Incubus

A Crow Left of the Murder

Unlearn Me
Ditch what I read
Behind what I heard

Look. Find. Free.
Yet! Do You get it yet?
Do You get it?!

From here on it's instinctual
Even straight roads meander
Every piece contains a map of it all!
It all!

Evidence
In the march of the air
Pulse of the sea

Look. Find. Free.
Yet! Do You get it yet?
Do You get it?!

From here on it's instinctual
Even straight roads meander
Every piece contains a map of it all!
It all!

Out of the line (and) indivisible
A crow left of the murder
Every piece contains a map of it all!
It all!

Everything I wanted to know
Everything I wanted to see

Unlearn Me
Do You get it yet?
Look, Find, Free
Do you get it yet?

Agoraphobia

Two people touching lips
Hands on each other's hips
Nothing else in the world but one another

The 42nd floor
On a distant shore
I wonder how we've strayed so far from this

Remember when we were
Just flesh and bone
You sir may have forgotten how good your world can be

So, put down your hollow tips
And kiss your lovers lips
And know that fate is what we make of it

Please end this, please end this
Before this ends us, ends us

I wanna stay inside
I wanna stay inside for good
I wanna stay inside
For good

I read the news today
And everything they say
Just makes me want to stay inside and wait

But the better part of me knows
That waiting in the throws
Is on par with reading with my eyes closed

"What Can I do?", You say
"It's just another day
In the life of Apes with ego trips"

Put down your hollow tips
And kiss your lover's lips
And know that fate is what we make of it

Please end this, please end this
Before this ends us, ends us

I wanna stay inside
I wanna stay inside for good
I wanna stay inside
For good

I'm gonna stay inside
I'm gonna stay inside for good
I'm gonna stay inside
For Good

I wanna stay inside
I wanna stay inside for good
I wanna stay inside
Don't want to stay inside for good

Talk Shows on Mute

Take a bow
Pack on powder
Wash 'em out with buzzing lights
Pay an audience to care
'Impress me' personality

Still and transfixed
The electric sheep are dreaming of your face
Enjoy you from the chemical
Comfort all America

Come one, come all
Into nineteen-eightyfour
Yeah, three, two, one...
Lights! camera! transaction!

Quick, Your time is almost up
Make 'em forget that they're the moth
Edging in towards the flame
Burn into obscurity

Still and transfixed
The electric sheep but dreaming up your fate
We judge you from the card castle
Comfort all America

Come one, come all
Into nineteen-eightyfour
Yeah, three, two, one...
Lights! camera! transaction!

Your foundation is canyoning
Fault lines should be worn with pride
I hate to say it
But you're so much more
You're so much more endearing with the sound turned off

Beware! Criminal

You crawl in bed, it's 3am
You smell of wine and cigarettes
A butterfly under the glass
You are beautiful
But you're not going anywhere

We do the same thing every night
I swear I've heard this song before
A swimmer who has seen a shark
I should really be more wary of the water

You came, you saw, you conquered
Everyone
And I'm left here guessing
Oh, what went wrong?
Yeah, I'm down
But not out, and far from done

Hey all! Beware criminal

A prism with an intellect
You throw your light selectivly
You stole my glow, a seasoned thief
The blacks of my eyes are turning into opals

Today, I walk
There's nothing here left for me but empty promises
And the thought of all the things I'm never getting back

You came, you saw, you conquered
Everyone
And I'm left here guessing
What went wrong?
Yeah, I'm down
But not out, and far from done

Hey all! Beware criminal

Did you think I wouldn't notice?
Did you really think I wouldn't care?
Did you think I wouldn't notice?
Did you really think I wouldn't care?

You came, you saw, you conquered
And I'm left here bleeding
Oh, what went wrong?
Yeah, I'm down
But not out, and far from done

Hey all! Beware criminal

Sick, Sad Little World

No, You're not the first to fall apart
But always the first one to complain
You better get careful or you'll compromise
Everything You are

This world is a drought when out of love
Please come back to us
You're all of the above
"I'm making a choice to be out of touch.
Leave me be." He said,

"Leave me here in my stark, raving, sick, sad little world!"

I've never had unpaid confidantes
It's more than I would care to explain
But I have an open door policy
When it comes to blame

This world is a joke when out of love
Please come back to us
You're all of the above
"I'm making a choice to be out of touch.
Leave me be." He said,

"Leave me here in my stark, raving, sick, sad little world!"

