The Canyon

[Introduction]

[Audio Recording]

Death is...I’ll tell you, I don’t care how many screams you can hear, I don’t care how many cry. Death is a million times accessible and more dangerous as life. If you knew what was ahead of you, if you knew what was ahead of you, you’d be more glad and accepting over it

My back to the wolf

With the plans that I made for the song

Can you hear me sing?

Can you hear my serenade

Never mind the irony

My face to the cloud

Let the bones pick loud

Bitter melic never fail me now

Better sung from the pedestal

Sermons of better worlds

My back to the wolf

Fill the vats

Make a line from the back

Keep the iddy biddies calm

As we all prepare for the masquerade

For the razor blade

Must have lost my way

But I sure do clean up good

Pretty picture

Do you like me?

Will you follow me?

No more talk, no words

Join the revolution

Pretty picture

Do you like me?

Would you die for me?

My voice to the tape

Let the ceremony set light to the page

Better burned in the memory

They will remember me

My back to the gun

And the cups to the brim

And the drips to the last

To be sealed forever in the past

Take a picture of me

Take a picture of me

Must have lost my way

But I sure do clean up good

Pretty picture

Do you like me?

Will you follow me?

No more talk, no words

Join the revolution

Pretty picture

Do you like me?

Would you die for me?

[Audio Recording]

… Commit an act of revolutionary suicide protesting the conditions of an inhumane world

Must have lost my way

But I sure do clean up good

Pretty picture

Do you like me?

Will you follow me?

No more talk, no words

Join the revolution

Pretty picture

Do you like me?

Would you die for me?

[Audio Recording]

…We’ve set an example for others, we’ve set one thousand people who said ‘we don’t like the way the world is…

6 ContributorsUpper Falls LyricsMaybe I was asleep and dreaming while you sat alone

Love, I never sleep: was in the front seat of the bus watching the road

Never the right time to say something or let it go

You taught me something about love that I could never learn alone

We’d hike the railroad tracks to the vortex

Upper falls to the stone

Never the right time to say something

I never have to let you go

Just gonna need some time for breathing slow

I see a loaded gun

I can’t take anymore

I see the truck parked up in the canyon

With nobody home

I see your bass guitar in your room

And Pearl Jam Ten on the wall

Just what did it take

To trigger the end

Too many trips to the bowl and the bond fire mask watched our friends go one by one

I stood with you through how it feels to be something on

Time played my favorite song

Never the right time to say something

I never have to let you go

Just gonna need some time to learn to breathe slow

I see a loaded gun

I can’t take anymore

I see the truck parked up in the canyon

With nobody home

I see your bass guitar in your room

And Pearl Jam Ten on the wall

What I could not say

Just what did it take

To trigger the end

What could I say

What could I say

I see a loaded gun

I can’t take anymore

I see the truck parked up in the canyon

With nobody home

I see your bass guitar in your room

And Pearl Jam Ten on the wall

Just what did it take

I should have been there

I see a loaded gun

I can’t take anymore

I see the truck parked up in the canyon

With nobody home

I see your bass guitar in your room

And Pearl Jam Ten on the wall

And what did it take

To trigger the end

I could have been there

I miss you my friend

5 ContributorsThe Divine Absence (This Is Water) LyricsRiver silenced every note

Big shot courage, never known

Divorced from the world

Sinking back into the loam

Petals wilted

Hear the cries

Whispered into ears of stone

And so it goes…

I won’t stay buried forever

One can be more than a million

This I swear:

I will never say sorry

You’ll thank me when this is over

Of course I memorized the words

Perfections sharpened, they begin!

The flower reaches out for the sun

And I don’t feel powerful

The rot that hollows out the core

Divines the absence on its own

Death streets paved in gold

I won’t stay buried forever

One can be more than a million

This I swear:

I will never say sorry

You’ll thank me when this is over

Begins with a single word

A single note

A single drop of rain

So fragile the moment’s fleeting

The drop of rain evaporates

Hand’s death to the string

The lungs are devoid of breathing

This is water

You know this is water

Million drops together flows

The rivers

Unconditional love

Carved to stone

I won’t stay buried forever

One can be more than a million

This I swear:

I will never say sorry

You’ll thank me when this is over

I won’t stay buried forever

One can be more than a million

This I swear:

I will never say sorry

You’ll thank me when this is over

[Spoken:]

On a ruinous wall I came upon a poster dating from the previous year and announcing that ‘six handsome bulls’ would be killed in the area on such and such a date. How forlorn its faded colors looked. Where were the handsome bulls and the handsome bull-fighters now? It appeared that even in Barcelona there were hardly any bullfights nowadays – for some reason all the best matadors were Fascists

[Verse 1]

For behold

Forsaken from thee

Flowered bloom

A chance yet to be

For the beast

Made from the same stone

Filthy boots for lick

I’m a jealous man

Shall we beg

For the leap of faith

Is the razor blade

Formed to lines

‘The worn livery

Choose a night-mare

Sip from the bleed

Jealous God

Commander and chief

For the policeman and his property

Shall we pay

For the air to breath

All apologies

Shall we beg

Down on our knees

7 letters written of seven sins 3 beasts:

The dragon the worm and

The pit

Seven candles burn seven mountain tops

Kissed by the great whore of Babylon

Six handsome bulls

Shall we beg

For the leap of faith

Is the razor blade

Shall we lay down, play dead

Down on our knees

Leap of faith

Is the razor blade

Down on our knees

7 letters written of seven sins 3 beasts:

The dragon the worm and

The pit

Seven candles burn seven mountain tops

Kissed by the great whore of Babylon

Six handsome bulls

8 ContributorsThe Quiet War LyricsSelfish repulsive uniform

I march in line to the drums of the corps

Regurgitated

Disgusted am I just a brick in the wall

With courage naked to the veil

The flood that carved the canyon walls

The mountains never holds her breath

We need a different kind of war

Was two in 1984

Big brother the actor you voted for

Democracy’s slogan

Protecting the walls of the capitalists

With courage naked to the veil

The flood that carved the canyon walls

The mountains never holds her breath

We need a different kind of war

Let’s use love like a knife try to cut through the surface

Love can break through the ice when you’re fighting a different kind of war

Let’s use love like a knife try to cut through the surface

Love can break through the ice when we’re fighting a different war

War of understanding

War of understanding

War of understanding

I’ve got a lot to say so I’ll try to talk fast

Everything I ever learned I learned from the past

Soliloquies slowly clearly straight from my heart so you hear me

Owe you my life

Mr. Chomsky

Taught me to read

Stephen King’d me

With borrowed mouth do I breath

I was the river

With courage naked to the veil

The flood that carved the canyon walls

The mountains never holds her breath

We need a different kind of war

Let’s use love like a knife try to cut through the surface

Love can break through the ice when you’re fighting a different kind of war

Let’s use love like a knife try to cut through the surface

Love can break through the ice when we’re fighting a different war

War of understanding

War of understanding

War of understanding

1 ContributorI Don’t Think About You The Way I Used To LyricsI'm glad I don't think about you the way I used to

No, I don't think about you the way I used to

Oh, no, no

In days gone by, I felt my heart so full of heavy feelings

I felt my head filled up with any reason I could find

Yeah, I spent time

Too much time worried how it all could go

Now I don't have to keep on guessing anymore

I'm glad I don't think about you the way I used to

No, I don't think about you the way I used to

Oh, no, no

I spent time

Too much time worried how it all could go

Now I don't have to keep on guessing anymore (oh, oh, whoa)

I don't have to keep on guessing anymore

I'm glad I don't think about you the way I used to

No, I don't think about you the way I used to

Oh, no, no