RISHLOO LYRICS

1. Prosag

[Instrumental]

2. Freaks And Animals

Under this canvas he hides a dream
A trick of the type too cheap to be free
Makes your burgeoning inquiry
More easily answered
Oh a sight they have come to see
We shan't disappoint, they've paid for a scene
And a scene they shall have indeed
This dark, dark evening.

Join us inside, that's the way here
Come now, just step right-up in line!
It's freaks, fools, and fire!
Come nearer, come closer, it's nearly time!
You there, and you there, come one and all!

It looks better in Red my calico friend
Let us brood on the hue of need
What finds your favor?
No, the show must go on instead
With hundreds of eyes at two to a head
And the blindness is thrice complete
When all stand watching.

Step aside make way for the stars' presence!
Better beware, there's lights and glittering!
Gaze deeper, stare harder, it's nearly time!
You there, and you there, come one and all..

So plain...

So have you ever wondered where were the demons they told us of?
Be patient, they're coming, shortly revealed to you
And I do think you'll find a dead-ringer
Much still hides you curious minds
There's no hurry.

Now where are my manners?
Round and around..
Why, I believe they've all arrived..
Out, out, from the wings.

Set all the props in place, lower the lights and wait.
Now, bring them in, let them watch, let the spectacle rise.
Hold your breath, this suspense lead the arrogant dead eyes.
More than them will you spend for the vision of your life.

Let the curtains fall down
Look now, and see, that's quite the motley
Disguise you've borrowed.
My friend, it seems quite odd
But you are the show you've paid for!
Step through the mirror and now the circus spins on and on so,
Come one, come all, tonight!

3. El Empe

One more charlatan goes mute
Safe in these halls discreetly
I hold out for the rare when the silence is golden
Beg to join me here

Too late (too late…) now to be
Self redeemed for all of these dreams that you've wound tightly
Remain enthralled as breathing stalls the course of your mind
And join the line to march in time right back with your flock
Hollow minds stalk rope-less gallows in turn to idle on immersed
Where eager eyes and sameness strangles concern and fashion murders worth
Hey you there on the outside
You there on the fault line
Will you save us from emotion?
Will you save us from the cold tide?
Fuck you, you fool
With your hand me down views
And your Valium counterpoint bullshit excuse
You wouldn't have a word
If I hadn't said it first
So cup your little seed and
Beg beggar beg
Beg until you cannot speak

I hold out for the rare when the silence is golden
Beg to join me here or stay where you stand there to deny all your faults and beg to join me here

Peace now fools to trace your muse beyond the failing hand

4. Pandora

Cedar grains cling to woven skin upon walls I know frail truths feed borrowed dreams grown cold
And from here I beg release and hope
I hope

Breathing through these lines
Innocence lost among the torment of grace within the storm
Seeking darkness in the dawn
While the emptiness divides every purpose with the light
I fade, I fade

Without a key, without a sound
Without a chance to hold the light
It reaches in between the seams
To tease the madness and the grief
To curse the walls, to cure the need
To curse the damned who damn the need
The need to know what lies beyond, beyond the walls

Turn the key (turn the key...)

And set free
This I swear
It's not enough for me to die alone
Uproot these veins that fail to bleed
So I will know and I will still believe we're better
Than these lies that we have learned to breathe
Breathing I step beyond the past and let it go

5. My Favorite Things

[Instrumental]

6. Alchemy Alice

All the same
I Chased the Cheshire looked for all the same relief
And further more
I dug in further more than you can bury deep, it's so
Sad to see
So glad you found your own way out
Arraign your head with crowns invisible, high
Remember why you're here, is to inspire

For what it's worth
It's hollow pantomiming what's it worth to you
To be sure
Lick the needle to be sure you're truly through, it's so
Sad to see
So glad you found your own way out
Arraign your head with crowns invisible, high
Remember why you're here, is to conspire

Apart from all of these still waves
The fissures open to align
Have some water, friend, you're looking pale
This wasn't part of the design
Beware the storm, avoid the frozen rain
Ash the passing dusty collar
Inserting spikes for their embrace
Forgetting why you're here, is to inspire

Bleeding, it's how they found us, so responsive, draining out across the floor
Seeping through the chasm, frail and wanting, needing nothing less than more
Curtain, vague illusions from the sideshow to dispel the fantasy
Bleeding, ever bleeding, always bleeding 'till the vein runs dry

Here, take this nail and push it inside in fuckin' hatter
You'll feel so much better as this nerve dies
In true Alice fashion
Drive out the centering

7. To Tame The Temporal Shrew

Pass between the in between to evidence the things unseen for travelers who've passed beneath
Till waxed and flaxen unkempt hair is standard where they hold me here to separate the spirit from the shape

Feast upon the eyes the breath of life falters
Waiting for the sigh a borderline crossed to wonder
Is the shutter shy the film is fading seen through pallid eyes the triad waking wholly satisfied to cauterize the two that feel alright seeing white light stepping outward to embrace all the phantom static in frame all these virgins calling for haste
See the satyr rise to feast upon the eyes closing

