District 97 : Screens

Progressive Rock / USA
(2019 - Mindscan Records)
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1. FOREST FIRE

I got away, I dodged it
I'm buried deep in the woods
I found a match and bombed it
Set every surface on fire
Cause it's the bright I desire

It never gets dark in my forest

I'm spending all my time
Collecting things to burn in my
Forest fire
It's never gonna stop
From burning way too hot
Unless it burns out over time

Safe and soundly
I'll walk away from the ash
And light up as soon as I can
I'll never get it a spark if it's wet

I'm spending all my time
Trying to make the spark ignite
My forest fire
But I can never win
Don't know where to begin
Running out of things that
Are dry enough to catch on fire

You can want it to
All you want if you
Want it to, you can
All you want if you
Really want it to
Cause you can if you want


2. SHEEP

Running around, holding on to your head
Coddling it like a child
No quiet for this brain
So you swipe until the pain is… gone
But it’s never really… gone

Hunching over, all alone in your bed
Left to your only device
The horizontal neck isn’t going to
Make itself erect
No, you’ll need an army to amputate it

You’re living your best life
The blue glowing light redeems you
Feeds you, numbs you
It’s counting sheep

Here and now is holding on by a thread
Plucking you out of your life
This cherry-picked reality
Has shrunken your humanity
And ruined your chances of standing at attention

You’re living your best life
The blue glowing light redeems you
Feeds you, numbs you
You are legally blind
The blue glowing light has changed you
Claimed you, chained you
It’s counting you as sheep

Turn it off
Put it down
You’ll miss this
You’ll miss out
Turn it off
Turn me on
Flesh and blood
Here and now
Turn it off
Put it down
You’ll miss this
You’ll miss out
Turn it off
Turn me on
Flesh and blood
Here and now

You’re missing your best life
The blue glowing light that fears you
Shears you, dumbs you
It’s counting you as
It’s counting you as
It’s counting you as


3. SEA I PROVIDE

You don't know
My water is wrapped around your every move
You don't see
My eyes glaze away what I can't say

So the next time there's salt on your seat
Just know that it's me and the sea I provide

You'll find me
Cross-legged at the bottom, guiltily
Indulging
On the sight of the light that does not belong to me

It is coming from a planet burning
Far above the sterling silver sea I provide

Keep it down till no one's around
The warmth entices you
The lineless vibrance makes your hairs cry

Deny me
The luxury of the pearls I must ignore
It's turning
Into a tidal wave that misses the shore

So the next time you're hydroplaning
No, it's not raining, it's the sea I provide

Humble sailor can't seem to make her
Save it for later, cause there’s no later

So the next time there's salt on your seat
Just know that it's me and the sea I provide


4. BREAD AND YARN

My appetite seems to have left
I’ve been filling up on bread and now I’m full
And not too many punches miss
My eyes are black and swollen shut and I’m in bliss

I will already be there...

I never watch or read the news
Cause I can sit and sing the blues or have some fun
I never thought to tell someone
Cause I will already be there when it is done

You say you’ll kill yourself in jest
It’s a little too much risk for me to invest
Was there something that I missed
My eyes are black and swollen shut and I’m in bliss

There’s enough for me to share...
All of you
All of you just pawing at your yarn


5. TRIGGER

Fear takes its toll, takes control of the trigger finger
Ego takes hold, can’t let go, pulls the trigger when the
Fear takes its toll, takes control of the trigger finger
Ego takes hold, can’t let go, pulls the trigger

Nobody’s in charge, no one to blame
Just a different level of the same
The speeches only reach your ears
Just a bigger megaphone for your

Fear takes its toll, takes control of the trigger finger
Ego takes hold, can’t let go, pulls the trigger

Your body’s alone with your brain
Cannot resist the need to drain
The swamp that’s leaking out your ears
Just another metaphor for

Your gut reactions and public tantrums
You’re puffin’ up when you should be backin’ down
You can’t relate to the ones that follow you
You risk it all with the words you throw around

Hold me down, say goodnight
Tell me softly it’ll be alright
My finger’s shakin’
The fear has taken
Over my hands but
My people understand

Fear takes its toll, takes control of the trigger finger
Ego takes hold, can’t let go, pulls the trigger

Somebody is not being polite
That same certain someone rules in spite
Of what we all know to be right
Just another bigot with a mic

My gut reaction is to subtract him
Just hit delete and go on my merry way
The less exposure, the less you get closer
I taped your mouth by not hearing what you say


6. AFTER ORBIT MISSION

(Instrumental)


