Soul Control
(Unreleased) • 1994
- 1 Afterall
- 2 Broken Spirit
- 3 Soul Control
- 4 (If) Only
- 5 The Formula
- 6 The Last Man On Earth
- 7 Lloyd
- 8 Beauty
- 9 Something Wrong
- 10 That
- 11 Ether (More Than Anything)
Richie Birkenhead - vocals Peter Moses - guitars Tony Bono - bass Drew Thomas - drums
Afterall
Just enough to keep me wanting Just the thing to calm you down Not enough to know you love me Not a thing to bring back what you lost the day I came around You stay You want me After all I've done Amazing Say You love me After all I've done Amazing When the going gets going I'll be gone Not enough to keep me guessing Is just the thing to bring me down Just a bore to hear your trite confessing Not a thing to bring back what you lost the day I came around You stay You want me After all I've done Amazing Say You love me After all I've done Amazing When the going gets going I'll be gone
Broken Spirit
You pledge allegiance to the Fear of Everything Unknown Run from the truth and walk alone You've taught me well to think of Hell As home-away-from-home Now I've the mind of Mr. Soames Are you glad to hear it? I'm a broken spirit I'm a broken spirit Are you glad? I worship Television Haven't read a book in years My bloodshot eyes have cried their last tears I worship Television I bask in the blue-green rays Come around now and be amazed You took my imagination And tore it all to shreds My tired hands have made their last bed No, I'll never sleep again at night Not like the likes of you And, honestly, I don't know how you do Are you glad to hear it? I'm a broken spirit I'm a broken spirit Are you glad? Run from the truth and walk alone Run from the truth and walk alone Run from the truth and walk alone Run from the truth and walk alone
Soul Control
Let me go Let me go Let me go all night And try to find a reason for this all Oh, and if it's so Let me know that it's all alright And I won't find you anymore Oh no And through it all You threw it all away Your soul is controlled I'm outta control I'm outta control And through it all You threw it all away Your soul is controlled I'm outta control I'm outta control Let me make you someone holy Get you off and set me free And in the end the only friend you had was me But if I said I couldn't care less I'd be lying and you'd see If I cannot pretend Then you can never be Build your world around me We'll climb so high All things considered We're all Alone Let me go Let me go Let me go all night And try to find a reason for this all Oh, and if it's so Let me know that it's all all right And I won't find you anymore Oh no
(If) Only
As the only one who knows The only one who knows me well goes away The only way to tell The only way to tell the time of day Is in a way I can't say And all of you that stays The only trace that remains is a haze And lonely only feels right when you're gone Lonely only feels right when you're gone If only Only And the only thing I ask The only thing I'll ever ask of you Is to say you'll never leave Say it Don't mean it And I'll believe What else would you have me do? And all of you that stays The only trace that remains is a haze And lonely only feels right when you're gone Lonely only feels right when you're gone Always Always alone I'm always Always alone Always alone Always alone As the only one who knows The only one who knows me well goes away The only way to tell The only way to tell the time of day Is in a way I can't say And all of you that stays The only trace that remains is a haze And lonely only feels right when you're gone Lonely only feels right when you're gone If only Only
The Formula
I'm through talking Set for walking Unimpressed with all that's new One part fire but two parts water Not a molecule rings true So, no more guessing Counting blessings now And trying to be me One part fear and four parts fire And a desire to disagree When you look underneath the nothing Don't like what you see Not so wonderful Now you realize That It's all about how And not why Not so wonderful Now you realize That It's all about how Why not why I'm through telling Set for yelling Uninspired by all that's new One part fire but two parts water Not a molecule rings true Not so wonderful Now you realize That It's all about how And not why Not so wonderful Now you realize That It's all about how It's all lies
The Last Man On Earth
