THE WAR PART 2: DAWN CITY

FRONT LINE Dig it murder's suicide alright Suck it stubbornness is pride inside Fuck it breathing nitrogen again Shoot it war's a pathogen my friend I feel patricidal won't you come and slow my world? Here now downright tribal won't you come and slow my world I been laid low I been can't go I been fathomed out Where's my peep hole drenched in trench low is the highest bout I'd surrender or pretend or not to kiss the mud Blood and lice and smoke and lice and dying in the crud goddammit Only oceans fear and oceans beach to desert stretch There's a line around the earth to fucking heave and wretch Every single goddamn walker's fighting in this war Men and women all religions not the rich but poor goddammit I am drenched in pouring rain Maybe I have gone insane Only feeling here is pain Everything I do's in vain Right now I just want to die Take a chance and try to fly Depression has doused my soul I have lost all my control Depression cradle me depression soothe me Solve everything violently Kill 'em all and let 'em be Rock and rolling glory be I am drowning in a see of depression Dave - guitars and vocals Brian - bass, engineering, mixing Sharon - drums Ian - mastering

HELL ON EARTH There ain't no good or evil here Grace has just up and disappeared Everything's too fucking loud Collectively we're a mushroom cloud The ground beneath me creeks and moans The sky above is filled with drones The singularity is worthless This brutality is just senseless The maelstrom sucks dry every lung It doubles down on flares of sun The war city's a battleship Plastics forged from hearts and hips The rich sit back and place their bets This isn't armageddon yet The selfish wants of greed protrudes The moneymaking then ensues As long as this machine does hum Cannibals, daughters and sons It chews them up and spits them out Humanity ain't got no clout The writers write of fogs of war The fighters fight the scorers score Language warps primordial thought Human life is sold and bought Ain't no good and evil here Ain't no good or evil here Dave - guitars and vocals Brian - bass, engineering, mixing Sharon - drums Ian - mastering

ARCTIC WAR I'm in the Arctic War and the Antarctic War The ice is pink and black the sky is brown and grey It's arbitrary, man, who you fight for today It's geographic, man, for that they make you pay For that they make you pay This murder's never stopped since hands picked up a rock It's cities and it's dust it's all downhill from here We blew it when we tried to kick it into gear Philosophy is dead on that we all are clear On that we all are clear FIGHT! The rumblings wake me up with blazing guns and then The sky it opens up and Dawn she blazes fire Through Elvis Presley's face the Czar and Khan retire The mood it lightens up and Dawn douses the fire So Dawn she saved the world Or maybe just my brain Or maybe all of us Or maybe just the pain Dave Linantud - guitar and vocals Brian Lutz - bass, sound engineering, mixing Sharon Santos - drums Ian Burke - mastering

ATOM BOMB Well I feel alright maybe a bit uptight I'm on a transport boat it's like a new remote Got a floating thumb like a number one Half another one loaded half my gun On a factory ship they stole a rather zip Get me out of there where the air to care Less of everything bring the sing ring thing At the quarter mark played without the stark Leave the war behind in effort sublime Of a human skull filled with less than null Here the yells and coughs Feeding at the trough Like an eagle's wings sing the ring thing bring It to newfound lathes baths and crass crash labs Feed me nitrogen pennies current slim From a battle zone smelling like ozone Peace will set me free if I want to be Sing the joys of life na na na na na na Uplift me uplift me tra la la Does anything really ever happen How 'bout them migrants at the door You got the money for the answer You got the money for the floor When I looked around was Atlantis bound Got PTSD got that shit for free It's a genesis it's a catharsis It's a love ornate let's copulate I got a song for you It's heaving like a clue I got to radiate And build my love from hate I broke the atom bomb KABOOM I felt it I felt it give me room I heard the drums a-beating goddamn I heard the march retreating, man Like the towers fall Dawn City enthralled It's an edifice it's an urban myth She's the Atom Bomb she's the right aplomb Boil and salt to taste then repatriate I got a song for you It's heaving like a clue I got to radiate And build my love from hate Within the City's gates I don't ingratiate Or have a trust in fate Dave - vocals and guitars Brian - bass, engineering, mixing Andy - drums, percussion Ian - mastering

BIRTHDAY PARTY Welcome to my birthday party but it hasn't started Until you're gone Violence the pot is brimming We're all just swimming in it's song Why can't you see that this ain't no party I wonder if my heart is showing And if you're knowing who I am I wonder because I can feel you But not see through you if I can My questions ain't small War it kills us all I just want to know what's right that's all That's all People they fill me with questions The world is spinning under me Catch it a thought is drifting I'm sitting sifting come float with me Listen to me and join my party So let's get started Dave - guitar and vocals Brian - bass, engineering, and mixing Andy - drums Ian - mastering

ANOTHER SPOT Right time it's a long time to be waiting But I don't mind Quite fine another time to let go Shrinking 'cause I'm thinking that I'm blinking At reality I got another spot in my soul Seen you in your glory will you sell me For a story You got a b-line to my soul Gift me with your loving or Thrift me from above when I got another spot in my soul Dave - guitars and vocal Brian - bass, engineering, mixing Andy - drums Ian - mastering

