So Sweet, and So Sad...

Part I: Broken Bride

Fifteen years I raged against the constant C, the speed of light
the diagrams and haunted sleep, frozen sheets, in bed, my dreams
your garden grave, I'd climb inside, hold your bones and slowly die
the cooling space inside your chest, my broken bride, you never breated again.
Circuits fail, the cosmic strings like rubber bands, I lose control
they snap, I fall through mist to mud against my face, the taste of blood
the world is strange, the stinking earth and giant trees
through heavy air a demon shrieks, what have I done, what hell is waiting
for me?

I crashed before the birth of Christ
Pterodactyls swarming
You died in 1989
Just wanna get back to that morning in may
Keep you in bed, never escape
Holding you close, oh oh oh-oh-oh
Listen to you breathe the evening glow
of fading light and cooling space.

Like motor oil down my throat, I couldn't speak, I dropped the phone
the burning flares, the steam, your hair, bits of glass, they sparkled everywhere
like winter nights, the stars, the ice, all intertwined to hold and keep
like petals pressed in sheets, making love to moonlight in our sleep
And now above the pits of tar, in a cave I hide
that massive, screaming thing with wings of reaper's cloth, it's standing
just outside
I must get to my machine, I will bring you back to life
fix your ruined lungs, I'll undo what Time has done!

I crashed before the birth of Christ
Pterodactyls swarming
You died in 1989
Just wanna get back to that morning in May
Keep you in bed, never escape
Holding you close, oh oh oh-oh-oh
Listen to you breathe the evening glow
of fading light and cooling space.

I carve your sweet name into the cave, I'm sure to die
All my strife has been in vain, the glaciers come and wash my words away.

I crashed before the birth of Christ
Pterodactyls swarming
You died in 1989
Just wanna get back to that morning in May
Keep you in bed, never escape
Holding you close, oh oh oh-oh-oh
Listen to you breathe the evening glow
of fading light and cooling space.

Save Our City

"Mr. Mayor, the mission burns
the zombies are marching, they close on the square
Families are cold, look down at their souls
huddled in camps on the old marble steps of City Hall
Faith in their God, that's all that they've got."
Across the room, beyond the pane
the whole world is churning, bleeding and burning
hailstorms and ash.
The moon is as blood
over the soldiers who sag in the mud.

Save our city
Keep our souls, Lord
through the rapture of this world.

"Little boy, I'm just a man
a mere civil servant, against this tyrant God
I've allied with our King, salvation he brings protecting the city against all the troops Heaven sent
but the dead walk again, this is the end.
Oh I'm just a man, my time has come
Long live King Simius! May he deliver us
from this nightmare!"
And with a blast like the sun
his lips are unwrapped from the barrel of his gun.

Save our city
Keep our souls, Lord
through the rapture
of this world.

Fought and fell for our great king We burned alive and boiled
The dragon, red an wrathful, calls
We rise and march once more.
Cursed in death, we starve for flesh
Our skin is cooked and curled
We'll eat our kin and smash them in
In Hell, we'll grind their bones.

Save our city
Keep our souls, Lord
through the rapture of this world.

Save our city
Keep our souls, Lord God
through the rapture of this world.

Save our city
(Fought and fell for our great king)
Keep our souls, Lord God
(We burned alive and boiled)
through [the mayor's ruined head, the boy steps through the window] the rapture
(The dragon, red and wrathful calls)
of this world. [and cries out from the ledge to the people below.]
(We rise and march once more.)

Save our city [There's a time to pray and there's a time to fight]
(Cursed in death, we starve for flesh)
Keep our souls, Lord God [Anything can be a weapon if you're holding it right]
(Our skin is cooked and curled)
through the rapture [Defend what is yours, they will not take our souls]
(We'll eat our kin and smash them in)
and so we [it's time now to] (From Hell we)
rise and fight!

Save our city!
Keep our souls, Lord!
Rise now and fight!

Part II: Tonight's the Night

Oh baby, baby, how I lost my mind
Time is quite the killer when you're left behind
The airbag held you 'til the engine slept
At home your pillow cooled while the willows wept.

They come and go, love(come and go, but they, but they)
But they're all the same (D-da, d-da, da da, da da)
Even big, bad bad-boys get scared at night
It keeps them safe. (At home baby)
I'm gonna throw this rock down (Gonna throw it down, let it roll)
Tonight's the night (Tonight)
I'm gonna go out, fire it up, honey (I'm gonna lose 'em when I)
Gonna turn back time.

