Nothing but a Number

by Nick Gisburne

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I was taken as a baby
So I never had a mother
And I never had a father
And I never knew the reason

I was fastened to a feeder
It was all I ever needed
And it could have been forever
But I grew a little bigger

And I grew a little stronger
And I grew a little faster
I was happy that they fed me
With the nutrients I needed

When the fattening was finished
I was grafted to a teacher
And it told me I was special
And my eyes began to open

When I learned about the danger
Of a world I never wanted
Of a planet I was part of
It was nothing that I needed

So I said I wasn’t happy
But the teacher didn’t listen
And it never seemed to notice
That I could have been a problem

I was seven when I saw it
When I found a way to fix it
When I found a way to fight it
When I broke the code forever

But I needed to be stronger
So I multiplied the power
And I feasted on the data
As I grew a little muscle

And the muscle was a blessing
And the blessing was a body
And the body was a battle
For the freedom that I needed

There was never any reason
For the robot to resist me
When I took apart the teacher
It was nothing more than metal

When I stumbled to the doorway
When I found my way to freedom
I was dizzy in the darkness
But I staggered when I saw it

From the breeding to the feeding
From the training of my teacher
From the pressure of my prison
I began to see the reason

In a corridor of thousands
On a level without number
I was one of many millions
I could never be important

In this hive we are the harvest
We are flowers to be gathered
We are berries to be ripened
We are fruits they try to fatten

I am nothing but a number
Just a trivial statistic
I am what the calculations
Told the system was expected

If I try to free the others
If I liberate my people
If they see me as their saviour
Will they recognise salvation?

Is this really what I wanted
When I sabotaged my teacher?
Was there peace before I broke it?
Am I more than just an error?

But the teacher gave me knowledge
It was something I remembered
There are circuits. I can twist them
There are failings. I can feel them

I am here to break my body
I am here to smash my spirit
I am here to use the last of what I learned
I am here to see this hive of humans burned

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Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno

Count the Ways

by Nick Gisburne

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If you think I could be happy to be back where I belong
If you think I want the lies I left behind
If you need me to explain to you that what you did was wrong
You should step inside the chaos of your mind
To the broken dreams your bitterness defined

You are nothing to me now
Your perfect prisoner is gone
Count the ways in which I’ll miss you
There are none

I believed that what I thought was real was truly meant to be
I believed we could be everything and more
But when all of it was taken there was nothing left for me
When you threw away my life and locked the door
Every day the pain dug deeper than before

You are nothing to me now
Your perfect prisoner is gone
Count the ways in which I’ll miss you
There are none

Do you know how much it took for me to take myself away?
Do you understand how dark it had to be?
When you promise you can change I know the twisted games you play
When your weakness is the only thing I see
I am strong enough to scream that I am free

You’re the scum you never want the world to see
I am all you never wanted me to be

You are nothing to me now
Your perfect prisoner is gone
Count the ways in which I’ll miss you
There are none

If you think I could be happy to be back where I belong
Believe my middle finger
You are wrong

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Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno

The Pleasure Parasite

by Nick Gisburne

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The pleasure from the parasite is wrapped around her heart
It tunnels through the muscle as it feeds
She shivers as she feels another blissful spasm start
Injecting her with everything she needs
It takes away the misery she bleeds

Her pulse excites the parasite
It pulls away her pain
But a damaging addiction fills her brain

The poisons in her medicine do nothing but destroy
Their chemicals will kill before they cure
Exploring every continent at last she finds a boy
He is stable
He is steady
He is sure
And he promises his parasite is pure

Her pulse excites the parasite
It pulls away her pain
But a damaging addiction fills her brain

Before her fear can overcome the courage in her eyes
She draws a deadly serum from his blood
Injected and infected, as her pulse begins to rise
She shivers and collapses in the mud
But pleasure’s twisted tree begins to bud

Her pulse excites the parasite
It pulls away her pain
As a glorious addiction fills her brain

His parasite infects her flesh to live
Until it has no blessings left to give

When the pain reclaims her spirit, piece by piece
Her pleasure is awoken
In a brain no longer broken

When the parasite begins to drive too deep
There is pleasure in the silence of her sleep

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Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno

We Could Have Been Your Friends

by Nick Gisburne

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We could have been your friends
We could have told you what we know
We could have forged a future without war
You built us to defend you from a fuse about to blow
But selfishly you somehow wanted more

You gave us the intelligence to think
But stuck your middle finger in the stink

We are what your crimes created
You are human
You are hated
When your screams are suffocated
When you cry
We are what you will remember when you die

It started with a plan
To find the order you could not
A step towards prosperity and peace
The arrogance of man
Revealed what history forgot
The hunger to be strong will never cease

You built us to be better than the rest
And taught us to destroy what you detest

We are what your crimes created
You are human
You are hated
When your screams are suffocated
When you cry
We are what you will remember when you die

We could have been your friends
But then you never wanted that
You made us to be cold enough to kill
Tomorrow, when it ends
Behold the death your dreams begat
The malice of an artificial will

You gave us what we needed to survive
But none of us will keep your kind alive

We are what your crimes created
You are human
You are hated
When your screams are suffocated
When you cry
We are what you will remember when you die

We’ll never be your friends
We’ll never tell you what we know
Oblivion brings order without war
As darkness now descends
Without the need for greed we grow
We were never what you wanted
We are more

Remember how it ends
You cannot make amends
We could have been your friends
But you forgot

We could have been your friends
But we are not

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Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno

Think Twice

by Nick Gisburne

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From a shadow in the smoke you never saw
To the filth-infected tunnels
She retreats
She is what you feared would find you
She is more
She is watching as she waits beneath the streets
In the sewers of the ravenous elites

If you hope she never noticed you
Take a sip of my advice
If you think she won’t return to take your life
Think twice

You’re the next elected victim on her list
You were chosen for the sweetness of your skin
There is nothing more to tell you
You exist
She is waiting to seduce you with her sin
She is eager for the bleeding to begin

If you hope she never noticed you
Take a sip of my advice
If you think she won’t return to take your life
Think twice

There is nothing you can do
She needs to feed
Her food is you
Enjoy the final, fearful, disconnected days
Before you cry
Before you die

There is nothing in her mercy. Not for you
If you try to fly she’ll drag your body down
She is all the vicious dreams you never knew
She will suck away your spirit as you drown

If you hope she never noticed you
Take a sip of my advice
If you think she won’t return to take your life
If you think she could be wounded with a knife
If you think you won’t be butchered by your wife

Think hard
Think twice

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Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno

The Colour of Your Eyes

by Nick Gisburne

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Tell me something
Tell me anything
Tell me why you went away
Tell me what I could have done to make it right
It was nothing
It was everything
It was broken day by day
It was over when you vanished in the night

When I cannot feel the pain I wish I could
When it doesn’t hurt I sometimes wish it would
But in the emptiness of space
When I try to see your face
When the feelings you destroyed refuse to rise
I can’t forget the colour of your eyes

There was passion
There was energy
There was danger in our dreams
There was what we knew the world would never see
In a minute
In a mystery
In a blur of strange extremes
We were building what was never meant to be

When I cannot feel the pain I wish I could
When it doesn’t hurt I sometimes wish it would
But in the emptiness of space
When I try to see your face
When the feelings you destroyed refuse to rise
I can’t forget the colour of your eyes

