~ COME OUT SWINGING ~
A stranger to conformity
I'll dispense with formalities
for you can simply call me he who will no longer play this game
I see monkeys walk in suits
dispute the small to mask the huge
and Mary was a prostitute, yet leaders knew her name
And this is what they ask of us
that we embrace, the race that leads to dust
Do you want to know their names
so that you have something to curse
(*c) move, get up (x3)
come out swinging
move get up (x2)
move!
early to bed and early to rise
makes a man as boring as hell in my eyes
if I comprimise one more damn time
I think I'm going to die
Do you want to know their names
so that you have something to curse
(*c)
~ FIDDLERS GREEN ~
Didn't you see them coming
shhh, is that them calling?
North forever, live unseen
you're off to Fiddler's Green
Travel on, travel on forever
sail away with no return
God alone, knows of your journey
you've travelled on
to where no voices are heard
The water here is white and pasty
electric air is yours to breathe
far away, you're beyond contact
you've travelled on, to Fidder's Green
Onward, the oceans flow
(deep and lonely)
a sky where horizons grow
(deep and lonely)
(x2)
So deep and lonely
so deep and lonely
One moment we'll see you
but seconds later, no one will
North forever live unseen
You're off to Fiddler's Green
Shhhh no one can help you now, never
North forever
live unseen
You're off to Fiddler's Green
~ EPITAPH 3 ~
*in loving memory(s) of Randy Hickson, Penny Cole, and Mike Dabb
(C) In his misery lies morbid states
often he'd call but not this time
a noose and call to morbid fate
to hang his hurt on touted lines
The issues blur, the causes blend
the reasons blur, then disappear
the broken fences we should mend
we must see what does not appear
it happened as the moon reached its apex
at the feet of dawn or just prior
daybreak was to be pre-empted
with screams, and sirens, and fire
Penny's from heaven, she's praying for rain
as the actor takes to the stage
there are some acts that meet not the face of refrain
and it was in such an act in which our actor was engaged
...And as the gears proceed within the clock
dear friend in tears,
I haven't seen you in years
air reaks with exhaust
he climbs into a box
and confirms the worst of all our fears
(c)
~ TURMOIL ~
(C) This is what you wanted to see
this is what you've created for me
this is how you wanted to hate
crumpled dreams, lost hands of fate
where were you when I needed you the most
were "love" and "commitment" just words for the toast
I keep your love boxed all alone
waiting for you in this empty home (x2)
time washes slow, the mirror breaks, the heart erodes
shards fill my veins, they're cutting me, in endless pains
what have I now, that has not become spoiled
this is my time, it has fallen prey to turmoil
what have I now? When everything I see just wears your face
where can I go? I can not find the things to now replace
the things I've done...my whole life has become spoiled
this is my life, it has fallen prey to turmoil.
(c)
~ COME BOUNCE WITH US ~
*this song is not about violence, nor does any member of this band support
violence, for it is not needed. mass unity in numbers will work just fine.
what if two million people in one state or city all stopped paying speeding
tickets? shall they jail all two million? and if it works for simple traffic
laws, what else can it work for? unify...change can be ours*
Grab the house
from the inside out
swear shout and throw shit about
it is an expensive bout
when rage and doubt come bounding out
now everlasting uncaged
makes a nemesis pout
once frustrated
all thoughts are truncated
to a flat tone, generated
created flaring unabated
glaring anger seeing red
I'll trash the TV, the VCR, and the bed, yo!
Cd's, stereos,
a box of Oreos
if you see me pissed off, well then who knows?
You can stand under my window and watch my stuff
GO DOWN
come bounce with us.
bounce!
Cloning appears to me, possibly, with study
to be the cure to world hunger, extinction, and scarcity
so I wonder why we still seem to be too busy to see
this is still such a problem in the city
your city, the country, still seeing politicians as divinity
and worshipping the deity called stupidity
and tell me please - why do we still pay tickets?
ARE WE TOO DIVIDED TO GET IT? Get this...
you say "no" and another two million of us also say "NO!"
then their cash flow and power goes out the window, along with all my stuff you
saw me throw....DOWN!
come bounce with us...
