NOT ONE IS UPRIGHT LYRICS

1. The Mental Propensities Of Phineas Gage

Zeal for your house has consumed me
The Son, the crucifix, The King and the Kingdom.
All are present now, in this moment.
His love demands your everything, the price has been paid.
Mouth, her lips meet only to part
Steel rod, covered in blood and brain
Endless she speaks of blackened heart and lung, of the blazing pity’s sake
Foaming at the mouth
Spilling, dribble on the ground
Link by link she fetters an endless chain
Clever devil, once beggar
Seek not your kingdom, seek your king.
The cityscape, torching the sky, glowing heavens above, the asphalt and tar. Stake the sons and daughters on this altar of the feast. Gut the capricious pig. Scepters of the swine, gorge at the trough. They care not for what they eat. Earth bound hearts, funneled under these city streets, swarm the relentless bees.
The queen has lost her hive.
The queen
Gorge at the trough
They care not for what they eat.

2. Wake Up, #37, Wake Up

You bolt the door
And swallow the key
That’s right, say you can’t believe
There’s no need-when you’re freed-will to be
This is art.
Cannot see-can’t perceive-cannot be
The coming of the end
Wince:
Strain to see-in this void-we’re losing it
Is the art of man
Wrench these words from my jaws, drain, dehydrate
Because these words are fallible imperfect vessels tossing in a sea of thought
I can’t tell you the truth but I can tell you where it is.
Dilettante
Settle or panic,
Passion blurs your vision
Midst your stride,
Risk it
You start to fade
Drop anchors. I can show you where it is.
Drop anchors.
Unrefined, my paradigm
Function, form, and fashion:
I know that what I am saying is raw, but witness the turning wheels of this global economy, grinding up man into ever smaller pieces. I see blank eyes and restless drawls responding to the emerging crisis of modern life, ringing emotions out. Don’t invent inside what is out. Reason knows perfection as thirst knows water. If you’re thirsty, then believe and satisfy your thirst. Drink from this cup. Come on bended knee. Don’t let passion brand your battle, it’ll only wear you out. Drink at the cross of redemption.

3. So I Asked The Gatekeeper

Love in the guise of empty purity
Writhing in their graves
Grief has set the stage
Love in the guise of empty purity
This is the end of the hunt
The jackal’s on his way
Don’t return his gaze
These are the final days
Grief has set the stage
Fight back, fight back
No more time for this
Don’t look, don’t look
These are final days
Fight back, fight back
Writhing in their graves
I am sick of this
Empty purity
No more time for this
Don’t keep silent! We are writhing in our misgivings. Grief has set the stage. Our every breath is vain. Don’t keep silent, Oh God, don’t keep silent!
Because if you keep silent, I have no reason left to speak.

4. Where There Is Shame, There Is Fear

Reproach with back against the wall
Violate the bride
Placed under the spotlight
Exposed to degrading things
Come thief, make your sway
Forced to bud before their time
Displayed in pomp before their lusting eyes
Through no fault of their own
Father, husband, son
Cling to her waist
Her beauty emanates in brevity
Tonight the petals begin to fade
Exposed in their shame
Thrown out, left to decay
Through no fault of their own
Abandoned by those who made them into what they are

5. Unrefined, My Paradigm

Shudder
Plant your feet, the cold has crept in to stay
Grope along the rails
Sight begins to fail
Trip, timber
Sorrow laden
I told you, weep with only those you trust

6. The State Vs. The Librarian

Words ignite silent stirs in men
Repress
Keep them locked away
Deflate humanity from the man
As she travels a vacuum trails behind
The name of Christ is on the crutches of these columns strewn across the land
You are subject to his grace
Where else do you find life but in breath?
This capsule has carried us long enough
Obsolete
Fire rages behind the barrier. What point is a fire if we can’t feel its warmth? While the trembling disenfranchised receive the lukewarm ashes, intangible, coals of fear and not of love glow, with the backlight of restless resentment. Division. division and dominance. But brothers and sisters, the curtain is torn, the dead have buried their own, the King is come. The King has come. The King has come.

7. Axes And Owl Eyes

Aspiring
The chimney sweeps
Step after staggering step
Struggles the enfeebled son
Ascending the blackening spires of towers
Charcoal stains under his fingernails
Could be a claw for the flesh stretched upon it
Eyes gaze dead bent
On death bent sons
Brief as wind, the sons go every which way
With no place
We can finally breathe

8. The Watchmaker

Passion, sweat, and blood
Wash up on this beach of time
From the rites of the temples and the kings to the vile brothels emerge the clockwork face
Grain by grain of sand pass through the hourglass, she shall pass
She measures, pacing, pleasure marks the fleeting seconds
Toe the line
Appetite drives the beast
She is the clockwork’s face
Revolve round the thistles and the thorns of this barren earth
Coax the rising tide
Ripples pulse into waves of fury at the earth
And the beast reigns
Until the King returns

9. Aren’t You Very Afraid?

Flies swarming around stick thin body and gaunt face, his skin looks as if it has been tightly fitted over his bones.
Scabs are on most of his joints, as if he is starting to stretch at the seams, in tattered rags stained brown from the sooty streets, bulging belly of gas. That’s only the start, that’s not even the worst.
Human trafficking: the body of a sickly young girl lays strewn by these rails, raped so many times that her spine has been inverted.
The home has been perverted; divorce has desecrated the marriage bed. Pornography, exploitation of women, plastic surgery, abortions for convenience sake. Our sons have lost dignity and pride. What did you think was going to happen?
The object has never been to point the finger or place the blame. But the truth of the matter is that we as a people, as a nation, and as a world, are completely broken.

10. No, I Am Full Of Joy

We were born for constant joy
Step into it at any moment
For there is grace for all people
I want to see this place on fire
A million hearts burning as one
Exalt the Spirit
Praise His name alone
We are all united under one banner of hope and love
And I am convinced that neither death nor life, angels nor demons, the present nor the future, nor any powers. Neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus, our Lord.
All of You is pure
And all you take unto You
Oh Father, restore the bride you’ve lost
And take away the shame
This is the kingdom!
There is a light!







NOT ONE IS UPRIGHT LYRICS