She is strange, oh, this death dealing diva
Speaking cause with reluctance to me
We will dance while the fever bereaves us
To escape from the fortune she weaves
I'm ashamed when the flames sell me fire
For the lantern I've made from my skin
Can the stitches hold on through these travels
If the hunger removes them within
As I race through the passage I find you and we dance till eternity ends
And the void is not full up nor empty when the song of our empire begins

8. Weeble Wabble

[Instrumental]

9. Eidolon Alpha

Oh Child, Deceive me
Enter the same the same as I
Moments pass as desperate contortions unfold
Seeking placid sanity a moment of calm
Cancerous anxiety and thieving doubt rain
Sheltering indifference to dignify rage

Begging for a line drawn in the sand to separate the prophets from the men
Then bittersweet the wicked so the guise of harmony can breathe again delighted
Hear me son the rivers dry again foretell the fate and lead us to the edge
Let the prideful sinners bear the gold and buy acceptance

Breathe again
To waste away inside here
The years in turn your haunting words have never left my ears
My mind oh reckoning pride is the mirror through which we must break

Wretched disfigured confused and distracted
Down in this cellar it's cold dark and manic
Clinging indifferent privilege demands
You excuse your excuses, excuse your excuses
And blame, you blame
Fearful, deceiver, dim motives erratic
This dream too ambitious this vision too drastic
Choke down rhetorical scraps from the attic
Forever to stand there and still just refuse to change
Just change

Set the nightmare alight and
Dance till these flames illuminate
the cause for the lie
Redemption is not beyond our time

10. Omega

God this must, must be for certain if you are here
Raise my world an ossuary staring through the gate wide-eyed
Did you think I'd salivate and beg
Don't sell me tones of liberation standing in a cage
May you find that in this sinister lapse we'll heal our sight
Save your tears my child
Take it, hold it, keep it, know
We choose this suffering

There they stand straining to scrutinize the sage
String me up these soap box augers
Seeking out the ways divined here from the citadel its claimed
Serpents waiting in the shadows keep us from the dream
May you find that in this sinister lapse we'll heal our sight
Save your tears my child
Take it, hold it, keep it, know
We choose this suffering

I pushed the button and I pulled the trigger
I killed our brothers and murdered our sisters
I am the pattern the plague and the prison
And I tore the wound and let it bleed.

May you find that in this sinister lapse we'll heal our sight
Save your tears my child
Take it, hold it, keep it, know
We chose this suffering and we are not alone

11. In Pill Form

[Instrumental]

12. Zdzislaw

I've crawled this corridor once before to the shadows where it ends
Peeled back all of the paper doors to remind me where I've been

Seeds to be sown,
who would've known
The balance fractured
This far in

Who left this
Way open?
Unguarded
Paths chosen

All guilty
They stand in judgment of, those who would travel and
All are guilty
To swing the pendulum, to eat the temporal

They all know harvest time is coming soon

I hold a fragile light before faces stone ascend
Luminous for what it's worth in an amber ragged mist

I left this
Way open
I wanted
Paths chosen

All guilty
They stand in judgment of, those who would travel and
All are guilty
To swing the pendulum, to eat the temporal

We all know harvest time is coming soon

Listen spoke in broken words

To those who would try to hide
Beckoning the Earth to draw you nigh
Make your vendetta of the ground, sundered ground lover
All opposing gravity rise rise rise rise

13. Disco Biscuit

Who's there?
I've forgotten
Who said?
Run away
Run where

Against the wall's an armed forgotten
This amputee holds mending tools
I look to the left to see the hand on the knife
Chiseled a glance improved the stone paradigm
Must hurry back before the endless rise

Paradise employs the martyr
I'm too willing to take the name from them

Approach the clouds a winged imposter
To trip among the gods so proud
I look to the right to see my feet to the sky
Embellish the fall to encourage the lie
Must hurry back before the endless rise

Paradise denies the lover
I'm too willing to take the name for them
For them

Sever the scavengers' wings casting out from the heavens unbeautiful things
Beggars, orphans, willful widows clutch the ground
Hopeless, outcast, harlots trying to hold on
We're all so willing to take from them

Take the feathers if you wish I will fly with or without them
Fly on high
Fly on high

14. Shades

We're, if at all, slaves to a pawn caught in a cautious lie
If at all, staggering weightless haggard stained cynical
It all tastes sweet

Leave me to sway here, if at all
Listing ageless
Wait, wait and see

Come here to rest
And then cosset the crows
Who murder the raven
And those who cast the losing die

Leave me to sway here, if at all
Listing ageless
Wait

Trace these suicide shades
Uncovered through this pious lullaby
Praise to suffer
While we brace ourselves
Shaking hands on the alter
See these paths to their end
Through the pulse of hate

And now walking along the earth
It always turns inward
To let their souls writhe
Silting softly it is wanting
Hate

Trace these suicide shades
Uncovered through this pious lullaby
Pray and suffer
Erase...





RISHLOO LYRICS