Laughter

[Verse 1]
Oh, come to me in shades of grey - for all extremes have had their day
The shifting mist of compromise is nigh
Between the love and shame I hold, I see a rusted rose unfold
Beneath the soft forgiving endless sky

[Verse 2]
As, on my knees, I offer joy to all who would my gifts employ
The world falls inward on my naked eye
And shades of greyness coalesce - there is no more, there is no less
A scream becomes a moan becomes a sigh

[Chorus]
And you know where all the hope may go
When we give up our ghost and say goodbye
And I know why we should never show
What happens to our laughter when we die

[Verse 3]
Oh, give my arms to one who cares - my heart I'll hold I have no spare
To risk on some poor knave without a soul
To all who follow in my wake, I leave these words for pity's sake
Please use them well or use them not at all

[Chorus]
And you know where all the hope may go
When we give up our ghost and say goodbye
And I know why we should never show
What happens to our laughter when we die

[Bridge]
And overhead our thoughts cascade in some great mindless masqurade
And on we dance
The deathly pace of or cortege will give the hopeful heart of rage
A second chance, a second glance - no more

[Verse 4]
For you and I must never cease to war against ignoble peace
Which takes our laughter whole and leaves us dry
As once we live, just once we leave - no more to dance, no more to breath
No more to drink the endless searching sky

[Song ends 3:28]
[Silence]
[Medley begins 13:30]

['Watching The Pulse Below The Ear' played backwards 13:30-14:40]

[14:40 'Medley Track 1' begin]

The words of those who speak of pain
Are dust before they sound
The jewels of wisdom they proclaim
Are no where to be found

And all the goodness in their hearts
Is built up by our love
Integrity is so mislaid
When word comes from above

For these are grim and seething beast
Who lust for power and fame
Who only live to trample down
Who only live to maim

Who only speak the words they know
Will win them short term gain
Who only share their stolen gold
With those who praise their name

Who open veins and give their blood
While crowds are their to see
Who put the frail and sick to death
To keep the market free

Who lie and cheat and falsify
Who keep us from the truth
Who shaft us every way they can
While they remain aloof

Who smile and curtsy as they kill
Who whisper poison lies
Who gently tell us we are fools
Who laugh at our demise

Who sympathize with widowed wives
Who give from deep inside
Who serve the god democracy
Who sanction genocide

Who serve the god democracy
Who sanction genocide

[17:38 'Medley Track 1' end - 'Medley Track 2' begin]

[Verse 1]
Across the times and tides of love, the lamb is made to suffer
The mud below, the clouds above are meeting in the rain
The hope we've had, that hope will be enough to keep us floating
Is leaving as the constant sea wroths silently in pain

[Bridge 1]
And all we see in front of we is our decline
A spiral line we're going down
Spun round and round and round (yeah)

[Verse 2]
But woe the words our facile grace, may shroud and cloak my feeling
So lets dispense with metaphor, and name some fucking names!
It's power junkies crowding these round tables, those, and CEOs
Who shaft us all and watch us fall awry (yeah)

[Bridge 2]
They hold our lives in crass content
They know that we no longer see
A way to fight their right to watch us die (yeah)

(Whistle)

[Chorus]
But they are blind and we must say that we can rise and occupy and feed upon the fat of their demise (yeah)
Cause they are blind we must say that we can rise and occupy and feed upon the fat of their demise (yeah)

(Whistle)

[21:11 'Medley Track 2' ends - 'Medley Track 3' begins]

I, I've got a lot of things to say to you
That have been left unsaid for damn long
Their now a part of how I feel

I, I am a coward of the finest kind
What's upon my mind will never pierce the air
Will not survive if not concealed

Yeah, there is a beauty in an absent word
The subtle pleasures of the understood
The silent eloquence of death

Hey yeah, there is a place for such refined delight
Where crowds of reticent sophisticates
Will never waste their gorgeous breath

Come, lets dance sublimely in the cold blue light
And gaze with hunger and with emptiness
Into the eyes we know so well

Come, embrace this failure to communicate
A clasp [?] to your loveliness
In which it clearly longs to dwell

I, I can't recall what I was going to say
I lost the code word to unlock my heart
There's nothing left but faint regret

I, I know how much this might have meant to you
If I had the guts to say the words
I've kept inside since first we met

I know it's nothing less than bold
I know it's nothing less than bold
I know it's nothing less than bold
I know it's nothing less than bold