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Hardworlder

by Slough Feg

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(Scalzi) The spheres in motion wrapped around collapsing stars Immortal hands and eyes are framed in fearful scars The mystery of living, breathing, dying hard My name and occupation tattooed on my face The stars my destiny, deep space my dwelling place Delirious and rotting, where’s my saving grace The stars burning bright In the forest of night But what mortal hands and eyes will I see there? I’m locked behind bars On the gateway to Mars But when all the stars expire will I still be here? I’ll set the villages and colonies aflame The bards of history had best forget my name Deliriously plotting, Nomad is my fame
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The Sea Wolf 02:31
(Scalzi) The shadow of innocence gone A childhood lost in the waves For all time While pouring over volumes I lay Like curses that echo the sea Without rhyme Fortunes are drowned Swallowed up by the sea Shackled in time Never known, never seen The bottles are brimming below The gallons of emptiness found In the waves A circling vortex of time One thousand and more men are drowned In their graves Echoes of pride Swallowed up by the sea Shackled in time Never lost, never seen This body is crooked and old But doubtless I’ll live and I’ll die By the sea I’m wizened and tired and cold But fire still burns in my mind You can see Fortunes are found Now revealed by degree Shackled in time Now I’m lost with the sea
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Hardworlder 04:31
Killing you kindness is my game So I might live to see your sorrow Leading you with blindness to your grave With no more bitterness to borrow I’ve died a thousand times The battles rage on in my mind Always an eagerness for more With shields and flashing blades I contemplate my inner struggle A sound philosophy for war Leading you to endless misery Forever battling your sorrow Only in my violence am I free And I might live to see tomorrow
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The Spoils 02:18
(Scalzi) You wait in the wings for their call Hiding in mirrors you pray Another long winter will pass And nobody’s listening In martyrdom’s shackles you reign Through long bloody winters you fast And all of the riches that shinned They’re no longer glistening Turning my blood to stone Leaving me here alone Chorus of angels comes to pick my bones You wait for the curtain to fall The truth switches on in your mind The chorus comes issuing forth All is in vanity You’ve crafted a lifetime of pain Illusions come crumbling down An emptiness pulling your chain Endless insanity
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We got the news We wouldn’t leave on one of them Down, down, down on the floor ‘bout four AM We’ll find the groove And disconnect all circuitry Wound so tight, in the night and let it breathe And we barely made the scene To busy to keep the engine clean Chorus of angels oil my machine
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(Horslips) My heart is colder than black marble by the sea My love is older than the cold oak tree I am the flash of silver in the sun If you see coming you had better run, run, run From Dearg Doom You speak in whispers of the devil I have slain By the fire of my silver devil’s blade And still you dare to flaunt yourself at me I don’t want you, I don’t need you, I don’t love you, can’t you see? I’m Dearg Doom And when the stars go out You can hear me shout Two heads are better than none On hundred heads are so much better than one I’m a boy who was born blind to pain And like a hawk I swoop and swoop again I am the flash of Hawkeye in the sun If you see me coming you had better run, run, run From Dearg Doom
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Insomnia 04:10
(Scalzi) My eyes are seeing faces in the darkness While my mind is seeing darkness in the light The silent specters that only come out in the night While I’m drowning in the blood of your survival Keeping busy making nightmares of your dreams My violent laughter is only drowned out by your screams And where there’s peace of mind You know there’s always lies Another victim of your self-protection dies When you ask if I’m afraid of seeing zombies It’s the walking animations that I fear The silent specters just waiting for sleep to appear And when people ask me why I’m always grinning It’s because I’m seeing faces in the walls The silent shield of insomnia finally falls And when there’s peace of mind You know there’s always lies Now that this mutant race has left you all behind Another victim of your self-protecting lies And when the battles over Shackled in time and colder And stamp your witness on the ground Your earthly time elapsing Wittiness the star collapsing When lost in time is lost and found
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(Scalzi) In the city’s underside Where the conquers divide Another poisoned treasure (hard luck stories coincide) Kamikaze and his blade On a vagabond crusade Only seeking pleasure In the asphalt holy wars Open eyes and open spores Spiral architecture (Crystal logic metaphors) In a spoiled nation’s plight Many have given up the fight Now they’re here forever You’re down among the dead Your sentence has been read But I was only seeking pleasure And now it must be fed Underneath the city walls As the final curtain falls I can hear the laughter (creeping slowly through the stalls) Sacred war between the sheets Bringing terror to the streets You know what he’s after In a residence hotel Where his latest victim fell Frozen silent rapture Broken spirits, broken bones Bringing power to the drones Ending in disaster
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Karma-Kazee 05:22
(Scalzi) Throwing corpses on the fire Burning crosses in your mind Whirling vortex of your desire Failed experiments compiling Burning landscapes, sacking towers Endless bounty stained by blood Blustering prattle you called power Leading cattle to the slaughter Warm and sheltered in my tower Far from harm’s way, I’ll make good While you’re bleeding in your trenches I dare believe that I’m misunderstood My eyes are shut my limbs are bound ‘Till the next of the bastards in crowned But the fire still burns in my mind Shouldn’t come as a shock to me When the battle is finally lost And you wait in the wings without sound While you’re flogging an alien corpse As I witness this mockery Turning my blood Turning my blood to stone As you wait for the curtain to fall And you hide in the shadows and screams As the chorus comes issuing forth “All is you vanity” In martyrdom shackles you reign While you’re draining the blood from the ground Removing the sight from our eyes Your endless insanity Turning my blood Turning my blood to stone
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released June 1, 2007

Produced by Mike Scalzi and Justin Phelps.
Executive producer, Cruz Del Sur Music SRL.
Engineered by Justin Phelps at Hide Street Studios, San Francisco, CA.
Additional engineering by Raymond Ruiz.
Mastered by Justin Weis at Traxworx Studio, South San Francisco, CA.
Artwork by James E. Lyle.

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