The Future Now 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

Such distance to the tips of the fingers, the ganglion loom jerks inside; the body grows steadily stranger but the spirit won't be denied. That sharp halogen flash jars the eyeball...Read Full Lyrics

The stars in the heavens still shine Up above me: how lovely they'd seem If you were with me But you're gone through the looking-glass And I am left to pass these nights alone. I'm...Read Full Lyrics

Time for a change: I felt bad, things looked strange. Home, home on the range... Yes, it's time for a change. "Well, young man, when you grow up What do you want to be? " "Please, ...Read Full Lyrics

Thinking back, it seems that I can lie beside you as I never truly did, in afterglow - no afterwords at all. Only writing love songs when it's gone and dead; only paying words out:...Read Full Lyrics

Along the track the wires are humming In bursts of code like far-off drums.... Fathering the message: Further up the line Someone's shouting Down the passage of time. The corridor ...Read Full Lyrics

Sod the music, " said the man in the suit, "I understand profit and without that, it's no use, Why don't you go away and write commercial songs; Come back in three years, that shou...Read Full Lyrics