Lyrics
All Words and Music copyright © 2016 by Bill Cornish
Published by Athanasia Music, ASCAP
Soliloquy
No conversation do we need to have
It's only a soliloquy
I'm only looking for a soundbite
Something snappy while I stuff my face
Not too deep, not too demanding
Two sentences or less I'm sure would be just right
Just right
Dont' confuse me with the details
Just give me something I already believe
I don't have the concentration or the need to understand
Don't have the need to hear, to think, to see
No conversation do we need to have
It's only a soliloquy
If I can talk a little louder you won't need to be heard
A simple line in the sand separating you from me
Stop your yelling and concede that I'm right
It's been passed down through generations
No need to analyze or think it through for yourself
Just give me familiarity
No conversation do we need to have
It's only a soliloquy
If I can talk a little louder you won't need to be heard
A simple line in the sand separating you from me
Red state, blue state
Primary colors
Left state, right state
What more do you need?
Liberal, conservative
Labels make it easy
With us, against us
That's how we play the game
No conversation do we need to have
It's only a soliloquy
If I can talk a little louder you won't need to be heard
A simple line in the sand separating you from me
Far Away
The heart never stops it yearning
No matter how hard we try to quell the voices from deep inside
The world never stops its turning, the days and years spin by
Just a grain in the hourglass, faster and faster you can't deny
Far away
You're so far away
Say goodbye to yesterday
It's been years since I've seen your smile
Heard your laughter ringing out
Seen the world through the filter of your eyes
But in my head you're still here beside me
I still know what you'd say
You can still make me smile, light up my day
But you're faw away
Far away
Say goodbye to yesterday
Far away
You're so far away
Say goodbye to yesterday
There was still so much to say
Well I'm missing you today
Changes
Eight to five
Feeling like I'm half alive
Trying to pretend
That I can see the end
All I want to do is see...
I don't know when this feeling started
When the walls started closing in
Don't want to be one of the broken hearted
Just need to get my eyes open again
What I've got to do is see...
I'm going through changes
Surrounding me
Changes
Breaking free
Changes
You've got to see this life
It ain't no fantasy
Connected without
Connected within
Don't need to know what it's all about
Just need to groove on where I am
What I've got to do is see...
I'm going through changes
Surrounding me
Changes
Breaking free
Changes
You've got to see this life
It ain't no fantasy
Changes
Breaking free
Changes
Got to see
Changes
Surrounding me this life
It ain't no fantasy
It's life
No Place to Hide
Eyes closed tight
You can't see
Head in the sand
You can't breathe
I know you're thinking
You can hide from it all
No use in slinking away
Fist clenched tight
You can't hear
You think it's anger
But it's fear
No escape from it all
What you're feeling inside
It's your curtain call
No place to hide
Your heart is pounding
And you're set to explode
For all your expounding
You can't crack the code
Windows shut, doors locked
No one's here
Lights off, curtains closed
Feel your fear
Don't look in the mirror
You won't like what you see
It's getting clearer
No place, no place to hide
No place, no place to hide
No place, no place to hide
No place, no place to hide
Voices
Voices calling
Across the years
No sense of falling
Drifting away
Time stands still
Voices calling
I stand alone
Facing the darkness
Facing unknown
The past lies in shadows
A warm cacophony
I stand alone
Voices calling
Across the years
No sense of falling
Looking forward
Bouyed by the past
Voices calling
And there's nothing I need
And there's nothing to fear
And there's nothing I need
Drifting away
Time stands still
Voices calling
And there's nothing I need
And there's nothing to fear
There's nothing I need
No mistakes
There's no reason to hate
No reason to waste
And there's nothing I need
Snake Oil
You smile your plastic smile and prattle to the masses
Hoping that no one is listening too close
Step up one and all - we're here to save your asses
Twenty-first century shaman you're the host with the most
Just sign the dotted line as if it made a difference
Haven't needed your approval for quite some time
But it's always good to have someone inside the crosshairs
Someone to play the figurehead
Someone to save the day
Snake oil
Makes my blood boil
Makes me recoil
You know you're going to pay
Snake oil
Makes me recoil
Makes my blood boil
You know you're going to pay
You can't always see the figures hiding in the shadows
But we've always been here and always will be
Would you rather see the puppet or the puppeteer?
