A Perfect Circle (original) (raw)

Looming Omnipresent
This task ahead this task at hand.
Ominous and Daunting
Crippling undertaking. I’m frozen.

Where to begin eludes me
Without you to remind me

Just take the step
Just take the swing
Just take the bite
Just go all in.

Where to begin eludes me

Rooting ever deeper,
this massive endeavor.
Ominous and Daunting
Crippling undertaking.

Just take the step
Just take the swing
Just take the bite
Just go all in.

Take the step. Take the swing
Take the bite. Just take the bite
Take the step. Take the swing
Take the bite. Just go all in.

Where to begin eludes me
Without you to remind me
Just begin.

(Dopamine dopamine dopamine)
We have been overrun by our animal desire.
Addicts of the Immediate. Keep us obedient and unaware.
Feeding this mutation, this Pavlovian despair.

We’ve become Disillusioned.
So we run towards anything glimmering.

Time to put the silicon obsession down.
Take a look around. Find a way in the silence.
Lie supine away with your back to the ground.
Dis and re connect to the resonance now. You were never an island.

Unique voice among the many in this choir.
Tuning in to each other. Lift all higher.

(Dopamine dopamine dopamine)
Willingly been re-wired by clever agents within.
Looping our reflections, our obsessions draw us in.
Fix and fixation. No sentience beyond.

We’ve become Disillusioned.
So we dive like crows towards anything glittering.

Time to Put the silicon obsession down.
Take a look around. Find a way in the silence.
Lie supine away w your back to the ground.
Dis and re connect to the resonance now. You were never an island.

Unique voice among the many in this choir.
Tuning in to each other. Lift all higher.

“Hello,” he lied.
Like Velvet, this magicians
sleight of tongue and hand.
Hello, he lied.
Beware, Belie, his Smile
as warm and calculated, as heroin.
Beware…
The Contrarian.

Within everyone,
A scale. A voice.
Everyone but him

Core as Black as pitch
Soul is Out of tune.
Advocate of none.
Beware, Belie, his smile

Will cost you everything.
Cloak and masquerade
His Contempt for everyone.
“Hello, Hello,” he lied.

“Hello,” he lied.
Like Velvet, this magicians
sleight of tongue and hand.
Hello, he lied.
Beware, Belie, his Smile
as warm and calculated as heroin.
Beware…

Behold a New Christ. Behold the same old horde.
Gather at the altering. New beginning, New word.
And the word was Death. And the word was without light.
The new beatitude. Good luck. You’re on your own.

Blessed are the Fornicants. May we bend down to be their whores.
Blessed are the Rich. May we labor, deliver them more.
Blessed are the Envious. Bless the Slothful, Wrathful and Vain.
Blessed are the Gluttonous. May they feast us to famine and war.

What of the pious, the pure of heart, the peaceful?
What of the meek, the mourning, the merciful?
All Doomed. All Doomed

Behold a New Christ. Behold the same old horde
Gather at the altering. New beginning, New word
And the word was Death. And the word was without light.
The new beatitude. Good luck.

What of the pious, the pure of heart, the peaceful?
What of the meek, the mourning, the merciful?
What of the righteous? What of the charitable?
What of the truthful, and the dutiful, the decent?

Doomed are the Poor Doomed are the Peaceful
Doomed are Meek Doomed are the Merciful
For the word is now Death.
And the word is now without light.
The new Beatitude.
Fuck the Doomed. You’re on your own.

Time is money, money’s time.
We’ve wasted every second dime on
Diets, lawyers, shrinks, and Apps, and flags, and plastic surgery.

Now Willy Wonka, Major Tom,
Ali and Leia have moved on
signal the Final curtain call in all it’s atomic pageantry

Bravissimo, Hip hip hurray, for this fireworks display.
Mind and body blown away
What a radiant crescendo

Ticker tape Parade our hair and skin like Marilyn Monroe in an after wind

Time is money, money’s time.
We’ve wasted every second dime on
Politicians, Fancy water, and Guns, and plastic surgery.

Like our Prince and Reenies Mom,
all the dolphins have moved on
signaling the Final curtain call in all it’s atomic pageantry

Bravissimo, Hip hip hurray.
What a glorious display.
Melt our joyous hearts away under Mushroom Cloud confetti

Hip hip hurray, for this fireworks display.
Mind and body blown away.
What a radiant crescendo.

