Guardian
Album • 1997
Welcome, dear listener Are you comfortable? Put your feet up, close your eyes Let your senses dull Float like a beach ball Wearing cordless phones Let the tide take you groove To the mellow tones Groovy Who switched the intro? Ah, but I digress Do you ever get that feeling You're not so fresh? Do you hang out nights at the launderette Dreaming of the cure for stubborn stains? Wanna climb into the big machine? Wonder how it feels getting really clean? I know you know more than What you're coming clean for God is skin on mohair Just admit you itch there Shift to the left, shift to the right Fidget, lock knees, cough cough, fidget Don't scratch, don't break out in a sweat Are we feeling comfortable yet? I know you know more than What you're coming clean for God is skin on mohair Just admit you itch there Ever sweat bullets At the sight of blood? Ever drag a half ton cross Through spit and mud? Wouldn't want to plan too far ahead Wouldn't want to dwell on what's beyond Pondering death is a dirty biz Makes you wonder when your appointment is Shift to the left, shift to the right Fidget, lock knees, cough cough, fidget Don't scratch, don't break out in a sweat Are we feeling comfortable yet? Loosen your tie, loosen your belt Clear your throat, fidget, cough cough, fidget Don't scratch, don't break out in a sweat Are we feeling comfortable yet? Fidget to the left, fidget to the right Lock knees, fidget, cough cough, fidget Don't scratch, don't break out in a sweat Are we feeling comfortable yet? ECCLESIASTES 7:2 - HEBREWS 10:22 - PSALMS 51:7
Submitted by MetalElf — Apr 26, 2025
Telling folks to stay inside You've got light investigators Pulling shades and terrified You've got powers of the darkness Blowing smoke to dim the sky Your psychics look a little anxious Anybody out there wonder why? I've got a bottle rocket I've got a bottle rocket I've got a bottle rocket Got a little light to testify No power's gonna block it No darkness gonna stop it I've got a bottle rocket Gonna let it fly Let it fly You've got experts on retainer Bracing for the next attack You've got allies dimming lights From Hollywood to Doctor Jack You enact a good news blackout Think you've got us on the run? Well read the book of Acts and weep The light of Jesus can't be overcome I've got a bottle rocket I've got a bottle rocket I've got a bottle rocket Got a little light to testify No power's gonna block it No darkness gonna stop it I've got a bottle rocket Gonna let it fly Let it fly Light isn't light when it's found Bottle bound EPHESIANS 5:8 - MATTHEW 5:16 - JOHN 8:123
Submitted by Lake of Tears — Apr 26, 2025
Each night the dream began We were sitting here waiting on our coffee cans Eyes fixed upon the skies I was thinking of you and if I qualified Then when the trumpet blew The reality hit, this wasn't pay-per-view My can lifted up and out Until a siren wailed and a megaphone shouted Pull that bucket over Let me see your registration You'll be questioned at the station by a good cop/bad cop If they find you guilty They'll impound your can in Hades Where the grounded lads and ladies had it good 'til the last drop I watched the others fly On their coffee cans as they waved goodbye Freed from the earthy grind They had escaped the roast, I'd been identified Dream police nowhere to be found I was left here choking on the muddy grounds I calmed down and reached for my Pez But the head on the dispenser was Juan Valdez Pull that bucket over Let me see your registration You'll be questioned at the station by a good cop/bad cop If they find you guilty They'll impound your can in Hades Where the grounded lads and ladies had it good 