From The Ashes

I want you to hear me scream, lay back and deliver me from this cross that I've nailed myself to.
I don't ask much of you, but I'm here and you're not so I'll teach myself to feed on the ashes...and I ask myself, "How can I live when all is wrong?"
Plead with a sky that has no God...
maybe I'm lost for something
maybe I'm lost while heaven waits...

Lord pass this cup from me...I don't have the strength to drink this wine that's pouring from your wounds.
And I ask myself, "how can I live when all is wrong?"
plead with a sky that has no God...
maybe I'm lost for something
maybe I'm lost while heaven waits...

A wave of calm washes over me
A wave of calm crashes over me...
And I ask myself, "how can I live when all is wrong?"
plead with a sky that has no God
maybe I'm lost for something
maybe I'm lost while heaven waits...covered in ashes.

Angel

You're eyes are blind my dear
shedding skin with no regrets
Throw yourself in to the water
and wash up on the sand
So drive faster
I want to die tonight in your arms...in your care
I'm curious to see what God thinks about the raping of the world...I'm getting raped tonightLike an angel floating over my head
I am bleeding from everywhere

Pushing deeper, but I fear it's not enough
lick your back and taste the salt wounds...it leaves a bleeding tongue
so drive westward
I want to drive into the sea
load the gun and leave me wasted
you're gonna see some inner me...over the walls and bed 

Like an angel floating over my head
I am bleeding from everywhere
I used to love you, but now I don't
swallow my poison...and I choke.

Like an angel floating over my head, I am bleeding from everywhere
from everywhere...

 
The invitation (pt1)

Just give in to me...a blush of skin
It's the taste of sweat that breaks your will...your lips

Whisper my name
travel lightly...in the morning we will leave
taste so sweet I cry
trail of lenly I lick up from your feet.

It's sin, my Eden...I eat you slow
To live cast out, I leave my minds regrets

Whisper my name
travel lightly...in the evening we proceed
taste so sweet I lie, trail of lenly I lick up from your feet... 


Without

Observe the flame with in my head...just a thought
I step in to the desert...towards the sun
the heat will try to kill me off, I'll walk until I can't go on...anymore...on my own

A promise made from me, as good as broke
My eyes to speak and throat to smoke
Standing far too close to it...
...I'll stay here and I'll leave you alone

Ebony diamonds moon-lit white, shades of grey
glass from the sand and water from riverbeds
my body blows into the land, makes way for light and throws it back
warming you...until I sleep

A promise made from me as good as broke
my throat to speak and eyes to smoke
standing far too close to it...
...I'll stay here and I'll leave you alone

apathetic sun will dish it out, I will take it, I will go without
and in the morning I will wake, leaving my home to wander

A promise made from me as good as broke
my eyes to speak and throat to smoke
standing far too close to it...
I'll stay here and I'll leave you alone...

Vaccine

I need a pill that I can swallow, it'll lift me up
I need some water, I can wet my throat, it helps me swallow
and what I want I want, I said I want, and I want it now
I want some friends who trust so I can hurt them at my leizure

But what I need is the vaccine
Don't put much faith in keepin' clean
I put it down under your skin

I need some money I can make but never have to work for
I need an easy break that I don't have to take the blame for
I fear I know myself, don't know myself, fear I can not be found
I need to learn to trust so I can keep my soul on the ground

But what I need is the vaccine
don't put much faith in keeping clean
I put it down under your skin...


Take it softly

 Take your time, I'm on my back
mearly a whisper, it seems, has caused this avalanche
how can I forgive myself and still take all the blame?
look into your eyes and tell me what you see, and is it me?

so take this softly...
I have been free but I've been so bored, I can not find a way to take this softly.

nobody ever seems to know the things we do to ourselves when we are alone
I'm digging a bed for myself, God grant me pleasant dreams
if I wake too soon just sing me back to sleep and I'll stay dead.

So take this softly...
I have been free but I've been so bored I can not find the way to take this softly.
You're free...so take this softly
I have been free but I've been so bored I can not find the way to take this softly
I am free... 

 
Down the drought

 "Thus I was, in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night, and mine sleep departed from mine eyes"

I'm fucking, I'm fucking, I'm fucking yeah...I'm stupid, I'm stupid, I'm stupid as they come, they come, they come, they cum on me...I'm living off the fruit of family trees
I love this joke
I'm ugly, I'm ugly, I'm ugly as I'm aging, I'm aging, I'm aging fast...so fast, so fast, so fast it grows on me, I'm tired of living fucking honestly
drink down this drought.

Inflammable material

 Your God we're not allowed to talk about
talk about on your knees
cuz we're ready and we're rehabbed and we're happy to smile
I'm selling Small Pox on the streets for drugs, cuz Anthrax prices are too steep
I got a terrorist mind, all your meat is diseased

If you don't know, you're so fucked

You want it? You got it
You gotta sell yourself a time bomb contradiction and I'm a walking crucifixion in your head

I got a little brain a little drug
I'm gonna beat off what's left
save the rest for the vultures and the clergy men
you gotta save your knees you Jesus freak
you gotta suck em on the rolling hills
and wait for the comet to take us away

If you don't know, you're so fucked

You want it?You got it
you gotta save yourself, a timebomb contradiction, and I'm a walking crucifixion in your head.