7. SHAPESHIFTER

Your cold exterior
Has undermined all your burning blood as it
Tours your interior
So blind on its mission to blow you out of the

Water, inferior
To fire, unless something brings them together
And burns your exterior
To match what’s inside till you find yourself
About to blow your cover and soar
Fully transformed, I’m not who I was before

I don’t mind, I’ll stare till I go blind
Nothing like the view from out of sight

Blend with paper walls
I’ll change into something more comfortable to ignore
While you’re waiting for
The form you’re expecting
But haven’t prepared for the
Blow your lover has stored
Fully informed, you’re not who you were before

You don’t mind, you’ll take enough this time
Count the sighs, count to three and close your eyes

I keep quiet, I keep dry

We don’t mind, we’ll fake to stay alive
Our device of torture feels so…

I don’t mind, I can take to the sky
Floating by, I’ll leave you high and dry


8. BLUEPRINT

Just barely here and now
My mind is out of bounds
The lights are on but no one’s
Home to take your mundane call
Cause I keep one foot on the ground
The other’s in the clouds
So say it loud enough so
I can hear you from the great

Beyond your control
Whatcha gonna do to get control?
I’ll fight you tooth and nail

Just back away
Hear what I have to say
Cause I’ve got lines making
Connections not in line with

What, you want some control?
How you gonna cope without control
You fight an uphill battle
What’s so great about your blueprint?
(I see in all dimensions)
(Update your blueprint, I propose)
I propose we throw it out and start all over
(Oh I propose we throw it out at start all over)

Why, why not
A blueprint designed for minds like mine
Why, why can’t
People just let me live how I was designed
With a different blueprint in mind

Wanna play a game?
I’ll go hide and when I answer to my name
You’ll come find a world that wasn’t meant for you
Just like I wasn’t meant for yours

You’ve got no control
Whatcha gonna do to get control?
I’ll fight you tooth and nail
What’s so great about your blueprint?
(I see in all dimensions)
(Update your blueprint, I propose)
I propose we throw it out and start all over
(Oh I propose we throw it out at start all over)

There, that’s better
Gotta love this view
You know you do
Admit there’s room for more than one rule


9. GHOST GIRL

Mother oh mother, I just can't explain
Things all around me might drive me insane
Will you believe me? I know you will
Can you protect me? They're after me still.

Everywhere I go, I know that I'm not alone
Everything I see, is only for me.
Each and every night, I know they'll come into sight...

Mother oh mother I just have to ask
Why can I not be like all the rest?
They play so freely, they have no cares
And all the while, I have a secret to share...

They keep on calling me…
They keep on calling me Ghost Girl
They keep on calling me
They keep on following me all around, wherever
I try to get away
The kids are calling me Ghost Girl
They keep on following me and they will forever

Their bodies are underground
But their souls are hanging round
They got nowhere to go now
So they play with me
They know only I can see them
Nobody can believe what they cannot see themselves

They keep on calling me
They keep on calling me Ghost Girl
They keep on calling me
They keep on following me when we’re not together

Mother, don’t leave me, I cannot be alone
I cannot recall when my life was just my own
These visions create incisions from an unknown source

Baffled and laughing, the doctors shake their heads
There’s no explanation, just accusations instead

But mother, she knows what to do
Sometimes she sees them too
But lately they haven’t seemed so harmless at all
Yes lately, lately they seem to claw at the walls

The dishes fly off of the shelves and shatter on the ground
The bookcase has been overturned, I cannot stand the sound
The TV flickers on and off and static fills the air
A foul stench that chokes your breath lingers everywhere

How's a girl to sleep at night with demons all around?
They encircle me and then my bed lifts off the ground
They suffocate me, lacerate me across my naked flesh
They bite they scratch they burn and choke
Mother, what comes next?

They keep on calling me
They keep on calling me Ghost Girl
They keep on following me all around wherever
I try to get away
The kids are calling me Ghost Girl
They keep on following me and they will forever

Dying to share what I’ve seen, I open wide
My blood is the only hard evidence they find
The fame wasn’t able to slay or tame them
The talk shows didn’t lie

But mother is keeping her cool
Despite the torture at school
She must know that I’m going to make it out of this alive
She doesn’t mind ripping all of my wounds open wide

Mother oh mother, as years go by
I've learned to live with shadows at my side
I'll write you letters, I'll call every night
You don't have to worry, I'll be alright

I've been away now for a few years
They have not hurt me
Have I been cured?
But when I go home and mother is near
All my old visions haunt me anew

Mother oh mother, I'm starting to see
Who was behind what happened to me
What was a little girl meant to do, when
Mother the only demon was you



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