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Amethyst
01:36
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I am not an easy man to live with
I am not an easy man to love
I am not the kind of man to change his ways or change his mind
Just because you don’t agree doesn’t have to mean I’m wrong
Your thoughts are yours, my thoughts are mine
But we can share, that’s why they’re there
You don’t have to like my thoughts
I keep them locked up in the box that is my mind
I hold the key, there is no copy
I do the things my life has taught me
Make the choices fate’s presented
Logic dictates all my actions
Like Pavlov’s dogs, I hear a bell
My mind tells me what to expect
The actions of the ones I’ve loved
Have taught me to learn to reject
Reject love, reject affection
Reject before I face rejection
I am my own double edged sword
I am not an easy man to live with
I am not an easy man to love
And I am sorry for that but believe in what I have to say
That I do hate that I’m this way
I hate the hate I hate to feel
I hate that all this hate is real
I hate believing that there’s only wicked demons all around me
Sneering, jeering, instilling fear in me like an injection to the veins
And injection of ice
Chilling my heart but burning my soul
An actor, lost in his own role
I am not an easy man to live with
And I am not an easy man to love
But that doesn’t mean don’t try
Like amethyst, I’m rough and rigid
Not much to look at, cold and faded
But crack me open, take a look inside
…you just might be surprised.
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Static
01:05
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Never new how badly we all needed you thrown in the mix
You changed the world, you changed my world
You made the fabric of the industry unfurl
Threw it in the loom
You took a worn and tattered blanket
Made an tapestry of music
Didn't make sounds, fucking created sound
Did things with a tune and notes the likes of which we’d never seen
Music that defied all forms of chemical logic
Words that cut me like a knife, so I bled for days on end
Like a lunatic you conquered
A musical shock treatment, static for the mind
Dead before your time
Your anniversary of life, just within your grasp
Now we celebrate your life, knowing that it’s come to pass
This is my recompense, this is my damnation
Remembering, not thinking, my Ostegolation
You will always be a master
Never living in the past or in the present
But eternal
Time has no meaning for your name
Your name is permanent
Your name is fixed
Your name is Static
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Princess
01:24
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You are more than just a princess in my eyes
You are the queen bee
The Goddess of the red roses
Something greater than a single word or phrase
Warmth and compassion are all I’ve ever known from you
The support of a thousand columns
A foundation greater than stone
Leadership and guidance and counsel for the ages
Wisdom beyond compare
My confidant, my conscience, my single greatest fan
Not one to be crossed
Able to stare down the greatest king
Mighty in a way that could never be explained
Gentle in a way that makes me oh so proud to say
That there is nobody else that I could ever hope to be
Than the very soul you hoped I’d be
You give me strength, you give me drive
You are the reason I am alive
Without you, there is no me
Without you, I could not see a way for me to always be the very best version of me
You’ve made me who I am
I hope I’ve made you proud
You are the princes, the queen, the goddess
You are my mother
The likes of which not even Zeus could ever dream
You are my mother
And I am so very, very proud to be your son
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Versatile
01:02
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No person in this world is only one person
No person in this world has only one trait
No person in this world wears only one face
Every person in this world is a web, not a road
Not a fake, not a mask, not a singular entity
We are all kaleidoscopes of things we can’t define
Taste in music, taste in thinking
Worlds apart from each other, from ourselves
Our sense of self elaborate and skewed, not a line but a vine
Crawling, growing, spreading, living
I am not anchored, I am not bound
Not a stencil, nor a cutout
Not a single edge of me that is not frayed
Splitting hairs, splitting ends, splitting myself
Each new strand its own unique persona
A new laugh, a new smile, a new frown, a new way of making life worth while
I am the embodiment of being fucking versatile
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To The Stage
00:56
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The image of a crying clown
Smile painted on my frown
My laughter hides my pain inside
The agony that all this life
Has made it perfectly explicit
Will forever be a presence
But it does not lead the way
This is my night, this is my day
I take my pain, I take my fear
I take my sadness and my doubt
I take it to the stage
Crowds of people, laughing crying
No idea I’m slowly dying
Eating away at my mind
Ripping at my heart inside
Screaming like a banshee, haunting
Sneered at by my own reflection
Darkness silences the mirror
No more giving into jeers
I take my pain, I take my fear
I take my sadness and my doubt
I take it to the stage
Self-loathing, self-hating
Take it to the stage
Fear about my future
I take it to the stage
How the world is crashing down
Bodies scattered all around
Crying, dying, tempers rising
Everything that makes me sigh and
Everything that gets to me
Pisses me off constantly
Anything that comes to mind
I take it to the stage
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