Iris-T-Shirt
Lyrics: Impersonal Art Protection Sleeve
Buried
At The Crossroads
My
back sweats, my heart aches.
How much longer can life take?
Why can't I find out why
Everything feels dead inside?
I
take you, I drink you,
Everything I will forsake.
Take I do, can't forget you,
On this road life dies too soon.
I'm just not myself today
You will make it all okay
Sunlight sunlight gorgeous sight
Find you in the dead of night
Don't
care about your name, we're both the same.
Will the treacherous roads kill you behind me?
Hidden in my mind, my rough road winds.
If I don't find a way, can ways find me?
Am I intending that, treacherous spot?
"If I do not find a way can they find me?" I say
Why
must I die so soon?
Tried so hard to touch the moon,
Sang so loud, not in tune.
Afraid to leave the room.
Remember
don't complain
Just try hard, forget the pain.
Turn away, look at me.
Can you tell what I mean?
I
hope I'm given
Another chance on life
A second chance to get it right
I've done wrong
For this long
Rejected gifts/ taken last night
Repentance for a song
A dancing song
[Chorus]
Perfection seen in me
Perfection is agony
Perfection with eyes closed
Perfection now I see
Perfection
Will
come again?
Will come back along
Takes faith to believe in
Takes want to get along
The more a "take"/ the more is taken
Once a "give"/ always a given
Always a given
[Repeat
chorus]
You must be happy. You have no choice. Sadness is an illness
will destroy you. Sadness is an illness you must destroy.
Vari-colored shades of light that permeate damp darkness and
destroy all kindness simultaneously. Is what I've been given.
Is what I have chosen for my own.
[Chorus:] Feed your Food with antibiotics
Feed your food and watch it die
Feed your food pour creeds inside it
Feed your food and then you die
Feed your food before yourself
Your wasteful evil selfish self
Aren't
they cute/ Aren't they sweet
Now cut them up/ And call them meat
Life is life/ And death is dead
Would you repeat/ The life you've led?
Hunters hunt/ And Vegans grow
What you reap/ Is what you've sown
What you pet/ Is who you chew
"Endangered" doesn't matter/ When living in a zoo
Your Apathy fits you like old shoes
But I've evolved/ And so should you
[Repeat
chorus]
You
are stoopid
You are wrong
You are ignorant
End of song
Having
Fun (to spite myself)
I've
never killed anyone. But if I did kill someone, then I'd be
a killer. I'd kill you, probably.
I
Wish I Was At Mardi Gras
I
wish I was at Mardi Gras
I wish I was at Carnival
Swimming in a sea of faces
Hanging out with long lost strangers
This
is how it is
This is how it is
I can hear you smiling
You can not escape
No, you can't get away
Your consciousness deciding
[Chorus]It
doesn't rain in here
Usually not all the time
It doesn't rain in here
But once in a great while
It doesn't rain in here
The drops you feel are from my mind
It doesn't rain in here
Maybe so let's go outside
It's
beautiful tonight
So much more than beautiful
I think I'll go walking
Under the crescent moon
The moon seems to heal me
And the moon speaks to me:
"Watch me here I am
I am fading away
Can't you hear me
I am screaming aloud
Spinning in the sky
You can't stay away
The greater the flow
The greater the ebb."
Write
it down
Write it down (s)he said
Slide down
Disappear in hiding
Look around now
Look around my friend
Don't you know what you're longing for?
To
get started on your meditation, you'll first have to relax.
Start counting backwards from 10. Breathing in, 10, and out,
9, in 8, and a deep breath out, 7...feeling more relaxed with
each breath until you reach you personal level of awareness.
To realize you are aware is your goal. To be relaxed while
aware is your challenge. Breathe deep...
I
should deal with the faults of others as gently as with my own...
That's
why I will...
Separate you from the things that you enjoy most
you'll forget that you have ever known enjoyment
you'll think you were meant to be a bland human
make you struggle with your simplest vices
so everyone might see you at your nicest
I'll keep you from your last shred of pleasure.
I should deal with the faults of others as gently as with my
own...
That's
why I will...
Force this old mantra down your unwilling throat
they might be the last words you hear and believe
loss is the air you breathe, I don't mean to gloat
drag out the withdrawals, keeping with my own faults
make you feel loneliness, the pain you'll feel only
the more you feel the need, the more I might punish thee
I should deal with the faults of others as gently as with my
own...
That's
why I will...
STOP TALKING AND LEAVE!!!
