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I, I′ve suffered long enough in this ghost town
I saw the walls, called their bluff and tore them down

When I think of all the time I′ve wasted
All the bitter pills I′ve tasted
I have to hang my head and frown
I, I′ve suffered long enough in this ghost town

Soon came a day under skies that were gray
When I knew I couldn′t stay in this ghost town full of
Clones and clowns and carbon copy towns, with
Kine and swine and nothing that was mine,
And this town′s decline with my hatred intertwined,
So I gather all I find and I bolted it to me,
Fueled my fires and I grabbed my pliers, and I′m lit!

I made my own machine
Yes, we′re building steam
I hate the same routine.

I made my own machine
Yes, we′re building steam
I hate the same routine.

I, I never looked back--I want to never return
If I could find a fuse, those bridges would burn

But I keep this horse at a run
Keep my hand to my gun
My path the vampires have learned.
So I, I can never look back; I can never return.

Soon came a day under skies that were gray
When I knew I couldn′t stay in this ghost town full of
Clones and clowns and carbon copy towns, with
Kine and swine and nothing that was mine,
And this town′s decline with my hatred intertwined,
So I gather all I find and I bolted it to me,
Fueled my fires and I grabbed my pliers, and I′m lit!

I made my own machine
Yes, we′re building steam
I hate the same routine

(repeat last three lines 5x)

@ Abney Park

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All these roots run deep,
And this tree is old,
This trunk is rotten
All these leaves have mold

Is it in our blood?
Or is it from abuse?
Past generations,
Legacy of misuse?

I know my blood runs hot,
And I′ve seen my blood is thick
I′m told my bloods not sweet,
And I cry, "My soul is sick"

We′re the children of children
And we′re handing down their pain
The root of all evil
Is the sanity left to gain?

We were the victims, we were the culprits
We were the children who cry at night
We are the hunted, and we do the hurting
We are the children who cry at night

The fathers father father
May have made this truth
Or was it in HIS blood
This legacy of abuse

We′re the children of children
And we′re handing down there pain
The root of all evil
Is the sanity left to gain?

We were the victims, we were the culprits
We were the children who cry at night
We are the hunted, and we do the hurting
We are the children who cry at night

All these roots run deep,
And this tree is old,
This trunk is rotten
All these leaves have mold

Is it in our blood?
Or is it from abuse?
Past generations
Legacy of misuse?

We were the victims, we were the culprits
We were the children who cry at night
We are the hunted, and we do the hurting
We are the children who cry at night

We were the victims, we were the culprits
We were the children who cry at night
We are the hunted, and we do the hurting
We are the children who cry at night

@ Abney Park

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One hundred years ago isn′t long
Would you be blamed for another′s wrong
Generations claiming retribution
While your poets & your prophets are yelling "execution"

Who′s building the walls now?
Who′s building the walls now?
I never held you down
I never put you down
I never held you down
Let′s be brothers

Ten billion people all unique
You′ve only got one thing in common
The color of your cheeks
You put down your brothers who found a way to fit in
It′s survival of the fittest
But you say they′ve betrayed their own kin

Who′s building the walls now?
Who′s building the walls now?
I never held you down
I never put you down
I never held you down
Let′s be brothers

I′ll never say you have no right
But the only cure today is not to fight
Hate will not stop hate, I know I′m right
But when you trust a man today whose skin is white

Who′s putting the chains on now?
Who′s putting the chains on now?
I never held you down
I never put you down
I never held you down
Let′s be brothers

@ Abney Park

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Testtubes and Tesla coils,
clockwork brain and glowing oils,
copper, brass, explosive jelly
He may compete, but he′s too dally.
invented the radio transmitting, too.
played poker with faraday, tesla and poe.
harvest the daylight to power airships,
and they are still intoxined from posting his drips.

(2x)
Entropy′s fading his life away
before the world could ever see
dissipating, evaporating

They have him sealed behind locked doors,
amending here from fighting cold wars.
Invented steam sails and taught them to fight
and they stopped things to go bump in the night,
all his acomplishments hidden for life,
his genius′s top secret even from his wife,
an aged wrinkled genius his memory fading,
his fate, his creations, the government evading

(2x)
Entropy′s fading his life away
before the world could ever see
dissipating, evaporating

Testtubes and Tesla coils,
clockwork brain and glowing oils,
copper, brass, explosive jelly
He may compete, but he′s too dally.
invented the radio transmitting, too.
played poker with faraday, tesla and poe.
harvest the daylight to power airships,
and they are still intoxined from posting his drips.

