tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-71191054256102700372024-02-20T18:58:26.610+00:00Lyrics of the RuntLyrics, old and new. Some work-in-progress. Comments are welcome.
All lyrics are my intellectual property - thieves will be prosecuted. You have been warned!Aphex Nobodyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09533393974774010042noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125truetag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7119105425610270037.post-9930191198052231212008-08-27T11:19:00.002+01:002008-08-27T11:25:10.973+01:00LaND oF THe FRee<em>Funnily enough, about America...</em><br /><em></em><br />VeRSe 1:<br /><br />Far beyond utopia,<br />The flags are raised,<br />Out amongst the single moms,<br />The blacks and gays.<br /><br />"Welcome to America" he said...<br />As the acid raindrops dripped,<br />Off of his head.<br /><br />VeRSe 2:<br /><br />The rivers choked with pesticide,<br />And trees like skeletons,<br />In his yard the honour guard,<br />His hands all made of guns,<br />And the streets aren't paved with gold,<br />They're paved with broken men,<br />In marbled halls<br />From white-washed walls,<br />They feed us lies again.<br /><br />ReFRaiN:<br /><br />"Welcome to America" he said...<br />As the acid raindrops dripped,<br />Off of his headAphex Nobodyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09533393974774010042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7119105425610270037.post-28429519142245318792008-07-25T03:26:00.002+01:002008-07-25T03:35:25.842+01:00iN THe eND, THeRe iS oNLY eMPTiNeSS...<em>about the sense that whatever you do, however far you walk, you're still stuck in the same place...</em><br /><em></em><br />VeRSe 1:<br /><br />Well, I guess I'm running on the spot,<br />Veins pumping acid through my limbs,<br />Keep on losing my ability to differentiate<br />Between the nature of my sins<br /><br />BRiDGe:<br /><br />So I'll keep on pushing forward,<br />Cos I don't know what else to do,<br />Yeah, I'll keep on pushing forward,<br />And breaking up on you...<br /><br />CHoRuS:<br /><br />I like the way you smash me up,<br />It makes me fucking come,<br />I like the way you break me up,<br />You break me til I'm done.<br /><br />VeRSe 2:<br /><br />Hey, I gotta face like a hand grenade,<br />I'm such a twisted little fuck,<br />I guess whatever happens,<br />I've run right outta luck...<br /><br />BRiDGe:<br />So keep your fucking poison,<br />It's your purity I need,<br />I'll bury myself inside you,<br />And on your nothingness I'll feed...<br /><br />CHoRuS x2Aphex Nobodyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09533393974774010042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7119105425610270037.post-44096159379528812372008-06-18T14:50:00.002+01:002008-06-18T15:55:01.416+01:00THe MaN WiTH THe PeRSPeX SKiN<em>About disconnecting with the world to the point where you barely feel anything at all... My attempt at writing a song with the melancholia and sprawl of a Porcupine Tree tune...</em><br /><em></em><br />iNTRo 1:<br /><br />Find it hard to focus on the real...<br />Need to find a way to grow and heal...<br />Nothing but the vaguest deja vu...<br />When your stalking sadly from the room<br /><br />(Ever get the feeling you've gone see through?)<br /><br />(Ever get the feeling you've gone see through?)<br /><br />(Is that the price we pay for apathy?)<br /><br />VeRSe 1:<br /><br />Sometimes I sit and watch the sea<br />Wondering if its just a giant TV<br />Come to swallow up our heads<br />While we lie and drown inside our beds<br /><br />BRiDGe:<br /><br />I'm desentized can't hear you shouting no it's all just washing by intead<br />And doesn't your face turn such a lovely shade of red?<br />I can't focus on any feelings too much TV sapped my thoughts all out my head<br />Now your leaving me and I feel nothing...<br /><br />CHoRuS:<br /><br />You can see through me like perspex divides<br />See the vacancy of me all naked inside<br />Yes I'd like to say that I was surprised<br />But if I did you'd know that that was a lie<br /><br />You can see through me like I'm not all there<br />See the vacancy so plainly so there<br />Yes I'd like to say I fell into despair<br />But if I did you'd know that that lie was bare<br /><br />iNTRo 2:<br /><br />(Ever get the feeling you've gone see through?)<br /><br />(Ever get the feeling you've gone see through?)<br /><br />(Perspex skin and glass for blood)<br /><br />VeRSe 2:<br /><br />And in the morning when I wake and you're smell is gone<br />I can't quite remember why it should feel wrong<br />Distorted through a haze of V's and Mogadon<br />Repeat to fade until I can't be moved to sing along<br /><br />Yeah maybe baby I would care that your not there<br />If there was something meaningful inside my head<br />Instead of static, white noise, and dead air<br />But...