Glyph album lyrics

The Knowing Dirge

In the shadow of what's real, you dig a hole down in the sand
Where you know you left it all, the things that make you understand
And guide your hand

Then you turn with watering eye, to the sky in your surprise
And that sand used to be you before you opened it so wide
And the sand is your blood and the hole is so big and you shake and you pray and you beg
You know why, you know why

With your watering eye,
you've got a hole inside,
such a wretched life,
don't look so surprised
You know why, you know why

Yeah...

You did this to yourself again, gunning for a bluer sky
Swallowed the dose, cut your own rope, just to know it all
Do you know it all?

You took down the dose, cut your rope, wanted to show yourself everything
You ran through the wires, tasted the fires, you can't feel anything at all

Yeah...

Shocked by the voice again

Cinema

(Flesh dissolved in acid of light)
(Nine hundred hours of hallucinatory intoxication)
(Nine hundred hours of hallucinatory intoxication)

People are so full of infection, people are so full of infection
Gashing open their empty lives, slashing open their empty lives
They lick the open wound, lick the open wound, lick the open wound, lick it, lick it!

Through my little fingers, through my little fingers it goes
Through my little fingers, through my little fingers it goes
In my eyes a cinema, in my eyes a cinema
In my eyes a cinema, in my eyes a cinema

The sun is touching me, sun is touching me so strange
Sun is touching me, sun is touching me so
Through my little fingers, through my little fingers it goes
Through my little fingers, I carry it beneath my tongue

Yeah, yeah

Through my little fingers, through my little fingers it goes
Through my little fingers, through my little fingers it goes
In my eyes a cinema, in my eyes a cinema
In my eyes a cinema, in my eyes a cinema

The sun is touching me, sun is touching me so strange
Sun is touching me, sun is touching me so
Through my little fingers, through my little fingers it goes
Through my little fingers, I carry it beneath my (tongue)

It said I welcome you to life
It said I help you up that tree, yeah
Oh, I break the leash, you go mad and unchained, yeah

Yeah, yeah

Oh

And if you follow me, know the road will end
But if you follow me, break but never bend
Break

(We're all in this together)
(We've got to convince the others)

Through my little fingers, through my little fingers it goes
Through my little fingers, through my little fingers it goes
In my eyes a cinema, in my eyes a cinema
In my eyes a cinema, in my eyes a cinema

The sun is touching me, sun is touching me so strange
Sun is touching me, sun is touching me so
Through my little fingers, through my little fingers it goes
Through my little fingers, I carry it beneath my (tongue)

It said I welcome you to life
It said I help you up that tree, yeah
Oh, I break the leash, you go mad and unchained, yeah

Yeah, yeah

(You want the key?)
(You sure you want to be free?)
(Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha)
(You've been free already)

All the Stories But One

What's it gonna take tonight, just to get you by my side?
In my book of lies, I've got a chapter on you
You know where the answers lie, you're in love with Jesus Christ
In my book of spite, there's a chapter on you
Disgusted by it, you turn away
And without question, you don't question,
stick to the question, without questioning, you know, yeah you know

And what can you say?
Hey some of it's true, as she takes that throat and tries to kill for you
Oh, I said it's all coming true
Just look at your father and I'm looking at you
Watching you tell all the stories but one, all of the stories but one

I've got a book on people, it's got so many blank pages
I keep filling it up with things I see
Have you any lies to tell me? How much can you care about me?
Now don't hold back, give it all to me
Electrified, and you take a life
And without question, you don't question,
stick to the question, without questioning, you know, yeah you know

Yeah what can you say?
Hey some of it's true, as she takes that throat and tries to kill for you
Oh, I said it's all coming true
Just look at your father and I'm looking at you
Watching you tell all the stories but one, all of the stories but one

You better give it all

(I've got a book of people) How many must fall?
(It's got so many blank pages) Broken on the ground
(Keep filling it up with things I see) Before you realize that your an insect
(Have you any lies to tell me?) And how many must go
(How much you care about me?)  Just like the bones in your well
(Now don't hold back) Before you realize
(Give it all to me) That you're an insect

There's always the injection, if you weary of the thinking
(And the voice)
Deep in your reflection, it's a crawling little creature
(And the voice)
(And the voice) in your head won't go away
Deep down inside, you're afraid
She's talking to you feel the squeeze
These broken bones and this body are your own

Dead

He's dead!

