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AGAINST NATURE LYRICS
"Safe Dissonance" (2006)
1. Spectatorship
2. Safe Dissonance
3. Note to Myself
4. Sophistry
5. Canon
6. Inflating Dwarfs
7. Swerve
8. Beware Lilliputians
9. Torpor
10. Armadillo
11. Ignorance with Arrogance
1. Spectatorship
lights out
solemn plausibilities
pronounce, watch
a waste of thorns
love too much
the long run of history
and what flies up
what else could we have done
a part not apart
wrinkles made smooth
take not partake
take it all apart
2. Safe Dissonance
nothing from nothing
ever yet was born
sin by silence
at home, the enemy waits
empty your golden glass
master anger
moderation is best
run the risk of heresy
3. Note to Myself
the noisome weeds
upon the foot of fear
nothing pleases me
excellent device
what have I done, being young
any stigma will do
put me on earth again
naked I descend
cheating for beauty’s sake
no pity in the clouds
to suffer and endure
thou art indeed just, lord
tragedy’s preoccupation
knows at what time to promise
4. Sophistry
fighting with shadows
titles are dangerous
debased coinage
language corrupting thought
i despair
boundless presumption
holy simplicity
the holy see
the holy see
holy simplicity
boundless presumption
I despair
language corrupts
debased coinage
titles are dangerous
fight shadows
5. Canon
glide away
turn to god
into gold
perishing
the trained mind
awaits chance
without fate
fly
is life so dear,
peace so sweet?
only the saint
chooses his death
avarice,
industry
who can refute
a stylish sneer?
6. Inflating Dwarfs
no man born can set you free
tiny mewling tyranny
loathsome words, repugnant form
brag and scrape and pray and fawn
I speak of what will be
you among their company
puffery and stuffy pride
what are you but a child
teach us what all this means
sacrificed to calumny
bear it lightly, recognize
the thief of fire
7. Swerve
i see the suns
die every day
not knowing how
to remain alone
learn in our graves
the opinion of ghosts
i won’t divulge
my right to be wrong
8. Beware Lilliputians
small soul, wandering
an imbecile with only eyes
sincere ignorance
molds himself to their likes
greatness is hard to bear
your ready answers leave me old
great leap in the dark
your steady answers make me bold
9. Torpor
running
you are
stunning
so far
cunning
why start
one thing
without
nothing
10. Armadillo
all heresies are forbidden
how great are the faults that mar it
your people is a great beast
whet her vulture fang
cover it all with oblivion
look to the end of all lies
shun security
leave a beast of prey
11. Ignorance with Arrogance
a comprehensible darkness
loudness is impotence
an arbitrary veneration
that peers out in sleep
the world does not move
let alone with an arbitrary veneration
a comprehensible darkness?
loudness is impotence
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