Keep that self delusion
Land of the free
Snake oil
Makes my blood boil
Makes me recoil
You know you're going to pay
Snake oil
Makes me recoil
Makes my blood boil
You know you're going to pay
Angry Man
Angry man sitting alone in his room
Typing furiously
I found this picture
It says what I think I feel
Click Like if you agree
Been here all night refreshing this page
I'm slowly going out of my mind
The things I see are cutting me deeply
Much more of this and I'll go blind
I'm sending you this video
That you're not going to want to see
Decapitations, conflagurations
It's just my duty
I think you'll agree
I'm an angry man
Trying to find a plan
The walls are closing in
Can't you see the shape I'm in?
Angry man sitting alone
Alone in his underwear
I should be out
I should be sleeping
But I'm pissed off that you just don't care
Moral decay is eating away at my soul
All around me is apathy
So many strangers so many points of view
Overwhelmed got no empathy
I'm sending you this video
So that you'll understand our plight
Persecution, insurrection
Why do we not get to say what's right?
I'm an angry man
Trying to find a plan
The walls are closing in
Can't you see the shape I'm in?
I just want things to be comfortable
I just want everyone to see
How much better life would be now
If everyone was just like me
I'm an angry man
Trying to find a plan
The walls are closing in
Can't you see the shape I'm in?
Gone Too Long
Well you watch your evening news
Branded packaged and approved
Celebrity fashion, police action
Riots in the streets, you know we've got the product for you
Our little blue pill will give you a thrill
Everybody's doing it you don't want to be left out
That's what it's all about
Is this reality?
I've been gone too long
Is this reality?
I've been gone too long
Life doesn't count if no one is watching
Everybody hungers for their fifteen of fame
It's going to take some time for this to go viral
But I can't keep on waiting so I'll do it again
They pass in the streets
Heads down no eye contact to the people that they could meet
It doesn't matter anyway
Is this reality?
I've been gone too long
Is this reality?
I've been gone too long
Mystery
All your yesterdays
They all seem so far away
And all those memories
All you were going to be
A shadow play
Faded photographs
And all those things that couldn't last
And all you've left behind
It's all inside your mind
And now you're on the path
Faces watch behind the glass
To make sure that you obey
But you just turn away
You turn away
Just close your eyes and feel
Each moment of the day
Only you can make it real
Each second of the play
And now you're on your own
But you don't feel alone
You know you've got to dream
If you want to swim upstream
You're not alone
Inside your mystery
You see the way the world should be
It's for you to be the change
Up to you to rearrange
You know it's true somehow
No illusions now
You're on your own
One Percent
Hey there Mr. One Percent
Is your compassion spent
On only you and only yours
Hey there Mr. One Percent
Do you think you're Heaven-sent?
Do you think it's self-evident
That we are yours to ignore
How can you believe
How can you deceive yourself
Have you no goals to achieve
Have you no pain to relieve
For no one but yourself ?
Hey there Mr. One Percent
No need for you to pay your own rent
No need for you to repent
Your sins are all your own
Hey there Mr. One Percent
Now that you've bought the fucking government
And you've locked up all the dissidents
There's no need to atone
How can you believe
How can you deceive yourself
Have you no goals to achieve
Have you no pain to relieve
For no one but yourself ?
