written by Richard Pinero and Scott Unverzagt
copyright 2011

I never thought that this could be erased
I never thought that you could be in love with the dead.
And though the consequence of knowing so suddenly you're insane,
Resurrected all the hatred I know.

To sleep and die under a moon,
In the arms of the sun,
Alive now,
Without mortality.

To see you draped in black with another reaper
Drained the water from my eyes.
To see you draped in white with another lover,
Is a far more pressing matter.

You never loved a woman
And lived to tell her.
You've never loved her till you've lost her for good.

I never thought that you would be erased.
I never thought that you might as well be dead.
And though the consequence of leaving so much left unsaid,
Rid the memory of all that I know.

To sleep and die under a moon,
In the arms of the sun,
Alive for you,
With our mortality.

To see you draped in white with another savior,
Cracked the stone that buried me.
To see you draped in white with another lover,
Ending the era of you and me.

You never loved a woman
And lived to tell her.
You've never loved her till you've lost her for good.


Young Animal - Artifact - 01 - You Never Loved a Woman

song and lyrics by Richard Pinero and Scott Unverzagt

2. Donna

I finally mustered up the brave to see your oasis,
But you're leading me up and down a path to reveal your coldest frame.
A radiant canopy,
But dried as winter.

Donna, where does your garden grow
And may I come to rest there?
Drown me in your stare,
The ocean of your soul.

Lay with me,
On the tide,
The water
As our beside.

Let me through the gate before your season of decay.
Be as adorned as an orchid but you'll need a brilliant seed.
A radiant canopy,
But dried as winter leaves.

Donna where does your garden grow
And may I come to rest there?
Drown me in your stare,
The ocean of your soul.

The fairest flower you are now the world's fresh ornament.
But using your thorns will make a famine where a blossom lies.
A radiant canopy,
But dried as winter leaves.


Young Animal - Artifact - 02 - Donna

song and lyrics by Richard Pinero and Scott Unverzagt 
copyright 2011 

3. Madonna

She burned the pillar of my bones to ashes,
And cast the image of an idol.
Now the cornerstone of my romance is
Entrapped in a statue, that bears my soul.

Was my skin not coarse enough to
Model your embrace?
Was my frame not firm enough to
Hold you as you lay?

Mind your heart love,
The strings that ring through your blood
Sound different from
The beat of your tongue.

The more you love the more you hate,
The more you have the more you take.
The more you love the more you will hate
The more you have the more you will take

From me,
My dear
Epiphany.
You are 
The silence
That swallows melody.

After opening the eyes of your home,
A gaze that turned me into stone.
From the garden to your parlour hall,
From the altar to your room.

Mind your heart love,
The strings that ring through your blood
Sound different from
The beat of your tongue.

The more you love the more you hate.
The more you have the more you take.
The more you love the more you hate me,
And you take

From me,
My dear
Epiphany,
You are, 
The silence
That swallows melody.


Young Animal - Artifact - 03 - Madonna

4. Challenge

Here comes a charge to the end of war,
Another trial in days of scorn.
The rival of whose envy traversed all amenities above.

And now, name the charge.
Cross me, or testify.

Battle of defiance,
Braver than rebellion.
Am I your enemy?
A challenger?

Here comes a race to end the clash,
Another suit in a wild land.
Survival comes to every challenger of the entity of love.

And now, name the charge.
Cross me, or testify.

Battle of defiance,
Braver than rebellion.
Am I your enemy?
A challenger?


Young Animal - Artifact - 04 - Challenge

song and lyrics by Richard Pinero and Scott Unverzagt
copyright 2011

5. Timetraveller

One thousand years
Will find me again
Underneath
A silt river.
Don't regret the future,
Some say that time is still.
Light follows fast,
Stars stagger back.

Remember the forever that transpired
One thousand light years away inside your mind.
Re-emerge one half revolution in time,
Behold the truth of a million past lies.

Gears and stars revolve,
Illuminate the sand,
Shatter and disperse,
A light creates the hand.

In twelve fortnights,
A memory will collapse
Striking a solar eclipse as thin as glass.

Going back in time to save your hide,
So you say, so you say.

You'll find me again,
Underneath 
Saturnian river.
Don't forget the future,
Some say that time is still.
Light follows the past,
Stars stagger back.

Reviving a celestial mausoleum,
Ending the movement of satellites to come.
Realizing the pendulum will have passed,
Once all of the dimensions have elapsed.

Gears and stars revolve,
Illuminate the sand,
Shatter and disperse,
A light creates the hand.

In twelve fortnights,
A memory will collapse,
Striking a solar eclipse as a glass.

Going back in time to save your hide, 
So you say, so you say.

Young Animal - Artifact - 05 - Timetraveller

Young Animal - Artifact - 06 - Vendetta

song and lyrics by Richard Pinero and Scott Unverzagt 
copyright 2011

7. Weights and Measurements

A self sustained organ respired by oil.
A nervous system tied by magnetic coil.
This mechanized framework is only in your mind.
This reigning vision is held within your eyes.

Is beauty what you see or only what you perceive
To bring your happiness as you fail to believe?
Are you living in a dream machine?
Now we're worse than fuel, we're wasting leavings.

If you were never born into another womb to shelter you,
You wouldn't be a useless suckling,
Living on by weights and measurements.

Then you would have starved to death.
Without control,
You would have starved to death.

Climbing up a ladder that has no file.
Rolling down a filter to a factory pile.
The towering order is only in your mind.
This technological demand is held before your eyes.

Is beauty what you see or only what's perceived
To bring you happiness as you fail to believe?
Are you living in a dream machine?
Now we're worse than fuel, we're wasted leavings.

If you were never born into another womb to shelter you,
You wouldn't be a useless suckling,
Living on by weights and measurements.

Than you would have starved to death.
Without control,
You would have starved to death.

Young Animal - Artifact - 07 - Weights and Measurements

8. Marionette

What do you do everyday that's you?
Strings controlling your every movement like a manipulator,
Wires over your head,
Driving you to your end.

Who do you trust and when will it be enough?

I am not your heir, anymore.
Mother Mary's not one at all.
This is not the desert of the mind anymore,
With the commandments etched in stone,
They're copper wire now.

You're as nervous as a marionette with strings pulling the tendons now.
Strings controlling your every movement like a manipulator.

I am not your heir, anymore.
Virgin Mary's not one at all.
This is not the desert of the mind anymore,
With the commandments etched in stone,
They're copper wire now.

A clay doll surrenders all action to ivory.

Young Animal - Artifact - 08 - Marionette

song and lyrics by Richard Pinero and Scott Unverzagt
copyright 2011

9. Intrepid

There are no chords,
Only memories,
The sound of dying stars.
But, this time the cries won't be heard.

I remain undaunted by the end of it all.
It's coming again, and the marble will fall.

There are no words, 
Only dissonance,
The liquid voice of chaos,
Choked to the last syllable of all time.

I remain undaunted by the end of it all.
It's coming again, and the marble will fall.

Young Animal - Artifact - 09 - Intrepid

song and lyrics by Richard Pinero and Scott Unverzagt
copyright 2011

10. Ancient

Ruins run through the images of chaos converging history.
Artifacts in the remains of death and infinity.

Primal invincibility,
Neverending eclipse of 
Romantic seas.

I am not seen, 
I am philosophy,
Oceans crashing through the blood of an ancient animal.

Symbols colliding with oblivion,
Temporally told tales of the universal nature nearing volatility.

Everlasting roaring zenith,
Of animal generations,
Told in testament.

I am not seen,
I am philosophy,
Oceans crashing through the blood of an ancient animal.

Young Animal Band

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