AMPLIFIER LYRICS

1. The Runner

[Instrumental]

2. Minion's Song

Oh masters of the universe
won't you please reveal
secrets of The Octopus
inside me which I feel

Clawing, clawing, who's been waiting
at my door forever patiently
upon the lips of your incarnation
who is the man to sing me a melody

Spin me a remedy

In homage of your industry
in debt with each huzzah
that’s paid in its entirety
with teardrops from the stars

Well, catch them, catch them, holy waters
soothe the brows of jet set troubles
that set the feet of every martyr
upon the road of fame and paradise
Forward, forward, not forsaken
are you the man to fuck with the enemy
Show me gold and show me favour
crown a man of humble origins

Who’s adept at fitting in
from beneath unholy skin

We'll sing along to the minion's song
Emerging from the jaws of each lion
Threading on in a far constellation
Riding away on the waves of oblivion

Sing along to the minion's song
Emerging from the jaws of each lion
Threading on in a far constellation
Riding away on the waves of oblivion

Sing along to the minion's song
Emerging from the jaws of each lion
Threading on in a far constellation
Riding away on the waves of oblivion
Oblivion
Oblivion
Oblivion
Oblivion...

3. Interglacial Spell

Ice age cometh
Well, let the fanfares bloweth

Can't shake the feeling, been living on borrowed time
Today's revealing, right before my very eyes

And off to the cold icy palace, with the church and the office
I'm just a helpless apprentice, and I'm lost in the darkness, yes

Well, can't you tell that you've been hypnotized by a magic spell?
We did a runner from the diner. Now, who will pay the tithe?

So dry your eyes. Well, why the surprise?

Can't shake the feeling, been living on borrowed time
Today's revealing, right before my very eyes

Well, can't you tell that you've been hypnotized by a magic spell?
We did a runner from the diner. Now, who will pay the tithe?

So dry your eyes. Well, why the surprise?

With the lathe and the prism
in the frozen museum
I’m just a helpless apprentice
and it's cold in the darkness
It's cold in the darkness
it's cold in the darkness
it's cold in the darkness

4. The Wave

"Ladies and gentlemen, please step right up, for the end of the world!"

Climb aboard the wave, to somewhere you ain't never been
and in a world of make believe, I'm the emperor and champion
of sheer suicide! of sheer suicide!

Hear me when I say that I was brought to life upon the wave
I’m gonna hitch a ride and see what I can see
I'm gonna climb inside of the time machine
Into another dimension! To another dimension!

Into another dimension, another dimension
Into another dimension, another dimension
Into another dimension, another dimension
Another dimension, another dimension

From the first to the last, well, the wave is waiting
For the rubies and diamonds that are slipping through your fingers
in the glinting of an eye, I’m just a thought vibrating
and I’m riding on high now that the wave is breaking
now that the future’s waiting

I'm gonna step inside and take a ride

Into another dimension, another dimension
Into another dimension, another dimension
Into another dimension, another dimension
Another dimension, another dimension

Oh yeah, yeah!
Oh yeah, yeah!

5. The Octopus

In the sinews of eternity
that fortune spins
entwined within the DNA
that throbs beneath its skin

you'll fit so perfectly in
I'll never let you go
I'll never let you go

well, I dressed you in your uniform
you'll understand
right from the moment you were born
a minion at my command

and when you hold my hand
I'll never let you go
from my arms
I'll never let you go

on a drip feed of euphoria
that's laid to waste
and feeding on the emptiness
abiding in the human race

and when we embrace
I'll never let you go
from my arms
I'll never let you go

and once you hold my hand
I'll never let you go
from my arms
I'll never let you go

6. Planet Of Insects

Jagged and broken
Look at your pieces
Splitting every nation
Of insect colonies
Save one to be destroyed
And one to be begun
Let the weaker bend
To the will of the strong

Well, you followed the swarm right out into space
And let all the buzz right out of this place
Send some to the south
You know you'll want to send one to the north
You'll send one to each house
Of hand to mouth and of humans and spawn
To be born

And all I know and ever see are insects crawling over me
Predating on their magic powers that radiate before their fingers
And though they'll try to suck me dry
They'll never manage to consume my feeling of overjoy, overjoy
Come let the masters feed in the fullness of time

And all I know and ever see are insects crawling over me
Predating on their magic powers that radiate before their fingers

And all I know and ever see are insects crawling over me
Predating on their magic powers that radiate before their fingers

Let the fuckers come and never come again
They're hunting everyone left from the planet of men