I was alive, I was alive, I was alive, I was alive
I was alive, I was alive, I was alive, I was alive
Now I'm dead!
Something inside, keeps telling me I have died
Something below, keeps pulling me through my snow
Something inside, keeps telling me I have died
Something I know, it makes me numb even though

Oh, God
I'm dead
Oh no
It makes me numb even though

I was alive, I was alive, I was alive, I was alive
I was alive, I was alive, I was alive, I was alive
Now I'm dead! Yeah, oh, I shouldn't have asked it yet

Something inside, keeps telling me I have died
Something below, keeps pulling me through my snow
Something inside, keeps telling me I have died
Something I know, it makes me numb even though

Oh, God
I'm dead
Oh no
It makes me numb even though

Isolation

Isolation, is growing in my brain again
Isolation, is growing in my brain again
Don't know why, don't know when it started but, isolation is growing in my brain, again, again

Desperation, swelling in your brain again
Desperation, swelling in your brain again
Don't know why, you're not sure when it started but, desperation is swelling in your brain, again, again, again

Clean Plastic Baby

Oh what joy! A child of our own

Oooh, such a handsome child
With a fusebox smile
I think he's trying to speak now
He's got nothing to say
Must have nothing to say
Nothing you say?

I cannot hate you, why should I bother?
I never felt anything anyway
Dark in the bedroom, why should you bother?
You never saw each other, why should you see me now?
The child can't do anything right
Oh, why can't he be like us?
Tell me why?
Clean the mind of this plastic baby

You took these eyes set them in deep
I just repeat what you said
I just repeat what you did
You set this flesh upon these bones
I just repeat what you said
I just repeat what you did
Clean of this plastic baby

I'm through with patience, I'll wait no longer
You never waited for me anyway
This thing inside me, it's growing stronger
It's going to tear, tear until it sees the light of day
The child can't do anything right
Oh, why can't he be like us?
Tell me why?
Clean the mind of this plastic baby

Clean.. the.. mind.. clean the mind of this plastic baby

I'm through with patience, I'll wait no longer
You never waited for me anyway
This thing inside me, it's growing stronger
It's going to tear, tear until it sees the light of day
The child can't do anything right
Oh, why can't he be like us?
Tell me why?
Clean the mind of this plastic baby

You set these eyes deep in this face
I just repeat what you said
I just repeat what you did
You set this flesh upon these bones
I just repeat what you said
Make me repeat what you said
Make me repeat what you said
I just repeat what you said
The story you told, still rings in my head

The young men came down, down to the river
To wash their hands of the mud
The young men came down, down to the river
To wash their hands of the mud
See all the young men come down, after the stoning
To wash their hands of the blood
To wash of the mud, to wash off the blood

Repeat what you said
Repeat what you said
You mean what you say

The women came down, down to the lakeside
To wash their legs of the blood
See all the women come down, after the birthing
To wash their legs of the blood
I saw the women go down, down to the water
To wash their legs of the blood
The blood.. the blood
You just repeat what you said
Repeat what you said
You just repeat what you said
You never mean what you say
You just repeat what you said

Keep still child
I'm washing your insides away
That's a good boy
You know we love you

The Face of Order

Protect you, and serve you, keep you down
Yes officer, big law man, I love you too, motherfucker, motherfucker!

A good catholic man, make no mistake
But press that nerve down and see the face
The face of order is far from Christ
It has cheeks already bloody, and rage in its eyes, rage

Johnny was law man from the age of five
Now he watches over me and helps me stay in line
And as he masturbates the chrome his thumb pulls lightly back the hammer
Salivating wildly, he says he'd like me to try it again

Protect you, and serve you, keep you down
Yes officer, big law man, I love you too, motherfucker, motherfucker!

"I have seen reality" he says "In a new light,
I know where the evil is and I know I am right"
Ripping through the human garden, cutting out the weeds
'I was given orders to do anything I please" Please..

