Monday 22 November 2010

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Gavin Harrison - Sound of Muzak

Hear the sound of music
Drifting in the aisles
Elevator Prozac
Stretching on for miles
Music of the future
Will not entertain
It's only meant to repress
And neutralize your brain

Soul gets squeezed out
Edges get blunt
Demographic
Gives what you want

One of the wonders of the world is going down
It's going down, I know
It's one of the blunders of the world that no-one cares
No-one cares enough

Now the sound of music
Comes in silver pills
Engineered to suit you
Building cheaper thrills

Music of rebellion
Makes you wanna rage
But it's made by millionaires
Who are nearly twice your age

Soul gets squeezed out
Edges get blunt
Demographic
Gives what you want

One of the wonders of the world is going down
It's going down, I know
It's one of the blunders of the world that no-one cares
No-one cares enough

One of the wonders of the world is going down
It's going down, I know
It's one of the blunders of the world that no-one cares
No-one cares enough

One of the wonders of the world is going down
It's going down, I know
It's one of the blunders of the world that no-one cares
No-one cares enough

One of the wonders of the world is going down
It's going down, I know
It's one of the blunders of the world that no-one cares
No-one cares enough

Arriving Somewhere But Not Here

Porcupine Tree - Anesthetize (Live)
A good impression of myself

Not much to conceal
I’m saying nothing
But I’m saying nothing with feel

I simply am not here

No way I..

Shut up, be happy
Stop whining please

And because of who we are

We react in mock surprise

The curse of there must be more”
So dont breathe here
Don´t leave your bags

I simply am not here

No way I..

Shut up, be happy

Stop whining please

The dust in my soul makes me feel the weight in my legs

My head in the clouds and I’m zoning out

I’m watching TV but I find it hard to stay conscious

I’m totally bored but I can’t switch off

Only apathy for the pills in me

It's all in me, all in you

Electricity from the pills in me

It's all in me, all in you

Only MTV and cod philosophy

We’re lost in the mall shuffling through the stores like zombies

What is the point, what can money buy

My hands on a gun and I find the rage, God tempts me

What did you say; think I´m passing out

Only apathy from the pills in me

It's all in me, all in you

Electricity from the pills in me

It's all in me, all in you

Only MTV and cod philosophy

Only apathy from the pills in me

It's all in me, all in you

Electricity from the pills in me

It's all in me, all in you

Only MTV and cod philosophy

Water so warm that day

I counted out the waves

As they broke into surf

I smiled into the sun

Water so warm that day

I was counting out the waves

And I followed the short life

As they broke on the shore line

I could see you, but I couldn’t hear you

You were holding your hat in the breeze

Turning away from me

In this moment you were stolen…

There’s black across the sun

Water so warm on that day

I counted out the waves

As they broke into surf

I smiled into the sun

 
Arriving Somewhere But Not Here

Never stop the car on a drive in the darkNever look for the truth in your mother's eyes

Never trust the sound of rain upon a river

Rushing through your ears

Arriving somewhere but not here

Did you imagine the final sound as a gun?

Or the smashing windscreen of a car?

Did you ever imagine the last thing you'd hear as you're fading out was a song?

All my designs, simplified

And all of my plans, compromised

All of my dreams, sacrificed

Ever had the feeling you've been here before?

Drinking down the poison the way you were taught

Every thought from here on in your life begins

And all you knew was wrong?

Did you see the red mist block your path?

Did the scissors cut a way to your heart?

Did you feel the envy for the sons of mthers tearing you apart?

Gavin Harrison - Sound of Muzak

Porcupine Tree - Blackest Eyes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q51FQqPF9yA&feature=related
A mother sings a lullaby to a child

Sometime in the future the boy goes wild

And all his nerves are feeling some kind of energy

A walk in the woods and I will try

Something under the trees that made you cry

It's so erotic when your make up runs

I got wiring loose inside my head

I got books that I never ever read

I got secrets in my garden shed

I got a scar where all my urges bled



I got people underneath my bed

I got a place where all my dreams are dead

Swim with me into your blackest eyes

A few minutes with me inside my van

Should be so beautiful if we can

I'm feeling something taking over me

I got wiring loose inside my head

I got books that I never ever read

I got secrets in my garden shed

I got a scar where all my urges bled

I got people underneath my bed

I got a place where all my dreams are dead

Swim with me into your blackest eyes

I got wiring loose inside my head

I got books that I never ever read

I got secrets in my garden shed

I got a scar where all my urges bled

I got people underneath my bed

I got a place where all my dreams are dead

Swim with me into your blackest eyes

Prodigal
I don't know whose side I'm on

I don't think that I belong 'round here

If I left the stage would that be wrong?

