1. |
Persistence of Memory
03:44
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A thick white fog, an ancient haze
Spreading over secluded groves
A young boy stares up to the sky
Pure light floods into cool blue eyes
And I can still feel
The wonder of the world
Peace and harmony echo off silent trees
Please don’t wake me from this dream
Do you remember a place beyond the trees?
Where we used to run, free from boundaries
Just the ground below us, with nothing on our minds
How I wish to return to such a pleasant time
To such a pleasant time…
And sometimes art just drips from my lips
And I don’t even know what I’m saying to you
But I get a certain sense that music can heal
And if we appeal to the senses we might just be able to come to a consensus
And the state of things and our place in the grand scheme
Cosmetic Rembrandts of our time don’t make sense
But as long as we realize we’re not interested in dollars and cents of recompense.
When was the last time you stopped to breathe?
And we’re shackled to responsibility except that of taking our own lives back into our hands.
Who really has command?
Can I set your mind at ease if I tell you it’ll all be okay in the end?
Well that depends…
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2. |
Childhood Forest
02:06
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I remember back when I was young
A world so vast but endless landscapes fit within my palm
My eyes were open wide and I could see the sun
Tabula rasa was my name and Experience my pen
Can’t you see it’s all just a Childhood Forest?
I think I lost myself somewhere among the trees
Well I’ve been living all these years but can you tell me
Were these 20 the best? Well what are the rest?
An endless journey to death?
I got all this breath
I need to get off my chest
And live out the rest of my life
Before it passes me by
I’m not wrong, your system’s flawed
I just don’t bow down to your God
I am human, what are you?
A product of the system that brought me to you
Can’t you see it’s all just a Childhood Forest?
We’ve all lost ourselves somewhere among the trees
But this is just a dream…
It’s just a dream, it’s just a dream
It’s just a dream, it’s just a dream
It’s just a dream, it’s just a dream
It’s just a dream, it’s just a dream
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3. |
Clock Tower
04:13
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Ripped from sleep
Reality hits like a slap in the face
Forgotten dreams
Shattered in the harsh light of this place
Well I was warm but now I’m cold
I once could feel but now I see
I was young but now I’m
Old enough for a life of misery
And all my plans and dreams are dead
Given to the hands of time
Watch the clock tower tick away
Each second of this life of mine
No time for sleep when you have work
No time for dreams, we cry instead
They call it making a living
I think we’re all just walking dead
{Interlude – Sean Langwell – Acoustic Guitar
Dean Parnell – Bass}
Envy not the Clock Tower at your grave
For it, more than we, to time is a slave
We will gather moss to bring it down
And one day the world will wake without a sound
Sitting outside reality's dungeon
The Clock Tower spins our worldly abode
Mechanically forward, pushing us on
Swept by the wind of a plummeting globe
As we toil and trudge through darkened lands
Of stained soil polluted with smog and rust
Onward it drives us with unbending hand
Its impartial metronome brings us to dust
{Solo – Kyle Martin – Electric Guitar}
Envy not the Clock Tower at your grave
For it, more than we, to time is a slave
We will gather moss to bring it down
And one day the world will wake without a sound
I find no value in daily functions
How can I escape this living hell?
Hopelessness and suicide
Leave me here, a hollow shell
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4. |
Apathy
04:05
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Look into my eyes
Can you tell my expression?
Scream and shout in my face
You won’t get a reaction
Apathy has taken over
And I don’t care anymore
All the things that used to upset me
Are buried far out the door
I can’t remember anything
Except a far away feeling
I think that I was angry
But over what I don’t know
Apathy has taken over
And I don’t care anymore
All the things, they used to upset me
But I…I just can’t care anymore
Frozen here I am sitting
Without a care in the world
I built this wall around myself
And now I cant hear a word
Apathy has taken over
And I don’t care anymore
All the things that used to upset me
Are buried far out the door
Apathy has taken over
And I…I just don’t care anymore
All the things that used to upset me
Are buried far out the door
Apathy has taken over…
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5. |
Clipped Wings
02:48
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{Instrumental}
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6. |
Death And Coffee
05:02
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In times of darkness I feel quite at ease
This winter storm to me feels just like a breeze
I’m like a man who’s played with suicide
I walked to the edge and looked down and to my surprise
Death was drinking coffee and he asked me to sit down
I tried to look into his eyes, but I saw nothing at all
I asked him “Can you tell me, just what I am?”
