The Dear Hunter

Lyrics to The River North :
(Instrumental)

Lyrics to His Hands Matched His Tongue :
A long walk home, riddled with regret.

Uncommonly comfortable, but still I believe that in time I'll see just whats been weighing down on me.

An unearthy void, collapsed, exposing what was trapped, to release this serendipitous dissent.

The smell of smoke, the evening sky was bruised. Belated conversation, saturate anticipation for the answers that simply wont come, but not I, I wont ask. Forget my place amongst the grass. The leaves and the trees remember me and in my na�vety it might be seen; the pale has leaks, and even if you put all your water into it, you end up with nothing left to drink. The well has gone dry and I with it.

Oh, someday she'll be gone.
Oh, someday she'll be gone.
Oh, someday she'll be gone.
Oh, someday she'll be gone.

We'll still have a song to sing,
We'll still have a song to sing,
We'll still have a song to sing,
We'll still have a song to sing.

Sing softly, bring it to the left,
Sing softly, bring it to the left,
Sing softly, bring it to the left,
Sing softly, bring it to the left.

Sing softly, sing it to the left,
Sing softly, sing it to the left,
Sing softly, bring it to the left
Sing softly, sing it to the left,
Sing softly, bring it to the left....

Lyrics to The Pimp And The Priest :
(Take me to the river)

The pimp and the priest pounce on quickened cat’s feet for the freshest young blood in sin’s for the feast. The book will then brew what the sinful commit; while the pimp and the priest prey quietly where the precious sinners sit.

Confessal confess, in the chapel, the brothel, where we suffocate stress. We’ve got the time if you’ve got the scratch (don’t give[?] your sins while she screams on her back).

Faster, save me! (I’ve since remained hostage[?]) Harder(?) I can’t breath!

Now the priest and the pimp are already equipped with an enigmatic frontage post (something) we’ll come walking. So we corner(?) our pace and make quick for the door, to be prodded and passed from the bed to the floor.

Confessal confess, in the chapel, the brothel, where we suffocate stress. We’ve got the time if you’ve got the scratch (don’t cure[?] your sins while she screams on her back).

Take me to the river (repeat x2)

Faster, save me! (I’ve since remained hostage[?]) Harder(?) I can’t breath!

Sing softly, sing me to the lake. Sing softly, bring me to the lake.

Faster, save me! (I’ve since remained hostage[?]) Harder(?) I can’t breath!

Sing softly, sing me to the lake. Sing softly, bring me to the lake

Lyrics to 1878 :
We got away, we got away and survived.
Stunned by the shock and fearing what's behind.
Everything you thought you lived and died for,
Every reason leading you to here.
All of the sounds have trickled past your introspective ear,
In an attempt to discover what's behind.

Branches twisting, reaching for the sky
Hands extending, waiting for this

Fell in another hole
For the knife, for the knife
Loss of control
For the knife, for the knife
I'm in another hole
For the knife, for the knife
Bleed myself dry
Save my life' Save my life'.

Fell in another hole
For the knife, for the knife
Loss of control
For the knife, for the knife

Hands inflected clearly point my way,
Stunned by the sight and fearing what exists,
Everything you thought you lived and died for,
Every reason leading you to here,
All of the sounds have trickled past your introspective ear,
In an attempt to discover what's behind'

Fell in another hole
For the knife, for the knife
Loss of control
For the knife, for the knife
I'm in another hole
For the knife, for the knife
Bleed myself dry
Save my life' Save my life'.

Fell in another hole
For the knife, for the knife
Loss of control
For the knife, for the knife

Lyrics to The Inquiry Of Ms. Terri :
A hope removed, a life resumed right here. And the Priest and the Rosary, the buck and the bond between me and me has long since broken. A boy who’s grown, too short to see, a table unfolds, to chagrin(?). A life once lived behind closed doors, the irony of the imprecate hold?

Such taste(?) feel it ripping me down. A reprise, two times, that time, burn it to the ground.

