1. |
Mother Anxiety
05:21
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Doom doom doom doom
Mother, let go of me
I got a whole lot of fear in me
Mother Anxiety
Is getting the best of me
Whirled in my head
The whole world in my head
Traffic in my brain
Here’s what’s left of me
Gone is the best of me
Mother Anxiety
Is getting the best of me
No one knows my name
No more, no more dreams
No more, no more pain
No more, no more brain
Mother watch me bleed
It’s all in my mind, you see
Mother Anxiety
Has got a hold on me
Thoughts stampeding
Neurosis leading
I’m not sure who I am
I'm slippin' deeper in
Here come the drums beatin'
Mother Anxiety
Is killing me slowly
No one knows my name
No more, no more dreams
No more, no more pain
No more, no more brain
Oh, Mother, every time I close my eyes
All I see is black seas and red tides
No one knows my name
No more, no more dreams
No more, no more pain
No more, no more brain
No one knows my name
No more, no more dreams
No more, no more pain
No more, no more brain
No one
No one
Doom
Doom doom doom doom
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2. |
Jack Knife
03:17
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Demons strike a pose in his sleep
His stays up late watching MTV
Afraid of the visions slumber might bring
He spends his days in psychedelic suburbia
He's all alone, no, he won't say a word to ya
He's alone
In his zone
He's a Jack Knife
Cutting at the wind
Wearing black to hide the green
A child's eyes squint to make 'em look mean
When they tease him, Oh! He screams, he shouts
Holes in sleeves, stains that won't come out
His Daddy told him, "boy, you gotta be tuff!
Poor man's life, goddamn it's so rough"
He don't listen to what nobody say
He take the pills to make it all okay
He's a Jack Knife
Cutting at, cutting at the wind
Tired of waiting, going to take his turn
Hard truth is all he ever learned
His mother watches on with fear and concern
He's got a match he's gonna watch the world burn!
He's the American Boy you know
He's a Jack Knife
Cutting at, cutting at the wind
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3. |
The End
04:42
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Standing on the edge looking out at the ruins
Where man now lies
Frozen here in this place, in this vacuum outside of time
Could it be
That the Chaos crawls and looms
In the shadows in the silence in the tombs
Is there anyone out there
Is there anyone out there
Is there anyone out there
Or am I
Alone
Am I alone
Such a weird scene here full of apparitions
And memories
My only comfort is the wind and its bitter melodies
Enrapture me
And I’m looking for some company
A little laughter, a drink, some conversation
And I listen through the screaming of the universe
For the faintest pulsing
Of a heartbeat
Is there anyone out there
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4. |
Another Earth
04:29
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Look up, look up
There are two suns in the sky
It’s frightening,
But so beautiful it makes me cry
Could this be a new horizon
Some chance to start anew
Some way to grow crops of bounty
That before never grew
Some chance to know a part of me
that you never knew
Some chance to discover
Another earth
Everything that we knew
All lost in the flames
Now we’re here on the borderline
And everything has changed
So sad, I hoped we could be
So much more
Now we’re here and we’re searching for
Another earth
It will never be as easy again
We will never be as innocent
But we can have something new
We can discover something true
We can live again
On another earth
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5. |
Signs of Life
05:04
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Breaking earth
Sounds violent but it's a job
Usually we build the pipes under the ground
Bring the life in and we bring it out
Oh but today we're looking for something strange
Uncover the earth looking for signs of life
They say desperate women came
Women with a secret they couldn't let loose
Women at the end of a burning noose
This is where they ended the problem
This is where they closed the book
Concrete underground unmarked graves
This is where they threw the books into the flames
Then someone said too much
Said they were destroying something sacred
They sent the law, they sent detectives
But don't you know that sacred is relative
Hey there, little one
Seventy years is too long to go without love
Hope it wasn't too cold down there
They sent us here looking for signs of life
We break the earth looking for signs of life
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6. |
Feels Like Suicide
05:54
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For the life of me I can’t figure out why
I keep losing, I keep losing
And sometimes I try to be the best that I can be
Other times all is lost on me
I wish when I reached for you I could find you
And even when you lie to me I would know it was true
And I may be stupid but I love you, I love you
Even though it feels like suicide when you’re by my side
Like suicide when you’re by my side
Even my momma says it's time to let you go
But I’m built like a levy, have to break before I let it flow
All of my walls crashing down like Jericho
Thats how I feel, baby, before I let you go
And I may be stupid but I love you, I love you
Even though it feels like suicide when you’re by my side
Like suicide when you’re by my side
I wish I had something to look forward to
Something promised, something beautiful
But what does beautiful mean to you?
Who’s gonna love you, baby, like I love you?
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7. |
Motorcycle Girl
04:40
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I hear she puts her mascara on with a knife
And it’s probably a rumor but
She lights her cigarettes with dynamite
She was just a flame in kitten heels
She was thrown out of high school for selling prescription pills
She got a job at the diner cooking on the front line
She robbed that place and left this old shit hole behind
Then I heard them say she went to Hollywood
She could make it with a face like that, of course she could
‘Cause Baby was a motorcycle girl
Born into a mid-sized sedan world
Riding down the road with her tits to the wind
Looking for a chance to make it big
She hitched a ride with a fella with a tattoo of a snake
He said, “Hop on baby, you know I can take you any place”
She said she had a million watt dream
So he took her downtown introduced her to the LA scene
When she finally made a movie
It wasn’t what she thought it would be
Still she smiled for the close up giving up all her love for a fee
Big brown eyes dulled by crystal smoke
Baby got a shallow soul but she got a deep, deep throat
‘Cause Baby was a motorcycle girl
Born into a mid-sized sedan world
Riding down the road with her tits to the wind
Looking for a chance to make it big
Mama identified the body at the LA county morgue
She said I gave her everything that I could
But Baby always wanted more
When you start at the bottom ain’t too far to fall
She said, Why have a little when you can have it all?
