LYRICS
All lyrics ©Riff Publishing Jersey
Eden
Naked in those twisted vines
She will come with snake eyes
When she opens her mouth
All your wisdom is doubt
A whisper to a shout
Hollowed of meaning
But her words are ringing loud
In the garden
Every fruit is found
Fallen to the ground
Crowned in broken skin and salt
The virgin burden
fruit of all your fault
Spake the serpent coiled in the flames
Sins and blame the fire
That burned in your veins
Fire burn in your veins.
Rut
Remote control open my window on the world
Live on the plasma screen
A sight for my sore eyes
I see your pictures
All the pretty boys and girls
Keep me holed up in my room
Just hypnotised
Why be afraid of staying still?
Get your finger on the button child
You've got time to kill
You'll be afraid of standing up
The fear that you might miss something will keep you in that rut
And I said
take me on a journey lord
to a place I'll never go
TV got my eyes peeled
Devil got my soul
And when I'm staring at the movie screen
Can't let my red eyes shut
Looking at the pictures
Baby I'm stuck
Lord knows I'm stuck
Stuck here in my Rut
I had a dream
I'd dream I'd be a better man
I thought the dream would make me better man than most
I'm in a hole
You know I'll get out when I can
Sometimes I'd like to think the day was coming close
Well I'm afraid of moving on
Moving my finger on the trigger
Left a note that says 'so long'
Now I'm afraid of coming back
Well I'm afraid of what I might find out
After the fact
Take me on a journey
To a place I'll never leave
TV got my eyes peeled
Making me believe
That when I'm staring at the movie screen
Can't let my red eyes shut
And when I'm staring at the pictures
Maybe I'm stuck
Oh lord knows I'm stuck
Stuck here in my rut
Tomorrow
Tomorrow was over this morning
When I opened my eyes
The world looked the same
As last night, when I lay down
Forced them to close
I prayed for tomorrow to save me
But it never came
To a jealous mans eyes
The grass looks much greener
You can't see what's under your feet is the same
To you it's all yellowed, faded and dying
If you stand in the sunshine
You pray to the lord for the rain
And how would you save me?
From my problems, all my design
If I can't see tomorrow, for it never comes
Is it ok to still be afraid of the passing of time?
Tomorrow is over
Just as soon as you open your eyes
You can't look to yesterday ,yesterday's gone
So it's on with today....
..and the rest of our lives.
Sunsets (in the West)
I'd made my way across the blue
Something that I had to do
Thanks to you
I felt this pull in me so strong
To the place where I'd belong
When I was gone
And something dawned on me one day towards the end
We'd know each other
We told each other once again
And no matter where we lay to rest
The sun sets in the West
Then came the day I had to go
The hardest thing I'd ever know
Leaving my heart and soul
I cried for all the world to see
That never bothered me
Not like the thought of leaving you
And I thought it through the whole time coming back this way
I'll turn this around and be with you again one day
No matter where I lay to rest
No matter where I'll lay to rest
The Sun sets in the West
Little one
The Sun sets in the West
When I'm gone
No
No matter where I lay to rest
The Sun sets in the West.
Monster
Behind the monster is a great place to hide
When she's eaten everybody safe to walk by her side
Down by the river that the coal turned black
You'll see a monster
And me on her back
Saying;
"Take my hand and we'll cross this river, only we won't come up clean"
Lord knows I stepped in with her
But I came out alone, if you know what I mean
When no-ones left except for me and the beast
Her belly still swollen from her hearty feast
Well she would kill me I can see in her eyes
But for today only one of us dies
So raise my arm and I'll cleave you double, Cut you quick and clean
Down in the cellar busy with the shovel
Where I work alone, if you know what I mean
Who's the monster, who can tell?
Will I see her again when I get to hell?
Who's the monster, who can tell?
See her again when I...
Take her hand to cross the river, don't expect to ever come up clean
Oh I know I stepped in with her
But I came up alone, if you know what I mean
Raise my arm gonna cleave you double
Gonna cut you quick and clean
Well we should probably stick together in the trouble
Only I work alone
If you know what I mean
Exit Ramp (for Sam)
My whole life
Been looking for the exit
to run far away from the crowd
One day I
Had to make it 'cross the floor to you
Not take the easy way out
For all of my doubt
You and me there
Outside on the exit ramp
People all around us could just stare
And we won't care
Outside on the exit ramp
With music all around us in the air
Music in the air
You and me there
Outside on the exit ramp
'till everybody disappeared somewhere
I don't care
I kissed you on the exit ramp
And at the time it felt to me
Like no-one else was ever really there.