And all I know and ever see are insects crawling over me
Predating on their magic powers that radiate before their fingers
And though they try to suck me dry
They'll never manage to confuse my meaning of overjoy, overjoy
Come let the masters feed in the fullness of time

7. White Horses At Sea / Utopian Daydream

Time enough to prepare
And make you look, make you stare
Won't you deal me in?
And let empires fall
Got me some others to call
Who could offer me danger?
But don't take it personal

But you live in the echo of the screaming jet
In the furnace of each cigarette
With penitence and regret
Around your neck like a golden chain
Like an aching numbed with novocaine
Well, wouldn't you like to get away
And ride white horses far away
Now they're chasing away

Leaving the trace of your things
Rusting away
Somewhere just under your skin
Is this the way out?
Let summer begin
Brighten your sky
Just let it be as you'd like
Just cross your heart and hope to die
But don't take it personal

Well, we hide in the eye of the maelstrom
We're down in the valley where the shadow's long
Well, don't you know that we belong
Somewhere over the rainbow
In the wreckage of a UFO
That glitters on the ocean spray
Ride them up into the milky way
Now they're chasing away

Excellent!

8. Trading Dark Matter On The Stock Exchange

Hungry eyes all alone
In rainbow skies of glass and stone
Dipped into the acid test
So sharply dressed

Well, I would turn disciple
And testify in the whore crucible
Zeroed and hungry for more
Gotta get some
Only the sharpest of claws gets to hold on

With leisure times and bonuses
Cruising over the horizon
Well, that ship is never late
Chastisement with a velvet touch
Don’t hurt too much

Well, I would turn disciple
And testify in the diamond spyhole
Always still hungry for more
Gonna get some
Only the sharpest of claws gets to hold on
To no-one

So hold on
Just hold on

When one man bleeds on another man’s throne
And one man reaps what another has sown
On unknown seas
Would the business sink you down

Down to an all time low
To an all time low
To an all time low
To an all time low
To an all time low
An all time low
An all time low
An all time low

9. The Sick Rose

O Rose, thou art sick.
The invisible worm,
That flies in the night
In the howling storm:
Has found out thy bed
Of crimson joy:
And his dark secret love
Does thy life destroy.

Does thy life destroy
Does thy life destroy
Does thy life destroy

O Rose, thou art sick from the invisible worm
That flies in the night in the howling storm
Has found out thy bed of crimson joy and his dark secret love
Has found out thy bed of crimson joy and his dark secret love
Does thy life destroy
Does thy life destroy
Does thy life destroy
Does thy life destroy
Does thy life destroy
Does thy life destroy
Does thy life destroy
Does thy life destroy

10. Interstellar

Gonna take a trip to a distant sun
And leave this planet far behind
And travel the road to kingdom come
Got a universe to sail across and across, now we’ve just begun
Now we’ve just begun

And stretching out ahead of me
Promised to eternal skies
To travel distant galaxies
Got a universe to sail across and across, like a jet black sea

Travelling faster than light
Travelling faster than light
Faster than light
Is the only way to be
Is the only way to be

We’ll go somewhere you may have been
Kick the engine to overdrive
Run faster than a laser beam
Got a universe to sail across and across, ’till the day I die
And riding high
’Cause I’ve got a universe to sail across and across, ’till the day I die

Travelling faster than light
Travelling faster than light
Faster than light
Travelling faster than light
Faster than light
Travelling faster than light
Faster than light
Is the only way to be
Is the only way to be

Travelling faster than light
Travelling faster than light
Is the only way to be
And the only possibility
To be truly free

Well, I know that you seek the control for the heart and the soul

11. The Emperor

From out of the vortex and into the big time
Gonna get me a facefull of oblivion
From under the wheels of the movers and shakers
Well, this could be your lucky day
Oh, this could be your lucky day

Impatient, impatient boys down
Impatient, impatient girls down
To keep searching on

Better go get a gun, go get a gun
To stay afloat on an ocean of sex and money
Well, this could be your lucky day

Impatient, impatient boys down
Impatient, impatient girls down
Impatient, step[?], well, you'd better bow down
Over the edge of devotion, the edge of devotion
Keep searching on
Keep searching
Keep searching
Keep searching
Keep searching

This could be your lucky day
This could be your lucky day
This could be your lucky day
This could be your lucky day

Keep searching on

12. Golden Ratio

Some men would seek of all the treasures untold
Crave things that gleamed and all the riches and gold that a man could need
More than money to choke on, consumed by greed, and a hungry man must feed

They'd hunt you down, down, down
They'd hunt you down, down, down, down
They'd hunt you down
So run
Just run

Well, ha, fucking ha!
How did we end up here?

