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Babylon
04:04
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INTRO
Once upon a time, the idea that energy could be harvested straight out of thin air would have
Seemed like a work of fiction straight out of the imagination of Jules Verne.
But today, we are seeing what was once just a fantasy born into fruition through the spectacular
genius of Oliver Graves.
V1
Gather round me children for the tale of a man
Who thought he’d make a name through an impervious plan
He’d build the tallest tower and he would ascend
Now none evade his sight throughout the land
His power was perfected
In the temple he erected
Now forever insurrection
Could be crushed beneath his hand
And with his mighty voice he would amend
This riddle so we could not comprehend
C1
Babel on and on in his Babylon
Variety’s undone
With one name for everyone
Babel on till the sky is gone
And his candle’s burning brighter than the sun
V2
But the cedars for your coffins are already hewn
Your running out of heat inside your hot air balloons
The chubby lady’s ready and she’s dying to croon
A tune to usher in the days of doom
For lately we ain’t findin’
Any honey in the lion
Men are lying with Delilah
And their fire is subdued
Apologies for spreading woe and gloom
But read the sign this tower is your tomb
CHORUS 2
Babel on and on in your Babylon
Variety’s undone
With one name for everyone
Babel on till the sky is gone
And your candle’s burning brighter than the sun
V3
Hold on to your soul though these days may be bleak
St Michael has been summoned immaterially
To spear this mighty tannin, cast him into the sea
A shield for those who never bent their knee
CHORUS 3
For now we Babel on and on in our Babylon
Variety’s undone
With one name for everyone
Babel on till the sky is gone
And your candle’s burning brighter than the sun
La de da da de da de da
AHHHHH Whoa
La de da da de da de da
And your candle’s burning brighter than the sun x3
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2. |
Penelope Graves
06:16
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V1
The faintest star slips out of sight
Though she won’t go quietly into the night
and breaks from her course, intending to fall
Runs ‘cross the sea, by the earth she’s been called
V2
she dashed toward the shore in the dark of new moon
The sand is the alter, the land her groom
But alas when her feet came to meet the dry ground
a jilting betrayal as her heels settled down
CHORUS
And her name
Drifted away
When she was tamed
And so she became
Penelope Graves
V3
The rocks gashed like razors, grass cut like knives
Her uncovered feet were draining her life
So she stole from her wings the silk for a pair
Of slippers to cover her skin bruised and bare
V4
She walked among wonders a star never could
But the shoes tore like bandages covered in blood
In agony crippled, accursed in a field
She wept like a sparrow who’s wings wouldn’t heal
CHORUS
And her name
Drifted away
When she was tamed
And so she became
Penelope Graves
BRIDGE
Hearing her cries
A man raced to her side
In awe of this star
A heartbreak sublime
Wingless and hopeless
he brought her a gift
The strength in his arms
And the spirit to lift
Her up
V5
She forfeit her wings and gained a groom
But where can she stand when the earth is her doom
So her new lover covered her soles with a pair
Of leather and stitches with laces to wear
CHORUS
And her name
Drifted away
When she was tamed
And so she became
Penelope Graves
Drifted away
When she was tamed
And so she became
Penelope Graves (Drifted away)
When she was tamed
And so she became
Penelope Graves
Drifted away
When she was tamed
And so she became
Penelope
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V1
The moon gleams dimly
Whispers thinly
A crescent smile
A siren’s wile
Ordained or wild?
The gambit of night
V2
The sun looms larger
A scolding father
His scornful light’s
A sparkling blight
and scalding blithe
O’ Where is the night?
V3
In the shade of trees
Pleading reverently
Questions posed
A quest betrothed
Through forests strewn
Cathedral tunes
A puzzled truth
to mend in the night
V4
To the edge you’ve wandered
Drawn by this hunger
Beauty, pain
Here one the same
Ransom or bane?
The gambit of night
Gambit of Night
Gambit of Night
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V1
A dozen race horses frozen in poses
All grounded by posts, bound to lose by a nose
With no where to go
No where to go
The levers are trimmed and the circle begins
Ain’t it strange to see a zebra chasing the lion?
Whirling aglow. Twirling aglow
But if you ride with no one
No one by your side
CHORUS
Who’s gonna hold you down?
Who’s gonna hold you now?
Who’ gonna hold down?
V2
As the evening draws closer
The sun lights’ exposer
Cannot keep me back
Heat these feathers and wax
Escaping unknown
breaking the dome
CHORUS
Who’s gonna hold you down?
Who’s gonna hold you now?
Who’ gonna hold down?
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6. |
Enchanté
05:35
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V1
When I was a little lass
The angels leapt from panes of glass
So unafraid, unafraid
And the arches knelt to pray
While the gargoyles kept away
any demon that would scheme to steal
My childlike faith
V2
We huddled up, we held on tight
For grounded men were jealous of
the angel’s flight, angel’s flight
They were butterflies to them
so they brought their boards to pin
The wings and bodies of our gods
For studying
V3
We couldn’t fight them in the end
Once we saw the heavens through their
Modern lens, modern lens
Oh how can we atone
For the secrets we were shown?
