0 + 2 = 1

NOW

Now if I had the courage

 I'd pour in your jar

 All the things that I have heard you whisper in the dark

 And when that jar was heavy 

 With your honey confidence

 I'd put it to my lips and drink it's meaning and it's sense

 It's meaning and its sense

 It has no end so let's pretend its

 Now

 Let's get started

 Now

 Let's get started

 NOW

 Well nothing could be plainer

 Than the things that have been done

 And there can be no mystery in what is yet to come

 It's now that howls at nothing

 It's now that runs and hides

 It's now that winds its spineless coils and slithers out of sight

 Your cries above the furrow

 Draw my fingers like a plow

 Through tattered ends that twist and bend about the here and now 

 The here is blind and helpless

 And strives against the dark

 The Now's a well of shadows where the world has come apart

 The world has come apart

 It has no end so let's pretend its

 Now

 Let's get started

 Now

 Let's get started

 NOW 

 Oh Now

 Oh Oh Oh Oh Now

 Oh Now

 Well there is precious little

 That escapes the powers that be

 The eyes that judge, the words that form our meager histories

 But when your flood surrounds me

 When the waters burst and come

 Who knows the things that I have felt, who knows what I have done And if I had the courage

 I'd pour into your jar

 All the things that I have heard you whisper in the dark

 And when that jar was heavy

 With your honeyed confidence

 I'd put it to my lips and drink it's meaning and it's sense

 It's meaning and its sense

 It has no end so let's pretend its

 Now

 Let's get started

 Now

 Let's get started

 NOW

 Oh Now

 Oh Oh Oh Oh Now

 Oh Now

 LET’S GET STARTED

THE FALL

Do you know the meaning of? 

 – This is love, this is love 

 Do you know the meaning of? 

 – This is love, this is love

 Do you know the meaning of? 

 – This is love, this is love

 (This is love, this is lovegive me just a little shovethis is love)

 This is

 The end is nothing

 And you begin with nothing much

 It starts with something (you see something, you feel something)

 A gentle touch, a vicious punch

 Just lean on over (roll on over, please move over)

 You will get a little shove

 Over your shoulder

 A whisper saying "This is love, this is love-"

 This is

 First we feel

 And then we fall

 First we feel

 And Then we fall

 Baby he is crawling

 The world before his eyes unfolds

 He's hearing voices (telling stories, dirty stories)

 And Baby does as he is told

 The night is falling (Baby's crawling, voices calling)

 Mommy's holding Daddy close

 Baby hears her calling"Oh Give me just a little shove, this is love” This is 

 First we feel

 And then we fall

 First we feel

 And then we fall

 First we feel

 And then we fall

 The Tower's falling

 I think the dam's about to burst

 The walls are falling (see them tumble, hear them rumble)

 The light is blinding, you go first

 It starts with nothing (out of nothing, into nothing)

 First and last, last and first

 There's just one question

 Do you know the meaning of? 

 – This is love, this is love 

 Do you know the meaning of? 

 – This is love, this is love

 Do you know the meaning of? 

 – This is love, this is love

 (This is love, this is lovegive me just a little shovethis is love)

 This is

 First we feel

 And then we fall

 First we feel

 And then we fall

 First we feel

 And then we fall

0 +2 =1

0 + 2 = 1 

 Race to the finish line at a dead run 

 Live is short and love is fleeing 

 Before these masks, haloed with snakes 

 Hissing like rain on the pavement 

 The blind are deafened and the lame are made dumb 

 For that queer equation this is the sum: 

 0 + 2 = 1 

 0 + 2 = 1 

 Before the feast, chops on the block! 

 A word, to the wise, is a fork into flesh. 

 Everything stretched under God’s great hand: 

 A mouth to a breast, an axe to a tree, 

 The hoot of an owl in the dreams of a mouse

 Count on your fingers, it’s the rule of the thumbs, but 

 0 + 2 = 1 

 0 + 2 = 1 

 Yes and no are like day and night, 

 One breaks as the other is falling. 

 Questions the answers, stir the solutions, 

 In the end, for light, you must burn your conclusions; 

 Night and darkness love silence above all, 

 Not the equations of sun-loving apes, 

 Or their prayers for the dead of a world that’s to come 

 0 + 2 = 1 

 0 + 2 = 1 

 It may not be nice, it may not be fun, 

 It may just be a halo of hissing snakes. 