The euchre(?) of mystery, the expiry of misery, the table turns, the sun long, the river bed, and he’s alone. The object of affection, conflicted by convictions of indecency, sorority, corrupted by impropriety. The cavalier, she holds of him, in dissonance with experience, a boy who grows, with knife in hand, to fend for her, becomes a man. But she plays fake affection, and carefully lacks subjection, to a gentleman (processed?) twisted desires.

Such taste(?) feel it ripping me down. A reprise, two times, that time, burn it to the ground.

We dance around the room, my love I’ll carry you, and I’ll teach you how to (I can’t understand the last part of this sentence). We dance around the truth, my dear I lie for you, but when I lie down, I’m simply lying to them too

yrics to City Escape :
Please, what happened to the flame?
(It burned down the sides)
With a fondness for cooking history, revealing thoughts of Ms Terri.
In the heat of the night, a woman wealthy of a parous plight erased a harlots life.

Plagued by practical and a mercenary lust they tear at her at her skin
(The trouble began, it would never end)

Clawing at her throat with a smell of desperate and a lack of regret
(The trouble began, it would never end)

Free, pardoned by the flame.
(That burned down the sides)
Her feet began to bleed between the seams, but she persisted to the streets.

In the heat of the night, the river rendered the chance she surely needs to stay alive.

Plagued by practical and a mercenary lust they tear at her at her skin
(The trouble began, it would never end)

Clawing at her throat with a smell of desperate and a lack of regret
(The trouble began, it would never end)

Oh, but her breath escapes her.
Oh, but the pulse remains.
Oh, but her breath escapes her.
Oh, but her pulse remains.

Places, People, the stage is set
(X2)

Plagued by practical and a mercenary lust they tear at her at her skin
(The trouble began, it would never end)

Clawing at her throat with a smell of desperate and a lack of regret
(The trouble began, it would never end)
(X2)

Lyrics to The Lake South :
(Instrumental)

Lyrics to Battesimo Del Fuoco :
Believe you me, the price is clear
A child born, the mother near.
To death and life, as hand in hand,
A failed life exposed the man
Who led her off into the flame
To cast her back to hell again.

But, hear you me, the break of dawn
Will wash away the sins thereof.
Unto the lake, beyond the tree,
The child waits, alone is he.

The flame is gone, the fire remains. (x6)

Lyrics to Vital Vessals Vindicate :
Salt in the sky in the sweet summer air while mammoths depart
Abandon dispair with thirsty affairs of the heart
But the chances of escaping my heart are inadaquate, and when all is said and done I'm left with my history

Goodbye, my eyes shed heavy tears
One for every soul still sitting on the fence between pain and arrogance

Ebb to the left flow to the right
The exit's unflawed
The boys on the train
The almighty tongue with prose spilled in vain

Goodbye, my eyes shed heavy tears
One for every soul still sitting on the fence between pain and arrogance

We fall beneath the sea of dreams and fail to breathe until we awaken again

Sing softly sing me to the lake
Sing softly bring me to the lake
Through all of this I've felt just the same
The flame is gone the fire remains

Lyrics to Black Sandy Beaches :
Messages from broken bottles fall on black sandy beaches
Ink in vain across the page now run from morning dew
Hands which chance upon it lead to eyes which strain to read
Heart which pound from love long overdue
Lips which press together, stifle rhythmic heavy breathes
Oh how she cries from vicarious love from the one he writes about
She must have been so glad for him to throw it out
Further steps lead to yet another broken bottle
Again the words contained have bled the page
Whose tears were these which ran the ink
From who they'd pour to make this streak?
Were they his by chance from telling her or hers by chance from reading it?
they could have been collective
they could have been from someone else
why don't we see whats at the bottom?
why don't we see what comes next
oh how she cries from vicarious pain from the one he writes about
she must have been so sad for him to throw her out
lets just say she is better off somehow
lets just say she has never been happier than she is now
we couldn't fake it so why even try?

Lyrics to Dear Ms. Leading :
Dear Ms. Leading I hate to tell you that I no longer need your services
A bitter fabricating manufacturer of lust
You have been presented as
It doesn’t do a thing for me, I now know your identity
A black widow who temps the gray with promises of love
If ignorance is bliss ,wish I was blissfully ignorant
But I'm not, I'm enlightened now light has been presented to me
In spite of...