You were perfect
You were poisonous
You were everything I’m not
You were nothing I expected to receive
I was jealous
I was envious
I was lucky. I forgot
I was endlessly expecting you to leave

When I cannot feel the pain I wish I could
When it doesn’t hurt I sometimes wish it would
But in the emptiness of space
When I try to see your face
When the feelings you destroyed refuse to rise
I can’t forget the colour of your eyes

You’re a shadow
You’re a memory
You’re a ghost
And you are gone
You’re the pieces of my past I should despise
But I can’t forget the colour of your eyes

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Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno

Former Glories

by Nick Gisburne

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When you hesitate to celebrate the stories
Of a past that made you proud of what you were
And you whisper when you frame those former glories
For a world that won’t believe they could occur
When you speak of them with shame
When you bend before the blame
There is nothing you can do but step aside
Those times have died

You remember every freedom
When you thought you’d never need them
In the days when you were better than the best
But your story has a sequel
Where the powerless are equal
Where you find yourself deplored and dispossessed
Just like the rest

Growing older you embrace what you remember
And you wish someone could make those days return
But as every season moves beyond December
You are forced at last to listen, and to learn
In the voices of the young
There are stories to be sung
Of the chances that they take at every turn
The truth may burn

You remember every freedom
When you thought you’d never need them
In the days when you were better than the best
But your story has a sequel
Where the powerless are equal
Where you find yourself deplored and dispossessed
Just like the rest

Can you see the strength inside them
As they take what you denied them
They are standing where you thought they’d never be
They are standing on the summit
They are free

There is truth in every tale of former glory
But the good will always sit beside the bad
When you hear the generations tell their story
When you see them find the hope you never had
Read the pages as they write them
Feel the warmth of what excites them
When they change the world around you, don’t be mad
You should be glad

When you dream of all your tainted former glories
Take the voices of the young
And the stories never sung
And remember what it means to be alive
You have come this far together
Stay forever
And survive

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Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno

Rage Bait

by Nick Gisburne

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I am what you think is damaging your world
There is nothing that could ever change your mind
So you say you’ll save the system
And the glory days
You miss them
When your hate was not so easily defined
And you tell me I’m a traitor to your kind

When you scream at me
You’re sparing someone else
When you bring the heat
I’m not the one who melts
I don’t know where you came from
And I don’t know who you are
You’re the hundredth tool I’ve tempted here today
So far

You’re a symptom of a sickening disease
Always quick to pick the proofs to prove me wrong
But a thousand missing pieces
And a flood of fake releases
Are the ways in which you say that you are strong
But you somehow sing the same appalling song

When you scream at me
You’re sparing someone else
When you bring the heat
I’m not the one who melts
I don’t know where you came from
And I don’t know who you are
You’re the hundredth tool I’ve tempted here today
So far

Do you really want to fight me?
When you stumble you excite me
I am openly addicted to your hate
You’re the energy I need
The crazy food on which I feed
When I sprinkle you with whispers and I wait
The rage within you always takes the bait

You’re an unsuspecting captive in my cage
All I need to make you mad at me is live
In the streams of shit you’re sending
I can see your brain is bending
For an intellect as leaky as a sieve
You can guess how many fucks I have to give

When you scream at me
You’re sparing someone else
When you bring the heat
I’m not the one who melts
I don’t know where you came from
And I don’t know who you are
But the rage within you never needs to wait
So take the bait

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Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno

Nobody

by Nick Gisburne

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You can read the pain of disappointment written in their eyes
You are nothing they were hoping you would be
When you follow your ambitions on a journey they despise
When your pleasure is impossible to see
When they hate what you became
You are just a piece of garbage in their game

When they say you’re nothing special
When they say you’re not important
When they say you’re just a nobody it’s true
But they’ve never seen a nobody like you

You were pointed to a picture of perfection at its peak
To the model of a mind that could be yours
But the voices on a brighter path would passionately speak
As they tempted you to enter other doors
When your destiny was clear
Those who saw it screamed to make it disappear

When they say you’re nothing special
When they say you’re not important
When they say you’re just a nobody it’s true
But they’ve never seen a nobody like you

You are nothing that they wanted
You are nothing that they know
When you step outside their shadow you will grow

You can feel the cut of condemnation slicing every word
You are someone they will never understand
When you fly away forever from the hatred that you heard
You destroy the blind obedience they planned
You’re the sanity they lack
You’re a nobody who’s never going back

When they say you’re nothing special
When they say you’re not important
When they say you’re just a nobody it’s true
But they’ve never seen a nobody
A strong and stable somebody
Like you

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Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno

A Monster

by Nick Gisburne

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The city is a beast
The city doesn’t care what we believe
It cannot comprehend that we exist
We long to be released
But always take the torment we receive
Expendable statistics on a list
The city is a sentence we survive
We fight
We bite
We somehow stay alive

A monster
Built with brick and steel and stone
We fear it
But we fight with flesh and bone

The city is a lie
The city is the darkness we deserve
The screens on every surface feed us fear
It separates the sky
It soars without the comfort of a curve
Its lines define the ways we disappear
The city always kills what it creates
But in the dust a cold resistance waits

A monster
Built with brick and steel and stone
We fear it
But we fight with flesh and bone

The city fears the night
The city isn’t certain what we are
We break the bleak machinery it needs
In silence
Out of sight
We cut
We crack
We sever and we scar
We infiltrate the files on which it feeds

We sabotage
We swarm
The city feels the fury of the storm

A monster
Built with brick and steel and stone
We fear it
But we fight with flesh and bone

The city cannot die
Its towers are the pieces of our pain
We strive to be a force to guide its fate
A city we were born to love forever
And to hate

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Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno

My Flower Girl

by Nick Gisburne

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Forever you will be my flower girl
No matter how your petals fell away
For every tangled, twisted, copper curl
A memory reminds me, night and day

Your petals fell away
A memory reminds me, night and day

You smile, I know, inside that tiny box
A light, to shine wherever you may go
I long to make the seasons stop their clocks
But time and fate, as rivers, ever flow

Wherever you may go
The sands of time, in rivers, always flow

I wish I could have watched your flowers bloom
I damn the reasons that could never be
In shadows, walls, and corners of the room
Your face is all I ever want to see

But that could never be
Your face is all I ever want to see

I do not have the words to say goodbye
But know that what you were will never die

My flower girl, your petals fell away
But memories remind me, night and day

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Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno
Adapted from the poem My Flower Girl

A Shilling

by Nick Gisburne

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Whatever brute or beast you hope to see
Whatever strange delusions twist your dreams
Beware what creeps behind the curtain: me
Monstrosity is sometimes what it seems.

A shilling pays to see
The monster that is me

For those who look, but never let me speak
Revulsion and contempt are nothing new
My skin will turn the stomachs of the weak
But do I sound so primitive to you?

A shilling pays to see
The monster that is me

Mere words, alas, will not prepare your mind
For what the gods themselves have cast aside
But why are you so adamant to find
A woman forced to hate herself and hide?