Hip hip hurray. Hip hip hurray
Ticker tape Parade our hair and skin like Marilyn Monroe in an after wind

Time is money, money’s time.
We’ve wasted every second dime on
Diets, lawyers, shrinks, and Apps, And flags, and plastic surgery.
Now Willy Wonka, Major Tom, Ali and Leia have moved on.
Signal the Final curtain call in all it’s atomic pageantry

You’re waiting on miracles
(While) We’re bleeding out.
Thoughts & Prayers.
Adorable.
Like cake in a crisis. We’re bleeding out.

While you deliberate, bodies accumulate.

Sit and talk like Jesus
Try walking like Jesus
Talk Talk Talk Talk. Get the fuck out of my way.

Dont be the problem. Be the solution

Faith without works is dead.
Talk without works is dead.

Sit and talk like Jesus.
Try walkin like Jesus.
Try braving the rain.
Try lifting the stone.
Try Extending a hand.
Try Walkin your talk or get the fuck outta my way.

Moving in and out of the shadows.
It’s no easy mission holding on to how I picture you.

Showing only bits and pieces
Till the light betrays you,
And your empty elocution.

Searching your eyes for a hint or a trace of humility.
Searching your eyes for the saint is an act of futility.
Searching your eyes for a hint or a trace.
I’ve been Searching your eyes for humility.
Searching your eyes for a hint or a trace.
I’m still searching, searching.

Showing only bits and pieces,
Till the tide betrays you,
And your empty elocution.

Float the Piper by and down the river.
Carcass crippled underneath
The pounding waves of adoration.

Pied Piper float on down the river.
Bloated carcass, crippled ‘neath
The weight of adoration.

Moving in and out of the shadows.
It’s no easy mission holding on to how I picture you.

How inconvenient, unexpected, and harrowing for you,
As consequences tend to be.

For the rest of us, so delicious to witness your dread.
Poetic justice consummate.

Not unlike you to heedlessly hoist away your smug grenade.

Arrogant and insolent, you don’t give a damn. Collateral be damned.

Not unlike you to hoist away hoist away your smug grenade.
Choice and bed be made. Good night. Sleep tight.

For the rest of us, so delicious to witness your dread.
Poetic justice consummate.

Not unlike you to heedlessly hoist by your own vain petard.

Wrong side of history.
You don’t give a damn. Collateral be damned.

Not unlike you to hoist away hoist away your smug grenade.
Choice and bed be made. Good night. Sleep tight.

Instrumental

Red flag red. All the sentinels are dead
-the Tokyo kitty, swallow, rose, and canary.-
Tick tick tick Do you recognize the sounds
As the grains count down, trickle down right in front of you?

Tickle tickle tickle. All your neck hairs prickle
As they barbecue the sentinels and eat them right in front of you.
Hour glass smashed (into) million little pieces.
The count down carry on 5 4 3 2…

Aristocrat breaks down to, Timocrat breaks down to,
Oligarch breaks down to, Republocrat breaks down to,
No hope left in the hour glass.

Red flag red. All the sentinels are dead.
-the Tokyo kitty, swallow, rose, and canary-
Tick tick tick. Do you recognize the sounds
As the grains count down trickle down right in front of you.

(Little) Tickle tickle tickle. All your neck hairs prickle
As they barbecue the sentinels and eat them right in front of you.
Hour glass smashed (into) a million little pieces.
The count down carry on 5 4 3 2…

Aristocrat breaks down to – Timocrat breaks down to
Oligarch breaks down to – Republocrat breaks down to
No hope left in the hour glass.

Ten niner eight
Eight seven six
Five four three two
Ten niner eight
Eight seven six
Five four three…

Damages define our border.
Wall and manner forged in flame.
Knowing little of your wounding,
share our mending all the same

Weight of words and wars we carry.
Im like you. just like you.
Eyes of secret, storm, and story
(But) Show and tell, we’ll make it through.

Sadness, like a pendulum,
Pulls us round and to and fro
Onus, Fate, and undue odium
Armor, anchor, lead, and stone.

By the telling
will they become…
will they all be feathers?

Eyes of secret, storm and story
Show and tell, we’ll make it through.
Onus, Fate, and undue odium
Armor, anchor, lead, and stone.

By the telling
May they become
May they all be feathers.

Chit Chat Chit Chat.
Aint got time for that.

We got places to be.
We got mountains to climb.
Chase the rainbow with me.
Only so much time.

Get the Lead out.

Not one to dawdle.
Got no time to coddle you.

Get the Lead out.
Suck it up butter cup.

Get the Lead out.
Get the Lead out.
Get the Lead out.
Get the Lead out.
Get the Lead out.
Get the Lead out.