Pistola

On the tip of my tongue an offensive is poised and rearing
My intention a bullet, my body a trigger finger

And my pen is a pistola
Let go of your fear*
And my pen is a pistola

My secret arsenal is an infinite ageless ink well
It's a fountain of youth and a patriot's weapon of choice

And my pen is a pistola
Let go of your fear*
And my pen is a pistola

On the tip of my tongue an offensive is poised and rearing
My intention a bullet, my body a trigger finger

And my pen is a pistola
Let go of your fear*
And my pen is a pistola

Southern Girl

Is everything a baited hook?
And are there locks on our doors?
If your looking for an open book
Look no further, I am yours

We'll behave like animals
Swing from tree to tree
We can do anything
That turns you up and sets you free

You're an exception to the rule
You're a bonafide rarity
You're all I ever wanted
Southern girl
Could you want me?

So come outside and walk with me
We'll try each other on to see if we fit
And with our roots, become a tree
To shade what we make, under it

We'll behave like animals
Swing from tree to tree
We can do anything
That turns you up and sets you free

You're an exception to the rule
You're a bonafide rarity
You're all I ever wanted
Southern girl
Could you want me?

Priceless

The fact that you
You think you can
Speak to me
The way you do
Bleeds me to believe that you
Have never stepped out of the skin you live within

But when, and if
This day occurs
Your tongue, the taste
Will immitate a battery
The anti-equilibrium
Your stomach becomes the floor

The look on your face was priceless!
The look on your face was priceless!
Yes, the look on your face was priceless!
That look, it was...

A light goes on
Upstairs, the attic is ablaze
This island isn't big enough for the both of us
So who will swim in eel infested oceans?

Kiss the sand goodbye
because the tide is coming up and in
Yeah, water, water, water everywhere!
And every chance to sink!

The look on your face was priceless!
The look on your face was priceless!
Yes, the look on your face was priceless!
That look, it was so priceless

It's an amalgamation
Of the things you aren't
The ways you wish you were
A split second
Percieving of the way you really look to everyone of them

I wish that you could get a glimpse
I wish that you could see because

The look on your face was priceless!
The look on your face was priceless!
Yes, the look on your face was priceless!
That look, it was so priceless

Zee Deveel

Nice car!
Where'd you get your ride?
A trophy? Badge of honor? Overcompensation?
Price tags! Advertise your pride
Since when did what we pay for colored cloth gage our gravity?

Yeah you got your little world
Picture perfect, its a pearl
Now go and try and sleep in the bed you made

You should be careful what you wish for!
'Cause everyone of us has the devil inside
You should be careful what you wish for!
'Cause all of what amounts becomes you

Nice watch!
Man, you got the time?
Theres never enough and it always goes too slow

Yeah you got your little world!
Picture perfect, its a pearl
Now go and try and sleep in the bed you made

You should be careful what you wish for!
'Cause everyone of us has the devil inside
You should be careful what you wish for!
'Cause all of what amounts becomes you

Nice watch!
Man, you got the time?
Theres never enough and it always goes too slow
Price tags! Advertise your pride
Since when did what we pay for colored cloth gage our gravity?

You should be careful what you wish for!
'Cause everyone of us has the devil inside
You should be careful what you wish for!
'Cause all of what amounts becomes you

Made For TV Movie

I heard a word from 'on high'
Glare like a light in the sky
It said, "quit blowing each other up"

Voicing so crystaline clear
Some thing's unclean in your ear
When only blood will fill your cup

Hello
I'm trying to focus, but my eyes decieve me
Focus
I'm witnessing history...repeating

It fell like a tear from my eye
Flying machine so up high
Well, there goes the neighborhood

A scene set to singe innocence
Upheave, unhinge, and pit against
Like every made for TV movie should

Hello
I'm trying to focus, but my eyes decieve me
Focus
I'm witnessing history...repeating

Focus. Focus. Focus. Focus.
Focus. Focus! Focus!! Focus!!!
(I can see now)

We are, we know, we see, we think for you!
The who, the what, the when, the where, the why!
We build your yang, we build you too, we see you!

Hello
I'm trying to focus, but my eyes decieve me
Focus
I'm witnessing history...repeating

Smile Lines

Met my match today
Felt the blood rushing and mingling
A curious and enigmatic thing
Now spiders in my dreams...
Synchronicity weaves like a web
When you were meant to be a meal!