Like a basilisk they fixed our spirits
Hard as stone
PRE
Alas the muses through their glasses
Drift away as only madness
Drowning in the din
Of our animal skins
CHORUS
Enchanté, Enchanté, Enchanté, Enchanté
Every myth to crack its lips
has nothing more to say
It’s okay, it’s okay, it’s okay
if we can’t raise the dead
We’re gonna raise
We’re gonna raise
We’re gonna raise hell instead
V4
From chagrin I’ve been released
Paint me in a portrait sans the fig leaves
Fig leaves
And I will not be concerned
Or ignore the things I yearn
My hunger is the rule I cannot overturn
PRE 2
Alas the virtues through their glasses
Hid themselves from our madness
All we have within
Is our animal skins
CHORUS 2
Enchanté x4
Greet your beast and let ‘em streak into the fray
It’s okay, it’s okay, it’s okay
if we can’t raise the dead
We’re gonna raise
We’re gonna raise
We’re gonna raise hell instead
BRIDGE
I miss the days when stars where saintly
they sang to me in ways innately
before we enslaved the symphony
to playing anthems for selling things
I used to wonder, wander farther
into awe, but those days were squandered
My ghost was lost to the grownup gallows
So I find my spirit in the bottle
But, Oh! that bottle
Oh that bottle,
oh that bottle
Oh that bottle!!!
Enchanté x4
Name the powers “meteors”
and let us go insane
It’s okay, it’s okay, it’s okay
If we can’t raise the dead
We’re gonna raise hell instead
Whoa
Greet your beast and let him streak into the fray
Whoa
We’re gonna raise
We’re gonna raise
We’re gonna raise hell instead
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7. |
Downpour
03:35
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V1
There’s a door in my head
Where a bird makes his bed
In winter
Composing a dirge
in a flurry of slurs
and splinters
V2
Drawn by decay
The swarm finds it’s prey
where I brood
Filling my ears
With the hissing of jeers
and wormwood
PRE
But when my mind was almost dust
Struck a flash from above
and my eyes turned up
CHORUS
The sky cracked with rain
and the satan washed out
in the thunderstorm
His brothers they wept and were swept
To his feet in the downpour
The downpour
And ooooh the door
I opened no more
for the vultures
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V1
What light through yonder window’s breaking?
The western moon and I am taken
She left me pining like the tides
forever reaching for her light
Though rise the waves, they’ll dive again
To dodge the spears of cherubim
But I’ll dare their blades as I ascend
and vault the hosts of seraphim
Aaahhhh-Oh-ahhh
‘Dominus Deus Sabaoth, Sabaoth, Sabaoth’
‘Dominus Deus Sabaoth, Sabaoth, Sabaoth’
‘Dominus Deus Sabaoth, Sabaoth, Sabaoth’
‘Dominus Deus Sabaoth’
When gravity was unabating
Her gentle words to one forsaken
Give wings to hope and breath of life
And gift my soul the highest heights.
I’m magnetized when she’s above
Falling upwards into love
What binds the tides to Earth be shed
Her throne is where I’ll lay my head
Falling upwards into love
‘Dominus Deus Sabaoth, Sabaoth, Sabaoth’
‘Dominus Deus Sabaoth, Sabaoth, Sabaoth’
‘Dominus Deus Sabaoth, Sabaoth, Sabaoth’
‘Dominus Deus Sabaoth’
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9. |
Komm Jesu
05:24
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INTRO
And quite suddenly I remembered
I’ve been here before
Years before
I stood on this same hill
I knew the valley at which I looked
Life has moments of sheer beauty
Of unbidden flying rapture
But they last no longer than span of a
Cloud’s flight over the sun
I stumbled on just such a moment
in my own life
I stumbled on a buried memory
V1
Focus narrows
Fringes harrow
In shadows lurk
A faceless blur
It breathes in my ear
A childhood nightmare
I cannot turn
Or I might burn
In cold black vistas
drenched in whispers
CHORUS
Komm, Komm, Komm
Komm Jesu, Komm Jesu
Komm Jesu, Komm Jesu
Komm Jesu, Komm Jesu
Komm
V2
Is this darkness
Merely madness
Or so much worse,
I’m clear, alert
Oceans shape shift
endless, adrift
Though her name
remains “Untamed”
CHORUS
Komm, Komm, Komm,
Komm Jesu, Komm Jesu
Komm Jesu, Komm Jesu
Komm Jesu, Komm Jesu
Komm, Komm, Komm,
Komm Jesu, Komm Jesu
Komm Jesu, Komm Jesu
Komm Jesu, Komm Jesu
Komm
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V1
You think your skull is
A mighty fortress
But lo at all you do
Your secret’s bleeding through
V2
The crown of thorns are
Not bespoke for a
Creature weak as you
Your secrets will bleed through
CHORUS
We’ll have some things to discuss
When we quarry, what’s buried
The bones you hid in such a hurry
We tarry now, but we’ll get around to digging it up
Your judgement day will come! X2
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11. |
Last Goodbye
04:41
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V1
The light erupts, the world wakes up
Another day here you’re stuck
For paradise resides beyond the blue
and clouds are no place for shoes
The heads of those who grind below
Start looking like stepping stones
And as you trek you paid them no respect
snapping a million backs and necks
PRE 1
Well uh oh, didn’t you notice
while you were heaven bound
The trumpet sounds?
CHORUS
You never know when you say it
That you said it the last time
Your final time
It went so fast, you’re out of tries
This was your last goodbye
When the credits role will you know
it was you last line, your final line
So sad this was your last goodbye
V2
Beneath your bones an engine glows
Driving you far from home
The gates above will never open up
If you shun everyone you oughta love
PRE 2
Well uh oh, didn’t you notice
The way you chase all your dreams
Is your pathology?
CHORUS
You never know when you say it
That you said it the last time
Your final time
It went so fast, you’re out of tries
This was your last goodbye
When the credits role will you know
it was you last line, your final line
So sad this was your last goodbye
PRE 3
Well uh oh, didn’t you notice
While you lit up the sky
Your lamp ran dry?
CHORUS
You never know when you say it
That you said it the last time
Your final time
It went so fast, you’re out of tries
This was your last goodbye
When the credits role will you know
it was you last line, your final line
So sad this was your last
So sad this was your last
So sad this was your last goodbye
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