Extinct Instinct
Album - 10 marzo 1997 - Debaser id 36865

sick of guessing what's behind your eyes
i ask for truth and all i get is lies
the shrinking violet in your flacid mind
thinks he's cool but all you do is whine
and now you stand there and demand your half
when i have given to you all you have

don't make me laugh at that demo play
you're sick and tired of my clever word play
you find it hard doing things my way
you've done your part so tell me why do you stay

i assume your silence is a foil for rage
you can't find words even at your age
the space between us is the cloak you wear
to hide your feelings oh you just won't dare
to reveal the visage that's behind your mask
we have the answers but you just won't ask

don't make me laugh at that passion play
you're sick and tired of my clever word play
you find it hard doing things my way
you've done your part so tell me why do you stay

now i pick up the entrails of another dead affair
i assume the mantle that i knew you could not wear
you never had the confidence to leave yourself exposed
to the gaze of the tiny minds it's my mission to explode

is this more like it can you get into the groove
or are you paralysed still too scared to move
you are naked you are rooted to the spot
i am the walrus and it's clear that you are not

give me a place to stand and i will move the world
give me the right to speak and see my flag unfurled



the gods of war and the generous whore
give me life in this tinsel town

but the shit i eat and the people i meet

make me want to bring this curtain down



in the night time the shadows fall and i retire to lay down

the twisted chains and losses and gains of war

it's the right time to speak in rhyme of the fire gods that lay down

read between all the shadows i've seen and more



i am falling down closer to the ground

(give to me your fairest deeds)


tell me where you're bound i will follow now
teardrops are rising

(i am he your fairy steed)

teardrops are falling


nightmare is coming and i hear the drumming


of demons in the night

the space where my heart was is claimed by the servants
of my subconscious flight


the wings that i fly on are taking me into

the underworld tonight

where i perceive all my wildest dreams where i

bring them all to life



all that stands before breaking human lore

(i'm your wildest fantasy)

teardrops are running


nightmare is coming and i hear the drumming


the space where my heart was is claimed by the servants
of demons in the night



of my subconscious flight
the wings that i fly on are taking me into


where i perceive all my wildest dreams where i
the underworld tonight
bring them all to life




unicorn so wild and free, balm my eyes carry me home

teardrops are drying



nightmare is coming and i hear the drumming

of demons in the night

the space where my heart was is claimed by the servants

of my subconscious flight

the wings that i fly on are taking me into
the underworld tonight

where i perceive all my wildest dreams where i


bring them all to life

close your eyes and tell me what you find

don't you here the voices in your mind

where have all your lovers gone, the friends you thought you counted on

passed away like shadows lost with time



i gave you all your life to make a choice

from time to time i know you heard my voice

it wasn't just for information, i desired your conversation

all you did was drown me out with noise



when i said go you wouldn't go

i gave my hand but every time you never want to know



and so you turned away, the seasons reached their end

it took you all your days to keep me from your head

the night grew dark your eyes grew black

and soon there'll be no turning back again



are you swimming through a myriad

of spiritual decisions

are they whispering sweet nothing while they

drown you with derision

out of sight but in your mind

they're calling out they're pulling you away

deep inside you know what's right

but slowly you're believing what they say



if they said go would you go



are you orbiting the rainbow do you live to be in trances

are you lost in paranoia did you take too many chances

parasites and soul-destroyers ready for your life to drift away

deep inside they steal your mind and slowly you're repeating what they say



if they said go would you go



when every country's gone to war every dream has hit the floor

when every gene has split in two and every breath has poisoned you

only then you'll understand none of this is what i planned

but giving you the right to choose meant some of you would have to lose



when every lake is parched and dry when all pollution kills the sky

when every soul has gone it's way and every heart is old and grey

maybe then you'll understand somewhere on your wounded land

you heard my voice but chose to turn away

as a child i recall i had once believed
i would die before i reached seventeen

seventeen i remember i faced the truth


when i understood your prophecy was confused

when all is done there is little that can guide everyone along
the faltered line you mumbled on the day you left us behind



nothing is clear though you promised me you'd be here



nothing is clear though you promised me
you promised me


you promised me that you'd be here
nothing is clear though you promised me you'd be here
you promised me


though nothing was clear




like a fuel it will burn until you are strong
as a child hope is what keeps us young

if you're weak you'll never see past the day

like a cynic you will probably feel betrayed

if one thing's clear there is certainly little of value here

and when we die inevitably we're leaving all this behind




nothing is clear though you promised me you'd be here
you promised me

nothing is clear though you promised me

you promised me that you'd be here

nothing is clear though you promised me you'd be here


you promised me
though nothing was clear