1. GONE, GONE, GONE

My head is like an unblocked drain
My head is full of brains
My instincts are to kiss this train
I hear it coming
You're conscience says "mind how you go"
Your ulcer still says no
Your morals ebb
Your morals flow
Your mouth is running

The normal rules do not apply
And mine is not to reason why
Gone, gone, gone
My arms are like two shipyard cranes
That may not work again
My fortunes wax
My fortunes wane
My senses sunder
A cup would cheer
The cheerless heart
The path I dare not chart
I look askance, not quite the part
Someone has blundered

The normal rules do not apply
And mine is not to reason why
Gone, gone, gone
To all this scoundrel scheme of things
To all the pain it brings
To all those who pull the strings
I said good riddance
So pass the time to coin a phrase
I'll mint a million ways
To counterfeit my salad days
And split the difference

The normal rules do not apply
And mine is not to reason why
The normal rules do not apply
And mine is not to reason why
Gone, gone, gone


2. ENLIGHTEN ME

It was cheap at half the price
Took a shovel where a spoon would suffice
Now I can't see you
Now I can't see you
Regimental in my way
Detrimental at the end of the day

But you won't be told
No, you won't be told
I will be, I will be
I won't be frightened
I will be, I will be
I'll be enlightened
Would it pain you so to say
There's a splinter in your
Splendor today
I could believe you
I would believe you
There's a world inside your world
There's a glass house where the insults are hurled

But you won't be told
No, you won't be told
I will be, I will be
I won't be frightened
I will be, I will be

I'll be enlightened
Took a chainsaw to my mind
Did a rain check, left this sad world behind
But all will be fine
Yes, all will be fine
I will be, I will be
I won't be frightened
I will be, I will be

I won't be enlightened
I will be, I will be
You're shy
I won't be frightened
You try but still the words won't come
I will be, I will be
You're shy

I won't be enlightened
I will be, I will be
You're shy
I won't be frightened
You try but still the words won't come
I will be, I will be
Your chance had turned

I won't be enlightened
I will be, I will be
I won't be frightened
I will be, I will be
I won't be enlightened


3. CUT AND DRIED

You've seen enough
You've been too much
You've gone too far
And when thin lie offends
Thee prop against the bar
You awkward stage
As you approach middle age
Hard to take
Hard to gauge

So goodbye cut and dry
Nice to have known you
But something went awry
And I've outgrown you
I slither awhile
Before I shed my skin
And laugh when you said
There was no such thing as sin
No, no there is no greater me
The lad inspired by total greed
'Til it breaks
'Til it bleeds

So goodbye cut and dry
Nice to have known you
But something went awry
And I've outgrown you
And all your confidence
Has gathered dust on shelves
And all those who lent an ear
Heard no good of themselves
No market here for sound advice
And those who seek must pay the price
Blood from stone
Blood of Christ
So goodbye cut and dry
Nice to have known you
But something went awry
And I've outgrown you


4. KING OF YOUR CASSTLE

Nature abhors a vacuum
I have read
Tell me how'd you explain
Your empty head
You hurt the one you love
Because you can
As if violence were virtue
In a man

The king of your castle
Might behind you
Power blind you
A fist full of feeling
Blame it all on lack of mother love

The mad, glad days of romance
Were the best
When you kept your cards pressed tight
Against your chest
But soon, soon, all too soon
She'd understand
And she'd see and feel
The back of your right hand

The king of your castle
Might behind you
Power blind you
A fist full of feeling
Blame it all on lack of mother love

King Rat, God on a barstool
Hold your court
So self-centered, so deluded
So self-taught
Home bound sound as a pound
You bought your round
And round one begins tonight
Behind closed doors

The king of your castle
Might behind you
Power blind you
A fist full of feeling
Blame it all on lack of mother love

The king of your castle
Might behind you
Power blind you
A fist full of feeling
Blame it all on lack of mother love


5. DEVILMENT

Devilment's accomplishment
The devil remembers you found
Your true vocation
To live beyond your station
Leaves wrapped in quotations
Rolling out saliva on salvation

All the more
And all that you've been looking for
Floored by design
Speak as you find
Speaking as you find
All the one skin
All the one mind
Floored by design
Speak as you find
Speaking as you find
Staggering blind
As you chase time
Waste time
Blank expression, blank verse
It could get worse
If all your past preceed you
To find the soul to take you
Shout of indignation
Lost their worth
And meaning in translation
Unhappiness will quantify the moral

Floored by design
Speak as you find
Speaking as you find
All the one skin
All the one mind
One mind
Floored by design
Speak as you find
Speaking as you find
Staggering blind
As you chase time
As you waste time
As you waste time

Devilment embarrassment
The face in your old mirror
Now Just hates you
And your own name escapes you
Eyes lost in contemplation
Hands are trembling
Heads gone on vacation
And settled scores are all
That you've been fighting for

