Miscellaneous Lyrics 

                                                                                                                               NOTHING AGAINST YOU 

One last look

Feel the weight of your presence

Love's dwindling remnants

When moments move on

It's your call

Far from my choice to challenge

You've made your decision

No hard feelings here

Nothing against you

Nothing against you ever again

Nothing against you

Nothing against you ever again

chorus:

Nothing against you but my skin

Your last spare atom of warmth seeping in

Nothing against you but my heart

Beat, beat, beating our worlds apart

It's your voice

Use it to your heart's content

I trust your assessment

Impartial but fair

Love will live

And I weather whatever storms

That summon deep waters

When summer is gone

Nothing against you

Nothing against you ever again

Nothing against you

Nothing against you ever again

(chorus)

bridge:

Perfection is something reserved for the gods

Failures are only a question of when

Nothing against your retreat from my arms

Nothing against you ever again

Nothing against you

Nothing against you ever again

Nothing against you

Nothing against you ever again

(chorus)

 HOW PRETTY 

Here we are--

All knotted up like two rubber bands - pulled extra tight -

Hearts humming like two electric fans -  all through the night -

My mind an Italian town after the tomato fight

Little girl -

With dollhouse dreams and tea party plans for her figurines -

Filled with every want but a grown womans' - baked to smithereens -

Then she pulls out a pan of tantrums and toasted almond screams

(I don't know what to say)

chorus: 

How pretty, how pretty she can set your plate 

How pretty she can make a house 

And play the world's gate-keeper 

How pretty, the easy oven baker 

How quickly she can burn her dolls 

The minute they displease her 

Brace yourself  -

You're just a plastic figure she sets up around a table

You try to shine but like a snuffed out candle you're never able

You feel like a guilty phantom exiled to a fable

She's clueless -

You think she'd one day catch on as any fever would

To this unconscious reenactment of her lost childhood

She's stuck in a stubborn pattern and may be stuck for good

(I don't know what to do)

(chorus)

bridge:

And what a dark and dreary dollhouse it is

Inhabitants robbed of their promised joy

The playthings of a toddler turned tyrant

Who lashes out and smashes her every toy

How pretty ...

ME & MY SHITTY LIFE 

A chance like you only manifests once or twice around in life

And if things for me took a better turn we might end up man and wife

But damn it, damn it all to hell

Me and my shitty life

Now I know you see a world in me that you think is real and true

Well, Honey, wishful thinking kills and I got news for you

I believe, you have yet to meet

Me and my shitty life

chorus: 

I won't rest until that nose is 

Breathing in a bed of roses 

Not me and my shitty life 

And so, I have to reject you 

If only to protect you 

From me and my shitty life 

Why couldn't you have shown up here a year or two from now?

Maybe by then my life would be all sorted out somehow

But oh well, nothing I can do

Me and my shitty life

And you know, it's not fair to you

Me and my shitty life

(chorus)

bridge:

I'm sorry dear, it's crystal clear

I must turn you away

I know it's strange to not engage

But you'll thank me big one day

It's just...I can't let you touch

Me and my shitty life

(chorus)

It's just...I can't let you touch

Me and my shitty life

Just go...I won't let you know

Me and my shitty life

Darling beware... all I have to share

Is me and my shitty life 

 ECOSYSTEM 

verse 1:

i get my water from the ground

i get my love wherever she be found

unsanitized and untreated

on the rebound from the one she cheated

like a species in the wild...like a nomad on the loose...

verse 2:

i like the chaos of the crowd

i like it where it's volatile and loud

anesthetized from the facts

just a mindless mob that overreacts

like a species in the wild...like a nomad on the run...

chorus: 

got my finger on the pulse of pop psychology 

but it's anybody's guess at what's been driving me 

well, aren't we just animals - 

unconscious social cannibals - 

in the untamed ecosystem of the spirit? 

verse 3:

i take the heart that never gives

i take the soul where misplaced anger lives

uncivilized and ill-treated

on the rebound from the ones we cheated

like a species in the wild...like a nomad on the take...

verse 4:

i love the unadmitted grudge

i love the tie where memory won't budge

ill-advised and ill-mannered

prone to violent confrontations when hammered

like a species in the wild...like a nomad on the lam...

(chorus)

PARTY OF TWO 

verse 1:

i see there is no stopping you

you're focused on the dirt

so I won't bail you out this time

it's you that's getting hurt

verse 2:

you're not concerned with the truth

you're quite content with a lie

it serves your purpose faithfully

there's no need to ask why

build 1:

i thought we could avoid

the coming cataclysm

but you always seem annoyed

by any criticism

chorus: 

so you wanted me to show 

for your little party of two 

should have known how it would go 

another evening down the drain 

another romance all in vain 

another party 

another party left in pain 

verse 3:

did you want some pick-up artist

with a seedy, wolf-like grin?

jaded by what comes out of your mouth

but intrigued by what goes in?

verse 4:

did you want some super hero

who never shows he's weak?

who unless his words convey contentment

you won't allow to speak?

build 2:

i thought we could diffuse

the time bomb's mechanism

but you always were amused

by acts of heroism

chorus

bridge:

and we'll never find the cause

for the conflicts we get in

when every time you're wrong

i'm supposed to let you win

TWO 

Two... stand up better than one

Two... shine brighter than one sun

Two... can conquer seven seas

Two... open endless possibilities

chorus: 

Two hoo... 