'til the last drop Tossing in my sleepa gain The metaphor was wearing thin Until my nightmare stretched it even more Lord, you placed the bitter cup Against your lips and drank it up To bring me where you are I can't believe I've wandered off this far Woke up and smelled the coffee I don't like what caffeine does to me God's got a pull I've felt first hand I've gotta stop believing in my coffee can Pull that bucket over Let me see your registration You'll be questioned at the station by a good cop/bad cop If they find you guilty They'll impound your can in Hades Where the grounded lads and ladies had it good 'til the last drop Bad dream, but I understand That you can't get to Heaven on a coffee can 1 CORINTHIANS 1:8 - PSALMS 27:1 - HEBREWS 12:2
Submitted by VladTheImpaler666 — Apr 26, 2025
I've been up I've been down But everything is just fine, fine, fine, fine, fine It's true Tougher skin? Guess again But not because I don't try, try, try, try I always do And I don't want nobody telling me I'm nobody I've got a revelation I'm a new creation, baby The world can't bring me down You think what? Why the rut? 'Cause if you're towing the line, line, line Those days are through You know it says it right here, right here Take a good look at this Intent No, you're no accident Why let life get you confused? Don't let anybody tell you you're nobody I've got a revelation You're a new creation, baby The world can't bring you down I've got a revelation You've been elevated, baby The world can't bring you down Big screen tells ya, "You gotta look this way You got no beauty beyond what you display" But don't they get it? It's what's inside you So take your place And don't ever hide your face All those fashion victims seem so aggravated Going with the flow is very overrated I've got a revelation You're a new creation, baby The world can't bring you down I've got a revelation You've been elevated, baby The world can't bring you down 2 CORINTHIANS 5:17- ROMANS 6:4 - 1 PETER 1:3-4
Submitted by NecroLord — Apr 26, 2025
stood up You stayed in your chair You didn't get it You even looked put out But I had no doubt You'd see the change and someday do the same That was quite awhile ago The days are getting shorter They're expecting record lows If you could hear me pray tonight Would you be angry or surprised To hear your name announced Followed by a pause or even tears Like I've done for all these years The days are getting shorter I suspect it's gonna snow What does it take to make you see The love inside of me? What does it take to make you see The truth that I believe? What does it take to make you see The pain it's causing me? Why can't you see? The days are getting shorter But I won't surrender hope What does it take to make you see The love inside of me? What does it take to make you see The truth that I believe? Is there a stone I've left unturned? Is there a way I've not explored? What does it take to shake your world? To turn you to my Lord? ISAIAH 53:12 - ROMANS 8:28 - PHILLIPIANS 4:4-7
Submitted by Warbringer — Apr 26, 2025
What was that crack I made? Swung a hammer wrapped in suede Like a lick from a lunatic beatnick Knock you senseless as I babble on I strike between the lines Hissing words in serpentine Backbiter with an appetite Coil and rattle, then I babble on Every time I add a line I wish I could subrtract Too late to take it back Conversations in veneer Sand 'em down, they're insincere Off guard, better check the cue card Got ghostwriters for my babble on So I communicate Intending to humiliate On attack with a cardiac comeback You take shelter, I take babble on Every time I add a line I wish I could subtract Too late