<br /><br />CHoRuS 3:<br /><br />CHoRuS 2:<br /><br />You can look right through like perspex divides<br />To the nothingness that coats my insides<br />There's a black void that was once the heart of me<br />Move along now please there's nothing here to see<br /><br />CoDa:<br /><br />Ever get the feeling you've gone see through?<br />Is that the price of chemical apathy?<br />Ever get the feeling you've gone see through?<br />A perspex man I am you see.Aphex Nobodyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09533393974774010042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7119105425610270037.post-17262544049313152452008-06-13T03:34:00.003+01:002008-06-13T03:44:24.342+01:00LiFeLeSS<em>about being betrayed by somebody you loved...</em><br /><em></em><br />VeRSe 1:<br /><br />Rent and spent and gutted<br />Rotten hollow to the core<br />You think you fucking know me<br />But I don't live here anymore<br />Rent and spent and gutted<br />Bash my face in just to feel<br />This world is walking wounded and its losing its appeal<br /><br />BRiDGe:<br /><br />You made me this way...<br />...I hope you're happy now<br /><br />CHoRuS:<br /><br />You were always fucking empty<br />I just never really saw<br />Picking at the stitches til my head was red and raw<br />You were always fucking lifeless<br />Well - I guess I always knew<br />Now the only thing that I hate more than me, my dear, is you<br /><br />VeRSe 2:<br /><br />Shattered, battered, spattered<br />Martyred darkly at the heart<br />This earth detests my presence<br />How it pinions me apart<br />Shattered, battered, spattered<br />In the filth the shame will grow<br />This world is walking wounded in a sick and vicious show<br /><br />BRiDGe<br /><br />CHoRuS<br /><br />CoDa:<br /><br />Face just like an angel<br />But your heart's a fucking whore<br />Take your empty promises<br />I don't want them anymoreAphex Nobodyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09533393974774010042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7119105425610270037.post-89931302666824635282008-06-13T03:13:00.004+01:002008-06-13T03:31:02.749+01:0010,000 MiLeS DeeP<em>about the breakdown of communication between two people... wanting to say everything but knowing you can't say anything and so just growing apart.</em><br /><em></em><br />VeRSe 1:<br /><br />I wake and taste the film of blood<br />Trapped between my teeth<br />My skin - so fucking perfect -<br />Hides the fractures underneath<br />The fuses in my head<br />Rewired all to blow<br />Sometimes its so much better<br />So much better not to know<br /><br />BRiDGe:<br /><br />I tried so hard to hold on<br />But the apathy - it grew<br />I tried hard not to break this, but,<br />I wound up breaking me and you<br /><br />CHoRuS:<br /><br />Still reaching and groping for the prize<br />You know that when you try to speak<br />There's nothing in my eyes<br /><br />Still seeking some glorious new day<br />You know that when I try to speak<br />There's nothing left to say<br /><br />VeRSe 2:<br /><br />We used to be so perfect<br />But it greyed and faded out<br />We used to have such valid things<br />To dream and laugh about<br />Now there's a fissure cut between us<br />And its grown ten thousand miles deep<br />Severed from each other we're<br />Awake but still asleep<br /><br />BRiDGe<br /><br />CHoRuS [x2]Aphex Nobodyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09533393974774010042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7119105425610270037.post-85549465780892540882008-06-13T03:07:00.002+01:002008-06-13T03:11:53.465+01:00thE HeRD<em>a rant. Written after I was attacked, at work, over somebody elses debts that I had nothing to do with...</em><br /><em></em><br />You faceless pricks<br />You make me sick<br />A herd of bland and vacant smiles<br />Homogenized and plastic<br />You're all so fucking vile<br /><br />Thinking with your fists and tiny dicks<br />What's the fucking point?<br />One day you'll wind up dead without a cause<br />A copyblot on history<br />So what's the fucking point?<br /><br />Kill yourself and save us the hassleAphex Nobodyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09533393974774010042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7119105425610270037.post-1355672981730285932008-06-13T03:01:00.002+01:002008-06-13T03:07:04.095+01:00CoNFoRM, CoNSuMe, oBeY<em>about the way the people in charge want us to be... i.e. fucking sheep. The line 'you are free to do what we tell you to do' is robbed from Bill Hicks (RIP)</em><br /><em></em><br />VeRSe:<br /><br />CONFORM<br />Look like everybody else<br />Think like everybody else<br />Talk like everybody else<br />Act like everybody else<br />CONSUME<br />Buy this and that and those and these<br />Line my pockets with your souls<br />Buy my fucking products<br />Try to fill the gaping holes<br />That we've drilled into your psyches<br />Just to keep you all in line<br />Buy my fucking products...