I don't wanna be
In this reality TV show any more
I don't wanna be
In this reality TV show any more
Kakistocracy
False faces false facts fake Christians fake news
Lying cheating backstabbing race baiting science shaming
Fear mongers hate mongers war mongers profit mongers
Bought and paid for deep pockets greed worship pickpockets
Hatred disdain indifference apathy
Heartless merciless wall building Nazi coddling
Obstructionism narcissism racism separatism
Oath burning stomach turning undiscerning chaos churning
Enemy of the people
Oligarchy comin' 'round
War on the people
Welcome
Welcome to the kakistocracy
Ass kissing dick waving offshoring playboy whoring
Gun worship money worship class worship crass worship
Scandal ridden rich folks acts of treason flag flying
Class warfare ignorance truth warping ideal destroying
Enemy of the people
Oligarchy comin' 'round
War on the people
Welcome to the kakistocracy
Skeletons
We know your name
We know your number
We know every little spell that you've been under
Every dirty little secret
Every dirty little lie
Every thing that would make your neighbors wonder why
Every thing you desire to possess
Every thing over which you obsess
Every thing you want
Every thing you need
Every thing that can be used to make you bleed
All your life's chapters that you don't read aloud
Are waiting patiently deep inside the cloud
You're invisible until you're not
Just until that meme you're in gets hot
Now that the crosshairs are aimed at you
Will you be able to see it through
Skeletons
Skeletons
Skeletons
Misinformation Overload
Peeping through the keyhole
Peeking through the blinds
Just a narrow field of vision is with us all the time
Style over substance
Shadows on the wall
I'm just trying to survive here
I can't absorb, can't absorb it all
Stirring up the base
Cranking up the hate
No one will call them on it until it's much too late
The fuse is getting short
Time is running out
Ignorance is winning
You've got to see there cant be any doubt
I've got too much misinformation
I've got too much on my mind
I'm giving in to procrastination
Misinformation overload is keeping me blind
Corporate media owned by just a few
No one left to question what they're telling you to do
Tell you to live in fear
Tell you to live in hate
It's your patriotic duty
There's no time, there's no time to abdicate
I've got too much misinformation
I've got too much on my mind
I'm giving in to procrastination
Misinformation overload it's keeping me blind
I've got too much misinformation
There's just too too much trying to dull my mind
It's been so long I feel acclimation
Misinformation overload trying to keep us blind
Misinformation
Misinformation
Misinformation
Misinformation
The Gift
Turned on the news today
Fear and anger rule the day
Cant you see it's all by design
You've got to create this feeling inside
It's up to you you've got to decide
Just live your life arms open wide
This is your gift
This gift is your life
No sense of brotherhood
No time to be understood
Divide and conquer
It works every time
A single spark of light in the darkness burning bright
It's yours this gift
This gift is your life
You've got to create this feeling inside
It's up to you you've got to decide
Just live your life arms open wide
This is your gift
This gift is your life
Never Give In
So distressed about the shape we're in
Sliding to dark ages
Don't even know where to begin
Or how to turn the pages
How difficult is it to be kind?
How hard to empathize?
Seems it's easier to stay blind
To stay here hidden in disguise
It'd be easier to let it slide
It'd be easier to run and hide
But that would be virtual suicide
Never gonna give in
Never give in
Never gonna give in yeah
Never gonna give in
Never give in
Never gonna give in yeah
Divide and conquer is the oldest game
But it works so well they ain't never gonna change it
Turning off the evening news
I'll find my own truth
I'm not going to waste it
It'd be easier to let it slide
It'd be easier to run and hide
But that would be virtual suicide
There's a new day dawning
Let this serve as a warning
Got no time for your lies
Dreaming Away
Life
A momentary glimpse
A window to the universe
So sad to see so many dreaming it all away
In spiritual fallacies
Dreamin' dreamin'
Dreamin' away
Dreamin' dreamin'
Dreamin' away
Dreamin'
Dream away
Don't keep living for the next life
This moment is all you own
Keep your eyes on the road
Your heart in this moment
Let this be your cornerstone
Breathe in life and love
The stars the fields the forests
Know that you're home
Dreamin' dreamin'
Dreamin' away
Dreamin' dreamin'
Dreamin' away
Dreamin'
Dream away
Trip Wire
Trip wire
Trip wire
Comfortable inside my bubble
Here alone I'm safe from trouble
Trip wire
Heart's on the line
Trip wire
Wait for a sign
Take no action
Feel no pain
It's just abstraction
I can't explain
Trip wire
Heart's on the line
Trip wire
I'm doing fine
Suddenly
Suddenly
Everything's all right
Suddenly
I am at peace
Suddenly
Vision's getting clearer
Suddenly
Calm washes over me
Soul's full smiling
Life's inviting
No more waiting
Anticipating
Suddenly
I'm in the place I'm supposed to be
Suddenly
I feel free
Soul's full smiling
Life's inviting
No more waiting
Anticipating
Suddenly
I'm in the place I'm supposed to be
Suddenly
I feel free
Soul's full smiling
Life's inviting
No more waiting
Anticipating