DEVIN TOWNSEND LYRICS

1. ZTO

Ziltoid!
(Ah!)

Ziltoid, Ziltoid
Ziltoid!
The omniscient

Ziltoid, Ziltoid
Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah, ah-ah-ah-ah
Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah, ah-ah-ah-ah-ah
Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah, ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah
Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah, ah-ah

(Ziltoid) Ziltoid! Yes!
The omniscient

[Ziltoid:]
Greetings humans, I am Ziltoid... the omniscient.
I have come far from across the Omniverse.
You shall fetch me your universe's ultimate cup of coffee... Black!
You have five Earth minutes.
Make it perfect!

2. By Your Command

My command!
My dominion!
Memory, heart and all opinion,

Hide me
Guide me,
Dry my tears,
Slowly taking back the years,

By your command,
By your command,
By your comrades,

No, I know,
All I am and,
We are not,
We are not to blame,
For all I have learned now,
We are not to blame,

Over and over,
And over and over,
And over you live it again!
(Touch it, take it)
Make it your friend!

[Ziltoid:]
You have not convinced mighty Ziltoid,
I am so omniscient; if there were to be two omnisciences
I would be both!
Prepare yourselves for the subjugation!

Hide me
Guide me,
Dry my tears,
By your command,
Slowly taking back

Now I know,
All I ask is,
We are not,
We are not to blame,
For all I have learned now,
We are not to blame!

Over and over,
And over and over,
And over you live it again!
(Touch it, take it)
Make it your friend!

Oh... the physical race
You're dying!
Oh with physical grace.

Gone too far for the universe,
Gone too far for the way on home (home)
Gone too far for the universe, the universe.

I'm flying...
Over physical,
I'm flying,
Over physical waste,
I'll keep it light, and stay awake.

[Ziltoid:] Commander...
[Commander:] Yes Captain Ziltoid!
[Ziltoid:] Have the humans delivered their ultimate cup of coffee?
[Commander:] I have it right here, sir.
[Ziltoid:] Yes...
[Ziltoid drinks the coffee]
[Ziltoid:] FETID! How dare they present this to me! FOUL! They hide their finest bean! Prepare the attack!

[Commander:] Commander Ziltoid! The humans are preparing themselves for the attack!
[Ziltoid:] Excellent! Have you prepared the planet smasher?
[Ziltoidian crew:] Yes, my lord.
[Ziltoid:] Indeed! On my word.
[Ziltoidian crew:] Yes, my lord...
[Human Commander:] Now listen here men! We represent the planet Earth! I want no heroes! He's gonna be unleashing a shit storm on us. We gotta be ready! They're coming over the horizon as we speak! We gotta be ready to take them down! Hold your position men! Do not fire until I tell you to fire! Have you got that?
[Troops:] Yes, sir!
[Human commander:] Right! Hold your position! Ziltoid, he comes!

Pound
Ready?

Pound pound pound ye pushy push pound pound
Pound pound pound ye pushy push pound
Pound pound pound ye pushy push pound pound
Pound! Pound! Pound! Pound! Pound!

Pound pound pound ye pushy push pound pound
Pound pound pound ye pushy push pound
Pound pound pound ye pushy push pound pound
Pound! Pound! Pound! Pound! Pound!

3. Ziltoidia Attaxx!!!

Attack!
People of Earth!
We are the Ziltodian Warlords,
Resistance is futile!

Ziltoidia attacks!
Ships are in the sky,
Everything goes rushing past,
And you know the reason why!

Bow down! Bow now

You give us a coffee!
You give us a coffee!
You give us what we want!

Ziltoidia att-tack-tack-tacks
Ships are in the sky,
Colder than the robot mind,
And you know the reason why!

You better believe we'll destroy the Earth!
You get up, you get up, you get up, get down!
And you better, you better, you better believe it!
We're coming to your town,
We're coming to your town and you better, you better, you better, you better, you better believe it!

Ziltoidia attacks!
Ships are in the air
Everything goes rushing by,
We're in your atmosphere

Ziltoidia attacks!
No-one seen everywhere
You better believe he's heaven sent
We present to you, Ziltoid the Omniscient

[Ziltoid:]
Check this out!
Simple
I am the greatest guitar player ever to have lived! I am Ziltoid!

You better believe we'll destroy the Earth!
We can't help, we cant' help, we can't help it now
And you better, you better, you better believe it!
We're coming to your town,
We're coming to your town and you better, you better, you better, you better, you better believe it!

