The Process of Belief
Album - 21 gennaio 2002 - Debaser id 20371

Well, am I making haste, or could it be haste is making me
What's time but a thing to kill or keep or buy or lose or live in
I gotta go faster, keep up the pace
Just to stay in the human race

I could go supersonic
The problem's chronic
Tell me does life exist beyond it
When I need to sate
I just accelerate into oblivion
Into oblivi-ayaaayayayayayay-n

Now here I go again everything is alien
How does it feel to be outstripped by the pace of cultural change?
My deeds are senseless and rendered meaningless
When measured in that vein.

I could go supersonic
The problem's chronic
Tell me does life exist beyond it
When I need to sate
I just accelerate into oblivion

I won't lie [pace setters, go getters]
It's exciting [rat racers, forget hers]
When I try [researchers, berserkers]
To decide things [strategies to help the workers]
I just want to live [new time saving devices]
Decently [quick vices, short splices]
Meaningfully [brevity dependency]
I'm in misery [ digital efficiency]

I could go supersonic
The problem's chronic
Tell me does life exist beyond it
When I need to sate
I just accelerate into oblivion
Into oblivi-ayeayeayeayeayeayeayea-n

Hit the road in wander mode, inquire along the way
Savoir-faire in full despair while living day-to-day
My heart is not a cold cauldron of proof
I don't ever need to prove myself to you
Looking back I'm off the tracks more times than I recognize
Mistakes are another opportunity to refine
My heart is not a cold cauldron of proof
I don't ever need to prove myself to you
There's no such thing as hell
But you can make it if you try
There might come a day
When emotion can be quantified but as of now
There's no proof necessary
No proof necessary
No proof necessary
There's no proof necessary
It's only in your mind

I'm incurable but durable it's easy to see
Lack of restraint is a complaint of those around me
I know that others postpone
Gratification well I lack that affectation
Let's get it right, there's no end in sight and I
Can't stop, can't stop it, can't stop
Can't stop it's shocking, but I just can't stop it!
Uncontrollable, I'm inconsolable
May pleasure center is the shelter for a reptile
I hate when I gotta tolerate
Frustration, see I lack the motivation
Let's set this straight, I never wait and I
Can't stop, can't stop it, can't stop
Can't stop shocking, but I just can't stop it!

She said "Thanks but I'm broken
I guess you must have misspoken
What a laugh, I've never been chosen by anyone"

She was barely a teen, hangin' out in between
Just a part of the scene
With mercurial smile and incurable style
She was only a dream
How's that he didn't know a thing about
Makin' love to the kinda girl you read about

He said "I'm bound to be broken"
"My daddy bet that i'd amount to nothin'"
He won't let anybody show him anything

He was a troubled child
Had been down for awhile
Always kept to himself
though she couldn't defend he only wanted a friend
Now he's made somethin' else
It's so sad
No one saw it comin'
The paper said that he hit the ground runnin'

Oh Yeah
I know I'm not broken
A little cracked
But still I'm not broken
I wanna laugh but I think that I am chokin' on reality

When the world is turning for you
Don't turn on me
Who are you here to repair
Well I don't know what you mean
You could never resist
Glorifying despair
And now it's comin' to you and I don't really care

Well I'm not the kind to insist
You couldn't of missed
We must co-exist
So please listen to me
There is no such thing as human debris

Oh Yeah
I know I'm not broken
A little cracked
But that amounts to nothin'
I wanna laugh
I'm not jokin'

I'm unbroken
(Oh Yeah, I said I'm not broken)
I said I'm unbroken
(A little cracked, It's just a token)
I'm really not broken
(Well I guess, I'm unbroken)

You're obsessed and distressed 'cuz you can't make any sense
Of the ludicrous nonsense and incipient senescence
That will deem your common sense useless
this ain't no recess!
I want to believe in you but my plans keep falling through
I know I have to face the harshness, grin and bare the truth
And I have to walk this mile in my own shoes (and I'm no fool!)
I'm materialist a full-blown realist (physical theorist)
And I guess I'm full of doubt so I'm going to have it out with you
I'm materialist there ain't no fear in this
It's there for all to see so don't talk of hidden mysteries with me
Mind over matter it really don't matter
If the street's idle chatter turns your heart-strings to tatters
Flatter hopes don't flatter and soul batter won't congeal to mend
A life that is shattered into shards
was it in the cards?
The process of belief is an elixir when you're weak
I must confess, at times I indulge it on the sneak
But generally my outlook's not so bleak (and I'm not meek!)
I'm materialist call me a humanist (physical theorist)
And I guess I'm full of doubt but I'll gladly have it out with you
I'm materialist I ain't no deist
It's there for all to see so don't talk of hidden mysteries with me
Like Rome under Nero, our future's one big zero
Recycling the past to meet immediate needs
And through it all we amble forth to persevere and climb
Our mountains of regret to sow our seeds
I'm materialist!