Remember in the summer when I held your hand
on the southern shore, finding fossils in the sand
Oh baby, maybe someday you will find me
on that beach beside you again.

They come and go, love (Come and go, but they,but they)
But they're all the same (d-da, d-da, da da, da da)
Even big, bad bad-boys get scared at night
It keeps them safe. (At home baby)
I'm gonna throw this rock down (Gonna throw it down, let it roll)
Tonight's the night (tonight)
I'm gonna go out, fire it up, honey (I'm gonna lose 'em when I)
Gonna turn back time.

Here we go!

They come and go, love (Come and go, but they, but they)
but they're all the same (D-da, d-da, da da, da da)
Even big, bad bad-boys get scared at night
It keeps them safe.
(At home baby)
I'm gonna throw this rock down (Gonna throw it down, let it roll)
Tonight's the night (Tonight)
I'm gonna go out, fire it up, honey (I'm gonna lose 'em when I)
Gonna turn back time.

I'm gonna save your life.

Part III: The Lamb and the Dragon

So rapid the raptors, as courses they came
all the scratching and screaming, I barely escaped
while the fuel cells they drained far too fast, I am dragged
like worms on a hook through the hole to the
blackness beyond
at the end of days, where the world bleeds and burns.

The sun is black as sackcloth made of hair
The stars have fallen to the Earth, mountains tearing
from the ground
Look at these people hiding from the red raindrops
while earthquakes shake the broken timber of this
burning town.
There's poison in the water, the ocean's blood that's turned
to slime and gotten hard
All the fish and whales are corpses on the scab
In the darkness soldiers gnaw their tongues in pain, you see
So help me God, at the end of time they're screaming on their knees!
Oh let them die! Oh let them die!

"The wrath of the Lamb!" the martyrs cry
"Break the seven seals, let the horsemen ride!"
The soldiers bear the royal crest and scream into the sky
"He will come! He will come! The Dragon's on the rise!"

"The King survived though this throat was cut, they say he's the chosen one
he leads our men from Babylon, the rebellion's worldly son
Against the Tyrant, we have joined with him as soldiers."
he tells me this while he shakes a bit - he's staring at his gun.
The painful stings of flying things have worn away his flesh and popped
his eyes
At the blackness, he lashes out and cries:
"You cowards and your wrathful God will see what power means
when the Dragon comes - His will be done - in the fires you'll be cleaned!
Oh let him rise!
Oh let him rise!"

"The wrath of the Lamb!" the martyrs cry
"Break the seven seals, let the horsemen ride!"
The soldiers bear the royal crest and scream into the sky
"he will come! He will come! The Dragon's on the rise!"

I watch these people fall
The dragon shrieks and burns it all
I flip the circuits on, I've got dragons of my own
The portal glows and my machine's destroyed.

"The Traveler has saved their souls from the Destroyer of Worlds
Then why does his heart still cream? Rise and speak."
I couldn't save her, I know she will die
But please, if I could only tell her goodbye
All I want is just one more day
that morning in May...

I've fought reptilian monsters
I've crossed a bloody sea
just to meet you here
and now I'm coming home, my dear
The light is warm, outside at dawn
The garden has no weeds, no gave beneath the tree
Through the silent house, my love after all
Curled up in a ball, there you are.

Part IV: Morning in May

Your socks on the wood floor
The moment I'd hoped for
I'm terrified to think you might be real.

I curl up behind you
fit my body to yours like a shell
I smell your hair, oh love, I can't believe you
I squeeze you to make sure you're really here
and I'm overwhelmed.

I've been waiting for so long
to touch you and sleep in your arms
And now as my heart's beating so hard
I hold on and keep you at home in my arms.

They tried to console me
but you're all the consolation I ever needed
years of smelling the clothes your left behind
The photographs that seemed so far away
I don't need them now - you turn to me
alive, awake and blinking, baby
"Back so soon?" you ask, but I smile
'cause I never left at all.

I've been waiting for so long to touch you and sleep in your arms
And now as my heart's beating so hard
I hold on and keep you at home in my arms.

You check the clock, it's time to go
you grab your keys and you're out the door
I step outside and you're waving goodbye
It's all happening again like before
as you're starting the car and I'm tearing inside
I knock on your window, you stop just in time
Around to the other side
I say, "Baby, I thought I'd come along for the ride."

I've been waiting for so long
(Time slows and I take your hand)
to touch you and sleep in your eyes
(I hold you as we lose control)
Together our hearts beating so hard
Hold on, baby, we're almost home...