to take it back And if talk is cheap, the price is high When I let another arrow fly Better to be seen and never heard Than to babble on with every word What was that crack I made? File a claim with medicaid All my rumors spread like tumors Tale and tattle, rant and rattle on Ugly as the sin it is Sold out to the slander biz Gotta keep the tongue in line Even fools seem wiser off the babble on Every time I add a line I wish I could subtract Too late to take it back And if talk is cheap, the price is high When I let another arrow fly Better to be seen and never heard Than to babble on with every word And if talk is cheap then why the thrill In an idle tongue that fires at will? Better to be silent and be strong Than to let my babble babble on Than to let my babble babble on Than to babble on JAMES 3:5-6 -PROVERBS 12:18 -PROVERBS 17:28
Submitted by Sexy Gargoyle — Apr 26, 2025
Forty day tear Got roadwear No-doz braking Breaking Breaker Caffeine shakes Can't feel my legs Three quarters dead Motel ahead Just give me table and a shingle shed Just give me cable and a single bed Have a ray gun Sleep tight, son Desk man's got a face like Norman Bates Don't let it outta the box Yeah the blue light is good Yeah the blue light is great Gotta pile it on your blue light special plate If you shovel it in They can vacuum you out Gonna take you on a junket that you never dreamed about Unwinding Snowblinding Got a mindset Pushing Pushing New deal for New masses Grey matter Into ashes Psych line Tone your belly Hair elixir Royal jelly Shark attack Legal weasel Dial a honey Drive a diesel Slash film Sunday Buy the set QV shop Shovel debt Funny funny Like a fool and his money money Don't let it outta the box Yeah the blue light is good Yeah the blue light is great Gotta pile it on your blue light special plate If you shovel it in They can vacuum you out Gonna take you on a junket that you never dreamed about Woke up in bed with a pounding head Cheetos, visine Some vending machine Tube's playing taps, I ain't takin' the hook Next time I get that tired Gonna read me a book I CORINTHIANS 10:23 - ROMANS 12:1-2 - 2 PETER 1:3-9
Submitted by SerpentEve — Apr 26, 2025
Bought me a bargain basement laboratory With a rack and a humpback elf Then I sewed together all the glory I'd collected To immortalize my good self Thought I'd build me a better Frankenstein But the monster turned on me No slobbering torchlit pitchfork mob Could ever kill this vanity Lord, you made every part of me I'm ready Break me down Won't you break me down Made me a really monumental monument I set each shiny brick And I grew so high a jet flew by And the fumes sort of made me sick If my Father shaped the universe Then why do I still insist On playing god when I'm a fraud I'm a certified narcissist You fashioned every part of me I'm ready Break me down Break me down Do what you do to me I know you see through me Break me down ECCLESIASTES 1:2 -PROVERBS 8:13 - PROVERBS 11:2
Submitted by Dahmers Fridge — Apr 26, 2025
You know he's somewhere But you don't know if he cares About the way you live So you throw him up a prayer You hope he hears you But the odds are even split That when he answers You'll be ready to commit You've got a hobby and you play it every Sunday A little fire insurance keeps you coming back for more Nice man in the suit says you should live it every weekday You forgot by Monday Who knows, maybe someday You know he's somewhere But you don't know if he cares About the way you live So you throw him up a prayer You hope he hears you But the odds are even split That when he answers You'll be ready to commit Afraid to tell your friends You know what they'd be