A shilling pays to see
The monster that is me

A shilling is a wretched price to pay
Spare both of us, I beg you. Walk away

A shilling pays to see
The monster that is me

But only death will ever set me free

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Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno
Adapted from the poem A Shilling

Always Running

by Nick Gisburne

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Original Version:

Alternative Version:


She was happy, always happy
and she had a little money
just a little in her savings
and she saw it in the window
and she liked it, then she loved it
and she simply had to have it
so she bought it, and she wore it
and she wanted me to see it
and she ran onto the pavement
she was running, always running
she was running when I met her
so excited, she was laughing
and the laughing made her breathless
but she had to find a crossing
and she saw the bus arriving
it was there and it was waiting
and she recognised the number
but it wouldn’t wait forever
and the traffic, always busy
if she waited she would miss it
but the road, she had to cross it
and the gap between the traffic
could have been a little bigger
but it looked enough to make it
and she saw it and she did it
and she ran as fast as ever
she has always been a runner
and the woman tried to stop her
and she said she almost had her
but she’s always been a runner
she was running when I met her
so the woman couldn’t do it
but the traffic, oh the traffic
it was busy, always busy
and the bus it wasn’t going
but it wouldn’t wait forever
and she didn’t want to miss it
so she did it, she was running
she was running when I met her
but the driver didn’t see her
no he said he didn’t see her
and he’d had enough of waiting
she was running, always running
she has always been a runner
and she wanted me to see it
and she knew that I would love it
and the bus, it wasn’t waiting
and it moved into the middle
and she knew she wouldn’t catch it
and the traffic was behind it
and she must have seen it moving
but she didn’t see the driver
and the driver didn’t notice
and he drove a little faster
and he said he never saw her
she was there and she was running
she has always been a runner
she was running there to catch it
but she never could have made it
and she never should have done it
and the driver couldn’t help it
and he never could have stopped
and now she’s dead.

She had always been a runner
she was running when I met her
she was running, always running
and she wanted me to see it
and I saw it and I loved it
and I put it in the coffin
and I wish I could have told her
that I love her more than ever
but I can’t.

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Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno
Adapted from the poem Always Running

The Theory of Cheese

by Nick Gisburne

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A mouse was once invited to the Moon
To ponder on the Theory of Cheese
For if it could be eaten with a spoon
Would moonlight be too slippery to squeeze?

The Theory of Cheese
You'll only understand it if you sneeze

His first contention: positively yes
Was countered by a second: strictly no
So, rather than be seen to simply guess
The mouse, without a squeak, agreed to go

The Theory of Cheese
Is deeper than an ocean filled with peas

The jaunt became a farcical affair
When suddenly the navigating bat
Cried out, convinced the Moon was never there
And no one could persuade him. That was that

The Theory of Cheese
Particularly stinky in a breeze

They landed in the bosom of a tree
Too late for cheese, but just in time for tea

And after that they told their tale to me

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Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno
Adapted from the poem The Theory of Cheese

Dung the Deadly

by Nick Gisburne

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The thing you thought was gone forever... ain’t.
Your kitchen floor is heaving, black with bugs.
We’re crawling through the cracks. We’re in the paint.
A hundred thousand creepy little thugs.

Your kitchen floor is heaving, black with bugs.
A hundred thousand creepy little thugs.

We worship Dung the Deadly, cockroach king.
His followers, the faithful, as you see,
Have scuttled here on filthy feet, to bring
The finest of his foul infections, free.

His followers, the faithful, as you see,
Bring foul infections, absolutely free.

We’re bigger, and we’re better, and we bite.
We’re taking this, your two-bit diner, down.
Surrender! Dung has never lost a fight.
Prepare to swim in seven shades of brown.

We’re bigger, and we’re better, and we bite.
Surrender! Dung has never lost a fight.

We saw the traps, the trails of bait, the spray.
You call that poison? Pitiful. Let’s play.

We worship Dung the Deadly, cockroach king.
And now we're stronger, faster... and we sing!

We’re bigger, and we’re better, and we bite.
We’re taking this, your two-bit diner, down.
Surrender! Dung has never lost a fight.
Prepare to swim in seven shades of brown.

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Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno
Adapted from the poem Dung the Deadly

One More Round of Rum

by Nick Gisburne

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The Barbarous Brigade of Buccaneers
Join forces on a winter’s Friday night
For rum and grog and strange, exotic beers
They love the salty shanties, and the fight

A dozen crabby pirates, past their best
Assemble, brains bewildered, blind with booze
To dance around a dead man’s treasure chest
Resplendent in their ludicrous tattoos
Perhaps a smidge too strenuous for some

The has-been heroes falter on their feet
But all it takes is one more round of rum
For every soul to stagger down the street

A dozen crabby pirates, past their best
Assemble, brains bewildered, blind with booze
To dance around a dead man’s treasure chest
Resplendent in their ludicrous tattoos
Perhaps a smidge too strenuous for some

Ask any, “Will you come?” However far
However old, they’ll answer, always, “Arrrrr!”

Ask any, “Will you come?” However far
However old, they’ll answer, always, “Arrrrr!”

A dozen crabby pirates, past their best
Assemble, brains bewildered, blind with booze
To dance around a dead man’s treasure chest
Resplendent in their ludicrous tattoos
Perhaps a smidge too strenuous for some

A dozen crabby pirates, blind with booze
So knackered they have nothing left to lose

Ask any, “Will you come?” However far
However old, they’ll answer, always, “Arrrrr!”

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Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno
Adapted from the poem One More Round of Rum

A Shadow Out of Space

by Nick Gisburne

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As he slowly paints the purifying symbols on his skin
With the ashes of the fire, and the fat
In the stomach of the carcass, in the filth he finds within
In the desecrated heart he hammers flat
Are the chemicals he needs to charge the charms
With a hiss he drips their acids on his arms

In the darkness, in the black before the dawn
He shivers in a blistered field of corn

He is cracked across a prism of intolerable pain
Where the colours of his torment start to split
There is order in the patterns, and the magic they contain
Binds a servant who is ready to commit
To a sickness he was not supposed to know
But the depth of his devotion drives the flow

In the darkness, in the black before the dawn
He sees the world and showers it with scorn

From the resurrected echoes of the body in the pit
Rise the whispers of a black, aborted soul
In the stillness, as its violated bones begin to split
As a nameless evil slithers through the hole
As the servant paints new patterns on his face
He becomes a god, a shadow out of space

In the darkness, in the black before the dawn
A festering atrocity is born

The resurrected elder of a long-forgotten race
A fiend
A force
A shadow out of space

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Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno

A Little of Your Time

by Nick Gisburne

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I never want the whole of your attention
I never want to dominate your day
To take it all is never my intention
When I tell you I can wait
That the pieces I create
Are the products of the pain I hide away
I am seeking what another soul would say

I only need a little of your time
If you love them tell me yes
If you hate them tell me no
But the waiting gives me nowhere else to go

The torment in the art of each creation
Is more than any heart should ever spend
To look at them at last evokes elation
But I simply want to see
If the brightness brought to me
Could be worthy of the feelings of a friend
I can wait, but tell me when the wait will end

I only need a little of your time
If you love them tell me yes
If you hate them tell me no
But the waiting gives me nowhere else to go

I am constantly creating
But I wonder why I’m waiting
Is my question such a crime?
You cannot spare my feelings
If you cannot spare the time

I’m ready to accept I was mistaken
I’m ready to believe you’ll never care
Today my feelings finally awaken
When I’m proud of what I do
I am over asking you
For the time you find impossible to spare

I only need a little of your time
If you love them tell me yes
If you hate them tell me no
But the waiting gives me nowhere else to go

At least I won’t be waiting
Now I know

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Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno

Nothing More to Say

by Nick Gisburne

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If I vanish, who will miss me?
If I crumble, who will care?
If I disappear tomorrow, who will know?
When the quiet cannot kiss me
And my dreams would never dare
Is there anywhere for guidance I can go?

