The Church

[fox69]

"Tristesse"

"Tristesse"



Here in this desert, beneath the sun and stars
Still troubled by the rumbling of a million distant cars
Please be good to me tonight, let me find my way
The air has some command in it I cannot disobey
A gunfight in Dodge City, a murder in Bombay
All these deeds and worldly needs I must shrug off today
All my life spent searching for prowess
Left me lying here with you, Tristesse

I was working in an orchard that grew the strangest fruit
It wasn't Mother Nature that made those trees take root
Your children cannot hear you, they only want your loot
You hold on to their essence like a parachute
They never believed you were in distress
Now you've gone and left them with Tristesse

Oh, waters inflamed
Ah, fires burning out
Ah, ice melting down
Ah, fires burnt out

A hotel suite in a rich man's town, a hut in Botany Bay
A prisoner by my own device, a mountain in my way
I'm gonna have to alter my address
I can't stay much longer with Tristesse
And they call this carnival progress
Invited by our queen tonight, Tristesse

 

[fox69]

"Twin Stars"

"Twin Stars"



She's got two tiny stars in her eyes
She's got the blessings in disguise
And just like the rain and the snow
And takes them with her everywhere she goes

She's got two tiny stars in her eyes
And she's got miracles in her head
She's got pleasure on demand
Just like the soft summer rain
Soothes the earth at the end of the day
She's got two tiny stars in her eyes

 

[fox69]

"Two Places At Once"

"Two Places At Once"



Arrive in a hive city
somewhere in the east
floating down a crowded street
as though I am or I will be released
Elly's stopped yawning, clear blue morning
In mourning no more
Come and see the wild things that are
Just beyond the door

But there's an old man here
He claims that he knew you in another life
I'm not sure what he's sayin', Elly,
Could it be he still thinks you're his wife?

I've been waiting, seems like eternity
I've been waiting, waiting for you
I'm still waiting if you remember me
I'll be waiting, waiting for you

Trinkets sing on a desert wind behind here
Where ghosts have laid their final claim to rest
But who they left and what they thought they'd stayed for
Has crumbled in their last dusty caress

They were so blind
They were so blind

Hiding in a hotel room, somewhere in the west
I heard they brought a priest in to sanctify the place
But it remains unblessed
Things move around - my guitar sometimes plays itself
They say it's static electricity but
Yesterday it took twenty dollars off the shelf

There's a young man here, says he married you
In another time
The children cry and ask where their mother is
Gonna have to let them down
Yeah, I've been hurt
Yeah, I've been around

Limpet shells are fading in the valley
Where once the sea had strength enough to reach
But out of the twisted metal of discarded fortune's curse
No one here can quite translate the verses that they wanted to preach
They were blind

 

[fox69]

"Under The Milky Way"

"Under The Milky Way"



Sometimes when this place gets kind of empty
Sound of their breath fades with the light
I think about the loveless fascination
Under the Milky Way tonight

Lower the curtain down in Memphis
Lower the curtain down all right
I got no time for private consultation
Under the Milky Way tonight

Wish I knew what you were looking for
Might have known what you would find

And it's something quite peculiar
Something that's shimmering and white
It leads you here despite your destination
Under the Milky Way tonight

Under the Milky Way tonight

 

[fox69]

"Undo"

"Undo"



God it's so high, God it's so high
Why don't I fly, why don't I fly
Don't say goodbye, don't say goodbye
Elegant god, elegant sigh
Why don't you try, little advice
Don't say goodbye, don't say goodbye
Just you and I, just you and I
Sweeter than pie, down in Bondi
Don't say goodbye, don't say goodbye

Summer seaside town in motion
Holiday girl down by the ocean
Evenings are warm, just before the storm
You don't understand that it's all in your hands
And the graphs and the charts are pulling us further apart

Ace/Eight floors/stores with their CDs online
Crashing in our field, wasting our time
And I don't care a bit of a fiddle-de-dee
What the phantom power is doing to me
It's tracking in the black, such audacity
We're not going back and that's that and that's all it can be
Lionized cats with their mirrors intact
Clawing our sides, tearing our back
I never took a potshot at a wounded beast
But I guess you never really met the deceased
I told all your enemies to come to the feast
If it comes to the crunch we'll do lunch with the bunch from the east

Cultures holding at the rockets controls
Slippery and when ready like this great country scrolls
If you're fucking with your enemies, you're killing your friends
This is where your reign of terror/pleasure ends
I know you'll understand that's a message he sends
But it's bad and it's sad and it's mad and I've had to give a dent