You know Ms. Leading I regret to inform you
I’ve fallen out of lust
It must be so hard to understand

Hell no I don’t think so, hell no I don’t think so

Did you really think me a fool enough to play along?
And make believing everything you said was true
Push your battering lips on another unsuspecting men

Hell no I don’t think so, hell no I don’t think so

Dear Ms. Leading in response to your response
I'm simply unavailable
I hope you got the message in the message that I sent
Shame on me for falling for someone so dense
In different times I’d might of played along to something warm, something with security
As fleeting as momentary rapture and the pleasure of collapsing in arms
So welcoming to others just like me

You know Ms. Leading I regret to inform you
I’ve fallen out of lust
It must be so hard to understand

Hell no I don’t think so, hell no I don’t think so

Did you really think me a fool enough to play along?
And make believing everything you said was true
Push your battering lips on another unsuspecting man

Hell no I don’t think so, hell no I don’t think so

Lyrics to Where The Road Parts :
Its ironic how I fall just to get back up again
I fixed to cure this ailing bitter agony
Maybe where the roads part you remember where we first met
So tongue and cheek with stale irony, if it pleases you it pleases me
Just an innocent call a telephone call
Just an innocent call

Now if you were in bloom I’d pluck your petals clean
Although I don’t seem low I can promise you my egos running me
Then I'd be called you were the only one that didn’t fold
But I just broke right down for you in an attempt to gain control
Maybe I'm a waste of time

You were the only one that didn’t fold

Lyrics to Red Hands :
Even if you'd never strayed from me,
I'd question your fidelity.
There'd always be a shroud of suspicion
And my heart's a liability
With your hands maroon, so freshly red,
You'd wrap your lips around my neck.
Try and force to love the thought of me.
Simple motions make me ill.

Was it bitter when you tossed and turned
On an undercover mattress?
Did it feel so good? Hope it felt so good.
Don't know what I'd do if you lost sleep over little old me.
He's so much better.
They're all much better.
Take off your sweater, your shoes, and your shirt, and get to work.

Maybe this is just a work of art.
Scripted players in a play of lust.
Hope the end is well worth waiting for
Everything you wished there'd be

Was it bitter when you tossed and turned
On an undercover mattress?
Did it feel so good? Hope it felt so good.
Don't know what I'd do if you lost sleep over little old me.
He's so much better.
They're all much better.
Take off your sweater, your shoes, and your shirt, and get to work.

Oh my god, what have I done?
Now my darling, put your clothes back on.
Oh my god, what have I done?
Now my darling, put your clothes back on.

Cause you can't be caught red-handed if you're not red-handed.
My darling, if I ever said those words to you,
I was pulling out my heart so I could pin it to my sleeve
On display for you to see, I'm on display.

Because you can't be caught red-handed if you're not red-handed.
My darling, I would never say those words to you.
I was pulling out my heart so I could pin it to my sleeve
On display for you to see, I'm on display.

Oh my god, what have I done?
Now my darling, put your clothes back on.
Oh my god, what have I done?
Now my darling, put your clothes back on.
Now my darling, put your clothes back on.

(Cause you can't be caught red-handed)
Oh my god, what have I done?
(If you're not red-handed)
Now my darling, put your clothes back on
(I would never say those words to you)
Oh my god, what have I done?
(I was pulling out my heart so I could pin it to my sleeve)
Now my darling put your clothes back on.
(On display for you to see, I'm on display)

Oh my god, what have I done?
Now my darling put your clothes back on

Lyrics to Blood Of The Rose :
Dance, dance your decay all the while, unknowing youre led astray
Sleep, sleep through your woe while your voice slowly withers and melts away

Sing unto me the pleasure and pain
Reveal to me the reasons my loves not in vain

Sangre, sangre de la rosa. SIGUE en paz sin el pasado. RECE, RECE por su alma. ELLA MURIERA en el bautismo del fuego

Sing unto me the pleasure and pain
Reveal to me the reasons my loves not in vain

The world burns but still we breathe...
The iron chambered heart a seive that sifts through honest elegance and suffers from the wrong defense

Lyrics to Evicted :
I have been evicted
From a floor constricted
By the flaming fires
Came to life but gone cold

If you need a little cash just sell yourself to everything
A dollar in exchange for failing hearts
So loudly say
"Oh how I truly know the frame of mind, soothing softly curbside
Comfortably abrupt on a stone and ticket
All the pain wont last
Everything will pass when bed sheets are broken glass
And now your heart will skip a beat, and palpitate."

