The Empyrean

John Frusciante The Empyrean Lyrics
1.Before the Beginning


2.Song to the Siren (Tim Buckley)

On the floating, shapeless oceans
I did all my best to smile
'Til your singing eyes and fingers
Drew me loving into your eyes

And you sang, 'Sail to me, sail to me let me enfold you'
Here I am, here I am waiting to hold you

Did I dream you dreamed about me?
Were you here when I was full sail?
Now my foolish boat is leaning
Broken love lost on your rocks

For you sang, 'Touch me not, touch me not, come back tomorrow'
Oh my heart, oh my heart shies from the sorrow

Well I'm as puzzled as a newborn child
I'm as riddled as the tide
Should I stand amid the breakers?
Or should I lie with death my bride?

Hear me sing, 'Swim to me, swim to me, let me enfold you'
Here I am, here I am, waiting to hold you


3.Unreachable

Are we
Down for the same cause
We don't know what we stand for
When the moments start to crack
You do lose track where your head's at

And I am unreachable
What do you think when your head's full?
We don't rely on what we get
We're picking up where we aren't yet
HEY!

One time, hit me where I turn right
I don't mean to be polite
Uniformed, spinning the world to the beat of my drum
Uniformed

One time, hit me where I turn right
I don't mean to be polite
Uniformed, spinning the world to the beat of my drum
Uniformed

Reach into the darkness for what you can find
Travel great distance in your mind
The world gets stronger as you start trying thing
Turn around towards being born away from dying
I've run out again, there's no one on my side
We to disappear, well, I know I tried
You know we tried, you know we tried

Heeeeeeey shoot me heeeeeeeey
Heeeeeeey shoot me shoot me shoot me
yeah yeah yeah hey hey yeah
Aaaaah


4.God

So each day would be new I build you to sleep
That's the idea of dying but you'll just have to see
You can do what you want or so you think
But til you stop all your thoughts
you are ties to your surroundings

When the fog spreads out in the rainy season
It comes from my insides
When the thunderous lightning strikes down
You're seeing your real I
People
You blaspheme my name
But still I love you
Still I love you
I love you just the same

I hear all your prayers because I'm each one of you
Creations not something I did
It's something that I do
The reason for the bad is so there'd be such thing as good
Oh I'd do anything for you
You all know I would
Be for me
Be for me
Be for me
Before me
Before me
Before me

You know that I try to repair and repay
As life goes by a thousand times
It gets a little btetter
All is belief, All is belief, All is belief, All is belief


5.DarkLight

John Frusciante - Dark/Light
Remember all you've forgotten
I can't put those thoughts away
Everything I've thought's in my head to stay
Now what do we get for trying to follow to a tee
All the instructions you gave to me

Did you ever notice
That it's for you that I've lived my life
Every time I had fun you were on my mind
I've lost my perspective
I've gone off the wall
Really not sure if I'm needed here at all

Hey
This is my last shot
I'll always be less that my other selves
So I feel like I'm competing with someone else
Who I could never beat in a million years
I was made to think that we would wind up round here

Will we ever get together in a song
Will you ever tell everybody bout right and wrong
Will you let everyone in on the meaning of life and death
Do you need me or are you waiting for my last breath

Listen


6.Heaven

Well I spent the night in heaven
I wanted to figure it out for myself
I spin around the fortress
You never know the currency that we all run on

We run on
We run on

You once told me
You keep a billion frequencies on your person
End the night with channel four
You don't see me looking you up when I'm here

We live fast cuz time won't last
See me freezing like the bum I am
From where you start there's endless information drilled into
your eyes
Well, I don't need protection
One life begins, another dies
Bad timing

I won't last
Man, that's the facts
It is a feeling that will never pass
And you know you could be taking us far
When I speak to you again through the stages of pleasure

Well, I don't have my own fave
So c'mon and be replaced
There's a future that's calling
But I don't see it coming
No, I don't have my own face
So c'mon and be replaced
There's a future that's calling
But I don't see it coming
No, I don't see it coming
No, I don't see it coming
No, I don't see it coming


7.Enough of Me

This precise time and right here
Are not going anywhere
I've had enough of new todays
For once I'd like to go another way
I speak my last words and then
remember it may never end
All that I've won I have lost
Each passing moment cuts me off

Well, I don't like to waste a chance
but they're overflowing
What I don't do will get done by somebody
When I was five I saw some plants ungrowing
Whether seen forwards or back they'd keep going
They'd keep going

