DISASTER
Already headed for disaster
Count back from one again
Between here and hereafter
You can call it in the air
You’re so cool under the klieg lights
Swaying side to side
Hard cores crack open wide
I’m yours. Are you mine?
We’re clicking all night long
It’s clicking like a time bomb
Are we having a blast now?
We’re having one
Danse
The comeback
Thought we’d play along
Thought we’d have some fun
Right or wrong
Go out on a high
Nothing else to do
Nothing left to say
Can’t change a fucking mind
A last laugh
You don’t have to stick around
Don’t wanna drag you down
I’m just a clown without a disguise
Nothing much to lose
Nothing much to gain
Can’t beat a broken heart
Dance tonight for your life
Danse Macabre with me
Dance tonight for your life
Dance to death if you please
Nowhere
Coming through kicking up dust
Reigning down death from above
Smoke floats from concrete piles
It’s another quagmire
Going in because we must
Someone has to pay the cost
What are you hoping for?
In God we trust
Ready or not, here we come
Running on a road to nowhere
Running wild on a road to nowhere
Oh how you lead me on
Running on a road to nowhere
Running wild on a road to nowhere
COLLAPSE
Something come over me
Some hopeless dream
O’ say can you see
a reckoning
beyond the screen?
Once: tragic
Twice: executions
Collapse in it
THIRST
Thirst for the high life never did you no good
Can’t reach the bottom ‘til you learn how to lose
No points for suffering
You know one last score
Could swallow you whole
Can’t still the silence
I recite little tunes
Songs for the angels
May their skirts shelter you
The spirits writhing in your blood tonight don’t possess the truth
Only you do
Only
You do you
Goons
Hold the line
Don’t make any sudden moves
Bide your time
Respect the instrument
Hold fast the attack
Just don’t forget to breathe
Bite your tongue
Protect the innocent
Just feed the screens
It’s all hands on the deck
The whole cast made a pact
Now it’s your turn to lead
It’s all in the wrist
Cool
I won’t fight, call it what you like
The tragedy of equanimity
Once in love
Now only in spite
Out of heart
Out of mind
Got no cause to hold you to the fire
Set it free
Embers on a breeze
Got a light?
I don’t mind
It’s cool, I can be cool
It’s cool, I’ll try to be cruel
Float away
Out of luck
Out of my mind
It’s cool, thought it’d be cool
It’s cool, I’ll try to be cruel
Fire
Caught in the fire
A form
A face
Crying out for you to hear
God’s own child
Expires on the pavement
All fucked up for you to see
Lost in the ire
Awake in a bad dream
Haunted by the cavalry
The roiling gyre
Evermore rapacious
Worms itself inside of me too
Let me go