 

[fox69]

"Unified Field"

"Unified Field"



Your money is so pretty
It's too beautiful to spend
Evening is so magical
Too elaborate to end

The air here is so sweet
It's much too pure to breathe
It's already over
I don't want to leave

Unified field
No one here is gonna yield
No one here you've seen before
Magnetic strip
Pull me further in its grip
No one here you can't adore

Your scenery is unusual
It's too elusive for me to view
Your food is just delicious
But I can't eat it like you do

Darkness all around us
It's the only thing I see
The music is so sacred
It can never get me free

Unified field
No one here is gonna yield
No one here you've seen before
Magnetic strip
Pull me further in its grip
No one here you can't adore

Your energy exhausts me
It drives you like a lash
Your enthusiasm's contagious
Covers me like a rash

Your gravity supports me
It guides me through the crash

Unified field
No one here is gonna yield
No one here you've seen before
Magnetic strip
Pull me further in its grip
No one here you can't adore

 

[fox69]

"Unreliable External"

"Unreliable External"



Come on now baby let's have a little fun tonight
2,000 long years and they're all leading up to tonight
Why'd you wanna be so cruel to me like that
But you're already near me, you already see

And you look so good tonight
Sky so black tonight

Everybody knows that you got it for free
If they catch up with ya you're gonna wanna know me
Alright

Sometimes I think I'll go crazy from the things that you say
I can't understand why you say that everything is dead
You saw the light, it was too bright, and you said
Then you turn around and you found it's me instead

Look so fine tonight
Sun is gonna shine tonight

Everybody knows that you know one of us
If they catch up with you don't make a fuss
Alright

Desired these purple vile lips in your tonight
Common steel rover maxed out like a lira tonight
Tuffunnel caaa-ves in resulting in a hurt
All my little experiments right down the drain tonight
That's alright
(That's right!)

 

[fox69]

"Untoward"

"Untoward"



(How low)
It's further than you think so you better not let go
(Oh no)
It's better than you thought so you better take it slow, or it'll
(Un-go)
Go away from yourself well I oughta know, and I say
(Oh no)
It's further than you think so you better not let go

(Off and on)
(Mer)curial breakthrough
(Off and on)
Cold parable
(Off and on)
Coordinates locked in
(Off and on)
Journey begun

(Somehow)
I hope you get a ride 'cause it's too late for me now, so I
(Cow tow)
To any little despot with a crown upon his brow, and they
(Know how)
That's the kind of energy that nature can endow

(Off and on)
Metaphysical check-up
(Off and on)
Making them king
(Off and on)
Lifespan extensions
(Off and on)
Forever livin'

(One day)
One day I'm gonna change and I'll arrange it all my way
(One day)
One day I'll just ascend and they'll pretend I went away

(Off and on)
Natural science
(Off and on)
So you still wait
(Off and on)
Jump into neutral
(Off and on)
White spirit gate
(Off and on)
(Off and on)

 

[fox69]

"Vanishing Man"

"Vanishing Man"




Sinister bastard
Your casket groans from sins
You pulled a fast one
Slug a drug from plugins
Narcissus black
It's grim up to the brim
You little cracker
Watch your back pilgrim

Can't stop it
We got it coming
We got a calling, majesty and power
Like you know you should
We got a feeling
We cannot feel it
We gotta send this majesty and power
Like you know you could

And when you bring the fire
Majesty and power
Majesty and power
Majesty and power
Majesty and power

Vanishing man
You can appear as you like
You took her demand
Bestrode it like a bike
Lucifer Jones
In heck up to your neck
A big bag of bones
Oh watch your spell check

Can't stop it
We got it coming
We got a calling, majesty and power
Like you know you should
We got a feeling
We cannot feel it
We gotta send this majesty and power
Like you know you could

And when you bring the fire
Majesty and power
Majesty and power
Majesty and power
Majesty and power

Beelzebub brown
It's hot holed in this grotto
You dang it down
I frown at you
You're blotto

Like you know you should
Like you know you could

And when you bring...

(Majesty and power)
(Majesty and power)

 

[fox69]

"Violet Town"

"Violet Town"



Newspaper fades against the ground
Phantom bus pass through violet town
On its way through the yellow fields
Past the greying fences

When I'm here I have this feeling
I don't want to know
Inviolate town

Sad trees throw shade that falls around
The empty streets of violet town
Gardeners the houses stand
And eyes in windows, strange...

Big truth progress never to be found
I walk the corners straight to violet town
And I tell you sometimes when we're old
Of the useless boy and his dream