It's a matter of prescience
No not the science fiction kind
It's all about ignorance
And greed and miracles
For the blind
The media parading,
Disjointed politics
Founded on petrochemical blunder
And we're its hostages

If you stand to reason, you're in the game
The rules may be elusive but our pieces are the same
And you know if one goes down, we all go down as well
The balance is precarious as anyone can tell
The world's going to hell

Don't allow this mythologic hopeful monster to exact its price
Kyoto now!
We can't do nothing and think someone else will make it right.

You might not think it matters now, but what if you are wrong
You might not think there's any wisdom in a fucked up punk rock song
But the way it is cannot persist for long
A brutal is sun rising on our sick horizon
It's in the way we live our lives
Exactly like the double edge of a cold familiar knife
And supremacy it weighs heavy on the day
It's never really what you own
But what you threw away, and how much did you pay

Don't allow this mythologic hopeful monster to exact its price
Kyoto now!
We can't do nothing and think someone else will make it right.
In your dreams you saw a steady state a bounty for eternity
Silent scream but now the wisdom that sustains us
Is in full retreat

Don't allow this mythologic hopeful monster isn't worth the risk
Kyoto now!
We can't vision for the future if it can't be fixed
Alien
We need a fresh and new religion to run our lifes
Hand in hand
The arid torpor of inaction will be our demise
ohhhohh Kyoto now

Father can you hear me?
How have I let you down?
I curse the day that I was born...
And all the sorrow in this world...

Let me take you to the hurting ground
Where all good men are trampled down
Just to settle a bet that could not be won
Between a prideful father and his son
Will you guide me now, for I can't see
A reason for the suffering and this long misery
What if every living soul could be upright and strong
Well, then I do imagine...

There will be Sorrow
Yeah there will be Sorrow
And there will be Sorrow, no more

When all soldiers lay their weapons down
Or when all kings and all queens relinquish their crowns
Or when the only true Messiah rescues us from ourselves
It's easy to imagine...

There will be Sorrow
Yeah there will be Sorrow
And there will be Sorrow, no more

There will be Sorrow
Yeah there will be Sorrow
And there will be Sorrow, no more

There will be Sorrow
Yeah there will be Sorrow
And there will be Sorrow, no more

A new age of reason
Brain treason to trick the mind
What good is searching
if nothing's there to find
We arrive at this place
of no return my brothers
Only to discover that our minds have led us away
so far from the painful truth
of who we are

What's right is wrong
what's come has gone
what's clear and pure is not so sure
It came to me
All promises become a lie
all that's benign corrupts in time
The fallacy
of Epiphany

Come forth bear witness
see the profit from your loss
Beg for forgiveness
only after you tally the cost
We arrive at this place
of no return my sisters
Only to discover that our values ran us aground
on the shoal in the sea of what
we could be

What's right is wrong
what's come has gone
what's clear and pure is not so sure
It came to me
All promises become a lie
all that's benign corrupts in time
The fallacy
of Epiphany

If it's real for me do I have to prove it to you
Why do revelations fade to cold blue untruths
It's oh so relative
Subservient in total to one's perspective

What's right is wrong
what's come has gone
what's clear and pure is not so sure
It came to me
All promises become a lie
all that's benign corrupts in time
The fallacy
of Epiphany
Always failing me

She came from heaven
Well there's no point belaboring that
I've seen some trouble and
I must admit that I'm in demand
I confront rejection with magnetic
Good intentions and yet
Hey Jack, get back in fact
Don't do that

I act sharp, but feel uncertain
Cause next time, it could be curtains

Evangeline
Conspirator so fine
Lend me your faith
Cause mine is broken
Compared to mine
What is your crime
Evangeline?

