Band: BREAKING HANDS

Album: CROSS HERE

1. A SHIP WITH NO WAKE

Yea, they were all dead and they don’t even know it yet 

We set sail full steam ahead

You want a credible source well I was there 

They were under my command 

To heed the warning sign and to refuse my call

To fail to carry this out is just like how a coward acts

Back at the dock I held my fate in my hands

Set out twenty two cards  “Here, take one”

With a raised hand the high priest blessed me yet he stood there upside down 

The high seas loosened her belt and went round, round like a carousel     

It turns out that the red in the sky that morning had an appetite

And a face of an enemy that made a silent call for me to turn this ship around

All hands on deck, but there was that sound 

oh how the water cried

Sink or swim, man down, polo

game we played like we’ve never been touched 

by the sea

Yea they were all dead and they don’t even know it yet 

you let the bomb there just tick away

Heavy weight let it go feel the remorse leaving in my wake

To choose between a sick heart or to wear this mark of cain

To face my destiny I keep feeling its call and it’s calling out to us all

All hands on deck, but there’s no going back  

we look more stunned than mad

All I have is a ship that streams

and it goes on with no wake 

and with no wind

but we’re still at hand

2. EARTH MOTHER

Watch it all get blown away like frail reeds by the very same wind that you created

And what carries no weight at all, counts for nothing in this godforsaken state

And that driving hand grabbing at all those desires, but there it is, that other side of the coin 

all insatiable destruction and shattering and swallowing 

of our lives

I would never turn my back on you 

Let’s keep our contradictions to ourselves

And I won’t resent you 

for your tide of love and all the harm it brings

Earth mother we will feed this perpetual fire and feast on our beer and bread 

And we clear out all those old oak homes so we can build better looking buildings here instead 

Earth mother of a thousand names and so many other names that we continue to bestow 

Can I borrow that scarab you use to hold your gown together yea the one you refuse 

to ever let go

I know you so well but there’s that mystery

I can hardly claim to penetrate that 

I’m digging myself in 

but I would never dare to lift the veil you wear

It seems like part of you has to come apart 

in order to shed another hanging tear

Receive another teardrop 

Into this great amber bath of a sea

(play it for me guitarist)

Take a walk where there was once some lush green woods

Making my way up on top of such a barren hill

Looking down upon the still water

And feel the dripping sky above. 

Earth mother receive another drop of this hanging tear

into this amber bath it will grow each year

And I know that you’re gonna tear us apart with your

tide of love and all the harm it brings

So I’ll lay to waste and return next spring 

Then we get to start all over again 

3. SINKING MOON

Sinking moon into the street’s inky black

Out jumps a buffoon

Kisses me and I hear you shout

Fill him up, to the brim 

So worn out, with lips so thin

Wear his guise, a big fat grin

They will drag their feet and roll their eyes 

Heading home to the sound of wolves cries

To find the flames licking up the walls, as it burns away

To drown yourself after taking a death by flame

Only some ashes and a torch that’s left

Take my hand

Let’s walk away

We help ourselves to the brimming banquet hall 

We lose ourselves

Hear the tearing of your dress

Wear it out, reveal some more

It sheds about, head for the door  

When the plates I juggle hit the floor

They all form a ring and roll their eyes

Cast out to the sound of wolves cries 

To pull the rug out from under the foot of where they stand

To die by a fall smothered by their own weight

Holding us back or being led astray 

I’ll take your hand

You said cross here

Fill him up 

At the brimming banquet hall we’ll send you off

Wear it out 

And the shedding of the skin will only reveal some more 

That you’ll wear out.

4. ALL NIGHT PARADE

Loud broken footsteps it’s the way that I walk

You stand up, you stand up for your king, if you don’t you will fall

But now I see him plead on bended knee, without his crown, 

He kinda looks like me

They hand out his clothes they give me his shoes  

I will wear them out. We all sing and shout

Now the beach is lined with savages with the head of the king

The wind has cleared his sinuses 

So now he can sing    

(wind exhales)

Just across the border at a stateside diner 

Someone taps my shoulder and I see a hardcore carnivore 

There was meaning in her bite, it was scrawled on the wall

when I relieved myself, it was written on the back of a stall

I tried get up but the crowd was just standing around

for something they don’t really stand for. I just want to get out

They all hold modern menus so common to us all. 

It doesn’t mean a thing to me, means nothing that’s all

On my way home on my hands and knees. 

I tread the tiger’s tail I step carefully

Opportunity. One day I was scaling the heights and the next 

I was hanging on air. Overdose is a threat. So I signal a flare.

I wander in a basement and see a chair inside a circle of three 

I sit before they talk and let them interrogate me

I talk about some kinda wonderland 

And the look in their eyes reflects me like the back of my hand

Like a flat screen monitor, mimicking the face of a clock 

when it withdraws from sight, I’ll know how much time I’ve got

I might wake before the alarm clocks call

So I rule that we shake hands and crawl past.. 

Burned out bridges with explosive air

Deafening weekend crowds, we learn to step with care 

worn down to the socks, so I left them there 

I’ll need new shoes, I will find a pair