The
midday haze of this once bright day
Fades
away whenever I stop looking
Life swims before my eyes like unreality
Never
did I realize until today here and now
Surrounded
by babies, mingling with severed dead
Feeling at home, lounging on a Nest
In a away life as it should be
But okay the end as it may be
Soon but not when noon comes
Tomorrow when the dunes of ruin surround
Dead but saved that's where I will lay
In my grave silent, but not alone
So
happily life will play and lay in the sand
with death in command
In
a way life as it should be
But
okay the end as it may be
And
I wait when will drops fall on land
My
head of dry calm my head in the sand
And
when the rains come like an unearthly friend
That's
where life will land with us in its hand.
[Chorus]
I think I know I know I know whoa-o-o-whoa
I know I know I know whoa-oo how it feels
To
kill somebody -- first it surprises me
With its pageantry -- Times knife slides from
The sheath of recently -- and the look of they
Is slightly out of place.
[Chorus]
I think I know I know I know whoa-o-o-whoa
I know I know I know whoa-oo how it feels
To
kill somebody -- I feel so embarrassed
To be this close to hell -- The knife rolls idly
In my trembling hands -- and I see I have
All control of life.
[Chorus]
I think I know I know I know whoa-o-o-whoa
I know I know I know whoa-oo how it feels
To
kill somebody -- I can feel this pain
Just like it was mine -- knife finds its place and
Finds its fleshy end -- I have got this far
So I must keep going.
[Chorus]
I think I know I know I know whoa-o-o-whoa
I know I know I know whoa-oo how it feels
To
die in somebody's arms -- I think I could try
To remember this I -- Did it once before
I think I liked it -- and I don't think I
Need my knife anymore.
[Chorus]
I think I know I know I know whoa-o-o-whoa
I know I know I know whoa-oo how it feels
To
kill somebody -- It feels alright now
Figured it out somehow -- Cleaned the blade and
Sheathed it away now -- Finished with this feeling
It leaves me cold and reeling.
finding
myself and
losing yourself
lost down the paved road
imagined worries
worry your imagination
and long ago demons
back to rest your soul
it all comes back again
it all comes back again
it all comes in and out and in and down
from the corners of a forced, cracked smile
until you crack wide open fall apart
fall on the floor heaving mass of once was good
and once had hope and all
for me it's done it's done
all for me it's done and
all for me things go wrong
things shrink while growing
inside the larger whole
forced incubation
waiting for the impossible moment breaking waves of pure joy
all is lost
what can make it happy
what can make it really really happy
what does it mean to be happy
control and loss and lost control
and happy pure joy falling out the window
of longing for something else
for something else goes on while
we are standing still
while we are moving on
they stand and still go on and
on and on and
I am scared
I am as scared as I could be
and I will hide
I will try to hide it for you
I am fear
I fear
there is no way out of this
this is no way to be
out of it and
as sober as we can be
things look all slanted and wrong
either set of eyes can tell the tale
losing yourself in the mass hysteria
of the american ideal
the loss is too great to gain any insight
there is only one
only one consolation
in the midst of the ringing chaos
in the pouring of melting rain
lose yourself
and find myself
and back it comes again
a hard bargain fought and won for
in the drama
of our dreams.
Wondrous
Creatures And Horrible Fiends
Wondrous
Creatures and Horrible Fiends
All find life in your wildest dreams
Unless you stare long they will retreat
Think about it, it's not as strange as it seems
Throwing dreams into the ocean, spending time, living life
Saving strength and emotion, wait 'till they wash back to shore
Cast off dreams with no hope of remembrance
I thought it'd be easy and make no difference
Like losing life to petty submission
I chose to throw off chains that held me
Accepted new chains thought they'd help me
I think I'll never know if this life had killed me
I'm waiting for my dreams to return....
I'm waiting 'till all my dreams come back to me...
I can't stand it when I dream in installments
My whole world is waiting for involvement
Showing up when you least expect it
I watch them slip away without remembrance
Throwing dreams into the ocean, spending time, living life
Saving strength and emotion, wait 'till they wash back to shore
Watch them slip away, thought they would slide back
Giving up hope so I guess I'll just lie back
Fall off to sleep, think of my predicament
Dreaming up a new way to dream without them
Dreaming up a new way to sleep inside me
Dreaming a new way so I'll turn up the volume
I'm
waiting for my dreams to return....
I'm waiting 'till all my dreams come back to me...
