This is quite a long piece, 45 songs/poems i believe, although i never really counted. |
THE DRAIN A Concept Album by: Rory Carman Additional Writing credits (down the drain pt 1 & 2, Burning): A. Clarke ======================= "Down The Drain Pt. I" ------------ Here we are again things blown up again i can't take this strain, i'll flush these memories down the drain [Musical Interlude] --------- "Story" --------- It was a rainy night very dark outside there was a big fight you went for a drive you said you'd be back but you didn't know when i still remember hearing that i'd never see you again [Musical Interlude #2] --------- "Down The Drain Pt. II" --------- The fog is lifting from my mind now trying to keep ahold of what's left of me now I thought i was normal i thought i was sane but now i see that's all been flushed down the drain ----------- "Up the Down Staircase" ----------- Superiority Inferiority It's all the same when you're flushed down the drain Twisted world Broken lives It's all the same when you're flushed down the drain Going up the down staircase a rival of sanity doing it all backwards...... ------------- "True Lies" ------------- Say one thing think another a knife in the back of your brother Say one thing do another a knife in the back of your lover Say one thing make it true true lies are all that are waiting for you. --------- "Point" --------- I don't want this life anymore no confidence no strength [chorus] What's the point of living life when we see what we do with it? life is nothing more than a series of cryptic puzzles and mazes one after another so [chorus] There is a point solve the maze get on to the next one before one more grain of sand slips through the hourglass. The all seeing eye. The hourglass of mortality happiness idiocy life. -------------- "Nothing to Lose" -------------- (doctors speaking) CLEAR!!!! (zap) -------------- "Unnamed" -------------- Welcome back...we thought we'd lost you Are you okay? Hello? Can you squeeze my hand? Can you tell me your name [Musical Interlude #3] --------------- "Nothing to Gain" --------------- Help me fade away and let go of this pain help me i'm broken and falling and feeling help me i'm imprisoned in this body in this hell help me i have nothing to lose and there's nothing to gain deep down in the drain. ----------------- "Down the Drain Pt. III" ----------------- Who are you? What are you doing here? Why don't you help me? Can't you see? I'm going insane...... and i'm in pain........ [Musical Interlude #4] ------------------ "Life Forward" ------------------ I'm stuck in the past reliving this pain over and over again I wan't to be me again or at least somewhat free i must find a way to take my life forward [Musical Interlude #5] ------------------ "Down The Drain Pt. IV" ------------------ But i'm going insane Trying to run away From my past.... from my mind? I'm going insane I'm running away I'm going insane Down The Drain. ----------------- "Born To Die" ----------------- Fading away into nothingness fading away into the shadows fading away into blackness fading away from sanity ....defy...authority....this world desensiizes....everyone...who doesn't...fit in. No regrets.....get all you can... while the getting is good. Born to live born to die born to laugh born to cry The minute you're born you start to die and you try to laugh when you want to cry ----------------- "No Life" ----------------- [Chorus A] (x2) The door is locked find the key like a mouse in a maze try to find your piece of cheese trying to find a reason to live should not be a difficult thing yet it is just like everything else thrown at you in life and even pushed on you in death [Chorus B] Door unlocked you've found the key like a mouse in a cage trying to break free You can't see what i see you will never be free- No Life. [Chorus A] [Chorus B] ------------------ "Reality" ------------------ When we are young we are sent to a place a place of learning a place of friendship a place called school. a place where you will be stripped of your individuality and desensitized to violence never once learning how to deal with REAL life problems a place where every adult acts like a friend but in reality couldn't give two shits what happens to you. they are not paid to care about you or anyone else they are nothing more than a tool to get you to conform to society. Paid to demoralize you paid to desensitize you paid to educate you? NO! paid to destroy you!!!!! --------------- "Polluted" -------------- Life grows old polluted by toxins pulluted by smog polluted by violence you run around talking shit doing nothing to improve our polluted state of life Soiled Dirty Polluted Filthy It's time to have a changing of the gaurd that you worship called humanity.... the biggest pollution of all. Soiled Dirty Polluted Filthy. Pollution is inside everyone Consuming your faith Corrupting your mind and your country ---------------- "Pull" ---------------- Death repairs all fear not for the end is near now is the time to rise up control your fate don't let others pull you down [Musical Interlude #6] -------------- "Insanity" -------------- Time draws out like a blade sometimes i think of nothing but my own insanity my own insanity my own insanity it's mine. the end will come we have been warned death repairs nothing like time and trust can [Musical Interlude #7] ------------- "Longevity" ------------ Now is the time to stand up celebrate life don't let others pull you down time can help aid if you would think longevity and not about your own insanity your own insanity your own insanity it's yours. -------------- "Clarity" -------------- I was looking for you but i couldn't find you and then one day you just dropped in to say hello We both needed clarity and we became one blinded by what I thought was love -------------- "Fled" ------------- The music i used to hear when you were around was magical, and magistral. my one hand been found. I thought i was in love my head in the clouds but those feelings have fled far from me now. -------------- "Trust" ------------- I was blinded by you i couldn't see anything else in life but you and me I confided in you you trusted in me but nothing was what it seemed to be. -------------- "Desire" ------------- And here we are together each of us in pain not realizing our love has gone down the drain your voice it seems still comes calling but what can i do to keep from falling? back into the web back into the fire i won't do this again i'm free from desire. -------------- "All?" ------------- I'm in here all by myself locked in my mind trying to free myself Trying to find all that i've left behind locked in my brain with my sanity down the drain..... -------------- "Days" --------------- Desert wind blows softly across the dark sand on a moonlit night the desert is full of shadowy memories stirring, haunting, waiting for you to free them time is passing me by running through the sands the sands of time have almost run out poetry in mottion willow in the wind we shall become one somehow, someday everyone's dreaming of better days but those better days are far, far away. ----------------- "Burning" ----------------- I