If the seasons which change were all still
It's so easy to see life would fail
Whatever slips out of our hands
Will find its way back to us once again

If the seasons which change were all still
It's so easy to see life would fail
Whatever slips out of our hands
Will find its way back to us once again
Will find its way back to us once again
Will find its way back to us once again
Once again


8.Central

Im central to nowhere
Thinking of sweeping it clean
When we choose to go were losing
more than just our surroundings
Ive gone around the sides of this universe as it stands
Outside the limits of all existence
Where light never ends

We should be grateful to the gods
Whoever theyre real to they are
I value my placement as in Hell
Remember that moment that I fell

Anything that could one day be
is as real as what Im saying
If something is nothing it must not
be something in any possible way
Lose yourself in the far off worlds
that are right under your feet
Switch below with above all the way up into infinity

We should be thankful who we are
Whether we know ourselves or not
Walking alongside myself
Neither of us listens very well

Im dreading a time that is not near
As a man on cross I have no fear
I cant believe these words Im saying
You gotta feel your lines
You gotta feel your lines

Im dreading a time that is not near
As a man on cross I have no fear
I cant believe these words Im saying
You gotta feel your lines
You gotta feel your lines

Im dreading a time that is not near
As a man on cross I have no fear
I cant believe these words Im saying
You gotta feel your lines
You gotta feel your lines

Im dreading a time that is not near
As a man on cross I have no fear
I cant believe these words Im saying
You gotta feel your lines
You gotta feel your lines


9.One More of Me

Now that the day is come
I see myself as everyone
I am what's all around me
No Nothing, it just cannot be
Feelings come from the sun
Like most everything and everyone
What seems lost is free from the force
It slowly destroys us and kills all matter of

Well we don't control the chance that plays with us
And we get existence back by hurting others
When we go the other way, its ourselves we hurt
But who pushes on through eventually will see every moment's
first
Every moment is first

What's gone will never come back
But it exists when you think of it
What is anything anyway
But a series of things running through your brain

All of the fucked things you do
All the product of what's happened to you
What ever you create from love
Is a gift from a place which some call above
Cuz only the forces of hate and love
One breaks things down and one builds them up


10.After the Ending

Pain runs through life
Pleasures' other side
Fear, some say, gives us such long lives
Leads us where we drive
Time will soon be born
It is starting at the dawn
And the world is moving towards
Things like opposites and wars
And one knows to hear birds sing
There was nothing til the beginning
And the water from my eyes
Is because I care who dies
Although death is transforming
There is nothing after the ending

Everything is eternal
Nothingness does no exist
No thing has ever become nothing
And nothing has never become something
What is has always been and will always be


11.Today (Japanese Bonus Track)

Today will not be happening
We've come to far away from being to be at all
We're putting the law back in your hands
Today We're setting our sights for a new land

Lean into me cuz there's no signs on the vehicle
Look out and see cuz the city has no people
They don't know who you are but they know who you will be
Monsters of all colors and we're all distorted energy

Pain looks on up at me and when I am beat
From the backsear I'll crash my car
Incensed I feel like a fool when I'm feeling
Right off this blossoming hurts like I'm peeling

Oh God
I can't be found when I'm dreaming
Words hard
I'm into the sound of their meaning

I am divorced from the image I've created
So many nights and days that are separate from the ages
Thank you for the lessons that I learned while john was sleeping
Whoever it seemed the creator did the teaching


12.Ah Yom (Japanese Bonus Track)

I've get a Million to choose from
A million ways things could be
In dull moments I feel like
There's a million options I see

The trouble is choosing one
The trouble is doing one
A slave in the fields one night
He's running along
Gets far enough to be a free man
And he's feeling so strong

That's how actions should be
Freeing
Step after step is our only choice in a walk
When we run at the mouth we jump back and forth

There's only one place I'm going
There's only one destiny
And if my mind tells me otherwise
Then it's a poor guide for me

All of the energy in life
Is nothing more than a spark in a fire
The whole course of time is the blink of an eye

Rain in the slums
Ah Yom
Into the cards
Aum Yaum
Rain in the slums
Ah Yom
Into another world
Aum Yaum

Rain in the slums
Ah Yom
Into the cards
Aum Yaum
Rain in the slums
Ah Yom
Into another world
Aum Yaum

Rain in the slums
Ah Yom
Into the cards
Aum Yaum
Rain in the slums
Ah Yom
Into another world
Aum Yaum