 But if nothing is something, if to rise is to fall, 

 Then a child needs a name like a corpse needs a pall 

 Nonsense is better than no sense at all 

 Hail to the lies by which all truths are hounded! 

 The murder is done, the temple is founded 

 Where the current is grounded its circuitry hums: 

 0 + 2 = 1 

 0 + 2 = 1

 0 + 2 = 1

 0 + 2 = 1

 0 + 2 = 1 

 These events are the same, in a different chain 

 For the myth of logic and its heroes 

 1 – 2 =

THE VALLEY OF THE BLIND

Nothing

 Nothing

 Nothing

 Nothing

 Nothing

 Nothing

 Nothing

 Nothing

 Zero

 They lied about the function of the eyes

 About the walls and the doors and the mirrors inside

 I saw a mushroom cloud, I took a rocket's ride

 And the flash of the blast really opened my eyes 

 I went BOOM DOOM

 I've been living in a dream

 Now I’m washing my hands will they ever come clean?

 I went BOOM DOOM

 I'm not naked and free

 While the eyes of the blind are staring at me

 My kind is the indifferent kind

 Shove a man in the valley of the blind

 What are you afraid you'll see

 If you open your eyes and take a look at me

 Tell me once, tell me fifteen times

 Just give me my cue and I’ll remember my lines

 'Cause I’m quick, I'm fast and I aim to please

 Tell me what you want and that's what I’ll be 

 I went BOOM DOOM

 And I heard someone laugh"Get your ass of the floor", as they kicked in the door 

 I went BOOM DOOM

 We're dying like flies

 But I’m hypnotized by the look in your eyes 

 My kind is the indifferent kind

 Shove a man in the valley of the blind

 What are you afraid you'll see

 If you open your eyes and take a look at me 

 Don't you look at me?

 Don't you want to see?

 What you made of me? 

 What I want to be?

 WHAT YOU SEE 

 THAT’S WHAT I WANT TO BE

 Look at me

 Why don't you look at me?

 Why don't you look at me?

 Why don't you look at me?

 Why don't you look at me?

 You'll see

 Nothing

 Nothing

 Nothing

 Nothing

 Nothing

 Nothing

 Nothing

 Nothing

 I must have been mean or bad

 I must have spoke out of turn or made somebody mad

 Although I have never been a dominant force 

 I just slide along, take the easiest course

 There is nothing that I wouldn’t do

 To make you see, to get through to you

 I haven't crawled through a jungle of lies 

 Just to behypnotized by the look in your eyes

 I went BOOM DOOM

 All is not what is seems

 I'm a fool, I've been had and I've been living in a dream

 I went BOOM DOOM

 I'm not naked and free

 While the eyes of the blind are all staring at me 

 My kind is the indifferent kind

 Shove a man in the valley of the blind

 What are you afraid you'll see

 If you open your eyes and take a look at me 

 Won't you look at me? 

 Don't you want to see?

 What you made of me? 

 What I want to be?

 NOT A DAMN THING

 NOTHING 

 THAT’S WHAT I WANT TO BE

 Look at me

 Why don't you look at me?

 Why don't you look at me?

 Why don't you look at me?

 Why don't you look at me?

 You'll see

 Nothing

 Nothing

 Nothing

 Nothing

 Nothing

 Nothing

 Nothing

 Nothing

 Zero

MARY (THE LAST)

My mind is buried at the bottom of the sea

 My voice is eaten by the crabs

 You broke me when you broke the surface

 Last, but not the last 

 I am at the end of the depths

 Wrecked and lost

 You call me from the trees 

 But I fly above the bats and the birds 

 If I am a number 

 Or if I am a word

 The mice that crawl on me

 Know this word

 The mice that crawl on me

 Know this word

 I am the last

 The last!

 The last!

 The last!

 You broke me, but I live

 Without end, under stones and crosses

 You count your losses, your wounds mend 

 But I am the end of Oak and Yew

 Of God and Death and you 

 I am the last

 The last!

 The last!

