SNAIL LYRICS

1. Mental Models

Under steeples gather winter-wolves
Blaming us for our desire
Edicts from the guilt economy
Domination inside

Relics from a modern fallacy
“Our observations sum life”
Enigmatic existentially
Anthropocentrism specious

[Chorus:]
Mental constructs of oppression
Lies to make your views right
Expose your reason to the first event
Deconstruct and emerge

Toxic cynicism antidote
Faith should not be so blind
But common sense is just an artifact
In Plato’s cave we surmise

2. Sleep

When you hear the tired spun
Voice of many face
Scared to say goodbye
Pasted by my heart
Skipping many precious
Pain stuck like a bone

So it’s time to say hello
Tests and autumn trials
Somewhere down my line
Line up on the left
Plugged up and denying
Sure do miss you sleep

[Chorus:]
So come on and say
I won’t take your shit
Yeah you can trust me
Cuz I have been there man

While shutting in no stood?
Powder zen is lying
Palms toward the sky
Eyes down to the ground
Slave man bent and willing
Knees on self-imposed

Joker-smile undead
Final unbecoming
Clamp down and close in
Dark messages refrain
Too late for the mend
Sure do miss you sleep

3. Underwater

When I can’t begin to take in all the din
I covet to propose to solve for where I am
All ultraviolet hues red spectra left above
Impatient to my call, obsessed with down below

Now find the water mass with senses from before
Way back where acid make you look so long ago
Old creatures calling from the depths you can’t ignore
We’ll fill our lungs with liquid far beyond the shore

[Chorus:]
All to get away from you
Underwater turning blue
No rewards for wealthy few
Underwater turning blue

Now months and years had passed and surfacing I found
There’s still so much to do while I’m above the ground
Escape and comfort dead, now vehemence is born
Above the water now but yearning for the shore

Come on and join us

4. Committed

In the devil’s parlor
I became enraged
Full of sacred powder
Fucked up in my head

[Chorus:]
You can’t get to me, I’m really out there
Structure’s what you need, and I can’t deliver
Always seem to blow anything stable
Come on down now, and sit at my table

Permanent committal
Embryonic sleep
Swallowed by The Other
I can finally see

5. Via/Penny Dreadful

Forward oppose
Ideal, exemplar
Occur and convocation stir

Obtuse third eye
Do this tomorrow
They would replace him
Stand here forever
A show impossible
This animal…
No more impossible it seems

[Chorus:]
Warm it down
Warm it down
Manifest (real is in the way)

Onus betrays
No change eternal
The weight of gnosis
Dead eyes unblinking
Shards of evasion spray
The others now
In Carbon Chauvinism weep…

Real is in The Way
Real is in the way!
Real is in The Way

6. Relief

You can ride a bike for bread
Just don’t fall off the earth
Simple times were never there
We all rewrote the book
A candied thought so pinpoint-pure
Only in theory though
I can feel my man is near
Relief is almost here

[Chorus:]
I guess I’ll see you, you’re out for the night
Tomorrow we start taking back our lives
I have to know, are you there?
Until you wake up I’ll just let you smile

There’s no need to tap a vein
Unless you’re decadent
Watch the smoke that’s hanging still
The clouds inside my room
Let’s conjure up some thunderheads
And watch the numbers change
Cuz nothing’s more than I can do
This city’s precedent

7. Blood

If you want blood, you got it
If you like bone, I’ll break it

[Chorus:]
Something came to me, now look into my eyes
Afraid you’ll go away, forget about our ties

[Outro:]
I gave today

8. Cleanliness

Made the claim
Don’t show up
You’re such a goddamn flake, it sure suits you
You pick the pain
Any color you like
You know it comes around
I’m glad it comes around

Get high…

Give it up now before it makes you a citizen
I won’t be found when the time comes for payment
You’re fucking up hard because you don’t need a favor
It’s simple to me to just write you off
It’s simple to me to just write you off
You never say sorry

9. Screen

You caught me strung out freakin’
Please don’t run so I can hurt you
My deal went down last Friday
Can’t see myself in that mirror

[Chorus:]
And when you call, you think I’m not here
But I can hear you fine it’s just I’ve lost my skills
So come on call me back, cuz I’m still listening
And we all need a friend…
Get another friend!
Have another rail!

So by the way, how’re you feeling?
Could you say that you’re involved?
And now you’re fine, trained in sorrow
Place it on your head, join the movement

Why?!

10. Not For Me

I’ve seen friends lose their lives
over one pair of eyes
And I’ve seen a friend lose his mind
And leave it on a mirror.

That’s not for me

I stand on the ground
Unable to reach you
Straight to the bottom
I won’t go to meet you
Like a ramp going up
And you keep slippin’ down
Like a ride at the circus
That you keep ridin’ ‘round

That’s not for me.

11. Blacklight

You could have said goodbye
You should have said goodbye
No more sedation still, I sigh…
You sure did get me high

[Chorus:]
Out of the woods, cold, stay a year
Grow yourself out and make a smile
Smoke can take us out of here
So take the herb and fill the pipe

The trees are green again
Changing sky from blue to red
Come sit down and talk with me
Where we can stare for hours…

[Outro:]
We won’t listen
We only stare
We’re always high
Couldn’t you stay -
In place of leaving?
Turn on a blacklight





SNAIL LYRICS