SIDEWAY SPIRAL I

Head over heels in a sideway spiral
on borrowed wings and with senses so idle
high on the hopes ‘fore the chemical wedding
the promised state in the perfect setting
praying to the beat-craving to be real
I’m right (x3),I’m wrong

so he said ‘cause so he’d read
and your delusions are mine instead
convincing smiles will feed the mind
a curse put on those left behind
your wizzard’s out on bail-the perfect trip’s on sale
I’m right (x3),I’m wrong

Spinning ‘round
sideways down
spinning ‘round....

when concentration comes at last
make shure to blame the highest caste
from way out in the skies
that made you realise.....



tuning (L to H): E A D G A D
personnel : see album/box booklet
music: Sæther
words:Ryan


WALKING ON THE WATER	

 Walking on the water 
I saw shadows you’d caressed
filling me with urgency
you promised me the best

but you lied,yes you lied
now I can never trust that feeling
‘cause you lied to me

In glimpses it reveals itself
beyond me every time
you said you’d show me,lead me there
turn water into wine

but you lied.....etc

I see myself as you do now
I’d laugh too if I could
once again the joke’s on me
like I somehow knew it would

 ‘cause you lied.....etc                                         

walking on the water I saw shadows you’d caressed....




tuning (L to H):  D A D G A D  
personnel: see album/box booklet
words: Sæther
music: Sæther


HEARTATTACK MAC

He had a heart-attack,Mac 
they shot him full of smack
he overdosed ‘fore he understood
anything at all

they forgot before long
put their black righteous cloaks back on
they never cared about anything
anything at all (X3)


they called it rat poison suicide
and put his ashes in a jar
without name or number
and no remorse at all

with a mouth full of psychodorm
the herd sticks to their guards
and their factory routine
in anything and all (X3)




tuning(L to H): Snah: E G E E B D    Bent : E G D G B E
personnel: see album/box booklet
words: Ryan with some Sæther- lines
music: Sæther with Gebhardt


PILLS,POWDERS & PASSION PLAYS

(miss Mitchell in the ladies room)

«Hey,I know your face,
I’ve seen you on some TV-show»
then we laugh and bullshit on
it’s a hollow scene with a sickening glow

     but we still tag along 
     with our pills & powders & passion plays
     and we somehow feel relief
     about halfway through the second case

now here comes Judas with his halo on
giving away the secrets of the trade
feeling all alone
filthy rich from the hits that he’s made

and in his bedroom 
hang the posters of the heroes he once had
faded ,yellow, brittle and old
 
I’ll get the Port out 
and I’ll drink to all the hopes that I once had
before I go to bed to dream on....

     but we still tag along.........etc



tuning (L to H): E A D G B E
personnel: see album/box booklet
words:Sæther
music: Sæther


IN THE FAMILY

When all the words just fall across the floor
and daytime is the nighttime of your soul
and you just can’t find the truth behind the facts
and every dream is torn apart and you just can’t seem to act

know it’s running in the family
into the setting sun
it’s running in the family
waving loaded guns

Daddy knew-he left when we were born
put on his hat and walked off into the corm
if this madness doesn’t stop, we’ll lose ourselves for good
the facts or the truth?
he’s gone and noone understood

know it’s running in the family...........etc




tuning (L to H): E A D G B E
personnel: see album/box booklet
words: Sæther
music: Sæther


UN CHIEN  d’ESPACE

Don’t break the illusion
I love you the way I dream of you
I don’t want to know
I’m happily guessing like dreamers do

by keeping me blind,funny valentine,
you show me who I am
and make me like what you see 
when you look at me

if knowledge is secret
I won’t say you shared it and break my oath 
but bridgeing the gap
and drawing some stupid «map» ,may hurt us both

I won’t leave no message,I’ll just shut my mouth
and keep dreaming golden dreams.... 
  



