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STRANGE LAND LYRICS
"Blaming Season" (2004)
1. Obliquity
2. Cause And Defect
3. Marionette
4. In A Mind
5. Dear Helena
6. Exordium
7. Alone We Go
8. Below The After
1. Obliquity
I don't need your perfect smile
Or your false sense of personality
Nice to a fault, but whose fault could it be
Is it mine for letting you drag on so long
You misconceive me
How could you take this from me
So naively
I don't think you'll ever see
When you lie to yourself you have to lie to me
I don't think that you'll ever know
How much I hate the life you choose to lead
You misconceive me
How could you take this from me
So naively
Falsely kind, fucking blind, in obliquity
Just come closer and pay attention
I've got something else for you to see
You can believe me when I say it matters
Because I would never lie to you
We all just want to be liked a little more
Isn't that what everyone wants
Isn't that what everyone else needs
Well you might as well thank me
You just might as well thank me.
You misconceive me
How could you take this from me
So naively
Falsely kind, fucking blind, in obliquity
2. Cause And Defect
There is no truth within this wisdom
But there's no comfort in the truth
These are the lies of your existence
The misconceptions of your youth
There are no words for your emptiness
There is no way to face your fear
Eluded by what you desire
The days will start to disappear
Say what you must to help get yourself through the day
I would never deny you the right to deal with your pain
Some lies are better to believe in
Some times its better not to see
And while it may be self-deception
It just may save your sanity
Say what you must to help get yourself through the day
I would never deny you the right to deal with your pain
-INTERLUDE-
Some friends when they show their true colors
Would be better never to have known
And just when you needed them the most
Is when they left you all alone
There are no words for your emptiness
There is no way to face your fear
Eluded by what you desire
Your hate grows all the more severe
Say what you must to help get yourself through the day
I would never deny you the right to deal with your pain
3. Marionette
Insane people pull my strings
And I feel powerless
To cut myself down
Always so willing
To blindly trust
Those who would mislead me
Gave it all away
Gave it all away
They played me for the fool
As I danced for them all
They watched and they waited as I
Trusted with my life
I will cherish nothing
And regret all
Of what we once were
Abused and exhausted
And afraid to reach out
To anyone ever again
So now I creep back
To my charmed and
Simple little life
They played me for the fool
As I danced for them all
They watched and they waited as I
Trusted with my life
Soaked in the sorrow
Of the reality
That I no longer care
And I, I can't believe
That after all this time
I still haven't learned
Gave it all away
Gave it all away
They played me for the fool
As I danced for them all
They watched and they waited as I
Trusted with my life
Will I ever learn
Talk all you want
You only feigned interest
Why are you still talking to me?
4. In A Mind
rain this morning
and it falls in line
world unholy
but we missed the signs
you're the last to know
for no reason
you're the last to go
it's blaming season
all these places will come round in time
all these faces look like yours and mine
a life's not easy when friends go by
pass the blame off with another lie
rain this morning
and it leaves me blind
and if only I
read between the lines
I'm the last to know
for some reason
I'm the last to go
change of reason
all these places will come round in time
all these faces look like yours and mine
a life's not easy when friends go by
pass the blame off with another lie
rain this morning
and it falls in line
world unholy
but we missed the signs
you're the last to know
for no reason
you're the last to go
it's blaming season
all these places will come round in time
all these faces look like yours and mine
a life's not easy when friends go by
pass the blame off with another lie
5. Dear Helena
Dear Helena, do you ever wonder
Weaving your baskets of heedless truth
With a grain of salt to take it all in
Walking blindly hand in hand
Helena don't you know
Rome is burning
Think about your own life
Leave me to mine
Dear Helena did you ever notice
Life doesn't always go as planned
Help yourself - make the effort
No good with your head in the sand
Helena don't you know
Rome is burning
Think about your own life
Leave me to mine
You have your questions and your fears
I have myself to answer to
Is the sum of our deeds all we leave
If I told you would it matter
Dear Helena could you ever believe
In a world where dreams come true
Close your mouth then you might notice
The finger that's pointing back at you
Helena don't you know
Rome is burning
Think about your own life
Leave me to mine
As we sit at the end of the day
Do you think of a better place
I know you might not like who I am
If I told you would you spit in my face
As the river cuts into the earth
And pushes its waste to the sea
Life passes through my empty shell
Pushing me into eternity
6. Exordium
-INSTRUMENTAL-
7. Alone We Go
you undo the undone
its all just unjust its
moving and taking away
until everything is gone
everything is worth nothing
all i have left to hold
has been taken away today
I have nothing anymore
close your hands around me
and from my sleep you take
me to sleep again
alone you come and alone we go
reasoning this end is the end
i cannot wait for this love
to hold on to me
that i may hold on to hold you
close your hands around me
from my own sleep you take
me to sleep again
alone you come and alone we go
to hold on, to hold onto you
must hold on to hold on
must let go to hold on to you
must let go to hold onto you again
close your hands around me
from my own sleep you take
me to sleep again
alone you come and alone we go
8. Below The After
When can I tell you that I waited…
That I needed the peace of someone
That I wanted to hold you close to me
Until at last you couldn't hold your breath?
But its far too cold to tell you this now
Soon the sun will come down on us again
"I am weary, I am numb. Will I ever heal?"
"No but the pain will fade… Lay still here now."
Down below the surface
I've seen you before
I had forgotten your face
Forgotten your face until now.
Sinking down, I watched you
Slowly blue
I know you aren't trying anymore
We are below the After.
I waited for you to stop trying
Because I needed you.
Below the After I see you
Below the After I call to you
Below the After I reach for you,
Below the After I pull at you.
The come early every spring
And then they repeat their farewell
As I waited for you we will wait for them.
Here, under the ice year after year
Stand up now we need to go.
To see the friends that we left behind
In the spring when the water is warm
We can walk among them hand in hand
Down below the surface
I've seen you before
I had forgotten your face
Forgotten your face until now.
Below the After I see you
Below the After I call to you
Below the After I reach for you,
Below the After I pull at you.
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