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WINTER SOLSTICE LYRICS
"The Fall of Rome" (2005)
1. Following Caligula
2. Calibrate the Virus
3. Watcher
4. Courtesy Bow
5. The Fall of Rome
6. Malice in Wonderland
7. 55/23
8. The Hampton Roads Fourth Annual Parade of the Blind
9. To the Nines
10. L'aeroport
1. Following Caligula
Frantically running through the catacombs of peril
So far from hollow
A nightmare interpreted into something so beautiful
Flooding your senses like tsunami of light
Inferiority races through your veins
Monumental photographic memory
Converted into self-inflicted amnesia
The flowers grow in a perfect circle
Displaying harmony and content
As you pick each one
A part of you dies
Like each perfect blossom
Inferiority races through your veins
Never to surface without warning again
2. Calibrate the Virus
Calibrate the virus
Fold down the edges and call openness fatalistic
Count to ten; close your eyes
Carrying your dismay by the buckets full
Dumping them into a river of fortune
Up stream lies gratification
Swim with the current
Bottle your plague and drink it slowly
3. Watcher
The stubble on my face engraves my lack of compassion
I’m counting the grass blades to pass the time
Queen-sized comfort awaits my tired eyes
Remember me?
I’m your satire’s locksmith
You referred to the way of the sword as hope
Despite the blade in your back
Two days pass and there is still no sign of the sun
But your wait calmly playing checkers with your gut instinct
On the contrary to the heart’s self-imprisonment
Your horse shoes fall like hail
I hear your name in the wind my collapsible heart skips a beat
You remain in my head only as a bitter-sweet memory
I’ve given up sleep
So I can pray for you
Day by day, I bite my tongue
The mental song is sung out loud
It shakes the ground beneath you
4. Courtesy Bow
Your life painted before you
Stolen by the most uneducated of thieves
Her smile’s intoxicating
So let me make a toast to revival
I have enough on my chest to write a novel
And that’s where it will stay until your ears are open for business
So I can’t sell myself short this time
A market full of used death beds
The merchant smirks with a mouth filled with saw teeth
You leave the store like your past, empty handed
The needle in the hay stack lies buried in abhorrence
Reverse the cycle
Start with a courtship
And end with the world
5. The Fall of Rome
6. Malice in Wonderland
This dream I'm living will never end
When I attempted to place your abominations into words
You fled with disgust
Lions weep at the sight of their own weakness
The day's darkness overwhelms our spirits
I'm still fortunate enough to know someone like you
The waves remain placid and invisible
Receding the shore with ironically horrific malice
Caught in a war against the blues
Lions weep at the sight of their own weakness
The day's darkness overwhelms our spirits
I'm still fortunate enough to know someone like you
We walk every where with sheets over our heads
Praying they won't recognize us
You're a paper wall
And I'm your wrecking ball
The silence spreads like fire across our field of dreams
Lions weep at the sight of their own weakness
The day's darkness overwhelms our spirits
I'm still fortunate enough to know someone like you
You're a paper wall
And I'm your wrecking ball
7. 55/23
One day at a time
You count your blessings
Then continue to court mine
So cautious you are yet you throw yourself into the gears with ease
I’ve fallen into an ocean of deceit
And you’re holding onto the last life vest
With your back to the tides of terror tonight
One arm at a time
Struggling to set your self free
When chin deep in your lies
Traveling down denial
You’ve lost your paddle in the commotion of emptiness
You sit distraught and numb
Eyes rolling back into an infinite darkness
I will carry you and your gloom
Home sweet home
Hold my hand and let yourself go
8. The Hampton Roads Fourth Annual Parade of the Blind
Even your martyr wears his best suit to this affair
Logical reasoning is something you should shoot for
I'll aim for the sky myself
Soaring above our city
Your heart loses its balance and plummets to this earth
Now I walk in circles flipping through old photographs
I've been wounded but not fatally
Don't even bother trying to assemble the puzzle
For my compassion is missing
And I'm canceling wishes by the skyful
Moving forward I lose track of time and my sense of sight
Visit him Lord and kiss his cheek for me
And thank him for the glasses
You saved me from his grasp and cleaned all of my Wounds
The towel in the ring
Alone like yourself
All alone
I sit and read your letters and I force a smile
Soaring above our city
Your heart loses its balance and plummets to this earth
Now I walk in circles flipping through old photographs
I've been wounded but not fatally
9. To the Nines
Staring at a tree split in two
Asking yourself if you can mend it’s natural bane
Perseverance falls to the floor shattering into a million pieces
Categorizing failures rigorously
You conserve light by staring with your eyes closed
Sitting there with that failed look upon your lips
What happened to this picture?
Guided by a candle you try so hard to see miles ahead of yourself
A formal awakening experienced for the first time
Hitting closer and closer to home with each blow
Value your life
Impressions of your face hold your character
My scars hold eternal regret
10. L'aeroport
Poetry written in a tongue that only you and I can read
We forget the world with one prolonged embrace
Marching to the beat of a near end song
Your crystal façade cracks quietly
With the legend of the mantis still fresh in my mind
I continue trying to give you the key
But your foot's already in the door
One hand on the phone
The other on a blank picture frame
Left alone to remember all the wonderful memories we Never had together
There were no memories for us to have
Move your hair from your face and look me in the eyes
With the legend of the mantis still fresh in my mind
I continue trying to give you the key
But your foot's already in the door
Forced to forget tomorrow
Each breath becomes more precious than the last
Drastic weather changes make me tired
Hopefully the worst has passed me now
Flawlessly gorgeous you looked in that dress
Your intentions were more fair than your skin
It hurts to smile when your indecisive ways
Freeze my emotionless expressions
Marching to the beat of a near end song
Your crystal façade cracks quietly
With the legend of the mantis still fresh in my mind
I continue trying to give you the key
But your foot's already in the door
Flawlessly gorgeous you looked in that dress
Your intentions were more fair than your skin
Over and over again, I seem to lose my mind
Like a leaf in the wind of the most atrocious of hurricanes
Carelessly and directionless it floats away
Goodbye
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