(3x)
Entropy′s fading his life away
before the world could ever see
dissipating, evaporating

@ Abney Park

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Should I start by saying that we all lived in fear,
from day to week to month to year?
Or should I start by saying that our food ran sort,
not a ham or a loaf, a cake or a tort?
No, I should start by telling of the beasts that lived with in the courts of our castle,
in who′s walls lived our kin.
They fed off our crops, eat all our live stock,
but had far to many teeth for any of us to stop.

Now hold on, let me tell this complete.
For there was more to this story then the beasts at our feet.
For the world round our castle was a desert immense,
and its rumored that its dragons lived in present tense.
Now the time would come when we′d have to run to the nearest oasis,
cross the dunes under sun.
But which way to go no map did show, so I feared our people had no way to know.

Now you must forgive me if this sounds a bit vain, but you see,
only I thought of Cellophane.
Some thought there much too fragile, you must be insane,
to think that you could lead the people on your wings of cellophane.

So I started our permanent pilgrimage beyond the walls so dense.
I stumbled hapless and hopeless and helpless into the desert immense
I had to fulfill my promise so I took to the sky,
guiding our way on cellophane wings you could see only I.

I could see the distant forest but the people coward in fear
They could hear our ancient captives in the desert drawing near.
They all began to quiver and doubt if my theory was true.
I′ll be the first to admit our hour of fear I quivered too.

Now the sun bleed dark crimson as the lightening seared the sand.
The Hour of all our destinies was drawing at hand.

Upshot a self defeating word, slashed my wings like a knife.
In the moment before I fell flashed the folly of my life.
If only I saw our salvation, our blind journey was in vain.
But maybe we could have each escaped on wings of cellophane.

@ Abney Park

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It feeds on the souls of the living.
It gets inside their minds.
It transforms their brains and their longings,
No consciousness it will find.

It feeds on their fears and emotions,
As it has for 2000 years.
It′s infected the Hindus, infected the Buddhists,
And kept them all in tears.

If you′re dead, it will keep you alive.
And if you′re alive, it keeps you nearly dead.
It forces the body to seek uninfected,
And gets inside their heads.

Once your brain is infected,
It changes what makes you pleased.
It forces your body to seek uninfected,
And add them to the diseased.

In this way it creeps slowly
All across the lands.
But the wise and the strong can still join forces,
Defending our last stand

If you′re dead, it will keep you alive.
And if you′re alive, it keeps you nearly dead.
It forces the body to seek the uninfected,
And gets inside their heads.

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I take a steam train to work
Just like the one my father took
And I pass over the walls
I see the people as I look

I see there′s the block
For folks with purple skin
There′s the block for folks who have no chin
There′s the block for me & all my kin
And over there′s the change cage where we throw the rebels in

I work the change cage
Here on our side of the wall
And I will hold the key until the day they say the cage will fall

I work the change cage
Here on our side of the wall
And I will hold the key until the day they say the cage will fall

Walls of iron bolted with steel
Two miles high that should hide how we feel
And in the city we′ve walled off each block
This should work to segregate any racial melting pot

Long ago we learned of the trouble
When a man steps out of his life′s plastic bubble
So we walled off the city, caged thoughts that were free
And now our lives are safe from any change that
Could have come between you & me

I work the change cage
Here on our side of the wall
And I will hold the key until the day they say the cage will fall

I work the change cage
Here on our side of the wall
And I will hold the key until the day they say the cage will fall

They say an artist from block 616
Revived some old art just for his own kicks
They say his pictures were lude
They say his women were nude
So we throw them inside

Well now that artist can run, he can hide
But sooner or later we′ll throw him inside
I don′t think the people should see
Well that′s not art to me
So we′ll throw them inside

I work the change cage
Here on our side of the wall
And I will hold the key until the day they say the cage will fall

And I will hold the key??