If you need a little cash just sell yourself to everything
A dollar in exchange for failing hearts
So loudly say
"Oh how I truly know the frame of mind, soothing softly curbside
Comfortably abrupt on a stone and ticket
All the pain wont last
Everything will pass when bed sheets are broken glass
And now your heart will skip a beat, and palpitate."

Its just that easy pick yourself up and go give the world a great big smile
Hey hey hey kid get a job
Wash that mouth out, ditch those morals, sleep your way right to right to the top
Hey hey hey kid get a job

Lyrics to Smiling Swine :
Awoke alone, put on my coat, ran for the door
Down the stairs, and made it to the second floor
Stopped by the squeaky wheel, a smiling swine
Stunned by the sight and fearing whats behind
"Hey there" he pleasently began
"Good day" he telescoped his hand
"Is there a service I can possibly propose?"
"Ms leading seems to me to be a proper butterfly"
"Then I suggest you pack your bags and learn to drive!"
Tucked in my shirt, and finally made my way outside
He broke the scene, a machiavelian dandelion
Blissfully plucked from the bloom of another

But all the while
She was still fresh in my mind
And though this might be premature
But ambition strikes just when the mood is right
The mood is right

Lyrics to The Bitter Suite 3: Embrace :
Darkness, hesitation
I fellinto her arms
Breathe in, this is amazing
Breathe out, this is amazing
She removed her clothes and all of the world shined
Now that we're alone all of the world shines
First hot breath, then cold hands
Intrustion, but aware
The Fire inside was all light and she bloomed
And i never knew life could ever be this good
The distnat sighs, the clothes on the floor
The bedding a mess, she sings for more

We fall beneath the sea in the back of our hearts and fail to breathe until we resurface again

She had the summer's smile with winter's skin
And all along with words beyond me she welcomed me in

We fall beneath the sea in the back of our hearts and fail to breathe until we resurface again

Lyrics to The Bitter Suite 1 And 2: Meeting Ms. Leading / Through The Dime :
She had the summer's smile with winter's skin; she moved
A silloutte to serenade the soul
She spoke with words beyond me and slowly i pulled away to receive a gesture implying an answer i didnt have
So I then smiled
Responding alarming "Yes"

Her hands were the first that id ever felt; she breated
Her lips hid her tongue from the world; she danced
To the doors, endearing, she carried me
"What's your name?" conceding "Ms. Leading"
She kindly suggests
To her room
To rest my head
So i smiled responding unalarming "yes"

Where's her heart?
Mimicking the matriarch...
He's naive; blissfully ignorant and
Trusting but now?

Step right in. Let her hips guide your desire
Hey kid get a job
The have ways to satisfy what you require
Touch, taste, feel
Two times, the dime
But the perks are more than price and the guarantee is clean
We know what the men all want and they know it isnt free

Her history is left behind
The ignorance has room to breathe
They'll play a part and act a scene
The prejudice and the guilty...

Take a chair, youre not alone
The beds your home tonight
Hey kid get a job
Wait right there
Well magnify and maximize your inner fire
Touch, taste, feel
Two times, the dime
Cause if you boys are nice, the ladies here are clean
We know what the men all want
And they know it isnt free

Her history is left behind
The ignorance has room to breathe
They'll play a part and act a scene
The prejudice and the guilty..

Lyrics to The Church And The Dime :
She prays to the man with the twin in the mask
But the world is numb and cold

And the boy, all alone, casually wandering home, unaware of sobering reality

Faster, save me. Harder, I can't...

(Breathe in, breathe out)
Let them all fold, let them all fold
(Breathe in, breathe out)
Let them all fold, let them all fold

Hearts finish here, love decays while call girls perform
He waits alone, playing parts to soothe lovers through
The lust and its size, the church and the dime
The cryptic clientele all careening inside
They're puzzling for substance pure from the divine

(Breathe in, breathe out)
Let them all fold, let them all fold
(Breathe in, breathe out)
Let them all fold, let them all fold
Yeah!!!

