Wheeling Bitch Circus - Era (2002)
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1. Era Intro (Eustace)/Lunacy (DiDonato/Fickler):
Crimson insanity...
Taken upon my words
A day of silence...
Sleep derived from this world
Your insane dreams... made of clay
Longingly... I want to stare
And then my heart grows cold
It feels like I'm getting old
This degradation always leads into a darker corner
Here arrives the dead and sore
Hurting me forever more
My best scrutinizing words could never cover me
Hairline fractured heart...
Inside an indifferent chasm
Composite noticed...
Trading it all for a life
(lyrics: DiDonato)
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2. Reach (Eustace):
A lonely girl
Sitting on her back porch
Thinking about everything
Romantic
Nobody loves her
Except her family and friends
She recklessly dreams for something
More
-Reach for deceit. Reach for deception.
-For a lifetime of regrets.
-Reach for a new guy. Reach for a new lie.
-Reach into emptiness
-Reach for deceit. Reach for deception
-For a lifetime of regrets
-Reach for a new guy. Reach for a new lie.
-You need to reach inside yourself.
She needs an experience
To live life
Instead of being trapped by all she deems
Trite
(lyrics: Eustace)
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3. Pray For Flesh (DiDonato):
The shattered glass mirror he lays before
Cannot see the pain inside his eyes
He's now a drone in a senseless field of lies
Red moon glares upon her mistress's calico hair
Berated words
-inebriated fool
Fall - to your knees
Wind - shake my breath
Lean - on my arms
Moon - light my way
As they've come abroad, you have followed
No one opens their ears to hear,
Your inner voices scream and sorrow
Has she disappeared?
Or was she ever real?
The disillusions of another drunken man
Realize the wasted years
As he wipes the tears
Long gone, never realized he was a stray
(lyrics: DiDonato)
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4. On the Verge Of Sleep (DiDonato/Eustace):
Pulsing in and out of another standard point of view
I watch the clock strike one
I can't believe what I have seen over the years
Such youth is wasted away
Well, I thought that I had lost you as well
A complication of my mind dead and gone...
I see Orion's belt in the distance
I never want to see another cloudy night
How many hours 'till my pending doom and I collapse?
I'm losing sleep and my mind goes thru the cracks...
Can there be a kind belief that I shall indeed recover
Tear apart my inner being and let this sanctified endeavor
And when I learn to fall apart I pick up the pieces again
To start all over
I will find another way to make these feelings sober
Wash it away, Wash it away...
Wash it away, Wash it away now...
Wash it away, Wash it away...
Wash it away, Wash it away...
It eats away at my skin
(lyrics: DiDonato)
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5. Earthbound (DiDonato):
Disperse the long lost mouth I dare
never again to speak from
to tell the stories of my say
of what I've known all this aged day,
all that I ever dawned upon
what could I care
to share to everyone
that ever gave less than a damn about a fool
Attention never really wanted,
Intentions to give up
On the people I come in contact
Dare I say inside this life
Stuck another layer under an atmosphere of hate
Contagious is my worthy being curious to fate
I create what I believe
This destiny that I achieve
Complacent tells another
that here is where I must stay
I cannot leave
I cannot leave
I cannot leave
I cannot leave...
(lyrics: DiDonato)
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6. The Passive Oblivion (DiDonato/Eustace):
As I draw from - what I draw near
I infect myself - with what I fear
As I am nothing - who am I?
I must be... of your own
Oh no, here I travel down
Into the void of serenity
You cannot stand and wait for me,
as I will not return soon enough
I will be a new man
Unshared with you are my new cantations
Leave me be... forever again
As my prophecies are crushed 'till I am wrought
An elder's words drive deep into my fingertips
Ancient conquest - never ending
Always burning - as I'm bending
Comes to a tired, man of fear
I am irate... in this world
There is that sullen feeling crawling in the black
The rise of ill temperament comes hither up my back
The sliding up inside could direct a comatose
Sit inside the darkness and experience this corrosive
Come inside and try to kill this pride
Find insignificance of a decaying mind
Concentrate and attempt to filtrate
Grip onto this makeshift god sign
I cannot bring together the falling piece of mind
Sometimes I swear I feel a pacing grind
There is a slithering of new man-made disease
This world's a bitter pill where silence is all we need
I think that I'm a bit, slipped out of place
Don't let me go in this state of discomfort
And I can't die tonight, tomorrow brings a cure for this misery
But I'm the only one cursed with remembering all this past time
I know what comes tomorrow, these days ahead are mine
(lyrics: DiDonato)
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7. Deadly Vain (DiDonato):
Something come along my way,
Nicotine stain I may say
People's own convictions,
Surrounding my soul
Now that I've found myself,
I'm all alone and all's not well
The knots between my shoulders,
More than one heart of coal
I don't really hate myself,
Just the person I once was
The bottle could keep me company,
One choice for the better cause
My ego's getting wet
It's my deadly vain
DEADLY VAIN!!!
