The Grudge

Wear your grudge like a crown of negativity
Calculate what you will or will not tolerate
Desperate to control all and everything
Unable to forgive your scarlet lettermen

Clutch it like a cornerstone
Otherwise it all comes down
Justify denials and
Grip it to the lonesome end
Clutch it like a cornerstone
Otherwise it all comes down
Terrified of being wrong
Ultimatum prison cell

Saturn ascends
Choose one or ten
Hang on or be
Humbled again
Humbled again...

Clutch it like a cornerstone
Otherwise it all comes down
Justify denials and
Grip it to the lonesome end

Saturn ascends
Comes round again
Saturn ascends
The one, the ten
Ignorant to
The damage done

Wear your grudge like a crown of negativity
Calculate what you will or will not tolerate
Desperate to control all and everything
Unable to forgive your scarlet lettermen

Wear your grudge like a crown
Desperate to control
Unable to forgive
And sinking deeper

Defining
Confining
Sinking deeper
Controlling
Defining
And we're sinking deeper

Saturn comes back around to show you everything
Lets you choose what you will not see and then
Drags you down like a stone or lifts you up again
Spits you out like a child, light and innocent

Saturn comes back around
Lifts you up like a child
Or drags you down like a stone
To consume you till you choose to... let this go...
Choose to... let this go...

Give away the stone
Let the oceans take and transmutate
This cold and fated anchor
Give away the stone
Let the waters kiss and transmutate
These leaden grudges into gold

Let go


Eon Blue Apocalypse

[Instrumental]

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The Patient

A groan of tedium escapes me
Startling the fearful
Is this a test? It has to be
Otherwise I can't go on
Draining patience, drain vitality
This paranoid, paralyzed vampire act's a little old

But I'm still right here
Giving blood, keeping faith
And I'm still right here

But I'm still right here
Giving blood, keeping faith
And I'm still right here...

Wait it out
Gonna wait it out
Be patient (wait it out)

If there were no rewards to reap
No loving embrace to see me through
This tedious path I've chosen here
I certainly would've walked away by now...
Gonna wait it out

If there were no desire to heal
The damaged and broken met along
This tedious path I've chosen here
I certainly would've walked away by now...

And I still may... (sigh)
I still may

Be patient, be patient, be patient...

I must keep reminding myself of this
I must keep reminding myself of this
I must keep reminding myself of this
I must keep reminding myself of this
And if there were no rewards to reap
No loving embrace to see me through
This tedious path I've chosen here
I certainly would've walked away by now
And I still may
And I still may
And I still may
And I still may
And I

Gonna wait it out
Gonna wait it out
Wait it out
Gonna wait it out...

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Mantra

[Instrumental]


Schism

I know the pieces fit 'cause I watched them fall away
Mildewed and smoldering, fundamental differing
Pure intention juxtaposed will set two lovers souls in motion
Disintegrating as it goes, testing our communication
The light that fueled our fire then has burned a hole between us so
We cannot see to reach an end crippling our communication

I know the pieces fit 'cause I watched them tumble down
No fault, none to blame, it doesn't mean I don't desire
To point the finger, blame the other, watch the temple topple over
To bring the pieces back together, rediscover communication

The poetry that comes from the squaring off between
And the circling is worth it
Finding beauty in the dissonance

There was a time that the pieces fit, but I watched them fall away
Mildewed and smoldering, strangled by our coveting
I've done the math enough to know the dangers of a second guessing
Doomed to crumble unless we grow and strengthen our communication

Cold silence has...
A tendency to...
Atrophy any...
Sense of compassion...

Between supposed lovers
Between supposed brothers

I know the pieces fit
I know the pieces fit
I know the pieces fit
I know the pieces fit

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Parabol

So familiar and overwhelmingly warm
This one, this form I hold now

Embracing you, this reality here
This one, this form I hold now, so
Wide eyed and hopeful
Wide eyed and hopefully wild

We barely remember
What came before this precious moment
Choosing to be here
Right now, hold on, stay inside
This body holding me
Reminding me that I am not alone in
This body makes me feel
Eternal all this pain is an illusion

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Parabola

We barely remember
Who or what came before this precious moment
We are choosing to be here
Right now, hold on, stay inside
This holy reality
This holy experience
Choosing to be here in

This body, this body holding me
Be my reminder here that I am not alone in
This body, this body holding me
Feeling eternal all this pain is an illusion

Alive

In this holy reality
In this holy experience
Choosing to be here in...

This body, this body holding me
Be my reminder here that I am not alone in
This body, this body holding me
Feeling eternal all this pain is an illusion
Of what it means to be alive

Twirling round with this familiar parable
Spinning, weaving round each new experience
Recognize this as a holy gift and
Celebrate this chance to be alive and breathing
A chance to be alive and breathing

This body holding me
Reminds me of my own mortality
Embrace this moment, remember, we are eternal
All this pain is an illusion

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Ticks & Leeches

Suck and suck!..