 Before the surface broke, under the depths

 Before the strokes of the lash 

 And the march to the crosses

 Before you named me

 Before you broke me

 Before the first word and after the last

 At the bottom of the sea

 At the bottom of the sea

 The crabs crawl on me

 The mice crawl on me

 They eat my voice

 Take all I have to give

 Before you

 Before all

 I live

 I live

 Mary, it‘s time to pray Mary

 Mary, it‘s time to pray..

 My mind is buried at the bottom of the sea

 My voice is eaten by the crabs

 You broke me when you broke the surface

 Last, but not the last 

 I am at the end of the depths

 Wrecked and lost

 MARY! 

 THE LAST! 

 THE LAST! 

 THE LAST! 

 THE LAST! 

 MARY!

 THE LAST! 

 THE LAST! 

 MARY!

EVERYDAY I START TO OOZE

I guess you heard my head turned brown

 I lost several pounds and just looked terrible

 This marriage of black and yellow never looked good on paper

 His mother was a secretary, I think

 Her father a rapist 

 I’m a little pressed for time and facts

 But I know

 I know

 It’s those personal acts

 Those personal acts

 That cut through the crap

 I heard they were dismembering people down on the street

 Those Joneses, you gotta love em’

 Various disguises are regrettable but necessary

 If you’re going to make it through the day

 Everyday 

 Everyday

 Everyday I start to ooze

 Everyday 

 Everyday

 Everyday I start to ooze

 A bold plan drawn up by assholes to screw moron’s

 News at eleven but first

 A long serious look at what’s seeping from open sore

 Perhaps you should STOP PICKING AT IT!

 I never felt so alone

 I never felt so used 

 I never felt so excited 

 It was those personal acts

 Those personal acts

 That cut up the crap and served it for breakfast

 YOU DUMB FUCK!

 My mom phoned up the police today

 Just to say hello, “Hello”

 My girlfriend has been missing for two weeks 

 I guess that’s what happens when you walk the streets 

 With a bag on your head and a sign that says 

 Everyday 

 Everyday

 Everyday I start to ooze

 Everyday 

 Everyday

 Everyday I start to ooze

 Oooh, black and blue and red are the colours of everyday

 Oooh, black and blue and red are the colours of everyday

 Oooh

 Everyday

 Ok, that’s life, that’s what I was told anyway 

 And picking your feet till they bleed may only be the half of it 

 If every fourth animal in the world is a beetle 

 Perhaps every fourth person is a DUMB FUCK

 Listen, listen carefully now here’s the answer

 It rhymes with ex

 Why, it’s those personal acts ofcourse

 Those personal acts

 Those suicide pacts

 Those carelessly stored razorblades in the hands of small children 

 Is my face smeared on the pavement? 

 Wohhhhh…

 It’s Everyday

 It’s Everyday

 UndayNonedayUsedayButtuglyWhoredayPaindaySPLATTERSDAY SPLATTERSDAY

 YOU DUMB FUCK!

WHEN PUTTING IT ALL IN ORDER AIN’T ENOUGH

When all those tomorrows get crammed into now

 You stop like you froze and ask yourself how?

 When all those tomorrows get crammed into now

 You stop like you froze and ask yourself how?

 How? 

 When putting it all in order ain’t enough

 The tough gets going and the going gets tough 

 And the things that you thought ain’t what it ought

 Ought 

 Ought 

 To be 

 When you’re laid on the line your dreams will stop

 They’ve drawn you in and they’ve strung you up

 When you’re laid on the line your dreams will stop

 They’ve drawn you in and they’ve strung you up

 When putting it all in order ain’t enough

 The tough gets going and the going gets tough

 And the things that you thought ain’t what it ought

 When the who hits the what and you’ve run out of luck

 You do what you can but you’re

 When the who hits the what and you’ve run out of luck

 You do what you can but you’re

 AllIn a word

 Stuck

 Fuck!

The Night Nothing Became Everything

 (Instrumental)

I THINK YOU KNOW

Circling 

 Haw

 Dive, bite

 Clench and jerk

 A spray of bright 

 Re ripped surface 

 Torn flesh

 No hot 

 No cold 

 No yes 

 No no

 No earth 

 No strike (?) 

