Xerxes

(w. graber)

Came for the green slop pie - all mixed together
It's that i... nobody's got one yet
You see i was mark merrill
And he was just another who dragged it out far to long to believe
Is it to be... is it to be...
Is it everything i was lead to believe
If it's good - then it's form without substance
If it's clear - it's all the thing that you hate...

[chorus]
All mixed together
With lamps of fire
We fixed another
With laps together
A lapse of reason
Stuck in the mire
If it was easy...
Another liar

Came face to face with death in the washroom
And i'm never not alone again
You see another door to door man
Another partial vision
On a mission learned, and only believed
Well it's not me... it's not me
It's not anything i'd pretend to conceive
If it's unknown... it'll burn in the fire
If he's pure... he's just another liar

[chorus]

It's all mixed together
But i cannot remember
Walk only where i'm s'posed to
With fear and only endings...

[chorus]

(w. graber)

Unlock the door
Up the stairs to see
And light shines through
A window near the peak
Here's the khouri
Here's a man
And someone cries
And someone cared
Did a good job
Was a good man
Got it all out
Better in the end

And no it doesn't count
Through everything on call
And no it doesn't mean
Anything at all

Searchin for (made everything sensation)
Something that might mean (and nothing too much)
And here's the box (lived up to expectations)
And opened everything (say something for yourself)

Here's the khouri
Here's a man
And someone cries
And someone cared
Did a good job
Was a good man
Got it all out
Better in the end

And no it doesn't count
I don't believe in fall
And no it doesn't mean
Anything at all

I don't believe, i don't believe

And now you know what i mean
But you don't know what i mean
Cause everything's all right
And nothing happens tonight

I have your ring
Down the stairs and lock the door.. again

I don't believe

(w. graber)
And all you want to do is smile
And take it everywhere you've been
Advice like yours a moral play
I'd walk from hear to here you say
And death's not knowing that your dead
Never life or fear or trial
So you want happiness instead
All you got is just a smile

[chorus]
All you want to do is smile
All you got to do is smile

Can't help the helpless with your help
Can't be the selfless by yourself
Can't turn an inch into a mile
Can't make me happy with a smile

Stood in a forest for the fools
And said what no one wants to hear
A tree that falls without a sound
Take your smile i'll be around

[chorus]

(music arcwelder/words w. graber & s. macdonald)

It's not bill
And it's not scott
It's not brian
And it's not rob
I don't know where to begin...

Begin where it's simple
Begin at the end
Begin with all you can't defend
Begin at the end...

And disappointment bring the least
Well this is less the you conceived
It ends with the first

Before the beginning
And after the end
It can't be funny
It didn't bend
I didn't want this at all... at all... at all.

A blindered horse a wind up toy
I'm on auto pilot i am a cog in the machine
Am i a mindless drone or heartless sap
Now matter how you slice it i am a cog in the machine

They say to stay in school then get a job
But mainstream society doesn't care if your happy
I play the fool go with the mob
Corporate america doesn't care if i'm happy

Settle down and play along
Die unfulfilled just like anybody else
And well now damn it now i live a lie
Write it down i'm not like everybody else

Today i march along i follow blindly
I do what they tell me i hear and obey
I sing my song i treat 'em kindly
You are my master i hear and obey

I didn't want it... it's all the same no face no name
I didn't want it... it's all the same big town small game
I didn't want it... it's all the same no risk no gain
I didn't want it... it's all the same big weight small frame

(w. graber)

Blood the martyrs seed
An altruistic greed
And it all is lost... this is just a passing thought
Words too big to know
And fear you can't explain
Hope at any cost... this is just a passing thought

[chorus]
Where to start... where to begin
Pass you the note... pass you the note along...
Nothing long... nothing long

Leaves of many loves
And root of only one
There's no place to go... this is just a passing thought
Tabula rasa
Suggestions only rule
When it's all unlearned... the truth is not a passing thought

[chorus]

(s. macdonald)

A close encounter a combined iq of thirteen
Time spent memorizing the paint on the walls
Move it outside a hint of lemon and protein
There's no slowing down the swimmers at all

And then it was over and done that's it
And then it was over and done that's it

There was a problem the solution a problem again
The other side set on laissez faire
A crack in the image another form to amend
If a tree fell in the forest would anyone care?

And then it was over and done that's it
And then it was over and done that's it

Get out your instruments and play a sour suite
Cue the credits and fade to black
Round up the horses and make a hasty retreat
And pray to yourself that it's not coming back

Because it is over and done that's it
Because it is over and done that's it