BOUNCE!
I say it's time we disrupt, the law if corrupt
tell the police to "Shut up!", lets all spread a silver
bed of nails where they sit to nail us so that their cars get stuck
"How fast was I going when your tires went flat?
You can't ticket shit with your car like that
I blew by you like that new bike that you had
way back when you were ten
if you remember way back then
that shit was fast"
And quicker still is my resolve
What will this solve?
If I get everyone pissed off like me?
Then we'll switch to resist mode
instead of ass kiss mode
and throw their shit out our windows DOWN...
COME BOUNCE WITH US!
BOUNCE!
Let's rip their structure down
A sweet cacophonous sound
The Establishment coming down
Their ideals crashing to the ground....
~ BEFORE THE BLEEDING ~
*this song originally was written as a prelude to THE SCARLET RUSH (though
not always played as such live) and is about suicide and the pain of overcoming it.
If you need someone to hate make it me (and if you) x3
'cuz everyone else does, everyone else does
If you need it, come on and take it away
and if you need it come one and take it away
and if you need it, I dare you, come take it away now
cuz everyone else tries
if you need it
if you need it
if you need it
it's here.
~ THE SCARLET RUSH ~
Play the blade upon my wrists
Pray to brave the final slit
Will it flow, will it gush,
as I pacifically smile, on Scarlet Rush?
This is all I think about now
I've got to find a way to do this somehow...
To bleed The Scarlet Rush.
Tears don't fear the coming end
Tears appear, so why pretend?
They don't stop, and they don't cease.
Willpower needs a reason, not one I see.
This is all I think about now,
I've got to find a way to do this somehow... .
To bleed, The Scarlet Rush.
NOTHING NOW (repeated)
~ THE QUICKENING ~
I (Sam I Be) have both a great respect and interest in physics
while possessing absolutley NO ability in the area of study whatsoever
but let me try and convey this....The Theory of The Quickening says that
the reason it seems like time passes faster as one ages is because time itself
is changing. It states that time is V shaped, and that we are now in the
lower part of said V. Therefore, a second is still a second, but a second itself
is FASTER. There is no real way to measure this notion, but is very likely
the way God so layed the map. Think about it, EVERYTHING is faster...mankind
has learned more in the last 100 years than ALL of recorded history COMBINED!
We are heading towards something....fast.(also: for other "techs" like me, this song
is in 7/8. Most of our music is 4/4 (or varient), but by putting THE
QUICKING is 7/8, you "loose" a beat every "2" measures. Get it, The
Quickening is, "quicker" by loosing that beat. Hey, I thought it was
clever anyway.)
The quickening
time accelerates
world is spinning
faster, and faster, but wait....
No time, to not be nostalgic
for what isn't even over yet
cataclism, it is calling
can you tell me where yesterday went?
Yesterday is spent
I can see us now
when prophecy holds true
THE QUICKENING
I can now see me
I can see you,
I can see you too
THE QUICKENING
Feel your pulse accelerate
Run run faster
run run the quickening
run run faster,
run from the quickening
(x2)
RUN!
~ STARING AT THE MOON ~
why must you make me feel
like nothing is real
like the best day of our lives now
shall be, shall be the day that we die
tell me why
please tell me why
Didn't I show my love to you
Didn't I do, all that I can do?
When did I ever leave your side
whenever you called, did I hide
my face, from you
why would you do
this to us
when did I do this to you
tell me softly how the moons looks tonight
distant and bright
and deeply beyond all reach of the light now
(Go to why part)
Look at me, I live for your smile
Distant and bright, and all the while
I'm asking, when did you leave me mind
my soul faints in me
and now I find
that once again
as this travesty happens
I sense laughing
from long lost friends
sorrow looks the same
regardless of the room of the room that it's in
and I spend
far too long just staring at the moon
you make me feel.....(first part)
tell me why (x3)
end
~ PRAISE ALLAH ~
*this song is in no way an attack upon a religion, nor an attack on
any race or creed - but it is an attack upon anyone who hates in
the name of worship*
strong man, with his head covered
strong man
faceless, has a blade in his hand
Chanting, with his head covered
victim
shackled...you're more like pig than a man
you're a stong man, when they can't bite back
when the dogs are muzzled
strong man, hood shrouded black
you're more like a pig than a man
you praise Allah
but you're more like a pig than a man
you priase Allah
still you're more like a pig than a man
torture, with your soul covered
torture
torment, infidel's blood running rich
virgins, waiting uncovered
virgins?
