1. |
Epinephrine
01:12
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Ever hear the voice in the dark?
Calling out relentlessly
A close encounter with the poison dart
Specifically made for me
I come to life and die again
I come to life and die while waiting for someone to say
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2. |
Acetaminophen
03:36
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It's not a crime if you want to leave
When the feelings weigh like lead to the bone
The obtuse anthropology
Of the things we value down to the microbe
Now you're pressed up against the wall
Cutting figures of the tired and alone
Unimpressed with the certainty
Just like children tying rags to the flagpole
Give me twenty minutes
Settle in the sun
You'll begin to bask in me
See what I become
I don't give forgiveness
Help you come undone
You'll become a cast of me
Melting into one
Losing sight of who you want to be
And the nameless nerves bite at your feet
Take a picture for posterity
Right before it fades in hushed retreat
Give me twenty years
Separate the soul
You can leave the past to me
Futures left untold
Leapt beyond the ceiling
Kept beneath the tongue
You can feel the past and me
Melting into one
Poison bleeding through the wire
Analgesic camouflage
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3. |
Ventolin
03:25
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Waking in the early hours
Playing witness to the air
Exiting through my mouth
Inhale when you say it's ok
And the situation dissipates
In the vacant space
I can see the utility
In always holding onto you
Although there's no point now
You could say that it's comforting
To know that I'm sort of immune
But you don't get that do you?
I'm just taking steps to be safe
Don't look at me like I would complicate
The hands of fate
There's little time brother
The unseen hand is heading right for you
You'll never outrun her
It's coming too fast, but you think you can take her
Just harness your power
Gain some distance through the medication
There's little time brother
There's little time
There's little time
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4. |
Morphine
04:10
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I stroll along
My broken leg in tow
But I can't feel a thing
The physician's bedside manner falters
Lets out a sigh of courtesy
A silent head
A speeding motorcar
An unhappy destination
You'll have to wait
Until the lucky day
To undo the mess you made
Jump into the air
The river's getting warmer
Count down to the end
You fall and you ascend
The heat pervades with striking subtlety
The kind you wouldn't miss
They wheel me in
But my recall is weak
Forgive what I omit
Awake in lonely times before the day
And I can't see a thing
You touch the toe
In a discerning way
And fade into the din
Jump into the air
The river's getting warmer
Count down to the end
You fall and you ascend
You fall and you ascend
Will there always be pain in what I see?
Will I always need pain to comfort me?
Will there always be pain in what I see?
Will there always be pain to comfort me?
Will there always be pain in what I see?
Will I always need pain to comfort me?
Will there always be pain in what I see?
Will I always need pain to comfort me?
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5. |
Promethazine
03:44
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Quick to confide but the feelings switch inside
Pulling you under
I'm synthesized, a compound that you deride
Bleeding the schoolboy dry
Obscenity from the ones who wet our feet
Making me wonder
A little time til the parlour tricks can't hide
Shooting the promos now
I'm born to die
I'm poor and saintless, survived by the lives I'm saving
It takes a lot
To build the faces you found on the northeast pavement
On certain nights when the fortune's not in sight
It comes for another
Sneaking inside on the analgesic high
Direct from the anodyne
Post-narcotic glue
Bind the suffering to
The devil that you know
Now you're sleeping through
Nodding endless and blue
I'm born to die
I'm poor and saintless, survived by the lives I'm saving
It takes a lot
To build the faces you found on the northeast pavement
Maybe this is the thing
What thing?
The thing that you know, does me in
I'm feeling pretty scared about it to be honest
Scared like I can't tell you
You know, it's like every day, I'm thinking about it
And it doesn't really go away, and it never will and
Do you just walk through the door and find out
Or do you keep running from it
You know, and just hope that that's not the thing that gets you in the end
Discerning eye of the ever-fearing guise
Led to the water
I'll let you drink, but you'll have to peer inside
Sledged by the morning side
Sanction the sane in their unforgiving game
Made in their image
Asphyxiate the desire to abate
The fear while you slip away
I'm born to die
I'm poor and saintless, survived by the lives I'm saving
It takes a lot
to build the faces you found on the northeast pavement
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6. |
Doxycycline
05:24
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I've got the thing to set your world on fire
And it won't cost you much
An even sacrifice from nascent youth
The unsuspecting rube
Accept the offering of safe abuse
Within the hallowed halls
Repress the logic and all common sense
Cause it won't click yet
Don't you know that nothing works to give the paper means to save you?
