LYRICS
OPUS OPALUS (album)
Predator
What’s that following you?
What’s that creeping up behind you?
Its footsteps are louder than yours
It sounds like its cracking its jaws
What’s that casting a dark shadow?
What’s that breathing down your neck?
Watch out
Watch out
Chorus
Face it, turn to face it
There’s really no choice so face it, turn to face it
There’s really no choice it’s better to look it in the eye (face it, turn to face it)
It's better to look it in the eye (face it, turn to face it)
What’s that swallowing you?
What’s that snuffing the spark inside you?
It's holding you tight in its claws
It's grip is strong like predator
Chorus
Get off me, I’m getting hurt
You’re not a puppy, you’re a predator
(x4)
Get off me, you’re not a puppy (predator)
Get off me, you’re not a puppy you’re a (predator)
Rap you on the shoulder, take you by the shoulder
Sight unseen, sight unseen (x4)
Michiko
Lately, I’ve been having bad dreams
Heavy, that is how my heart seems
I need freedom from my busy mind
I want clarity to find
Hook
I wanna be a little bit closer to Michiko
I wanna be a little bit closer to Michiko
I wanna be a little bit closer to Michiko
I wanna be a little bit closer to Michiko
I wanna be a little bit closer to Michiko
Michiko
Chorus
Born on a lucky planet
Stuck to the ground like magnet
I am not so goddam heavy
This is a dream, all of this life is a dream
Born on a lucky planet
This is a dream, all of this life
Floating, like a Murakami
Hoping, this is a bizarre dream
How do I reach that place that’s in my mind? (Trying to triumph over my mental state)
How do I reach that place that’s in my mind? (Wonder if I’m strong enough to find that place?)
That place called Michiko
I wanna be a little bit closer
Hook
Chorus
Life is a dream
Life is a dream
Life is a dream
Life is a dream
Black Seaweed
Chorus
Let these bleeding gums of mine
Speak the words I cannot find
Share the thoughts I so well hide (black seaweed)
Let these bleeding, crying eyes
Show the pain I keep inside
All wrapped up in black seaweed
Swimming and dripping
They emerge from the angry sea in black seaweed
They demand what they want from me
(I try to run but my feet fail me, filled with lead or so it would seem)
Gripping and ripping
The branches from the island trees, in black seaweed
They descend on and strangle me, in black seaweed
Chorus
I try to run but my feet fail me, filled with lead or so it would seem
There’s no escaping what we keep, tucked away, hidden in the deep
Locked and chained, away from shame
Have you ever been high on your pain?
Chorus
(Have you ever been high on black seaweed?)
Hindsight
Hindsight is a cruel beast
An evil demon who feasts on doubt and regret
It won’t let the present mind ever find peace
Hindsight is a cruel beast
Hindsight is cruel beast
Light Has No Mass
From atoms we are born and made
To atoms we shall duly fade
Vessels so celestial, riding waves of light in retrograde
Via lactea, the Milky Way is where you make your new home
Helloooo!
Chorus
Light has no mass
It will not wear you down
It will not wear you out
Light has only momentum
You are love, you are light, you are flying the galaxy now
Now my love, now my light, nothing’s tying your body down
You are love, you are light, you are flying the galaxy now
Now my love, now my light, I am watching you bounce around
Stars and gases, light and shade
From atoms we are born and made
To atoms we shall duly fade
Vessels so celestial, riding waves of light in retrograde
Via lactea, the Milky Way is where you make your new home
Helloooo!
Ain’t heavy, eh, eh, eh (light has no mass)
(x4)
Chorus x3
Ain’t heavy, eh, eh, eh (light has no mass)
Nostalgia
This phenomenon, I can’t explain
Brings me screeching to a halt
Nostalgia
I feel like I am bolted to the ground
I feel like I am trying to chase a sound made 10,000 light years ago
This phenomenon, I can’t explain
Leaves me always craving more
Nostalgia
Something deep within me comes undone
I feel like I am trying to chase the sun on the bleakest of rainy days
All I can do when I’m stuck in nostalgia’s grip
Is give myself up to it and enjoy this trip (this trip) down memory lane
I just let the images flicker
This phenomenon, I can’t (here I go) explain
Let me try to tell you how I feel
Oh father
Flowers line the streets where you were laid
A symphony is playing at your grave
In finest gold your paradise is paved
A kingdom in a galaxy far, far away
Withoutcha
I spent the day with him, just wandering
Eating smoky flavours, thumbing the pages
Of books I know he’d like
Just taking in the sights
While discussing freely, our philosophies
On liberty
Spirituality
Just him and me
Why won’t he answer me?
Chorus
Though life goes on withoutcha
Something’s wrong withoutcha
There’s a hole in my soul
There’s a part of my heart that’s missing (you took it with ya)
So much has changed withoutcha
Ain’t the same withoutcha
There’s a hole in my soul
There’s a part of my heart that’s missing (you took it with ya)
I choose to remember you
I choose to spend the day with you, if that’s okay with you?
(Instrumental)
On liberty
Spirituality
Just him and me
Why won’t he answer me?
Chorus (x4)
(You put the good in goodbye x2)