I want you bad!
I want you bad!
I understand why they say,
"Hhigh school never ends"

I'll never act my age
But you can tell by the lines in my smile
That I have been around for awhile
So, insecurities
Are about as useful as trying
To put the pin back in the grenade

I want you bad!
I want you bad!
I understand why they say,
"Hhigh school never ends"

I want you bad!
I want you bad!
I understand why they say,
"Hhigh school never ends"

This isn't coincidence
There's no such thing
This isn't coincidence, no
This isn't coincidence
It's no such thing.
This isn't, no

I want you bad!
I want you bad!
I understand why they say,
"Hhigh school never ends"

Here In My Room

This party is old and uninviting
Participants all in black and white
You enter in full blown technicolor
Nothing is the same after tonight

If the world would fall apart
In a fiction worthy wind
I wouldn't change a thing now that you're here
Yeah, love is a verb here in my room

You enter and close the door behind you
Now show me the world seen from the stars
If only the lights would dim a little
I'm weary of eyes upon my scars

If the world would fall apart
In a fiction worthy wind
I wouldn't change a thing now that you're here
Yeah, love is a verb here in my room

Pink tractor beam into your incision
Head spining as free as dervishs' whirl
I came here expecting next to nothing
So thank you for being that kind of girl

Leech

Does it make you indie?
Does it make you proud?
To talk the world into a paper bag
Spotty stain of "I'm ok, you're not ok"
Yes, men too could be on the rag

I'm in over my head, I need a pick-me-up
Its easy to get high when you're standing on our backs, man
Would anything ever be good enough for you?
Stand on your own, hold your water if you can

The ride's over. Did you enjoy yourself?
The ride's over. Fairing well?
The ride's over. Did you enjoy yourself?
The ride's over. Fairing well?
Not on my time

It isn't fair to mention, but it awes the crowd
Your fictional, plastic alibi
So take another hit, steal another line
Did you ever meet a leech who was good at goodbyes?

When you were down i always picked you up
Why didn't I recognize that everything was never fine?
I'm kicking myself that i shared spit with you
So fuck yourself
And fuck this bleeding heart of mine

The ride's over. Did you enjoy yourself?
The ride's over. Fairing well?
The ride's over. Did you enjoy yourself?
The ride's over. Fairing well?
Not on my time

When you were down i always picked you up
Why didn't I recognize that everything was never fine?
I'm kicking myself that i shared spit with you
So fuck yourself
And fuck this bleeding heart of mine

The ride's over. Did you enjoy yourself?
The ride's over. Fairing well?
The ride's over. Did you enjoy yourself?
The ride's over. Fairing well?
Not on my time

The ride's over

Shaft!

Who am I?
I am I.
Who are you?
You are me!
Why can't I get it straight?
No!
Why can't I see it straight?
Shaft!
We can't let you, we can't let you go.
Shaft! Shaft! Shaft Shaft!
I'll get a new one, then!
I take a look, look around, gas limited.
I take a look around, I tell myself I'll live again!
Why can't I get it straight?
No!
Why can't I see it straight?
Shaft!
We can't let you, we can't let you go.
Up until this day; I took a look, look around, gas limited.
Up until this day; I take a look around, I tell myself I'll live again!
Shaft.... where's Lorena when we need her?

Take Me to Your Leader

What if your brain, unexpectedly and suddenly, picked out things to flip around and view a lot differently?
What if blue sky, all of a sudden turned a purple hue?
We would shit a brick the size of all of it... what if?
What if I was just dreaming?
What if I lived in a pear?
What if my watch read 4:20 every hour, every day?
You can bet your dollar I'd be happy!
I forgot to remember; I forgot to remember my pain.
Take me to your leader or die by the fly guy!
What if mothballs, hangin' around too close to microwaves, suddenly woke up and said, "Take me to your leader or die by the fly guy!
He'll push ya' out, no wings attatched!"
Just do as I say, no mistake, he'll blow away.
What if I was just dreaming?
What if I lived in a pear?
What if I had a mustard drenched cucumber tied to my leg and I did not want my pants to get dirty?
What if this, what if that?!
Go!
I forgot to remember; I forgot to remember my pain.
Take me to your leader or die by the fly guy!
I forgot to remember....PAIN!
My pain!
Forgot to inject my... cocaine!
Forgot to apply my rogaine!
Forgot to remember... my pain!
I never think, I never thought, oh maybe I'm insane!
I think I like being way the fuck outa' my brain!
I forgot to remember; I forgot to remember my pain.
Take me to your leader or die by the fly guy!

