Previous Life

Starring:
Paul Gutierrez
Raul Pacheco
Albert Solorio
Rich Presley
Jose Esquivel
Chris Weinress
Matt Rosenfeld
Adam Topol
Anthony Razo

Besame Mucho

Funky Butt

Funambulist

Ballad of the Phantom Cowboys

In Wisdom's Name

27 Cheese For Harp And Flute

Each step on the outside
A precarious perch on an altar of stone
And my breath is cold
As the sacrifice ensues
But it's hard to know who is right
When every voice is so loud

Firewalking
Flaming at the sound of something shocking
Coming from the ground

And I'm alone
I'm here with a hundred minds, a million eyes
Watch me dance

I couldn't find one
To share in the searing pain, the day to day
Burning ground

Away in the desert
Where nobody's fire can warm the earth
And the sun is hot
On the ground where I only walk
But it's hard to know who is right
When every voice is so loud

And who rides the storm
That washes the ashes
That splashes the coals

Who shares in the day to day, the searing pain
Burning ground

Where is the sea
Away from the voices
Away from the fire
Away from the hundred minds, the million eyes
Watch me dance

Firewalking

Tell us about your childhood pictures on our walls
Signed in crayon, well it looks like mother never let you cry at all

What a prize, signed in blood, how interesting
Look at mine, everyone identifies

It's all for the others
All for the others

Crack a smile, you kind and bursting mouth
Crack it open, let it all spill out

And all for the others
All for the others

Stay at home tonight -- Always
In a faded light

I did all, I did all I would

Strike a pose, strike it hard with all your might
Open wide -- to talk is only suicide

It's all for the others

Let it all spill out of your lemming mouth

You did all you could

12 Lemming Mouth Studio

Another barrage of unspeakable lies
The strafing of fields, he's cut life a life

An imaginary dog with imaginary slippers
Is waiting at the door for the dying man's arrival
He's driving home from work like a funeral procession
He's dreaming at the wheel -- a childish regression

The sickening taste of the shit in his mouth
The hesitant smile -- he can't spit it out

The dying man is sitting, his face is in his hands
The cork is taken out, the hat upon his is the holder of his thoughts
It's face-up on the table
He'd light himself on fire, if he were only able

Bloodshot and beaten in the afternoon
The third world war starts in his living room
Red, black and blue behind the coat and tie
Well, how did all that blood get on his nice white shirt

He turns on the TV to bandage the wounds
The cut is too deep for skin of maroon

The dying man is searching for the candle on the table
He throws it at the curtains and it smashes through the window
The walls burst into flames and the house just stands there dying
And he won't stop the burning, he isn't even trying

The ambition of kings thrown back in his face
What's left of his life in an all-leather case
How easily they burn, like the skin upon his hand
The works of his life in a red rubber band

White handkerchief thrown in the fire
A tightrope walker cuts his own high wire
Red, black and blue behind the coat and tie
Well, how did all that blood get on his nice white shirt

Paper burns red.

07 The Dying Man

I was there when someone asked me
Do you ever feel alone
Like the world's a play
And the players are only thoughts inside your brain

Have I ever thought this way
Like I'm the only one I know
You don't know how stupid you sound
'cause I have thought this way since I was 6 years old

Because I am the only one in the world
The only story I've ever heard
And if I died today, everyone else would too
And if I kill today, I would be beaten but pain is imagined too
 
So this someone said to me You're selfish
I said, Maybe so
But how can I be sure you exist
When I'm the only one I know 

Because I only see what's there in my head
I only know the laws that I've read
And if I died today, everyone else would too
And if I kill today, I would be beaten but pain is imagined too

Have you ever thought this way
That there would be no god when the sun grows cold
You don't know how stupid you sound
'cause I have lived  this way since I was 6 years old

I am the only one in the world
The only story I've ever heard
I only want a place in the sun
The only race I've ever run

The Hindu Stuntmen

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