Songs

All dressed up in your silk parachute
Designer labels and a barcode on your collar
One hand on the bottle and the other's on the phone
Behaving like some useless multi coloured plastic toy

Smiling like a predator you blow your pheromones around the room
So men become sub-human and they forget their early warnings
They act like Pavlov's dogs at the merest mention of your name
Don't tell me you can live your life looking out from artificial eyes

Is there anything you do care about
I bet you don't need drugs to sleep at night
Is there anything you feel that lasts for long
Three second memory and it's gone

You don't want to talk about it, that would be a weakness you can't have
Everybody's stupid because everybody's not as good as you
You can simply write it off the bad things are not your fault
Sometimes life is precious but you just see a box of rocks and stones

Is there anything you do care about
I bet you don't need drugs to sleep at night
Is there anything you feel that lasts for long
Three second memory and it's gone

Marlin/COD 1998

Stop looking so surprised, it's not a Mars attack
It's just two monkeys and they are fighting on my back
One speaks in colours but the other paints it black
And they confuse me with their facts

Bi polar expedition mounting in my mind
And those two monkeys, they are never far behind
I climb the highest peaks and fall into the trough

And then they tell me that I'm lost
And then they tell me that I'm lost
And then they tell me that I'm lost
And then they tell me that I'm lost

Now those two monkeys, they have broken my guitar
I always trust them, but they always go too far
I climb the highest peaks and fall into the trough

And then they tell me that I'm lost
And then they tell me that I'm lost
Two monkeys fighting on my back
Two monkeys fighting on my back

Sturgeon/COD 1998

It was the darkest time I felt the void
Had to think about getting some protection
Finally you showed yourself
Showed me some validation
Turned me into someone I didn’t know

Temptation took me by the throat my dear
Threw me into your sensual fire
But then you made me crawl through global expectations
I found myself stranded and burning in your debris

Sometimes a man will do the wrong thing just to find his way
To see if there’s really any truth in his world
I took my chances but got burned on your pedestal
Skating on thin ice with an illusion

So I’m going back now to the world I know
Got to get my feet on the ground if it kills me
Try to find some sanity out of the chaos that’s surrounding me
I’m coming down I’m coming down
I’m coming down I’m coming down
I’m coming down I’m coming down

Swordfisher/COD 2000