Mantis

Umphrey's McGee Mantis Lyrics
1.Made To Measure

Lyricist:Brendan H Bayliss, Jacob Allen Cinninger, Joel N Cummins,
Kristopher Allen Myers

Please excuse this, I know it's rude
But I was just trying to satisfy
Someone who requested mine

You're hard to please
And no one knows just what you need
If you won't ever ask for help
Then how am I to tell?

Uncomfortable, you wear it well
The sooner that you come around
The offer's waiting to be found

Anytime you need it
I am already there and waiting
What's yours is mine
But you're recline to hesitate to try

Don't get me wrong here
I just want to make my intentions clear
There's no room for reading into deep
If things aren't written down

As soon as I've been told
That you will not be sold
Then we could all move forward here
And find our endings well

You need a break, it's hard to take the time
When things will just move faster
And we're never ever slowing down

Anytime you need it
I am already there and waiting
What's yours is mine
But you're recline to hesitate to try

And after all the bullshit shuffled
Piles up inside
There's only room for you and me
And what we've left to try


2.Preamble

(Instrumental)


3.Mantis

Lyricist:Brendan H Bayliss, Jacob Allen Cinninger, Joel N Cummins,
Kristopher Allen Myers

We believe there's something here worth dying for
Uniforms are old but we're still try some more
I'd probably be wrong if I was right

The breeze it sees from all consideration
Turmoil stands like old rubber bands, un-breaking
Anything worth mentioning, need not be too polite
We won't mind

I've seen much bigger, more than me
Your will be done, I'm not the only one
This task it seems a backwards path
When things are said in context
Big enough to wrap in boxes

The things we'd say aren't easy to replace
Be brief if you're unsure
That's much braver than before

So what's your point?
Who's the next you will anoint?
There's nowhere to transcend to
If we've got no ears to lend you

I hate to say it, you're no replacement
Excuse you cannot buy
It seems so aimless, just short and painless
The truth you cannot hide
The trouble measures, there's something better
There's one more word to try

I hate to say it, you're no replacement
I'm never good at lies
Never good with liars
Never good with lies
I'm never good with lies

Had you thought about it?
Could you live without it?
'Cause it's all about you in the end

And it's so elaborate
But you never had it
And you cannot grab it
If you try


4.Cemetery Walk

Lyricist:Brendan H Bayliss, Jacob Allen Cinninger, Joel N Cummins,
Kristopher Allen Myers

I've got a secret but you're kinda like a polygraph
I'd write it down, it's bigger than a paragraph
You think this job got into my lap, you do

I'll borrow lines but I don't intend to give 'em back
Apologize or turn into another trap
Sink or swim it doesn't matter, you turn your back

And I call for you with no answers, no rule
And I wait too long or write it down wrong

I fake a smile but I know that you can see through it
I walk for miles, I thought that it would help my death
So sit me down and cycle me 'round until I listen up

It's not a cage if you're feeling like a resident
I'm so amazed, pretend this was an accident
I've been surrounded all around it and I've had enough

Time won't change you or repay
You've got your angles, let me handle this

I won't bother to recover
(Look at you now)
There'll be others I insist
(Look at you now)

Lies can't hide you, they won't try to
(Look at you now)
No denials words exist
(Look at you now)

I won't bother to recover
(Look at you now)
There'll be others I insist
(Look at you now)

Time won't change you or repay
(Look at you now)
You've got your angles, let me handle this
(Look at you now)

And I call for you with no answers, no rule
And I wait too long or write it down wrong


5.Cemetery Walk II

(Instrumental)


6.Turn & Run

Lyricist:Brendan H Bayliss, Jacob Allen Cinninger, Joel N Cummins,
Kristopher Allen Myers

When lightning hits you turn and run
Leave it until it's done, it's best if you're not there
You probably could you wish you would
I hope that it's understood, something needs repair

We don't believe there is no need to celebrate a thing
It's all the same you'll talk away, no words to say

Leave it on the backdrop you have signed
Blissful fall the winds that whip the tide
Your will is always chased away each time

So weather worn you'll find a breath
Sit down and see what's next, the air is full of holes
You're due to fall, don't walk too tall
'Cause that would remind us all to care to take control

We're so relieved you've been retrieved
We'll navigate through nets
You've been gone too long, we knew it was wrong
No more regrets

Leave it on the backdrop you have signed
Blissful fall the winds that whip the tide
Your will is always chased away each time

Releasing from a grip that's held too tight
There's no other way to open up what's right
The more we try to stay same the more we lie


7.Spires

Lyricist:Brendan H Bayliss, Jacob Allen Cinninger, Joel N Cummins,
Kristopher Allen Myers

You ask for a reason, I say why
It tastes like treason outside
I've been retreating in rewind

Born in believing my right
There is no seething inside
I need to change this frame of mind

If I fall I'll end all
We've been retreating, press rewind
If I fall I'll end all

I ask for meaning, you say why
More than deceiving you'll try
I've been retreating, you don't mind

Born in believing my right
There is no seeing inside
We're just a story to reread, not to rewrite

And the echo of a voice leaves you with no choice
When you should stay out
The sun it seems is lifted from my dreams
A better way to scream when you can't shout

What's done is done, it's true for everyone
And frequency becomes the subject around you
So that's so plain, is the meaning still the same
When everyone complains the blame is on you?

If I fall I'll end all
We've been retreating, press rewind
If I fall I'll end all


8.Prophecy Now

(someone help me out this is a bad attempt i know!!)

we live along
a chorus of constant streams
all to often
deepening
take what you get
and use it wisely now
what could you give
back to me now
is it in present state
take your winnings
all incomplete
today could be
sending all your dreams in life
prophecy now

we live along
a chorus of constant streams
all to often
deepening
take what you get
and use it wisely now
what could you give
back to me now
is it in present state
take your winnings
all incomplete
today could be
sending all your dreams in life
prophecy now


9.Red Tape

Lyricist:Brendan H Bayliss, Jacob Allen Cinninger, Joel N Cummins,
Kristopher Allen Myers

If you walk away you'll bury me
I would climb into a hole
Should I build a private cemetery

There should be no elaborate ceremony
Should I rise above it all
Did you know what to expect of me
I'll carve my own headstone

You could spare me temporarily
I won't be around at all
Though opinions tend to vary
(You might be wrong)

Open-ended more than ready
Holding on to my regrets

Though I tend to have that tendency
But the hole is not filled yet

Information kills
The red tape high and wide
Systemated thrills
My plate is over-filled
Screwed loose until it leaks
Life begins to spill

Passing through the fields
Of distant memories
It's all just a dream

Your conviction's slow but steady
My eviction notice ready
My conviction's slow but steady
Your eviction notice ready

Your conviction's slow but steady
My eviction notice ready
My conviction's slow but steady
Your eviction notice ready


10.1348

Lyricist:Brendan H Bayliss, Jacob Allen Cinninger, Joel N Cummins,
Kristopher Allen Myers

We've been blind to this before
So satisfy my fragile mind

And if there is no other recompense
Who would be the one with something left?
Definitive enough to get to someone
So insensitive it hurts enough to live

Wasted youth don't count the cost anymore
Plant, seed, light and reconcile them all

And if there is no other consequence
You could be the one who answers next
The only thing left to reclaim was once
And always will be still, the facts remain the same