BURST LYRICS

1. I Hold Vertigo

What is the nature of this?
A standard always amorphic
Strange, how easy to list:
Routine tediously cyclic

I don't know where I get it from
I rely so much on expectation
Castles of air amidst this very sober reason
Yes I profess abnegation
But never you mind;
Great hopes, little one, I'll bear your delusion

I admit that no one is sovereign
Not even I
No, I don't even try
I admit that no one is sovereign
Not even I
No, I don't even try

And never you mind -- I've asked nothing of you
Nothing which lies at your promise behest
Never has nothing rang true

I don't know where I get it from
I rely so much on expectation
Castles of air amidst this very sober reason
Yes I profess abnegation
But never you mind;
Great hopes, little one, I'll bear your delusion

Master all by easy hand,
I commit no act of violence
Marching to the strike of fragile cadence

And I see you in the corner, distressed
Somehow I'm not impressed

I admit that no one is sovereign
Not even I
No, I don't even try
I admit that no one is sovereign
Not even I
No, I don't even try

But I wonder, when did we decide?
If you're determined, I promise it's done
I am with you
Changing from nothing to one

2. I Exterminate The I

Moral shadows dancing on these walls
A surge of insight amidst the fall
To know this commonwealth again
The spectre growing ever tall

And no creed remains
Only filth detained
No more wanton blindness
Disregard the value slain

In these halls -- words of grandeur riding
A western code, I detest all placid laws
Only creatures of the earth abiding

The fowl of the air
And the fish of the sea
As these I conjure
Us rendered unity reborn

Disappear
Flee
Not wither slowly away
The wind will carry me
To leave behind that which plagues a man
To simply flee

And your moral shadows dancing evermore
No surge of insight
Acuity closed the door
Forget a commonwealth again

As I exterminate the I

And start to live again

3. We Are Dust

In this skeletal form, rupture skin and flesh
Wake these eyes of bone to life
In this skeletal form, rupture skin and flesh
The ashes of the dead arise

Past an enormity of stifling redundancy
We suck breath into this dry carcass
With joints that crack and veins that run gravel
To set in motion, exultant
Skeleton, churning rivers of smoke
Skies laughing with blood

Islands separated by a fraction of surface
Conductors through holy submission and humble duty
Shed an iron shroud and inverting fire
Vibrant ghoul, birthing thunder and lunacy

Serve

Reaver, fool, carve justice from within
Priestess, exacting judgment of a silver globe
Apparition dissolve
Dissolve and depart

In this skeletal form, reverberate and shudder
In this larval state, germinate and stutter
In this skeletal form, carry until it is over

Serve

4. Momentum

Sediment upon sediment
Lapping like waves at my spine
To linger in this fury
You versus I

Welcome opponent
You versus I
Negation in smothering grip
To behold and despise

Yet if I strain my eyes
I still glimpse an unspun
Mile of lies between us,
So tread lightly
My enemy

5. Cripple God

I, author of strife
Spread ashen wings
Mad avian glare
Sharpen both talon and break

Simplify to
Modify to
Amplify to
Carry them to war

Heave, hordes
Bring me their heads on a plate
Heave, hordes
Lord of their doom and their fate

I, shepherd of fools
Congress of goats
Fell masses bleat
With lust for black blood

I will carry them to war

Simplify to
Modify to
Amplify to
Carry them to war

Heave, hordes
Bring me their heads on a plate
Heave, hordes
Lord of their doom and their fate

I will carry them to war

6. Nineteenhundred

A Goliath so spasmodic
Turn of events,
Ominous, historic
Safeguard a creed demonic
Love of war and war for love
Through this age
The ranks of this disaffected swelled

The spectacle of imperia
Wheel of doctrine in motion

An industrialized anemia
A wind of retaliation

I see your blood-red eye
And you sore interpretation
No comfort when you die
Let's talk of origin, a common source

Indus festival of men
You see, the way the river flows
We are one, in grimy fever damned
And I'm tired, sardonic

And I'm tired, sardonic
Dancing
To your dirge catatonic
To hear these precious bells in harmony
The dispossessed, and their manifest
A token melody

7. (We Watched) The Silver Rain

We used to care
But things have changed
Where joy should reign
Painted lines on your face
To grasp your gaze restrained
So tranquil the outside rain

Stillborn, my child
Underneath the skull of night
The cold has a voice
The one that made me so old
And sweet determination
That versatile thing
It's not consolation
You are here to learn

We were born in this town
Where we cherished quiet rain

Stories everywhere
Lives were sculpted here

In this town where few know love
Our communality once so strong
Things here have changed
It airs no need to hold

I would like to meet the villain somewhere
He who tore apart
Burn his eyes with fire
And then step back, fall into peace

And watch the silver rain
The tranquil silver rain

8. City Cloaked

The city I am
My alleys veins, my water nurture
Nobody need stand on ceremony before my doors
I am a home to you
And to them
Of ashes they come
In sackcloth cloaked

Much was told of me
Listen to my names, different by tongue
A rose by any other name smells just as sweet

The banners flying in the wind over my towers
Purposeless
I have no flag, no religion
No loyalty
I harbour all but stand for none
A waver, declaring my immunity

Diaspora
The one without religion inside the dogma
Listen to those long gone
It is they who are loyal to me
Those in sackcloth
And those who yearn for me

Some are pious, some cater to whims,
Some provoke
But I am a labyrinth of layers
Find only sense
Without a compass

For the city I am







BURST LYRICS