King Animal

You can’t go home
No I swear you never can
You can walk a million miles
And get nowhere
I got nowhere to go
Ever since I came back
Just filling in the lines
From the holes to the cracks

And no one knows me
No one saves me
No one loves or hates me
I’ve been away for too long

This place has a special
Kind of falling apart
Like they put the whole thing
Together in the dark
And no one knows
Where the edge of the knife is
And no one knows
What intelligent life is

And no one knows me
No one saves me
No one loves or hates me

But it’s fate
I only ever really wanted a break
I’ve been away for too long
Though I never really wanted to stay
I’ve been away for too long

Kilos through key-holes
Widows through windows
Pilots through eyelets
Everyone is silent
Tankards and flagons
And snifters and flutes
On my way home

But it’s fate
I only ever really wanted a break
I’ve been away for too long
Though I never really wanted to stay
I’ve been away
But it’s fate
I only ever really wanted a break
I’ve been away for too long
Though I never really wanted to stay
I’ve been away for too long

Coin in every pocket
More mouths to fill
So weak in the land
Strong in the will
(Need)
I’ll be your beast of burden
I’ll be the seed

I bring you the healer
Feel your disease
I bring dirty water
And make it clean
(Young)
And you are the cure
I am the drug

And we settle for
A little bit more than everything
We’re not elected
But we will speak
We’re not the chosen
But we believe
And we settle for
A little bit more than everything

Bullets, guns and missiles
A stone and a sling
A motherless country
Of thee I sing
(Song)
You are the tank and rockets
I am the bomb

I teach you a lesson
Sword for a pen
Reading turn the pages
A history of man
(Look)
You are tabula rasa
I am the book

And we settle for
A little bit more than everything
We’re not elected
But we will speak
We’re not the chosen
But we believe
And we settle for
A little bit more than everything

I’m a non-state actor
I’m a non-state actor
I’m a non-state
I’m a non-state actor

And we settle for
A little bit more than everything
We’re not elected
But we will speak
We’re not the chosen
But we believe
And we settle for
A little bit more than everything
A little bit more
A little bit more
A little bit more

I’m addicted to feeling
Stealing love isn’t stealing
Can’t you see
That I understand your mind?
I’m a walking believer
I’m a ghost and a healer
I’m the shape of the hole
Inside your heart

Not looking for a brighter side
Crooked steps will take me higher
I don’t care if you want to cry

I’m a soldier for hire
Killing all you admire
And you live in denial
But that will change

Not looking for a brighter side
Crooked steps will take me higher
I don’t care if you want to cry

When blood is raining down
It cuts a deep deep river
And we’re diving
Yeah we’re diving

My crooked steps right behind you
My crooked steps right behind you
My crooked steps right behind you
My crooked steps right behind you
Right behind you
Right behind you
Right behind you

Life a thousand days ago
Hours sinking in a hole
Try to melt into the walls
Now I am here inside the bowl

Here in the cold
Where no one stands behind me

Now a thousand days have gone again
Like the sun and moon at war
And give or take a thousand more

Here in the cold
Where no one stands behind me
I’ll be on my own side
You know where to find me
You know where to find me

Here in the cold
Where no one stands beside me
I’ll be on my own side
You know where to find me
You know where to find me

Born with a thousand little holes
And a tear to fill up every one
A thousand to ignore
I’ll be on my own side
I’ll be on my own side

Mountains all around
Altogether we stumble
Eleven million clowns
Every one with a razor out

And the smoke lies
On the valley floor
And the blood dries
While we spill some more

Once we were the end
The end of the long road
Leading to the start
Of the ever-invading crowds

And the smoke lies
On the valley floor
And the blood dries
While we spill

Endless summer
Needless space
Fill it all up
With a void

Mountains all around
Altogether we tumble down

And the smoke lies
On the valley floor
And the blood dries
While we spill some more

Time is my friend
Til it ain’t
And runs out
And that is all
That I have
Til it’s gone

Try to build a home
Bones of birds
Singing in the cold
And fall to earth

Hey, sometimes she won’t cry
When the smallest one is drowned
Too weak to survive
Probably…. Maybe

Try to look out
Through a hole
In a bag
Circle above
Looking down
Bird of prey

Try to build a home
Bones of birds
Singing in the cold
And fall to earth

Hey, sometimes she won’t cry
When the smallest one is drowned
Too weak to survive
Probably…. Maybe

Though I can’t put my hands on you
I can feel you now
In the bones and the blood flowing
Needles on the ground
In the ether I sail to you
Floating on the fumes
Run aground on the shore for you
Simple wreckage

Taree walk out and raise the road
To my tilted shadow
I only know I’ve made it home
When I drown
In your ghost light

Though I can’t put a name on you
I will cry it out
In my heart I will hold
What my bloody hands have dropped
Run around on the floor for you
Simple wreckage

Taree walk out and raise the road
To my tilted shadow
I only know I’ve made it home
When I drown
In your ghost light

Taree!
Taree!
Taree!