 No you 

 No I

 You die 

 You die

 Every time 

 You die

 You die 

 You die

 You die

 You simply die

 No hat

 No cold

 No yes

 No no

 You know

 You know 

 I know 

 You know 

 You know 

 I know

 You know

 I think you know

 Not continued

 Never started

 Not half 

 Not whole 

 Hearted

 Never 

 Here 

 Where

 Here

 Where

 Here

 Where

 Here

 You die 

 You die

 Every time 

 You die

 You die 

 Every time 

 You die

 You simply die

 Where

 Here 

 Where

 Here

 Where

 Here

 Where

 Here

 You know

 You know 

 I know 

 You know 

 You know 

 I know

 You know

 I think you know

 Pull out 

 Jetting

 Sweat 

 A drag

 Teeth

 A drag

 There

 Again

 There 

 Again

 There 

 Again

 There 

 You die 

 You die

 Every time 

 You die

 You die 

 Every time 

 You die

 You simply die

 There

 Again

 There 

 Again

 There 

 Again

 There 

 Again

 You know

 You know 

 I know 

 You know 

 You know 

 I know

 You know

 I think you know

GHOSTS

Thin voices call out of thin air 

 “Do you really care?”

 “Do you really care?”

 There is no reason to be afraid

 All of the bodies have been laid to rest

 Nobody passes the test of time 

 The long climb 

 Into thin air

 Thin air

 There is no one there

 You think you have time

 You have no time

 You think you have time

 You have no time

 You think you have time

 You have no time

 You think you have time

 You have no time

 An image may be left in place 

 Of what was felt there is no trace

 In words recited without a sound

 By voices buried underground

 There is no meaning to be found

 “Do you really care?”

 “Do you really care?” 

 “Do you really care?”

 “Do you really care?” 

 There is no one there

 There is no one there

 You think you have time

 You have no time

 You think you have time

 You have no time

 You think you have time

 You have no time

 You think you have time

 You have no time

 There are no castles without ghosts

 And no spirits without hope

 But nobody passes the test of time

 You stand in line, you have your place

 The in the space of moments fall

 From again and again and again 

 To not at all

 From again and again and again 

 To not at all 

 I do not fear the buried sounds 

 Of words that echo underground

 A memory is a loaded gun

 And I remember everyone

 And I remember everyone

 I remember you 

 I remember you 

 “Do you really care?”

 “Do you really care?”

 “Do you really care?”

 “Do you really care?” 

 “Do you really care?”

 “Do you really care?” 

 There is no one there 

 There is no one there

 Why are you scared?

 There’s no one there

 Why are you scared?

 There’s no one there

 You’re clean, strong and free 

 Like you always wanted to be

 You’re alone

 There’s no one there

 You’re alone

 There’s no one there

 There, alone, aloneThere is no one there

JOYFULL REUNION

I don’t buy your explanations

 Your short sighted expectations

 Stop complaining, I don’t care

 (I told you the way it had to be)

 I will fuck with youIf you try to fuck with me

 (So don’t try it)

 Look at this face, I’m the one you love

 The white light of truth from heaven above 

 An angel of shit, fucker

 There is no road to ruin 

 Not a final solution 

 Just the grand execution

 Of our Joyful Reunion

 You squeezed the world in the palm of your hand

 But when it lay in pieces

 Did you give a damn?

 (Why should you?)

 Don’t play dumb and don’t ask why

 With a blink of my eye you are cut and dried

 And hung up 

 Bye, bye

 It was here, where did it go?

 I don’t know 

 I don’t know

 Anything any more

 In this ball of confusion

 Through these painful revolutions

 There’s no clear-cut solution

 Just a Joyful Reunion

 What are you trying to escape

 Your name calls me

 Your mirror is my gate

 (Smash, through the looking glass, fucker)

 I am your most hated enemy

 A friend who makes you start again

 Just when you thought it was finally the end

 Hit me hard, tear me apart

 To rise again is my special art

 You can’t kill me

 With all the things that cut me down

 Shake, brake, mutilate – grind me into the ground

 I’ll grow up again with first rain, just the same

 We will raise the institutions

 Make all new resolutions

 Rebuild the constitution

 For that 

 Joyful Reunion

 Joyful Reunion 

 Joyful Reunion