The hour is out of joint
black sun has risen
and the river of words

is flowing on through
the cages of tradition
and they're handing out emptiness

we'll take it cos its given
free witht his plastic innocence
and these standards of living


Questions, lighted questions
burning holes into my head

hanging like shadows over the sun
staring out like the eyes of the dead
and sometimes my soul flickers

as the wind of change blows cold
over the mire of repetition
down the corridors of rigmarole


What I say, what I think
what I put down in ink

I'm only trying to find a way to understand
and I mean no harm
I'm just searching for calm

in the storm of mankind

Do you find it there

in the sea of faces
that drowns you everyday
in the silence and rubble and empty spaces

where children and rottweilers play
is it buried in the praise
given so cheap

with a meaningless movement of the jaws
in the looking glass
that flatters you

or the rattle of hollow applause

Blind circle, moon and sun

body willing, mind undone
one pain ending while another begins
lies, ruin, disease

into wounds like these
let the truth sting


From the hub to the limit
through the urban hollows
out into the poles of the extreme

to echo through the numbness
of these godless minutes
in the shadow of delusion's regime


But here watching the night
it opens like a flower

the day starts to rust
time pound like
a silent hammer

on this empire of dust
and I'm thinking 'bout the bullet
and the TV screen, the dollar and the clenched fist

and if we're searching for peace
how come we still believe
in hatred as the catalyst


Through the borderline
in front and behind

down the road of thorns
between the barbwire and the soul
bitters and chains

is all that remains
where the wheel has rolled


I feel it from the pit of my stomach
into the ditch of my mind
inside the chambers of my heart

as I stare half blind
at these walls of cardboard
at this space that I've rented
at your beauty that is crumbling
though you try so hard to prevent it


On and on
body willing, mind undone
one pain ending while another begins
lies, ruin, disease

into wounds like these
let the truth sting
let the truth sting
let the truth sting