1. |
Elegy
03:47
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Elegy
Lyrics: Michael Passen
Sixty-five, embalmed alive
But a vacation clinic stay
Will put the star back on his way
Six years old, pale and cold
Sheltered from solar radiation
In a constant state of rehabilitation
One day wed, soon from their wedding bed
Fifteen hundred feet would end
The life together they'd planned to spend
A ten-year sentence, an impotent penance
A murderer's due is suspended
A mercy his victims weren't extended
Another lucky octogenarian
Passes the angel garden
With whom will I lie?
With whom will I lie?
Somewhere out there my stone is waiting
Somewhere forces orchestrating
The way I will die
The way I will die
One hundred weeks spent in military fatigues
But a zippered plastic bag
Will clothe him on his journey back
Hippocrates disgraced, his sacred oath erased
When a couple's forced to choose
Between medicine and food
Six billion souls, the young and old
All waiting for the day
When they return from whence they came
From conception in the womb to internment in the tomb
On the day that you're set free
Only this you're guaranteed
Lying here in bed
I lay my hand across your head
And wonder who'll be the first to go
And who will be left alone
Another lucky octogenarian
Passes the angel garden
With whom will I lie?
With whom will I lie?
Somewhere out there my stone is waiting
Somewhere forces orchestrating
The way I will die
The way I will die
Everyday each step I measure
Under existential pressure
One day I will die
One day we all die
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2. |
The Family Tree Dysgenic
03:52
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The Family Tree Dysgenic
Lyrics: Michael Passen
Like the fork upon your table
Or the pipe that flows the water
To your cup and to your mouth
Ingest the luxuries you're able
Until the lead of fine utensils
Breeds death from all your wealth
And this is no morality play
This is not the guilty being made to pay
Nor are these the ravings of a cynic
This is the Family Tree Dysgenic
His noble ear hears duty calling
And so the vessel of posterity
Pours itself upon the flame
In to the violence of war sprawling
And summon generations fathered
By the sick and by the lame
And this is no morality play
This is not the guilty being made to pay
Nor are these the ravings of a cynic
This is the Family Tree Dysgenic
Procreate without regard
In these circular relations
Roots extending in every direction
Crumble the bedrock of civilization
Now the branches are in chaos
They are twisted and confused
So that their lineage can't be found
And the limbs are hanging heavy
So that the fruit of coming epochs
Rots unpicked upon the ground
And this is no morality play
This is not the guilty being made to pay
Nor are these the ravings of a cynic
This is the Family Tree Dysgenic
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3. |
Kinetic
03:51
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Kinetic
Lyrics: Michael Passen
Feel the footsteps underneath,
Ceaseless and on the move
Conscious or unaware,
Your feet are marching too
A shallow look may comfort find,
To call it providence
But cause will shout it down each time
and call it coincidence
So what to do, predestined man?
What's worth to struggle for?
Do I engage the forward flow
Or get pulled back to the shore?
Without evasion, a puppet nation,
Governed by consequence
How do I stage a coup just to
Hold back providence?
Life Kinetic
Fate magnetic
What's to strive for?
What's to die for?
He didn't guard against the memories
He'd romanticized in his recollection
Now he strains against the forward flow of time
To gain some sense of reconnection
The hours, minutes, seconds pummel,
And grind against his skin like sand
And nothing he can do
Can put the past back in his hand
Life Kinetic
Fate magnetic
What's to strive for?
What's to die for?
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4. |
Freeze Frame
05:34
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Freeze Frame
Lyrics: Michael Passen
A camera that captures colors
That don't exist in real space
A lens that focuses beauty
Unto the most unphotogenic face
A moment that's frozen in time
Just like all good times should be
A frame hangs around it
To hold it for all to see
Freeze Frame
There's no guilt in savoring the past
Freeze Frame
Hold it in your eyes and make it last
Freeze Frame
When night comes project it on your eyelids
Freeze Frame
Keep it dancing, dancing in your beds
Paper that shines and bears a thumbprint
Oily spirals in the light
Rainbow like a parking lot puddle
Swirls of color like "Starry Night"
Dark so dark you're lost in it
Away from negative space
8 by 10 is just the right dimension
For this beautiful safe space
Freeze Frame
There's no guilt in savoring the past
Freeze Frame
Hold it in your eyes and make it last
Freeze Frame
When night comes project it on your eyelids
Freeze Frame
Keep it dancing, dancing in your beds
Freeze Frame
There's no guilt in savoring the past
Freeze Frame
Hold it in your eyes and make it last
Freeze Frame
When night comes project it on your eyelids
Freeze Frame
Keep it dancing, dancing in your beds
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5. |
Learning To Crawl
04:29
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Learning To Crawl
Lyrics: Kevin Boenning, Michael Passen and Mike Newberry
Under my close watch you were born to be
Never a man only a means
Given talents that weren't yours to use
You had the strength but not the will to choose
I won't go now, I'm not ready
Can't believe you'd come this soon
I made my choice, with my soul I'll pay
By the light of a waning moon
I see how your will was broken
Over and over
Now that you're brought to your knees
You're finally Learning To Crawl
My lungs burn with the fires of hell
I recollect from my dark shell
All the choices that you made for me
And all the sins I chose willingly
The time is now, you are ready
Can't believe you'd come this soon
You made the choice, and your soul will stay
By the light of a waning moon
I see how my will was broken
Over and over
Now that I'm brought to my knees
I'm finally Learning To Crawl
I won't go now, I'm not ready
Can't believe you'd come this soon
I made my choice, with my soul I'll pay
By the light of a waning moon
I see how my will was broken
Over and over
Now that you're brought to your knees
A dark path has been set for me
I'm finally Learning To Crawl
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