IQ LYRICS

1. Capital Letters

If only I were a snake
I would fly from tree to tree
And eat the coconuts from their holes
Ha ha ha

2. About Lake Five

[Instrumental]

3. Intelligence Quotient

Is it me that you're speaking to?
Can you really put me down?
Do you know the things to say?
What will happen in the meantime?

Are you telling me the truth?
Can you really put me down?
Would you bother if you could?
What will happen if you do?

What will happen to my friends?
Will they be the same as you?
Can you tell me if I'm wrong?
When will I be right again?

4. For Christ's Sake

[Instrumental]

5. Barbell Is In

One of these days you'll find
So much rhythm in your head
Can serve to clean your mind
and the voices you can hear
Can't relate to what you see
and the monotone inflection
Infiltrates internally

Barbell is in, Barbell is in
Barbell is in, Barbell is in

One of these days you'll find
So much rhythm in your head
Can serve to clean your mind
and the voices you can hear
Can't relate to what you see
and the monotone inflection
Infiltrates internally

Barbell is in, Barbell is in
Barbell is in, Barbell is in

6. Fascination

I was waiting for the change
To come from underneath the ground
Caught in half-light, there she stood
But I had given all I could
Upside down the shape looked normal
In its magic uniform
I can't remember getting older
I can't get it off my mind

It's only fascination diving
Keeps my spirits half-alive
My infatuation driving my incentive to survive

Does it suffocate the daughters
Or does torture sink a thrill?
Still obsessed with time will time
It's now and never, watch it swell

It's only fascination diving
Keeps my spirits half-alive
My infatuation driving my incentive to survive

It may be far away but it's here to stay
New reminders sway into yesterday
She walks towards me now
She lives, I don't know how
I can hardly move, I can hardly breathe

Roses, I am chrome
No, she's not at home
Shot down to the bone
Sitting here alone
She walks towards me now
She lives, I don't know how
I can hardly move
I can hardly believe in even nothing
I hide you in bullets, I had it all
Still dragged from shock to shock
One drink to let me sink
If I never see you again
If I'm jaded, stretched or cleaned
Don't tell me, I guessed
While you bled for me less
I love what you used to be

7. For The Taking

I still have a dream, a dream that is mine
That when this is over, they'll empty my spine
Still the sweet smell of burning alive
If God prods my liver, I'll let go the line

I'm stuck in the trench with the stench of decay
and nothing can be what it wasn't today
I've not slept in days with my wits going numb
Wish she could see what I've become

Holding my breath, take my last breath
Addicted to this
I wouldn't say a word
I don't want my children
Staggered with hump backs
No feeling to wake, not even to die
I'm dying for her to ask where I am
I'm dying for her, she don't give a damn
I'd almost forgotten how rotten skin fails
Not even in my death can her beauty pale
and she come tear a tear from my eye
So call me a coward but how would you fight ?
And talk about heaven and days when we danced
But down here, Christ, Heaven it can't stand a chance
and you make me so sick for murdering Slovik
For having no tug of your war

You never would listen
A surrogate has risen

8. It All Stops Here

I can feel the movement
Growing all around me everywhere
I can hear the language of the revolution every day

If you pledge to join me
We can fight for reason everywhere
All the things we wished for
Are ours for the asking anyway

Many years ago we lived here
All too soon our hopes were drowned
Now as if I never knew you
Life goes on in different towns
and I can walk round you, past you, through you
Because you're only ghosts now
Yes, I can walk round you, past you, through you
Because you're only ghosts now

Somehow in this silent city
A little of us still remains
Mingled with the distant laughter
Fused with dust in future rains
And I can walk round you, past you, through you
Because you're only ghosts now
Yes, I can walk round you, past you, through you
Because you're only ghosts now

9. Eloko Bella Neechi

Close the door
Let the shadows fly from the night
Make the morning rise with the promise
Of new life, new fire
Brighter days, deeper hope unlimited





IQ LYRICS