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ARMS AROUND THE WORLD

Ultraviolet chandelier
Cast out your jeweled light
Into the atmosphere
Arms around the world

Let the whiteness flutter down
Between the diamond leaves
Onto the spotty ground
Arms around the world

60 billion years ago
I was a particle
Circling a dusty globe
Arms around the world

Now I have a name and face
Senses to captivate
Eyes that appreciate
Arms around the world

Everything looks good to you
Now that your clouds are gone
And you accept the sun's
Arms around the world

Hear the sound of infinity
Swirling among the trees
Embracing everything
Arms around the world

2006

SMALL WORLD

Small world ~ small light
Shines alone against a copper sky
Street lights ~ too bright
To see the rest of those that shine tonight

And here I stand in my small street
Choking on the air I breathe
Tell me why this sky should grieve for me

Small world ~ small mind
Sees its troubles in a camera's eye
But no rain and no blight
Can stop the burning of this point of light

And while the sky rotates I see
The stars are turning right with me
And when I turn to ashes, there they'll be

Set your sights from near to far
And see how small your worries are
When all your thoughts aren't trapped
Between the sky and the Earth

1997 (Produkt)

SHAPELESS

Formless creatures see only lines
Blindly judging, they feel round your sides

And if they hate your irregular shape
Erase it and make it alright

Sideways, oblong, rectangle man
Blinded, outcast, killed out of hand

And when he dies, will the flatlanders rise
Or drown in an ocean of sighs?

All rise!

One too many edges
Two too many lines
Monolithic hedges
Shapeless

Angles are right on a surface that's white
Elliptical lines cross the sky

All lies!

One too many races
Two too many minds
Flat generic faces
Shapeless

Perfect circles can't be described
Heaven made us freaks for all time

So I reside on the odd-numbered side
With edges where hedges grow wild

2001

HOLD THE SKY UP

Sunrise, The desert god
Inspiring everything that lives
Sometimes the giver takes
Burning away the life he gives

Hold it up, now.

Clouds come to pacify
Wash out the burning and the pain
Sometimes the healer kills
Flooding and drowning in the rain

Hold it up. Hold it all up. Don't let go.
Hold it up. Hold the sky up.

Moonrise, the friendly face
Shining across the starry arc
Sometimes she disappears
Stars hug your shoulders in the dark

1998 (Produkt)

1309

She strikes a string and it rings along
In sympathy with a second one

That frequency strikes a chord with me
And I resonate in the key of D

She sings alone of her lives and loves
Words of the dead whispered through her lungs

No words alone could have lived so long
Without a tune in her siren song

Who was the muse that brought me this song,
Old as the stardust and still unborn?

1309 and the steel still shines
Stained on the blade and the blood
is mine

2001

CHEMICAL MAN (JUNKIE 2K)

Love has a sobering effect on me
But I'm not as drunk as you may think
While you're out smouldering in ecstasy
I'm always confronted with the stink

'Cause I am only a chemical man
Like a bottle of wine in your hand
I am only the fix for the day
For all the sorrow you drown away

Death is a harrowing experience
And soon I'll be lying at your feet
But corpses are passionless and impotent
And death makes your pleasure incomplete

'Cause I am only a chemical man
Like a bottle of pills in your hand
I am only a sexual vice
Like a shot in the vanity, oh so nice

I am only a chemical man
Like a needle and spoon in your hand
I am only a wreck in the head
Like a worm in the bottle, I'm already dead

1982-2001 (Us)

MASTER OF THE HOUSE

Television, telephone
Screaming murder at the top
Of their electronic lungs

Spread the digital disease
With each flash and every beep
And I follow like a sheep

All the buzzards in my space
Pull the collar when they can
But I know just where I stand

'Cause I am the master of the house
I'm the master of the cats
I'm the master of the dishes
And the head under my hat
I'm the master of the house
The striker of the key
And the pusher of the buttons
No machine can fuck with me

We manipulate machine
For the good of everything
In this money-driven maze

We am only paid for time
Not for what we do or think
Not for anything we give

All the lemmings in this place
Steal their power where they can
But I know what I command

'Cause I am the master of the house
I'm the master of the cats
I'm a speck of all creation
But you won't deny me that
I'm the master of the house
The singer of this song
And I take it where I want to
While I'm dragging you along

Sound melts in my mouth
Falls from my hands
Shoots through my bones
I only have bone, flesh and blood
And dying time

But I am the master of the house
The harvester of sound
I'm a reaper of the pieces
That are growing from the ground
I'm a keeper of the key
To the ancient frequency
And I'm tuning in to Brahma
While you're tuning in on me

2000