Some women who need opulence in this world
Whore themselves through for all the diamonds and pearls that a woman needs
More than honour to choke on, in word and deed, to let their animal feed

They'd hunt you down, down, down
They'd hunt you down, down, down, down
They'd hunt you down
So run
Just run

Well, ha, fucking ha!
Where do we go from here?
Well ha, fucking ha! Yeah!
Just where do we go from here?

13. Fall Of The Empire

Thesis and anthitesis
Go destroy your opposite
Dividing and conquering
Worked your fingers to the bone
Bring the creatures two by two
Money makers to the sword
Raised an empire there to leave
Standing for a thousand years

A thousand years

But who put the willing in their armies?
Who put the bloodlust in their servitude?
Who let the flame throwers on the playground?
Who turned the children to soldiers to follow you?

Are you waiting for the fall?

Well, isn't it about time?
It's so inevitable
You've come here with nothing at all

Fire and brimstone preacher man
Know that holy scriptures say
Eat alive the children and
Sail their souls away
Into the wilderness
Into virgin skulls and bones
Master of the unknown world
Until the day you die

The day you die

But who put the willing in their armies?
Who put the bloodlust in their servitude?
Who let the flame throwers on the playground?
Who turned the children into soldiers?
Who let corruption in the heartland?
And who are the killers in sheep's clothing?
Who wait to proclaim each new conversion?
Hail each seizure and those that follow you

Well, are you waiting for the fall?

Now isn't it about time?
It's so inevitable
You'll leave here with nothing at all

14. Bloodtest

Crimson velvet from my arm
Slowly seeping, swirling down
A voice is speaking, please be calm
So deeply sleeping
'Cause ignorance is bliss
Your ignorance is bliss

From a hole I'm leaking, with a red alarm
My heart is slowly beating
God keeps us safe from harm
And just look I'm leaking moments
My blackest darkest moments
Secrets I'm releasing outwards
Please, don't become my dirty traitors

Everyone's made errors of judgement
Everyone's gone and made mistakes
Everyone's got a hidden secret
Everyone's done things they later regret

Symptoms include malaise, discomfort, and fatigue,
Loss of appetite, loss of weight, sore throat, headache,
Joint or muscle pain, night sweats, sores in the mouth, swollen lymph nodes,
Diarrhea, vomiting, fatigue, and nausea.

Everyone's made errors of judgement
Everyone's gone and made mistakes
Everyone's got a hidden secret
Everyone's done things they later regret

Crimson velvet from my arm
Slowly seeping, swirling down

15. Oscar Night / Embryo

Big fuck off Hollywood
And the paradox of tolerance
The engineering of consent
An America for Americans
Preserved in amber
Like genes for dinosaurs
The dreams of the powerless
Death to Hollywood
Death to Hollywood
To Hollywood

There's a big fuck off Hollywood
In a church built by slaves
Where all glitters and twinkles
And hungry are all the poors* that you made
Where the weather's fine
And dark clouds all gather
For oscars and facelifts
Death to Hollywood
Death to Hollywood
Death to Hollywood
Let's put at an end to Hollywood
To Hollywood

16. Forever And More

I came alive in a burst of heavenly light
Climbed up the ropes to the stars
Cascaded in their fiery blast
Lost in the vast wilderness, drifting and alone
Naively in ignorance of woe and born running through infinite skies
Hold on
I’m coming from fire and ice burn strong in the devil inside of you

Well, what's new?

Now is the time to decide
Just who do you want to become?
Hold your head up to the sky, to the chapel on high
Down to your bone, to your core
Would you stand for
For forever and more
For forever and more
For forever and more
For forever and more

Is an open door
To step right through
To where have you gone
Have you found yourself where you once started from?
And rising your fist at the sun, you said, don’t make me come up there, my fiery one
With gunships and valkyries all geared up to go
Well, I know that shangri-la's not so far from here
So reach for the stars and you might grab one
There's supernovas left to ride on
They all dive right into you

Just like you

Well, now is the time to decide
Just who do you want to become?
Hold your head up to the sky, to the chapel on high
Down to your bone, to your core
Would you stand for
For forever and more
For forever and more
For forever and more
For forever and more

Is an open door

To step right through
To step right through





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