Floored by design
Speak as you find
Speaking as you find
All the one skin
All the one mind
One mind
Floored by design
Speak as you find
Speaking as you find
Staggering blind
As you chase time
As you waste time
As you waste time
You waste time
You waste time
You waste time


6. THICK SKINNED WORLD

Ungainly thing
Unworthy soul
To have to hold
To terrorize
Unsightly love
Unchecked unchanged
A love deranged
In thin disguise
All in a good cause
I suppose

'Come as you like
As a lifetime goes
A thick skinned world
Will feign concern
For reasons we
Have still to learn
Preserve the world
For baby's sake
For baby must
Accumulate
All in a good cause
I suppose

'Come as you like
As a lifetime goes
Chances have been wasted
Thrown to the wind
Grist to the mill
Gall is all I've tasted
Come away, come away
Come away, come away
Come away, come away
All in a good cause
I suppose
'Come as you like
As a lifetime goes
All in a good cause
I suppose

'Come as you like
As a lifetime goes
As a lifetime goes
As a lifetime goes
As a lifetime goes


7. FREAKS DWELL

Lost your reason
Lost your game plan
Sit you down
I'll set the scene man
Brilliant tuned and
Bronzed bohemians
Thought they were
A football team man

Let me take you to a hell where all the freaks dwell
Past my garden wall

Pleasure pasture
Business sometimes
One more embrace
For the good times
Self made man in
Unmade beds sure
Gagged and bound
And fights like Hello

Let me take you to the hell where all the freaks dwell
Past my garden wall
Let me take you to a hell where all the heads swell

Pay no mind at all
Cross your heart and
Hope to prosper
All your sin
Will be forgiven
Needs they muster
Devil drives the biggest car
You've never driven
Let me take you to the hell where all the freaks dwell
Past my garden wall
Let me take you to the hell where all the heads swell
Pay no mind at all


8. SENSELESS

I will not wait, I will not see
The things you crave are lost on me
You took some earth. Gave it a name
You plant a cross and trade the blame
Dyed in the wool and dead of mind
You took your stand. Left sense behind
You stake it all on a sense of place
And lose your head to save your face
You've had your say
Close your mouth
If you know the way
Then point it out

Point it out
The ways and means as yet unclear
I only know where not to steer
I have no plan, but this I know
You're said your peace in God's main goal
You've had your say
Close your mouth
If you know the way
Then point it out

Point it out
All our voices out of tune
All our graveyards full too soon
What's the matter, let it drop
Stupid, senseless, make it stop
Stupid, senseless, make it stop
All our voices out of tune
I will not wait

All our graveyards full too soon
I will not see
All your money in the bank
The things you crave
How it festered, how it stank
Are lost on me
Lose a thing you hold dear
You took some earth
All our freedoms disappear
Gave it a name

What's the matter, let it drop
You plant a cross
Stupid, senseless, make it stop
And trade the blame
Stupid, senseless, make it stop
Stupid, senseless, make it stop
Stupid, senseless, make it stop


9. FLAMING RED

Failure's child is weak and mild
Wide-eyed and open
A moment is the most
She'll hang her day upon
Others plan a life
Without the faintest hope of change
And belay all her knowledge
Of where hope has gone
In these ugly times
An ugly mind will have its say
And your betters would not
Have it any other way

Oh my eyes for the sins
I may not shed
Burn like coals
Inside my head
Smoldering black
And flaming red

Oh my eyes for the sins
I may not shed
Burn like coals
Inside my head
Smoldering black
And flaming red

Reconciled and pacified
By bread and circus clowns
Who keep you all in stitches
As they keep you down
Dust yourself down
Tell me what on earth
The fuss was for
'Cause what you've seen is nothing
To what's still in store
In these ugly times
An ugly mind will have its say
And your betters would not
Have it any other way

Oh my eyes for the sins
I may not shed
Burn like coals
Inside my head
Smoldering black
And flaming red

Oh my eyes for the sins
I may not shed
Burn like coals
Inside my head
Smoldering black
And flaming red

Oh my eyes for the sins
I may not shed
Burn like coals
Inside my head
Smoldering black
And flaming red


10. FALSE GOODBYES

Whisper who dares
Your daylight glows
I doubt that it shows me
Covered in glory
A problem shared
Is entertainment
In your hands
Ain't life bland

What matter or
What consequence in truth
All our lives strange honor
In a realm of false goodbyes
Suspend belief
But keep it brief
Thereby hangs a tale friend
Hung from your wit's end
And is that all
The level best
That you can do
More fool you

What matter or
What consequence in truth
All our lives strange honor
In a realm of false goodbyes
Such dedication in the plot
Such animation and for what
A pile of nothing life is not
And when the crowd come out to play
I'll read the lesson for today
About the one that got away

What matter or
What consequence in truth
All our lives strange honor
In a realm of false goodbyes

What matter or
What consequence in truth
All our lives strange honor
In a realm of false goodbyes