Dig to China
The last procession makes them shake
Writhing off the staircases, they shake
Out on the farm I’ll dig to China
Up in a tree; my family
Well there’s something higher far underneath
We’re keeping one another far from fingers reach
There’s nothing to discover when you’re pulled by strings
I won’t go I won’t go away I’ll stay
Tethered to that tree
And all the Earth below me
Shoveled from my feet
I’m nearly knee deep
We’re keeping one another far from fingers reach
There’s nothing to discover when you’re pulled by strings
Or so it seems
Tethered to that tree
And all the earth below me
Shoveled from my feet
Oh, there’s a world below me; it’s waiting for me
Hiding underneath
I’ll break the soil
I’ll take them from your family
Shoveled from my feet
Oh, there’s a world below me; it’s waiting for me
Hiding underneath
I’m nearly knee deep
Where’s your courage
Hey, enemy?


Quiet!
Call for an ambulance and when it comes, pray for an audience
Feigned reactions towards an argument you cannot win
Are your poor offering and it’s good ‘ole fashioned sin with a grin
Lose your voice; I’m not listening
When the bees come to sting, heresy won’t do
Put an end to me
When I have nowhere else I can look
Your song of longing sings like an open book
kept in the dark
You’re no harm, blind and defiant
I’m always charmed when you’re kept silent
It’s quiet time for all the mockingbirds
My quiet time drowns out your worthless words


Murder
Hey baby, though it’s late
Much too late now
Maybe I’ll find a place, but outside it’s murder out there
And all the faithful have hidden
Hidden somewhere
Hey baby, what’s gone wrong?
Maybe there’s someplace where I’d get strong


Animals
They’re writing a fairytale scene
On television screens
Where the ending’s imaginary
I’m not scared of all those animals
They’ve just made a horror show
So I’ll watch it all, I’ll watch it all
I’ll watch it fall down
I’m not scared of all those animals
They’re just killing the hero
They build it up just to knock it back down
But I’m learning
I’m learning to let them have their fill
Sick of the blood spilled
But I’m learning about you
I’ll just let you have your kill
Sick of the blood spilled
But I’m learning about you
I’m not scared of all those animals
They’ve just made a horror show
Well, I’m learning
But I ain’t watching no more


Our Hallowed Day
The clouds are forming an arrow in the sky
My lucky warning in brilliant pantomime
It came together like some foul weather
In the nick of time
The blessed martyr cut open with a knife
She’s far too smart, her heart wasn’t left behind
It came together like some foul weather
On our hallowed day
Crawling a line drawn from the ocean tide
Falling each time I stand alone, oh come on it’s time
For a new sign
It came together like some foul weather
In the nick of time


Hello Tornado
If I wait too long for her, a telepathic blur
Of stories I’d love to tell
Won’t have the words
Those words that spell out
How she spends her time in my mind
Hello Tornado
Goodbye
Claims the sunshine
What they’re shouting for is a natural disaster
Bite your tongue
Oh, it’s a language we don’t speak
In this place we’re safe for now
Emergency will sound a warning
Of what’s to come
Not far from where I’m from
Hello tornado
Goodbye
I’ll wait by her side
And I’d wait forever
You’ve never been my kind
To take the only thing that makes me shine
I only want the one thing that makes me shine
And I wait forever
(in the time it takes to evacuate, we’ll have made our fortunate escape)
(in the time it takes to evacuate, we’ll have made our deadly mistake)


Law of Entropy
Where you hunt to find a sure victory
Is in this dream in which you’re chasing me
Well, I have fashioned a trap for you next time I close my eyes
And turn into twice my size
Always something new in the nightlife
The morning is coming soon
Always something blue
The morning has come too soon
I’d love to know the place where you knelt down
All the natives’ arrows running through you
Your soul’s a fire
It never betrayed the law of entropy
Your soul’s a fire
It never obeyed the law of entropy
When I knew you
Knew you well
I knew you so well


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