I see my friends and my family, racing around their cage.
I hear the voice of the masses, tell me to act my age
But a corporate sell out I will never be,
The life of a wanderer is the only one for me.

Run, run, run, run
My furry little friends
Rush, rush, rush, rush
Onward to your ends

Now if I had money that had no end
I have me a party yeah, round every bend
You can keep your riches, and that money you’ve saved
This is only room for one thing, lying in my grave

Run, run, run, run
My furry little friends
Rush, rush, rush, rush
Onward to your ends

I’ll spend my life drifting from place to place
My life is the journey, it sure as hell ain’t a race
A head full of smiles, filled with happy thoughts
Is worth more than possessions and all that you have brought

Standing here in the ocean, stood here all alone
This tiny little rock is all I have to call a home
Trapped here by my otherselves that are running around my head
A different one floats to the surface everytime I go to bed
And when my eyes open I'm lying face down in the sea
Echos of laugher ring as myselves are mocking me
I strike out in each direction every day that I'm awake
Hoping to leave that tiny rock far behind in my wake
But each morning I'm back on this rock with laughter in my head
Control has been unravelling now its hanging by a thread

Help me today, help me tomorrow,
Help me be all I want to be,
Help me today, help me tomorrow,
Help me I'm drowning in this sea

With red raw meat in the briney deep and head bent to knee
Slowly adding to the endless depths of the heartless, uncaring sea
Each ship that passed I could not grasp, the others steered me wrong
I watch them sail right on passed despite my plaintive song
The voices inside are getting louder with each passing day
They clamour and bray so loudly I cannot hear what they say
At the centre of this maelstrom is the boy clinging to his rock
Buffeted by the wall the noise our body goes in to shock
The one voice that spoke of holding on to this tiny spark of life
As finally gone silent and is now reaching for the knife

Help me today, don’t wait for tomorrow,
Help me before I slip beneath the waves
Help me today, please don’t wait for tomorrow,
Help me I'm drowning in this grave

The echoes reverberate, bouncing off distant walls like little rubber balls
Until they slowly conjugate into a meaning that’s leaning towards sanity
Dripping with profanity, as it slides inside my mind with its insidious intent
Hell bent on creating distress, as the shadows begin to coalesce into solid form
They transform, through shapes shifting and sounds drifting, it comes into place
Those words I could not erase, feelings rushing and pushing, like an angry crowd
Smothering like a shroud, drowning in the waters of guilt, in this cavern I’ve built

Racing through this barrenness, this construction of my own destruction
Adding excess to my distress, with heart hammering, nerves clamoring, I go on
The conclusion long forgone, beyond realization and revelation it hides in the dark
The great white shark, that’s calling for this morsel that’s falling into open jaws
No time for pause, the acid eating from within, formed from sin and consuming all
On this painful fall, through darkened caves and freezing waves of deep revulsion
Causing juddering convulsion, lying on the rock floor, breathing no more, dying alone

Esfahan beckons, a hot shining light so painfully bright on delicate balls
Scant remaining seconds are all it takes, no more mistakes can we afford
Crawling toward the sweet luminosity, through harsh viscosity on bleeding knees
Becoming Japanese, remembering all the obligation and dedication that it portends
On wings it transcends, that cloying coil and breaking toil to find a sparkle of peace
The hope of release stretches like a coiled snake with shining wake before the eyes
With absolute cries, all light disappear as he appeared and existence slowly died

Take these shackles and give ‘em to the bear, tell her I’ve gone home
Take these shackles and throw ‘em to the wind, I’ll live like that no more
Gonna find me the weapon that can kill off Mutley, end his child like rage
Gonna find me a whet stone, sharpening my sword, gonna end his blinkered ways

I killed off Mutley
In this war inside I wage
I killed off Mutley
And it means the end of days

Come a long way from our second city, I’m a long way from home
Come a long way from our second city and I’ll go there no more
Gonna find me a crag deep in the mountains, got to mend that old dog’s ways
Gonna find a lost city deep in the desert, make sure the flee pit pays

I killed off Mutley
In the war inside I wage
I killed off Mutley
And it means the end of days

Take this message for me, carry it home, tell ‘em I am no more
Take this message for me, carry it home, tell ‘em the evils gone
I found my mountain, out in the world, it wouldn’t forgive my ways
As I soar down the valley, out of this world, I know this old dog paid

I killed off Mutley
In the war inside I wage
I killed off Mutley
And it means the end of days

In lightless pit of silent vale
Treading softly on broken shale
No noise I plead, no noise I beg
Lest I wake the beast with in my head

A shadow that slides from place to place
A ghostly shade without a face
Slipping through light, slipping though day
Embracing shadows where I may

In black on black the look of Cash
With foot prints that leave not a splash
Past community I softly tread
Lest they wake the beast with in my head

I stopped just once and there I fell
Through velvet pump into sweet hell
With golden bangs, with liquid fire
To fane the flames of fate’s desire

In this sweet hell were pools of blue
A dancer’s beat that skipped and flew
Bright shining lights for all to see
But this woke the dread inside of me

Its rapid eyes no longer moved
It twitched is once still cloven hooves
Unlocking doors with a big red key
The once sleeping beast had broken free

