THE LORD WEIRD SLOUGH FEG LYRICS

1. Headhunter

Down the morning comes and burns the ground
Shrunken heads are piled to the sky
Kneeling over signs I make no sound
Hallowed oracle of spirits die

Victims of the sign in steel engraved
Whispered prayers forgotten when they fall
Battered by the wind I'm still enslaved
Punctured vein of life has freed them all

Vines in the trees, open eyes in the air
Tribes of the hills in despair
Scaling the breeze over fires bright and bare
Spines break with ease everywhere

Eye of the night scratching fables across
The sweat and the soil of the land
Igneous block pounding blood into stone
Voices that issue the sand

2. Discourse on Equality

There was a discourse on equality
As mankind stepped in from the cold
When Thales raised his finger to the wind
And Heraclitus broke the mold

Chains of liberty
Mankind's misery

I represent the civil creatures
And I possess the general will
Forever in a state of nature
I'll give my blessing for the kill

Chains of misery
Mortal sovereignty

For all their sad and evil features
The only man-made rule of thumb
For such a sad and lonely creature
Creating nature to succumb

3. The Apology

Moments of two after drinking the hemlock
I stare at his lecherous gaze
Pondering back through the decades and centuries
Follow his wretched ways
Echoes resounding the madness and suffering
On his Procrustean bed
"Off with his head!"

All there wasted and gone
All for philosophy's son

Mission to Delos preparing for sacrificing
Far from the prisoner's cell
Seconds before all the echoes of tragedy
Freed from Minotaur's spell
Ignorant jurors condemn the philosopher-king
For his arrogant ways
Shackles are lifted, a cock to Aselepius

Moments or two after drinking the hemlock
I stare at his lecherous gaze
Crowning achievement of decadent centuries
Followed his wretched ways
Echoes resounding the madness and suffering
Upon his Procrustean bed
Mongoloid virtues of indolent citizens
Sounding "Off with his head!"

4. Being and Nothingness

Existence is my crime
Abound to land in time
With no goals to comprehend

Arrived upon the scene
No gods to intervene
And no being left in time

Out of nothingness I'm born
I'm obvious and forlorn
Just a being out of time
A distorted nursery crime

Our brains are left in vats
The labyrinth and the rats
With no world to comprehend

Perversions of the soul
Theodicies unfold
But your mind has met its end

And their bodies go to waste
Decomposing in bad taste
In a Labyrinth of wine
I'm avoiding space and time

5. New Organon

The founding forces of the Earth
The mover of the stars
Are getting closer to my mind
Induction to the timeless forms
Before the final cause
The unexamined life they find

From the soul to observing the stars and their cause
Through a hole in the Earth where the mind's eye will fall

Through air and water, earth and fire
Discovery is slow
The Earth is round, the will is free
The square of opposition lies
The skepticism grows
Into an age of sophistry

For the sum of my knowledge will conquer the Earth
And the sons of my college will rise and give Earth

6. Sword of Machiavelli

Mindlessly plodding along with the hoard
Reality's making you bored
By and by you live by the sword

Over and Over you turn in your grave
The power to rule and enslave
On and on it's worship you crave

One victim of Mephistopheles
One victim to die by the sword
One Victim of Mephistopheles

Soon to unfold Machiavellian plans
For fatal destruction of man
Mindless masses won't understand

One victim of Mephistopheles
One victim to die by the sword
One Victim of Mephistopheles

Vacant diplomacy, humanist gods
Composing a legion of clods
On and on the Florentine plods

7. Uncanny

Uncanny the ability to foresee
What has been unknown
The cavalry leads you to this fantasy
It's about to be blown
Let it be recurring reality
And you know it will take you down
You can see it's no more than fantasy
What you seem to think you know
Uncanny is the sense that you have seen me
Before today's shadow
If you will see the line that blurs reality
The coming curve will ease that much now
SEE the beast who came up this hill to
FIGHT you and your faithful progeny who
WILL destroy the tattered colonies
And take away what you have grown
STILL the battle screams harmony that
MIGHT call a distant enemy from the
HILL he is army of one
Who comes from parts unknown

8. Coming of Age in the Milky Way

Through a mirror, thought reflecting the past
Coming clearer, just to leave me aghast
Tales to remember, serve to dismember my mind
And send me backward in time

Restless slumber, breathing life from my cell
Still encumbered with the burdens of hell
Join in the slaughter
Just treading water and time
Is that what keeps me in line?

Whirling vortex caught in relative speed
Warping matter, gravitational greed
Born in the center, slowly descended in time
Survival's my only crime

Thoughts awaken, only taken by force
On the spectrum, leading back to its source
Join the slaughter
Just treading water and time
Survival's my only crime

9. Exegesis/Tragic Hooligan

Aseity's Rare!
A sordid affair!
But you'll be the one to which they compare!

Contingency's square!
A doctrine of air!
The burden of life that no one can bare!

Eternity's boom!
The symbol of doom!
The dust in the air that no one can broom!

The room is so black
But under the cracks
The moribund tales
That harken you back

Where will you go?

You've painted the scene
When you were so green
The colors you chose
Now seem so obscene

Where will you go?

The world is so gray
Incessantly frayed
When tales that you've pun
Begin with decay

10. The Cynic

I tried to imitate myself causing pain
My friend Diogenes lost all sense of shame
A victim's innocence acquired on the street
That special wisdom that comes with defeat
Victuals of cynicism are crowding in my brain
Corroded geniuses that stayed in the game

The night has ripened from laborious day
Accrued indulgences just get in the way
I tried to warn myself of that creature within
This ageing Romeo has only begun







THE LORD WEIRD SLOUGH FEG LYRICS