IT'S ONLY JUST A GAME Midlife crisis in prescription pills but the buffer never came Fallen swords flown free form faster but they all just sound the same It's only just a game Got no witness call our misdeeds Over by the dawn Catch a glimpse of something better Blink and then it's gone Let the meaning of the words Get scrambled by the dregs Give a sense of meaningless An arm and two new legs It's only just a game I went before the tribune and I stammered my defense Got a playful greeting said the sentence recompense Kiss me twice but fool me never where'd she put the key Get them handcuffs melt 'em down and then Just give them back to me It's only just a game It's more than just a game Dave - guitar and vocal Brian - bass, engineering, mixing Andy - drums Ian - mastering

SHE'S DAWN Here's a story truth be told Of woebegone fortuneless bold And shattered minds on ecstasy Caressing and so endlessly And through the meanings of the pines As underground as concubines A harem made of robot parts Conveyed through trays of structure hearts Grappled over and then some Sucking on my fucking thumb Pleased the barker lies be sought Fissured lives of astronauts And then she said "You're all dismissed." With kisses made from mountain mist She's Dawn she fucking floats in the sky She's Dawn she's always higher than high She's Dawn recycled from a myth She's Dawn a modern sarcophagus As I knelt I felt her scent Fucked her in her covenant Would she bless me with a kiss Or a fateful unnamed bliss Sanctioned by a godless ton As it was it's kind of fun What again was then it ain't Can't remember no complaints Did the anniversary Give a gift of common glee Punctured wounds that bled of silk Fractured by the mother's milk Stranded on a nearby shore Booked tonight forever more chorus Dave - vocals, guitars Brian - bass, engineering, mixing Andy - drums Ian - mastering

PARANOID I'm a paranoid sucker 'cause I know they're out to get me And my fists with a wish for a laid back twist And surviving turned to thriving turned to starving turned to what In an icon fractured clog bogged down when it's found All around a different town or city dwelling yelling nothing At an existential fog or bog or something else entirely Or a laser or a frog toed sloppy domed slow burn Other sucker looser with a punch a bunch of these here Unrehearsed gems floating down again but then again A friend has other needs feed iambic tantric greed Got a surfing webbed foot soot choked smoke it up Smoke it up suck it down don't cough cough cough Been a jealous zealous fool guy why fry wide eyed Sky up below or throw the other one again or then Did I say she was a friend when or then is when again How's now let it go or else it bows so here we go Man she leans and she dips and she drinks and she strips And she swerves and she curves and she knows and she glows But she hears and she nears and she queers and she lears When she lunges and she plunges and she hinges and she plummets As she cries and she lies and she flies and she sighs If she knows and she grows and she slows and she flows If she was or she must or she's just or she's rust When she flips and she dips and she rips and she sips As she kisses and she misses and she hisses and she disses Then she fucks and she sucks and she trucks and she mucks For she screams and she dreams and she beams and she reams And she straps and she naps and she raps and she straps 'Cause she fights and sh's right and she's might and she's night And she's day and she's here and she's far and she's near When the paranoia took me like a volcano it shook me The tsunami was a birthrite and the actress got the words right If it ever didn't happen then I thought it maybe might If there ever was a doubt it wasn't right My soliloquy is broken like a wrestling gimmick My cantankerous mind failed to lure or to mimic Felt betrayed when she stayed and bereft when she left Felt a cringe become a frown and I put that sucker down If there ever was a modern one it never came to me If there ever was another one to see Back it up now you're good cut it hard tap the brake Slake the thirst you're the worst kiss the night Float above the fray Let it go. Dave - guitars, vocals, mandolin, banjo Brian - bass, engineering, mixing Andy - drums and percussion Ian - mastering

RUST I didn't know that the show would not go back to you I didn't know that the lies that were told would come true I didn't think or even care if it all went down in rust I didn't mind if it did but I guess it wasn't just The consequence was begging For a thing that smelled like true And the operator called up And the financing fell through At least we got it demoed and my wife was sick and everybody cried Got laid off a couple times but kept on writing, man, because that's what you do Every path of atmospheric musings keeps me coming back to you The plot holes got dismembered I lost my mind a bit We put it on the podcast Because we worked out the apocalypse Spare you all the details Just trying to write some songs I'd like to keep on adding It just takes so goddamned long Let it rust Dave Linantud - quitars, vocals, harmonica Brian Lutz - bass, engineering, mixing Sharon Santos - drums Ian Burke - mastering

MELTDOWN HEAVY You some punk motherfuckers while you're sitting in your high chairs In your seats that be controlling the world You don't care about the people build your liquor stores and steeples Hold the roughest of the roughest of the pearls The people act as lemmings all distracted and the same is true For all this fucking lying crying blues Distract us from our misery lie to us to keep us busy While you tell us what our thoughts are and our views Manipulated prayed for fellated The dream is a lie and I'm craving a meltdown Lead like a herd mindless retro absurd And the scheme is a pyramid oligarchs abound The rich elite lie to you and they motherfucking use you If you're left well then they make you hate the right And the other way too, punks, it's fucking junk they use the trunks And pack their lies up so they seem like truth and light They keep us all distracted while their riches get impacted By the oligarchal lurching huge machine They twist up information hide the overall stagnation And they make you wonder what it all can mean (chorus) Dave Linantud - guitars and vocals Brian Lutz - bass, engineering, mixing Sharon Santos - drums Ian Burke - mastering