Dredg

The opera is over, singers have all gone home,
Seats are empty, the kitchen is closed,
The sidewalks are sprayed down,
The blinds are pulled down, foundations unstable,
The wrecking ball’s back,

Quiet business – vacancy, quiet business – vacancy.
Rents are rising, our lease is up, culture is down.

The symphony’s concluded,
The instruments are all cased up,
The notes are silent, music’s still apparent.

Rents are rising, our lease is up,
Culture is down, spirits are jaded,

Art is dying, is art dead?
Art is dying, is art dead?
Believe it, we need to move on.

A one track mind in a one way time,
Let’s go ahead and gentrify,
We let art die with robot minds,
They steal the brush and paint boundary lines.
A stale kind of people we’ll find,
Walking in single file line,
I think it’s time we finally rewind,
Let’s go ahead, we might as well…

Rents are rising, our lease is up,
Culture is down, spirits are jaded…

This lonely old man at heart, resting gray hairs
On wrinkled arms with nothing but
A stool to hold up his back

Skinny legs with Japanese mileage
Crossed at the ankles
He's unaware

Maybe you've never seen it
Maybe you've never been through it
It's the only way to understand it

Unaware of his surroundings, youth in packs
Swarming like wolves to a fresh kill
The scenic tracks, he's just scared about dying

Maybe you've never seen it
Maybe you've never been through it
It's the only way to understand it

Save your clever statements
Braid your severed view of it
It's the only way to understand it

Too bad, too bad, too bad, so sad
Days have come to an end, where all
Where all has been lost

Maybe you've never seen it
Maybe you've never been through it
It's the only way to understand it

Save your clever statements
Braid your severed view of it
It's the only way to understand it, to understand it

Distorted and complicated
I'm sorry but it's over
Essential to awaken
I'm leaving

Here we are
That's what it's all about
I'm sorry but it's over
To love here and to love this
I'm finally breathing

Before you go
There is something more to say
Before you go
There is something more to say

Persistent resentment
I'm sorry but it's over
Seduction for destruction
I'm finally breathing

Tonight
Tonight
It's what it's all about
Always

Before you go
There is something more to say
Before you go
There is something more to say
Before you go
There is something more to say

We're born into silence then let it all be
A fortune in silence then just float astray
Born into silence then let it all be
There's a fortune in silence, oh

Watch it explode while fragments of
Irony's examples fly and hit the shore
And tyranny's torn from the podiums
Where leaders stand but rule no more

Pleading with nothing
Why don't we lecture about something
Protest the way we're passive today

Watch it explode while it's not impossible
For flowers to bloom and grow next to graves
And babies are born in the same buildings
Where people go to pass away, pass away

Pleading with nothing
Why don't we lecture about something
Protest the way we're passive today

We live like penguins in the desert
Why can't we live like tribes?
We live like penguins in the desert
Why can't we live like tribes?

We live like penguins in the desert
Why can't we live like tribes?
We live like penguins in the desert
Why can't we live like tribes?

Born into silence then let it all be
A fortune in silence then just float astray
Born into silence then let it all be
A fortune in silence, oh

I can't even concentrate on this
It's over thought, anticipated
The pen ink is running dry
It's been thrown to paper and wasted
Creativity has been blocked and over tasted
Maybe in time, I'll appreciate it

Hold on, hold on
We'll be with you soon

These papers are stuck in this book
Until they're torn out and pasted
To the inside of my memory
Where I can later look and see them in a new gallery
Where they can later be viewed and appreciated

Hold on, hold on
We'll be with you soon
We'll be with you

Longing for what has been lost
Longing for what hasn't been obtained
It's a small cost, forgot the past, lost the future
Only now remains

Hold on, hold on
We'll be with you soon
We'll be with you

Here we go down that same old road again
Sympathy unfolds the shell that holds all the beauty within
Here we go down that same old road again
A memory, a regret, a hope

Here we go down that same old road again
Empathy controls the wind that blows and tickles our skin
A memory, a regret, a hope, a stimulant

Recent it seems
We must push on, we must push on
Though we bleed
We must push on, we must push on

All you need is a modest house in a modest neighborhood
In a modest town where honest people dwell
Making the cleanest energy for the greenest plants to grow
Richest soil that is drenched with the freshest rain
Then you should sit in your backyard
Watch clouds peak over the tallest mountain tops
Cause they unveil honest opinions about the stars

We must push on, we must push on
Recent it seems
We must push on, we must push on
Though we bleed
We must push on, we must push on

All you need is a modest house
In a modest neighborhood
All you need is a modest house
In a modest neighborhood
All you need is a modest house
In a modest neighborhood
All you need is a modest house
In a modest neighborhood
All you need is a modest house
In a modest neighborhood

I think I'm awake, rolling on my blanket
I am sinking into the bed, light around me
Beautiful washes of pulsating color
Buzzing white noise, it sounds like one hundred bees

I too once thought the radio played
Let's act like children while we sleep paralyzed
I too once thought the radio played
Let's act like children while we sleep paralyzed

Pulsing, you control it
Body's asleep and your mind is awake

I too once thought the radio played
Let's act like children while we sleep paralyzed
I too once thought the radio played
Let's act like children while we sleep paralyzed

