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The Eternal Present
05:54
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This is how crime begins
Yes plus the time within
We think the horrors show what we know
This is the knowledge in the shadows
Once the rays begin
They shine and never end
They light the dark side of the process
They wring the meaning from the abscess
A dark spell riding on a dark knell
This glamour always seems eternal
We say we know
This horror show
Rings untrue
Bound unto eternal present
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2. |
The Final Blows
03:46
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A statement, a ledger
Devotion, a dime
Not nearly ironic
A list and a rhyme
Fresh from the ancients
One at a time
The feature, the record
All standing in line
And I see the slime
And I breathe in why
And I see the signs
Outside it’s burning
Outside the world is burning now
Inside it’s burning
Inside your world is burning down
Even those are not the final blows
Inside it’s burning
Inside your world is burning down
Outside it’s burning
Outside the world is burning now
Even those are not the final blows
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3. |
She Lies Beyond
07:40
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Flowers on this day they fall away
Flowers on this day they fall away
Singing all the songs we can today
Singing all laments about Sunday
Tower requiem call out the praise
Tower requiem call out the praise
Even when the pall is moved away
Even when the pall drops in the grave
Hours in the day they melt away
Hours in the day they melt away
Even when the hymn is full of grace
Even with the cortege out of place
She lies beyond
Meanings buried neatly in this song
She lies beyond
Deftly hoarding stories never told
She lies beyond
Meanings buried deeply in this song
She lies beyond
Leaving jagged lines of broken prose
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4. |
The Surface
04:04
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The sky behind my head is falling
The sun behind my head so warming
The light above defines a shadow my shadow
Cast upon the surface windblown far below
So near so far so hard
And I looked away
The surface as it falls away
The surface seems so far away
And I see the sun is shining from below
And I see the sun shining from below
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5. |
Fugue (For BR)
03:32
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Go past a line drawn in the air
A form deformed by our making
Go past a line drawn in the air
A form reformed by our making
The sea begins a wonder
The sun foment and author
The past is past a nightmare
The sum cannot contain you
The see chops off the edges
The dumb relives the awesome
The fast is fast behind you
The gun will undermine you
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7. |
A Thousand Licks
05:21
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Who’s to say the flames can’t get much higher
as they glow upon your face
as though we watch the infinite
Who’s to say the wind won’t cast the embers
as they shower on your face
the flames they lash
a thousand licks on your face
a thousand licks on your face
never move stand and wait
a thousand licks on your face
before immolate
Who’s to say the fame can’t get much brighter
as we balance on the stage
before we touch the infinite
And still the flame keeps getting higher
as we stare into the blaze
the flames they lash
a thousand licks on your face
a thousand licks on your face
never move stand in place
a thousand licks on your face
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8. |
Tell Me Again
04:00
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Tell me again
I am inside and then
I am on and on
We are on and on
Tell me again
Is it possible
Beneath the span
Of a public life
No one cares to know
Tell me again
Could it ever fail
Would it ever fall
Is it possible
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PAUL ION BARKER Portland, Oregon
Paul Ion Barker is a producer, composer and touring musician. His extensive production and writing work with Ministry extended from 1985 through 2004. He's been involved with bringing a wide range of other musical projects into fruition: Lard, Pailhead, Revolting Cocks, Flowering Blight, USSA, I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness, Malekko, Lead into Gold, & recently as a touring member of Puscifer. ... more
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