Words: Butler
Music: Dilemma
I. Unsavoury Suggestions
Relics of regret
Petrified memories
For you to bow to
And seal your grief
Unleashed your personal demons
From your favourite nightmares
Who's coming in tonight
The Joker or the Saviour ?
There's rules for bad behaviour
To appease your insatiable appetite
Favoured clichés ride your mindscape
Condemned to recollect without change
II. Tunnel Vision
Arrows going right through my soul
Concepts clashing right at the heart of my hollow existence
The very meaning of life itself being questioned
Fear makes killers of us all
I feel the condemnation
Weighing down my soul
Ripping the seams of my self-confidence
Groping in the darkness
For something to hold on to
This is all so much more complicated
Than what I was hoping for
Down down down I am falling
Roam-go-home
I am stumbling in no man's land
Feel like I'm re-invented
Touch the light before it's dark again
All I know is what I want
I don't have all the answers
Neither do you
All I know is what I got
I never did much for it anyway
That's amazing grace
All I see sometimes
Is a symbol of death
To which I cling
Trying to grasp its meaning
All is forgiven
As forgiven are all
Never close the door on hope
And don't turn your back on love
III. Crucify
If you're gonna crucify me
Crucify me upside down
This is my testimony
Let go
Words: Butler Music: Dilemma Don't call me joy When chosen path has brought disgrace And death takes all the heart's believed in When fear comes in to swallow hope The dying self receding How many times did I give up To find you waiting patiently Yes, the time will come But not before what's done is done And what went under is rising ... For your loyalty Nothing gained down here Across the borders, see I bear your memory in me Captured inside of me Until it breaks free Don't call me joy
Words: Butler Music: Case, ButlerI. Past Tense
II. Present Tense
In the realm of the artist's dreams There is one idea that will not yield To the state of the art as we know it The case of a terrific flop There is the fear of becoming old Or boring, pathetic or bald Fueling the poetic pain with artistic integrity Of a downward spiral snob Spill your guts and sing what you think You either do that or go see a shrink Oh, don't deny your inner pain Release it and make a bloody fortune Vulgus panem et circenses cupit Born against all temptations of time The slow poison of knowledge incites The troubled and complex mindset Of the controversy orientated Duck! The fruit of audience participation Naturally follows artistic masturbation Well, my mum could care less anyway She thinks James Last is quite loud enough From writer's block to creative suicide Star Trek always got me inspiredIII. Pretence (in seven movements)
IV. Present Tense (revisited)
V. Quite Tense
Words: Butler Music: DilemmaI. In the Pipeline
II. Pride
It was perfect, coming from history to be With wonderous visions lingering Calculated dreams come true The enterprising science heroes The discovery of the ages The future wide open Destiny coming into view No Messiah was seen to return Time steadily progressed Societies rising and falling Beliefs and theories fading in and out I saw the future with my very own eyes It didn't seem significant That the past stayed out of bounds We'd be the pride of humanity The future was ours indeed Although our own destinies eluded us And past became more and more incompleteIII. Course
Visions, enlightment, fear and excitement Amazing achievement Escape from the boundaries of timeIV. Borrowed Time
V. Choreographed Chronology
VI. Parts
Echoes of the past Ignored throughout history Repeating the call of a timeless one The scientists seek their knowledge The prophets see their visions Businessmen sell their dreams and run We discover a few parts Turn them into a big picture Human pride held high and then time stopsVII. Collision
Convex, corrosion, state of confusion Amnesia, breakdown, space, fearful symmetryVIII. Conclusion
Life went on after the project was concluded We could not oversee the complications And were unable to continue Time took its course We lived some of the things we had seen Until we stumbled Onto the ultimate intervention Many disappeared, never to be seen again Some said UFO's Other thought the start of the New Age The future has already happened With the main event still to be planned So incalculably unexpected And now they ask "forehead or hand?"
Words: Butler Music: Case, Robin Z Looking at the future A premature celebration A hope with a handle throughout infinity Patronising statements Pathetic substitutes For a lasting love, a nightmare come true Time stands still when history repeats Another idol falls but we still do not see See them falling down... One turning point determining the future The battle rages, lingering Unauthorised occupation Scream for justice Before the day of reckoning No one is without sin but many are innocent Time stands still when history repeats Another idol falls but we still do not see See them falling down...
Words: Butler, Paula Katipana Music: Dilemma A vampire's turned loose on the earth Both male and female he strikes with his curse Do not welcome him inside Once there he's ruthless and bites He sucks the life right out of you And turns you into a monster too He comes and gives you his lovebite You'll be on fire yet full of fright Beware, vampire at large Better lock your door tonight A vampire's turned loose to roam free Inflicted the life is conceived He breaks all your resistance down You think you're safe when he comes 'round He thrives on your arrogance Intelligence lost in ignorance Blinded by carelessness Danger comes closer with each warm caress Beware, vampire at large Evil slumbers In the twilight zone Lurking when the sunlight's gone Only the mirror reveals the truth Only a wooden stick can cut rite through Beware, vampire at large Better lock your door tonight You trust in your tokens of protection But you forget in the heat of the passion He laughs at people who claim to be good But turns to dust in the light He searches in vain for innocent blood
Words: Butler Music: Robin Z, Case, Butler Another war to die for Bending the rules you never obeyed And struggle through history Mighty pillars Crumbling at the core Where truth and justice bleed This world has lost its glory I've looked for you In the wrong places You remain a mystery I see too many Familiar faces Through the centuries This world has lost its glory Feel the spirit everywhere Oh, the emptiness Unlike ever before When you'r gone
Words: Butler Music: Toll, Robin Z, Case Growing up in a hallucination Failing to understand From ignorance to irritation Flagellant in dreamland Omission led to crass behaviour And misplaced optimism But omens of a future downfall Were cornered in doxologies The geat information society Has kept me uninformed About the true meaning of salvation But from truth freedom comes And I go on Persevering down the narrow way On an obscure trail Inherit stumbling blocks of forebears Struggling to no avail The great information society Has kept me uninformed About the true nature of tenderness But I need to feel your love if I am to go on And I go on Got to go on I'm waiting at a crossroads Questionmarks are now increased Well, I could sit around at barricades Or accept the invitation to the feast
© Peter J.R. Vermaat 21 March 1995