Conrad Keely [...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead]

> We had a mod-fuck jubilee
To celebrate our broken hearts
We carved tombs from the rocks and stones
And transformed them into art
We gave the plot a twist
Blew the past a kiss
Turned it upside down
To quench fiending lips
Freak sons and forgotten ones
Who disappeared before the Flood
Tell-tale signs of our thoughts and minds
Have been encoded into blood
We spun the wheels of the Armageddon
Just to see what it would bring
With blood and rain it will spin again
Let the voice of judgment sing: Mach Schau!

> It was All Saints Day
Wind and rain hit my face
Ripped apart from lack of grace
Now so torn
You never said
All of this would end so strange
Walk to a church across the bridge
Find my shame
Never been the type to confess
It all seemed to waste away
When your double-tongued mouth opens wide
Everybody knows you can't hide forever
November fades
Never could put this mind to rest
Step in the cold and on the mess
Felling scorned
I found myself
Hinting with nothing to give or show
Never gave or cared (a care), until now
Now it's late
Never been the type to confess
It all seemed to waste away
When your double-tongued mouth opened wide
Everybody knows you can't hide forever
Pariah prophet faltering way too much
Crazed crusades got me in a crux
Like a mute without a voice
With a bottle in my hand, make some noise
It was All Saints Day...

Isis, Horus, Ra, Seth
Isis, Horus, Ra, Seth
Isis, Horus, Ra, Seth
Isis, Horus, Anubis

And you will know us by the trail of dead

Random lost souls have asked me
"What's the future of rock 'n' roll?"
I say "I don't know, does it matter?"
This and that scene,
They sound all the same to me
Neither much worse nor much better.

We're so fucked these days
We don't know who to hate or who to praise
Yet we consider this our suffering and pain
When we're so privileged, a fact
We all forget about as
We go whinging all over the place.

How they laughed as we shovelled the ashes
Wrath hath soured
Blood and death, we will pay back the debt
For this candy store of ours.

Look at those cunts on MTV
With their cars, and cribs, and rings and shit
Is that what being a celebrity means?
Look, boys and girls, here's BBC
See corpses, rapes, and amputees
What do you think now of the American dream?

And our soccer moms and dads
Who raised us brats on those TV ads
I know that they sleep at night
Their conscience is intact
They've convinced themselves of that
Giving money to Jesus Fucking H Christ

How they laugh as we shovelled the ashes
Of the twin towers
Blood and death, we will pay back the debt
Of this candy store of ours
Of this candy store of ours
Of this candy store of ours

> Lying on the grass
Afternoon, there's always something happening
Friends go floating gently by
I'm listening to a song inside my head
Although the summer's past
Those mythic dreams would never last
Nor do I care anymore
And if it makes you sad
Remember all the things you have
That can't be bought
Recollection brings me back
Sad to think that it was just a fantasy
We'd already accepted that
Which many others struggled to believe
And though it makes no sense
I know there are no accidents
I've no fear anymore
And if it makes you sad
To give up dreams you've always had
That can't be caught
It just can't be fought.
Looking back at '91
Reflecting on those things we could have
Said and done
The dancing lights across a crowd
Remind us of another town
That's dead and gone
It's just dead and gone
Take me to that summer past
And tell me is it really worth remembering?
I realize that music then
Was really just a song in my head
And though the fun has past
Those mythic dreams would never last
Have no fear anymore
And if it makes you cry
To look ahead well dry your eyes
It can be done
Yes, it can be done.

> How can anyone be so unkind
As to want to take another's piece of mind?
Is acceptance so implausible?
Well I know how the best will fall
And the rest will follow.
It's important to recognize
In this world we live there is nothing worth dying
It's enough to say ""hello"", we're all human
But I know how the best will fall
And the rest will follow
Is it so easy to resign
To ruin this world for everyone?
I guess when it's all said and done
It's just something in our design.
We are all of us so capable of
The greatest acts of hate and the worst acts of love
I wonder sometimes what's the matter with us all
And I know how the best will fall
And the rest will follow...

Eyes at night never see the day

Because it's not in my nature

Golden wings rise from the plane

They burn above the red earth

Scale these walls in front of me

Have you ever stopped to wonder...



Why they forced your voice to turn

From silence to a caterwaul?



Why they forced your voice to turn

From silence to a caterwaul?



Never knew I could feel this way

So old and unremembered

Never thought it would slip away

And fall like September

Scale these walls in front of me

Have you ever stopped to wonder...



Why they forced your voice to turn

From silence to a caterwaul?



Why they forced your voice to turn

From silence to a caterwaul?





I heard your caterwaul...