sit here all in all Waiting on the phone push my body to the floor still you never call she's still with me her kiss still kills me i can't feel guilty it's just a memory all the things you put me through all those hopeless nights i tried to make it right for you Show me how it feels to lose who the fuck are you to drag me down with you? flowers i bought are now dead and gone the love we had before now gone forevermore all my hurting, my yearning, and burning can't you see it's me, my beautiful? every time i looked in your eyes i was crucified again every time you sold me your lies it was justified in the end just like some face on a runaway train pass me bye, wave goodbye while i slip down the drain..... ------------------ "Slave" ----------------- Conflict of interest a burning desire to pull your strings i use you as i see fit you are the one who bends to my will I toy with you until i've had my fill i'll have fun in doing it of course but i'll never stop untill i see your CORPSE the game is over and i have won i beckon you closer let's have some fun. What torment awaits you i cannot say but you are my slave for every day. ------------------ "Brain Drain" ------------------ Time draws out like a blade why must it be this way? how i wish we could have just one more peaceful day living together seeing no colors taking care of and helping each other but it's too late for that now i'm completely gone sealed up in the drain mired in my shame. ---------------- "Show" ---------------- Those better days are still far away but i think you have made a step in the right direction you have a choice to make i can lead you out of here or i can leave you to your pain forever in this drain ----------------- "Life" ---------------- The door's unlocked i found the key but i don't understand how this will save me. ------------ "Outcry" ------------ I need help before i slip away i'm in pain down the drain i realize now this was my own doing i think i've paid for my mistakes by now i want to go home i want to be me i want to be sane i want to be free (abrupt shift to 3rd person) there is an outcry over this atrocity which has happened and he must free himself the others were a mirage created by him to shift the blame and ease his pain down in the drain (back to 1stperson) I'M SORRY!!!!!! LET ME GO!!!!!!!! ------------ "PERFECT DARK (To Liz)" Desertion Was it something i said? Trepidation Who do you think you're kidding? Intimidation This is destroying me It's just too much All i feel once again is this strain you'll never put me down the drain Sealed up in perfect darkness Tied up in pitch blackness Toyed with I trusted you Shut Up I'm not you'rs anymore Find someone else to worship you I'll never kiss your boots again I'm Done ----------------------- "Drought" All i see is a lie what we were what we are what was will be no more i had faith everlasting In You but it's dried up now We're in a drought Envelepod in secrets kept from each other every goddamned day I think it might turn around i'm fooling myself it's over now I feel numb paralyzed broken by you and this never ending drought dried up. ------------------------- "Forsaken" I can't feel anymore i'm tired i can't think anymore i'm insane running from the past fleeing from the pain running from myself? creating this pain? Why was i forsaken? Why only me? I think i was taken for granted, you see..... why do we hurt the ones we love? where is that person who is supposed to be up above? -------------------------- "Unspoiled" Innocence Destined to be lost shattered corrupted Purity about to be destroyed what has this boy done to deserve this? no rationale is suitable this should never happen why are we subdued the minute they cut the cord? severing ties with our heritage in more ways than one perhaps not living at all would be more fun than this lie more fun than this life maybe just one time we could be unspoiled -------------------------- "Corruption" Corruption is my name like a poison i flow through your veins i'll never tire i'll never give up you need me and you know it and you're not the only one to boldly show it i will be here soon like the flame to the "Silver spoon on a chain" but it will be all in vein I'll throw you down the drain corruption is the life we lead every fucking day give me your tired your poor and your hungry and just go away just go away. -------------------------------- "Lies" I live a life full of tears i have a life full of fears preprogrammed this way i've wasted so many years fed by lies hooked on hypocrisy raised on this bullshit everyone wants me to believe i'm breaking out of this shell i refuse to live one more instant this life full of hell in the end it'll come to who kills who first i won't be here i'd rather not live at all if it gets any worse we are lied to every day blind to the gifts we've been given blind to the truth that's been written born of a sin that is fake this world of lies summons my hate ------------------------- "Borrowed Time" I'm still breathing but just barely you've treated me so unfairly but in the end we're all just living on borrowed time it keeps ticking and slipping away borrowed time i just want to have one more day Living the American Nightmare Trying to find some sanity Failing Miserably Trying to figure out what to do with myself before time runs out because in the end we're all just living on borrowed time it keeps ticking and slipping away borrowed time i just want to have one more day borrowed time it keeps ticking and slipping away borrowed time i just want to have one more day --------------------- "Save Face" Why did i make such a mistake i knew i was headed for heartbreak for once in my life i tried to own up to my feelings and have faith in what we had with each other i thought it was real i thought it was great but now all i feel is this huge weight pressing down on me and now i'm just trying to save face ------------------------ "Through the Years" I look through the years that i've led my life full of irrational fears hating myself for what i've become avoiding all contact to avoid the tears that naturally come everytime i care everytime i love anything or anyone i'm through beating myself up slowly killing myself with each passing day i swear to God i didn't used to be this way i don't know where it went wrong i don't know why i don't belong i'm doing the best i can that's all i can do from here and try to make it through the rest of my years. ----------------------- "ALL" ------------ I'm in here i've found myself i think i'll put these memories back on the shelf i've been here for such a long time but now i think i've found all that i left behind [Musical Interlude #8] ------------- "Purge" ------------ Left behind in a fit of rage Left behind with my sorrow all alone with my choices Left behind with my regrets Left behind with my pain Left behind down in the drain Left behind i was going insane but somehow i managed to purge this drain and the ones that really loved me the ones that i pushed away are still waiting for me to this very day i'll be leaving now goodbye and good luck never open the drain again i fear i may get stuck. © Copyright 2006 Rory Carman |