Floating Fragment

Helios is the fourteenth studio album by the Dragonsail Puppets

AIMLESS

Elastic and alive 
Ruffled hide 
A smile and a wink and a brush on the lip 
Something pressing down 
Assertive facility 
A proper utility 
A bone way back in there 
Aimless and dimly aware 

Spiral on the spine 
Buckle blind 
Dreams sheltered deep in you will leave their residue 
But you've the ability to plug the vacuum of infinity 
Long enough to hold it in 
As long as you can 

No land for beast or man 
If you'd be aimless 
Lead foot in sinking sand 
If you'd be aimless 
Sharpened knife sensing you're ripe 
Beyond the pink 
Now swim or sink 

No boon in the crescent Moon 
If you'd be aimless 
Invisible body swoons 
When you'd be aimless 
Beasts in the steam 
They love to watch you dream 
Love to track the sleepwalker 
Along the edges of the stream 

You'd best connive yourself a plan 
If you'd be aimless 
Start with any plan 
Do the best you can 
Use the dream you spin 
As the blueprint of your win 
You'd better begin now

Buy Helios

Aimless

Helios is the fourteenth studio album by the Dragonsail Puppets

AXIS SWERVES WITHIN

Walking past the wavy window glass 
Reflections war as you move toward the door 
Sensation snag you but you're closed 
Fascinations ring your crown 
Go on and stare the movement down 

Free free free!  from illusion search anew
But where? 
Axis swerves within 
Sheen merely amusement 
External is internal 
The axis swerves within 

Something about him chose 
The door closed 
Sudden unrending of the two 
Lost in some profusion 
Free free free!  from illusion search anew

Now quiver expectantly 
Gasp in amazed delight 
At all the subtle shiftings of this array 
What awaits us on this day 

Free free free!  from illusion search anew
But where? 
Axis swerves within 
Sheen merely amusement 
External is internal 
The axis swerves within 

And he opens there 
And he opens ground 
And the seed slips down 
And he's swallowed whole 
Underneath the dome 

He's inside of you 
Moves in to move through 
To float in space 
Now a stone is displaced 
Wet stone, drifting surround 
Now a black sky and showers pound the ground 

Walking past the way the window glass 
Reflections war as you move through the door 
Sensation snag you till your skewed 
Now feel the shiver and sting of vision renewed

Free free free!  from illusion search anew
But where? 
Axis swerves within 
Sheen merely amusement 
External is internal 
The axis swerves within

You think you chose 
The door closed 
You shed some skin while slithering through 
Free free free!  from illusion search anew
Now quiver expectantly 
Gasp in amazed delight 
At all the subtle shiftings of this array 
What awaits us in this way

Straddle stride endure the ride 
Pain gives way to pulsing spray 
Shivers sting shimmer Sheen 
Bound by time and everything 
Jelly of the bony beast 
Down upon his head to feast 
It's a wonder he remembers how to breathe

Axis Swerves Within

Helios is the fourteenth studio album by the Dragonsail Puppets

ALIEN

If it seems I'm far away 
Staring out into yesterday or tomorrow 
Don't assume it's sorrow 
Try to listen to the sense of it 
The howling in the hollow of the pit 

Somewhere before all these talons and tongues 
Vamps chasing velvet and feet on the rungs 

I'm watching all these faces that to my eye do appear to have grown numb 
No more reaching for the Sun 
Did gravity pull all together all this swirling gas and dust 
Just to make it all go bust? 

We're all entangled 
It's news, my friend 
It's you and me and who we'd be 
And who's the alien? 

Check my core. Check my mantle 
Check my dust. Check my crust 

If it seems I thrash about 
I'm trying to roll out beyond doubt 
Digging fingers into rock 
The enormity of you and me 
You and me at least makes three 

We're home to voices 
We are their station 
They're my potential 
And they are my limitation 

Imposing orbs of monumental fling 
Could be the world's on a string 
The inner core we have discovered is a thing not to be uncovered 
So we stay in our faerie ring 

We are the word the gods have sent 
We're what they choose 
Who comes with news of the alien? 

Is it you? Is it me? who is it now? 
It's we 
Where we come from, where we go 
You don't know and I don't know 
What's it going to be 
What's gravity mean to do to you and me?

Alien

Helios is the fourteenth studio album by the Dragonsail Puppets

OZYMANDIAS

Two stone legs standing in the sand 
With no belly above them to grace the man 
Haughty head at the feet broken and absurd 
Looking like the cat who ate the Golden Bird 

Ozymandias you're weighing heavy on my mind and my time 

I read the words that describe your fame 
I am King Ozymandias fear the name 
Behold all the kings over whom I lord 
And the kingdom I've built with gold and the sword 
Look at my fertile gardens, the vast expanse 
The thriving cities I've wrestled out of circumstance 
And fear my power 
Quake and shake at my power 

Old Stone Cold Hussy all I see now 
Are little bitty pieces of debris now 
And hot desert sand 
Is all you've left of your land baby 

Ozymandias you're weighing heavy on my mind and my time 

Some of us still here are born to climb 
We're seeking out what might actually stand the test of time 
Conclude the ultimate goal is to actually touch the soul

Ozymandias

Helios is the fourteenth studio album by the Dragonsail Puppets

YULETIDE 

The holiday leaves traces in the sky 
Remember now as every dream will try 
A promise of a start 
An absence in the heart 
We'll live this day 
Whole and in part 
And in this way 
Nothing's ever cast away 

Remember now the plans and maps we drew 
A tiny door where dreams came spilling through 
We come to mark where we began 
We grow apart 
Don't try to understand 
We live this day 
Whole and in part 
And in this way 
Nothing's ever cast away 

