Cycle of Excuses - Cover

Cycle of Excuses - Texte

Thinking Sun

Emerge from clouds that fill the dark

To represent the laws that rule

Our nature and the conscious spark

A sentient thought might have called you

A sentient thought might just be law

Your chaos became order

Your dust clouds gathered planets

A planet bore the thinking man

Who carved stone and who made fire

Strong words he used like gadgets

Wished to conquer and withstand.

The wiring is illusion

Inside a mirror for the sun

Coronas and confusion

To do the right might feel so wrong

We're reacting to reactions

Just to become helium.

Clayboy

The earth spawned me so disfigured – would you sculpt me?

A lump without shape searching for some guidance

Your hands did no good; still you put me to the fire

The kiln made firm your mistakes – cannot blame you

Yourself you were made and afraid and a failure

Let loose, so untrained and so stained with your anger.

My skin was soft and still so smooth and wet

With time the clay would dry and eventually set

Still shimmering and still red I could not get why

You're paying for their debts and bow to their pride.

The tradition was passed on

And passed on

And passed on

Everyone and everything was made in the image of their makers,

Who in turn were made in the image of their makers

Everyone gets dented every now and then.

These dents add up until we end up missing vital parts.

We need to break the circle.

This has to stop.

...We need to break free

Today we need to shake our dusty coat

To save us from sending further goats

The statues of old times still stand to this day

The dents on their bodies were never erased.

Manimal

|: Hunting and feeding

And mating and breeding

'tween working and meetin

And trading and cheating :|

I came from the trees just to worship a box

Our hair was receding, that's why we wear socks

Killed a strange pack for their wives and their stocks

To hide that we're savage we thought up some gods.

|: The tools that we use

They are an excuse

For violent abuse

We're lighting the fuse

Nothing to loose

We tie our own noose

Watching the news

Tighten the screws :|

Hunting and feeding

And mating and breeding

'tween working and meetings

And trading and cheating

Attacking retreating

The hairline's receding

Were hunting and breeding

And mating and feeding

And raping and cheating

And fainting and bleeding

And working and breathing

And planting and reaping

And...

|: FEELING

EATING

BREATHING :|

Wolves (Manimal Part 2)

Keep your guard up - the wolves are loose

They are hungry and can smell your wounds

Do not trust them, their smile's a ruse

Stay at tension, you've got a head to lose.

They pick the broken, they take the sick.

So do look healthy, that does the trick.

They are now closing, they're almost here

So show no weakness and show no fear.

Their hunger is nagging they will not wait

One out of our heard will be their bait

In sheep's fur they infiltrate

Stick together before it's too late.

Are they among us? I could'nt tell.

You cannot spot them, they hide so well,

They mimicked your friends, even their smell.

Always be careful and expect hell.

|: We're on the run, we're on the hunt :|

You say the wolves are dead, we live in peace

Still, how can i ever be at ease?

Their words left bitemarks in my soul

after all, they make me whole.

Cripplecism

Put your hand against the door

Do not dare to open it

Can't you hear the howls behind

Just want to save you from harm.

Climb the hill to see the sun
Climb the ladder, fall back down.
But you've climbed the ladder and fell back down.

You would climb the hill to see the sun,

Should have stayed on the ground,

Should have stayed on the ground,

Should have stayed on the ground,

Should have stayed on the ground.

Don't you ever leave the ground again.

Don't you ever leave the ground again.

Don't you ever leave the ground again.

Don't you ever leave me again.

I'm your only friend now,

Why would you disobey me?

Just want to save you from harm

Don't want you to be hurt again.

Bar your windows. Bar your doors.

Watch the news and buy a gun.

Crawl into your safety -

Warm and cozy complacency.

My eyes have turned blind from darkness,

My body is covered in dust.

My legs feel limb from staying still all day

I just wanna see the sunshine

Just wanna hear the birds sing

I just wanna feel the trees grow

I just want to see the sky change.

But you won’t let me.

So I'm killing you within me.

I am killing you within me.

I am killing you within me.

|: You are not good enough :|

The cocoon around me opens.

I reach outside.

The chains you gave me – broken

This is my time

Worthless piece of shit

|: Why do you refuse to be happy? :|

It could be so easy

You could be so happy

All you'd have to do is let go of your misery

That drags you down

Like Sisyphus' stone

All the way into your grave

While all it really takes is for your paradigms to change.