Living Under Ground

Tracks

1. 1

   Robot

   5:48
   Lyrics

   It's just a few songs you hear before sleep you wake up and see nothing's moved an inch I write for a year: stay quiet for a moment close your eyes gently, forget everything there is You're in the city of my mind, the mind of a robot a mind full of zeros and ones and believable digits I fled the planet of madness and took refuge on this earth from people I learned: see, but don't say, that's all On this dusty earth too, there was talk of paradise again the trash cans were full of torn-up writings For me, paradise is a place underground, far from everyone a place where I'm the law, no protest, no clamor There was only one way to escape the earth beyond the valley of death, a road to a star

2. 2

   For Me or for Them

   4:33
   Lyrics

   A mother with no intent and no choice left her child by the roadside her voiceless baby is telling us all its hang-ups Half the earth, unsafe, lit by you all night sometimes your face a crescent, like a smirking lip You who sleep the days away, you, moonlight of the skies who are you shining for, for me or for them In every story there's someone the book gets named after a bunch of people come and go so its hero can stay For me or for them, who do you write your stories for which of us would it have to be for them to buy your writing The world-weary old man says his words with his heart a heart that's beaten with you a whole lifetime for this one and that You who beat without pause inside the shell of my body you who pound against the iron vessel of my chest my little heart, all my veins, all my blood pass through you so who do you beat for, for me or for them

3. 3

   She Is My Mom

   3:42
   Lyrics

   Is it hard finding me? On this naked branch of tree I'm a leaf full of pain Under this rush of the rain این بس نیست که تنها روی این شاخه بمونم بزن رگبار و بکن تن از ساقه و خونم She's my Mom so sick and tired She's burning in cancer's fire My Mom Don't you feel like falling down? Don't you feel like being alone? برگکم بمون رو شاخه هستی درختی آخه واسه تو درد و تگرگ واسه من افول و مرگ پاییز ای فصل غم نخواه که دل آزرده شم بترس از نفرینم نشه این برگ از شاخه کم

4. 4

   Law

   4:35
   Lyrics

   Why is a whole tribe waiting down there for me to jump you tell them I'm just one person that I don't know how to fly doesn't need witnesses anymore once grief smells of blood, nobody likes it If the moments are passing me by, like you if coins are buying my writings O God, I'm alive in your darkened half don't talk to me about purity, I'm drowning in your nectar I'm a sentence from a law that covers you too without my words, you can't survive So take back whatever you gave, I take back whatever I said I'm a dry leaf, but I fall with the tree itself more than this repeating of me, the scream of stone from iron stone knows what pain means, but it doesn't break

5. 5

   Pest

   5:23
   Lyrics

   My pulse beats mute, bound, restless and moaning I drift off weightless and calm, this isn't death, it isn't decay tulips on my shoulders, the dew in my eyes clear I call out to you, tulip, it says it's all in my head It's both the beginning and the end, free of body and flesh I'm neither the decision nor the deed, yes, it's above me it's that same bond and chain, it's that same glassy jail it's that same death and snare, it's that same pest at the root Every light and object and illusion, it understands everything I say neither dusk nor dawn, it doesn't smell of the world empty of all passion, every single moment as long as a year I want to go back but it says it's impossible now Enough, just go, I said you, enough already

6. 6

   Living Under Ground

   5:16
   Lyrics

   I've got no wings to fly I'm a night that has no end I've got no strength to stay I'm tired but I can't sleep There's a smell of wet glass there's the sound of ash breathe for me you can still manage that Calm and ease are lost to me you're chains and shackles pass me by like the clock that passed twenty-some years You want to take a piece of paper and write that you're tired of living with a heavy heart living with a stone Living under ground sometimes I can't take any more of this ah, behind these dark glasses the sun and the moon are both ugly Living under a song words beyond doubt what's been done to me blazes up and leaps out of you in flames Piece by piece my broken bits look, they're falling at my feet don't say God loves me I don't want anything anymore Don't hold me in your arms I won't calm down anymore don't say God loves me I won't say anything anymore

7. 7

   Glassy Jail

   4:33
   Lyrics

   Ah, if I cry you'll break from grief the warp and weft of your faith will come apart oh, if I moan the house will burn my footprints will stay on the walls I'm just one person, the size of a world grief has become my share of the ugly and the beautiful Inside a glassy jail at night I wither the roots let stones rain from the sky my tears will stay hidden Your breast has bled from a savage secret your eyes, too, wounded by every light and image every breath that passes through the heart of the chest takes on the smell of grief and the tune of hatred

8. 8

   Extacy

   7:44