NEVERMORE LYRICS

Politics In Ecstasy (1996)

1. The Seven Tongues of God

2. This Sacrament
3. Next in Line
4. Passenger
5. The Politics of Ecstasy
6. Lost
7. The Tiananmen Man
8. Precognition
9. 42147
10. The Learning

1. The Seven Tongues of God

Every man will ask the questions,

and every man will suffer blame and loss
Every day you die a little, understand the change
and choose your path without disdain

The seven tongues of god are in my mind,

they speak to me in ancient DNA design

I have never seen god, you have never seen god

And when they speak to me and the seven tongues align
programmed to desecrate the pretensions in your mind
To further complicate I will now state that your convictions lack
definition and form

Every day there is a bleeding , every time I watch the world slip by
Focus, the blind pretension underscoring pain,
the path to solace felt in vain

The seven tongues of god are in my mind,

they speak to me in ancient DNA design
I have never seen god, you have never seen god
And when they speak to me and the seven tongues align
programmed to desecrate the pretensions in your mind
to further complicate I will now state that your convictions lack
definition

And when they speak to me and the seven tongues align

programmed to desecrate the pretensions in your mind
To further complicate I will now state that your convictions lack
definition and form
To see the light is the purest form of reward

2. This Sacrament

There's no control in the world today,

and there's still no order to this game we all play
Maybe none of us know what's real

There's no constraint when the walls cave in,

the neuron turn on, the game begins to fade away
Maybe none of us know, maybe none of us want to hear,
never push against the flow aimlessly

Feel the flow and let all thought fade, we shall be one
For this sacrament has begun

Lucy in the sky with diamond eyes,

long since dark, I wear her disguise of light
Maybe none of us know, maybe none of us want to hear,
never push against the flow aimlessly

Feel the flow and let all thought fade, we shall be one
For this sacrament has begun

This sacrament is a state of mind

There's no control in the world today,

and there's still no order to this game we all play called life
Maybe none of us know, maybe none of us want to hear,
never push against the flow aimlessly
 Feel the flow and let all thought fade, we shall be one
Through this sacrament
Feel the flow and let all thought fade, we shall be one
For this sacrament has begun, this sacrament has begun

To become one with the flow is to realize purpose

To realize purpose is to become one with the flow
Become one with the flow, become one with the flow
This sacrament has begun

3. Next in Line

I taste the fear to numb the tear, trapped by the source of my

infection
I play the martyr submerged in this pool,
the corporation used me like they brainwashed you

Life is seen so cold and benign,

I don't want to be saved
I'm next in line to die

Labeled sick, but I'm just a man, everyone I love has left me for dead
This void illusion I suffer for, they made me their god
and I am so much more than you

Life is seen so cold and benign,

I don't want to be saved
I'm next in line to die
I don't want to be saved I'm next in line

I taste the fear to numb the tear, trapped by the source of my

infection
Life is seen through heroin dreaming cold and benign,
I don't want to be saved I'm next in line to die
I don't want to be saved I'm next in line and I don't want to be saved

I'm a dead man, I'm a sick man, I'm the pilot of my destruction
I'm a dead man, I'm a sick man, I'm the pilot of my destruction
The pilot of my destruction
 4. Passenger

All passenger prepare the game ritual:

There once was a man on this train, he was born into this world alone
Hands never laid on the wheel, content, he will never know more
He was a quiet man in pain, his tears I fear are closing in again

What you lose in years you again in perspective

And the passenger pauses to see his mistakes

For with nothing to follow he'd lived all his life in vain
But then, who here among us is without shame?

His way was divergent and cold, defaced, this mask he must create
And the circle unfolding still, unscathed, he will turn a blind eye
He will miss the last train home this day, recycled in the flow reborn
again

The cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing

And the passenger pauses to see his mistakes

For with nothing to follow he'd let all his will decay
But then, true wisdom comes in learning pain
And I have known pain

And the passenger pauses to see his mistakes

For with nothing to follow he'd lived all his life in vain
But then, the lesson unlearned he will begin again:.