And what has tried to bound me

I've severed every tie

Place your arms around me

And we'll leave the rest behind



What was I to say?

How was I to know?

Was it your soft voice that said so?



What was I to say?

How was I to know?

Was it your soft voice that said so?



What was I to say?

How was I to know?

Was it your soft voice that said so?



What was I to say?

How was I to know?

Was it your soft voice that said so?

Now that our ties are served
Let us not wonder whether
As we say goodbye
We are ready to take the dive

Grieve, but not grieve together
Let it drag us down, let it fade
Let it dive, let it die, let it fade out of sight
Mourn with nothing to say

Lost as those sweet warm other days
Gone are those times forever

Let it dive, let it die, let it fade out of sight
Let it dive, let it die, let it fade
Let it drag us down, let it come between you and I


Where we born to despair

There will always be something there
Deeds done but not forgiven?
Let it dive, let it die
As long as one of us goes on living

Let it fade out of sight
What's done is done, no reason to apologize
Let it drag us down, let it come between you and I
Let it dive, let it die, let it fade

The curtain thins
Violins announce the score is over
The symphony clears the folded chairs
And walk towards the snack bar
And I forgot what the libretto was all about
At eight o'clock you drop me off
And not a word was spared for us
Drinks at ten, we're off again
The crowds and bouncers stare at us

And the last one out the car fills the meter up



Don't say your name, just dance with me
Oh no, my ride is gone it's time to leave
Then racing for the sink
I shove my head in
And the world looks like heaven
It's all white

> The mime's conceit has conquered over real beauty
Grinning from a mask of hollowed bone
Where a human is somewhere to be found
But where I don't know
And things couldn't be better
From behind the halls we cannot pass
Hear the muffled traces of a boyish laugh
Hear the monster screaming ""What have I become?""
Before his looking-glass
And things couldn't be better
This is one fine life
This is one fine wine
This is one fine wife
This is one fine lie
And things couldn't be better
They are the best

With history, your bluest grace
Falls apart, cascading down
Speak to me of beautiful hate
Of island chains swept with the tide
Tragedy ripening on
The coral leis of a conquering king

They're swept away
Oh, but not lost

Beneath the waves of trembling stars
The road winds towards
The windward side
My soul is saved by these city lights
My face is framed by the blanket of night

They're swept away


Oh, but not lost

Was I too proud to sat, or to wish for
Words that I knew were forbidden?
Because I don't want to know
I didn't want to see what I saw
When I looked in the distance

They're swept away
Oh, but not lost

I had a house on a rock
I turned around and it had gone to rot
All that was left of me were walls of doubt
I asked a question but the world returned with silence
All that I wanted to know is where'd everyone else go?

I had a dad, I had a mom
I had a family, don't know what went wrong
I watched them helpless as their blood turned sour
Wanted to scream for them but had to stand in silence
All that I wanted to know is where'd everyone else go?



I had a band, had a song
I had a vision, where's my vision gone?
I turned inside to find the walls of doubt
My mind was stripped of sound, I had to stand in silence
All that I wanted to know is where'd everyone else go?

Talking 'bout things we've seen
Paris to Oslo seem like dreams
Looking back, was it real?
You know how things sometimes feel
You can run but you can get no further than
Three city blocks from where you began
Caught in a wasted state of mind

Here you come, here you come
Now you're gone
Where will it take me?


Why am I waiting?

Caught in a stasis, feel like I've wasted all this time
With people and places who've never related or desired

I'm a naked sun see right through me,
I'm a naked sun
I have no clouds to conceal me
I have not one
Maybe someday I'll forget
To rise up but it hasn't happened yet
I've got you sunburnt now

In the morning rise up to greet me
And say I'm number one
In the evening cry when I'm leaving
And the day is done
Maybe someday I'll confess
A love once warm gone cold like all the rest
I've got you sunburnt now



I'm a naked sun see right through me
I'm a naked sun
I'm not the moon you thought you left me
So bright have I become
maybe someday I'll accept
Your faults, till then I'll curse the day that we met
I've got you sunburnt now

I'll burn a way out.

Hear the noise back in town
Let's gather everyone
And go see what they're
up to now
Driving in, Driving out
From hotel to the bar
All our friends are here
But somehow we seem so divided

We're the voice crying out
Screaming every song
Not that anyone understands
Diving in, Diving out
the terrified crowd
All our bands are here
But somehow they seem so divided
If you want to see where the fight is
Look around...

