More Than Tears Fill My Eyes

Jack Luminous icon-external-link-12x12 icon-search-12x12 (track 07 from The Outer Limits LP by Voivod icon-external-link-12x12 icon-search-12x12 )

Voivod's "The Outer Limits" album cover. [Formatted]

Listen to me, can’t you hear me?
Listen, I beg of you
I have escaped the one who rules deep in space

He knows my name
I know his game

Now that I’m here he will know where I am and he will get you too
He will make you believe whatever he wants

Inside your brain, he will play his game

Listen now!
Please don’t believe, whatever he says

I’m no preacher
I’m no space age cowboy
I’m no flash in the pan
Don’t you know that you have another thing coming?

You are not safe, here in this place

Are you aware you face your last death?
I am here to warn you, President X-D will be on your TV
Electron waves, a pixeled face

Listen now!
Please don’t believe, whatever he says

You will never switch him off when you’re hypnotized
Don’t you dare to call his bluff, he’s well organized

He gets around

Listen to me
It’s not easy to let you be

Happy in your world, and you can’t imagine what will come from the Milky Way, far away

My words are clear
We can’t stay here
What do you fear?

Happy in your world, and you can’t imagine what’s coming from the Milky Way, far away

“You people of this world, be prepared to greet me!”
“You people of this world, you will submit to me!”

“Look deep into my third eye, you are getting sleepy!”
“Look deep into my third eye, you now belong to me!”

Now is the time
Together we can change this place for the better

“Now, focus on my voice!”
“Will you do it for me?”
“Now, focus on my voice!”
“Yes, you will do it for me!”

“I will give you everything, but you must come to me!”
“I will give you everything, but you will have to join me!”

Now is the time
Together we can change this place for the better

You will never switch him off when you’re hypnotized
Don’t you dare to call his bluff, he’s well organized

X-D is coming
The sky is changing
X-D is coming
My head is spinning

And what about Hydra, Sirrah, Pollux, Gemma, Diadem, Bellatrix, Mirach, Izar?

“Lies are what we once knew”
“Time to live something new”

“We can no longer take things for granted”
“We can now remember what we wanted”

“We are not slaves anymore”
“Now we know what love is for”
“We don’t fight anymore”
“He is what we are living for”
“We are not slaves anymore”
“Now we know what love is for”
“We don’t fight anymore”
“Not anymore”

More than tears fill my eyes as bright ships dot the sky
More than fear is in sight as moon and sun stand by, and cry

So this is the end
I’m leaving now, farewell my friends
X-D is now in control and making plans for his new home

Fate lights me from within to the stars I’m fleeing
Earth heeds not my warning—forever sleepwalking, dreaming

So this is the end
I’m leaving now, farewell my friends
Maybe one day—time will tell—I will be back and break this spell

This Light is Not My Own

Reflection icon-external-link-12x12 icon-search-12x12 (track 11 from the Lateralus LP by Tool icon-external-link-12x12 icon-search-12x12 )

Tool's "Lateralus" album cover. [Formatted]

I have come curiously close to the end
Down beneath my self-indulgent and pitiful hole, I am defeated
I concede and move closer
I may find comfort here
I may find peace within the emptiness
How pitiful

This is killing me

Then in my darkest moment, fetal and weeping, the moon tells me a secret—my confidant
“As full and bright as I am, this light is not my own: a million light-reflections pass over me”

Revealed, the source is bright and endless
She resuscitates the hopeless
Without her we are lifeless satellites, drifting

So as I pull my head out, I am without doubt
I do not want to be down here soothing my narcissism
I must crucify the ego before it is too late
I pray the light lifts me out before I pine away

Crucify the ego before it is too late
Leave behind the place that is negative, blind and cynical
Then you will come to find that we are all one mind, capable of all that is imagined and conceivable

Let the light touch you
Let the words spill through
Let them pass right through
Bringing out Our hope and reason

Before we pine away

Mention Something, Mention Anything

Disposition icon-external-link-12x12 icon-search-12x12 (track 10 from the Lateralus LP by Tool icon-external-link-12x12 icon-search-12x12 )

Tool's "Lateralus" album cover. [Formatted]

Mention this to me and watch the weather change

Mention this to me
Mention something
Mention anything

Mention this to me and watch the weather change

To Feel My Moment While Drawing Way Outside the Lines

Lateralus icon-external-link-12x12 icon-search-12x12 (track 09 from the eponymous LP by Tool icon-external-link-12x12 icon-search-12x12 )

Tool's "Lateralus" album cover. [Formatted]

Black then white are all I see in my infancy
Red and yellow then came to be
Reaching out to me, it lets me see

As below, so above
Beyond, I imagine, drawing beyond the lines of reason
Push the envelope
Watch it bend

Over-thinking, over-analyzing separates the body from the mind
Withering my intuition
Missing opportunities
I must feed my will to feel my moment while drawing way outside the lines

Black then white are all I see in my infancy
Red and yellow then came to be
Reaching out to me, it lets me see

There is so much more and it beckons me to look through to these infinite possibilities

As below, so above
Beyond, I imagine, drawing outside the lines of reason
Push the envelope
Watch it bend

Over-thinking, over-analyzing separates the body from the mind
Withering my intuition
Leaving opportunities behind

Feed my will to feel this moment urging me to cross the line

Reaching out to embrace the random
Reaching out to embrace whatever may come

I embrace my desire
To feel the rhythm
To feel connected enough
To step aside and weep like a widow
To feel inspired
To fathom the power
To witness the beauty
To bathe in the fountain
To swing on the spiral of Our divinity and still be a human

With my feet upon the ground I lose myself between the sounds
I open wide to suck it in
I feel it move across my skin
I am reaching up and reaching out
I am reaching for the random or whatever will bewilder me
Yes, whatever will bewilder me, following Our will
When we go where no one has been, we will ride the spiral to the end
And we may just go where no one has been

Spiral out
Keep going