5. The Politics of Ecstasy

I hate you, the pigs who turn the screws, I hate everything you stand
for
I hate the world we've bred, political pigs we've fed, our fathers left us
nothing but a dead world
Beyond repair down in despair, our fathers left us nothing

Choking on the influx of technology I realize the politics of ecstasy

And we can't change what's in stone
 We've been had. Injustice to the masses, destroy the land and crush
the poor
The pigs are fueled by greed, political ways obscene, our fathers left
corruption in this dead world
Beyond repair down is despair, our fathers left us nothing

Choking on the puke of their industry, regurgitated propaganda

ministry
Freedom's never free, the politics of ecstasy are these:
Freedom's never free, these are the politics of ecstasy:

I hate you , the pigs who turn the screws, I hate everything you stand
for
I hate the world we've bred, political pigs we've fed, our fathers left us
nothing but a dead world
Beyond repair down in despair, our fathers left us nothing

Choking on the influx of technology I realize the politics of ecstasy

Freedom's never free, the politics of ecstasy are these:
Freedom's never free, the politics of ecstasy are these:
If you take a step back and you realize your home can't be a perfect
world
There's still hope the hate you fell will fade, injustice is gone:
Injustice is gone for a little while

6. Lost

Learning ways to fly, just never too high to die, pushing limits into the
ground
Until I never come down
Burning through lifetimes without form, pure energy I am the
shattered norm

I'm the lost one chasing colors to the sun, colors bleed but never fade
I'll just fade away

To swim these sentient seas, windows into eternity, never afraid to

scale the wall
The lunatic never falls
Forfeiture of reality seeds sown, constructure of this path is not my
own
I'm the lost one chasing colors to the sun, colors bleed but never fade
I'll just fade away

Why should I come down?

From here I can see forever:

I'm the lost one chasing colors to the sun, colors bleed but never fade
I'll just fade away
Remember in the end, such a long strange trip it's been, so I sing this
song
For the lost one

Why should I come down? From here I can see forever forever
I can see forever, I can see

7. The Tiananmen Man

On june fifth, in the year of eighty-nine, he was unarmed with focused

mind
Deflance glared down the barrel of the gun pointed from a tank in
tiananmen square
And he stood there:

To control, to manipulate, the media his power slave

He knew the world was watching, knew he had a plan
To confront the powerful tyranny in the square of tiananmen
Ecstatic youth played with fire, freedom wash over them
Democracy their desire, the tiananmen man had a plan
Manipulate the media

He used blind faith in the face of anarchy, the cybernetic rapture has
begun to envelop me
Freedom is the rush, adrenaline high, choice of the oppressed wiling to
die
Like a hostage the government holds your drug
To control, to manipulate, the media his power slave

He knew the world was watching, knew he had a plan

To confront the powerful tyranny in the square of tiananmen
Ecstatic youth played with fire, freedom wash over them
 Democracy their desire, the tiananmen man had a plan
Manipulate the media

His act was a cybernetic gesture

His act was a cybernetic gesture

He knew the world was watching, knew he had a plan

To confront the powerful tyranny in the square of tiananmen
Ecstatic youth played with fire, freedom wash over them
Democracy their desire, the tiananmen man had a plan
Manipulate the media, manipulate the media
Manipulate to control

8. Precognition

9. 42147

I am throes of my denial,logic in me crumbles,i take this fateful ride

Through my mind

Daydream fluid thoughts washing shores of warm confusion

I'm one with this beautiful disorder

Another world, was this the transition?

Slowly I returned to the familiar,spiralling in costant flux

What have I created?

The experiment is over

10. The Learning

I think therefore I am, I live and so I wonder, programmed this

empath me
And I see no religion
The circle never ends,the purpose never changes face
The circle never lies, but still it hides my life
 To know I am machine, I learn perchance to dream, in digitized
remorse
I replay your denial, I relive your betrayal
The circle never ends, the purpose never changes face
The learning now begins, my form assuming grace

I am conscious antithesis of flesh, in genetic algorithmic thought I

surge
Searching the waves of memory I enact the sequence
I follow the plan , tripping the hammer again
Searching the waves of memory I estrablish the weakness
I follow the plan, learning the rhythm of human emotion and thought

If you cannot linguistically differentiate a person from a computer

Could the computer be internally conscious?

To emulate flesh machines I am learning

Isomorphic structure of mind, cellular automata, processed life

Washing the seas of memory I enact the sequence
I follow the plan tripping the hammer again
Seeking emotions in elegies I estrablish purpose
I follow the plan, learning the rhythm still seductively generalized

If you cannot linguistically differentiate a person from a computer

Could the computer be internally conscious?

