Lyrics:

It doesn’t even feel like a tiny twinge now does it
It doesn’t even feel like pins and needles does it
Can’t feel the hype when you’ve dumped the verve
Can’t feel at all when you’ve cut the nerves
It doesn’t even feel like a hypodermic does it

It doesn’t even feel like you’re missing out much does it
It doesn’t even feel like you cut the cord now does it
Can’t use a tool when it rusts itself
Can’t buy a toy when it’s off the shelf
It doesn’t even feel like you’re on your own now does it

Because you’re numb
Because you’ve got calloused hands
Because you’re so goddamned tough
That you pushed right through
And never knew you crossed the line
Because you’re numb
Just like me

It doesn’t even feel like a bit of shell shock does it
It doesn’t even feel like a bursting blast wave does it
Can’t feel your feet when you’re in the air
Can’t feel the wind when you’ve burned your hair
It doesn’t even feel like you lit the bomb now does it

Because you’re numb
Because you’ve got calloused hands
Because you’re so goddamned tough
That you pushed right through
And never knew you crossed the line
Because you’re numb
Just like me

Face to the mirror what do I see
You staring back at me
Nothing compares to the lies we seek
Chained to the rocks thinking that we’re free

ASCAP / Copyright 2024 Christopher Couch

Numb

Lyrics:

How can you be so close to me
Yet be a world removed
I reach out to touch your hand
And feel it pass right through 
Like the Holy Ghost

The love that you put out 
Is supposed to come back

It’s not supposed to be this hard
Teach me the sacred dance
Do I lead off or do you reach out
How’s it supposed to go
Our secret sacrament

The love that you put out 
Is supposed to come back

I just need to taste your soul
To burn inside your fire 
I’m trying hard to breathe you in 
But tonight, it feels like 
Speaking to the darkness

My voice it echoes in a cave
Asking, What is Grace?
Does it rush by like a wind
Or physically embrace
Don’t wanna miss it

The love that you put out 
Is supposed to come back

I just need to taste your soul
To burn inside your fire 
I’m trying hard to breathe you in 
But tonight, it feels like

I just need to taste your soul
I’m trying hard to breathe you in 

I just need to taste your soul
To burn inside your fire 
I’m trying hard to breathe you in 
But tonight, it feels like
Speaking to the darkness

The love you put out 
Is supposed to come back

ASCAP / Copyright 2024 Christopher Couch

Darkness

Lyrics:

I jet around, a rockstar in my mind
Vapor trails streaming out behind
The loves, the hates, they coalesce
Concrete from the sky
Rain down, piling up

Another stone, the weight grows large and then
Gravity bends and pulls me in
Magnificently desolate
Grey as moonlit skin
Shining down, piling up

Look at all my pretty rocks
Don’t I get an hallelujah?
Like trophies they’re all piling up
Can I get an hallelujah?

I raise my hands like a Roman god
False triumph on rubble-covered sod
The Gothic spear strikes to the bone
When all the sacking’s done
Cut me down, piling up

Look at all my pretty rocks
Don’t I get an hallelujah?
Like trophies they’re all piling up
Can I get an hallelujah?

I'm headed for a whiteout in my head
The static blows frigid through my hair
Up is down and in is out
I think I’ve lost the trail to the magic

Look at all my pretty rocks
Don’t I get an hallelujah?
Like trophies they’re all piling up
Can I get an hallelujah?

Hallelujah and an Amen
Just another and an Amen

ASCAP / Copyright 2024 Christopher Couch

Piling Up

Lyrics:

When you don’t believe in you
And your flesh is torn in two
You can call my name and I’ll be by your side
And my faith has wings for both of us to fly

It’s faith enough for two
It’s faith enough for two

When you don’t believe in us
And we’ve burned your world to dust
You can rage at me and scream out to the sky
And my faith has wings for both of us to fly

It’s faith enough for two
It’s faith enough for two

When you don’t believe in light
And your soul has lost its sight
You can hold my hand and I’ll kneel at your side
And my faith has wings for both of us to fly

It’s faith enough for two
It’s faith enough for two

When you don’t believe in life
And you feel drawn to the night
I will be your shoreline in the rising tide
And my faith has wings for both of us to fly

Is faith enough for two?
Is faith enough for two?

ASCAP / Copyright 2024 Christopher Couch

For Two

Lyrics:

First the air raid overhead
Firebombs paint the night sky red
I should have heard the warning
I should have heard the sirens
Heat sucks life from out the room
Burning flesh, a fiery doom
I should have heard the warning
I should have heard the sirens

I look through the flaming door
Head down, run, and close my eyes

It’s a tall order to love right
To shun the hate
And embrace the light
It’s a tall order
It’s a tall order (yes, Sir!)
Incoming fire rains down all night
How can we survive 'til the morning light
It’s a tall order
It’s a tall order (yes, Sir!)
When you’re going through hell
You gotta just keep on moving on

Through the crashing surf we run
Onto the beach, into the guns
We should have seen it coming
We should have smelled the fight

Cut the wires and dodge the mines
Push right through the pillbox lines

It’s a tall order to love right
To shun the hate
And embrace the light
It’s a tall order
It’s a tall order (yes, Sir!)
Incoming fire rains down all night
How can we survive 'til the morning light
It’s a tall order
It’s a tall order (yes, Sir!)
When you’re going through hell
You gotta just keep on moving on