Suckin' up all you can, suckin' up all you can suck
Workin' up under my patience like a little tick
Fat little parasite
Suck me dry
My blood is bruised and borrowed
You thieving bastards
You've turned my blood cold and bitter
Beat my compassion black and blue!

Hope this is what you wanted
Hope this is what you had in mind
'Cause this is what you're getting
I hope you're choking
I hope you choke on this
I hope you're choking
I hope you choke on this

Taken all I can taken all I can, we can take
Taken all you can taken you can, we can take
Got nothing left to give to you
Blood suckin' parasitic little tick
Blood suckin' parasitic little blood
Suckin' parasitic little tick
Take what you want and then go!

Hope this is what you wanted
Hope this is what you had in mind
'Cause this is what you're getting

Suck me dry!
Suck me dry!
Suck me dry!
Suck!
Suck me dry...

Is this what you wanted?!
Is this what you had in mind?!
Is this what you wanted?!
'Cause this this is what you're getting
I hope, I hope, I hope you choke!

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Lateralus

Black then white are
All I see in my infancy
Red and yellow then came to be
Reaching out to me
Lets me see

As below, so above and beyond, I imagine
Drawn beyond the lines of reason
Push the envelope
Watch it bend

Over thinking, over analyzing separates the body from the mind
Withering my intuition, missing opportunities and I must
Feed my will to feel my moment drawing way outside the lines

Black then white are
All I see in my infancy
Red and yellow then came to be
Reaching out to me
Lets me see
There is so much more and
Beckons me
To look thru to these infinite possibilities

As below, so above and beyond, I imagine
Drawn outside the lines of reason
Push the envelope
Watch it bend

Over thinking, over analyzing separates the body from the mind
Withering my intuition, leaving all these opportunities behind

Feed my will to feel this moment
Urging me to cross the line
Reaching out to embrace the random
Reaching out to embrace whatever may come

I embrace my desire to
I embrace my desire to

Feel the rhythm
To feel connected
Enough to step aside
And weep like a widow
To feel inspired
To fathom the power
To witness the beauty
To bathe in the fountain
To swing on the spiral
To swing on the spiral
To swing on the spiral
Of our divinity and still be a human

With my feet upon the ground I move myself between the sounds
And open wide to suck it in, I feel it move across my skin
I'm reaching up and reaching out, I'm reaching for the random or
What ever will bewilder me, what ever will bewilder me
And following our will and wind we may just go where no one's been
We'll ride the spiral to the end and may just go where no one's been
Spiral out, keep going
Spiral out, keep going
Spiral out, keep going
Spiral out, keep going


Disposition

Mention this to me
Mention something, mention anything
And watch the weather change

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Reflection

I have come curiously close to the end, down
Beneath my self-indulgent pitiful hole
Defeated, I concede and
Move closer
I may find comfort here
I may find peace within the emptiness
How pitiful

It's calling me
It's calling me
It's calling me
It's calling me

And in my darkest moment, fetal and weeping
The moon tells me a secret, my confidant
As full and bright as I am
This light is not my own and
A million light reflections
Pass over me

Its source is bright and endless
She resuscitates the hopeless
Without her we are lifeless satellites drifting

And as I pull my head out, I am without one doubt
Don't wanna be down here feeding my narcissism
I must crucify the ego before it's far too late
I pray the light lifts me out
Before I pine away
Before I pine away
Before I pine away
Before I pine away

So crucify the ego before it's far too late
To leave behind this place so negative and blind and cynical
And you will come to find that we are all one mind
Capable of all that's imagined and all conceivable
Just let the light touch you
And let the words spill through
And let them pass right through
Bringing out our hope and reason

Before we pine away
Before we pine away
Before we pine away
Before we pine away

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Triad

[Instrumental]


Faaip De Oiad

"I, I don't have a whole lot of time. Um,
OK, I'm a former employee of Area 51.
I, I was let go on a medical discharge
about a week ago and, and... [chokes]
I've kind of been running across the country.
Damn, I don't know where to start, they're,
they're gonna, um, they'll triangulate on
this position really soon.

OK, um, um, OK, what we're thinking of as,
as aliens, they're extradimensional beings,
that, an earlier precursor of the, um, space
program they made contact with. They are
not what they claim to be. Uh, they've
infiltrated a, a lot of aspects of, of, of the military
establishment, particularly the Area 51.

The disasters that are coming, they, the military,
I'm sorry, the government knows about them.
And there's a lot of safe areas in this world
that they could begin moving the population
to now. They are not! They want those major
population centers wiped out so that the few
that are left will be more easily controllable."

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Tool: Maynard James Keenan (vocals); Adam Jones (guitar); Justin Chancellor (bass); Danny Carey (drums).
Recorded at Cello Studios, Hollywood, California, The Hook, Big Empty Space and The Lodge, North Hollywood, California.

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