I too once thought the radio played
Let's act like children while we sleep paralyzed
I too once thought the radio played
Let's act like children while we sleep paralyzed

Climbing
Building us up
Tearing me down
Lifted back up we are climbing
All of this time
Drifting right back to the ground

Building us up
Tearing me down
Lifted back up we are climbing
All of this time
Drifting back to the ground

Suddenly, suddenly, suddenly, suddenly

Questioning and saying
Our opinions they're failing
They're constantly changing
Our ignorance remaining
We're hoping and waiting
We're living but dying
While trying to find out
My meaning isn't planned out
Come to the conclusion
Might as well be an illusion
While trying to find out
I did nothing but shut out

Does anybody feel this way
Does anybody feel like I do
Does anybody feel this way
Does anybody feel like I do

I built a wall
It stretched one thousand miles
Set it off
(Massacre)
It's holding up the roof
Breast feed your heart
Set it off

I saw a distant port
With no water to support
Burning the bridge between

Does anybody feel this way
Does anybody feel like I do
Does anybody feel this way
Does anybody feel like I do

Never content nor satisfied
Tensions of self
The massacre changed history
Borderline paranoia
Yelling at their own rights
Set it off

Does anybody feel this way
Does anybody feel like I do
Though half of me is gone
The lonesome heart is there

I cannot find the other half
I cannot find the other half
I cannot find the other half
I cannot find the other half

I've been aching for someone I've barely met
Well I've been begging for something I'll never get
Well I've been tracing the the footsteps of fallen men
Hoping to fill this void within

But I'm here all alone again
Here all alone again
Here all alone again
Hoping to fill this void within, within, within

Well I've been chasing the impossible
And I've been floating around this world
Wondering why I'm still in orbit; choking on the fumes up here
I'm choking on the fumes again

But I'm here all alone again
Here all alone again
Here all alone again
Hoping to fill this void within, within, within

I'm the addict on the corner
I'm the lawyer in the tower
I'm the body with the coroner
No, the leader with all the power
You're the pillow, the cool side
The sand during high tide
The cocktail, poolside
The water when clouds collide

From the inside out
We were formed
From the inside out
We will fall
Soon this all will come to an end...

I'm a local but a foreigner
Still the addict yet I'm sober
Still the body with the coroner
Many friends yet still a loner
You're the pillow, the cool side
The sand during high tide
The cocktail, poolside


The water when clouds collide

From the inside out
We were formed
From the inside out
We will fall
Soon this all will come to an end...
Soon this all will come to an end...

From the inside out
We were formed
From the inside out
We will fall
Soon this all will come to an end...
Soon this all will come to an end...

I'm not your star
I'm not that beam of light
Here to save your life
To make your wallet fat
While mine's on a diet
It's not my greatest care
But simple needs are scarce
It's never-ending
It really seems unfair
But lately I don't care
I don't care about much
I've given up trying

So sing about love
Sing about lust
So they will care
It's the same difference
That's what happens when you play catch without arms
It's what sets, sets, sets us apart
That's what happens when you compromise your art
It's what sets, sets, sets us apart

We've got this far
I don't know if you care
But I think that you should swear
Or something of the sorts
Show me your trying

So sing about love
Sing about lust
So they will care


It's the same difference
That's what happens when you play catch without arms
It's what sets, sets, sets us apart
That's what happens when you compromise your art
It's what sets, sets, sets us apart

Set the beat so they will buy it
If there's a hook they can't deny it
Sing about love so they can feel it
Sing about love so they can sing it
Sing it

That's what happens when you play catch without arms
It's what sets, sets, sets us apart
That's what happens when you compromise your art
It's what sets, sets, sets us apart

I'm not your star
I'm not that beam of light
Here to save your life
Oh no
Not your star
Not that beam of light
Here to save your life
Oh no

Stone by stone
I constructed a cathedral
Stone by stone
Built it up and wrecked it down
Stone by stone
Everyone is looking to wear the crown
Stone by stone
Even though you have it all

It's getting on to you
Can I plead to give the strength below
You called me out to lead me on
I'm ready, please forgive

I'm running a marathon of glass shoes
I'm hiding behind windows
Stone by stone
Weather headed up or down
Stone by stone
Always looking never found
Stone by stone
Even though you have it all

It's getting on to you
Can I plead to give the strength below
You called me out to lead me on
I'm ready, please forgive

It's getting on to you
Can I plead to give the strength below
You called me out to lead me on
I'm ready, please forgive

It's getting on to you
Can I plead to give the strength below
You called me out to lead me on
I'm ready, please forgive

I'm running a marathon of glass shoes
I'm hiding behind windows
Stone by stone
Build it up and watch it fall

White cloth, black napkins, wood chairs, surround me
Wood tables, foggy signs, in front with no lies

Night falls beneath candle light

Cast shadows, incense fragrance
From the corner of the room
Cloudy senses, stale light below, beneath

Night falls beneath candle light
White squalls beneath winter skies

Night falls beneath winter skies
White squalls beneath winter skies

A faceless crowd of elderly beings
Roses sprouting, yellow glow
With sound conscience into the night, beneath

Night falls beneath candle light
White squalls beneath winter skies