Awayland

Villagers Awayland Lyrics
1.The Waves

There are waves
Up in the diamond sky
Stronger than you and I
Am a wave
I break through the barrier reef
Cut through the carbon sea
Approaching the shore
Look at the sky, look at the trees
Man, it's all the same to me
Look at the cars, look at the birds
And all of these invented words
One body's dying breath is another's birth
What are you running from?
What are you running from?
Sister jewelry, brother judging, you are recognized this grudge
Buried deep beneath the sands of these ridiculous demands
No time for innocence, or sitting on the fence
What are you gonna do?
What are you gonna
When the waves
Cover the coastal plains
The tents and the cars and the trains
And the trace of honey bees sanitaries
Of well insulated dignitaries
All screaming of the memory of the human love
For anything, or anyone
Look at the birds, look at the bees
Madam, it's all the same to me
Look at the girls, look at the gold
Gathered, beat and bought and sold
One man's innocence is another's chance
What were you thinking of?
What were you thinking of?
Now please let me boil it down to this, my son
This party's getting wet, but it ain't over yet
So what is it gonna be?
What is it gonna be?
What is it gonna be?
Just let the waves
Cover the coastal plains
The fear and guilt and the pain
And the trace of honey bee jealousy
Of well insulated bigotry
And if you don't agree
You better get back inside your cave
'cause we're all dancing with the waves
Up in the diamond sky
Stronger than you and I
Am a wave
I break through the barrier reef
Cut through the carbon sea


2.Earthly Pleasure

Naked on the toilet with a toothbrush in his mouth,
When he suddenly acquired an overwhelming sense of doubt.
Every single piece of baggage he'd been holding on his back,
Was beginning to dig dig dig in and his back began began to
crack.
And when he finally broke up, he found that he'd been breaking
down.
Little body, little soul, little shrapnel on the ground
So he started to examine from the clumsy to the cute,
From the fat, fat cat to the destitute
From the chat, fat cat to the mute

Oh earthly pleasure ring out
From the rigors of this road
Earthly pleasure ring out
From the caverns of my soul

Then suddenly he found themselves in 1822
And he was in another body, in a heavy sort of suit
He was surrounded but he'd started making plans to make a run
When they called to him, son, cock your gun
And so he did as all the others had already done
He put his finger on the trigger and he gave 'em some
And though he don't like to admit it, it was sensual and pure
And he changed that day though he can't be sure
If it's the sickness or the cure.

Oh earthly pleasure ring out
From the rigors of this road
Earthly pleasure ring out
From the caverns of my soul

So there he was in front of her divine simplicity
And she was speaking Esperanto and drinking ginger tea
As she inquired about the reason for his visit here today
Well he just said, no reason, and I really shouldn't stay.
And so he thought that she would think that he was some kind of
freak
And that he'd go back to the grind, and that he wouldn't last a
week
But she didn't, she just sighed and added softly with a smile
Sit down dear child, what's on your mind?
And so he frantically described to her, the kingdom at her feet
As she continued with her manicure and poured another tea
As he recounted tales of misery and suffering and pain
She was yawning at the ceiling, so we had to up his game
The only thing your children cherish is to move up the ranks
Lucifer is in our courts, Beelzebub is in our banks
And if you don't cooperate with us, we'll hang you 'til you're
dead
So she granted him a wish, and let him write it on her head
And when he read it back to her, this is all it said

Earthly pleasure ring out
From the rigors of this road
Earthly pleasure ring out
From the caverns of my soul

Now I truly understand
But I don't understand a thing
So let this earthly pleasure sing
Earthly pleasure


3.My Lighthouse

You are needing a friend
For to follow, for to fend
And I haven't got a clue
If I'm getting through to you
My lighthouse

In the violent moonlight
I am searching the tide
In a vessel, in the storm
And you're the kind host, in the port
My lighthouse

And we'll be there to right our wrongs
In the time it took to write this song
And we'll beat the ghost with our bare hands
And we'll skin the corpse and we'll love and laugh
And we'll dance all everlasting day
And you'll sing to me everything I meant to say
And we'll drink to the gentle, the meek and the kind
And the funny little flaws in this earthly design
From the Reeperbahn to the Sundarban
I will heed your call from the dust and sand
And I'll save all my stories for thee


4.Passing a Message

I was carving my name out
Of a giant sequoia tree
I was blind to its beauty
Now it's all I can see

See I've learned how to listen
To the folks on TV
They are passing a message
That means nothing to me

My vertebrate evolution
Easy as ABC
Baby steps from the ocean
Feather trails to the sea

Paddlefish to salamander
Honeybee to atrophy
I guess I'm losing my trail here
But it takes loss to be free

Now I work in a nightclub
At the Burj Khalifa
And I'm blind to its beauty
But it ain't all that I have

So I'm passing a message
Like the folks on TV
Guess I'm getting the words out
But they don't come from me

Paddlefish to salamander
Little girl to atrophy
I guess we're losing our trail here
But it takes loss to be free


5.Judgement Call

All the dirt and the worry left when
I realized that I knew it all
How it started and how it's gonna end
It's a judgement call
And I don't need no proof
It's a judgement call
The writing's on my wall
It's a judgement