I tried to find myself a better way

I got religion but I went astray

They took my money and I lost my faith

The rain keeps crawling down the glass

The good times never seem to last

Close your eyes and let the thought pass

I tried the capsule and I tried the smoke

I tried to aid escape like normal folk

But I never seemed to get the joke

The rain keeps crawling down the glass

The good times never seem to last

Close your eyes and let the thought

(Close your eyes and let it pass)

These [Incomprehensible]

This is [Incomprehensible]

This is [Incomprehensible]

This is my headstone

(Ahh ahh ahh)

I spend my days with all my friends

They're the ones on who my life depends

Gonna miss them when the series ends

Rain keeps crawling down the glass

(Pull yourself together)

The good times never seem to last

(You know it's not so bad)

Close your eyes and let the thought

(Close your eyes and let it pass)

These are [Incomprehensible]

This is a [Incomprehensible]

This is [Incomprehensible]

This is my headstone

(Ahh ahh ahh)

Sentimental

Never want to be old

And I don’t want dependence

It’s no fun to be told

That you can’t blame your parents anymore

I’m finding it hard
To hang from a star
Don’t want to be

Never want to be old

Sullen and bored the kids stay

And in this way they wish away each day…

Stoned in the mall the kids play

And in this way wish away each day…

I don’t really know

If I care what is normal

And I’ m not really sure

If the pills I’ve been taking are helping

I'm wasting my life

Hurting inside

I don’t really know

And I’m not really sure

Sullen and bored the kids stay

And in this way they wish away each day…

Stoned in the mall the kids play
And in this way wish away each day…

Sullen and bored the kids stay

And in this way they wish away each day…

Stoned in the mall the kids play

And in this way wish away each day

  Porcupine Tree - Trains

Train set and match spied under the blind

Shiny and contoured the railway winds

And I've heard the sound from my cousin's bed

The hiss of the train at the railway head

Always the summers are slipping away

60 ton angel falls to the earth

A pile of old metal, radiant blur

Scars in the country, summer and her

Always the summers are slipping away

Find me a way for making it stay

When I hear the engine pass, I'm kissing you wide

The hissing subsides, I'm in luck

When the evening reaches here you're tying me up

I'm dying of love, it's okay

When I hear the engine pass, I'm kissing you wide

Hissing subsides, I'm in luck

When the evening reaches here you're tying me up

I'm dying of love, it's okay

Always the summers are slipping away

Find me a way for making it stay

Always the summers are slipping away

Always the summers are slipping away
 
Porcupine Tree - The Incident
Porcupine Tree - Shesmovedon

You move in wavesYou never retrace

Your newest craze

Straight out of the Face by the bed unread

I'm left behind

Like all the others

Some fall for you

It doesn't make much difference if they do


She changes every time you look
By summer it was all gone - now she's moved on

She called you every other day

So savour it it's all gone - now she's moved on

So for a while

Everything seemed new

Did we connect ?

Or was it all just biding time for you ?

 
mewithoutYou: "In a Sweater Poorly Knit"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apvKxyR6Vzs&feature=related

in a sweater poorly knit and an unsuspecting smile
little Moses drifts downstream in the Nile

a fumbling reply, an awkward rigid laugh

im carried helpless by my floating basket raft

your flavor in my mind swings back and forth between
sweeter than any wine and bitter as mustard greens
and it's light and dark as honeydew and pumpernickel bread
the trap I set for you seems to have caught my leg instead



go plow some other field try and forget my name

see what harvest yields and supposing i'd do the same

I planted rows of peas but by the first week of July

they should have come up to my knees but they were maybe ankle high

take the fingers from your flute to weave your colored yarns

and boil down your fruit to preserves in mason jars

and now the books are overdue and the goats are underfed

the trap i set for you seems to have caught my leg instead

you're a door without a key, a field without a fence

you made a holy fool of me and I've thanked you ever since

if she comes circling back we'll end where we'd begun

like two pennies on the train track the train crushed into one

but if i'm a crown without a king, if i'm a broken open seed

if i come without a thing, then i come with all i need

no boat out in the blue, no place to rest your head

the trap I set for you seems to have caught my leg instead




Sky Moves Sideways

We lost the skyline

We stepped right off the map
Drifted in to blank space
And let the clocks relapse

We laughed the rain down
Slow burn on the lawn
Ghosts across the lawn
Swallowed up the storm

Sometimes I feel like a fist
Sometimes I am the colour of air
Sometimes it's only afterwards
I find that I'm not there

In the dream dusk
We walked beside the lake
We watched the sky move sideways
And heard the evening break

Sometimes I feel like a fist
Sometimes I am the colour of air
Sometimes it's only afterwards
I find that I'm not there

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