Version

We could live in a house outside of town, we could build our own version of society, well...there'd be no one to answer to and complicate our lives, we could be the epitome of self sufficience.
Time to pay!
To pay!
Time to pay; you've got to pay me!
Why should I?
Why should we pay for your mistake?
To carry on.
Why should we carry on you false integrity?
When you've shown us that you can't even keep your nest clean.
So far we've put financial gain ahead of human needs, quality of our lives should be prioritized.
Time to pay!
To pay!
Time to pay; you've got to pay me!
Why should I?
Why should we pay for your mistake?
To carry on.
Modify your version so we can carry on.
To carry on.
To be conclusive, I'd like to say, you've done a super-fine job with your display
I see now that you cannot comprehend what it means to respect your life and then some!
To be rich, ythat would be great.
No, but it doesn't mean POO-POO without your nest!
So why should I pay for your mistake, man?
Why should I?
Why shoud we pay for your mistake?
To carry on.
Modify your version so we can carry on.
To carry on.

Azwethinkweiz

Floatin' 'round my brain, tryin' to think about the other thing.
Than that thought you know I'm considering.
What if what I thought, about who I think I thought I was, was nothing more than my cerebellum slobbering?
Azwethinkweism is hard to think about, but simple to trust.
You'll know yer on it when your brain won't stop to take a break, no!
So when donut boy comes askin' around, tryin' to figure out somethin' new, you just smile and say, "Pardon you!
I'm sitting through some particles and farcing through some folds.
I've stumbled upon a brain fart which melts away you molds!"
SO I think upon that ponder while I'm pondering the thought, just thinkin' about the thinkweiz is leaving me distraught!
Well I think I thought I saw an Azwethinkweiz, lookin' like we think we do.
Like we think we do.
Some think I'm insane, 'cause I think about the other thing, than that one thought you call reality..
What if what you thought, about who you think you thought you were, was nothing more than illusion rapidly crumbling!
Azwethinkweism should be a topic we all can trust.
It's just too bad that it makes your head go zippitykrack @#$% dang!
So when donut boy comes sniffing around trying to figure out somthing new, you just laugh and say "Pardon you, I'm sitting through some particles and farcing through some folds.
I've stumbled upon a brain fart which melts away your molds."
SO I think upon that ponder while I'm pondering the thought, just thinking about the thinkweiz is nothing like you think you are?
You'd probably more than likely be a lookyloo lookin' like you think you do.
Like you think you do.

Hilikus

About a hundred years ago now, thought I was left for dead.
Sililoquy, she was my...A picture, a wake, my metamorphic friend.
So then I fell in love with an irony named life, it taught me this from that and...a picture, a wake, you're gonna be hilikus.
History has a tendency to block out the popular beliefs about the leaders of the time, so glisten with my syllables and ponder the thought, maybe they should have had to dedicate more to it, go!
You've got to be, So good to be, You've go to be HILIKUS!
So I took a walk outside with my new found friend and the knowledge imbibe.
I figured I'd find another with the same attitude, yes, then maybe i could talk to someone other than myself!
The doors are now swinging wide open, a positive attitude and the ilk in my pocket had a lot to do with my new found friend, the hilikus.
History has a tendency to block out the popular beliefs about the leaders of the time, so glisten wiht my syllable and ponder the thought, maybe they should have had to dedicate more to it.
You've got to be, So good to be, You've go to be HILIKUS!

Nowhere Fast

Will I ever get to where I'm going?
Will I ever follow through with what I had planned.
I guess it's possible that I have been a bit distracted and the direvetions for me are a lot less in demand.
Will I ever get to where I am going?
If I do, will I know when I am there.
If the wind blew me in the right directions would I even care?
I would.
I take a look around; it's evident the scene has changed.
And there are times when I feel improved upon the past.
Then there are times when I can't seem to understand at all and yes it seems that I'm going nowhere... really fucking fast.

Consequence

Blink and you miss a beat.
Keep one of your eyes open at all times.
Think that your're on the brink?
The shit hasn't even begun to hit the fan.
Consequence you'll see will be strangeer than a gang of drunken mimes.
Situation has a stink.
Better clear the air before your son becomes a man.
Blink.
Everything's been augmented, you've been left so far behind.
Think, for sure, next time you should wear a pair of eyes in the back of your head.
Consequence you've seen has been stranger thansci-fi of any kind.
Situation baffles me.
I guess it's true you too are one of the walking dead.
You better think fast!
'Cause you never know what's coming around the bend.
You better not blink.
Consequence is a bigger word than you think.
It's bigger than you or me.