Once sickly sweet now never more
A poisoned font with every flaw
The carpet pulled, no longer tread
With this beast free inside my head

Language spilled like jungle vines
Angry colours and poison spines
Thinking fractal though kaleidoscope
The angry beast gave me the rope

Now sweet hell swings in the breeze
Shattered dreams cut off at the knees
Auto torture, self effacing hate
Are favourite games when he’s awake

Killing this self yet one more time
I killed my friend, my intertwine
No more I scream, no more I beg
As I lock it away deep in my head

Now the lovers clinch and wrestling
The birds, the bees, the doves that sing
Are things of fear are things of dread
Lest they wake the beast with in my head

In lightless pit of silent vale
Treading softly on broken shale
No noise I make, no words are said
Lest I wake the beast with in my head

The dead are rising from the cold wet earth
The sticking clods to them gives birth
Hands reach up to the black night sky
The hoard arises and with out a cry

Row on row of corpulent flesh
Coming together this undead mesh
Form a circle of un-living mess
Crowd together and inward press

On melting features on a slipping face
A hint of compassion I can trace
Even the hoards decay cannot erase
The look of sadness and of disgrace

Decaying flesh and moldy bone
Pull me down into the unknown
Under cool wet soil and solid stone
My heart beat slows as I lie prone

Their slimy fingers grip on my sleeve
And their cold embrace I will receive
Now for my love and life I softly grieve
This putrid host will not let me leave

Here I slumber far from the sky
In the cold wet earth I calmly lie
I wait here for the anguished cry
Of a lovers soul that wants to die.

I’m growing cold, the end is near
And it’s all thanks to you my dear
Just one more blow to seal my fate
In that swing you put all your weight
Now I lie here in silken bed
My heart separated from my head
My skin the whitest shade of pale
You drive through the lid the final nail
All that I was and will ever have been
Is lost forever and will never be seen
I slumber now under earthen sheet
For you were the best I could ever meet

Those words that cut so deep,
Flayed my skin left me bare,
Still echo round when I sleep
Even though you not there

I keep bleeding I keep weeping
I'm wounded to deep to care
These scars I am keeping
To remind me you not there

Changed forever by the terrible poison,
That I took from this laceration,
Settled in my bones in my reason,
Beyond redemtion and renovation

Fallen beyond my hurts and injury
My anger rules my heart
It rages eternal, permanetly free
Love no longer a part

A black and broken thing i've become
Free falling away from light
Forgetting the heart love came from
In the dark out of sight

Resigned as I am to my dark fate
I curl up and around my agony lie
Lay quietly down I start to wait
For the cowl and sythe to let me die

But my dark friend finds me not
No matter how long i wait upon the floor
I must find him before i rot
Even if i journey ever more

Fairwells are made to those that care
Careful to hide my last destination
Few will note that i'm not there
So i set off without a reservation

I travel now to meet my friend
With cowl of night and boney stare
I'll welcome his embrace come the end
But i'm glad i will know no one there

I hope to see such pastures green
Sunsets red and seas so blue
All the sites the can be seen
Do all the things i can do

For before this trip i can complete
Before i reach my family home
I will find the friend that i seek
I will fade away all alone.

I need to let this pain inside
Find a way through my fair hide
Let if pour fourth from within
To cleanse my heart to cleanse my skin
Parting of flesh with gentle sting
An opening rose all fluttering
Let this pain fly true and free
The ruby liquor I want to see
I seek not death, nor prying eyes
Just sweet release of souls soft cries

The world closes in; it’s so close in here
The light grows dim, I’m full of fear
Please help me love, before I fade
Don’t leave me love, not this afraid

Circling shades that rip and tear, flesh is flayed and heart laid bare
Crawled towards hands dripping blood; all that’s left is the place you stood
Oh so cold that empty ground, as the shades descend with awful sound
The banshee screams of tortured souls, were given pause by this death toll
Circling shades found no life blood; all that’s left is the place I stood
There now stands a shadow thin, lost to life and the love within
Hearts don’t scar or fix or mend; they just cease to beat at loves end

The world closes in; it’s so close in here
The light grows dim, I’m full of fear
Please help me love, before I fade
Don’t leave me love, not this afraid

This shadow man rules these shades, the flock of pain out on parade
A guiding dark that kills the light, saving from the blinding sight
Where true love burns so hot and bright, the circling shades come to fight
Drawn to blood to hurt to pain, the suffering of true love insane
This shadow man’s endless foe, with teeth and claws he doth know
He leads his kith his pain filled kin, through the light, the burning sin
The circling shades of oily black, all are souls with no way back

The world closes in; it’s so close in here
The light grows dim, I’m full of fear
Please help me love, before I fade
Don’t leave me love, not this afraid

The heart in him that ceased to beat, an obsidian rock full of heat
A black fire burns deep with in, a fire to forge weapons to win
The endless war against a foe, more deadly than you can ever know
With flesh a flayed and heart of rock, he will endure, he will not stop
The enemy made a true nemesis, when it gave to him that fateful kiss
Locked together in endless duel, shadow and light their respective fuel
A heat from hell burning bright, wrapped with shadows in endless fight

The world closes in; it’s so close in here
The light grows dim, I’m full of fear
Please help me love, before I fade
Don’t leave me love, not this afraid