Ziltoidia attacks!
Ships are in the air,
Everything goes rushing by,
We're in your atmosphere

Ziltoidia attacks!
No-one seen everywhere
You better believe he's heaven sent
We're in your atmosphere
(Ziltoid, Ziltoid, Ziltoid, Ziltoid)

Yes, you better, you better, you better believe it!
You better believe it humans!
Do you know what?
You better, you better, you better believe it!
You better believe it...

4. Solar Winds

[Narrator:]
Now, being hailed as the ultimate 4th dimensional guitar hero, Ziltoid feels confident in his complete victory.
But Captain Spectacular has seen through Ziltoid's façade and now sets out to expose Ziltoid for what he really is...a nerd.
A nerd...

We now join Captain Spectacular as he introspectively gazes out of his starship window, on his way to find the fifth dimensional Nebulo 9.

Did you know that time,
Is not a straight line?
Everything that you learn,
Now it's gone,
Gone away.
You take your time,
If you choose,
You'll burn...
Everything that you were,
Now it's gone,
Gone away.
Yeah it's gone,
Gone away,

Yeah it's gone,
Gone away,
Gone!
And the world is gone!
And we find there's no-one that's
Waiting for the light to come,
And we're on our own,
And we find there's no-one that's
Waiting for the light to call,
Now you're on your own,

And we find there's no-one that's
Waiting for the night to call.

[Captain Spectacular:]
I must rise! I must find a way! For this, Ziltoid must surely pay!
My fellow humans! I, Captain Spectacular, hereby give my good word!

Yeah it's gone, gone away,
Yeah it's gone, gone away,
Yeah it's gone, gone.

Solar wind blows,
Through my eye and control mind,
Solar wind blows,
Through my eye and control my mind,
Say it again!
Say it again!
Words are used for weapons!
Say it again, and again and again and again and again and again!
Don't let her down,
You've led her into my world!
Hey, you'll never learn,
You've led her into my mind.
Through your soul,
Your solar winds blowing cold.
You've never learned,
You've led her into my world.
Solar workings of your door,
The solar wind,
The solar winds blowing cold.

[Ziltoidian:] Commander Ziltoid, Permission to speak!
[Ziltoid:] Granted...
[Ziltoidian:] It appears as if Captain Spectacular and the remaining humans have set a course to the benevolent hive mine 9!
[Ziltoid:] Indeed...

Comfort me; you know I'm right,
Come to me into the night,
Knowing we are right behind,
The solar wind the solar winds blowing cold!
(Solar winds, solar winds blowing cold)

[Ziltoidian:] Commander Ziltoid the humans are no longer on our radar!
[Ziltoid:] What! Curses they must have jumped into hyperdrive. Phooey! Indeed, phooey! Until we meet again commander...

5. Hyperdrive

So cold, in the night,
Where the river flows,
Where the river flows.
So cold, in the night,
Where the river flows,
Where the river flows.

Sail away,
Hey, I'm sorry,
Everyday is a new day.
Hooray for love,
Hey, I'm only,
Trying to find a new way.

So cold, in the night,
Where the river's slow,
Say, the river's slows,
So cold, in the night,
Where the river's slow,
Say, the river's slows,
So cold...

Connect!

(Oh-uh, oh-uh-uh, yeah)

So cold, in the night,
Hold on
Hold on
So cold, in the night,
Hold on
Hold on

Sail away,
Hey, I'm sorry,
Every day's a new day,
Hooray for love.
Hey, I'm only
Trying the alien way
A new way
A new way
A new way...

She loves me not...

[Narrator:]
Having made their way through space, Captain Spectacular and his intrepid crew have arrived in Nebulo 9.
Unbeknownst to the humans, Ziltoid has also arrived

[Ziltoid:] Ha-ha! Surprise!

6. N9

Say to me,
Internally,
Explain to me,
Infinity,

(Nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine!)

Stay with me,
Internally,
Explain to me,
Infinity,

So calm,
Yet so volatile
Yet so powerful

It's so beautiful
So beautiful
Yet so vulnerable
I guess it's alright
It's alright

[Ziltoid:] I feel so vulnerable.

You have not seen the last of me! You have not seen the last of Ziltoid!

7. Planet Smasher

[Ziltoid:]
Yes, I feel like a good bit of entertainment. Time to destroy the planets.
Which one shall it be? This one? No, too feeble. This one, yes, perhaps.
Yes, indeed. This one shall do nicely. Commander...
[Commander:] Yes, Captain Ziltoid?
[Ziltoid:] Divert all the power from the main engines to the front guns.
[Commander:] Yes, captain Ziltoid. Will there be anything else?
[Ziltoid:] Take ninety percent of the surplus power and divert it toward the sonar awakening device...
[Commander:] Aye, aye, Captain.
[Ziltoid:]
We must summon the 6th dimensional planet smasher.
I feel like a bit of fun. Summon him.

