ANGELS DISINTEGRATED

Part II of In the Eyeballs Borrowed From Dali

V1

The day, like a slug, slowly slithers under eyelids

Creeping sunrise stabs at the night in a rage

Dreams in their death are impaled and are pallid

Keeping the logic of light’s inference valid

V2

The night’s in the grave to convert paradoxes

When butterflies lose their wings and begin to cocoon.

Infinite skull spawns the larva and the maggots

The flesh in a rot is the matrix of its life

CH

A thermal blast and radiation

Life will cease to generate

Satan rules his faithful nation

Angels now disintegrate

Inst Verse

V3

The darkness again has eluded your mind

Galaxies will fit in the eyeballs of world

Sleep is a death that hijacks you and confines you

And keeps you, at least a while, so happily blind

CH

A thermal blast and radiation

Life will cease to generate

Satan rules his faithful nation

Angels now disintegrate

BR

Loop your patience, then you may survive

Wait, you’ll witness the fade of the sunlight

The night now is born, full of pain and full of moaning

The long-awaited end to your loathing and your loss

Inst Chorus

CH

A thermal blast and radiation

Life will cease to generate

Satan rules his faithful nation

Angels now disintegrate

I’VE GOT THE ACES

V1

An old man looked into my eyes

And said something about his grandson

Something about stars on his shoulders

Something about every boy’s dream

PRECH

I looked into his eyes and thought about

CH

Adrenaline and nicotine of games and races

The thrill of play, the thrill of fall

I toss the dice in a lucky roll

I have my fate under control

I’ve got the aces!

I’ve got the aces

V2

The old man cried and paid for my drink

He said something about scars

Something about skeletons on the field

Concealed and unfound, with missing lips

PRECH

I thanked him for my drink and thought about

CH

How greedy grins distort excited plastic faces

The thrill of play, the thrill of fall

I toss the dice in a lucky roll

I have my fate under control

I’ve got the aces!

I’ve got the aces!

BRIDGE

The old man asked me about my life

The legless veteran talked about his legacy

Something about Marine or marrying

He was drunk and I walked away.

PRECH

Because all I could think that day was

CH

The toxic temples in the web of gambling places

The thrill of game, the thrill of fall

I toss the dice in a lucky roll

I have my fate under control

I’ve got the aces!

I’ve got the aces!

The toxic temples in the web of gambling places

The thrill of game, the thrill of fall

I toss the dice in a lucky roll

I have my fate under control

I’ve got the aces!

I’ve got the aces!

THREE DEATHS OF A NUCLEAR EXPLOSION

V1

First Death swift in all directions

Snatched you sleeping in your bed

See the mushroom in reflection

Of your eyes, already dead

CHORUS:

Skulls and skulls and bones are looming

In the sockets of my eyes

Inhumanity of humans

The devil’s nature in disguise

V2

Second Death’s a ghost of fire

Turned you into fleshy dross

You can hear how Jesus sighing

Looking downward from his cross

CHORUS:

Skulls and skulls and bones are looming

In the sockets of my eyes

Inhumanity of humans

The devil’s nature in disguise

BRIDGE:

And the third is slow and lazy

You can meet him here today

An angry artist dark and crazy

Twists your body soft like clay

CHORUS:

Skulls and skulls and bones are looming

In the sockets of my eyes

Inhumanity of humans

The devil’s nature in disguise.

LOOK AT THE SKY

V1

Before I died I didn’t believe in God nor in prayer

I thought my life would end there

But then I soared in the air

Over the clouds

CH

But this became clear too late

That I used to have problems with faith

Hm-m-m-m-m

Oh-oh-oh-oh

And now I want to come down and touch you,

…But I can’t

Darling, look at the sky and see me watching

Hm-m-m-m-m m

Hm-m-m-m-m-m

Oh-oh-oh-oh

V2

Now again…

You’re watching soap on your TV

The silent phone on your knees

The photo of me on the screen

Stars and Stripes

CH

This became so clear too late

That I used to have problems with faith

Hm-m-m-m-m

Oh-oh-oh-oh

Now I want to come down and touch you,

…But I can’t

Darling, look at the sky and see me watching

Hm-m-m-m-m m

Hm-m-m-m-m-m

Oh-oh-oh-oh

BR

Flag draped over the casket

They told you to be strong

Remember when I asked you

Though then it felt so wrong

What happens if I die

Should a soldier’s wife cry?