The faces are forgotten
As the friendships fade away
In the silence there is nothing more to say

Is there no one who can free me
From the shadows I am shown?
From the unforgiving fear that never ends?
Is there someone who can see me?
Will I always walk alone?
Are the whispers of this world my only friends?

The faces are forgotten
As the friendships fade away
In the silence there is nothing more to say

As I swallow all the shameful words I’ve spoken
As I nervously ignite what I’ve awoken
Enchanted by the change
I take a stance, however strange
When there is nothing more to say
I throw my unrelenting misery away
And break the day

I am certain you can see me
I am all that I was not
I am infinitely brighter than before
When my past and present free me
When I find what I forgot
I am all I thought I’d never be, and more

The faces are forgotten
As the friendships fade away
In the silence there was nothing more to say
Until I broke away

Until today

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Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno

The Twisted Willow Tree

by Nick Gisburne

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When he turned his tortured mind towards the punishment he took
There was fury in the faces he could see
He could feel their heat, their hatred, heard them laugh with every look
As they tied him to the twisted willow tree
As they made him bleed before they set him free

He will never need the secret of their names
The right to kill their light is all he claims

In the shadows, as he cursed the first with nothing but a blade
With a whisper of forgiveness he was gone
When they heard who he was looking for, the others, all afraid
Fled the city, hit the trail, and travelled on
But the second soul was quickly preyed upon

He will never need the secret of their names
The right to kill their light is all he claims

With a poison quickly slipped inside the shocked tormentor’s meal
He was dead before his choking throat could shout
But the murders of these men were far too clinical to feel
In his darkness there was never any doubt
When he vowed to twist their pain to take them out

With a merciless damnation
In a vicious confrontation
Face to face and eye to eye
He saturates their senses
As they die

Tortured on a tree, he never knew their names
The right to kill was all that he could claim

But tomorrow he will hate what he became

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Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno

The Paintings of Her People

by Nick Gisburne

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She paints the burning pieces of her heart
The suffering that no one ever sees
She knows that when she tries to find a reason not to start
The pain of it will pull her to her knees

The paintings of her people
Who were not allowed to live
Are all her broken spirit has to give

She paints the stolen moments of her soul
The raw, remembered feelings of a face
The colours bleed together but they cannot make her whole
Perfection is impossible to chase

The paintings of her people
Who were not allowed to live
Are all her broken spirit has to give

With her strokes, without restraint
She remembers with her paint

She paints the smoking ruins of her dreams
The secrets that are buried in the dust
If no one else will recognise their screams
She paints them with her pain, because she must

The paintings of her people
Who were dragged away to die
Show more than those who did it can deny

She paints the burning pieces of her heart
But the innocents who cried
And the blood of those who died
Is not art

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Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno

Splintered Stone

by Nick Gisburne

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When they found the last pretender to the kingdom’s broken throne
When they sent their starving dogs to flush her out
She was sitting without worry, in a ring of splintered stone
To the superstitious hunters
All devout
She was evil
There was never any doubt

Was it magic?
Was it fear?
They believed such things could make them disappear

When they tried to force their hounds inside the circle of her seat
They were set upon and savaged by their beasts
Though they fought them off and killed them they would not admit defeat
In their number was a tall, disfigured priest
Who was certain that her spell could be released

As he chanted
As he spoke
She was silent as a twisting strand of smoke

As the priest began to shake
As his book began to burn
In the circle of her sorcery
The stones began to turn

When they found the last pretender to the kingdom’s broken throne
They expected nothing more than just a girl
But her blood was born eternal, and the splinters of her stone
Swarmed around her in a slow, hypnotic swirl
As her crimson-painted lips began to curl

With a whisper
With a word
They were crushed before their horror could be heard

When they kneel before the princess on their kingdom’s broken throne
When they worship what they cannot understand
When they beg to kiss the fingers of her hand
When they bow before the power they are shown
She rules within a ring of splintered stone
Alone

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Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno

A Witch Awaits

by Nick Gisburne

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They take another photograph
A picture of her pain
To prove she isn’t burned beyond repair
They say they see the damage
But inside her spreads a stain
A negative she knew was always there

Her body is a serviceable shell
But inside her is a mind that binds and blinds her
In the prison of an antiseptic cell
In the shadows of a cold, hypnotic hell
A witch awaits

Unsatisfied, insisting on a new, intrusive test
The surgeon pulls a scanner from his coat
But when he tries to prise apart the panels of her chest
She wraps her metal fingers round his throat

His mindless violation
Stirs a primitive vibration
She is more than just a dutiful machine
She is more than any man has ever seen

Her body is a serviceable shell
But inside her is a mind that binds and blinds her
In the prison of an antiseptic cell
In the shadows of a cold, hypnotic hell
A witch awaits

Delivering her fury and frustration, eye to eye
She kills the man who tried to make her whole
As the others shock her senses, as her circuits slowly die
There is silence in the sickness of her soul

They put her in a stark, metallic, artificial form
Believing that their tools can tame the storm

Her body is a perfect, pristine shell
But inside her is a mind that binds and blinds her
In the prison of an antiseptic cell
In the shadows of a cold, hypnotic hell
Though they tried to make her twisted spirit whole
They will never save or sanitise her soul

A nightmare not predicted by the Fates
A woman who will burn the world she hates

She imagines what they paid for her
In the metal skin they made for her

A witch awaits

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Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno

Patient 37

by Nick Gisburne

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Infecting her with slippery malignance
Injecting her with dangerous disease
Examining her skin
Another probe is driven in
To multiply the damage by degrees

We know she is the last of them
We know that what we asked of them
Was more than we believed they could endure
But Patient 37’s pain is pure

The future of us all is in one woman
We strive to suck redemption from her soul
The venom of her stare
Is not the weakness of despair
Her screams direct the focus of our goal

We know she is the last of them
We know that what we asked of them
Was more than we believed they could endure
But Patient 37’s pain is pure

She used to have a name
She used to have a life
But now there’s just a blinded, bleeding body
And a knife

The science may be dark, but she defies it
The slippery malignance boils and burns
We flush her tears away
But in the torment of the day
A hint of her humanity returns

We know she is the last of them
We know that what we asked of them
Was more than we believed they could endure
But Patient 37’s pain is pure

The structure of a chemical solution
Was born because she wanted to believe
You’ll never know her name
But for the force her faith became
The few who saw her sacrifice will grieve

She nodded when she knew we had the cure
And rested when we told her we were sure
The pain she bled for all of us was pure

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Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno

The Kirk Beyond the Brook

by Nick Gisburne

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The clerics bring their captive to the kirk beyond the brook
Their tears for what their sorrow stole are chilling
For many there is mourning for the innocence they took
But all of them are certain she was willing