And I want you to smile
I want you to smile
and I want you to swallow me...
I don't want you to smile (in the face of fear)

You want it?You got it
You've gotta save yourself your time bomb contradiction, FUCK YOU, I'm a walking crucifixion in your mind.



Must Have died

 I think I might have lost a friend to Kerosine again
she told me that her soul's too dense to burn, and yet it did
as I gathered all the ashes and I placed them in her hand
she turned to me, spread her lips and then she said...
...later on that day I took her for a ride across the bridge
we talked about her suicide and maybe wanting kids
so I kissed her on the wrist, letting the blood run down her hands
and she licked her lips, turned to me and said, "I think I must have died
I did not take my own life
It was the devil, she took it from me."

And on that day we left
we packed up all our shit
and set it all aflame
again to hear sing, "I think I must have died
I did not take my own life
It was the devil
she took it from me."

Love, your love, is this what you call love?
Fuck love, there's no such thing as love
I don't want your love...

And here we all remain
we've been here all the same
she turned to me and said, "I think I must have died
I did not take my own life
it was the devil
she took it from me."

 

Syracuse

 She wants it...how she needs it to be this way...she doesn't see it...she doesn't see it just yet
shame on me for wanting more
shame on me for what I adore
shame on me for what I...and she believes it
she doesn't see it

Then you walk away into the dead of night, you wanted more than pieces but you couldn't hold on
Then you walk away, into the dead of night, you wanted more than I could suffer, but couldn't move on...

Now she's suffering...my heart is sinking in her sea...and though she swears it wasn't me...I don't believe her
shame on me for wanting more
shame on me for what I adore
and shame on me for what I...I believe...she doesn't see it

Then you walk away, into the dead of night, you wanted more than pieces but you couldn't hold on...
then you walk away, into the dead of night, you wanted more than I could suffer, couldn't hold on...

I needed more than I could spend, and you weren't selling
welcome to Hell my friends, I hope you enjoy your stay here

Then you walk alone into the dead of night, you wanted more than pieces but you couldn't hold on
Then you walk away into the dead of night, you wanted more than I could suffer, couldn't move on...

Sex Offender

 I'm crawling through the weeds
scrape up my hands and knees
lap up the dirt with my tounge, cuz I'm in love
a small domestic cage
for strictly underage
can't buy no cigarettes, but daddy needs some love...

You're thinking of thrown rice
you're just a mild vice
I can quite anytime, in no time at all
I cut right through your neck
where flesh and bone connect
so take your dying breath, exploding lungs

I got my fingers through your hair, yeah, aint no big surprise
Your fingers through my hair, and there's no denying
fingers through your hair, you can't deny, yeah...
 

June

 Sun as high as it will go
and I don't mind
let it burn
I'll chew through my own arm
the winds of change are blowing
I think I finally learned to bloom
and I feel strange
all I need is for you...

All I need is for you to tell me, June, where did you sleep? In the arms of another?
lie to me, please lie to me, and tell me we are forever.

All my nights outlive my days
with coming Fall, I may give up my waiting
strengthening my weakness, I lay to rest the questions that keep me face down to the ground
and all I need is for you...

...all I need is for you to tell me, June, where did you sleep? In the arms of another?
lie to me, please lie to me, and tell me we are forever.

One way mirror

 Words can be so decieving, there's no reason to talk at all tonight, and something about this is so familiar, maybe comfortable
light a flame and turn out the light on me, lay on top of me before you dissapear again
and do you feel like I do?
And bleed like I do?

Are you me? Well who am I? Should I ask or did I answer myself? And I fear I've lost my mind and I don't care if I find it again. It's colder out than it should be...let's go in...let's go in

And do you feel like I do?
and bleed like I do?
lust like I do?
Well I do...yeah, I do

Are you me? Well who am I? Should I ask or did I answer myself? And I fear I've lost my mind, I don't care if I find it again. It's colder out than it should be, but I'll stay here, it feels good on my skin...I'll wait for you

And on, I feel the sun...it's melting on my skin, and I...
...even though you're a thousand miles away, you're right here in my thoughts and I...
And on, I feel the sun...I feel the sun on my skin
It's melting in...and you are just a thought away...and you are just a thought away.

 

Intruder (pt 2.)

You wonder if I'm breathing
I wonder if I can still sing you to sleep
both our mouths are lying
and you are my secret

The price for pleasure is pain
you're pale white and I can see you're so scared
but I want what's coming, and I'll take what's mine

I'm gonna take you over
make you know how it feels when I am inside
cuz it's overbearing when we travel lightly

Lies...
...gotta get inside...
...gotta taste some skin...
...gotta taste some skin

 

Raincheck

...just listen

All lyrics © 2003 Dane Goodman