1. |
Elle's Wall
05:19
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I come from the Land of Nod,
and I carry the mark of Cain.
East of Eden, I'll find my fortune.
Rare to breed when you're a murderer's son.
I tried.
I lied.
I waited,
waited for her.
She built me
the heart wall.
I waited
for the one to tear it down.
You were like her, from the House of Elle.
You both had power over me.
You saw me as I truly am.
You did not turn in fear of me.
Reaching out,
pulling in,
you consumed me.
Wrapping up,
holding down,
you accepted me then.
You can't stop this
force of nature,
act of God, this
flood, this monsoon
overwhelming,
overtaking
undertow,
this cataclysm
breaking down,
closing up,
turning on,
walling off.
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2. |
Ablution
06:51
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You touched me.
You tricked me.
You pricked me.
Baptise me.
Break your heart.
Build my wall.
You pricked me.
I am unclean.
I must be cleansed.
You tricked me.
You told me lies.
You tricked yourself.
I'd tear your heart out
to find your truth out,
lie in ruin,
cleansed in your blood again.
You're my only friend.
Break my heart again.
Show me how you've grown.
Then go and break your own.
You touched me
with blood-stained hands.
You touched yourself.
You push against me,
the blood between us
a purge for my sins,
a wall for my heart.
Break your heart.
Build my wall.
Lying alone,
cleansed in your blood,
purged of my sins,
I feel so free.
So come on and seal me.
You push against me,
the blood between us
a purge for my sins,
a wall for my heart.
I'd tear your heart out
to find your truth out,
lie in ruin,
cleansed in your blood.
Break your heart, build my wall.
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3. |
What We Were
00:20
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4. |
Thickening
06:45
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Separate us.
This wall inside,
it separates
this new-laid bride
from all she hates.
You were lying so awake that you couldn't feel the pain,
but as your heart broke down and let you down you were terrified.
So you built a wall around yourself and kept your heart in chains
to protect it from all the dangers outside.
So as the wall
thickens and
grows in size,
and as you
just begin
to despise,
you must know
that someday
you will die,
and you know
that someday
so will I.
Who will save?
Who will sigh?
Who will sin?
Who will wax?
Who will wane?
Who will win?
Who will gain?
Who will go?
Who will give?
Who will lie?
Who will lose?
Who will live?
This crushing bride
is torn apart.
This wall inside,
it breaks her heart.
You were lying so awake
your little heart began to break.
You said you felt so dead inside,
that your heart committed suicide.
You lied.
You must know
that someday
you will die,
and you know
that someday
so will I.
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5. |
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Eyes on clock, blinking,
mind over-thinking,
right here, right now,
I can't see how
anything could ever
rip away the tether
you hold on me,
impress upon me
to say it'll be okay.
I know that we all grow
in time. I know that I'm
right here, but right now it's not
clear where I go
in this time flow.
Seas are churning.
I'm still yearning
for my purpose.
I must surface.
Seas will take me.
What can make me see?
Blind.
Giants of science in bowling alleys,
pliant, compliant controlling tallies,
meditate, venerate, fake your Zen clock.
Medicate, vindicate, take your hemlock.
Egg roll and shuizhu and cyanide
extol the virtue of suicide.
Fall in fall, flying my tether tie,
All in all, I think I'd rather die.
Why try? Dreams die.
Lions and tigers in barren white,
clients and gliders in Fahrenheit,
push me and pull you and then we fall,
cushioned by mildew and Demerol.
Vedas, Upanishads, Zend Avesta,
Serax, citalopram, and Lunesta,
play the part, go, and then take the fall.
Break the heart, so I can break the wall.
Please don't fake this.
I can't take this.
Drink my gin slow.
Break my window.
It's not too late.
Clock's stuck on eight.
Take the whole fall.
Break the whole wall.
We all die.
I heard an Angel once said,
"If nothing we do matters,
then all that matters is what we do."
But am I doing this for you?
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6. |
Transfusion
07:35
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Well now, look at you lying there.
I guess I have a choice now.
You're more quiet than usual.
I don't think this suits you at all.
These things I've been wanting to tell you,
they've been building this wall in my heart,
and it's been making it harder to beat.
It's been making it harder to live.
Well? I wish you would say something.
You know I can't make decisions.
Well, this one at least was made for me.
I know I won't get my answers from you.
Don't tell me you don't want to hear
from me now. You can't anyway, so what
does it matter to you if I say
this wall in my heart grows thicker while
you lie still?
Even this can't keep you from lying.
You'd laugh at my pun,
if it weren't mean, and you weren't, you know, dying.
So sleep.
Lie there.
Don't get up on my account.
I'll sit
down here.
Make myself feel at home like I never was with
you before.
You never let me closer than phone's length.
You built this wall.
The least you could do is help me break it down.
I'll hold my tongue
while I hold your hand.
I'll stay this way
until I find I can say what I came to say.
Hey, by the way,
do you remember how you told me you sighed?
And I replied
"Does that mean you're rolling your eyes?"
But you just smiled,
and said "No, what it means is you drive me completely wild."
This...this...
this is my heart's blood pouring out
through this wall.
Well, I guess there must be a crack in it after all.
Dream no walls keep us from Eden now.
Walk freely into the arms of Father at last.
I...
I must just have passed out for a minute or two.
Did anything happen just now?
You look like you're feeling much better to me.
I guess I should be heading home.
Wait, there's just this one last thing.
I want to make sure you know this.
In your veins flows my heart's blood.
And in your head you can hear my heart
beating...
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7. |
Death and the Living
03:37
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To fall in love sight unseen...
To claim to know what love really means...
To be something so different than you seemed...
Who were you?
Who are you?
To leave my heart undone...
To say you'll stay and then run...
To break me and your promises all in one...
Who were you?
Who are you?
Why should it be that the loss of you so pains me
when all we are and all we'll be
is stardust waiting to be free?
Who were you?
Who are you?
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8. |
Is All Well?
09:35
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You were my friend,
but this pain you did not intend
built a wall inside my heart,
and made it hard to start
getting over you
and starting something new.
But all it takes is time
for the watch spring to unwind.
I can follow my father's path,
kill the demons of the
past in my
head. They lie.
They tell me I should be
happy just to see
acceptance in your eyes.
All is not yet well.
And the clock on the wall will tell
that there's hours left in Hell.
You closed your eyes.
We said our goodbyes,
but I couldn't let you go.
My heartbeat ran too slow.
And the pain of this will last
until the hours all tick past.
Purge within.
Cleanse my sin.
Accept we both were wrong.
Learn to get along
without you in my life.
You were someone else's
wife, and now
I'll learn how
to be free,
learn to be
at peace in my mind
with memories less than kind.
I can end this as begun
and in more ways than one.
When the small hand comes around,
and twelve tolls finally sound,
I can say one thing that's true.
I'm not over.
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9. |
Still Ticking...
02:07
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Walls Fell Baltimore, Maryland
Walls Fell is a rock band that creates music organically through the process of creative sonic communication. Chris Eng plays the keyboard. Dan Klein plays the drums. Lowell Silverstein plays the guitar and sings.
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