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The Man Outside

by Igneous Grimm

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1. I Stood Idly By I stood idly by and watched as you broke your back for me With every disk that slipped in place the sweat that glistened on your face From high to low and sea to shoal by way of rail and outer space And you sought the proper light to show me things I need to know But as a child of meager mind and as a human being blind By time I´d found some stable ground I´d lost what I had hoped to find I watched you as you worked your hands until the bone showed through I watched you as you sowed the lands until the harvest grew I felt the universe expand while they were buying time from you You did your best to keep your flesh before the bone showed through I laid idly by and dozed when there was no time for sleep With every season come and gone and every dusk and airy dawn Through sin and prayer and human err along the path I walk upon But still you gave me shelter when the rains were pouring down But every drop that hit the road distended debts I should have owed To pay my dues in ones or twos before my eyes explode I watched you as you worked your hands until the bone showed through I watched you as you sowed the lands until the harvest grew I felt the universe expand while they were buying time from you You did your best to keep your flesh before the bone showed through © 2011 Igneous Grimm. All rights reserved.
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2. In The Garden Do you rely on all your friends to complete you Or your thoughts to conceit you when you´re all by yourself and tell me Is there a place where you can buy your own heaven Take it back to your mansion put it high on a shelf Lady be wise I can see it in your eyes But all the knowledge in the garden wouldn´t rocket you to stardom anyway Lady be damned the evidence is in your hand There´s no forgiveness for your sins When you´ve got venom on your skin that won´t wash away Do you deny me all your goodness and virtue Though I´ve done nothing to hurt you still you made me a fool and tell me Is there a space where you can purchase salvation To replace the temptation while your breaking the rule © 2011 Igneous Grimm. All rights reserved.
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3. Paradise Today´s the day birds flew away the trees will sway like never before You never knew the dream was true and now you´re screwed down to the floor Can you hear the sound coming from the pound the sleeping hound sleeps no more Looking back on past attacks we search the eastern sky For a paradise where the moon thinks twice before he says goodbye Why can´t you see the fear in me that maybe we won´t meet again I hope that you will find the glue to bind the few remaining men Will you taste the salt from inside the vault the final assault has settled in © 2011 Igneous Grimm. All rights reserved.
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4. The Taste of Sin First drop of blood tasted when the Beast is young A killer from the very second that it hits his tongue He kills without compassion and he kills without a soul It´s that which separates us from the beast or so I´m told The taste of sin is bitter sweet but the Beast has got to eat Lazily the Shepherd rests his head upon a rock Beast has got his killing eye upon the Shepherd´s flock The Farmer´s skin´s the color of the Shepherd´s grazing land And now the Earth will open up to take the Shepherd´s blood from his hand The taste of sin is bitter sweet but the Earth has got to eat Farmer grabbed a sickle and he bolted for the east Left the Shepherd´s flock to be devoured by the Beast Damned to sow the Earth until he is the Earth again Will he be forgiven though he is only a man The taste of sin is bitter sweet but the man has got to eat Beast has filled his belly and he fed his young ones well He took the flock and left the Shepherd´s body there to swell He´ll never know the reason why the Shepherd wore his clothes It´s that which separates us from the Beast I suppose The taste of sin is bitter sweet but the Beast has got to eat © 2011 Igneous Grimm. All rights reserved.
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5. Who´d Want to Save Us? Low within the valley deep it´s easy to become the sheep Who walks behind his Shepherd through the gates of hell Your face is blank the point is moot you only long to taste the fruit And I took a few steps back and saw the tree and all it´s truth And I was wondering who´d wanna save us now? When we're misled we´d probably shoot ´em in the head So who´d wanna save us now? It won´t be a motion picture, probably won´t be a piece of scripture It won´t be the man who tries to live for all then dies for nothing It won´t be the bones you buried, probably won´t be the stones you carried It won´t be the shoes you´re wearing when you´re safe inside of something High atop the iron keep where air is thin and nothing's cheap Your gold will surely tarnish as the vultures eat your eyes You tried to keep a steady pace, you wore your sins upon your face And I took a few steps back and watched the hours turn to days And I was pondering, who´d wanna save us now? When spirits break we´d probably burn ´em at the stake So who´d wanna save us now? And I was pondering who´d wanna save us now? When all is lost we´d probably hang ´em on a cross So who´d wanna save us now? © 2011 Igneous Grimm. All rights reserved.
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6. The Air You Displace The man outside has three eyes If you can see in three dimensions then he can see in five One eye beheld the future and one foretold the past The other sees the present but it blinks extremely fast You are a bender of time and space with the air that you displace You sought the answer you are an individual SHAKE OFF THIS RITUAL He said there´s a black hole in every ring of light That you could never really witness with only human sight I asked if he´d step inside and I offered him the floor He said for every door you enter there´s a room with many more You are a bender of time and space with the air that you displace You sought the answer you are an individual SHAKE OFF THIS RITUAL He said everything just is because it is I said, "Are you a figment of my imagination?" and he said I was a figment of his You are a bender of time and space with the air that you displace You sought the answer you are an individual SHAKE OFF THIS RITUAL © 2011 Igneous Grimm. All rights reserved.