I hear the sound of a voice inside my head
Saying things that I can't understand
Telling me a life may soon be dead I wonder from what hand
The words they say are too hard to conceive
I try my best to never listen
Can't you see I'm struggling to conceal
These thoughts from everyone?
It's not that I don't care
And I don't want to hurt you
It's just the worst I fear is coming out
Coming out of me



You know I've heard you say that I'm not real
I know you think that I don't understand
Truth is I'm trying hard to deal
this is not what I had planned
It's not that I don't care
It's not that I don't love you
It's just that I am here
To put you out of your misery

All of you lovers who think you're in love
I'll put you out of your misery
All of your children born under the sky
I'll put you out of your misery
venom that you can't conceive
Is pouring out of the depths of me
You think you're free, you've been deceived
I'll put you out of your misery
You think the future is warm and bright
But it is death and I am your destiny
You think you'll be protected by God
I'll put you out of your misery
I was put down to bring you down and put you out.

Another page of history
Another failed and hopeless year
Of wasted life and wasted time
Long ago you sang a tune
Of running from a painful youth
And now it's dry, you're wondering why

Talk to me, reveal how your life must seem
All the wonderful things that you could never achieve
Now you're out of time, your life is dry, you're wondering why

Remember how it used to be
You were young and love was cheap
And every night was fire and wine
Now you face another year
In a lonely state, in an empty place
Wiping dry your crying eyes
Wipe and dry your crying eyes

Talk to me, reveal how your life has been
All the wonderful things that you could never achieve
Now you're out of time, your life is dry, you're wondering why

I lost the rainbow
Behind that cloud, I lost the rainbow there
It's hard getting over all the rain
It's hard getting older all the same

Wasting away the better part of the day
In the bus on the docks of the UK
We walked down the street on that all Hallows Eve
But couldn't wait to get back to the US of A

The torture of eight days straight
Without sight of your face is so frightening
Hoping to make it straight
Or find signs of a bite that won't fade like poison

In London we played half an hour a day
For a house full of neds who are wanting us dead
In Glasgow and Leeds we find signs of relief
An escape from our grief with a fistful of E's

Eight day hell
You're in an eight day hell

Told a lie about yourself
It felt so good to deceive
To pull the wool over everyone
Tell them whatever they'd believe

You missed the train and now you're gone
To join the faceless everyone
Your a name on a phone list I've crossed off
I've pushed you back to square one

And if I fall then I'll stand back up
Learning how to run is half the fun
Somehow I know that there must be something better
No one's going to have power over me

If there's a sign above the door
That says you have to hang your coat
But your wanting me to pay the doorman with my soul
I think that I will be moving on

Your witches web is hanging over my sleep
My one half lies awake, the other in a dream
Somehow I know that there must be something better
No one's going to have power over me

I remember dessert places
Shadowless and cold
Where heaven looks down
On this empty hole
Levers here to taste the ruins
Dark and obscene
But all I want is you
In my sunken dreams

I remember all the places
I remember when we met
You alone and graceless


Me covered in sweat
We hid among the empty isle
Shuddered 'neath the scene
And your lips reached out
In my sunken dreams

Told a lie about yourself
It felt so good to deceive
To pull the wool over everyone
Tell them whatever they'd believe

You missed the train and now you're gone
To join the faceless everyone
Your a name on a phone list I've crossed off
I've pushed you back to square one

And if I fall then I'll stand back up
Learning how to run is half the fun
Somehow I know that there must be something better
No one's going to have power over me

If there's a sign above the door
That says you have to hang your coat
But your wanting me to pay the doorman with my soul
I think that I will be moving on

Your witches web is hanging over my sleep
My one half lies awake, the other in a dream
Somehow I know that there must be something better
No one's going to have power over me

It was there that I saw you
And it was there that I came
As evening sighs, rises up against the skyline
Let me come and have my leis

You were fair and fey as a sun that evil day
We were bold and life was great
But as time went on I wondered what went wrong
I wondered what became of you

Let me hold you in my arms, dear
And let me melt in the heat of your gaze
And let the clock strike one, time and mind go marching on
Let our sense of self decay

It was there that I saw you
In the heat of a summer's embrace
But as time went on, I wondered what went wrong
I wondered what became, became, became, became, became of you

Are you asleep, are you in a dream?
The copper shades of a morning
Distant lights beckon and fade
Unwritten songs of another day

I fear that you would never be
Every song in the world for me
I took your hand, led you astray
You cursed the worlds I longed to save

Is heaven to you a perfect place?
The look of sorrow on a sufferer's face
A field of lives to sow and to reap
That some of us will never see?

Why is it I don't feel the same?
Are my longings to be blamed
For not seeing heaven like you would see
Why is a song the world for me?

