lyrics - dataseed

thinice

welcome to the corporation
future and futility
three-ring empire
circus of absurdity
now open to interpretation
coding life or reality
steel shattered boughs break
chaos in stability

tread thin ice
breath thin air
speaking words we’ll never hear
hope is gone leaving here
another day another year

digress to speculation
profiteering misery
stock optioned in water
high-priced iniquities
static market penetration
manic wordplay industry
straight-faced spin crier
pulling wool over the sheep

ego

hold your breath and make believe
dream into tomorrow
you the king and me a thief
beauty and the sorrow
now breathe out
close your eyes and count to three
playing “dead man walking”
scratch your name into the trees
in case we are forgotten

we are the angels
we are darkness in the light
(i’ll be with you forever)
we are the angels
we are darkness in the light
(a love time cannot sever)

turn the key and come inside
safe from isolation
shadow on the other side
opiate sensation
we breathe again
rest your wings down next to me
tell me of your feelings
i hunger for a memory
of innocence and suffering

we are the angels
we are darkness in the light
(i’ll be with you forever)
we are the angels
we are darkness in the light
(a love time cannot sever)

i am machinery
i am the lead in pure
i am all i can be
i am nothing more

synthetic

caught in the world break down
forfeit to a liar
for it seems only time will tell
the focus to aspire
wake in the morning
can’t fight the feeling
we are the cause and not the cure
ignore the warning a shred of meaning
to a vague and distant shore

in circuitry and faded flowers
there used to be something growing
eternity in wasted hours
there used to be something showing

caught in the world break down
passionless desire
symmetry in synthetic hell
silicon perspire
wake in the morning
first sign of terror is the man inside your door
ignore the warning behind the mirror
there’s nobody keeping score

brittle

false face hollywood
slips undercover
giving way to something real
slow pace understood
a severed brother
getting back a sense of feel

i break myself again
head into heavy water
i've given in
to my darkest dear

tail spin ritalin
get it down on paper
pushers of the possessed pill
old skin vinyl thin
too strong to taper
weaker than the weekend will

i break myself again
head into heady water
i've given in
to my darkest dear

drown in "never again"
never again

radical (saint blaze)

live for today
for tomorrow we awaken
and start to repair
you’ve let us stray
a twisting of a history
discover what you’ve made:
a fear run ideology
a three-step iconography
a ghost a flame and a fool

there’s a fire breaking out
somewhere on the horizon
burning down the ivory towns
where we were born
to be believers

pray as you may
your words are lost words
and all your saving angels
have flown away
time and time again
you break before you start to bend
deceived into believing
you’ll be winning at the end
the game is gone
for you my friend

there’s a fire breaking out
somewhere on the horizon
burning down the ivory towns
where we were born
to be believers

look to the teacher
the teacher is gone
lessons remembered
on cave walls are drawn
your vision of heaven
descends in the haze
take my hand and we’ll set the night ablaze

zionsank v1

been bent for days
siphon to hold me alive
i turned myself around
to what i once despised
i’ve been in future
and days of memory
i’ve seen the nothing man
and taught him to believe

i built the enemy
i built a tower to heaven
i built the end of me
i built a tower to heaven

panic ready now
nightmare indiscretion
a bitter self revealed
by angels of perception
i found a saviour
naive hallucination
standing at the water’s edge
i prayed for condemnation

enigma

i’ve sat and watched you for days
mesmerized
memorizing
every line every curve
i breathe to feel you
you tremble
hands grip tight
you feel me
i move

the poetry of silence is mine
i feel you in my heart and in my mind
the strength that i’ve shown in this game
is frozen in my heart like your name

i’d wipe the sweat from your face
open your eyes
taste your skin
something so familiar
safe
a little boy
a mother’s arms
as shadows dance upon our wall
my longing removed

leave this world

intuitive and silent
we’re starting over
rebuilding all the walls
shielding our disguise
untenable and violent
we’re like the men
standing in the fields
cultivating lies

i’m gonna take you for a ride
and we can leave this world behind
and everyone that’s so unkind
gets swallowed by the tide
i’m gonna take you for a ride
and we can leave this world behind
and all my dreams are dreams of flight
with you right by my side

illiterate and sightless
we’re leading ourselves
following a trail
laid with clouded eyes
forgettable and mindless
we’re lost again
surrounded by the crowds
shouting to the skies

dataseed

nanotech economy
micro-tuning frequencies
radio perception
a miracle we have found
never weak and never ill
all you do is take the pill
happiness in dataseed
never mind you’re gagged and bound

in genetic heartbeat
inheriting philosophies
passing to our children
a body that we’ve refined
inorganic insides
laboratory natural
in a second overthrown
evolution of design

suspect
magnetic
life defined in microbit
suddenly we’re stranded
in a dream without an end
as cities build within us
architect biology
germinate the culture stem
we made the plague
we can’t defend

and it grows and it grows and it grows taking over