Riotgod Invisible Empire
Breed
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This song is for the brazen mother fuckers who thrive
one’s who keep their wildest dreams alive
We devote to you every note of our goddamned sound
Ones who building up when other people are breaking down
ones who keep the white flag neatly tucked away
One who know the feeling of what its like to seize the day
A salutation to that special breed
one who know the difference ‘tween want and need
Know how to identify the weakest and the strong
Got their own interpretation of the words right and wrong
Running smooth paying mind of all the fine details
Rowing hard till they find the wind back in their sails
Magic gracious beings making certainty seem like chance
Keep us in the mix when you’re driving the road real fast
play us fucking loud just before the die is cast
You’re the very people we like to call our kin
When all is seeming lost the one who find a way to win.
You brilliant shining stars we want to see
some come down to the front where you deserve to be
To you we offer up our purest rock and roll
Springing from the deepest part of our burning souls
Plugged into the universe that’s without a doubt
Right here right now that’s what it’s all about.
Yeh.
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Fool
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So are you quite done playing in the road?
You know it only leads to us
Sure we let you think the choice was yours.
Now our power all returns across shores
We let you think the choice was yours
Turn ’round
Face it
Don’t deny the path chosen for you
Oh — we have come to reclaim
holiday it is over
did you think we had gone?
What a foolish endeavor
Oh we’ve come to reclaim.
So now you know what we expect
and oh in our hands the reigns are kept
We won’t let any tears be wept
and our presence you won’t soon forget.
Turn ’round
Face it
Don’t deny the path chosen for you
Oh — we have come to reclaim
holiday it is over
did you think we had gone?
What a foolish endeavor
We’ve been here since day one
We are bonded forever
Oh we’ve come to reclaim.
**
Crossfade
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Arise, those night visions smoothly
crossfade eyes open
to daydreams they loop and mix repeat their your fix
under the surface on endless uptime constantly
refined tuned so perfect like an endless signal
sustaining throughout your mind.
Your eyes they trawl and skim like butchers they skim
they find bodies and faces preserved for somewhere
down the line.
From the loaded deck
you pull the perfect hand
merging life and dream
like it’s fucking on-demand
Everything goes as perfectly as planned
before your eyes
warms your insides
before your eyes
never felt so high
Savor it baby
consequence – oh that aint never your concern
Savor it baby
Grease the fucking screw
cryin’ as it turns.
From the loaded deck
you pull the perfect hand
merging life and dream
like it’s fucking on-demand
Everything goes as perfectly as planned
before your eyes
warms your insides
before your eyes
never felt so high
**
Slow Death
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Long ago
I was conceived
Woven from the cloth of dream
Introduced to you by you
Your reality my only scene
I remember things that you are loathe to confess
the beatings and the sadness and the states of duress
Can’t have a better friend that one of custom design
Fine — try to keep me in this inner stall.
I ain’t no fool
I know what you’re doin’
I wont go down…
Easy.
No I cannot hold out very long
Gonna make you pay.
Feeding on memories — you chose long ago to throw away.
Synthesizing energies
My revenge relies upon delay.
I will poison comfort with injections of fear
whispers oh I’ll generate just inside your ear
Can’t have a better foe than one of custom design
Dying — slowly surely you’ll feel my fall.
I ain’t no fool
I know what you’re doin’
I wont go down…
Easy.
**
Firebrand
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The quiver of your smile oh the hardly subtle glint in your eye
like a spoon by a plate
Table it is covered with the finest golden plans and desires
of others who wait
Time for you to rest has come and gone so baby let’s get to work
let’s take care of that need
Nothing is spared from your wide open mind
swallowin flower to seed
Oh – brutal and quick it begins
with beauty defiled
I’m feeling the universe spin from one so eager and wild
oh, it ain’t a matter of need
not one I understand
so carelessly fevered your take
from the eyes, the heart, the hand.
Shaking my head my stomach is turning
half-ghost half-man here I come, The Firebrand
Watching you, learning, alert and discerning
half-ghost half-man here I come, The Firebrand
Radiating child of Satan and Mary
half-ghost half-man here I come, The Firebrand
Watching you, learning, alert and discerning
frequency strong, my scars I am earning.
The quiver of your smile oh the hardly subtle twitch you can’t hide
like an unbroken steed
Nothing is spared from your wide open mind
swallowin flower to seed
Oh – brutal and quick it begins
with beauty defiled
I’m feeling the universe spin from one so eager and wild
oh, it ain’t a matter of need
not one I understand
so carelessly fevered your take
from the eyes, the heart, the hand.
**
Gas Station Roses
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I sit alone inside the casual ruins
knowing just what and yeh what not to do
I turn the channel yeh from care to less
Instead of trying to turn bad into best…
or even better.
Star blessed or star crossed
that’s what I’ve thought
Time well spent
or time bought
my mind gets caught.
And it never occurred to me
While ’round I went
Gaging my fortune while I feel bereft
trying to keep balance while these forces shift
Past and the present form a strange collage
and the future appears like some far-off mirage
changing shape and form
Certain that awful clown
won’t come round no more
heart I remove from that glass
that time has past for sure
And it never occurred to me
While ’round I went
Promises empty broken records skipped
Anger and Malice yeh my tongue had slipped
Finally determined, I got off that ride
On honesty’s plane there ain’t nowhere to hide
Changing shape and form
Captured visions, long imprisoned
released before my eyes
transferred instance, bridges distance
points in time they collide
Tunnel of love it ain’t found in the sewer
Gas station roses can’t replace couture
I can’t engage in all those games I’d play
I can’t serve up things that I used to say.