A taste in your eye A look in your mouth Gives it all away The thought in your heart The faith in your mind And there's something you wish you would say You hope for the worst You pray for the cursed Pretending to pretend The thought in your heart The faith in your mind Denying the imminent end I want to be the last man on Earth I want to be the last man on Earth Conditioned to want the blood that they spill Partitioned, formatted, erased Convinced to enjoy the sport of the kill Desire's fire misplaced You hope for the worst You pray for the cursed Denying the imminent end I want to be the last man on Earth I want to be the last one A taste in your eye A look in your mouth Gives it all away The thought in your heart The faith in your mind And there's something you wish you would say You hope for the worst You pray for the cursed Pretending to pretend The thought in your heart The faith in your mind Denying the imminent end Denying the imminent end Denying the imminent end I want to be the last man on Earth I want to be the last man on Earth I want to be the last man on Earth
Lloyd
A wish for a dream Harder to want, or so it seems A chance to believe You'd take it if you were me A fall from the top cannot be all it's cracked up to be A race to a stop And, mercifully, right through the windscreen Lloyd Lloyd I think I know where you're taking this Lloyd Lloyd I don't want to go Lloyd Lloyd I think I know where you're going with this Lloyd Lloyd Hell no It seems the one who's before you now With her eyes Is yours A waste of a day Harder to feel the pain now anyway A taste of the life You'd take it if you were me The down and the out cannot be all they're cracked up to be So cry but don't shout And, hopefully, you go unseen Lloyd Lloyd I think I know where you're taking this Lloyd Lloyd I don't want to go Lloyd Lloyd I think I know where you're going with this Lloyd Lloyd Hell no It seems the one who's before you now With her eyes Is yours She's gone before her eyes Her eyes before your eyes A wish for a dream Harder to want, or so it seems A chance to believe You'd take it if you were me A fall from the top cannot be all it's cracked up to be A race to a stop And, mercifully, right through the windscreen Lloyd Lloyd I think I know where you're taking this Lloyd Lloyd I don't want to go Lloyd Lloyd I think I know where you're going with this Lloyd Lloyd Hell no
Beauty
Shrouded in illusion Keeping me out And dying inside You'll drown in your delusion But I've drawn the conclusion You're enjoying every minute of the ride There's beauty in your lies Something so beautiful in your lies Never without an answer Or, at the very least, the perfect catch phrase Graceful as a dancer You speak in pirouettes and pliés Never tired clichés And there's beauty in your lies Something so beautiful in your lies Tell me Tell me Lies Lies
Something Wrong
And anyway you cut me I'll heal in one day A horror show you'll never know Is each one of my yesterdays And over and over again The people who said they were friends are walking away Over and over again People who said they were friends are walking away I sang something wrong And nobody cared You think I'm so strong Buyer beware I never want to become anybody's hero I don't expect much more than disappointment anyway I'm happy to keep all my needles below zero And over and over again The people who said they were friends are walking away I sang something wrong And nobody cared You think I'm so strong Buyer beware
That
I should have let you go, Love Let you go until I was asleep I was asleep and you'd had your fill I should not bring this up, Love Bring this up again Here goes again You should know I would not let you down My Love You should sleep sound tonight Knowing that My Love I should forget the hard love Let the darkness die I should not set myself up just to fail, Love No I will not get myself into that place again Here goes again
Ether (More Than Anything)
From a sea of shattered glass you pulled me Licked my wounds Weatherproofed me All the time Knowing I'm falling from all I try to climb And now I'm feeling high again Much better than I did then You've rescued me Blessed be The magic girl who set me free You're making the difference now And I want you to know that although I make it hard sometimes And leave your soul scarred at times I'm yours beyond the end of time And oh I love you more than anything I love you more than everything Don't even have the words to sing So for the moment I'm content to lie here So happy I could die here All the while your knowing smile Would carry me the final mile And at the moment I looked into your eyes for the first time I realized I could see Blessed be the magic that is You and Me You're making the difference now And I want you to know that although I make it hard sometimes And leave your soul scarred at times I'm yours beyond the end of time And oh I love you more than anything Love you more than everything There aren't even words to sing I know I make it hard sometimes Leave you a little scarred at times But I'll be yours beyond the end of time I feel like life has just begun I love you more than anyone Love you more than anyone