<br />Waste your fucking time<br />OBEY<br />You are free to do what we tell you to do<br /><br />CoDa:<br /><br />Conform, consume, obey<br />You are free to do what we tell you to doAphex Nobodyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09533393974774010042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7119105425610270037.post-49773316000116863142008-06-13T02:21:00.002+01:002008-06-13T02:24:16.854+01:00LoST CoSMoNauTS<em>about alienation; I wanted a single couplet that would perfectly sum up how I see the world and our roles in it as ordinary members of society. My intention is to sample this and then manipulate the sound to make it into various synthetic 'instruments', thus producing a piece created solely from one simple phrase...</em><br /><em></em><br />We are all just spacemen<br />And there's no air left to breatheAphex Nobodyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09533393974774010042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7119105425610270037.post-66109900835852526402008-06-13T02:12:00.002+01:002008-06-13T02:20:21.708+01:00aVaTaR<em>about feeling like the only thing you know how to do anymore is hate, and coming to the conclusion that that is what you were born to do...</em><br /><em></em><br />VeRSe:<br /><br />I was born to ruin<br />Spawned to break and tear away<br />A sickened little fancy...<br />A Jesus of decay<br />I am here to hate you<br />A lie to scar your soul<br />There's a person standing here, you see,<br />But he's really just a hole<br /><br />BRiDGe 1:<br /><br />Now the dreams behind my forehead<br />Are the snake-eyes on the dice<br />I was born to ruin<br />Just a soul at discount price<br /><br />VeRSe 2:<br /><br />I was born to ruin<br />And to ruin you will fall<br />Succumb to cursed numbness<br />When there's nothing left at all<br />I am here to hate you<br />On your hatred do I feed<br />There's a person standing here, you see,<br />But all he does is bleed<br /><br />BRiDGe 2:<br /><br />Now the dreams behind my forehead<br />Are the maggots in my eyes<br />I was born to ruin<br />As an avatar of lies<br /><br />CoDa:<br /><br />Your world means nothing to me<br />This world means nothing to me<br /><br />[repeat to end]Aphex Nobodyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09533393974774010042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7119105425610270037.post-49766690630615481722008-06-13T02:03:00.002+01:002008-06-13T02:10:31.436+01:00CoMa PoeM<em>about falling for somebody who doesn't really exist... people who wear masks so convincing that you believe they care when really they just take and take and never give anything back...</em><br /><em></em><br />VeRSe:<br /><br />I lie awake at night<br />And watch the ceiling falling in<br />Trying to remember<br />How it felt - at last - to win<br /><br />Trying to remember<br />But the pieces they don't fit<br />Smashed and fucking broken<br />And drowning in this shit<br /><br />BRiDGe:<br /><br />(Well maybe problems do have solutions...<br />But I'm stuck on fucking pause with you)<br /><br />CoDa:<br /><br />And you're laughing<br />And you're laughing<br />Is the laughing in my head?<br />Now I'm falling slowly backward<br />Into everything you said<br />[x2]<br /><br />And you're laughing<br />And you're laughing...<br /><br />(Who are you today?)Aphex Nobodyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09533393974774010042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7119105425610270037.post-70620797373211145942008-06-13T01:45:00.000+01:002008-06-13T01:50:53.028+01:00CaRouSeL<em>an old one this, from the days of DriveBySuicide...</em><br /><em></em><br />VeRSe 1:<br /><br />Round, round, round we go<br />Down, down, down we go<br />No, no, nobody knows<br />How far we have to go<br /><br />CHoRuS:<br /><br />Carousel, carousel<br />Spin me softly down to hell<br />Carousel, carousel<br />Maybe its just as well<br /><br />VeRSe 2:<br /><br />Rock, rock, rock to sleep<br />Pray, pray cause prayer is cheap<br />Fool, fool the futures bleak<br />Low, low, alone I weep<br /><br />CHoRuS<br /><br />CHoRuS 2:<br /><br />Carousel, Carousel<br />Rock me softly off to hell<br />Carousel, Carousel<br />Turn me in and out as well<br /><br />CHoRuS To eNDAphex Nobodyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09533393974774010042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7119105425610270037.post-81702735247633450612008-06-13T01:42:00.001+01:002008-06-13T02:11:59.437+01:00LoST LiKe TeaRS iN RaiN<em>dedicated to 'the one that got away'...</em><br /><br />Remember the night I lay with you<br />Between the sheets we kissed<br />And everything was distant<br />We were complete<br /><br />Nothing mattered, only you,<br />Nothing mattered then<br />For one refracted instant<br />I was at peace<br /><br />And I would keep that moment<br />I would taste it on my tongue<br />Forever and a day<br />But such things pass too quickly into darkness<br />Dull and fade<br />Forgotten and lost...<br />Like tears...<br />In rain...Aphex Nobodyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09533393974774010042noreply@blogger.com0