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0 + 2 = 1

NOW

Now if I had the courage
I'd pour in your jar
All the things that I have heard you whisper in the dark
And when that jar was heavy
With your honey confidence
I'd put it to my lips and drink it's meaning and it's sense
It's meaning and its sense

It has no end so let's pretend its
Now
Let's get started
Now
Let's get started
NOW

Well nothing could be plainer
Than the things that have been done
And there can be no mystery in what is yet to come
It's now that howls at nothing
It's now that runs and hides
It's now that winds its spineless coils and slithers out of sight
Your cries above the furrow
Draw my fingers like a plow
Through tattered ends that twist and bend about the here and now
The here is blind and helpless
And strives against the dark
The Now's a well of shadows where the world has come apart
The world has come apart

It has no end so let's pretend its
Now
Let's get started
Now
Let's get started
NOW 

Oh Now
Oh Oh Oh Oh Now
Oh Now

Well there is precious little
That escapes the powers that be
The eyes that judge, the words that form our meager histories
But when your flood surrounds me
When the waters burst and come
Who knows the things that I have felt, who knows what I have done And if I had the courage
I'd pour into your jar
All the things that I have heard you whisper in the dark
And when that jar was heavy
With your honeyed confidence
I'd put it to my lips and drink it's meaning and it's sense
It's meaning and its sense

It has no end so let's pretend its
Now
Let's get started
Now
Let's get started
NOW

Oh Now
Oh Oh Oh Oh Now
Oh Now
LET’S GET STARTED

THE FALL

0 +2 =1

0 + 2 = 1
Race to the finish line at a dead run
Live is short and love is fleeing
Before these masks, haloed with snakes
Hissing like rain on the pavement
The blind are deafened and the lame are made dumb
For that queer equation this is the sum:
0 + 2 = 1

0 + 2 = 1
Before the feast, chops on the block!
A word, to the wise, is a fork into flesh.
Everything stretched under God’s great hand:
A mouth to a breast, an axe to a tree,
The hoot of an owl in the dreams of a mouse
Count on your fingers, it’s the rule of the thumbs, but
0 + 2 = 1

0 + 2 = 1
Yes and no are like day and night,
One breaks as the other is falling.
Questions the answers, stir the solutions,
In the end, for light, you must burn your conclusions;
Night and darkness love silence above all,
Not the equations of sun-loving apes,
Or their prayers for the dead of a world that’s to come
0 + 2 = 1

0 + 2 = 1
It may not be nice, it may not be fun,
It may just be a halo of hissing snakes.
But if nothing is something, if to rise is to fall,
Then a child needs a name like a corpse needs a pall
Nonsense is better than no sense at all
Hail to the lies by which all truths are hounded!
The murder is done, the temple is founded
Where the current is grounded its circuitry hums:
0 + 2 = 1

0 + 2 = 1
0 + 2 = 1
0 + 2 = 1
0 + 2 = 1

These events are the same, in a different chain
For the myth of logic and its heroes
1 – 2 =

THE VALLEY OF THE BLIND

Nothing
Nothing
Nothing
Nothing
Nothing
Nothing
Nothing
Nothing
Zero

They lied about the function of the eyes
About the walls and the doors and the mirrors inside
I saw a mushroom cloud, I took a rocket's ride
And the flash of the blast really opened my eyes
I went BOOM DOOM
I've been living in a dream
Now I’m washing my hands will they ever come clean?
I went BOOM DOOM
I'm not naked and free
While the eyes of the blind are staring at me

My kind is the indifferent kind
Shove a man in the valley of the blind
What are you afraid you'll see
If you open your eyes and take a look at me

Tell me once, tell me fifteen times
Just give me my cue and I’ll remember my lines
'Cause I’m quick, I'm fast and I aim to please
Tell me what you want and that's what I’ll be
I went BOOM DOOM
And I heard someone laugh"Get your ass of the floor", as they kicked in the door
I went BOOM DOOM
We're dying like flies
But I’m hypnotized by the look in your eyes

My kind is the indifferent kind
Shove a man in the valley of the blind
What are you afraid you'll see
If you open your eyes and take a look at me

Don't you look at me?
Don't you want to see?
What you made of me?
What I want to be?
WHAT YOU SEE
THAT’S WHAT I WANT TO BE

Look at me
Why don't you look at me?
Why don't you look at me?
Why don't you look at me?
Why don't you look at me?
You'll see