The Warmth

I'd like to close my eyes and go numb but there's a cold wind coming from the top of the highest high-rise today.
It's not a breeze 'cause it blows hard Yes and it wants me to discard the humanity I know, watch the warmth blow away.
Do you think I should adhere to that pressing new frontier? and leave in my wake a trail of fear(?)
Or should I hold my head up high and throw a wrench in spokes by leaving the air behind me clear?
Don't let the world bring you down Not everyone here is that fucked up and cold.
Remember why you came and while you're alive experience the warmth before you grow old.

When It Comes

It's comin' around again they're letting it out again, again.
It's comin' around again they're letting it out again, again.
When it comes, It comes abrupt.
When it feels, it feels like trading brains with an imbecile... for real.
Yes I feel emphatic about not being static and not buying philosophies that are sold to me, at a steal.
Just when you thought it was safe to think, in comes mental piracy!
What I'm looking for cannot be sold to me.
I wish they all would stop trying 'cause what I want and what I need, is and will always be free.
It's comin' around again they're letting it out again, again.
It's comin' around again they're letting it out again.
When it comes, it comes unannounced.
And it feels like a matador is taunting me wih his reddist red cloth and I am the bull.
Yes I feel emphatic about not being static and not eating the bullshit that's being fed to me no more... 'cause now I'm full.
Just when you thought it was safe to think, in comes mental piracy!
What I'm looking for cannot be sold to me.
I wish they all would stop trying, 'cause what I want and what I need, is and will always be free.

Stellar

Meet me in outer space.
We could spend the night; watch the earth come up.
I've grown tired of this place; won't you come with me?
We could start again.
How do you do it?
Make me feel like I do.
How do you do it?
It's better than I ever knew.
Meet me in outer space.
I will hold you close, if you're afraid of heights.
I need you to see this place, it might be the only way that I can show you how it feels to be inside of you.
How do you do it?
Make me feel like I do.
How do you do it?
It's better than I ever knew.
You are stellar.

Make Yourself

If I hadn't made me, I would've been made somehow.
If I hadn't assembled myself, I'dve fallen apart by now.
If I hadn't made me, I'd be more inclined to bow
Powers that be would have swallowed me up, but that's more than I can allow.
If you let them make you, they'll make you papier-mache.
At a distance you're strong, until the wind comes then you crumble and blow away.
If you let them fuck you, there will be no foreplay.
But rest assured, they'll screw you complete 'til your ass is blue and grey.
You should make amends with you.
If only for better health.
But if you really want to live, why not try and Make Yourself?
If I hadn't made me, I'dve fallen apart by now.
I won't let 'em make me, it's more than I can allow.
So when I make me, I won't be papier-maché.
And if I fuck me... I'll fuck me in my own way.
You should make amends with you.
If only for better health.
But if you really want to live, why not try and Make Yourself?
Make yourself.

Drive

Sometimes, I feel the fear of uncertainty stinging clear.
And I can't help but ask myself how much I'll let the fear take the wheel and steer.
It's driven me before, and it seems to have a vague, haunting mass appeal.
But lately I am beginning to find out that I should be the one behind the wheel.
Whatever tomorrow brings, I'll be there with open arms and open eyes.
So if I decide to waiver my chance to be one of the hive will I choose water over wine and hold my own and drive?
It's driven me before and it seems to be the way that everyone else gets around.
But lately I'm beginning to find that when I drive myself my light is found.
So whatever tomorrow brings, I'll be there with open arms and open eyes.
Yeh.
Would you kill the Queen to crush the hive?
Would you choose water over wine.... hold the wheel and drive?

Clean

Today, everything was fine.
Until roundabout, quarter to nine
I suddenly found myself in a bind.
Was it something I said?
Something I read and manifested that's getting you down.
DOn't you dare come to bed with that ambiguous look in your eye, I'd sonner sleep by an open fire and wake up fried.
Say what you will, say what you mean.
You could never offend, your dirty words come out clean.
Tomorrow, what price will I pay?
Could I make it all up to you by serving coffee for two in bed?
Would you then gimme the time of day?
I need a map of your head, translated into English so I can learn to not make you frown.
You'd feel better if you'd vent, put your frustrations into four letter words annd let them out on mine, the most weathered ears in town.
So say what you will, say what you mean.
you could never offend, your dirty words come out clean.