All lyrics written by John Kezdy. The lyrics to "Machine Brennt," also on this L.P., have been excluded.
Blue Funk
It's silent far
I see the stars
I know I'm in my place
Blue funk
What's inside
I'll try to hide
And keep it off my face
It's done
An inner plan
Has every man
And living up to it
Blue funk
Falling out
Making doubts
The time for thinking's up
It's done
Behind the bolt
Flame and spark
We're coming from the dark,
Blue funk
All the weight
We cut loose
It had us in a noose
It's done
Eyes of cloud
It's getting loud
I'm running through a field
Blue funk
Crossing lines
And turning signs
We're moving like a wheel
It's done
Oh, I know
It's go
Within me
Mass disorder
But my actions flow with order
Blue funk
Nay'say
Is kept at bay
It will not interrupt
It's done
Run into
What can't be seen
You must believe in me
Blue funk
If all's confused
And they corrupt
I'll know which way is up
It's done
Bright Ice
I stalk a place where the cold delights me
A polar zone that's not unlike me
I can't settle for a simple nest
I like changing the no's to yes
Cold suns, bitter nights
Hand tools chip the ice
Once more, nothing there
I tread the surface, lightly, lightly
I see a shape and she's not unsightly
She can soothe as she ignites
That's what I mine for beneath the ice
I say the words but stand refused
I move in close and light the fuse
Cold suns, bitter nights
Hand tools chip the ice
I'm fixed in a vice
What glare
I stare
Bright ice
Eyes her weapon, cut's the plan
But cut in two I'm twice the man
I rip the strings and find the pelt
Slide the switch and it starts to melt
I'm the half that fits the whole
It's 90 south and she crowns the pole
All Told
Warm fire
Hides liar
Colors bright
Chase fright
Good books
Sharp rooks
Quick tongue
Sucker stung
All told, it's just a foothold
Truth's cold, maybe so
Small man
Needs sham
Absolved
Nothing solved
Weak will
Shakes still
Nights, days
Same ways
I'll fight
To turn on the big light
It's me who's going to see the switch is thrown
You too
No clue
Good voice
Green voice
On edge
Echo dregs
Good news
Mammon fused
The Eights
Once more I hear the calling
Once gone, forever falling
I walk two circles placed side by side
In the place I'm thrown in
All clocks, their hands frozen
I see the hourglass is on its side
Same steps, same mistakes
No change in time or place
I fly an eight pattern up in the sky
Everything suspended
Time and movement ended
All is black and there is no dawn
Slipping on a landslide
Holding back a landslide
Wondering if it's just the hand I've drawn
Crushed by all the weight
Staggering in figure eights
If I can't stand, so down I fall
Here's To It
Who you telling it to
Is this closest one really listening to you
Got him trapped and you're turning the screw
You'll make nice pictures with money and glue
Tricks to make things happen
Comfort for tomorrow takes planning
The tail and fingertips get cracking
You hooked what you set bait for, so what happened
When your nexus don't include trust
You say your thing's working. It's a bust
Don't complain the world is unjust
Remember you've put in more than enough
Raking the leaf, posing for pics
Rock'n'roll idols, Preppie and this
Think you know what you want and you just won't quit
You're still drifting, baby, here's to it
Forever, I Know
And I, couldn't refuse without wanting
In time I'd make no excuse for my running
Our moments were long
Unfinished, but they're gone
I was a fool, not clever
I know I'll be swimming seas forever
And I, toying with tricks of emotion
With my twisted test of devotion
The things I pretend
Bring nothing in the end
The distance just severs
I know I'll be swimming seas forever
And I, pushing to bring it together
But now the silence tells me it's never
The places reversed,
The ends deserved
You move untethered
And I, I'll be swimming seas forever
Fly On A Wire
Cast off illusion and no one stays to watch
You've got to do it all, then take it up a notch
Young man, your hearing's gone, watch where you make sport
You've traded in your long sight for short
So we coast to what we've shunned the most
Skywalk a thin line and navigate the halves
Risk falls mastering the craft
Walk on a wire, the wind will make it sing
Actors can't fly without wire wings
West
Make what you call headway
Bringing down the lines
The tack you take's not true or safe
With all that's given blind
Watch out West, the masses cry
It's anger they despise
Grab your shell and paint it blue
They'll never look for you up in the sky
Toiling for the till's take
Is what fills them with pride
Once above you'll not be loved
Nor can you stay in sight
If mayhem make the mainstay
And free men bare the cross
It means one day that fire will play
A part in being boss
We are West
The ashes rise
We come without disguise
We lay no claim to flags of shame
We write the next line
Pushinpullin
I'm in a corner, I'm in a bind (but)
I'm gonna move 'cause I've made up my mind
Feel the change comin' on
Light and fast is the right's song
My road is blocked before me
My load it lags behind
I stop the grabbers and I'm chucking the freeloads
Pushinpullin' I'm a fightin' both sides
Straight path, steady pace
All the rest is for fools and the lost face
Speeding heart's keeping time
Burden's heavy without like minds
Something better, something right
I want it bad and I'm not gonna take flight
Yelling stop from the top
At the bottom weights pull tight
Too slow, feet of lead
You make obstructions and they spin a fine web
Make demands, take my best
I need support and you act so helpless
Looking up in Downcity
I face the crowd and the town that don't fit me
What you are, is what you do
I cannot like you but I'd like to
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