It's just the constellation of vanity returning
It don't seem worth it now
Flipping through the wanted ads again
Do you think that you're exceptional?
Teach me a lesson that I won't regret
Is that too much to ask?
They suck the fantasy from future's fruit
The devil of the past
I'll take the blessing from a blood stained hand
Before I'd ever seek
To place the spotlight to the other cheek
Who's hesitating now?
You caught me envying the narrow peak
And subsequent collapse
The structured fallacy of truant truths
Begets the net you cast
But you know that nothing works to give the paper means to save you
It's just the constellation of vanity returning
It don't
It don't
It don't seem worth it now
Flipping through the wanted ads again
Do you think that you're exceptional?
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7. |
Aspirin
03:19
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I'm feeling so numb
Just downed a fist of aspirin
But how long is too long to wait?
Before I wake up in a state I can't escape
The light could rearrange
The shape of figures in the space
But no one can see it how you say
Within a few hours it all will fade away
Hey, hey
Could you believe?
I've been crucified
Just in time to feel it
Made me the chosen one
I'll be the one to bear the blade
But never a willing candidate
I get stolen away, all the same
Hey, hey
Could you believe?
I've been crucified
Just in time to feel it
Hey, hey
Could you believe?
I've been crucified
Just in time to feel it
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8. |
Prophylactic
04:38
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I'm caught between the ebb and flow
Of deception
The moral and the vice
Taking hold of me
I saw her leaving at the cove
Left a message
Tethered to the home
Unholy company
Beyond the vision of the soul
Sublimating
Pleasure to behold
Or any other thing
She's lost the feeling in her bones
Oscillating
Terror with the known
The choir melts into the wall
And your unforgiving arms
Can't suspend the pressure
And you fall asleep and cry the whole way home
I'm the reason and the cause
Kept you guessing
Cleaner than the thoughts
Calling out to me
Took to bleeding from the palm
Begged for blessings
The ones you can't afford
She looked to me and through the past
Led the present
Beyond my able grasp
To boundless entropy
Opted to drink from heaven's bowl
Til you vanish
On reason's golden horse
The violent consumes the calm
And the dreamer falls apart
Infinite repression
And it always seems to find its way back home
I think
I found someone really neat
He isn't too loud, quite discreet
Don't feel bad about our thing not working out
I mean
You can't say you're getting mad
You even paused to pray out loud
Just relax and enjoy how this plays out
It's nice
That we're still such fleeting friends
When lying naked on the bed
Was lame and everything that I made out
To mean
That our hearts will never sink
Tie our hands to quilted sheets
Don't feel bad
Don't feel bad
You know that it's time for me to sleep
Wake me up before you leave
Just be glad
Just be glad
That I found someone out there
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9. |
Epinephrine (Reprise)
04:07
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Is this the theatre of my life?
I can't remember feeling better
Who'd think the memories wouldn't die?
But simply fade into everything that meets the eye
I come to life and die again
I come to life and die again
Why don't the people turn to cry?
I'm sick of bathing in silence
Drowning to eat
New normal, mortal affliction style
Looks like a handful of borrowed needles to the eye
I come to life and die again
I come to life and die while
Contemplating living
Every single day it feels like something
Plans to take me with it
Never be the same
I come to life and die again
I come to life and die while
Contemplating living
Every single day it feels like something
Plans to take me with it
Never be the same
Contemplating living
Every single day it feels like something
Plans to take me with it
Never be the same
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10. |
Death of a Hypochondriac
03:49
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Pick apart the genome
Map the chromosome and
Tell me why I tick this way
Bleeding books to vaulted ceilings
Extricate the demon
Discard the usual when
Prying eyes are all but seedless
Pushing hard for God's forgiveness
Tell me tales of the resurrection
Outfox fate and live forever
Can you tell the difference?
Assess the withered soul then
Settle in the final sunset
Taking odds on fate's appearance
Wait until the morning
Outlast the crucible then
Early hours turn to minutes
Every breath is second stealing
Tell me tales of the resurrection
Outfox fate and live forever
You tried to run from this
The unseen hand
The darkness and the abyss
Well, what do you think?
Was it worth your time?
The never ending scheme of denial
Now everything is bliss
Feelings adorn the walls
Like a long forgotten kiss
But it seems to me you're unconvinced
Pulled away in a reluctant exodus
Do you want to try your luck
and play again, and again and again
and again and again?
Or can we put this chapter away?
What do you say?
Tell me tales of the resurrection, please
Can I find my way back?
And live for-
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