Johnny was law man from the age of five
Now he watches over me and helps me stay in line
And as he masturbates the chrome his thumb pulls lightly back the hammer
Salivating wildly, he says he'd like me to try it again

Try it again, try it again, try it again, try it again

Don't bow to the race that is dying inside
Rotting and swollen with a righteous pride
Kick to the face, kick to the face,
spit in the face and say,
"Try it again, you little fucker"

Pet

Honey on my tongue, I wish I could be a bit like you
Paper in my teeth, I wish I could be a bit like you

I've been made a pet. A chain one mile long
Bleed me every hour, keep me from growing strong
Honey on my tongue, I wish I could be a bit like you

Just a bit like you

Get my every wish, nailing down my feet to be with you
Pulling back my lips, showing all my teeth to be like you

I've been made a pet. A chain one mile long
Bleed me every hour, keep me from growing strong
Honey on my tongue, I wish I could be a bit like you

Just a bit like you
Just a bit like you

Persecutor

Here we go

I am of alien intelligence, at least they say so
I could show you anything, unless I want to
Many people run away from me, I make them angry
They don't like the way I shake, I am reminded, I am reminded

Stop and take a look at where your words are falling
Listen to where your wisdom goes
Oh, you may be disappointed at just how much your victim knows
You better kick in
I am sickened, you won't listen.. you won't listen

Little girl has learned a lesson today, she has a value
Get up and change the sheets again, a late night with Gallo
Many people run away from her, she makes them angry
They don't like the way she moves, she is reminding, she is reminding

Stop and take a look at where your words are falling
Listen to where your wisdom goes
Oh, you may be disappointed at just how much your victim knows
You better kick in
Oh, I am sickened, oh, you won't listen

Did you wake up today?
Did you wake up yesterday?
Did you wake up today?
What if you woke up yesterday?
Will you wake up tomorrow?
Tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow
Wake up tomorrow, wake up tomorrow, oh, tomorrow, tomorrow, oh tomorrow

It came up from the water, went into the village now
Followed me to my home, spoke to me and said:
"Don't worry, 'cause this is only meant to be
Just like a warning to you from me
And I am only meant to be affectionate"

Bottle

Start my day and hit my head with the door
Grab hold of the chair and pulled myself from the floor
Still isn't clear what that was for

I've recognized things buried in here
Fruit ripe for the pickings and thoughts of fear
Can't let it get too easy to assume what isn't clear

Tell me 'bout those good old days
Older ones and better ways
Ways I cannot change today
Tell me why, I'll tell you why

Kicked like a dog can get you back in the game
And each new problem drives you further from sane
Topics taking root in all the things that cause you pain

One more day and not a bad start at all
Less weight on your shoulders can make you feel tall
This bottle stands empty waiting for me to call
Tell me why, tell me why

The Sad Ballad of Danny Boy

That's right my name is Danny Boy and I like to drink at night
I go down to the pub, wherein I buy myself a pint or three
I like to go out drinking, 'cause beer it is my life
until I come home and lay eyes upon my darling wife, say
Oh Danny, won't you go home earlier tonight?
Your daughter doesn't know you and you're giving us a fright when you say

Say something's wrong with anyone who's not like me
With you the violence just comes so easily
You never learn I have to teach you constantly
With you the violence just comes, hush now

You know my name is Danny Boy and I'll buy another round
Then off to the market when this place closes down
'Cause I say drinking's always done when the sun's up in the sky
The sun is always up somewhere and it's your turn to buy and they say
Oh Danny, won't you go home earlier tonight?
Your son he doesn't know you and your giving us a fright when you say

Say something's wrong with anyone who's not like me
With you the violence just comes so easily
You never learn I have to teach you constantly
Hush now, hush now, hush now!

Sleep, sleep, sleep floating child sleep
Sleep, sleep, floating child sleep
Sleep, sleep, floating child sleep
Sleep, sleep, this is affectionate!

Crawl Into You

Down comes the day, I'm gonna crawl into you

Deep into you
Take up my hands, spread you in two, see through your eyes

Make all your fears come true
Under your flesh, shivering there, feel out your lies

I'm gonna crawl into you.