"FLASHBACK"
music: barker / lyrics: barker
sitting in the silence
floating otherwordly sounds enter my ears
drawing nearer
never closer
the mouth is closing once again
lost inside a world not meant for human eyes to see
surrounding laughter seethes into my skin
god only knows when it all will end
but the eiderdown is soft, and doesn't make a sound
as you drift into space and forget to turn around
you look down at your feet, but don't see the ground
cause you're caught in the eye of a goddess up high
floating around like lucy in the sky
"OPOPANOX"
music: barker / lyrics: barker
hey now, can you feel the tears your god has cried for you this year?
hey, now can you see the cries?
or hear the demented lullabies?
listen, now, to the cosmic lies
open your ears and close your eyes
don't listen, now, to that voice inside
your conciousness won't tell you why
—we put no reliance
on virgin or pigeon
our od is Science
our Aim is Religion*—
something inside that will never die
open your mind and close your eyes
Information is more basic than matter and energy
Atoms, electrons, quarks consist of bits
Binary units of information
Like those processed in computer software
And in the Brain
The behaviour of these bits, and thus of the universe, is governed by a single programming rule**
There is only one God who creates the universe. This God is my Brain.
As driver of this Brain, i have created a whole universe in which there are numerous other Gods of equal post-hive autonomy with whom i seek to interest
And my universe was, itself, created by a Higher-Level of Divinity—DNA, whose mysteries and wonders i seek to understand and harmonize with***
It is the duty of a monotheist to destroy any competitive heresy. Concepts such devil, hell, guilt, eternal damnation, sin, evil are all fabrications by the hive to ensure loyalty to hive-central. these doctrines are precisely designed to intimidate and crush individualism. The process of mutating into self-hood plunges the mutant into this crossfire of neuro-genetic mental flak.***
*excerpt from "Equinox" by Aleister Crowley
**quote from Edward Fredkin
***excerpt from Dr. Timothy Leary's essay "Beware of Monotheism"
"—untitled—"
music: barker / lyrics: barker
it's the same thing
a total mind drain of my life
there's no place to run to here
laughter echoes in my ears
i let go of all my fears
and shed a single tear
i'm three thousand from far away
and i'm running further fast
if i were just a thousand light years from home
i'd be back finally at last
shelter is a luxury
a treasured precious commodity
something gave inside my head
the tears that flowed were green, not red
standing here inside my fears
i'm laughing at the world so cold and plain
staring at the frozen rain
i'm three thousand from far away
and i'm running further fast
if i were just a thousand light years from home
i'd be back finally at last
"IN THE SUN"
music: barker / lyrics: barker
soaring over land and sea
not caring where i need to be
incapable of sensing lies, that pass before my very eyes
blissfulness, it's heavenly
this feeling that's come over me
not knowing where i need to be,
i don't even know what day it is today
when the sunshine comes to an end,
you'll be searching for a friend
do you know who you'll turn to?
do you know who'll get you through?
soaring over ponds and streams
looks like something out of a dream
fish in the water so pure and clean
(it'd) make a drink fit for a king
sun shines down so happilly,
looks like red, green, and gold to me
scoop some into my ether can,
keep it with me close by at hand
when the sunshine comes to an end,
you'll be searching for a friend
do you know who you'll turn to?
do you know who'll get you through?
"IN SPACE, NO-ONE CAN HEAR YOU SCREAM"
music: barker / lyrics: barker
quiet all your fears, there's nobody in here cares
you're just another lost soul
your life's clearly outta control, so sell your soul and end it all here
take this, here
it'll end your qualms and fears
peace is just another hundred yards away
it's a temporary fix, a lie of the truths behind
but it'll do the trick, if only for a little bit
so when you're lost, and all hope's long in the past
stop and recall your better days
the ways out here are eccentric, crazy
but remember; out in space, no-one can hear you scream
lie for me
die for me
scream for me
dream of me
kill for me
soul you soul for me
do what i say
and don't question why
so when you're lost, and all hope's long in the past
stop and recall your better days
the ways out here are eccentric, crazy
but remember; out in space, no-one can hear you scream
you are fading, not returning
i can see all of your truths inside
remember when you were young and ?
there's no returning to that place, your time has all been spent
so when you're lost, and all hope's long in the past
stop and recall your better days
the ways out here are eccentric, crazy
but remember; out in space, no-one can hear you scream
"dreamscape-escape"
music: barker / lyrics: barker
something inside that has always been denied
hid amongst your fears
buried deep beneath your tears
sifted through the times and ancient minds
archived and filed away
left alone to collect dust for another day
reminescent, solitude
lost in tranquiality
enveloped in the past; other persons that would not last
striped and splattered with good times
nursery ryhmes and evenings spent with shouting mimes
like a dream you will never wake up from
screaming, night s, sweat on my face run
soar like a bird with an injured wing, screaming terrible things
my mind can't understand where i've been, or what i've been doing so long here
where have my friends been?
i this dream, this nightmare, this , then i realize i'm awake
where do i run to now?