[Planet Smasher:] Uh! Who dares awaken the planet smasher?
[Ziltoid:] It is I, the 4th dimensional Ziltoid the omniscient!

Cherish your mind,
Color your mind,
Cherish your mental sanctum.

Cower to war,
Cower to war,
Cower to war on the Earth

Cursed to be by the sun,
Power gain out,
You're the only one, who...

Channels the mind,
Channels the mind,
Channels the mind of the Earth

Cherish the pain (no, no)
Cherish the pain (no, no)
Cherish the mental weaponry (no, no)

Cower toward (no, no)
Cower toward (no, no)
Cowards remain on the Earth.

(Tell me what you want from me)

All I wanna be is the Omniverse
Parallel to beings, all around of us
Conduit to see through the Omniverse,
Letting the bombs go until tomorrow,

Bow (Smasher), bow (Smasher)
Bow to the valley below
Bow down (Smasher), bow (Smasher)
Bow to the valley below

Please, do not release the planet smasher, mighty Ziltoid.
We mean you no harm.

Bow (smash it), bow (smash it)
Bow to the valley below (Smasher)
Bow down (Smasher), bow (Smasher)
Bow to the valley below

Smasher!

All I wanna be is the Omniverse (Smasher)
Parallel to beings, all around of us (Smasher)
Conduit to see through the Omniverse
Through the Omniverse
Through the Omniverse

[Planet Smasher:]
Be gone, foul pest! And by the way the name's Herman.
And I hate musicals.

8. Omnidimensional Creator

Yo, God...

Weed...

[Narrator:]
Having been rejected by the planet smasher,
Ziltoid seeks the council of the omnidimensional creator.

[Ziltoid:] Assuage my confusion about creation and the universe.
[Creator:] Yo! Ziltoid, what's up, dude? Long time no see... although I see everything. What's on you mind, bro?
[Ziltoid:]
Modular forms and elliptic curves! Infinite fire revolving around infinite parallels, fractals of infinite reality, each cascading, gliding in an infinite wheel. Tell me the true nature of my reality!
[Creator:] Yeah, chill, man...

9. Color Your World

See how the waves of the world,
Keep lying to me,
See how the weight of the world,
Keeps lying on me,

Sooner or later,
The nights with the satyr,
Will bring back the memory,
In time...

See how the sight of it all,
Keeps flying to me,
Dance of the power of all,
He's trying to me,

Who's the weakest now?
Caught up in the wire,
I'm already gone,
Who's the weakest?

I concede to life,
To do whatever I need,
What's in a life,
But bodies?

Go, go, go!

So, I'm confusing, confounding

I'm Ziltoid!
I don't give a shit
I live above Earth
In a big rocket ship

I'm Ziltoid!
The horror!
The horror!
The horror!
The horror!
The horror!

Ouh!

Far, far, far away...
Far, far, far away...
Far, far, far away...
Far, far, far away...

Stay at home for me,
You and I are free,
To love, by the firewall,
Too loud for a while

Stay at home for me (Ziltoid the omniscient)
Come on I,
Are we? (Hah-hah)
In time,
You'll be gone again,
Too loud for a while

Say I'm wasting all my life,
Say I'm wasting time,

Stay at home for me (Ziltoid the omniscient!)
You and I are free
Too loud...

So, in the end,
It's beautiful,
It's beautiful,
Yes, in the end,
It's beautiful,
So beautiful.

You say you wanna know!
You say you wanna take it down!
You say you wanna know, know, know!
Well, now's the only time!

Are you sure you wanna know?
Are you sure you wanna take it down?
Are you sure you wanna go, go, go?

You're a puppet!

You are a puppet!
You are a puppet!
You are a puppet!
You are a puppet!

I am a puppet!
I am a puppet!
I am a puppet!
I am a puppet!

We are all puppets!
We are all puppets!

10. The Greys

Stay away from the unknown,
Stay away from me for a while,
Alone

In your own words,
In your own world,
For me

(So)

It's the greys again
I know, I know
And it's a sinister game they play
I know, I know

In your own words,
In your own world,
For me,

And the words,
They get so low!
And when they start,
To tear you apart,

You were right
You were always right
Ready or not here I come!

And the greys float our memories,
In the long haul,
And the greys wash away...

So...

Chaos!

So alone, alone, alone and alone...

And the words,
They get so low!
And when they start,
To tear you apart,

You were right,
You were always right there
Ready or not here I come!

And the greys float our memories,
In the long haul,
And they greys float our memories,
In the long haul,
And they greys float our memories,
In the long haul...

