Alternative 4 - The Brink lyrics
Tracks 01. The Brink
02. False Light 03. Alternate 04. Underlooked 05. Still Waters 06. The Dumbing Down 07. Automata 08. Autonoma 09. The Brink (Reprise) 01. The Brink Music & lyrics by Duncan Patterson
Well, here we are
Crawling back from victory Divided from the stars With a handful of hearts And the small change from glory 02. False Light Music & lyrics by Duncan Patterson
Light... spills out with the landslide
Bleating heroes with single-glazed eyes Cashing in on the straight side Stalked out on the threshold Crashed out with the lost loving souls Smoked out of the priesthole Faith... laid out with the average waste Lapped up by the fairweather fakes Sold on by the ingrates Pushed out under false lights Laughed out on the slandering line Crossed out of a moment in time 03. Alternate Music & lyrics by Duncan Patterson
Break up now, awaken now
Or breakdowns all around Why tread the ground of joy unfound? Hanging from a half-negated crown Break the bounds of dark surrounds Abdicate in silence, dignified Oh hark the sound of reptant clowns Serving up a cold myopic lie Break it down and change You're safe to walk away Don't suffer for this scornful masquerade Stale mates will fall away Basking in their mindlessness parade Break it down and change Reclaim divinity Break it down and change Break it down and change..... Break it down and change Patch up your dignity Break it down and change Break it down and change..... 04. Underlooked Music & lyrics by Duncan Patterson
Chronically underlooked, yet all of it you took
The missing pages from someone else's book Papered over the cracks in front of their backs None of you were told to look Lost you there in the blink of an eye You took a dive on my blindside, playing for time Where could I hide in my downtime? Black lies sigh, aligned across the ocean wide I'm sat five thousand miles away The fat cat vies to actify her evil eye Alikened to vile, confined to the backslide Narrate my case to the flock behind these ragged gates Parasites lost, do we stimulate to adulate? Do we imitate as to accumulate? Or lie in wait till the scapegoat escapes? 05. Still Waters Music & lyrics by Duncan Patterson
When I fell, I'd grown tired of treading water
Folk changing like the weather Begrudging what was mine At the tolling bell, oh they huddled undercover, Played us off against each other We took the bait and crossed the line In the midst of all our dreaming Catch a glimpse of where we're heading Walk away from past redeeming As we know that paths misleading Disdain sold me up the river Stole a part of me forever Made this compromise together I was trading trust for never ...yet little did I know At the turn of the day I didn't feel the last hour burning Saw no need for shallow yearning God you'll miss it when you're turned in So far away Over mountains of persuasion Paved a gateway for the vermin To the sycophant communion Came a heartless violation From pathetic opposition A deep and meaningless oppression Had to smother out those lies Six degrees of defamation Prolonged years of degradation Despite tears and reformation I was there to rectify ...yet little do you know 06. The Dumbing Down Music & lyrics by Duncan Patterson
i. The Travesty Waltz
Looking on darkness Dumbed down and speechless Dropped there in the blink of an eye Fears long forgotten, erased and revised, How can destiny die? ii. Steakknife's Theme (instrumental) iii. Silent Approval Committed to ignorance You let the lying dogs sleep 07. Automata Music & lyrics by Duncan Patterson
Follow me, the way they've told you to be seen.
Follow me, and we'll meddle with the stars Can you believe your jumped-up heroes to be thieves? Still you long to kiss their apathetic hearts Everything I need is everything that's killing me And everything I hear is everything that fed to me Everything I feel is everything I'm told to be Everything I see is everything I'm led to believe Follow me as we soar across this wayward sea Or there you'll stand, divided from the stars From what I see there's barely a true soul to reap Deliberate or sleepwalk through reality Everything I need everything that's killing me And everything I hear is everything that's fed to me In everything I feel that everything's a travesty With everything there'll always be a light inside of me 08. Autonoma Music by Duncan Patterson
[instrumental]
09. The Brink (Reprise) Music & lyrics by Duncan Patterson
We witnessed the dumbing-down
Crowns paraded by clowns The stench of follow ripping through the towns There's an underhorse on my windowsill This could go either way It probably will |