The Lions -08- What Will Always Be

Before

You're lodged inside my brain.
Move like sludge down the drain.
Stuck to the gears that move
My world and everything I do.

Now we're to the point of letting go.
Now the world won't touch you anymore.

Before the world I loved your soul.
Before the world you used to glow.

You're the lions that swallow me whole.
I'm the fodder to your cattle.
She's the straw that breaks my back.
I'm just waiting for the final slap.

Now we're to the point of letting go.
Now the world won't touch you anymore.

Before the world I loved your soul.
Before the world you used to glow.

lyrics by Mike Gray

The Lions -07- Before

Astray

Dawn of the second day...
New eyes; refreshed, awake.
Can't help but supplicate.
The prettiest face is fake.

This bed of nails
Underneath
Never fails
To please.

Rise up and stop the rain.
I'll head south and change my name.
You're being led astray.
My life can't be washed away.

This bed of nails
Underneath
Never fails
To please.

In a daze they keep us.
I'll never let them reach us.

You will never be
Anything but meat.

Lyrics and music by Mike Gray
Artwork by Devin Ellis

The Lions -09- Astray

Nothing

Kick the can down the road
As far as can go.
Ascribe a false sense of hope.
Measure out a length of rope.

Cause I feel nothing at all
And I can't be here anymore.
And I feel nothing today
There is nothing in my way.

Drop a line into the well
Where's the bottom, can you tell?
Drop a coin into the black
It goes for miles but still no splash.

And I feel nothing at all
And I can't be here anymore.
The taste of blood can bring you back
I still don't know how to act.

The weight has dawned on me.

Lyrics and music by Mike Gray

The Lions -11- Nothing

Lie In Wait

Come to with the sound of the bell
Another day in your personal hell.
Robotic legs take you to your job
Where the drone of the day turns into a throb.
Pain awakens around midday
Nothing that a drink won't take away.

This is how the normals do
Living just like the flies do.

Well you know I haven't been well
Oh, the stories the shadows can tell.
Everyone's a comedian
Until the snake comes to strike at them.

This is how the normal's do
Living just like the flies do.

I am the snake
That lies in wait.
I am the snake
I hope you're awake.

It's waiting for you.
Don't forget the truth.

I am the snake
That lies in wait.
I am the snake
I hope you're awake.

It's waiting for you.
Don't forget the truth.

It's waiting for you.
Don't forget the truth.

The Lions -05- Lie in Wait

Encircles

Roping your mind
With all they eyes
We're never free
From the binds
And wrong way signs
That circle me.
Keep falling back
Encircles.
We're finding black
Encircles.

And falling all around us in circles.
Programmed right inside us in circles.
Entropy is walking us in circles.

It's such a shame
To live this way
Incoming nothing.
We replicate
Our human waste
In cycles.
Keep falling back
Encircles.
Keep losing slack
Encircles.

And falling all around us in circles.
Programmed right inside us in circles.
Entropy is walking us in circles.

Well I don't know where I am no more.
I'll lead you all back home.
I'll lead you all down this road
Back to your home.
In circles.
You're not alone
In circles.
Just follow me home
I'll bring you back
In circles.

I'll lead you all back home.
I'll lead you all down this road
Back to your home.
In circles.
You're not alone
In circles.
Just follow me home
I'll bring you back
In circles.

Lyrics and Music by Mike Gray

The Lions -01- Encircles

Slackjaw

With all the up and down
And back and forth
It seems more trouble than it's really worth.
In all the sunken eyes
That I see
I know you're laughing, making a fool of me.

But it's okay with me.

Let's stare at the slackjaw
He's lost control.
Let's stare at the slackjaw
Gravel throat.

After all the lions have stripped my bones
Maybe my father can save my soul.

But it's okay with me.

Let's stare at the slackjaw
He's lost control.
Let's stare at the slackjaw
Gravel throat.

Without the pain I'm free.

Let's stare at the slackjaw
He's lost control.
Let's stare at the slackjaw
Gravel throat.

Without the pain I'm free.

Lyrics and Music by Mike Gray

The Lions -10- Slackjaw

Evergreen - by Hear the Clouds

She lights waves 
Across the sky. 
I'm washed up 
And desert dry. 

Her hair is evergreen as she sings. 
Unaware of all the life that she breathes. 

She glows rays 
Upon my eyes. 
Streaking light down 
Melting skies. 

Her hair is evergreen and she sings 
Unaware of all the life that she breathes. 
And her hair is evergreen as she sings to me. 
I'm not there no more cause she won't let me 
Show her what I see. 

She never changes shades she always stays in green. 
She never changes shades, she only leaves me green. 

She fires rays 
From her eyes 
They chase the darkness 
And pierce through mine. 

Her hair is evergreen and she sings 
Unaware of all the life that she breathes. 
And her hair is evergreen as she sings to me. 
I'm not there no more cause she won't let me 
Show her what I see.

Lyrics and Music by Mike Gray

Hear the Clouds - Evergreen

Static Tonality & Agnosia - What I Am

Cover of Sour Times by Portishead

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vu2t-EcTdAk

Agnosia & Static Tonality - Sour Times (Video Link in Description)

Music from Cleveland, Ohio.

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