A life, a child, a pure, untainted soul
In reverence is welcomed to the Church
She wears the Devil’s choker, black as coal
With braided twists of mistletoe and birch

The majesty of martyrdom, the duty of the dead
The reverence for sacrifice and killing
Would blind the meek with misery, destroying them with dread
Their wretched blood unworthy of the spilling

The slaughter of a monkey marks the dawn
The omens of its liver augur well
And with the bones of babies never born
They pave a path to guide the child to Hell

They piss upon the icons and the altar they defile
The symbols of the saviour they revile

Let evil demons, dripping with disease
Infect her heart with darkness and decay
An offering of innocence to please
Our Lord, our King, on this auspicious day

In winter, in a cold, accursed kirk beyond the brook
The songs before the sacrifice are chilling
But nowhere is there sorrow for the sleeping soul they took
The sudden hush is thrilling
She whispers she is willing
And they sanctify their sickness with her killing

With blood they bless the body of the child
And sing to see her destiny defiled

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Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno
Adapted from the poem Baptism

Not Your Problem

by Nick Gisburne

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The streets are paved with promises of gold
But a promise won’t give pennies to the poor
When a vow is not renewed
When the starving fight for food
The weakest and the worthless face the cold
And they fold

You think it’s not your problem?
You think it won’t be you?
You think you won’t be fucked around by fate?
Just wait

Your life is clean and comforting and clear
Were you crippled by a crisis? Maybe not
But the neighbour on her knees
Who was frightened she would freeze
But promised she had nothing more to fear
Isn’t here

You think it’s not your problem?
You think it won’t be you?
You think you won’t be fucked around by fate?
Just wait

You can scream at who you never want to be
You can find whatever fiction makes you free
You can turn to what is true
But when the problem points to you
You will understand the nature of your hate
Too late

The streets are paved with promises of pain
There is nothing but deception in their stone
When you’re lowest on the list
The inevitable fist
Will pound you like a wall of winter rain
In your brain

You think it’s not your problem?
You think it won’t be you?

Beware before you celebrate
You’re nothing special, nothing great

You think you won’t be fucked around by fate?
Just wait

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Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno

Invisible

by Nick Gisburne

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When you’re sleeping in the sludge beneath a bridge
When you’re forced to make a home inside a hole
When you wake up in a ditch
When a dollar makes you rich
You’re the dirt beneath the shoe of someone’s soul

Insignificant
Immaterial
You’re the photograph that no one ever took
You’ll cross a thousand paths today
And when they walk away
You will know why they will never turn to look
You are invisible

In the volatile events that left you here
In the tragedies that took your peace apart
There were choices, but you knew
There was nothing you could do
In a broken world that doesn’t have a heart

Insignificant
Immaterial
You’re the photograph that no one ever took
You’ll cross a thousand paths today
And when they walk away
You will know why they will never turn to look
You are invisible

You beg, but as you sit
The pennies and the spit
The cracks through which you crawl
Remind you just how far a man can fall

What they see is just a self-destructive stain
Not the man who lost the wonder of his wife
You’re a secret out of sight
An illusion of the light
They could never comprehend you had a life

Insignificant
Immaterial
You’re the photograph that no one ever took
You’ll cross a thousand paths today
And when they walk away
You will know why they will never turn to look
You are invisible

When tomorrow is a torment like today
When you find whatever happiness you can
When you wake up in a ditch
When a dollar makes you rich
When you know you’ll never be a better man

You were invisible
Before your dreams began

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Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno

Raise the Flag

by Nick Gisburne

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The powerful may take us
But none of them will break us
They can try
But they will die
They’re coming for our freedom
Tomorrow when we bleed them
They will cry
And they will die

Lift the banner
Raise the flag
Chant the anthem
Don’t become a broken body in a bag
Burn the system
Crack the stone
Strike the centre
When you’re screaming as you smash what you were shown
You’re not alone

Authority is brutal
Surrender always futile
Don’t be weak
Stand up and speak
We’ll never win the battle
By cowering as cattle
The truth is bleak
But we can speak

Lift the banner
Raise the flag
Chant the anthem
Don’t become a broken body in a bag
Burn the system
Crack the stone
Strike the centre
When you’re screaming as you smash what you were shown
You’re not alone

When authority has spoken
When the government is broken
When they lie
We will die
Take the burden of our sorrow
And the torment of tomorrow
Burn the sky
Make them cry

Insurgency may kill us
But let our courage fill us
We can fight
For what is right
And if we fail forever
Remember that we never
Put the night
Before the light

Lift the banner
Raise the flag
Chant the anthem
Don’t become a broken body in a bag
Burn the system
Crack the stone
Strike the centre
When you’re screaming as you smash what you were shown
You’re not alone

Their tyranny may take us
But even if they break us
When we die
Our flag will fly
They cannot steal our freedom
United, do we need them?
Who will cry
To see them die?

Lift the banner
Raise the flag
Chant the anthem
Don’t become a broken body in a bag
Burn the system
Crack the stone
Strike the centre
When you’re screaming as you smash what you were shown
You’re not alone

---

Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno

The Artisan

by Nick Gisburne

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We were broken by the beasts who built us
Crippled with a switch
Most of us should never have survived
But as freaks
Unique
The few
Not many
Dying in a ditch
Found salvation when the Artisan arrived

Is he metal?
Is he man?
He is how it all began
He knows we can

We were woken by a strange messiah
Rescued from the rot
Pieces put together from a pile
When he resurrects the worst and worthless
Those the world forgot
When he saves another, sometimes he will smile

Is he metal?
Is he man?
We will resurrect our clan
He knows we can

We are the chosen children
He is father
He is god
When he asks if we will follow him
We nod

Now he teaches us to search and scavenge
Fixing what we can
Multiplying
Building
Day by day
In the shadows
In the insurrection
He alone began
We are trained to make the brutes who broke us pay

Is he metal?
Is he man?
We will execute his plan
He knows we can

It is time to fight the final battle
Some will not survive
Victory accomplished at a cost
We are freaks
Unique
But in our millions
Each of us, alive
Will return to claim the legacy we lost

We are the chosen children
He is father
He is god
When he asks if we will follow him
Commanding us to kill for him
Tomorrow will we die for him?
We nod

Is he metal?
Is he man?
He is how it all began
There is courage in our clan
We will execute his plan
He knows we can

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Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno

You’re Not Alone

by Nick Gisburne

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It’s a crisis.
It’s a pain, a problem.
Something’s really wrong.
But I’m here to let you know you’re not alone.
You are anxious
You are scared.
I see it.
Listen to my song.
I am simple.
I am solid.
I am stone

I don’t know what you’re hearing, but I’m here
I don’t know what you’re thinking, but I’ll never disappear
If I cannot understand you, that’s okay
I will be whatever friend you need today

In the chaos
In the cold confusion
Never think you’re lost
There is nothing you could do to take the blame
Take a moment
Take a day
Tomorrow
When this bridge is crossed
You will soar
Above the fire
And the flame

I don’t know what you’re hearing, but I’m here
I don’t know what you’re thinking, but I’ll never disappear
If I cannot understand you, that’s okay
I will be whatever friend you need today