Nothing
Nothing
Nothing
Nothing
Nothing
Nothing
Nothing
Nothing

I must have been mean or bad
I must have spoke out of turn or made somebody mad
Although I have never been a dominant force
I just slide along, take the easiest course
There is nothing that I wouldn’t do
To make you see, to get through to you
I haven't crawled through a jungle of lies
Just to behypnotized by the look in your eyes
I went BOOM DOOM
All is not what is seems
I'm a fool, I've been had and I've been living in a dream
I went BOOM DOOM
I'm not naked and free
While the eyes of the blind are all staring at me

My kind is the indifferent kind
Shove a man in the valley of the blind
What are you afraid you'll see
If you open your eyes and take a look at me

Won't you look at me?
Don't you want to see?
What you made of me?
What I want to be?
NOT A DAMN THING
NOTHING
THAT’S WHAT I WANT TO BE

 Look at me
Why don't you look at me?
Why don't you look at me?
Why don't you look at me?
Why don't you look at me?
You'll see

Nothing
Nothing
Nothing
Nothing
Nothing
Nothing
Nothing
Nothing
Zero

MARY (THE LAST)

My mind is buried at the bottom of the sea
My voice is eaten by the crabs
You broke me when you broke the surface
Last, but not the last
I am at the end of the depths
Wrecked and lost

You call me from the trees
 But I fly above the bats and the birds
 If I am a number
 Or if I am a word
The mice that crawl on me
Know this word
The mice that crawl on me
Know this word
I am the last
The last!
The last!
The last!

You broke me, but I live
Without end, under stones and crosses
You count your losses, your wounds mend
 But I am the end of Oak and Yew
Of God and Death and you
 I am the last
The last!
The last!

Before the surface broke, under the depths
Before the strokes of the lash
 And the march to the crosses
Before you named me
Before you broke me
Before the first word and after the last

At the bottom of the sea
At the bottom of the sea
The crabs crawl on me
The mice crawl on me
They eat my voice
Take all I have to give
Before you
Before all
I live
I live

Mary, it‘s time to pray Mary
Mary, it‘s time to pray..

My mind is buried at the bottom of the sea
My voice is eaten by the crabs
You broke me when you broke the surface
Last, but not the last
 I am at the end of the depths
Wrecked and lost

MARY!
THE LAST!
THE LAST!
THE LAST!
THE LAST!

MARY!
THE LAST!
THE LAST!
MARY!

EVERYDAY I START TO OOZE

I guess you heard my head turned brown
I lost several pounds and just looked terrible
This marriage of black and yellow never looked good on paper
His mother was a secretary, I think
Her father a rapist
 I’m a little pressed for time and facts
But I know
I know

It’s those personal acts
Those personal acts
That cut through the crap

I heard they were dismembering people down on the street
Those Joneses, you gotta love em’
Various disguises are regrettable but necessary
If you’re going to make it through the day
Everyday
Everyday
Everyday I start to ooze
Everyday
Everyday
Everyday I start to ooze

A bold plan drawn up by assholes to screw moron’s
News at eleven but first
A long serious look at what’s seeping from open sore
Perhaps you should STOP PICKING AT IT!
I never felt so alone
I never felt so used
 I never felt so excited

 It was those personal acts
Those personal acts
That cut up the crap and served it for breakfast
YOU DUMB FUCK!

My mom phoned up the police today
Just to say hello, “Hello”
My girlfriend has been missing for two weeks
 I guess that’s what happens when you walk the streets
With a bag on your head and a sign that says
Everyday
Everyday
Everyday I start to ooze
Everyday
Everyday
Everyday I start to ooze

Oooh, black and blue and red are the colours of everyday
Oooh, black and blue and red are the colours of everyday
Oooh
Everyday

Ok, that’s life, that’s what I was told anyway
 And picking your feet till they bleed may only be the half of it
 If every fourth animal in the world is a beetle
 Perhaps every fourth person is a DUMB FUCK
Listen, listen carefully now here’s the answer
It rhymes with ex
Why, it’s those personal acts ofcourse
Those personal acts
Those suicide pacts
Those carelessly stored razorblades in the hands of small children
 Is my face smeared on the pavement? 
Wohhhhh…
It’s Everyday
It’s Everyday
UndayNonedayUsedayButtuglyWhoredayPaindaySPLATTERSDAY SPLATTERSDAY
YOU DUMB FUCK!

WHEN PUTTING IT ALL IN ORDER AIN’T ENOUGH

When all those tomorrows get crammed into now
You stop like you froze and ask yourself how?
When all those tomorrows get crammed into now
You stop like you froze and ask yourself how?
How?

When putting it all in order ain’t enough
The tough gets going and the going gets tough
And the things that you thought ain’t what it ought
Ought
Ought
To be

When you’re laid on the line your dreams will stop
They’ve drawn you in and they’ve strung you up
When you’re laid on the line your dreams will stop
They’ve drawn you in and they’ve strung you up

When putting it all in order ain’t enough
The tough gets going and the going gets tough
And the things that you thought ain’t what it ought

When the who hits the what and you’ve run out of luck
You do what you can but you’re
When the who hits the what and you’ve run out of luck
You do what you can but you’re
AllIn a word
Stuck
Fuck!

The Night Nothing Became Everything

(Instrumental)

I THINK YOU KNOW

Circling
Haw
Dive, bite
Clench and jerk
A spray of bright
Re ripped surface
Torn flesh

No hot
No cold
No yes
No no
No earth
No strike (?)
No you
No I

You die
You die
Every time
You die
You die
You die
You die
You simply die

No hat
No cold
No yes
No no

You know
You know
I know
You know
You know
I know
You know
I think you know

Not continued
Never started
Not half
Not whole
 Hearted
Never
Here
Where
Here
Where
Here
Where
Here

You die
You die
Every time
You die
You die
Every time
You die
You simply die

Where
Here
Where
Here
Where
Here
Where
Here

You know
You know
I know
You know
 You know
I know
You know
I think you know

Pull out
Jetting
Sweat
A drag
Teeth
A drag
There
Again
There
Again
There
Again
There

You die
You die
Every time
You die
You die
Every time
You die
You simply die

There
Again
There
Again
There
Again
There
Again

You know
You know
I know
You know
 You know
I know
You know
I think you know

GHOSTS

Thin voices call out of thin air
“Do you really care?”
“Do you really care?”
There is no reason to be afraid
All of the bodies have been laid to rest
Nobody passes the test of time
The long climb
Into thin air
Thin air
There is no one there

You think you have time
You have no time
You think you have time
You have no time
You think you have time
You have no time
You think you have time
You have no time

An image may be left in place
Of what was felt there is no trace
In words recited without a sound
By voices buried underground
There is no meaning to be found

“Do you really care?”
“Do you really care?”
“Do you really care?”
“Do you really care?”

There is no one there
There is no one there

You think you have time
You have no time
You think you have time
You have no time
You think you have time
You have no time
You think you have time
You have no time

There are no castles without ghosts
And no spirits without hope
But nobody passes the test of time

You stand in line, you have your place
The in the space of moments fall
From again and again and again
To not at all
From again and again and again
To not at all
 I do not fear the buried sounds
 Of words that echo underground
A memory is a loaded gun
And I remember everyone
And I remember everyone
I remember you
I remember you

“Do you really care?”
“Do you really care?”
“Do you really care?”
“Do you really care?”
“Do you really care?”
“Do you really care?”
 There is no one there
 There is no one there

Why are you scared?
There’s no one there
Why are you scared?
There’s no one there
You’re clean, strong and free
Like you always wanted to be
You’re alone
There’s no one there
You’re alone
There’s no one there
There, alone, aloneThere is no one there

JOYFULL REUNION

I don’t buy your explanations
Your short sighted expectations
Stop complaining, I don’t care

(I told you the way it had to be)
I will fuck with youIf you try to fuck with me
(So don’t try it)

Look at this face, I’m the one you love
The white light of truth from heaven above
An angel of shit, fucker

There is no road to ruin
Not a final solution
Just the grand execution
Of our Joyful Reunion

You squeezed the world in the palm of your hand
But when it lay in pieces
Did you give a damn?
(Why should you?)

Don’t play dumb and don’t ask why
With a blink of my eye you are cut and dried
And hung up
Bye, bye

It was here, where did it go?
 I don’t know
I don’t know
Anything any more

In this ball of confusion
Through these painful revolutions
There’s no clear-cut solution
Just a Joyful Reunion

What are you trying to escape
Your name calls me
Your mirror is my gate
(Smash, through the looking glass, fucker)

I am your most hated enemy
A friend who makes you start again
Just when you thought it was finally the end

Hit me hard, tear me apart
To rise again is my special art
You can’t kill me

With all the things that cut me down
Shake, brake, mutilate – grind me into the ground
I’ll grow up again with first rain, just the same

We will raise the institutions
Make all new resolutions
Rebuild the constitution
For that
Joyful Reunion
Joyful Reunion
Joyful Reunion