Now just to be certain
Let's be sure to set the record straight
I could use an angel
But I don't intend to split
Up the take

Never go for treason
But I got reasons that
Don't warrant debate
My act's intact and in
Fact, you're not all that

You act sure, but your uncertain
Cause next time, it could be curtains

Evangeline
Conspirator so fine
Lend me your faith
Cause mine is broken
Compared to mine
What is your crime
Evangeline?

Well there's no use turning back
It's already much too late
When the house is burning!

Evangeline
Conspirator so fine
Lend me your faith
Cause mine is broken
Compared to mine
What is your crime
Evangeline

Nothing comes easier than madness in the world today
Mass paranoia is a mode not a malady
[Yeah] I'd like to watch a 1000 cable channels but there's nothing on
And the high speed connections monitored daily by the pentagon
These things are seldom what they seem
I'm not inclined to enjoy my dreams[Won't go away]

[No peace]No peace and [No friends]No friends
We trace [We Trace] the mortal edge [mortal edge]
To state the obvious
This world is perilous for us
No sense[No sense] and No guide[No guide]
Ain't it beautiful to be alive[Yeah right]
I won't resign before the struggle ends
So I'll construct this sound defense

We are the prey and culture is the predator
I'm running out of time where conditions are positional
Shadows of a doubt cast reluctance and depravity
There's got to be a way to overcome this grim reality
Is there an option left for me
I'm not immune to despondency
There's no way

[No peace]No peace and [No friends]No friends
We trace [We Trace] the mortal edge [with no defense]
To state the obvious
This world is perilous for us
No sense[No sense] and No guide[No guide]
Ain't it beautiful to be alive[Yeah right]
I won't resign before the struggle ends
So I'll construct this sound defense

There's a signpost on the corner
and it keeps everybody safe
We were all made in the shade

And your mother's in the kitchen
where she's patching all the cracks in the wall
We never had a care in the world
oh - ohhh

No sense [too much to sacrifice] and no guide [it's hard to recognize]
No friends [too much to compromise] and no alibis .....
so I'll construct a self-defense

Too much to sacrifice
it's hard to recognize
Traps to compromise, obscuring deadly alabies
It's combinational
the pressure so intense
So I'll construct this sound defense

Nothing's plainer than the madness in the world today
I must conceal myself and steal myself and break away
I seek initiatives in matters that are black and white
So I'll construct this sound defense

How do you know what you can be if you can't see where you are going?
What breaks the silence?
Misery can make you see where you belong
It's a dangerous stage, but the show must go on
Why do you lie? Why do you lie? Would you betray your soul?
Why do you lie? Why do you lie? Don't let your weakness show
You just might be the last to know
Freedom is such a loaded word, so full of hurt and such aplomb
Loneliness saunters in its breeze like a disease it drags along
The time of your life can't be had for a song
Why do you lie? Why do you lie?
Would you betray your soul?
Why do you lie? Why do you lie?
Don't let your weakness show
You just might be the last to know
Oh, Why do you lie? Why do you lie?
Would you betray your soul?
Why do you lie? Why do you lie?
Don't let your weakness show
Why do you lie? Why do you lie?
Only the meek follow
Why do you lie? Why do you lie?
Trample the fear below
You just might be the last to know

Hey you, is there something worth aspiring to?
And can it be found in a record store?
Well, it's not there anymore,
Just think of all the things we did
We were different, just like all the other kids

Missy was a teen blue video star,
Tom took his life in his mothers car,
Milo went to college, but you knew about that,
Rodney played our records,
Jimmy started riots,
Laurie was always quiet,
she was battling depression

Hey you, is there something worth belonging to?
And can I pick it up for a song,
Or a diploma, or a worthy cause?
Well, let me tell you that there's nothing wrong,
it's just that ones like us will never belong.

Jack wore a skirt but he knew how to scrap.
Billy went to county on a class-one possession.
Wendy went to school while her daddy shot smack.
Eugene kept a list, Mugger was security
Mary, she kept her purity.
We were all in it together.

Yellowed postcards on the wall
serve to cover up the blankness after all,
So I will carry them along, like a song, when I'm gone.

Hey you, is there something worth belonging to?
You know, we've been here all along
like a confederacy of the wrong,
and I confess it could be prejudice,
but to you I dedicate this song
Yeah, you!