All my ideals up in smoke,
Hearsay's creation not a joke
What I've thought to be real,
Is just my fantasy
I am the heretic,
Of this day and age
I come forth a charlatan,
I hath but prove this faith
(lyrics: DiDonato)
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8. Corrupted (DiDonato):
I couldn't see myself now
If it were just a year ago
What secrets I know...
My inflated ego...
Acquainted new friends
Am I what I wanted?
Not just another phase
This is my new reign
My mind is in luxury
New experiences created
Can't doubt it's what I want
And that satisfaction is soon
Once was insignificant
Now I climb this ladder
Still a little slower than wanted, but
My ideals not shattered
One drop of water - for a drop of blood
Only a fraction of what I used to be
Some parts lost so easily
(lyrics: DiDonato)
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9. Wrapped in Graceless Disbelief (DiDonato):
Tearing off my face in two directions
Another vagrant lying on the floor
Diminished anguish finds its new home
Alleviate the pain inside my sores
One last break... of agony
Tells a tale... of killing me
Bastard insomnia curses my wake
Writing words upon a faded page
The whipping boy plans his due escape
Burn the eyes of the holy sage
Another redline murder
One more carpe diem
A zen, satiable to all
I couldn't squeeze another ounce from this ache
Tell me again, how much more before I break
(lyrics: DiDonato)
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10. The Divided Line (Eustace/DiDonato):
To clench her softly, would be nothing short of a miracle,
The hole between my arms held by the spokes of passion...
Reaching to a unity, more like a mystery, an ideal,
illusional reality, A casualty, of my war against emotion.
Will corrupted, a passive stance I take, Before my conscience breaks
Love expired, a pathetic soul in wait, for the consequence of fate.
(Would the heavens take me home? I am left to dwell alone.)
My name is indifference, pleased to meet you...
would you try my guise on for size?
And place this meaningless in front of lies?
The garment of denial is oh so pleasing to the eyes.
I failed her, and turned away her love...
for a signal from above
Love expired, a pathetic soul in wait,
for the consequence of fate.
Love show us the way
Everyday
We are in delusion
Love show me the way
I've gone astray
Help me escape illusion
Reach for deceit,
Reach for deception...
I'm but a man,
can I make the connection?
I failed her, and turned away her love...
for a signal from above
Love expired, a pathetic soul in wait,
for the consequence of fate.
Love show us the way
Everyday
We are in delusion
Love show me the way
I've gone astray
Help me escape illusion
Fall To your knees
Wind shake my breath
Lean on my arms
Moon light my way
Reach for deceit, Reach for deception...
I'm but a man, can I make the connection?
My fatal mistake:
Convinced by my own noble lie
That Ideas Are Real
(lyrics: Eustace, "Pray For Flesh" excerpted lyrics by DiDonato)
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(Hidden Track)
11. "Punk" Pheromone (Eustace): (original version on "Wheeling Bitch Circus")
Green Shirt,
Hurt my Heart,
Just Take,
It Off Me,
Before
My Muscles Constrict,
From The Warm Whispers,
Of Your Weary Breath.
Capture Your Essence,
In A Single Thought,
To Be Released,
In A Single Kiss.
Moment Of Mystery,
Man Of The Minute,
Fall Away
As Hearts Have Short-term Memories,
And Are Prone To Forgetfulness.
One Night That Rides Me,
The Night That I Couldn't Shake,
The Drama Is Gone.
Though I'm Trapped Hear For Now.
Please Don't Tell ME, Don't Tell ME, I KNOW,
Only Tell Me Where To Go, Where I Can Avoid Your Eyes.
Tell Me Where To DIE, I Don't Know.
PLEASE DON"T TELL ME, DON"T TELL ME I KNOW.
Don't tell me I know.
(lyrics: Eustace)
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