What is forgiveness?
It's just a dream
What is forgiveness?
It's everything

The only sin in this world of pain
In this world of shame
In this world of heartache
The only sin in this world unjust
In this world of lust
In this world distrusting
The only sin in this world corrput
Where passions erupt
And end abrupt
Is a crime
With no great gestures cry
Its eyes, with no great evils shine
Here among all the vicious beasts
With their blood lust feast
Ordained by black priests
Here among poison viper's bite
A police gunfight
In the unknown night
Is a man
With no great master plan
No deadly weapon clutching in his hand
You'll never see the light
In the darkest night
Never see the light
Never see the light
When the boredom comes
If you're one of the boring ones
The only crime in this violent place
With lies two faced
Where loves disgraceful
Crimes committed with sharpened knives
And wasted lives
Of those who are forced
To shove
And murder the peace dove
There is no higher calling from above
You'll never see the light
Quell this appetite
Never see the light
Never see the light
When the boredom comes
When you're one of the boring ones

It is a round about that I can't leave
I circle for decades
Only to find obscurity
My life is haunted by young devilry

I heard your voice
On my radio
Lost into the night

Brutal kids of this promised future
Cut the highways
With shards of truth
I call out to my young and black hearted
Do you believe in what I have seen?

I heard your voice
On my radio
Lost into the night

Do you believe in what I have seen?

Ride the apocalypse
Coming through the city side
Fallen angel no need to hide
All bodies collide and fate decides
Where vengeance hits
Where our love will fit
I can't find your face
I can't see a trace
In a world coming to a close
I'm so damned I can't win
With my heart in my hands again
Take your hurt
A muse of sin
With my heart in my hands again

And this is where it began
Shot through a shattered lens
And there is virtue in lonliness
In vacant lots and florescent malls
In one room coffins and crowded halls
There is nothing to be done
We have lost all control
I walk in the shadows of your tortured realm

I'm so damned
I can't win
With my heart in my hands again
Take your hurt
A muse of sin
Passing glance forgotten
Reason to doubt
So pry your eyes
From a film that never ends
I'm so damned
I can't win
With my heart in my hands again

Ride the apocalypse
Coming through the city side
There is nowhere to hide
Ride the apocalypse
Fallen angel no need to hide

Rolling thunder
Like a voice that commands
Rain drops fall
Like the blood from your hands

Pray to God
But I doubt that he's listening
This world is a gutter
That he likes to piss in tonight

Millions of people
Quietly sleep
Dreaming of deserts
As the puddles grow deep

Dark clouds of rage
Black out the sun
The rivers will run
Red with their blood

No place left dry
No place of shelter for which to run
People huddle in mass
Waiting for the storm to pass
But it's just begun

Millions of people
All of you people
Dream of the sandman
But the sandman has turned to mud

Rain falling down
Is this another great flood?
The rivers are running
Red with our blood

All sewn up
Pull out the seams
Take your call
Your voice is static
Far from my reach
I burn the page
Images are blurred
Am I afraid?

Around my throat
You came so close
To stopping me
Alive in jail, alive and well
I cannot leave
Innocent accident

Find my pulse
Trapped in a locked box
Teeth in a grind
All night amphetamine
Noise to the tape
Comes like a shattered beast
Cast a shade
Your mouth destroys me

Come down dawn in one piece
Come down dawn to find some peace
Driven to shambles on a tip
I never said that I would quit
And the next song takes over

Quickly I said
Because your feet need to hit the floor
And wake your mind up
Because the body needs a little more
And you step out from the porch
Into the street
And the night will have its way with you
And you find a paper on the wall
And see the slogan needs an audience
And you give it a new look
You were trying to take a stab
You try to take a stab
You try to make something happen
And the colors saturate into the walls of the buildings

A defeated deposition
A nexus
A movement to fruition
A middle finger to the institution
A middle finger to the institution
A middle finger to the institution

It's hard to imagine, it's so hard to perceive
To find an expression for what it all means
All panic and struggle, all death and decay
Are coming together in relative ways
This electric guitar hanging to my knees
A couple of verses I can barely breathe
But it's all right, it's o.k.
It's coming together in relative ways

It's o.k. I'm a saint
I forgave your mistakes
It's o.k. I'm a saint
I forgave your mistakes

It's started to happen, it's started to change
With the movement up on us, hope we make it o.k.
If it takes a life or a couple of days
It's coming together in relative ways
This electric guitar hanging to my knees
A couple of verses I can barely breathe
But it's all right, it's o.k.
It's coming together in relative ways

It's o.k. I'm a saint
I forgave your mistakes
It's o.k. I'm a saint
I forgave your mistakes
It's o.k. I'm a saint
I forgave your mistakes
It's o.k. I'm a saint
I forgave your mistakes

> We had a mod-fuck jubilee
To celebrate our broken hearts
We carved tombs from the rocks and stones
And transformed them into art
We gave the plot a twist
Blew the past a kiss
Turned it upside down
To quench fiending lips
Freak sons and forgotten ones
Who disappeared before the Flood
Tell-tale signs of our thoughts and minds
Have been encoded into blood
We spun the wheels of the Armageddon
Just to see what it would bring
With blood and rain it will spin again
Let the voice of judgment sing: Mach Schau!