**
Tomorrow is Today
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Particles accelerated
colliding we met by chance
We were like birds
all colors and markings and soon we begun that dance
Story-book it certainly wasn’t
but too it sure wasn’t plain
electric signals filled up the air
and a frequency soon became
An energy’d rebound
two streams of life would become wound
teasing, pleasing, newness and frustration
secret, joyful trysts of rich temptation.
And over time a very powerful process
began to envelope me
And everything that was so very attractive began to fluctuate
And over time my colors and patterns would mix and rearrange
Marks of a vile, deep, hidden possessor,
sickly and so strange
My guise began to fray
slowly from day to day
Unseemly, teeming echoes born of sadness
Amazing, brazing, phasing streams of madness
Emotions bred over time to be culled
oh attract and repulse, I don’t know nothing else
Up I rise from the rut I have crawled oh
Ground became walls, faint was my pulse
Split with this latest decision
those waves of derision
that washed over me
Oh no chose of seclusion
no that’s a delusion
wrong kind of free
Sky full of stars that will guide me
square one you can find me
where tomorrow’s today
Tomorrow is Today.
**
Saving It Up
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Like the last line on the mirror yeh
or the sweet sip from your cup
light on the face from a beamed forgiver
holding the elevator going up
Like the smile seen after a long long trip
or the kiss under gentle rain
gift of a flower oh so red and sweet
or the embrace that keeps me sane
Savin it up for me
I hope you’re saving it up for me
Memory fond one shared amongst old friends
Warm fire in the deepest wood
Saving my place in a line that has no end
The littlest things make me feel so good
Savin it up for me
I hope you’re saving it up for me
Oh when it’s good — it’s good
Oh when it’s bad — shit change.
Like a sudden trembling of the earth
rogue wave rising from the sea
blue sky turns into deepest grey
to feel a freight train coming full speed
Wild glance that can stop a full grown bull
Cold stare lasting hard and long
Harsh words blaze from a flaming tongue
telling me everything I’ve ever done wrong
Savin it up for me
I hope you’re saving it up for me
Oh when it’s good — it’s good
Oh when it’s bad — shit change.
**
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Loosely Bound
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Slick navigation of those tree lined hidden streets
Sweating ‘way childhood oh in that humid heat
life it unfolded oh a crystalline display
good and bad choices oh were soon to come our way
music it would be there for the triumph and mistakes
And like the world we spun there going ’round and ’round
drenched in those melodies indoctrinating sound
space time energy and friendships loosely bound
on my vinyl soul — yeh grooves were deeply ground
Quarter pound on Broadway oh in that giant car
Tunnel it was so near but oh so very far
Traffic in midtown so slow during the day
Cop heading for our car — nothing we could say
but he’d only lean his head say “Boys put that weed away.”
And like the world we spun there going ’round and ’round
drenched in those melodies intoxicating sound
space time energy and friendships loosely bound
on my vinyl soul — yeh grooves were deeply ground
Grooves were deeply ground — on my vinyl soul
And when I hear those songs like echoes from the past
amazed at just what will
and over time just
will not last
**
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Lost
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Inner vistas cameras panned
gentle smile washed way like sand
people say she’s lazy fool
their remarks so quick and cruel
Yet to me it isn’t clear, your campaign to disappear
You put on your best face yeh
and tell me nothings wrong
while it’s plain for all to see yeh
you’re like a bird without a song
I hope that deep within you, like green under the frost
that spirit I remember
aint forever lost
Fortune smiles your way you shrink
how you feel that makes me think
doubts like vultures overhead
circling waiting to be fed
Such determination, twisted misapplied
What forces deep within your, demand you be so tried
Know that I am patient, more patient than the rest
Consider you a challenge, put me to the test.
So hell bent on losing
Where you comin from
I stand by watching battles I know you shoulda won
where’s your inspiration — just when did it die?
Oh how I miss that glimmer that once shone from your eyes
**
Hall of Mirrors
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Hall of Mirrors mimic time
beams of truth and lies align
racing by me like a stream
living days of stirring dreams
cold are the stares on me
put up shut up, thatta boy
clock hands minutes juggling toys
hours days my house of cards
swear to god I can see for yards
tight are the snares on me
And the clouds they tremble so
suck back the rain yeh — from the bow
and at tree line he appears,
friend my foe of many years
still
I don’t shake, asleep, awake.
Could it be?
Hall of Mirrors mimic time
beams of truth and lies align
racing by me like a stream
living days of stirring dreams
cold are the stares on me
Shutters close things change their form
Hooves they pound before the storm
Ears are tuned eyes know the score
Bets are against me — and I want more.
I see the wolf yeh, ‘neath the sky
about to fall and I cannot cry
I see the wolf.
**
Rebirth
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Allow me to take your emotions and change them
Grasping so crude to warp and rearrange them
Bathed in the spring by the shore and I’m standing
tears hit the waves that lick at the landing
Bright green rebirth flowers fall
my soul so tender feels it all
seeing your smile — like a beam change direction
bright are your eyes fresh with affection
Allow me to take my emotions and paint them
colors and shades and hues that debase them
need when unmasked is a quivering creature
previews are done — we’ve arrived at the feature
Bright green rebirth flowers fall
my soul so tender feels it all
**
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