@ Abney Park

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Still I push this boulder up this rocky hill
If I lose my footing this rock will kill
Perpetual dusk has me dimly lit
So I can′t see the top or know how far it is

Now life is a constant and death is a beast
Every time it′s been fed it′s presence′s increased
I feel it′s wings and it′s eyes bore my neck
This pressure has turned me into a wreck

Ooh ooh ooh ooh

It′s a cold and a hollow and lonely life
I′ve seen anguish and anger, fear and strife
Now the darkness comes and it takes my pride
But I′ve learnt to face the darkness in my stride

And I′ve felt it′s teeth pierce through my neck and back
I′ve felt my skin rip and I′ve heard my bones crack
And if I have strength left we′ll soon see
For the shadow of life has eaten me

Ooh ooh ooh ooh

Well now comfort and security leave stride by stride
If I could see some way out I′d throw away my pride
But I can′t go back and my death lies ahead
And the end of this life fills me with dread

Still I push this boulder up this rocky hill
If I lose my footing this rock will kill
Perpetual dusk has me dimly lit
So I can′t see the top or know how far it is

Ooh ooh ooh ooh

@ Abney Park

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I see the world with my eyes open
I see the world through lidless eyes
I see a world that is sick with self-loathing
Nothing in the nothing to mystify

Black day, Black night
Flesh is burnt us under in the broad daylight
Black day, Black night
And the devil′s softly singing through the thick of the fight

I see the world in sinking depression
I see the world in a stinking digression
No chance for heaven we′re already in hell
And the devil′s taking over at the ring of his bell

Black day, Black night
Flesh is burnt us under in the broad daylight
Black day, Black night
And the devil′s softly singing through the thick of the fight

I see the world with my eyes open
I see the world through lidless eyes
I see a world that is sick with self-loathing
Nothing in the nothing to mystify

Black day, Black night
Flesh is burnt us under in the broad daylight
Black day, Black night
And the devil′s softly singing through the thick of the fight

I see the world in sinking depression
I see the world in a stinking digression
No chance for heaven we′re already in hell
And the devil′s taking over at the ring of his bell

Black day, Black night
Flesh is burnt us under in the broad daylight
Black day, Black night
And the devil′s softly singing through the thick of the fight

I see the world??

@ Abney Park

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Cross from me sat the new emperor, Hardly 13
And I asked him why he cried

No one stays around anymore, I cannot guess why
In my world they should try

I asked how loyal are your subjects
"Not" was the child king′s reply, "Rarely will they comply"

"I always search for new subjects, Still I′m loathsome to try"
"If they served me too long they would fortify"

"With all of my benevolence
There′s still no obedience
Or is it just coincidence
That everyone here′s indifferent
So I must move on"

"So I fear a dependence"
The Child King said
"Between my subjects and I
So if they leave me I won′t die"

"I always search for new subjects
Still I′m loathsome to try
In my world they should try"

"With all of my benevolence
There′s still no obedience
Or is it just coincidence
That everyone here′s indifferent
So I must move on"

@ Abney Park

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I wish I could breath, I wish I could stand.
I wish I had a chance here holding your hand.
Wish I could speak, I wish could talk
I wish I could breath

Since the first day, I was alive,
I feared we would meet here in the misty outside
I wanted to run, I wanted to hide
I wish I could breath

OoOOooo oooOOoo (repeat)
I fear I can′t over come this place
I know your face, your hands
I wish I could breath.

I feel a chill deep in my bones,
Nothing can heal, the way my blood moans.
Nothing can quench, My bitter thirst
I wish I could breathe.

I grasp at my heart, That burns in my chest,
It′s your precious art, That makes my soul stressed.
I run short of blood, light headed I swoon.
I wish I could breathe.

@ Abney Park

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Once I was complete,
The earth, firm, under my feet,
My back was strong, my body fleet,
Now I ache allover.

I learned each virtue I was told
I worked hard to avoid the mold
But as I saw my life unfold
There was no place for me.

It was hard when I begun,
Each day harder it has become.
My only future was undone,
And nothing has replaced it.

