PREMONITIONS OF WAR LYRICS

1. Mother Night Revisited

Biting through tongues and foaming at the mouths. Splicing together what
will not pan out. Wax works for bitter pills, yet vials and spoons seem
better still. Trade all the lines that you cut in for all the hours spent
blacked out and shivering into mother night again. Trade all your needles
for all the sleep you've missed. As much as you can get. She'll tuck you
into pitch.

2. Layover

Sweating out the hours meticulously collected, pinpointed and highlighted.
Scratching off events and fifth lines for a better sense of purpose.
Tallying up what's gone done for good. On the outskirts of familiarity,
complacency has terminal light. And total silence, a welcome foreign
language. Outrun them all. Outrun their marathon. Outrun them on everyone's
time but my own.

3. Night Soil

A sick holiness painted all around the streets. This overwhelming failure
peeling through speaks volumes. Monoliths close in on deep greens and milked
atmosphere. Acres of rabid flashing plastics coat the decay.

4. Stolen Breath

Undone and ever-changing, sprawling out and reaching forward. Stretched out
to the bay and back over again, over and over again. Past sad fences and
filled in fountains. Pennies in the eyes of dragons. Corroded and sedate
like no other goddess.

5. One Constant Volume

Chasing tranquility through a maze of secret numbers and backdoors. Back
burners hum in the background. A mix of illicit and innocent. The mean reds
pushed aside for a little while by obsessions and invasions going hand in
hand.

6. Black Den

Sinking into a routine heaven and scorching out the wires that have wound us
up for years. Scraping the sin away from the windows and pushing the guilt
up to the roof. Dragging the dead weight into the street.

7. Cables Hum Overhead

Lines stretched out to storm and torch.

8. Citizen

Personal exile is a personal utopia. Anonymity is bliss.
A faceless nirvana amidst this horde of neon-huffing human refuse.
Strung out on fluorescence and pure-cut incandescence.

9. Octopus

Fingerprints on clouded out transfers and identity theft. Where forged
documents guarantee safety. Shredded evidence of some obscure masquerade. Of
Blurred nights held together by black ink and cold tones instead of warm
voices and lies warmer still.

10. Covered In Lights

Arches and walkways with open mouths and rotting teeth. Open your arms to
welcome me into your routines and driving paces. Give me somewhere to shut
it out unnoticed and disappear completely into deafening silence. Cover me
in your lights.

11. Capsule Hotel

Harmony in slipping out of the existence of me. Rotting into bliss again and
crawling inside to sleep them all off. White lights and rested heads
dropping the "better left unsaid." Blending into their ambience like the
background music it is. Bathing in the isolation. Miles wash off and hands
left worthless.

12. Dim Light District

Direction with no sense. Wandering aimlessly and throwing sidelong glances
down unlit alleyways. Wondering if film is really picking up time stopping
for everyone else. Slipping past a security camera's lapsed hours. Off limit
mansions and dim light districts covering the escape.







PREMONITIONS OF WAR LYRICS