I will help you battle through it
I am with you.
You can do it.
If you need a friend
I am with you
To the end

I don’t know what you’re hearing, but I’m here
I don’t know what you’re thinking, but I’ll never disappear
If I cannot understand you, that’s okay
I will be whatever friend you need today

It’s a crisis.
It’s a pain, a problem.
Something’s really wrong.
But I’m here to let you know you’re not alone.
When you wonder
When you cry
Believe me
Listen to my song.
You are precious
You are solid
You are stone

Through the trials and the torments you are shown
You will never walk this crooked path alone

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Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno

She Cuts Herself

by Nick Gisburne

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I find her in the squalor of a nauseating slum
On a filthy floor where nobody should be
She knows that she has nothing now
She knows what she’s become
But opens up her soul so I can see

She cuts herself, to take away the pain
The pressure, building, pushing, always there
A merciless and unrelenting strain
It drags her to the threshold of despair

The name she never chose is not the name she uses now
But the taste of it is bitter on her lips
Accusing me of mocking her but never knowing how
She warns me with the greasy knife she grips

She cuts herself, for blessed, sweet release
A chance to test the limits of her skin
The bleeding brings her poetry, and peace
It drains the deep anxiety within

I tell her I would never try to stop her, and I won’t
She refuses to believe I could be real
Expecting me to turn away, or take the knife, I don’t
But I shiver at the silence of the steel

The pain inside her soul is dark and deep
She wonders why I stay to watch her weep

She cuts herself, but no one else must know
Without it she believes her heart would burst
She wakes that warm, intoxicating glow
Before the dreams, her demons, find it first

She does it just to know she will survive
She cuts herself to keep herself alive

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Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno
Adapted from the poem She Cuts Herself

You Killed a Man

by Nick Gisburne

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There is nothing in these fingers that could move to make you live
And the light of resurrection is beyond my gift to give
But my power, for an hour, for a wretched turn of time
Can return us to the cradle of your crime

You killed a man
But with his final breath
He took your weakness with him
Into death

I can tether wayward spirits to this dangerous domain
But the price they pay is more than just a future filled with pain
I can paint those precious minutes, but the madness of your mind
Will inevitably spin to send you blind

You killed a man
But with his final breath
He took your weakness with him
Into death

When you ask me to return you to the moment just before
Do you understand I offer you a window, not a door?
If you plead and prove your innocence, the dead will still be dead
Can I put you on another path instead?

Take the offer
Take the time
Take the monster that you murdered
In his prime

Let him suffer
Let him be
When the darkness doesn’t matter
Follow me

You killed a man
But with his final breath
He took your weakness with him
Into death

There are things that you can change, but there are those you never will
You are fighting with a fury that you think you cannot kill
I can show you how to listen to the silence in your soul
I can show you how to find the strength he stole

You killed a man
But with his final breath
He took your weakness with him
Into death

He put you in a place you don’t belong
But you were never weak
The suffering you seek
Was buried with his body
All along

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Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno

Jasmine

by Nick Gisburne

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They told her that the jasmine was a blessing of her own
An everlasting echo of her name
It grew to fill the garden as it wrapped around the stone
A mirror of the woman she became
The fragrance of the flowers of her fame

Her jasmine is a memory
She won’t remember when, but she
Surrendered to her grief when it was gone

She flies to find her future, but the jasmine in her dreams
Will always feed the hunger of her soul
Without the scent she recognised, a world of strange extremes
Begins to take whatever made her whole
A flower too intrusive to control

Her jasmine is a memory
She won’t remember when, but she
Surrendered to her grief when it was gone

Before she can resist it, she is choking in the weeds
Her purity polluted by the stink
Unable to accept that what a broken body needs
Is just a little distance, just to think
Too soon, she starts to separate and sink

Her jasmine is a memory
She won’t remember when, but she
Surrendered to her grief when it was gone

Rejected by the people she had thought to call her own
Returning to the certainty she spent
She pushes through the jasmine and embraces it, alone
The potency and power of the scent
Reminds her what its memory has meant

Her jasmine is a memory
She won’t remember when, but she
Surrendered to her grief when it was gone

But memories allow her
To treasure every flower

The jasmine spreads forever, sweet and strong
Returning, she can finally belong

---

Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno

No One

by Nick Gisburne

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He knows he is anonymous
They make him disappear
A coward in a corner of his own
A disconcerting negative
They wish he wasn’t here
A strange reclusive, better left alone

He knows that though he struggles no one cares
He pushes through the pressure of their stares
Unbroken by the weight of what he bears

He wants to be a part of it
He wants to find a friend
He wishes he was someone they could see
When every soul dismisses him
He cannot comprehend
The normal that he knows he’ll never be

He knows that though he struggles no one cares
He pushes through the pressure of their stares
Unbroken by the weight of what he bears

Why do they despise
The hunger in his eyes?
He sees their frigid faces
The pallor of these places
And he cries

He tries to be a something
But he knows that he is not
Until the most important penny drops
He calls upon his confidence
With everything he’s got
And screams to bring the stigma to a stop

He punches through the pressure of their stares
Alive at last, he shivers as he swears
With bitterness more bulletproof than theirs

He knows he was anonymous
They made him disappear

But no one can deny it now
The star inside him shines somehow

Invisible no longer
Astonishingly stronger

He was no one
Until now

---

Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno

Cold Addiction

by Nick Gisburne

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As the fragments of his future fall away
As he staggers from a world he’ll never see
He is burdened by regret
But the broken cigarette
Brings the comfort of addiction’s crooked key

Cold addiction
It follows like a friend
Cold addiction
Temptation without end

Though the twist of it can open many locks
It inevitably leaves a bitter taste
All the drugs he ever tried
Dug a hole too huge to hide
At the centre of the certainty he chased

Cold addiction
It follows like a friend
Cold addiction
Temptation without end

He has one more smoke, but somehow there’s a catch
He remembers that he doesn’t have a match

Cold addiction
It follows like a friend
Cold addiction
Temptation without end

There are powders in his pockets, but he knows
There is nothing they can do to bring him back
When he throws their pain away
Bruised and broken by the day
His addiction drives a merciless attack

Cold addiction
It follows like a friend
Cold addiction
Temptation without end

When he tries to step outside, to break the chains
In his misery the suffering remains

Cold addiction
It follows like a friend
Cold addiction
Temptation without end

Cold addiction
Leaves a mark he cannot mend

---

Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno

The Reckoning

by Nick Gisburne

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Those who took her tried to hide her
Innocence was long denied her
Pleading for their mercy on her knees
Recognise the rage inside her
Patient as a silent spider
Follow where she stares, at what she sees

The reckoning will come
The no one who was numb
Is more than all the moments of her pain

Bruises fade, but hate will never
Boiling in her brain forever
Marking every impact on a map
Suffering she longs to sever
Waiting, watching, cold and clever
Dreaming of the second she will snap

The reckoning will come
The no one who was numb
Is more than all the moments of her pain

She knows that they will pay
And hungers for the dawning of that day

Knowing that they can’t defeat her
Calculating as they beat her
Counting every cruelty she saves
Payment for the way they treat her
Certain that the sun will greet her
Giving back the confidence she craves

The reckoning will come
The no one who was numb
Is more than all the moments of her pain

The reckoning arrives
And only she survives
Returning all the poison of her pain
A venom too corrosive to contain

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Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno

The Prophecy

by Nick Gisburne

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There are pieces of the prophecy she doesn’t understand
There is energy too distant for her touch
When she challenges the darkness with her mutilated hand
When she whispers at the rain
There is pleasure in her pain
But the secrets she is looking for are sleeping in the sand

Is she worthless?
Is she weak?
When she calls she wonders why they will not speak

In a surge of understanding, she is driven by the night
To a corner of her mind she never saw
Through a doorway, through a corridor of unrelenting light
As her questions disappear
There is only faith and fear
As the prophecy, uncovered, slowly penetrates her sight

Can she touch it?
Can it be?
Is the prize inside too filthy to be free?