Many wishes of hunger will rot by the pimp and priests thirst for a fault
All the anger from a lovers' lament
Force fed in the stomach of sin

Welcome to the world

Lyrics to The Oracles On The Delphi Express :
Stick with us, throw your morals out the door
You aren't in the land of the river and the lake no more
Makeshift schemes, we've got plenty here for you
Lock away your dreams and throw away the key

You've been stuck in the middle of patience and animosity
With a lust for solidity, and a cryptic history your lucks running thin

Crimson hands, brandish words which masquerade
If you flee from grace your souls can not be saved
This scene shifts, exits illustrate the flood
Don't be ashamed of your unlawful flaw
When the bombs go off you'll know right where you are

You've been stuck in the middle of patience and animosity
With a lust for solidity, and a cryptic history your lucks running thin

You've been stuck in the middle of patience and animosity
With a lust for solidity, and a cryptic history your lucks running thin

Lyrics to The Lake And The River :
Everything you'd live and die for
Reasons leading you through here
Perished matriarchal bonds
Failing innocence of love
When the world beckons your approach
It swallows you whole

You'll believe what you're led to believe
In the hands of ghosts we're never responsible
Wait to see what you're meant to see
The veil lifts when you expose your soul

Pray'd I would leave this place someday
Joined to alarm from long ago now unconcerned
Euphorically floating upon wax wings where is the sun?
I still see her face; her beauty her grace
Transfixed like a light in front of me
It follows my soul
And swallows me whole

You'll believe what you're led to believe
In the hands of ghosts we're never responsible
Wait to see what you're meant to see
The veil lifts when you expose your soul

Left, right, left, right...

His branches reached so far before
His leaves were bold extremities with great control
Wasted along; he died alone

You'll believe what you're led to believe
In the hands of ghosts we're never responsible
Wait to see what you're meant to see
The veil lifts when you expose your soul

But the right hand hates the left and the sea's upset with the sky
So we press on in spite of the spite
Happiness is a knife when the worlds on its side and your minds on fire

Trying to find the trouble with the trouble I've found
Begging my god to make the wheels go round
Eat so much but I never get full
Earth opened up and swallowed us whole

Lyrics to The Procession :
The blood...
how it paints such a scene
foul routine pedigree
mouth agape, stuttered hands attempt to flail
and finally agree
her hearts ceases its rhythm
somewhere trumpets decay
in the front by the well wishing wishes that deny the stale smell in the bay
there, no one cry
place these over her eyes
we are broke and alone
we are broken alone
(Chorus)
She's inanimate
bloodless elegance
fatal fascination breeds a bloom of misery
helpless hiding tongues
bathed in revulsion
her lies unfinished
beauty wilting premature
but we cant be too sure
no we cant be too sure
reversed, always playing the part
of the boy left alone
he proceeds to the road
beyond the home he'd learn to call his own
(Chorus)
one life for another
(Chorus)

Lyrics to The Death And The Berth :
[A moment of silence]

Lyrics to Life And Death :
When we dance it looks just like fire
When we sing it sounds the same tone
We all have hopes, we all have homes
But when we die, we die alone

Oh, what a mess, as everything descends
Oh, what a mess, but everything amends

Such it was so long ago
We always tried but failed
And now with new found consciousness
We stand here waiting
To die

Oh, what a mess, as everything descends
Oh, what a mess, but everything amends

But one of these days he will learn to love again
One of these days he will learn to love again
One of these days he will learn to love again
One of these days he will learn to love

When we dance it looks just like fire
When we sing it sounds the same tone
We all have hopes, we all have homes
But when we die, we die alone
When we die, we die

Lyrics to Father :
And what of the father.
Will he end the lies.
And what about the mother.
Will she, Discover the truth behind this life We're living.

Now everything we ever had is here for us.
Now everything we ever had is here for us.

Don't worry about the Father.
You'll take him ?
And as for the mother.
She always loved her son.
And you look like him.