Two hoo... 

Two hoo... 

Two...hoo...hoo...hoo..just two-- 

Two... traversing water and land

Two... leaving footprints in the sand

Two... running through the cold night

Two... sitting in the sunlight

chorus: 

Two hoo... 

Two hoo... 

Two hoo... 

Two...hoo...hoo...hoo...just two-- 

Two... waiting out the dark age

Two.. playing somewhere off stage

Two... laughing in the shadows

Two... leaving only echoes

chorus: 

Two hoo... 

Two hoo... 

Two hoo... 

Two...hoo...hoo...hoo...just two-- 

CONCORDIA 

Intro:

Near an island of secret, untouched by disease

In waters uncharted, unknown

I guided my ship to an alien shore

A failure in love and in war

Dreaming of life at an easier pace

I found myself amongst an alien race

Who worship at the altar of Concordia

Verse 1:

Wandering cities of dream dripping landscapes

Crater filled cosmos of shattered linguistics

Vendors sell fictional fates of all kinds

Clairvoyant transports ship goods between minds

On oceans of prismatic patterns of color

Dyed by the thoughts lost in strange atmospheres

Causeways are crowded with deaf multitudes

And gesticulations of mute auctioneers

Tag 1:

I hear the distant drums of Discordia!

chorus 1: 

And what have I found in this wondrous place? 

Where nobodies feelings are hurt 

Where Patience in value is equal to gold 

And Anger, the value of dirt 

Verse 2:

Low seismic rumblings awaken the temples

Symbolic armies pound pandemic streets

Lovers take solace in cumulus clouds

Creatures seek sunlight where canopy shrouds

And dine on the discarded musings of men

Stinging reflections in mirrors of Time

The armies assemble and brandish their shields

Emblazoned with tears on graph paper design

Tag 2:

I hear the sounds of war with Discordia!

Chorus 2: 

And what have I found in this curious place? 

Where tears are more precious than blood 

And warriors shrug off the worst battles wounds 

But words leave them face down in mud 

Verse 3:

Opening volleys of titanic rumor

Shred the elite of Concordian lines

Silver-tongued snipers unleash from the trees

Deadly barrages of obscenities

Dispersing in clusters of chaotic clamor

Concordian ranks are cut down in retreat

Heroic resistance in corners continues

In desperate defiance of dawning defeat

Tag 3:

I raise the fallen flag of Concordia!

Chorus 3: 

And what kind of world do I find myself in? 

Where hate leaves them gasping for breath 

Where smiles are instant restorers of Life 

And tears are the bringers of Death 

Tag 4:

I shed a final tear for Concordia!

SHATTERED THEORIES 

From time to time we hear reports

Of dazzling machines

And now and then we capture them

On film and radar screens

With high-tech eyes we scan the skies

For any cosmic sign

And never sought or gave a thought

To travelers of time

Cruising through clouds 

Shining bright lights 

Climbing to insurmountable heights 

Shooting for stars 

Closing in fast 

Spanning the gaps between 

Future and past 

Exploring this planet of ours 

From place to place the views can change

But no one can deny

That here and there we catch the glare

Of lights up in the sky

If Darwin solved how we evolved

From prehistoric time

We could be them little green men

Down evolution's line

Soaring through space 

As time unfurls 

Thousands of inconceivable worlds 

Reaching quasars 

Closing in fast 

Spanning the gaps between 

Future and past 

Exploring the surface of Mars 

outro (twice):

And they broke onto the scene

Shattered all theories and what they mean

Just when we didn't hope anymore

Someone with the knowledge opened the door

EGG 

up here on the mountaintop

your conflicts seem so senseless

artificial grievances

held under false pretenses

one proclaims it "Holy Land"

the other calls it "sacred ground"

but until both know it's not

the debate goes round and round

chorus: 

which side of an egg to crack? 

which side of an egg to crack? 

when you know in the end 

it all boils down to 

which side of two wrongs to back? 

down there in the city streets

it's dog-eat-dog survival

every neighbor looked upon

as a potential rival

they succeed at your expense

they must lose for you to gain

but no matter who wins out

there's a party left in pain

(chorus)

we set our enemies

a host of holy sins

taboo according to

our arbitrary whims

we leave reality

so unevenly spread

then curse the conflicts

we've created in our heads

chorus: 

which side of an egg to crack? 

which side of an egg to crack? 

which side of an egg to crack? 

when we know in the end 

it all boils down to... 

the heart of humanity or just your heart?

the cry of society or some lone up-start?

the whole of reality or just one part?