Harlots, we hope that they make you itch
you're a weak man, you're a coward
swine heart pumping swine blood
strong man, you'll never understand
you're more like a pig than a man
you praise Allah, still you're more like a pig than a man
you praise Allah? Oh, you're more like a pig than a man
~ THE RISE ~
This is the rise, the uplift comprised The sullen, sunken
essence that lives in the tears we've cried Purpose, manifest
Perfection, nothing less Dreams of Sheol and souls bereft Father,
Creator (Arum) Why did you create her? But offer me the boundless
skies which loom above this crater My efforts, useless My downfall,
I'll use this Screaming torment on a quest for bliss And I challenge
You to use this This is The Rise RISE! This is where I give up This
is where I have fallen down This is where you live up to the name
to the life to the crown This is where it all starts turning black
for me and everything is an attack to me and I'm falling away
falling away I like the way it all looks from here Maybe we'll
all going to die Maybe we're going to RISE! I like the way that
we RISE! (Repeat verse one)
~ BREAK ME ~
I hate, everything I see I want to watch it all fall down
I want to watch the whole world falling down
(sample)"Ah huh, that’s much better"
Words with no worth squirm like worms from the snake in your mouth
Life is a tragedy, posted on the tablet of me And it's about to
Break me come on come on now Break me is that the best you can do
Break me finish what you started Don't stop until you're through
Each day, is worse than the one before it
I don't know, if I can take anymore of if Ah fuck it,
I didn’t give a shit anyway Break me come on come on now
Break me is that the best you can do Break me finish what you started
Don't stop until your through (solo and end with chorus)
~ AND SO IT RAINS ~
Again (repeated as it flows, always over four),
my eyes seeing/myself being, the one unbelieving.
To doubt oneself is, the calm before the storm.
To trust that doubt is then, the icy rain that pours!
AND SO IT RAINS!(x3)
Beware, beware, beware, beware (flow this too),
tread with no wear, going nowhere, skies once fair: now unfair.
Counting backwards, the storm moves not ahead.
Looking downcast, drown fast, and feel the icy dread!
AND SO IT RAINS (x3) It rains, it rains, (and sing until end)
~ WARNING ~
this song was written while Dustin Lajoi was in the band, and it
was his (brilliant?) idea to write a song where "everyone writes different
parts and we fit all the ideas together." I do not recall if
we chose a key to play in or not, but other than maybe changing that problem
we did as he set out to do. Sam I Be wrote the first part, and the rap vocals.
Dan wrote the middle part with Dustin who wrote most of the music for that section
and the sung vocals at the very first part of part two prior to the rap
I think the third part was Sam I Be's and Dustin's with Arum helping equally on all
parts, but ALL of the sampling from Batman (ok, I gave you that one) was
his idea going into it. Which made us wonder..."Hey Arum, who has Batman
Television samples pre-edited on a laptop just for such an occasion?"Does
anyone reading this find that odd, or just us? He is like Harpo Marx
Here in time and space I'm stifled
Loyally....I'm your deciple
Crashing into me
A reality that you can't see
(Arum)"Can you feel it"
(Sam I Be over Arum)A reunion, skie blue again, life new like when
long before this entity me, who live, moves, and breathes, and shutters to be
for error making, for granted taking monster that I can be...LIFE LIKE BEFORE
GOING BACK! WELL CAN YOU FEEL THAT?
"We've warned you before, We'll warn you again."
~ WIDE OPEN ~
Unhappiness flows like water now
In the spaces where the memories kill
Abandoned lover cries
In the spaces where the awful water spills
Rise only to weep
Fall only to die at her feet
Caravan madness, gypsy mind
the nomadic spirit grounded.