He said, “Do not ask what you are, but what you will become.”
Well I was walking in a crowd
I stopped one day and decided to just turn around
But everyone kept walking right by me
Wondering why I was looking back to where I had been
I asked a woman if she had the time
She glanced at her watch and told me “11:59”
“No,” I said, “I meant the time to sit with me awhile,
Argue over a cup of coffee and maybe share a smile.”
{Solo – Jesse Aumiller - Tenor Saxophone}
Come take me away from all that I have seen
Come take me today to somewhere I’ve not been
Some place in the world there’s a little cove for us
Our names in the sand are melting on the shore
All the colors that I’ve seen liquefied and pure
Float out into the sea inside my bottle of dreams
The sun begins to fall and the stones all cease to roll
And finally I crawl into my resting hole
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7. |
Bottle of Dreams
04:57
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If you’d be my pillow, well I could be your stone
Under my bed there’s a bottle of dreams, but I’ve got no place to call home
Comfort me, be my energy
I just need to recharge
Outside it is growing dark, but
Inside I’m quite warm
And no one needs to see
What’s good for you and me
These walls don’t keep us in
They keep the whole world out
And maybe one day this cold world will understand
But until then could I keep this bottle of my dreams safe in your hands?
I’ve been wandering, but you make me want to stay
These tidal waves that are pushing me down all seem to wash away
Within you I find solitude
Of the richest kind
I find myself alone with you
And I lose myself within
And no one needs to see
What’s good for you and me
These walls don’t keep us in
They keep the whole world out
And maybe one day this cold world will understand
But until then could I keep this bottle of my dreams safe in your hands?
If you’d be my pillow, I could be your stone
But one day I’d awaken to find I’m still alone
My words of inspiration fell silent in the air
A phantom side shadow emotion tapping at my skull
And no one needs to see
What’s lost for you and me
These walls are paper-thin
They crumble all around
And maybe one day this cold world will understand
But until then I’ll keep this bottle of my dreams all to myself
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8. |
Color No One's Seen
04:00
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Twilight violet rays of light casting shadows across an earthly globe that in the early
sleepless dawn has never felt like home
Inspiration came and went but the afterimage stayed
Burning deeper into my mind each and every day
Well I’ve screamed in the color no one’s seen
It flashes only for the lonely pair of eyes in dreams
A moment’s time stretched to eternity
A winter morning’s echoes soaring through my memories
Well I’ve screamed in the color no one’s seen
It flashes only for the lonely pair of eyes in dreams
A moment’s time stretched to eternity
A winter morning’s echoes soaring through my memories
And I go back every now and then but the color’s not the same
And I wish I could show you why I’m constantly in pain
But darkness falls blackening the plain
With countless songs and tortured soul I will try again
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9. |
Luxury
07:20
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I sank into a couch of comfort floating down a stream
Reality is relative, they told me in a dream
And every false awakening is inspired by the air
I breathe it in and it begins to melt away my cares
Well life used to be a struggle
But now we’re all just so damn bored
Luxury has saturated everything
How can we find meaning anymore?
I saw a thousand robots working on the shore
I tried to take a better look but my vision is poor
I bought high-tech binoculars to reshape my eyes
Well now I depend on them to know just what is right
Well life used to be a struggle
But now we’re all just so damn bored
Luxury has saturated everything
How can we find meaning anymore?
