The Church

[fox69]

"Oxydental"

"Oxydental"



Sixteen spirit voices in a menal melange
The disembodied chorus in a bucket of flange
Baby serpents dreaming at the bottom of their eggs
Occidental drone driving their legs

Somebody somewhere must have figured it out
Leaving it open for apostles of doubt
Banging on a tabla till the kingdom comes
Feel it in my fingers and my thimbles and thumbs

Einstein sent a cruiser to another dimension
Strange little beasties on the surface tension
A plague of maharishis in a post-ecstatic haze
Is this the way you've been wasting your days

 

[fox69]

"Pangaea"

"Pangaea"



I got my hand on my heart
I got my heart on my mind (we've drifted apart)
I gotta jump on the clock
I gotta find me some time

Pangaea ahhh alright
Pangaea ahhh (gotta try so hard) together (gotta try so hard)

You got your hands 'round my throat
You got your voice in my head (no matter what)
You better jump on the clock
You better watch where you tread

Pangaea ahhh alright
Pangaea ahhh (gotta try so hard) together (gotta try so hard)

(gotta try so hard)
(gotta try so hard)

They got their rationales
They had their winning streaks (it's never enough)
They better jump on the clock
They better count up their weeks

Pangaea ahhh alright
Pangaea ahhh (gotta try so hard) together (gotta try so hard)
Pangaea ahhh (gotta find some time) ahhh (gotta find some time)

 

[fox69]

"Pantechnicon"

"Pantechnicon"



Lost myself a picture book
Best you've never seen
Slowed half down I take a hook
Hang it on the ring
Got my head
Got my red
Got my violet-green
Just give back my old stranger
Wherever you have been

And it's all in the photographs
And it's all in the past
It's at home in the memory
It's the least and the most

Got involved in secrets
In 1943
Judged myself a player
Wherever I may be
Got my black
Got my shack
Got my rosemary
Never gonna get to Paris
Before Burgundy

And it's all in the photographs
And it's all in the past
It's at home in the memory
It's the least and the most

Saw a lot of rivers in the desert
Wandering in the trees
Thinking I was quite alone
I lectured to the breeze
Got my sap
Got my rap
Got my fiddler's threes
Never gonna get your honey
Angering the bees

And it's all in the photographs
And it's all in the past
It's at home in memory
It's the least and the most

 

[fox69]

"Paradox"

"Paradox"



You are a paradox to me, a senseless maze
I run around, I'm looking for you all of my days

The more that you want it, the more that you need it
(You are a paradox)
The less that it does
Run out it's rough, too much is enough
(You are a paradox)
And that's what it was

I cannot bear to share you, we can't be alone
You make me drift up and float, and fall like a stone

The more that I see you, the more that I miss you
(You are a paradox)
The less that I care
I know I should try to kiss you goodbye, but...
(You are a paradox)
You're never there

I've got a nickname for you, I call you weakness
I get a little strength out too, or is it meekness

The more that you want it, the more that you need it
(You are a paradox)
The less that it does
Run out it's rough, too much is enough
(You are a paradox)
And that's what it was

You are a paradox to me, a contradiction
You're a predicament for me, and a prediction

 

[fox69]

"Pearls"

"Pearls"



Well I hope
You're well insured
If my poor little heart
Becomes injured

And I hope
You can appreciate
When I say I'm coming early
I'm bound to be late
So don't
Change your rate

In the morning
Buildings swarming
Pearls are forming
In the seas
In the evening
Birds are leaving
In the seething
Canopy

In my time
With this name
I've been so many different men
Which one do you blame?

