Shingle Song Lyrics

Citadel reverberates to a thousand voices, now dumb: What have we become? What have we chosen to be? Now, all history is reduced to the syllables of our name - Nothing can ever be ...Read Full Lyrics

Oh, suddenly things begin to come clear in my mind As I look into the land laid bare by your eyes; E-S/M attractions are working behind my thought, I can't help my feelings, the wa...Read Full Lyrics

Spring came far too early this year: May flowers blooming in February. Should I be sad for the months, Or glad for the sky? The birds don't know which way to sing and, my friends, ...Read Full Lyrics

When I was a child they made me read Word-daggers of quiver and squirm Now in the stumbling dark I see I am a worm, silently fruiting your garden My sister, my child . Night c...Read Full Lyrics

They say we are endowed with Free Will --at least that justifies our need for indecision. But between our insticts and the lust to kill We bow our heads in submission. They say tha...Read Full Lyrics

Here we are, static in the latter half Of the twentieth century But it might as well be the Middle Ages, There'll have to be some changes But how they'll come about foxes me. I wan...Read Full Lyrics

Genuflection / erection in church. Sacristy cloth / moth-eaten shroud. Secret silence / sacred secrets Accumulate dust, aggravate the eye. Incautious laughter after confession. Ben...Read Full Lyrics

Oh the bright young man in the tight-buttoned suit The light beams out from capped smiles to the shines On their lick-spittle books Oh these sharp young sparks with their fresh ros...Read Full Lyrics

It was the first day of July; No wind breathed in the sky When a pin-striped suit Saw that the Institute of Mental Health was burning. He stood upon the corner Where the sun was wa...Read Full Lyrics

I'm in command, I'm in control, I am the captain of my soul. Still, I'm uncertain in one major role... Oh, I drift through the unconscious life, Shift through the unconscious life,...Read Full Lyrics