Triggers (Fear and the Nervous System)

Oh, sickness
You are a rose

Your power cries
Second mother to every man
Clutch the child
Extend to master sun
Tiny lives burn out
Like so many ants
Don’t tell
But I worked for the sandman
Swallow the stars
And die with the daytime
Day after day
Time after
Times dig out those grinding lower sounds
Pull out the waves
Strip out the insides

A private train out to the center pole
Straight shot (shoot) to the underworld
Half derailed twisted juggernaut
Just one passenger
Hell’s biggest client

My sins and commandments fall away
And each face fills the waiting frames
A broken streetlamp
Cold and convenient
Yes I’ve seen your work
You deviant

Come to me freely
Find a seat next to me
I couldn’t help notice
You’ve never once seen me
Find the escape light
No stop is meaningless
Yes I know what it means
When I press this thing

It’s a tiny slice
Of your experience
Do you really think
That the lonely are ignorant

Helpless
In the shape of the father
The devil’s bell rang
And pulled him under
You left and left me with this
Final achievement
Cursed and unfinished
A young fighter
Alone on an empire
Filled with beauty
And idiots and saviors

(Just) Stop running through my favorites
Take the time to go through the other ones
This context makes me meaningless
Wait here while I find that reel again

Take that and delay our death a while
Stuck dry
True reports that never fail
Call back all the spent humanity
Replay all the years you took from me

Come to me freely
Find a seat next to me
I couldn’t help notice
You’ve never once seen me
Find the escape light
No stop is meaningless
Yes I know what it means
When I press this thing

It’s a tiny slice
Of your experience
Do you really think
That the lonely are ignorant

Climb to the sun soldier
Eat of my flesh master
Suck out my collapsing shell
And refill me

Yes I know what it means
When I press this thing
Finish this one
And close out the bloodline

Don’t tell a soul
But I worked for the sandman

Don’t tell a soul
But I worked for the sandman

Don’t tell a soul
But I worked for the sandman

Don’t tell a soul
But I worked for the sandman

Don’t tell a soul
But I worked for the sandman