The death song has begun (Arum"ha ha ha")
Bells have sounded.
The brightest sunny, shining day,
still nowhere can I enjoy
The brightest, sunning shining day,
Yet nowhere can I, nowhere can I avoid.
~ THE LIVING ~
I don't trust anyone
and yet I always do
I don't know anyone
I don't know me and I don't know you
I think that happiness
baits everyone with lies!
It always say "tomorrow"
as yesterday goes by
A tiny little stain
to wash it all away
my love colored bleeding
my never ending sobbing
Look at me, its off I go
Why are you waving goodbye
as I was waving hello?
I always pictured life as livable
...is that sin forgivable?
I find that sleep comes easy
If I pretend I'll die.
I often fear that dying
gives me things the living
can't supply.
The dictates of my sorrow
Take me to a warmer place
Where is my Destiny?
It's streaming down my face.
I'm not letting you
Do these silly things that you do
anymore.
We'll alive, lets start living
For what did we stop living for? (x3)
~ NWO ~
This song is written by Ministry, and while we in this band
are all massive fans (thanx again for hanging our in Cleveland, Al and
company...)it is also commonly believed within that Passing Time camp
that ol' Uncle Al must gargle with Draino sometimes before laying down
his vocal tracks. In any event, here is what we think he is saying,
it makes sense, and it is what we are singing live when we cover it. (which for the blood sucking lawyers we only do in BMI and ASCAP paying
clubs, you buzzards!)
If you are reading this and are an American, please look into what The
New World Order is, and please understand why it must be stopped.
I'm in love without a trace of regret
Open fire 'cuz I love it to death
Sky high with a heartache of stone
You'll never see me 'cuz I'm always alone
I'M STRONG!
(wake up - a sample originally)
I'm in love without a trace of decent
I'll buy the torture 'cuz you pay for the rent
Tide high with a broken command
(oh) I'm in love with The Promised Land
I'M STRONG!
(solo - and yeah we added a key change - thanks for noticing)
I'm in love a malicious intent (this might be "the militia's intent)
You've been taken but you don't know it yet
A truer love was never meant to be found
I see destruction through the eyes of a clown
I'M STRONG
( a new world order - sample originally)
~ FORBUSH ~
The music scene as of this writing (3:48 AM on October 15, 2006) in Ohio
is really horrid. Such was not always the case however. Once the scene was
as vibrant as any scene at any time - dare I say even Seattle. Clubs that
played REAL alternative (before it became a catch phrase) and techno/industrial
music were bringing in 500 + people a night on TUESDAY NIGHTS! DJ's were flown
in to clubs from Canton (which is REALLY bad right now) to Cleveland and had
throngs of people attending events and never was life more grand, perhaps
it will birth a book from Sam I Be someday. In any event, there was a DJ who
spun at The Church/Metropolis who was over 50 years old and spinning the most
banging, booming, gabber/hardcore rave in the known universe. Grand Daddy
Techno, sauced to the gills on Vodka and Cranberry juice, screaming
"RAVE YOU MOTHER FUCKERS" into the mic or as sampled on Wanker Records
saying to the crowd, "Yeah, I'm 52, and I'll be raving LONG after you...Retire??
...Shit." Alas, cancer has claimed another great one. Anyway, most of what
Arum and I are yelling in this song are 'Forbush-isms" over hardcore gabber-esque
noise in A Minor. We just make noise at great speed and complexity in his
honor....R.I.P. SCOTT....you are not forgotten....shit.
___________________________________________
Arum - "We must remember (x3) Forbush"
Sam - "When I was a young boy, my Grand Daddy sat me on his knee, and he said to me
...he said - RAVE YOU MOTHERFUCKERS!!!"
Sam - "This is NOT over yet" (common sample used by Prodigy and others, sung
by Sam since Scott used it a lot)
Who knows what else we may yell....just come to the show.
It goes without saying, but here goes....These lyrics are copywritten
(c) and you can not use them without permission from Passing Time as
all songs and lyrics are written by Samuel Di Gangi and Passing Time.
For information on what samples we use from films and what not, you shall
have to email us.