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Talking Hands Ticking hands Talking hands that point you to where you will stand Laughing face Loathing face that stares you down as you race Still the sun warms the earth you´re walking upon And the dirt that you´ll be someday when you are gone Will you wait for the moon to wait while you lie Is the future so soon that you can´t wait to cry? Cross oceans and mountains to mist covered mires To twistedly, writhingly, skyscraping spires The sellers invitingly smile at the buyers While pulling the wool on their eyes Then tiny grey men riding chariots of fire Will whisk us away to a heavenly shire Where seers of truth turn their cheeks to the liars And turn their backs to the lies Still the sun warms the earth you´re walking upon And the dirt that you´ll be someday when you are gone Will you wait for the moon to wait while you lie Is the future so soon that you can´t wait to cry? Will you wait for the moon to wait while you lie Is the future so soon that you can´t wait to die? © 2011 Igneous Grimm. All rights reserved.
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8. Mr. Serpentine As the moon flies across the sky he screams out a warning Here comes that lake of fire again The sun is searching for his prey it´s nearly morning Gonna punish the world with some sin And as the day goes on you laugh Haunted by the same mistakes you made in the past Where have you gone Mr. Serpentine? You were supposed to save us from that evil King Beaten bruised and bound by these whips and chains He locked away the clouds and stole their rain And you´re to blame Sitting high upon his throne the earth is quickly warming To the fact that the moon just can´t win The oceans rise against the land a new world is forming Final plans for the souls of men And as the day goes on you laugh Haunted by the same mistakes you made in the past Where have you gone Mr. Serpentine? You were supposed to save us from that evil King Beaten, bruised, and bound by these whips and chains He locked away the clouds and stole their rain And you´re to blame © 2011 Igneous Grimm. All rights reserved.
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9. Don´t Blame The Darkness You´ll blame the darkness for stripping you of sight When the road fades out before you, you blame it on the night Don´t blame the darkness don´t blame the darkness For there is no evil that is more than just an absence of light You´ll blame the serpent for feeding you a line His mortal sting is surely just a frank exchange of time Don´t blame the serpent don´t blame the serpent For there is no evil that a man could not conceive in his own mind I´ll open doors for you I´ll mop the floors for you And if you´re sleeping I may rattle you awake My words may move through you But I can not prove to you That the serpent´s just an ordinary snake You´ve got a name tag and a collar and a carnal urge to kill I´ve got to dig me up a dollar to afford my own free will Don´t blame the darkness don´t blame the darkness For there is no evil that a healthy dose of light would not reveal © 2011 Igneous Grimm. All rights reserved.
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10. Parachute Day If we had a solution it´d be a godsend If this is evolution we've hit a dead end All I can figure is as long as were together it´s ok to self-destruct While we dream of saving worlds that are inevitably fucked so All that´s left of you is all that´s left of me Living is hard when you´re living on earth Even if we had a buck we wouldn't know what it was worth And we´d probably try to spend it on the truth but then we´d bend it to our wishes But on the other hand . . . . I suppose it´s easy when you´re a rich man Life gets too breezy and so you buy the wind and Open a window just to blow it in our faces as you quietly self-destruct And though you cover up the traces in the end you´re just as fucked so All that´s left of you is all that´s left of me © 2011 Igneous Grimm. All rights reserved.
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11. Third Density Blues The conscience pondered down a pathward way Feeling so inclined Scorned by a scent he slowly went to find Something sparkled far below He saw a sign begin to grow The sign said, ´´Welcome you´re late but you´re here´´ He crossed a veil of forgetfulness Amazed at what he´d found A cosmic change was closely circling down Then a hallowed man appeared Disguising lies and selling fear The man said, ´´Welcome you´re late but you´re here´´ He said, ´´What you really need often gets abused By what you really want so I verbally confuse you To try and hide the difference and see if you can choose For the price of a moment I sell you my word So ponder on the question it´s not so absurd To think that you could give away all that you´ve ever learned´´ If there´s a moral to the story it´s never been told We used to all be diamonds but now we´re only gold And the gold will turn to iron and the iron to stone. © 2011 Igneous Grimm. All rights reserved.
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12. Pennies In A Well I was not a child I was just another skull to drill a number through And all my friends have numbers too Pawns preserved in reverence to poetry of consequence Protected by the promise of a purpose In some post-perceptive stew I was not a person I was just another insect in a colony And all my friends worked tirelessly Carrying the groceries in single file beneath the trees Selflessly submitting to a cause they´re all To minuscule to see Give ´em hits of motivation Just to grow ´em in a line Fill their heads with irrigation Just to pluck ´em off the vine With this constant stimulation You could harvest all the time that there ever was If there ever was such a thing Feed ´em words of inspiration Just to make ´em fear the sky Stuff their lives with complication So they´ll never ask us why With this perfect simulation They will buy all the time that there ever was If there ever was such a thing Now your gnarled hands no longer feel Now your open wounds no longer heal Round and round in circles throwing pennies in a well Til there´s no time left to sell © 2011 Igneous Grimm. All rights reserved.

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released October 10, 2010

Ryan Elmore, Jody Elmore, Zach Stevens, Ben Hance, Roby Scott

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