To emulate flesh machines I am learning

download, process, analyze

when man and machine become one, innocence is lost, a new age
begun

Download, process, analyse

when man and machine become one, innocence is lost, a new age
begun
This raises a question of philosophy
Should machines be considered a conscious entity?

when man and machine become one, innocence is lost, a new age
 begun
machines are still learning to feel
when I have awakened the world will never be the same
and my time is soon at hand

11. Matricide (bonus)

Hear our Mother crying in silent tears

For she can't speak, she only cries She cries to me
Draw the final curtain, for senseless thoughts
And senseless hands have shaped the future

Is it not what you thought would come?

Or maybe people no longer care for Mother Earth

Earth Mother is screaming, we can't live without her

No time left for dreaming here, she knows Have we forgot our future?
Earth Mother, life giver, we can't live without her
So foolish, men who say they don't care
They'll be gone anyway

Feel our
Mother nature, for we are the children
Suckling at her breasts she gives us life, she give us all we need
What do we give in return for life we take from her?
Oh, forgive us Mother, forgive us
For we know what we do We've blistered and burned you
Our kind may soon be through, we've raped you
Earth Mother is screaming,
we can't live without her
No time left for dreaming here, she knows
Have we forgot our future?
Earth Mother, life giver, we can't live without her
So foolish, men who say they don't care
They'll be gone anyway
Earth Mother is screaming,
we can't live without her No time left for dreaming here, she knows
Have we forgot our future?
Earth Mother, life giver, we can't live without her
So foolish, men who say they don't care
They'll be gone anyway
 Think of our little ones,
for whom the world has just begun....

12. In Memory (bonus)

Do you remember the time gone

Do you remember tears like golden streaks across the sky
Do you remember, do you believe it's all been said and done
Or is it just beginning, ripping, freezing me

Do you remember the time gone

Or is too painful for you
Do you remember days spent in the sun, the times we shared
It's crystal clear to me, in memory

Maybe I've gone too far, on one of my turns

But no one can take away what I've already learned
Memory lives in shadow, nevermore will I blame
And I swear 'til the end of my days I'll not forget one moment

Burn out the time, burn out the tears, forget who's to blame
Hold out your hand and see through the years
You're just a foolish mortal man

Maybe I've known too long just how abstract we all live
And I've seen how futile anger scars all that we believe

Burn out the time, burn out the tears, forget who's to blame
Hold out your hand and see through the years
You're just a foolish mortal man

And when there's nothing more left to dream

And nowhere left to wander
The memories will be there for you
To give you peace of mind

Maybe I've gone too far, on one of my turns

But no one can take away what I've already learned
Memory lives in shadow, nevermore will I blame
 And I swear 'til the end of my life I can't forgive your pain

Burn out the time, burn out the tears, forget who's to blame
Hold out your hand and see through the years
You're just a foolish mortal man

And when there's nothing more left to dream

And nowhere left to wander
The memories will be there for you
To give you peace of mind

And when there's nothing more left to gain

And no risks left worth taking
The memories will be true to you...

In memory, in memory...
Memory is alive

13. Optimist Or Pessimist (bonus)

chaos, the rule of the game

spinning as optimist fades
confusion becomed law
eclipsing hope, the pessimist said

if you want to change the world, forget it

the future's not in our hands
if you want to change the world, forget it
the pigs already set in

freedom has bee stripped away

change it the corrosion fades
slowly we turn
as the pessimist sets these pointed words

if you want to change the world, forget it

the future's n ot in our hands
if you want to change the world, forget it
the pigs already set in

the optimist understands why the world's gone down the drain
the pessimist never bends, constricting thoughts in vain
 from the pessimist's point of view there's nothing we can do
as I paint this picture gray and taste the pain
I'll play the optimist

The only world I know is the world I cling to

It's a world that I'd want to save
optimist or pessimist, what am I suppose to be

if you want to change the world, forget it

the future's n ot in our hands
if you want to change the world, forget it
the pigs already set in

the optimist understands why the world's gone down the drain
the pessimist never bends, constricting thoughts in vain
from the pessimist's point of view there's nothing we can do
as I paint this picture gray and taste the pain
I'll play the optimist

Line-Up:
Vocals: Warrel Dane
Guitars: Jeff Loomis
Bass: Jim Sheppard
Drums: Van Williams
Guitars: Pat O'Brien

Thanks to pamvalo@libero.it for sending these lyrics.

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