Amok

Atoms For Peace Amok Lyrics
1.Before Your Very Eyes

The god of the window
Was passing you by
But you really want this
Then know

But your good look is
The keys to give

Soon or later
Soon or later
Soon or later
And before your very eyes
And before your very eyes
And before your very eyes

Or so your shoulders
Your look when you're older
Time's fickle card game
That you and I

You have to take your chances
The book of the guess

Soon or later
Soon or later
Soon or later
And before your very eyes
And before your very eyes
And before your very eyes

Soon or later
And before your very eyes
And before your very eyes
And before your very eyes


2.Default

(Hey)
(Yeah)
(Hah)

It slipped my mind
And for a time
I felt completely free

Oh what a troubled,
Silent, poor boy
A pawn into a queen

I laugh now
But later's not so easy
I've gotta stop,
The will is strong, but the flesh is weak
Guess that's it
I've made my bed, I'm lying in it

I'm still hanging on
Bird upon the wires
I fall between the waves

I avoid your gaze
I turn out of phase
A pawn into a queen

Oooooohhhhh
I laugh now
But later's not so easy
I gotta stop,
The will is strong, but the flesh is weak
Guess that's it
I've made my bed, I'm lying in it

But it's eating me up
It's eating me up
It's eating me up (if I could feel all the snails on my heads)
It's eating me up (if I could feel all my snails on my heads)
It's eating me up (if I could feel all my snares on my head)
Oooooohhhhh


3.Ingenue

You know like the back of your hand
Who let me in
You got me into this mess so
You get me out.

You know like the back of your hand
Your bell jar.
Your collection.
Ingenue.

You get me into this mess.
Fools rushing in, yeah,
And they know it.

The seeds of the dandelion you know blow away.
In good time, I hope, I pray.
If I'm not there now physically,
I'm always before you
Come what may.

And you know it.
Fools rushing in
Yeah
Well you know it.
Who let them in?
Yeah

Well you know it
Gone with a touch of your hand
Gone with a touch of your hand
Move through the moment
Though it betrays
Transformations
Jackals and flames
If I knew now
What I knew then
Just give me more time
I hope and pray
I mistake all you say
The seeds of the dandelion you blow away


4.Dropped

It slipped out of my hands
Went deep down
Wandering
Stumbling
I don't wanna start
Don't want to start

When I got your heart
I got your heart
It slipped down
Out of my hands
And flipped out
Went wandering
Stumbling
And I fell apart
I fell apart


5.Unless

Careless
I couldn't care less
Such a mess

I know it's useless
I couldn't care less
Careless
I couldn't care less

While my heart keeps returning
I am lost, I am weightless
With my arms by my side
I am hope, I can break this
I am rust, I am waiting
I am here, I am weightless
I am rust, rust

Careless
I couldn't care less
Careless
I know it's useless
I couldn't care less
Careless
I know it's useless
Careless
Couldn't care less
I know it's you, I guess
Couldn't care less


6.Stuck Together Pieces

Our stuck together pieces
The joke is I don't need this
You can hardly tell the difference
Well I know but I don't care

Grown up together pieces
Our stuck together pieces
A load of near misses
Aw shucks, you got me

You can have anything that you want
Except the thing you really want
Go back to where you came from
Go back to what you know

Our stuck together pieces...

Why be rain when you could be sun?
Why tie yourself to anyone?
Why be here when you'd be somewhere else?
Well I know but I don't care

You don't get away
You don't get away so easily...

Mirror, mirror still the prettiest
To all points of the compass
Just tell us where the money is
On stuck together pieces
And a load of near misses
And a load of near misses
Well I don't want any trouble
but my brain is in a tangle

You don't get away
You don't get away so easily...


7.Judge Jury And Executioner

Don't worry, baby
It goes right through me
I'm like the wind and my anger will disperse

Thin persecutors
Your twisted whispers
A horned reptile that is crawled upon the earth

I went for my usual walk
Just tell it like it is
Tell it like it was
Judge and jury, executioner
Judge and jury, executioner
Judge and jury

When darkness follows
And no tomorrows

It's all been decided
All spies deceptive
All bouncing voices down the echo chamber
Don't worry, baby
It goes right through me

I went for my usual walk
I went around the block
I just can't talk or reason with my executioner
Judge and jury, executioner
Judge and jury

Been wasting trails
You talk in layers

I went for my usual walk
Don't worry, laugh about
Just can't talk or reason with my executioner
Judge and jury, executioner
Judge and jury

Don't worry, baby
It goes right through me
I'm like the wind and my anger will disperse


8.Reverse Running

I'm reverse running.
It doesn't mean anything.
Hurling headlong.
Why would you even ask?

I've forgotten who I am.
Snakes uncoiling.
Pressed up to the glass.
All the things that you shouldn't ask.

But you see through me.
It doesn't mean anything.
a meaningless plaything.
Reverse running.

Running contrary-ways.
Pulling off the anyways.
I'm messing up.
Messing up the balance.
Breaking my trajectory.
All the toys in the factory.

While you all lie down.
While you all lie down.
I'm skipping back through the tapes.
Skipping through the ad breaks.
God in heaven!

It makes me feel energized!
All else is sanitized.
And with such joy.
Running contrary-ways.
Pulling off the anyways.

I jump back around.
I'm reversing.
I'm reverse running.
I fall under the horses feet.
All the things that I shouldn't see.
Animal or Bird.
Animal or Bird.

Moving in slow motion.
This shit is gonna mess me up


9.Amok

A penny for your thoughts, my love
A swinging door
A penny for your thoughts
They try to jump me
A penny for your thoughts, my love
They're spaghetti
They possess me
I'm trying to be a thought killer
They come back to bite me
A penny for your thoughts, my love
They court disaster
I'm trying to be a thought killer
A penny for your thoughts, my love
You'll forget me
Tying round pieces of string
To run amok
I'm sending out choirs of angels
Tying round pieces of string
To run amok
You got me
You got me back
To bite me
A penny for your thoughts