Archive : Controlling Crowds

Post-Rock / United-Kingdom
(2009 - Warner Music Group)
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1. CONTROLLING CROWDS

Why are you so scared and creeping around
Taking photographs all over town
Pictures in the dark that live in the light
The world is my playground too and I'll do what I like
Why are you so scared of falling apart
Intimidating me for falling apart
Stay on your knees with your cross and don't tell me you know so
The world is my playground too and I refuse to follow
Fly with me falling through the night
Fly with me falling out of sight, find me hold me in your arms
'Cause I'm scared of their controlling crowds keep me calm
'Cause I'm scared of their controlling crowds here they come

Why are we so obscure and creeping around
Hiding from mirrors and screens all over town
Objects disturbing blinding taking the peace in me
The world is my kingdom too and I'll feel what I like in me
Killing my heart I can't face I can't face no more
The world is my playground too I can't feel anymore
Fly with me falling through the night, fly with me falling out of sight
Find me hold me in your arms
'Cause I'm scared of their controlling crowds keep me calm
'Cause I'm scared of their controlling crowds here they come
Why are we so cold and breaking apart
Caught up in this storm just breaking apart
Pictures and colours I loved but don't see anymore
The world is my playground too I don't feel anymore
Why are you so adored
'Cause I'm scared of their controlling crowds here they come


2. BULLETS

Come touch me like I'm an ordinary man, have a look in my eyes
Underneath my skin there is violence, got a gun in its hand
Ready to make sense of anyone anything
Black holes living in the side of your face
Razor wire spinning around your blistering sky, blistering sky
Bullets are the beauty of the blistering sky
Bullets are the beauty and I don't know why
Bullets are the beauty of the blistering sky
Bullets are the beauty and I don't know why
Personal responsibility
Personal response insanity
Confine me let me be the lesser of a beautiful man
Without the blood on his hands
Come and make me a martyr come and break my feeling
With your violence with the gun to my head
Ready to take out anyone anywhere
Black holes living in the side of your face
Razor wire spinning around your heart
Blistering sky blistering sky
Bullets are the beauty of the blistering sky
Bullets are the beauty and I don't know why
Bullets are the beauty of the blistering sky
Bullets are the beauty and I don't know why
Personal responsibility
Personal response insanity


3. WORDS ON SIGNS

Close those eyes down
We all fall down
Into the space
Gone with no trace
Feel your heart slow
Where will we go
Into the sunlight
Or the dead of night
There's nobody here for me now
There's nobody here for me now
There's nobody here for me now
So much running scared
Living breathing dead
There's nobody here for me now
There's nobody here for me now
Silence fills you through
Time to tell the truth
See the words on signs
It ends with a blink of an eye


4. DANGERVISIT

So much writing on the walls, can you read it all
Can you see through the haze when the writing's small
Can you read what it means does it make any sense
'Cause it's all dollar bills and pounds and pence
Telling you what to do and what pills to take
When your head's in your hands and your belly aches
Where to go in the world when you need a change
Don't you worry about the bill, that can be arranged

Make me sad, make me sleep, make me question,

Give me things that can calm this depression
Give me things that can calm this depression

Let me know what to do when my money's spent
Let me know how to smell and to pay the rent
Let me know what to do when my hair is gone
Let me know who to kill when the war is on
There's a woman of your dreams and she's all on the phone
Better send her a text when you're on your own

Make me sad, make me sleep, make me question

Give me things that can calm this depression
Give me things that can calm this depression
Give me things that can calm this depression

So much writing on the walls so much writing on the walls so much writing on the walls

(Obey)
Feel, just obey!

Sing along sing along sing along sing it

You know that they can't harm you
You know that they can't hurt you
Don't want their dreams to waste me
Don't want their dreams to save me

High rises
Killing lows


5. QUIET TIME

Juxtapose feeling
Just suppose I reel in revolving doors closing
Imposters posing
Turn spinning it round about
Pulling your inside out
Know that they will do it now without a doubt
Motivated in quick time to stop the watchman exposing orchestrated explosions
Medicine man mix a potion sedate the not so great nation
Now they be jumping out of their skin to fear factors
Run through acres morphing shape shifters
Lift the lid and give a wide berth
The earth not a million miles away
Minor detail as I put it in another way
To the latter day
Burning out your retina pitch black enveloping hells fire developing heat
Skin crawling up you swear blind
The cruel and unkind advance you’re running out of time
The adrenalin flows hitting the wall
Ready to fall over but still they stand tall
Winner taking it all in, stalling for some ideological ways out
Twist and then shout out aloud
Steady bellowing
Subtle moment following
Subsequent change rearrange
How we doing
We are fine
Quiet time
Ready for the steady climb
Cross a ley line down into the open mind's eye
Attack they react and turn into the maniac
Critical breakdown why
'Cause it's an actual fact
Take a longer look at how we can prevail and not fail


6. COLLAPSE/COLLIDE

Too late
They hate
Too late
They hate
You've jaded
They've faded
From your heart
They've ripped
Our worlds collide
Inside our souls collapsing
In their thoughtless ways
Our hearts collide
They're correcting
They correct my heart
They're rejecting
They reject our hearts
Now we're all stoned
They've ripped it all apart
Collapse, collide
They're correcting
They correct my heart
They're rejecting
They're rejecting
They're rejecting
They reject our hearts
Now we're all stoned
They've ripped it all apart
Collapse, collide
Our hearts collide