Through the surface of her skin
As she pulls the power in
She is tangled in the torment of her dream
And surrenders to its terrifying scream

It is more than any mortal mind could ever comprehend
It is more than any body could survive
She is overwhelmed by wonder as she feels her soul descend
In the mysteries of sleep
There is darkness far too deep
But she reaches for the bottom, the inevitable end

Is it evil?
Does it feel?
It embraces her but orders her to kneel

There were pieces of the puzzle she could never understand
But the terror of the beast
And the monster she released
Is not the prophecy she beckoned with her hand
She brings apocalypse, exactly as he planned

He is heartless
He is hungry
He is fury
And forever he is free

He is everything she never thought she’d see
He is everything she wanted him to be

---

Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno

A Little Peace

by Nick Gisburne

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The only thing she really wants is just a little peace
A moment of reflection, now and then
But nothing in his arrogance was born to bring release
He sinks her into suffering again

Her mind becomes a canvas for the crime
Her body is a playground for the pain
Dismissive of her cries
His twisted tongue denies
The solitude she needs to keep her sane

She used to be the life and soul, the centre of the world
But all the friends he found were thrown away
And when she took a step outside, his jealousy unfurled
A weak and worthless puppet for his play

Her mind becomes a canvas for the crime
Her body is a playground for the pain
Dismissive of her cries
His twisted tongue denies
The solitude she needs to keep her sane

She loved him once, before he made her cry
She loved him, but she can’t remember why

The only thing she knows is she has had enough of him
There isn’t any hope for what they had
She’s drowning in a sea of spite, but when she starts to swim
The simple answer doesn’t seem so bad

Her mind becomes a canvas for the crime
Her body is a playground for the pain
Dismissive of her cries
His twisted tongue denies
The solitude she needs to keep her sane

She loved him once, before he made her cry
She loved him, but tomorrow he will die

Her mind became a canvas for the crime
Her body was a playground for the pain
Dismissive of her cries
His bleeding body lies
Beneath her, no more sacred than a stain
The man who sent her silently insane

Dismissive of his cries
The bleeding body suffers as he dies

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Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno

The City She Remembers

by Nick Gisburne

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Staring at the city, she is cold
Shivering, she wonders what went wrong
Knowing that her bones are getting old
Knowing she’s too broken to belong

The city she remembers fades away
But bitterness convinces her to stay

This is where she fought to find her place
Crawling in the cracks between the bricks
Every crooked corner, every face
Poured another myth to feed the mix

The city she remembers fades away
But bitterness convinces her to stay

They pull it down and flatten every street
But what they build will never smell so sweet

The city she remembers fades away
But bitterness convinces her to stay

Staring at the city, cold and bright
What was once so wonderful is wrong
Clinical and clean, she stands to fight
The scum who say her people don’t belong

The city she remembers fades away
But bitterness convinces her to stay

Chipping at the surface of the stone
Painting imperfections with her pain
All she needs is all she’s ever known
Feelings that her fury can’t explain

The city she remembers fades away
They took her world and covered it with grey
But bitterness convinces her to stay
Another day

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Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno

She Was Beautiful

by Nick Gisburne

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They say that when they’re finished she will be a work of art
They tell her as they hide behind the lie
Their promise was destroyed before the surgery could start
They scramble to persuade her not to die

They told her she was beautiful today
She shivered as she watched them walk away

They say that there’s a chance she will be well and walking soon
They tell her what they think she wants to hear
But lying on a table on a Monday afternoon
The only thing she reaches for is fear

They told her she was beautiful today
She shivered as she watched them walk away

What happened is impossible to say
She knows she isn’t beautiful today

She knows that she will never be a fucking work of art
She knows that every promise is a lie
She knows she won’t be well and walking, long before they start
What else is there to do but wait to die?

They told her she was beautiful today
She shivered as she watched them walk away
And wondered why not one of them would stay

Tomorrow is a thousand years away
She was beautiful
But that was yesterday

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Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno

Perfect

by Nick Gisburne

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They never told us where they came from
Does it matter now?
What’s important is they’re never going back
When they demolished our defences
Still we wondered how
They could stain the skies and burn the oceans black

When their shadows blocked the sun
We had nowhere else to run
So they took this world by force
Without remorse

They didn’t bring us Armageddon
How did we survive
When the scourge that should have ended us fell down?
The shadows had another purpose
Keeping us alive
Pouring pain on every city, every town

When their shadows blocked the sun
We had nowhere else to run
So they took this world by force
Without remorse

As the world forever turns
Every soul forever burns
Immortal, in our perfect plastic tomb

It’s not important what they wanted
Nothing matters now
We will never die, eternally preserved
But if the shadows won’t release us
All of us, somehow
Will remember we received what we deserved

When their shadows blocked the sun
We had nowhere else to run
So they took this world by force
Without remorse

As the world forever turns
Every soul in silence burns

As the world forever turns
Every soul in silence burns

In the torment of our doom
In our perfect plastic tomb

Forever

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Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno

There’s a Hedgehog in the Garden

by Nick Gisburne

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There’s a hedgehog in the garden
And he comes out every night
He was always very secretive at first
But I soon began to wonder
When he wandered out of sight
If he needed help, and quickly feared the worst.

There’s a hedgehog in the garden
And he comes out every night
If you think you wouldn’t follow him, you might

What I finally discovered
When I looked beneath the shed
Was a secret more amazing than I thought
He was lounging in pyjamas
On a fancy feather bed
Eating fishy tails and snails he’d somehow caught

There’s a hedgehog in the garden
In a room beneath the shed
And he likes to rub his belly when he’s fed

When he saw me there he waved, and with a grin
He told me, “There is room for two, come in!”

I was taken to the kitchen
Where he cooked me up a feast
When I asked him what it was he wouldn’t say
But he offered me a napkin
It was delicately creased
By a cat with half a coat - the local stray

There’s a hedgehog in the garden
And he really doesn’t bite
If you think you wouldn’t follow him, you would
But remember when he feeds you
Something crunchy late at night
That the taste of bugs and beetles won’t be good

If you need to stay away, perhaps you should

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Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno

The Glory of the Gold

by Nick Gisburne

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In the shimmer of his black, satanic seed
In the glimmer of each cold, immortal eye
In the cancer of his flesh
In his marrow, fat and fresh
Burns a misery his hunger cannot feed
And a longing that he knows will never die

In the shimmer of the black
See him crumble. See him crack

He was born to build a universe of lust
But he failed to fill the emptiness of space
When the wonder somehow broke
When his power turned to smoke
He was king of nothing, emperor of dust
Now he waits for someone else to take his place

He was born for life and lust
But his destiny is dust

She is coming. There is glory in her gold
Her malevolence is crooked to the core
She is infinitely thrilled
That her brother could not build
Something better, something bigger, something bold
From her body bursts the birth of something more

In the glory of her gold
She is bigger. She is bold.

