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Thoughts In A Bag
05:59
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This is the first song I finished for this project, the rest followed pretty much on its own. I usually start out with poetry as dummy lyrics, but with this song what I stumbled upon (some lines by Blake and some by Housman) worked so well I had to keep it, therefore the metatextual chorus.
lyrics
Thoughts in a Bag
Never seek to tell thy love
Love that never told can be
For the gentle wind does move
Silently, invisibly
I told my love my love
I told her all my heart
Trembling, cold, in ghastly fears
She did depart
How have you left the ancient love
That bards of old enjoyed in you!
The languid strings do scarcely move
The sound is forced the notes are few!
Soon as she was gone
A traveller came by
Silently, invisibly
He took her with a sigh
When I was twenty-one
I heard a wise man say
Give crowns and pounds and guineas
But not your heart away
Give pearls away and rubies
But keep your fancy free
But I was twenty-one
No use to talk to me
When I was twenty-three
I heard him say again
The heart out of the bosom
Was never given in vain
Tis paid with sighs a-plenty
And sold for endless rue
Now we are twenty-five
Thank god that its not true
Enough of poetry.
It merely proves that truth and beauty differ; but notwithstanding this I hope that you will find that our truth will do.
Thank god I know
that William Blake is wrong
And I can come home to you
in all my visibility
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2. |
Remember This
05:42
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Remember This
Before the thoughts arrived
It was easier; pointless, but pure
And all there was, was light
Why am I not so sure
That you would want to hear
of holes within a heart
The outer light was brighter then
As kud said, internal lights can be blinding
So I put on my internal shades
in vain
Say would you want to know
Of the holes within my heart
Where tiny demons grow
Soon as you depart
Remember this my love
The holes inhaled the light
But for you
The gods go begging here
Remember this my love
Gay popes and swifter wordsworthes
Tumbled in at night
And threw a party in my head
To illuminate it bright-ly
in vain
no one will ever know
how bright it would have been
the holes inhaled the light
now it festers in between
I am dead yet moving still
Nothing's left for them to break
I can't wait to be reborn
But to be born again first you have to die
So smile when you drown
Remember this my love
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3. |
If
02:37
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If
my compliments to you
what a disgusting mess we are
fast asleep beneath the waves
we shiver in the cold
so we are
relieved to leave
how fragile is that smile
full of sickening grace
and all at once our crippled souls alight
as if we are relieved to leave
but if you leave
i'll die here
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4. |
War
04:14
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War
A river to drown in
A suicide to end a war
The surface is beckoning
And when I go down then
The undertow will take me home
I'll slit their throats and take my leave
Sometimes I already feel them move
Underneath my skin
It's about time I went underneath as well
No one understands
Why we spend our little lives
Dismembering ourselves just to survive
Sometimes I don't understand
Why I still waste my precious time
Trying to understand it all
A river to drown in
a suicide to make a point
might easily turn out to be
one of the thicker things to do
As if there ever was a choice
Thank god I finally
remembered where the nightmares grow
Peel back the skin and feel the scars around the pulsating remains
Rip it out and pry it open at the seams
Let's hope this tragicomedy will guide us back into our dreams
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5. |
Dreams in Slow Motion
04:12
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Dreams in Slow Motion
And another day is lost
I'll stay under my blanket
And try hard no to move
Lest something should awake
Eradicate the tought
Watch from the behind the scenes
Unknowing and unknown
I'll stay
I try hard not to mind
Cause all you ever wished for
And all you believe
Comes down to nothing after all
and another year unfolds
still under this blanket
and as of yet no move
why don't you come and join me
i'm sure you'd love it to
to learn how not to mind
(i guess i'll stay)
as all you ever dreamed of
And all you believe
Comes down to nothing after all
And every single of the demons
all the pain in you
Comes down to nothing just as well
They'll die before you do
I hope they'll die before you do
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6. |
Noise and Eternal Sleep
07:02
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Noise and Eternal Sleep
Where are the gods
Sleeping in the deep
Do they dwell in their dreams
Or is it ours they disturb
Until we wake
Where are the gods
Dead but dreaming of the havoc they will wreak
When they awake
I wonder where they are
I wonder why i still miss them so
I wonder where my nightmares
live these days
I wonder where they are
I wonder if they can find their way back home
alone
Do they dwell in their dreams
Or is it ours they disturb
Are they here
I wonder where they are
I'll never know
And I no longer mind
Why it took 25 years for me to find out
that this is but a dream out of which i'd rather awake
There is just this one little thing
If you want go ahead and laugh
A rather unimportant detail
At least that's what I thought
It's just that i can't quite remember where the surface really was
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7. |
For the Love of Cthulhu
04:49
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For the Love of Cthulhu
For the love of Cthulhu pray
Or he might harm you on your way
Down into the realms of sleep
Where he wanders in the deep
Maybe you’ll never awake
Maybe the opposite plague will fall on you
Maybe you can’t fall asleep
For a billion years of turning around in your bed
But you cannot die
For that is not dead which can eternal lie
And if I were you
I’d rather stay awake
Experiment on alternative ways to rest
If I were you I’d rather stay awake
Cause if you want to survive this
sleep is wrong
Maybe it‘s all but a dream
Maybe the Dalai Lhama is jewish after all
Maybe you’ll even survive
And maybe god decreed that four is five
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