There is nothing left to gain,
All that′s left is to maintain.
Just to stand is too much strain,
But there is nothing else

I once believed in everything,
I once had faith in my ring,
Of my own world I was the king,
And now I am a beggar

I′m tired guilt, I′m tired of crying.
I′m tired of work, and finished trying.
I′m tired of living, and scared of dying.
But there is nothing else

I′ve been beat, I′ve been broken
I asked for a place, the world has spoken
I was asleep, but now that I′ve woken,
I preferred my dream.

It will take great strength to pull me through,
This challenge unseen, which I must do.
To make a "me" I never knew,
But I′m already spent.

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If my life should end and I cannot stay,
I pray that you will find a life with our loves that′s not far away,
Please don′t hate me overmuch

Burn, go on and burn
Burn, I feel the fire

I share a burning desire, temptations pulling me down
I′ve learned to thrive in this fire
And so I stay above ground

But if my love you win the race to die,
I think that I will join you soon
I couldn′t bare a moon shared with none, or with any other one

Burn, go on and burn
Burn, I feel the fire

I share a burning desire, temptations pulling me down
I′ve learned to thrive in this fire
And so I stay above ground

But if our lives should end and we′ve reached old age,
Our pages will be filled with the joy of a girl and a boy in love,
Even if the times were tough

Burn, go on and burn
Burn, I feel the fire

@ Abney Park

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Death hue falling on the faces of the streets
lost children as the mortar fire broken in
Nights cold, slipping through the cracks
breaking through the cracks of crumbling plaster.
Hunger gnaws, I can feel it claws but the pain of a bullet would
burn much hotter in the spot like,
mounted on the cannon of the tank the prowls.

Holy war, deliver me, rest my fear, I can not see.

Nameless, but I no the faces of the kids I sleep in Jezebels lair with
Thoughtless breaking my bread tween the mine
fields flowers and gullies with daises.
Some times
I can find some rations that a solider let fall when the wind or life left him.
Some times I can find a gun on a pistol or a knife to use.

Holy war, deliver me, rest my fear, I can not see.
My eyes are blind, my bodies lame, my families gone, in my gods name, Holy Wars.

Nameless, faceless, but a tear or a dollar won′t buy my justice.
Pearless clothed less then a war torn child should sleep or focus.
Once I watched as a cannon slot fell through the stained
glass window of a church on my street, once
I sat on a steeple now laying in the church yards playground.

Holy war, deliver me, rest my fear,
I can not see.
My eyes are blind, my bodies lame,
my families gone, in my gods name, Holy Wars.

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Dead silence falls a cascading shower of indifference
Isolation calls no self-acceptance, no means for honest reverence
Into the void self-annihilation, futilistic egotism
Until now I′ve toyed with what seems inevitable destructionism

Is this the end of my life?

Stabbed in the back, ice cold steel between my lower vertebrae
Not the first attack, I′m an isolated captive with the ones who would betray
Too late for pleas, my companions are filled with animosity
Knocked to my knees death will bring an end to this uncertainty

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Herr Drosselmeyer′s Doll
There she is on the stage
Spinning as she sprawls
Thank God the curtains fall
Her spring is sprung
And dances done
Spinning as she sprawls
Thank God the curtains fall

In the morning, he twists the key quite hard
And ticking, she′s brought to boil
" Relevée, my swee, on point, en garde!"
Her innards twang as they uncoil

Herr Doktor′s fingertips trace by
On craquelature from every fall
The daylight made to race right by
With paint and paste and stitch and awl

"Patent, patient, bumblebee,
Soon your audience admire
A shapely arabesque or three
I′ll wind you up, you′ll never tire."/em>

Starry tutu, sullen moon
A frozen carmine mouth
Twinkles as she jerks and swoons
The lady is ushered out

"Gentlemen, this fallen angel is the illegitimate daughter o art and science. A modern marvel
of engineering, clockworks elevated to the ery natural process hich even now is in your blood,
racing, your eyes flashing at such irreproachable beauty. Here is Gaia, here is Eve, here is Lilith,
and I tand beore you as her father. Sprung fully-formed from my brow, dewy and sweet; she can be
yours and yours again, for her flesh is the incorruptible pale o be excused from the wages of
sin."
(winds her up)

And as the sack cloth, sodden, slumps
Beneath these chipped and china limbs
The sour flesh pines, grunts and thumps
" Step right up, boys, tuppence for a spin!"

@ Abney Park