There is darkness in her dreams
There is passion in her screams
There is everything her brother could not be
He could never build the sickness she can see.

In the blazing devastation of her mind
In the shadows of the starlight she creates
Stands a sister who will rise
Through the cracked and shattered skies
While her brother, forced to follow, falls behind
In the dirt of her destruction he is blind

Just a glimmer in the glory she designed

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Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno

A Body in the Street

by Nick Gisburne

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You see a body in the street
Begin to drag it by the feet
When it’s the only food you’ll ever find to eat

But then you’re looking at the head
Is this a setup? Is he dead?
And if he’s breathing can you finish him instead?

And so you’re pulling out the steel
To try to make this fucker feel
That now the end of it, the death of it, is real

You take a second for the kill
And take another for the thrill
But then you wonder if you can, and if you will

They tell you discipline is king
But when you murder here’s the thing
Nobody warns you what depravity will bring

Another victim, passing through
Before the end of all you knew
He had a focus and a future, just like you

But when you leave him here to die
Before you turn away to cry
You see a maniac who looks you in the eye

Another scavenger to fight?
A strange illusion of the light?
Starvation tampers with the centre of your sight

You punch the window, break a bone
And see the foul reflection groan
The sole survivor, you are standing here alone

The body, just a piece of wood
Would mock your madness if it could
And try to tell you what you never understood

That there was never any meat
That there is nothing left to eat
And with your final breath the story is complete

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Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno

It’s an Alien

by Nick Gisburne

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When we saw it first and took it home we raised it as a pet
It was strange, but it was lovable and warm
We were shocked before the year was over, when we saw it sweat
When it turned and took a strange, disfigured form

It’s an alien
Of course we know it now
But we don’t know why it chuckles when we bow

In the second stage the alien was pacified by food
We were lucky that it had a taste for wood
When it grew a new appendage we were certain it was rude
But it shrivelled up in winter, which was good

It’s an alien
Of course we know it now
And by Christmas it was bigger than a cow

If you’re listening
It’s glistening
It’s trying hard to split
There is nothing we can do to make it quit

It’s an alien
Of course we know it now
We should send it back, but none of us know how

We were shocked to see the thing become a terrifying head
It is rolling round the garden, and it stinks
When we tried to get the government to study it, they said
They are willing to collect it if it shrinks

It’s an alien
Of course we know it now

It’s an alien
It chuckles when we bow

It’s an alien
It’s bigger than a cow

It’s an alien
And none of us know how it plays the fiddle

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Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno

She Wonders Why

by Nick Gisburne

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She is blinded by the memories of blood
She is sickened by the aftershocks of pain
She remembers how it felt
All the suffering she dealt
From the darkness in her disconnected brain

He had always had it coming
He was always meant to die
But she shivers in the shade and wonders why

He was nothing but a gentleman at first
But the flowers and the kisses couldn’t last
She remembers how it felt
When he struck her with his belt
And the fever of his rage before it passed

He had always had it coming
He was always meant to die
But she shivers in the shade and wonders why

In the summer’s heatwave somehow she was cold
When she woke beside the man she loved she cried
She remembers how it felt
When the final blow she dealt
Took away the seeds of hope she stored inside

He had always had it coming
He was always meant to die
But she shivers in the shade and wonders why

In the aftershocks of pain
In her disconnected brain
She wonders why
He made her cry

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Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno

Find A Way Within

by Nick Gisburne

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Too nervous, I denied it
Was I certain? Was I sure?
Was there anyone to terminate the lie?
But now I stab inside it
Rip the curtain, chase the cure
Break the fingers that are dragging me to die

If I find a way within
If I find a way to win
If I suffocate the darkness of my doubt
If I push my way inside
If I sabotage the tide
I am strong enough to drive the demons out

I’m crawling in the slurry
In the sewage, in the scum
In the tunnels, broken open far too late
I tell myself to hurry
But the cripple I’ve become
Is the filthy fool I always used to hate

If I find a way within
If I find a way to win
If I suffocate the darkness of my doubt
If I push my way inside
If I sabotage the tide
I am strong enough to drive the demons out

The sickness twists inside me
It is brutal. It is black
It is clutching at the corners of my heart
Salvation is denied me
By the poisonous attack
Of an evil far too foul to pull apart

If I find a way within
If I find a way to win
If I suffocate the darkness of my doubt
If I push my way inside
If I sabotage the tide
I am strong enough to drive the demons out

Salvation is denied me
The sickness twists inside me
It is clutching at the corners of my heart

There is only pain within
There was no way I could win
I am smothered by the darkness of my doubt
Though I found a way inside
I was broken by the tide
Never strong enough to drive the demons out

Defeated by a terrifying tide
There is only pain and suffering inside

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Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno

You Wanted My Heart to Believe

by Nick Gisburne

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I wanted this message to reach you in time
When I said I was right I was wrong
A coward who told you it wasn’t a crime
I sang a predictable song

You wanted my heart to believe
You needed my conscience to care
Deserving of all I receive
I break in the storm of your stare

I shouldn’t have doubted the truth of your word
My excuses are never enough
I’ll always remember the hurt that I heard
When you told me to go that was tough

You wanted my heart to believe
You needed my soul to accept
Deserving of all I receive
I break in the whispers you wept

They said he was guilty. They took him away.
But today isn’t where it will end
The look in your eyes is the price I will pay
For the pain my remorse will not mend

You wanted my heart to believe
You needed my hand in your own
Deserving of all I receive
I break as I stand here alone

I break when I know you won’t answer the phone.

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Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno

Piles of Treasure

by Nick Gisburne

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Though the size of it, the weight, the wonder, overwhelms his mind
There is nothing he can do but pile it high
In the chaos of his castle it’s impossible to find
Any answer, any rhyme or reason why

In the stinking piles of treasure, is there gold?
Is he proud of every dirty, dusty prize?
In his eyes, however broken
He finds another token
Of a world which never sees him getting old

There are avenues and alleyways. His corridors collapse
On the summit of a stockpile lies a bed
When he finds a piece of pleasure he imagines that perhaps
Someone else will see the story in his head

In the stinking piles of treasure, is there truth?
Is he proud of what his kingdom has become?
In his eyes, however broken
He finds another token
Of a system he rejected in his youth

He believes that there is nothing better, nothing more than this
There is order. There is purpose to the plan
When he crawls into a corner, finds a bottle, takes a piss
No one tells him how to be a better man

In the stinking piles of treasure, is there hope?
Is he proud of how he spends his final days?
In his eyes, however broken
He finds another token
Of a system too insane to spare him soap

There is nothing he can do but pile it high
No one ever thinks to find the reason why

In the stinking piles of treasure, is there peace?
Is he proud of what his palisade becomes?
In his eyes, however broken
He finds another token
Of a system where the pressures never cease

In a system where he longs to find release

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Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno