ray of light
Rod of ash
Blasphemy
Children of the crack
Your face is a lovely, lovely thing to see
Bring it to me
A day of her
A night on the moon
Soon
All I can say is soon
Your life is a terrible thing to lack
Just give it back
A day of her
A night on the moon
Soon
All I can say is soon
Your life is a terrible thing to lack
Just give it back
Just give it back (just give it back)
Just give it back (just give it back)
Just give it back (just give it back)
Just give it back (just give it back)
Just give it back (just give it back)
Just give it back (just give it back)
Just give it back (just give it back)
Just give it back (just give it back)
Just give it back
Sounds are found on a electronic recording
They are interpreted as spirit voices
And I can hear you wherever you are now
Typically brief
The length of a word
Or a short phrase
I'm still carin'
I'm preparin' such a nice place for you
Such a nice place for you
I'm preparin'
Nice place for you
Deceiving patterns
In random information
I imagine you in nearly everything
Industrial air conditioners
Sound like women's voices to me
I wonder if I hear you
Singing in bed
I'm still carin'
I'm preparin' such a nice place for you
Such a nice place for you
I'm preparin'
Nice place for you
Recording bird songs
I hear my dead father's whispers on the tape
He says my mother has a message for me
Oh what a breakthrough
Truly amazing experiment
The results were incapable
Of being replicated
[Previously Unreleased Track on Premonition K: Ghost Songs]
Flowers in a vase
Evening full of stars
Gonna be leaving soon
I need some rejuvenation
I travel (I travel)
I travel (I travel)
I travel (I travel)
Here and there (here and there)
I travel (I travel)
I travel (I travel)
I travel (I travel)
Everywhere (everywhere)
Wander through this glen
Here, take this nightshade
Bathe yourself so clean
We are leaving this sea
We'll travel (we'll travel)
Yeah we'll travel (yeah we'll travel)
Yeah we'll travel (yeah we'll travel)
In our bed (in our bed)
We will travel (we will travel)
Yeah we'll travel (yeah we'll travel)
Yeah we'll travel (yeah we'll travel)
Everywhere (everywhere)
Silver mirror shot
Copo [2:21] and white hot
Spirit rising slow
When it's time to go
We'll travel (we'll travel)
Yeah we'll travel (yeah we'll travel)
Yeah we'll travel (yeah we'll travel)
In our bed (in our bed)
We will travel (we will travel)
Yeah we'll travel (yeah we'll travel)
Yeah we'll travel (yeah we'll travel)
Everywhere (everywhere)
And we travel (and we travel)
And we travel (and we travel)
And we travel (and we travel)
Everywhere (everywhere)
And we travel...