Yuletide

Helios is the fourteenth studio album by the Dragonsail Puppets

AUTONOMY 

I got it honey 
Yes, I do 
Go on and try to snap the trap 
I'm already gone 
Linger on 

I walk among the stones of tended graves 
The moss dragging on my cape 
Alive I stride through every valley 
Seek to reach each frozen peak 
Alone in my autonomy 
Nobody to snag a drag on me 
That's the nature of autonomy 
Indivisibility 
But I might be out to meet some birds of a feather 

I cling to my own arms at rest 
You might find her difficult to dress 
Because I made a stand not long ago 
In the valley of the Big Red Stones 
I'd be a crazy child alive and wild 
A nymph too nimble to pimp 
That's the nature of autonomy 
Impenetrability 
Meet me at the corner of good luck joker and never 

It's just a blip 
Just the tip 

I move and groove all through the circle of ice and fire 
Aware of the nature of desire 
Direct live wire to needy and leaky cups 
Because you never can get enough 
I learned to focus down my hidden eye 
On the wherefore and the why 
I protect my autonomy 
Some say it's a disability 
They say you won't stay strong for too long or forever 
There's evidence to show 
But who can know? 

Motivations will always be strange 
The wars they'll range 
The pulse will stop 
And the tiny leaf will drop 
And youth will ripen to drama too soon 
And you can ride my acid and alkaline 
Into the bright blue vault of the sky 
My autonomy 
Independability 
Might be something we can all work out together 

Take it tip to root

Autonomy

Helios is the fourteenth studio album by the Dragonsail Puppets

HELIOS

Getting hotter 
Core shrinking 
Outer layers moving in to the center 
Pressing Force on the core 

Sea serpent spewing whale 
Winged lizard breathing fire 
Danger is desire under pressure 

Fast fusion in the center 
Core growing denser 
Moving into the center 
Pressing Force on the core 

Growing larger, growing brighter 
Growing larger, growing brighter 

Red dragon coming down to swallow me and you 
How did you and everything you glue 
get here anyway?

Here we take something in hand 
And we shape it to stand alone 

He knew 

He was summoning the storms 
But he could not resist 
The sun was pulling him 
Meatball was Sun-kissed 

And everything was allowed 
And everything was one thing 

Getting hotter 
Core shrinking 
Outer layers moving in to the center 
Pressing Force on the core 

Sea serpent spewing whale 
Winged lizard breathing fire 
200 times its size, 2,000 times as bright 

Fast fusion in the center 
Core growing denser 
Moving into the center 
Pressing Force on the core 

Growing larger, growing brighter 
Growing larger, growing brighter 

Danger is desire under pressure 
Helios- source of light 
But evil unto death if too bright 

He's on his way with brighter rays

Helios

Helios is the fourteenth studio album by the Dragonsail Puppets

LINGERING TUNE

Hold the swirl on the tongue 
There's nothing grander, more free 
Just another fire set from you jetting into me 
It's skimming on the skin or it's frost blowing in 

We're in tune 
With one waiting for you 
You're never too soon 

I saw that I might have come another way 
Ghost of that destiny lingers inside me 
Circling this place with the roots near my face 

Hold the swirl on the tongue 
There's nothing grander, more free 
Just another fire set from you jetting into me 
Snake along the vine and you feel the beat of time 

Warming you 
You've been here before too 
It's a lingering view 

Fascinating me being in between 
Moving with the centuries with the trees 
Forever won't drop so we'll probably never stop 

We're all in tune. We're the ones waiting for you 
When we're waiting for you, you can never be too soon 
You can never be too soon 
We've been waiting for you 
Your view 
You're a lingering tune 

You man in the moon

Lingering Tune

Helios is the fourteenth studio album by the Dragonsail Puppets

ME IN THE MOON

Meat hungry in your sensitive hide 
Regenerating gut inside 

Me in the moon 
Love-tipped child of June 
Linger till the afternoon 

The corridor we down to roll it all around 
Is haunted by the light that cuts the night 
See?

That's me in the Moon 
Child of sway/swoon 
And you are deeply not immune 

Me in the Moon 
We'll be there soon 
Linger the long remembered tune 

Feeling old reverberations 
From more direct sensations 

Me in the Moon 
Drape the sand dune 
Raise the red hot air balloon 

Me and the Moon 
Lip to dipped spoon 
Light the night inside the room 

Some docking in your heart 
You can safely weather every part 

Me in the moon 
Love-tipped child of June 
Linger till the afternoon 

Me in the Moon 
We'll be there soon 
Linger the long remembered tune 

Me in the Moon 
Breathe in while you feed 
Go on deeply play the need

Me In the Moon

Welcome to the alternative reality that is the Dragonsail Puppets! We have a YouTube channel with cagey comedy and spirited music videos as well. Please feel free to check it out and join us on this party boat!

See their music videos and YouTube comedy series!:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVBel-tzj24Gj9QR8RTRpow

On Earth One, all of the music and lyrics are written by Dragonsail, aka Greg Hester. Likewise, all of the playing and vocal performances and recording and mixing are done by Dragonsail as well. But that's not as interesting as what's happening on Earth Two.

On Earth Two, these songs are created and performed by a scheming diva named Surrenda and her enthusiastic but clueless dog sidekick Bruce. Additional songwriting is provided by their septuagenarian feline keyboardist, Catatonia, and Onree - the sweet pup with the mean shaker. There's also some old geezers in the band who've been with Surrenda for a couple of decades who actually play real instruments, but they mostly loom in the shadows.

The range of styles in their music includes funk, psychedelia, hard rock, prog rock and disco, which they tear away at with whatever instruments and found objects they have stowed away with them aboard their ship, the Club Dragonsail.




New tracks tagged #Experimental Rock