Voice of the Legion
I think they crept in to her when she was sleeping
Beautiful angel has the voice of the legion
Am I so charmed by the words they were speaking,
I'd take my vows in the garden of Eden?
No
Misfortune or favour has no rhyme of reason
I'll see their works in her eyes when she's cheating
There's no disguise
Heart blackened and beating
Sweet scented poison and the voice of the legion
No
Sweet Scented poison and the voice of the legion
That patchwork armour of riddles and scars
It don't protect you from the things that you are
You're still you and I'm still me
I can't shake the feeling
That you are my demons
My love.
Buried
Thank you my love, for all my trials
From point to point I'll cross the oceans
Spanning miles and miles and miles
Thank you my heart, for finding love
In a place that holds no peace
And only rain falls from above
Don't come to me, I'll come to you
Is that enough to prove the things I said are true?
But now you buried me
Not like those old bones
More like seeds, from which it's creeping vines had grown
Thank you my love
God bless your home, you and your kin
How I wish we'd spared our children from this mess that we're all in
But they are young, loved, and all will pass with time
Just maybe not the feeling that you are always mine
And so I act, I act like I don't care
For even when I know you're gone I feel like you're still there
Until you buried me
With no more to be said
Until the Earth takes back my body
And finally this is dead.
(Crossed) The LIne
She said "boy one day you'll get to the place where you belong"
I know she only meant hell
How I wish I could say she was wrong
She swore she knew me, thought she'd only ever be mine
How I wish I'd taken the hard road
Not wasted our time
I know
I know if she's on my mind
I know
I know that I crossed a line
Now if she sees me she'd look right through me
Like I'm some mirage in the sun
If she'd hear my voice, I'd only tell her
I know the places I'll go for the things that I've done
She crossed the street with her eyes to the floor when she saw me
I prayed the jaws of the earth would open up for me
I know
I know that I crossed the line
Third Law
Hold on
Crystalized in moments long gone
You and I belong
Since zero point aligned our being
Think I’ve always known you were the one
Hold on
Tested by the world it seems so wrong
Time will only move on
Waypoints of degradation
Pulled apart together ever drawn
Come the long days that lay me low
Crushed under the weight of time
Just to know that you are mine
Atmosphere and Entropy
Leave their mark on you and me
But we are always.
Come the long days they lay me low
Crushed under the weight of time
Just to know that you are mine
Atmosphere and Entropy
Leave their mark on you and me
But we are always
You
There came an ancient voice
From somewhere in his bloodstream
Speaking lust and sweet release
With no one left to trust him
He never saw the devil
Only nature in his actions
If it felt like he was doing wrong
It increased the attraction
It said
I am the ghost of everything you ever wanted
Right to the moment you wished you would not be haunted
But I’ll offer you the promise
I will never judge you like the others do
Just for being you
He heard the silence
Louder than his heartbeat
Like the screams of the all the spirits
He bowed to in defeat
And he never met an angel
Never knew he saw them
If it ever felt like he was doing wrong
The voice it told him
I am the ghost of everything you ever wanted
Until this moment, you wished you were never haunted
But I’ll offer you the promise
I will never leave you like the others do
Just for being you
He heard an ancient voice
Somewhere in his bloodstream.
Flights
Awake in the morning time
Here on the front line
Of the war that is living
I’d lay in the grass
With thoughts of the past
Modern concrete is far less forgiving
And I’ll hit the concrete
Long time along for the ride
But like the king on the sand
He raised his hand and found out
No man can fight time or tide
See, I heard of the place
Across the beyond
That you think is our eternal home
But, hey preacher man, are you steering us wrong?
Well, I doubt that you’ve ever known
They say to regret what you’ve done
Beats wondering about what may have been
They may have a point
But memories are hard to wipe clean.
And I’ll hit the concrete
I’m long term along for the ride
Hey preacher man, I don’t believe you
Hey preacher man, who do you pray to?
Tell me the plan, who’s gonna save you?
‘cos I doubt that you’ll ever know
Where dead men go.