‘Cause Baby was a motorcycle girl
Born into a mid-sized sedan world
Riding down the road with her tits to the wind
Looking for a chance to make it big
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8. |
Vampyr
04:27
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Your love got me out on the line, these are troubled times
I’m searching for the light you see, but you’re just watching TV
My energy is everything, you keep taking it away from me
Drain my power, vampire
I don’t love you anymore
‘Cause loving you is like chasing a closing door
Maybe I should walk away, but my legs are frozen in one place
I try to escape in my mind, you see, but inner peace is a fantasy
That puppy-dog look in your eyes ain’t helpin’
You use your charms just like a weapon
Drain my power, vampire
I don’t love you anymore
‘Cause loving you is like chasing a closing door
I knew that you would take my love
Take it all away from me
Oh no, my darling, you see what you wanna see
Take it away and there’s nothing left of me
Loving you is more than I can endure
Hard on the body like sleeping on the floor
I don’t know you anymore
You took my love and you just walked right out the door
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9. |
In the Dark
05:26
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When he was a little boy
he would dance it was such a sight
Everybody said one day
he would see his name up in lights
Last Monday the man came in to
turn off the electricity
Mama cried and prayed, Oh, God, she said,
Help me and these babies
It was such a sad scene;
so bleak and so stark
But Donte said, Mama we gon’ be alright,
And started dancing in the dark
He was dancing in the dark
Now Mama she's been out of work
since she lost her temp job
She’s been mad and spending all her time
in a Newport 100 fog
As for the reason Mama lost her job,
she won’t tell nobody why
But when she's in her room at night
Donte wonders if that why she cries
Trouble on the streets,
trouble in his head
And one night while he was out playing
He found a woman that he knew lying dead
It was such a sad scene,
her eyes open, locked on the stars
He went home to tell his momma but she was
too busy playing cards
So he went into his room,
the pain cut sharp as a razor
But he turned on the stereo
and Michael told him it was all Human Nature
He was dancing in the dark
Today he was in a fight, he got slugged in the eye,
he was never very quick
But he had no choice; they said they
saw his momma turning tricks
No bread on the table,
no money in sight
And Mama’s only happy when
she was walking out the door at night
When she’s dancing in the dark
Oh, street lights shine down on me
You feel like a spotlight
Does anybody see me here
I might as well disappear
Is there anyone out there
Is there anyone out there
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10. |
Velvet Jesus
05:40
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My baby needs a chaperone ‘cause she don’t wanna come home
In her pretty brown eyes I can see she’s thinking about leaving me
She don’t know it won’t be that easy
Her love is all I got
She makes the cold nights hot
She loves me when I’m strong
She’s strong when I’m weak
Here I am in a shadowy corner in a shitty Las Vegas motel
Just me, my .38, and a Velvet Jesus
Crying, Oh Father God,
Don’t you tell
I’ve been living in hell
Since the day you stopped loving me
Let you go
Now, you know it won’t be that easy
I’ve been dying for attention
I’ve been dying for some company
I’ve been dying for a soft touch
You can’t take that all away from me
Can’t you see that I am no one
Sad and desperate without you here
I can’t look at my reflection
I might vanish into all my fears
Here I am in a shadowy corner in a shitty Las Vegas motel
Just me, my .38, and a Velvet Jesus
Crying, Oh Father God,
Don’t you tell
I’ve been living in hell
Since the day you stopped loving me
Let you go
Now, you know it won’t be that easy
Here I am all alone in a strange room
In the dark the sun’s going down soon
A bottle of whiskey and I’m waiting for you
Oh, Velvet Jesus, tell me what should I do?
I’ve been living in hell
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11. |
Despair
03:14
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(Poem by H.P. Lovecraft)
Once, I think I half remember,
Ere the grey skies of November
Quench’d my youth’s aspiring ember,
Liv’d there such a thing as bliss;
Skies that now are dark were beaming,
Gold and azure, splendid seeming
Till I learn’d it all was dreaming—
Deadly drowsiness of Dis.
But the stream of Time, swift flowing,
Brings the torment of half-knowing—
Dimly rushing, blindly going
Past the never-trodden lea;
And the voyager, repining,
Sees the wicked death-fires shining,
Hears the wicked petrel’s whining
As he helpless drifts to sea.
Thus the living, lone and sobbing,
In the throes of anguish throbbing,
With the loathsome Furies robbing
Night and noon of peace and rest.
But beyond the groans and grating
Of abhorrent Life, is waiting
Sweet Oblivion, culminating
All the years of fruitless quest.
Once, I think I half remember,
Ere the grey skies of November
Quench’d my youth’s aspiring ember,
Liv’d there such a thing as bliss;
Skies that now are dark were beaming,
Gold and azure, splendid seeming
Till I learn’d it all was dreaming—
Deadly drowsiness of Dis.
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Church of Starry Wisdom Akron, Ohio
A retro-futuristic goth-classic rock band based in Akron, Ohio.
We sing songs of life, death, love, disdain, hope, Despair, dissolution, evolution, order, and the Chaos that crawls between. Everything is sacred. Nothing is sacred.
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