It was All Saints Day
Wind and rain hit my face
Ripped apart from lack of grace
Now so torn

You never said
All of this would end so strange
Walk to a church across the bridge
Find my shame

Never been the type to confess
It all seemed to waste away
When your double-tongued mouth opens wide
Everybody knows you can't hide forever

November fades
Never could put this mind to rest
Step in the cold and on the mess
Feeling scorned

I found myself
Hinting with nothing to give or show
Never gave a care until now
Now it's late

Never been the type to confess
It all seemed to waste away
When your double-tongued mouth opened wide
Everybody knows you can't hide forever

Pariah prophet faltering way too much
Crazed crusades got me in a crux
Like a mute without a voice
With a bottle in my hand, make some noise

It was All Saints Day...



Crowning of a Heart

Crowning of a heart, textures and shades
A bitter London night on the motorway
You looked so divine, back in the seat
Wicked desires ablaze in me

Back inside the house, into the room
Watching as the lights slowly fade from view
Couldn't even talk, what could you say?
Every thought just racing away

Crowning of a heart, textures and shades
Crescents in her eyes as we gaze away

Crowning of a heart, textures and shades
A bitter London night on the motorway
You looked so divine, back in the seat
Wicked desires ablaze in me

Back inside the house, into the room
Watching as the lights slowly fade from view
Couldn't even talk, what could you say?
Every thought just racing away.

Counting off the days
How could I be so afraid?
Feeling nearer my gloom
So much nearer without you
I've been on the run
From the dirt you talk about everyone
So much nearer my gloom
That much nearer without you
And it's so hard to starve
Yes it's so hard to starve

Eyes obscured, by those bangs
Sun is shielded, by your shades
Kick it on the corner
Leather coat and safety pins
You got some ? news
And you smoke your ? cools
And it's 1977

You were rocking out of town
Will last night ring in your ears?
(With last night ringing in your ears)
Kids are hopped up now
They are ready to go

In this burned out, shell of a place
Eveyone, everybody, hustles around
They were looking for that faraway/fiery court
To make this troubled sound

You were rocking out of town
Will last night ring in your ears?
(With last night ringing in your ears)
Kids are hopped up now
They are ready to go

You said they'd hate you first
But now they're coming 'round
You said you were a curse
But now your look has changed.

It's hard to imagine, it's so hard to perceive
To find an expression for what it all means
All panic and struggle, all death and decay
Are coming together in relative ways
This electric guitar hanging to my knees
A couple of verses I can barely breathe
But it's all right, it's o.k.
It's coming together in relative ways

It's o.k. I'm a saint
I forgave your mistakes
It's o.k. I'm a saint
I forgave your mistakes

It's started to happen, it's started to change
With the movement up on us, hope we make it o.k.
If it takes a life or a couple of days
It's coming together in relative ways
This electric guitar hanging to my knees
A couple of verses I can barely breathe
But it's all right, it's o.k.
It's coming together in relative ways

It's o.k. I'm a saint
I forgave your mistakes
It's o.k. I'm a saint
I forgave your mistakes
It's o.k. I'm a saint
I forgave your mistakes
It's o.k. I'm a saint
I forgave your mistakes

It is a round about that I can't leave
I circle for decades
Only to find obscurity
My life is haunted by young devilry

I heard your voice
On my radio
Lost into the night

Brutal kids of this promised future
Cut the highways
With shards of truth
I call out to my young and black hearted
Do you believe in what I have seen?

I heard your voice
On my radio
Lost into the night

Do you believe in what I have seen?

You wanna fight?
You wanna scream?
Knowing this is all a dream
Because all you see is blood

You're in fear
You're in denial
You better take care
Because all you see is blood rites

You look into the mirror
Then you step into the mirror
Then you falling through the mirror
All is blind
It's blinding your life

This fear is going after me
So bright I can barely see
Is this all just in my head
I look around and see that
Everything is turning red

You wanna fight?
You wanna scream?
Knowing this is all a dream
Because all you see is blood