7. CLONES

I can see for miles in your eyes
They disappear into a sea of faces
I can see for miles with your eyes
Their faces are faceless
Clones of yourself
I can see for miles with your eyes
Their faces are faceless
Clones of
Clones of yourself
I can see for miles in your eyes


8. BASTARDIZED INK

All hailstorms in to die for my sins
Why am I accursed and not believing
Death to damnation both forced arrest
Enforced interrogation duress fire question
Pressure point temple brainwashed disciple
Shooting at me with a holy water pistol
I am not a heathen I'll give you the reason
Ten commandments and ten counts of treason
They can pass judgements while I plead
Ignorance self defence dollars pounds and pence
Because we live inside the age feelings hard to gauge
I just open up the book and keep turning the page
While the all powerful throwback to miracle
Whips up the storms and pestilent swarms
Sacrifice to appease the deity
Whilst heavens open up just to seize the enemy
Wiped out civilisations
Desolate barren landscapes genocides, creation
But mad scientists wildly experiment
Drawing the conclusion down into the sediment
To the dark hour seed is sown
Now on there will be light via fire and brimstone
Walls fall down but emerge from the ground as if to start over
Rebuild the structure
True to life adventure
Even while your breathing lung puncture
Nothing out there to protect you
So they look into the skies the cries can be heard
The word is obscene unwashed and unclean
Wreaking havoc for the hell of it
Whilst digging deep and developing a taste for it
Bloodthirsty craves screams for mercy
Highly unlikely
Feel the almighty crash
Alas hope all evaporates incinerate burns out and obliterates
Keep the faith in more ways than one
Or believe me and mark my words thy will be done

Praying not for the cynical quick stepping left right
Pick up as they march upon the pinnacle
Clocking up the watch stop digital
Trying to make peace while they'd rather make base and erase the place they found
Lies written all over the face wonder why
Feeling immortality fearing they're afraid to die
Sly snakes sidewind and enter your mind
Finding temptation insecurity and frustration
Hating anger lusts after fear as half the man dies whilst shedding the tear
A clear sign that it's way past the time
To rebuild the bleeding heart that lies broken
Well I must be mistaken but I more than feel that a chance is not taking consideration for the non believer plagued by diseased why
Nothing but an open mind is what I try and maintain
Hand on heart keep alive in dying art, pick it up dust it down make a start and bring it round
Pray to God blaspheme one can only dream
Crucify and ask why either do or die


9. KINGS OF SPEED

Please don't come any closer to me
I feel old like a withered tree
These days are passing eternally
You won't ask me to slow it down
Blurred emotions in the crown of the kings of speed
And all we see in full motion collection
Time isn't slowing
Just speed
Just speed
Silence is golden and seems so pretend
The towering of war machines and men
The falling of lives as we wait in line
We are fading to nothing
Losing the race as they steam ahead
Leaving the trail of the living dead
Moving away
Broken frames push forward then play
Time isn't slowing
Just speed
It's all we're knowing
Silence is golden and seems so pretend
The towering of war machines and men
The falling of lives as we wait in line
We are fading to nothing
Losing the race as they steam ahead
Leaving the trail of the living dead
Moving away
Broken frames push forward then play
Time isn't slowing
Just speed
It's all we're knowing


10. WHORE

You horrify and petrify me
To wear the crown that just astounds me
You terrorise and paralyse me
You've lost the plot and should be shot down
You have it all
You're just a whore and nothing more
Your smile is pain yet you remain
Walking tall and that appalls me
You're bred like swine but still
You'll die in our arms
'Cause you have it all


11. CHAOS

Confusion
Delusion
Seclusion
Inclusion
Numbing
Loving
Finding you in me
How I adore, the chaos of you
Cry out
Take out
Heartless
Fearless
Compassionately
Feeling you in me
How I love
The chaos of you
Psycho
Halo
Cruel and tormenting
Compassionately
Seeing us in them
How I adore
The chaos in them
In them
In them
Of you
Of you


12. RAZED TO THE GROUND

The unassailable leading me down the wide path
I consider the scale the whole aftermath
From the land I sketch a grand design
A being in time
Message the floodlight will shine
Divine skies will open
Open road chosen pausing in time frozen
Best left unspoken
About the life settling down
Steadily lowered into the ground the sound is quite deafening
Confounded regiments getting hounded out
Never better the fallout of the sidesplitter
Rise of the switch-hitter
Watch as he grows bitter
Foreseeable futures they be selling him down the river
Purified and maybe when we refine and say
You'll be hearing him coming from half a mile away
Contemplation still thinking it over onward we soldier clearer than present danger
Us we as a planet handing arms to the generations down the line what is left behind?

Conscience cannot carry the weight of consequence
Says a voice who then utters a vote of confidence
See the level of minerals going down to ground zero
Nothing can be stopping declines cycle
Wheels turn the sucking it dry desert
But the oceans wave is on the rise in front of your eyes
Paralysed you're rooted into the spot
You can't move the rot is setting in at a rate of knots
So far from the truth
Unavoidable proof revelations will raise the roof

The revolutions will be televised to sensationalise and destabilise
I'm wide eyed aware and wiser to the scandal
It is too much for one man to handle
Stand together we might stand a hope in hells chance or else a threatening fate waits


13. FUNERAL

You could end everything right here
Finish it off and disappear
Isn't it great to have the choice
Quiet it down and stop the noise
We know those people tell you things
Like what to say and what to think
We know you're not needed for your mind
Just for your money and your kind
We know you're not wanted for your heart
They knew it was black right from the start you could end everything right here

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