In my skin
With this face
I dreamt I was a dragonfly
Gone from this place

And I soared
Into the light
But I was unmade into a human
Just tonight

In the morning
Buildings swarming
Pearls are forming
In the seas
In the evening
Birds are leaving
In a seething
Canopy

You're so kind
You're so soft
And I could never see the strings
That hold you aloft

You're so vain
You're so obscure
And I wouldn't take any more of that
It might be pure

You're so in love
You're so outdoors
I wouldn't take any more of that
It isn't yours

In the morning
Buildings swarming
Pearls are forming
In the sea
In the evening
Birds are leaving
In a seething
Canopy

 

[fox69]

"Perfect Child"

"Perfect Child"



In a garden, in a kitchen
On an earth beyond adventure
On an island in the sea
As a message from the future
As a man who held the answers
As another man comes crashing as me

Inside eyes
I see the blackness of a dead space
A man could float forever and never find this place
Lie down my perfect child
This is but a dream

From a time when sorrow was set free
From a land of doubt and misery
From a suburb listed locally
When the sun was blotted out the sky
When the wind will refuse to die
There was only you and I

Inside eyes
I see the blackness of dead space
A man could float forever and never find this place
Lie down my perfect child
This is just a dream

 

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"Pharoah"

"Pharoah"



Hi to all the people that are selling me
Here's one straight from the factory
They've sewn my eyes up in their sockets
I dip my hand into their pockets

Is there anybody there
I could swear I'm not alone
Show your faces if you dare
Slaving platinum to bone

One big man with a good connection
Takes the whole damn ship in the wrong direction
I don't mind him misinterpreting me
I hate it when he gets us lost out to sea

Late at night when I'm lying in bed
I've got to say a prayer for my daily bread
And early in the morning when I'm still asleep
You sit upon your throne making grown men weep
With boredom

 

[fox69]

"Pride Before A Fall"

"Pride Before A Fall"



On tippy-toe, quiet you go
So not to wake the sleeper
And now you know that actual love
It goes further, deeper

Pride before a fall
Dark before the dawn
Fall and fall and fall
Call into you all

You face the blame graceless, ashamed
But baby it's a creeper
You fan the flame, empty flame of fame
But if the heart is deeper / But it burn harder, steeper

Lust and anger, pride and sloth
We took her from the same cloth
All that envy, vanity
Gonna be the end of me

On tippy-toe, careful and slow
Find the knees are weaker / loser, weeper

Pride before a fall
Dark before the dawn
Fall and fall and fall
Call into you all

(Seek light from the stars tonight
Up from the planet sky
Live love as the sunlight)
Pride before a fall (She's caught in the spotlight)
Dark before the dawn (Seek sun from the planet sky)
Fall and fall and fall (Live bright as the sunlight)
Call into you all (Pride before a fall)

 

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"Pure Chance"

"Pure Chance"



What chance of meeting
So far out here
As if repeating
What's never clear

The verdant meadows
The smoky coil
The air and ether
The boiling soil

I read your novel
The names were switched
I heard you travel
You must be rich

Those distant cities
Are safe and warm
Within their walls
Of chloroform

Home
It's so far away now
Pure chance
It's so far
It's so far away now

My wife was warm
But the water was cold
And she was young
And the ocean was old

There were voices singing from under the sea
As I followed them down I felt them drowning me

What chance of meeting
So long ago
Just for a fleeting...
Ah, well you know

How unintentional
A random whim
Coincidental
A shallow thing

Home
It's so far away now
Pure chance
It's so far
It's so far away now

My wife was soft
The mountain was hard
Her skin was smooth
The rocks were scarred

There were voices singing above in the sky
As I followed them up I was prepared to die

 

[fox69]

"Radiance"

"Radiance"



When a cloudy morning rain touched our little town
Three small sisters and a friend walking in the fields
A strange light in the sky blotting out the sun
Whatever happens next changes all our lives

And the children ran home sobbing and half blind
Said our lady has a message for mankind
Frightened and bewildered, not making any sense
Dazzled by the virgin's radiance

And the icons in the church crying tears of blood
The water in the wells curing all who drank
Pilgrim lunatics arrive in a ragged stream

In the fields around the village sprang up tents
People from the outside world want more evidence
Four tired children questioned day and night
All they can remember is her blinding light

So the circus drifts away and the noise dies down
Life goes on as before all the people came
And the children never say what her message was

And the children ran home sobbing and half blind
Said our lady has a message for mankind
Frightened and bewildered, not making any sense
Dazzled by the virgin in her radiance

People from the outside world want more evidence