And you can come if you get behind it
And if you wear this long white shawl
Cause we're the clean, and the right and the chosen ones
It's a judgement call
And I don't need no proof
It's a judgement call
The writing's on my wall
It's a judgement

And we gotta keep the wheels in motion
And we gotta get the kids before they grow
God forbid they would gain their sense of wonder
It's a judgement call
Their sense of wonder
It's a judgement call
Their sense of wonder
It's a judgement

No I don't need to think for myself
No I don't need to think at all
When the team says go, I go
It's a judgement call, it's a judgement call

No we don't need to think for ourselves
No we don't need to think at all
When the screen says go, we go
It's a judgement call, it's a judgement

And I believe this land is my land
And you are not the same at all
Cause the man in the sky has got my back
And I don't need no proof
It's a judgement call
The writing's on my wall
I don't need no proof
The writing's on my wall
It's a judgement call
No I don't need no proof
It's a judgement call
So you better start running
It's a judgement
It's a judgement
It's a judgement

I made your world a living hell
I've lost the will to judge myself.


6.Nothing Arrived

Savanna scatters and the seabird sings
So why should we fear what travel brings?
What were we hoping to get out of this?
Some kind of momentary bliss?

I waited for Something, and Something died
So I waited for Nothing, and Nothing arrived
It's our dearest ally, it's our closest friend
It's our darkest blackout, it's our final end
My dear sweet Nothing, let's start a new
From here all in is just me and you

I waited for Something and Something died
So I waited for Nothing, and Nothing arrived
Well I guess it's over, I guess it's begun
It's a losers' table, but we've already won
It's a funny battle, it's a constant game
I guess I was busy when Nothing came

I guess I was busy (when Nothing arrived)
I guess I was busy (when Nothing arrived)
I guess I was busy (when Nothing arrived)
I guess I was busy (when Nothing arrived)
I guess I was busy (when Nothing arrived)

I waited for Something and Something died
So I waited for Nothing, and Nothing arrived
I waited for Something and Something died
So I waited for Nothing, and Nothing arrived


7.The Bell

There is a sleeping dog
Under this dialogue
Obedient only to rhyme
And if I could beckon her
If I could find the words
All they would be is lies
Tell me why this failure is making you smile

Then off goes the bell ringing through my head
Signifies that all's been said
This failure is making you smile
Off goes the bell ringing through my head

There is a passenger
In every useless word
That can never be twisted or sold
Center of my skin
The body of discipline
It must be a million years old
I've been told you're offering more than you owe

Then off goes the bell ringing through my head
Signifies that all's been said
You're offering more than you owe
Off goes the bell ringing through my head

Then off goes the bell ringing through my head
Signifies that all's been said
Off goes the bell ringing through my head

Then off goes the bell ringing through my head
Signifies that all's been said
Off goes the bell ringing through my head


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9.Grateful Song

Arise my sweet conviction
Your time has finally come
Though your home is no place to speak of
It gave you the courage to run

I am grateful for your company
I am grateful to belong
I am thankful for the misery
From which I stole this grateful song

Partly written out of habit
Partly written out of need
With a blind and bold ambition
For to sow this grateful seed

May I call on you if I falter?
If I seek to be something I'm not
If I forgo a love for my brothers and my sisters
With a pledge of allegiance to god

A god of pain, a god of tragedy
A god of hatred and deceit
A god of helpless, helpless agony
One god I hope we'll never meet

We are grateful for your company
We are grateful you belong
We are thankful for the misery
From which we stole this grateful song

Yes, we are thankful for the misery
From which we stole this grateful song


10.In a Newfound Land You Are Free

How heavy you are my new born child
So viciously free
So careless and wild
With the eyes of a saint and the soul of a thief
In a new found land

The windows reveal the spinning sea
Which ripples and rolls as it runs underneath
And I smuggle this sense of sheer disbelief
In a new found land

Born in the birth of the mild month of May
And your gentle repulse I could never betray
But for now I am burnt by a lifetime too brief

And with this new found land
Comes a new found grief
But in a new found land
You are free
You are free
You are free


11.Rhythm Composer

There's an ancient dog dreaming of another life
But you sometimes wonder whether it should live at all
Cause when you're making up for what you lack
That old black dog is on your back
And all you're getting is a bottomless pit
But don't mind it
Cause you're a rhythm composer
Easy for you
Rhythm composer
You're a rhythm composer

You're a little tong driven through an overdrive
And your BPM got an MRI, don't know if I'm coming or going and
there's a
Start/stop button on the floor
Start stop start stop button, no
Before a start/stop button
On the floor
But you're a rhythm composer
Easy for you
Rhythm composer
(You're a rhythm composer)
But in actuality
Only the rhythm composes you
Only the rhythm composes you
I said, I love how the rhythm composes you
I love how the rhythm composes you
Start/stop button on the floor
Start stop start stop button, no
The floor, start/stop button
On the floor

Cause when you're looking for what you lack
That old black dog is on your back
And all you're getting is a bottomless pit
So don't mind it

And when you're looking up for who you lack
That old black dog is on your back
And if you tame it, you can get it to sit
So don't mind it

You're looking up to what you lack
That old black dog is on your back
But all you're getting is a bottomless pit
So don't mind it

And when you're looking up to who you lack
That old black dog is on your back
But if you tame it, you can get it to sit
So don't mind it
No, don't mind it