saying "Lost another buddy to the Jesus Lover's Club We knew him when he used to hurl at all our parties" Factory liquidation What a reputation You know he's somewhere But you don't know if he cares About the way you live So you throw him up a prayer You hope he hears you But the odds are even split That when he answers You'll be ready to commit One foot in the ocean and the sand is getting hotter Do you need a "JUMP" sign? Come on in, the water's fine You know he's somewhere But the odds are even split That when he answers You'll be ready to commit REVELATION 3:16 - 2 CHRONICLES 16:9 1 KINGS 8:61
Submitted by Pestilence — Apr 26, 2025
Esther called me today She's a bona fide star Said I spoke to a friend Who wants to know how you are With a shake in her voice She said, "I'm doing ok." With a shake in her voice She said, "I can't live this way." She doesn't know why She wants to laugh but still she cries Still she cries Spoke to Esther today She said it's hard to play queen Though she fought it at first This pain's become her routine And she wants to believe But the image won't play And she wants to believe But that's a long time away Kingdoms collide As she tries to rule the world inside She starts to cry Take that crown off my Queen Esther It's too much for anyone to bear Don't hide your face Queen Esther My King says he'll meet you anywhere He says it's ok He knows your pain He says it's ok He'll show you the way He'll take your pain He'll show you the way Esther called me today She's a bona fide star Said I spoke to a friend Who wants to know how you are PSALM 105:4 - JAMES 4:7-8 JOHN 3:16
Submitted by Dahmers Fridge — Apr 26, 2025
Checking out channels In for the night I catch sight of a starving innocent Her eyes are swollen shut from neglect I wonder, is it mine? Channeling on I keep coming back My stomach's twisted watching her cry Whose arms will hold her when she dies? I know they won't be mine Can't take much of that Don't wanna see that, man Don't gimme none of that No no no I was all alone A stranger in this place And you turned away What you've done with these You have done to me Now there's hell to pay Righteous anger's boiling my blood But who's to blame for this child's lack? Some ethnic war? Some crack maniac? I wonder, is it me? Hold on Pizza man's at the door I'm scrounging change, but who could forget That poor abandoned innocent You can bet her life it's me Can't take much of that Don't wanna see that, man Don't gimme none of that No no no I was all alone A stranger in this place And you turned away What you've done with these You have done to me Now there's hell to pay Can't take much of that Don't wanna see that, man Don't gimme none of that No no no I was all alone A stranger in this place And you turned away What you've done with these You have done to me Now there's hell to pay What you've done with these You have done to me Do you even care? What you've done with these You have done to me Will you leave it there? JAMES 1:27 - MATTHEW 25:31-46 - MATTHEW 19:21
Submitted by Grave666 — Apr 26, 2025
REAL ACTION- GIMME ONE GIMME- A REAL WHO'S WHO- GIMME TWO, GIMME- REAL ENVY- GIMME THREE. GIMME- BID AND SEE- GIMME FOUR, GIMME- DO I HEAR MORE? D-DO I HEAR MORE? DO I HEAR MORE? D-DO I HEAR MORE? I INSPECT- GIMME FIVE, GIMME- I ACQUIRE- GIMME NINE GIMME- I MONOGRAM- GIMME TEN-GIMME- THEREFORE I AM- GIMME GIMME- DO I HEAR MORE? D-DO I HEAR MORE? DO I HEAR MORE? D-DO I HEAR MORE? POWER SHOPPING-POWER TO THE GAVEL- SOON YOUR PURCHASE POWER WILL UNRAVEL- FEAR THE AUCTIONEER- FEAR THE AUCTIONEER- DO I HEAR MORE? D-DO I HEAR MORE? D-DO I HEAR MORE? D-DO I HEAR MORE?