Out the door into the airstream
Plummet through the onyx sky
I should have checked my rip cord
I should have checked my harness

Am I just a floating target
Kill or be killed as I land

It’s a tall order to love right
To shun the hate
And embrace the light
It’s a tall order
It’s a tall order (yes, Sir!)
Incoming fire rains down all night
How can we survive 'til the morning light
It’s a tall order
It’s a tall order (yes, Sir!)
When you’re going through hell
You gotta just keep on moving on

Are we made for fighting
Are we made for drawing blood
Can we learn to rise together
Above the flood

To rise above the flood

ASCAP / Copyright 2024 Christopher Couch

Tall Order

Lyrics:

Swimming through the crashing surf
Soft fingers cradle my head
Sweetly selling the sink
(Selling the submergence)
Warm waves kiss my cheek
The salty scent of a lover
Singing
Sleep now
Sleep now
Sleep now
So quiet

Walking through the raucous streets
A secret door to the dark woods
And soft strings with human harmonies
(Selling the escape)
Glowing fireflies scatter like dust
As feet gently drum the beat
Singing
Come this way
Come this way
Come this way
So quiet

The thoughts all swarm like locusts
Stripping bare the fields of my mind
Flying, crawling, chewing
(Selling the swarm)
Always so insatiable
Clamoring and gluttonous
They never stop
They never stop
The buzz, it never stops
It never stops

ASCAP / Copyright 2024 Christopher Couch

Quiet

Lyrics:

When I’m lost in space
And the ship is dead
And the busted up radio sputters
Like the fake eggs in the pan

Can ya still hear me
I feel ya touch my check
I feel ya hold me close and you whisper
Oh, that everything’s gonna be fine

Even though
Even though you’re worlds away
On the far side of the moon

When I’m drifting free
And the black hole looms
And the engines are crusted over
Like the coffee in the captain’s room

Can ya still find me
In the dark expanse
Can ya teleport me a lifeline
And pull me back from the brink

Even though
Even though you’re worlds away
On the far side of the moon

Beep boop beep boo bop
Goes the radio
Nothing's coming through
Beep boop beep boo bop
Goes the radio
Nothing's gettin’ through over to you

When the tanks are dry
And the air is gone
And the tunnel vision starts to hit me
And the cold soaks through my bones

I can see your smile
On the network streams
And your memory floods around me
Like the light from the broken screen

Even though
Even though you’re worlds away
On the far side of the moon

Beep boop beep boo bop
Goes the radio
Nothing's coming through
Beep boop beep boo bop
Goes the radio
Nothing's gettin’ through over to you

ASCAP / Copyright 2024 Christopher Couch

Lost In Space

Lyrics:

The clouds are tall
The humans small
And the gods watch us crawling
Through the dregs and all

Tired hands covered in dirt
Tired hands covered in dirt
Knees skinned, bloody and hurt
Tired hands covered in dirt

Until the skyfall
Until the skyfall

We’re only human
Je pense, donc je suis
Are we all the way human
J'eavance masque

Tired hands covered in dirt
Tired hands covered in dirt
Knees skinned, bloody and hurt
Tired hands covered in dirt

Until the skyfall
Until the skyfall

ASCAP / Copyright 2024 Christopher Couch

Skyfall

Lyrics:

Gotta get up outta myself
Grab the pills right off of the shelf
Cannonball with Don Julio
Drop kick my worries and let 'em go

Isn’t that what all the normies do?
Tamp down fears with a toxic brew
Cook our inner eyes in a chemical stew
I need to keep up with the normies

Can I live with a naked soul?
That’s not what the normies do
Can walk on scorching coals?
That’s not what the normies do
Can I trade anesthetics for risk?
That’s not what the normies do
Can I stare into the abyss?
It’s a long way down

Isn’t that what all the normies do?
Tamp down fears with a toxic brew
Cook our inner eyes in a chemical stew
I need to keep up with the normies

Gotta get up outta myself
Grab the pills right off of the shelf
Cannonball with Don Julio
Drop kick my worries and let 'em go

ASCAP / Copyright 2024 Christopher Couch

The Normies

Lyrics:

We’ve built it up so high
Shining glowing glittering
Towers punch right through the clouds
Hubris turned to steel

Rendered into steel
It’s gonna last forever
It has to last forever
Built for the ages
Not even gods can bring it down

But it only takes a breath
To blow back the veneer
Lay bare our hidden nature
Barbarians deep within
No... gods can’t bring us down

The ashes choke our lungs
The sky a preternatural hue
Jade mountains burned alive
An arsonist of truth
Cinders from the truth

In our push for the sugar rush
The everlasting high
We burned, burned so bright
Pyromaniacs of life

It only takes a breath
To blow back the veneer
Lay bare our hidden nature
Barbarians deep within
No... gods can’t bring us down

Walking on a razor’s edge
One slip and it’s sticks and stones
No margin for any error now
No time to let it go

No... gods can’t bring us down

Launching endless fusillades
From ramparts of our arrogance
Machines to feed the new machines
Can’t relax our stance
Don’t let them break your stance

We always get what we deserve
Kick ourselves down to the curb
Do we ever really learn?
Just bomb and let the cities burn

It only takes a breath
To blow back the veneer
Lay bare our hidden nature
Barbarians deep within
No... gods can’t bring us down

ASCAP / Copyright 2024 Christopher Couch

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