"TOD (time of )"
music: barker / lyrics: barker
i feel the life leaving my body
i see my skin turn cold and grey
another day, another chance to feel happiness
it wasn't meant to be
on the day you die when you look back on your life
you'll wonder if you ever had a purpose in life
or was it as empty as the soul you tried to save?
did you buy into the media and what they try to feed ya
try to buy happiness one item at a time
through a catalogue hotline
now that we've come up to the end...
do you still feel good about all your friends?
it meant so much to you back then
what happened to the pride you once had for your life?
it seems to have all slipped away
you were the star player on your team
achieved all your superficial dreams
yet still you lay dying,
unhappy and unclean
on the day you die when you look back on your life
you'll wonder if you ever had a purpose in life
or was it as empty as the soul you tried to save?
you bought into the media and what they try to feed ya
try to buy happiness one item at a time
through a catalogue hotline
"HEROIN"
music: barker / lyrics: barker
sometimes i wonder if we'll ever survive
the doubts in my mind disappear when i'm high
the scalding truth never seems to set in
i trade it in for this morbid reality
the places i'll go, everywhere i've been
the same old sh*t keeps happening time and again
relapses and recycles
can i just blame my friends?
you see inside although you've been blind
concealing your lies with your topic disguise
your searching our souls with a wand that i see
it's stuck to you now, i'll never break free
shameless now, no longer hear all your cries
hid away in a clever disguise
guilt sometimes gets under my skin
but echoes no further, it just gets sunken in
i see through your lies
but when you tell to me, i still believe they're true
there's something inside that writhes when you cry
it's settling now
believe me, i've tried
you see inside although you've been blind
concealing your lies with your topic disguise
your searching our souls with a wand that i see
it's stuck to me now, you'll never break free
my fears are granted like wishes
i'm free
stuck to this chain, i wish you were here with me
it's like a sore that boils out of your skin
and dilates to secrete the poison that you have spread within
you see inside although you've been blind
concealing your lies with your topic disguise
your searching our souls with a wand that i see
it's stuck to you now, i'll never break free
you see inside although you've been blind
concealing your lies with your topic disguise
your searching our souls with a wand that i see
it's stuck to us now, we'll never break free
"THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS"
music: barker / lyrics: barker
if only i could free my mind and escape this
leave my body behind, it's ove
the appeal of life is an enigma of soul
your portal to self
why must you all close up the hole?
so run, run
rabbit run; don't let your coat be burnt by the sun
if it is, then one by one; you'll falter down 'till it be done
there's something that's gone lost in my head
but will it reappear long after i've been ?
how can you kill what will never survive?
from what i hear, tomorrow never dies
i know my future now that i've witnessed my past
both of them are short; life never lasts
i've seen the light at the end of my tunnel
it's a dying little flame in a tea-cup candle
why stare at the light as it only gets dimmmer?
turn around and walk away
your god is a fibber
there's something that's gone lost in my head
but will it reappear long after i've been ?
how can you kill what will never survive?
from what i hear, tomorrow never dies
i want to take you down to a place i've been shown
i like to live there, but it's not my home
it can't be touched, or seen with an eye
but it's just as real as him, you, me or, i
something's gone missing inside of my head
i found it buried there all cased in lead
sometimes i see the light at the end of the tunnel
but it's just a firefly dying in a funnel
so run, please, rabbit run
none of us here know what we've done
there's something that's gone lost in my head
but will it reappear long after i've been ?
how can you kill what will never survive?
from what i hear, tomorrow never dies
yesterday's alive and doing well, i might add
i saw it at tomorrow's funeral
it was eerily glad
he said the enigma of life is a portal to soul
you can fill and fill, but there's always a hole
something that's lost and never be found
so run, run, rabbit run
dig your hole; forget the sun
there's something that's gone lost in my head
but will it reappear long after i've been ?
how can you kill what will never survive?
from what i hear, tomorrow never dies
"FULL OF EMPTY"
music: barker / lyrics: shane kixmiller
it's so nice to be so incredibly empty
my mind is a d*ad sea
there's nothing worth keeping inside of me
it's so nice to nothing to lose
nowhere to go
nothing to choose
nowhere to go at all
but it hurts so much cause i cannot feel your touch
i just want to love, but it's escaped me now
here's another night
and another empty bed
another empty head
where has the time gone?
here there are no fears
only beers and tears
it's so nice to know you even though i never met you
so next time your living inside a snowlfake,
think of me instead
but i'm just a voice in your head
but it hurts so much cause i cannot feel your touch
i just want to love, but it's escaped me now
here's another night
and another empty bed
another empty head
where has the time gone?
"BEGUILED"
music: barker/masterson / lyrics: dreaming crow
poor hapless fellow
sitting upon the footstool of his broken mind
watching the world
behind the bars of his fabulous bind
frying his brain while everyone watches
bewildered and beguiled by eccentric
standing atop them all has he fleets
happlessly keeping the beat