Lay here
Under bombast and gloom
A parade of ghouls marches by
Headed down to Nero’s tomb
Raising flags and burning rights

Warm yourself
By a god-made fire
Pinocchio with spinning eyes
Laugh aloud under bomb-lit skies
A victim’s smile never lies

You have always lived your life
Like a joke with no time
What you gonna do about it
Until you get the punch line right?

On the cliff
Above stormy waves
Can’t decide to climb or drown
Up is folly and down disgrace
Under thumbs
Over written
The ladder is poison
Have to find a new way around

What you gonna do about it?
What you gonna do about it?
What you gonna do about it?
What you gonna do about it?

Promise something
Kill me right away
If I start to get slow
And don’t remember
How to separate
The worm from the apple
Don’t wait til tomorrow
Kill me right away
If I start to listen
To the voices
Telling all the mouths
What they need to swallow

Do that for me
It’s the least that you can do
Don’t be afraid
I would do the same for you
Burn out any memory
Of me ever breathing
Until I’m born again

I was thirsty
I remember that
You gave me some water
I was angry
At everything at once
You gave me no trouble
I was crying
I remember that
You gave me your shoulder

Do that for me
It’s the least that you can do
Don’t be afraid
I would do the same for you
Burn out any memory
Of me ever breathing
Until I’m born again

Born again
Born again

I woke up
With my feet nailed down
And my head
Moving the speed of sound
Had a dream
I was caught in a maze
And couldn’t find
My way back out
Some were born
To move mountains around
And some to rot
Away in jail
I get an itch
And when I am scratching
Everything can go to hell

And how far
Is halfway there?
I didn’t see you
On the trail
Did almost
Become good enough?
Should a good life
Be so hard won?
Is that what our dreams
Have become?

Sometimes when
You’re shooting an arrow
It can fly across the sky so proud
I would go all the way to the sun
If I didn’t have to come
Back down

And how far
Is halfway there?
I didn’t see you
On the trail
Did almost
Become good enough?
Should a good life
Be so hard won
Is that what our dreams
Have become?

Have you got a car?
Somewhere to sleep?
Someone who loves you?
Something to eat?
I would say
You’re doing better than most
Though maybe
Not as well as some

And how far
Is halfway there?
I didn’t see you
On the trail
Did almost
Become good enough?
Should a good life
Be so hard won?
Is that what are dreams
Have become
Is that what our dreams
Have become?

Let it swirl around you now
And let it fall apart
Put it back again
And find every piece
But it’s not the same
And you never
can be sure just
How it looked
when you started
Turn around again now
And do it all over and over

Like a doll from a bad dream
When it’s gone
Worse dreams are born

Everybody in, sit down
and keep on
holding on
Pull your arms around
Black clouds drown
And the rain is walking
Body in the ground by now
Down seven feet
and rolling
Hanging on the tail of
The sunrise til
You can’t let go

Like a doll from a bad dream
When it’s gone
Worse dreams are born
Like a doll from a sad dream
When it’s gone
Worse dreams are born

In the eyelid’s mouth
On the iris tongue
When a scream falls out
Only the tear has won
Only the tear has won

Who let the water run down?
(Cry internal)
Who let the river run dry?
(Live internal)
Who let the water run out?
(Burn internal)
Who let the river run wild?
(Die internal)

Through the eyelet comes
Unimagined light
Unremembered sun
Only the rivers run
But never hide

Who let the water run down?
(Cry internal)
Who let the river run dry?
(Live internal)
Who let the water run out?
(Burn internal)
Who let the river run wild?
(Die internal)

Don’t know where I’m going
I just keep on rowing
I just keep on pulling
gotta row

Moving is breathing
And breathing is life
Stopping is dying
You’ll be alright
Life is a hammer
Waiting to drop
The boats in the shallows
But the rowing won’t stop

Don’t know where I’m going
I just keep on rowing
I just keep on pulling
gotta row

Can’t see the sky
Nothing on the horizon
Can’t feel my hands
And the water keeps rising
Can’t fall asleep
Cause I’ll wake up dead
I just keep on pulling
I just keep on rolling
Don’t know where I’m going

Don’t know where I’m going
I just keep on rowing
I just keep on pulling
gotta row

Rowing is living
And living is hard
But living beats losing
All that we are
And all that we know of
And all that we feel
And all we remember
Imagined or real

I heard an echo
But the answer had changed
from the word
I remember that I started out saying
Living is cheating
If you’re not pulling oars
But the current is leaving
I’ll get mine, you’ll get yours

Don’t know where I’m going
I just keep on rowing
I just keep on pulling
gotta row

Rowing is bleeding
And bleeding is breathing
Breathing is feeling
burning or freezing
Keep getting dirty
But I started out clean
Keep on pulling
I keep on pulling
I keep on rolling
I keep on rolling
I keep on rolling

Don’t know where I’m going
I just keep on rowing
I just keep on pulling
gotta row