tunings (L to H): Snah: F G# F F C D#      Bent:  C C D# G B C
personnel: see album/box booklet
words:Sæther
music: Sæther with Gebhardt & Ryan


BACK TO SOURCE

The empire never ended
nothing’s really changed
I know the way it must’ve felt
when visions burn,they sometimes melt
and fade away like tracks in snow
when nothing’s left it’s time to go

The empire never ended
nothing’s really changed
I saww the bloodlust disappear
noone really cared
I painted my devils angel blue
and ran around without a clue

Back to Source


tuning (L to H): Snah: E G E E B D     Bent: E E E E B E 
personnel: See album/box booklet
words: Sæther
music Sæther  with Ryan
NOTE: Only on vinyl edition


HAVE SPACESUIT. WILL TRAVEL

Instrumental


tuning (L to H): E A D G B E 
personnel: see album/box booklet
words:Contains random readings from
the book of the same title by R. Henlein
(but don’t tell him 'cause we didn’t ask permission...),
and various other exclamations in the tradition of e.g. «Revolution 9»,
such as «Snah is dead...miss him,miss him,miss him»,»I’m not dead»,
etc,etc,etc 
Lotsa fun.
music: Gebhardt,Ryan & Sæther


SIDEWAY SPIRAL II


see Sideway I for lyrics

tuning (L to H):  D G C G C D    
personnel: see album/box booklet
words: Ryan
music: Sæther with Gebhardt


LIKE ALWAYS


Phrasemaking
wondering and pondering
how things might should go on
not really having fun

endlessly
gazing up the staicase
of tomorrows pros & cons
such overwhelming concience weighing tons

Like always

fly by night
from the glacier smile to hide behind
so precious and so kind

so sincere
no evidence of intelligence
took time to see it through
I had no will,no vision and no clue
 
Like always

growing thinner
with a shiny smile
the world is shrinking
before the Eye....

Falling too
upon the gravel road
the lonely churchyard on the hill
with too much hate to kill

nosebleed
reminding me of snowball wars
we often ran away
and hid untill last rays of the day

Like always


tuning (L to H): E B D# G# B D#
personnel: see album/box booklet
words: Ryan With Sæther
music: Sæther & Ryan


STALEMATE


Living violently lazy days
in a deadlock daze
she asked me if I’d even tried
she said «the open door
is just not there anymore,
and it’s enough to drive me insane

Will you understand?
will you ever know that feeling?
will you stay and fall
 underneath it all?

Believed what you said was true
never really had a clue
all them pretty words just hide the truth»
the more you rage
the more you change
the more it stays the same

Will you understand?
will you ever know that feeling?
will you stay and fall
underneath it all?
 


tuning (L to H): E A D G B E
personnel: see album/box booklet
words: Sæther
music: Sæther


STARMELT / LOVELIGHT


All packed up they left the plains
ready to play things over again
in the crack between day and dawn
trying to light the dusk

and I know why
they stayed and tried
when he named the day
Starmelt!
Lovelight!

and he found a map for the insides
there’s no need to wonder why no more
Sun Sound Pleasure rules the world!

and I know why.........etc



tuning (L to H): E A D G B E
personnel: see album/box booklet
words:Ryan
music: Sæther & Gebhardt


TIMOTHY’S  MONSTER


Interstellar caterpillar
levitate leviathan
We invocate our demon maggot
surf unholy psychopompus
on the sea of tranqillity
the whirlpool of my brainwaves of my mind

«one mans glory is another mans hell
you’re onthe outside,never bound by such a spell
together in the darkness,alone in the light
I took it upon me to be yours ,Timmy
I’ll lead your angels and demons at play tonight......»

climb onboard the mothership
the HQ of original sin
the interstate of evil wicked thought
the aspects of the force below,
will free your mind-they told you so
but Satan comes in many guises......




tuning (L to H): C C D# G B C
personnel: see album/box booklet
words: Sæther & Ryan
music: Sæther with Gebhardt


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