V3

Alone…

You hold onto the glass of wine

A lipstick stain on its crystal

And it hurts all the time

More and more

CH

Should’ve left nothing to fate

But this became clear too late

Hm-m-m-m-m

Oh-oh-oh-oh

How I want to come down and touch you,

…But I can’t

Darling, look at the sky and see me watching

Hm-m-m-m-m

Oh, this became clear too late

That I used to have problems with faith

Hm-m-m-m-m

Oh-oh-oh-oh

How I want to come down and touch you,

…But I can’t

Darling, look at the sky and see me watching

Hm-m-m-m-m m

Hm-m-m-m-m-m

Oh-oh-oh-oh

IRONCLAD FREEDOM

V1

I was broken again. I came back from the war

Nurses smile. The smell of iodine

Lost my leg. No big deal because I have one more

But that, too, feels like it wasn’t mine

V2

When I am in a bar, glasses always half full

Doesn’t heal, but it fills me half-empty

On TV politicians assure us, fools

I know now, hindsight 20/20

CH

I fought for freedom

I stood my ground

I lay there bleeding

But they didn’t really want it

PRECH

What are we fighting for?!!! (What! What! What!)

What are we REALLY fighting for?!!! (What! What! What!)

CH

I fought for freedom

I stood my ground

I lay there bleeding

But they didn’t really want it

BR

All the saints, all the Gods,

or Whomever they pray,

Give no answers and questions aren’t welcome

The vacant pedestal’s wasting away

CH

I fought for freedom

I stood my ground

I lay there bleeding

But you didn’t want it

BR

All the saints, all the Gods,

or Whomever they pray,

Give no answers and questions aren’t welcome

The vacant pedestal’s wasting away

Where today

our ironclad liberty fell from!

PRCH

What are we fighting for?!!! (What! What! What!)

What are we REALLY fighting for?!!! (What! What! What!)

CH

I fought for freedom

I stood my ground

I lay there bleeding

But YOU didn’t really want it

CH

I fought for freedom

I stood my ground

I lay there bleeding

But they didn’t really want it

GOOD PEOPLE

V1

When peace is broken into pieces

And gods of war are in command

They call for us, right after Jesus

No land for us is a no-man’s-land

CH

We’re drunk on freedom, not on power

But we respect adrenaline

‘Cause our skin is the gunpowder

And our blood is gasoline

We walk on water without a ripple

Our armor is a crucifix

We’re diamond-hard, but we’re Good People

“Okay. Let’s go Bro. Watch your six!”

[“Roger that. Out.” Military radio]

V2

Those who’ve been taking us too lightly

Didn’t live long enough to tell

On the Perley Gates we knock politely

But we kick open the doors to Hell

CH

We’re drunk on freedom, not on power

But we respect adrenaline

‘Cause our skin is the gunpowder

And our blood is gasoline

We walk on water without a ripple

Our armor is a crucifix

We’re diamond-hard, but we’re Good People

“Okay. Let’s go Bro. Watch your six!”

[“Roger that. Out.” Military radio]

V3

God’s with us, or so people told us

Takes a lot to get us in a fix

The devil stands on both our shoulders

While angels’re busy watching our six

BR

The game of war is Russian roulette

Get ready to deal with a spin

Our souls covered with droplets of sweat

Bleeding out from under the skin…

While politicians rip their vocal cords

Along with crooked talking heads

We kneel, but only before the Lord

But rushing in where angels fear to tread

CH

We’re drunk on freedom, not on power

But we respect adrenaline

‘Cause our skin is the gunpowder

And our blood is gasoline

We walk on water without a ripple

Our armor is a crucifix

We’re diamond-hard, but we’re Good People

“Okay. Let’s go Bro. Watch your six!”

CH

We’re drunk on freedom, not on power

But we respect adrenaline

‘Cause our skin is the gunpowder

And our blood is gasoline

We walk on water without a ripple

Our armor is a crucifix

We’re diamond-hard, but we’re Good People

“Okay. Let’s go Bro. Watch your six!”

[“Roger that. Out.” Military radio]

FOR OUR SINS

Part I of In the Eyeballs Borrowed from Dali

V1

Butterflies is an order of beautiful creatures

Is the result of the heavens in a seasonal molt

Rather possesses celestial delicate features

As an angelic attempt of the spirit to reach us

PRECH

For all our sins we’ve gotten love

From our Father, Who art above

Who sent his son to bleed alone

And then archangels came along

CH

Shut your eyes and go to sleep

While they weep

…and weep

V2

Maybe the night raises hackles of stars in the bluster

Could be a moth shedding shimmering dust off its wings

Lulling the planets with shivering clusters of luster

Bearing ephemeral bliss and delaying disasters

BR

I know the day will come

When it’ll no longer hurt

But too late to revert

We’ll all wake up

In a wasteland

PRECH

For all our sins we’ve gotten love

From our Father, Who art above

Who sent his son to bleed alone

And then archangels came along

CH

Shut your eyes and go to sleep

While they weep

…and weep

While they weep and weep…