- CAUGHT RED-HANDED- GIMME NINE GIMME- IN THE ACT- GIMME TEN GIMME- GAVEL'S DROPPIN'- ANYMORE? ANY- CANT RETRACT- ANYMORE? ANY- SOLD TO THE MAN-SOLD TO THE MAN- SOLD TO THE MAN-SOLD TO THE MAN- SHOPPER BEWARE- GIMME ONE GIMME- BEFORE YOU BUY- GIMME TWO, GIMME- CHECK YOUR MOTIVE- GIMME FOUR-GIMME- LUST IS IN THE EYE- GIMME GIMME GIMME- DO I HEAR MORE? D-DO I HEAR MORE? DO I HEAR MORE? D-DO I HEAR MORE? DROP THE PRETENSE-PUT DOWN THE CHECKBOOK- BUDDY, YOU JUST GOT HIT WITH THE "SOLD" LOOK- FEAR THE AUCTIONEER- FEAR THE AUCTIONEER - NO TELLING HOW FAR YOU'LL GO FEAR THE AUCTIONEER - LUKE 16:13 - PROVERBS 11:28 - I JOHN 2:16-17
Submitted by VladTheImpaler666 — Apr 26, 2025
MYSTERY GIRL RUNS AWAY - TO A HARLOT CITY'S HARD EMBRACE - SEEKING WHAT'S BEEN ADVERTISED - ALL THE LIFE THAT'S BEEN DENIED- A FEVER BURNS IN EVERY JOINT- A PLEA IN EVERY NEEDLEPOINT- COMMUNION - CAN YOU HAVE A PERFECT LOVER WITHOUT UNDERSTANDING LOVE? CAN YOU SEE A BRIGHTER FUTURE WITHOUT SEEKING WHAT YOU HIDE? AND I UNDERSTAND THAT SIMPLE TRUTH IS DEEPER THAN IS WIDE - STILL I KNOW- SOMETIMES ITS HARDER THAN IT SEEMS- SOMETIMES ITS HARDER THAN IT SEEMS- MYSTERY GIRL WALKS ALONE- THROUGH THE DOORS A HUNDRED OFFERINGS MADE - HEAR THE ECHO, TOUCH THE WOOD - AS A DEEPER LONGING LONGS FOR GOOD - AND AS THE CANDLE LEAVES YOUR HAND - FEEL THE WARMTH AND UNDERSTAND - COMMUNION - CAN YOU HAVE A PERFECT LOVER WITHOUT UNDERSTANDING LOVE? CAN YOU SEE A BRIGHTER FUTURE WITHOUT SEEKING WHAT YOU HIDE? AND I UNDERSTAND THAT SIMPLE TRUTH IS DEEPER THAN IS WIDE- STILL I KNOW- SOMETIMES IT HARDER THAN IT SEEMS- SOMETIMES IT'S HARDER THAN IT SEEMS- AND YOU'RE WANTING TO BELIEVE- SOMETIMES IT'S HARDER THAN IT SEEMS - SHAME IS LIKE A BLISTER EVERY STEP WILL MAKE IT WORSE - AND THE VESSELS OF YOUR GREAT ESCAPE HAVE ALL BUT DISAPPEARED - AND YOU HEAR THE SAVIOR CALL YOU TO A LIFE BEYOND YOUR MEANS AND I KNOW EVEN A SIMPLE FAITH IS HARDER THAN IT SEEMS- IT SEEMS- CAN YOU HAVE A PERFECT LOVER WITHOUT UNDERSTANDING LOVE? CAN YOU SEE A BRIGHTER FUTURE WITHOUT SEEKING WHAT YOU HIDE? AND I UNDERSTAND THAT SIMPLE TRUTH IS DEEPER THAN IS WIDE- STILL I KNOW SOMETIMES IT'S HARDER THAN IT SEEMS- SOMETIMES IT'S HARDER THAN IT SEEMS- AND YOU'RE WANTING TO BELIEVE - SOMETIMES IT'S HARDER THAN IT SEEMS - PROVERBS 3:5-7 - MARK 12:30 - PSALMS 139:7-18
Submitted by VladTheImpaler666 — Apr 26, 2025
LITTLE TESTS, LITTLE LAB-SPUN THEORIES - BACKSEAT SCHOLARS WHO LOVE TO DRIVE- LITTLE HEADS NEVER STOP TO WONDER- IS GOD ALIVE? LITTLE TRUTHS ON A ROLLER COASTER- HOLD ON TIGHT FOR THE NEXT BIG DIVE- EVERY STRAIGHT AND NARROW TWISTED- IS GOD ALIVE? YOU ARE THE ONE WHO GIVES ME EVERYTHING MY SOUL DESIRES - ALL I DESIRE IS THE PERFECT WORK YOU'VE DONE - SALVATION - SALVATION - SALVATION IS GOD ALIVE? OH YEAH LITTLE MAN OUTSIDE THE GARDEN- LITTLE MANMADE APPETITES - LITTLE MAN GONNA CLIMB TO HEAVEN IS GOD ALIVE? LITTLE GODS WANT TO RULE THE WORLD NOW- LITTLE WORKS MAKE 'EM FEEL SO WISE- COUNTERFEIT WISDOM BEGS THE QUESTION- IS GOD ALIVE? YOU ARE THE ONE WHO GIVES ME EVERYTHING MY SOUL DESIRES- ALL I DESIRE IS THE PERFECT WORK YOU'VE DONE SALVATION - SALVATION - SALVATION - IS GOD ALIVE? OH YEAH FRAIL MAN, BROKEN MAN, DO WE KNOW YOU? PASSION PLAY ON A LONELY HILL- YOU'RE GOD THEN COME OFF THAT CROSS NOW- IS GOD ALIVE? EVEN DEATH COULDN'T HOLD THE CHOSEN - SHOOK THREE NAILS AND A TON OF STONE - IF YOU'RE LOOKING FOR THE ANSWER, LOOK NO FURTHER IT'S GOD ALONE- YOU ARE THE ONE WHO GIVES ME-EVERYTHING MY SOUL DESIRES- ALL I DESIRE IS - THE PERFECT WORK YOU'VE DONE - SALVATION - IS GOD ALIVE? OH YEAH - I CORINTHIANS 10:23 - ROMANS 1:22-23 - ACTS 4:10-12
Submitted by Cyberwaste — Apr 26, 2025
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