I stared in shock and horror as a figure came to me
Not a robot, but a human, encased in machinery
He stretched his iron hand to me, saying, “Real life is mundane”
“I live a life of purpose” he began to explain…
I Wake up
I Plug in
Turn on
And Ossify
I Wake up
Once again
I Give in
And Comply
But I like the world that I’ve created better than the one outside
And I’d like to let you in but I’m afraid you might begin to cry
Call me an escapist, but this is something much more real
Come into my world and let me show you how I feel
Play by the rules play by the rules
Enter a realm of creation
Follow the fools follow the fools
Fool’s gold will build our new nation
Define all the lines define all the lines
A world without gray is a bright one
Stepping in time stepping in time
Footprints made here can’t be undone
{Solo 1 – Dean Parnell – Electric Guitar}
I will make you understand
I will make you understand
I will take you under
I will take you under
But I like the world that I’ve created better than the one outside
And I’d like to let you in but I’m afraid you might begin to cry
Call me an escapist, but this is something much more real
Come into my world and let me show you how I feel
I will take
I will take
I will make you
I will take
I will, I will, I will, I will, I will
I will, I will, I will… but am I free?
{Solo 2 – Dean Parnell – Electric Guitar}
The vault is shut and I am free
But when I emerge, where will you be?
The vault is shut and I am free
But when I emerge, where will you be?
The vault is shut and I am free
But when I emerge, where will you be?
The vault is shut and I am free
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10. |
Ars Nova
03:23
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Some want the money
Well I want the change
Some like the sunshine
Well I like the rain
You’re working hard at the top of the pole
I’m underground where the earth is still warm
Come with me and let’s make a change
In history all over the plain
And see that you and I are the change we seek
Some say I’m crazy, well some say insane
I like to think I’m ahead of the game
You like the real world, well I’m fine at home
Gathering moss I’m not rolling stone
Come with me and let’s make a change
In history all over the plain
And see that you and I are the change we seek
Announcing Ars Nova
A new technique
To gather together and let art speak
To free all the burning we feel inside
To stay up for days talking about life
To break all convention for what is true
I know you feel it, I know you feel it too
And to win this revolution, we might…
We might just have to lose our minds
{Solo – Dean Parnell – Electric Guitar}
Come with me and let’s make a change
In history all over the plain
And see that you and I are the change we seek
Come with me and let’s make a change today
You and I are the change that we seek
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11. |
Blink of an Eye
04:52
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Been drowning so long
I’ve forgotten how to breathe
Is this a waking nightmare
Or just another lucid dream?
Well could you remind me exactly
What I’m doing here
All my visions of reality
Are quite unclear
Well she told me
That we had plenty of time
But the hourglass was tipped in her favor, yeah yeah
And in my back pocket I keep a time machine
Cause I have felt my days drag on
But a lifetime goes by
In the blink of an eye
I bit into the fruit
And let the juice drip down my face
After the fall I said to her
“I see thou art exact of taste”
Well sometimes it’s much better when
Temptation overtakes
But then again I’ve never felt true love
That wasn’t mixed with hate
Well she told me
That we had plenty of time
But the hourglass was tipped in her favor, yeah yeah
And in my back pocket I keep a time machine
Cause I have felt my days drag on
But a lifetime goes by
In the blink of an eye
Caught in between my existential tragedy and a soft reality you hover undefined
I have a certain Midas touch that brings pain to those around me
Turned to solid gold you dropped from the sky like all the fallen angels before you
And as you look up from hell, you wonder why we burn
{Solo – Jesse Aumiller – Tenor Saxophone}
Well she told me
That we had plenty of time
But the hourglass was tipped in her favor, yeah, yeah, yeah
And in my back pocket I keep a time machine
Cause I have felt my days drag on
But a lifetime goes by
In the blink of an eye
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12. |
Fade Away
03:38
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Well I can see it in your eyes
You see me here and I know you
But nothing seems to replace the way I feel, oh yeah
And sometimes I know that it’s wrong but that does not stop me at all
And every day it just keeps building, yeah yeah
I feel a heartbeat in my mind and I feel neurosis down my spine
And every day I wonder when it’s gonna cease
Every time you fall upside-down in me
And every time it takes me right back to my misery
Oh you take me down down down
I feel like I am treading endless water, yeah
And the clouds come down
Raining silent heavy drops of acidic ashes on me
Until my skin is melting for you, yeah yeah
And I don’t know what to say
It’s all just coming down
All this life
Everything fades
It all fades
Yeah, it all fades
Coming down and it
It all fades away
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