11. Tall Latte

[Man:] (Ah-ah-ah...) And they greys float our memories in the long haul...
[Boss:] Hey, slacker!
[Man:] Yeah, yeah, ah...
[Boss:]
Wake up! We got people standing here in line.
You're sitting there daydreaming. Come on!
[Man:] (Sorry...), sorry...
[Boss:] We got two Venti white chocolate Mochas, a tall Americano and a Grande cappuccino! Get your butt in gear! Come on!
[Man:] Oh, sorry, sorry, sorry. OK, two, ah...
[Customer:] Excuse me.
[Man:] Grande... Frappe...
[Customer:] Excuse me.
[Man:] Shit...
[Customer:] Ah, excuse me sir,
[Man:] Yeah, yeah.
[Customer:] I believe, I ordered a decaf, non fat, no whip, sugar free
[Man:] Sugar free...
[Customer:] Vanilla-flavoured latte.
[Boss:] Hey, slacker! Come on! Get to work! We got people lined up out the door over here.
[Man:] Yeah, yeah, I know, I know...
[Boss:] Come on! We got two Venti white Mochas, a Grande cappuccino and a tall latte! Let's go! Move it!

12. Don't Know Why

[Special-Edition Bonus Track]

Greetings, humans! I am Ziltoid The Omniscient. Welcome to the bonus disk of my first album "Ziltoid The Omniscient" ironically enough. In this next 10 to 15 minutes you will hear some terrible, terrible bonus material. But you know it's Ziltoid, so it's fun. Enjoy! Indeed.

Signal, high and low
They bring the tooth and the nail
Fast or slow.
Will you give me just one dammit second to bail out of reach,
Before I'll do as you, please... Times two!

'Cause I might be wrong,
Am I the only one who sees the damage is done?
And it won't be long before I loose my faith and make a run.
And become like you.
Indeed.

I will make another plan to find what's left, and nothing less!
Still, I won't thread, I'll find my own way and make it all worthwhile.

Call, call on me darkness
Wait, wait on me now
Won't you say, say that I'm sorry.
'Cause I won't wait.

So, I found another form, it's breathing life.
It must have been there the whole time when I was dead,
'Cause I was pledged to emptiness!
And now I let myself to see all the things I just didn't expect!

Still, I remember
Still, I repent
I never walked thought the nether despite my decent.

Reborn,
Acknowledging the past of me that was lost.
I have repressed too many years
My utopia was within my grasp
Doomed in absentia
Left to be sentenced
Still rising to cherish all the things I have left...

Call, call on me darkness
Wait, wait on me now
Won't you say, say that I'm sorry.
'Cause I won't wait!
Indeed.

[An interview with a Swedish interviewer.]

This is it!
Colors became so vivid that flowers, leaves, and fabrics seemed to be illumined from inside. The random patterns of blades of grass in a lawn appeared to be exquisitely organized without, however, any actual distortion of vision. Black ink or sumi paintings by Chinese and Japanese artists appeared almost to be three dimensional photographs, and what are ordinarily dismissed as irrelevant details of speech, behavior, appearance, and form seemed in some indefinable way to be highly significant.
Listening to music with closed eyes, I beheld the most fascinating music; Patterns of dancing jewelry, mosaic, tracery, and abstract images.
At one point everything appeared to be uproariously funny, especially the gestures and actions of people going about their lives and everyday business actions.
Ordinary remarks seemed to reverberating with double and quadruple meanings, and the role-playing behavior of those around me not only became unusually evident but also implied concealed attitudes contrary or complementary to the overt intention.
In short, the screening or selective apparatus of our normal interpretative evaluation of experience had been partially suspended, with the result that I was presumably projecting the sensation of meaning or significance upon just about everything. The whole experience was vastly entertaining and interesting, but yet as nothing like any mystical experience that I'd had before. Indeed.

Yes, yes, yes. Ziltoid The Omniscient here. Thank you so much for pay attention. Close, rapt attention. I'm sure you have. Until the next time know this – "Ziltoid The Omniscient" feels an incredibly warm sensation in his mid region taught you. I think you call it love. We from Ziltodian call it hot burn.
Indeed.
Good evening!

13. Travelling Salesman

[Special-Edition Bonus Track]

14. Untitled

[Special-Edition Bonus Track]

(So...)

So long, it's all
So long, you are
So long, it's all
So long, you are

(Say...)

Say it again
Say it again
Say it again
Say it
(You say...)

So long, it's all
Yeah-ouh, so long
So long, it's all
Yeah-ouh, so long

(So...)
(Say...)

Say it again
Say it again
Say it again
Say it

So, so, so...







DEVIN TOWNSEND LYRICS