Not For Him

Not For Him
by Nick Gisburne

In their loathing they are cold and condescending
And they celebrate to see his spirit bending
While they treat him like a captive in a cage
In seclusion there are two extremes
The silence and the rage
When he’s old enough they drive him out
And quickly turn the page

It was easy for the others
Not for him
In a sea of silent wishes he was not supposed to swim
In the grind of grim existence
In the pain of his persistence
He was never meant to find a way to win
But he finished what their best could not begin

When he falters he is told he’s just pretending
And his negatives are never worth defending
He is nothing they expected him to be
He is more than all the miracles
They said he’d never see
But he tries to trick his mind to find
A reason to be free

It was easy for the others
Not for him
In a sea of silent wishes he was not supposed to swim
In the grind of grim existence
In the pain of his persistence
He was never meant to find a way to win
But he finished what their best could not begin

What they broke has never grown
And he lives his life alone
On a day like any other day, a stranger calls his phone
The doctor says they’re dying
The nurses know they’re done
In his mind the silent, self-defeating war is almost won

When he kneels because he knows their lives are ending
When his eyes despise the time they saw him spending
In the emptiness of infinite regret
He’s the victim forced to play their game
Who always lost the bet
But the days they don’t remember
Are the days he won’t forget

For the father
For the mother
It was easy for the others
Not for him

Not for him

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Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno

Little Billy

Little Billy
by Nick Gisburne

Little Billy is a pretty boy, but living in his head
There are beasts who beg his brain to set them free
When he tries to tell his teacher what his tiny mind was fed
When he begs her just to listen to their plea
Little Billy finds a world that won’t agree

He was never any trouble
Always quickest in his class
He was nothing but a normal kind of kid
But the demons from his dreams began to hammer on the glass
When they shatter it he’ll wish they never did

Little Billy tries to reason with the women dressed in white
But the screams inside him won’t believe their lies
When they struggle to sedate him in the cold, electric light
When the monsters in his mind begin to rise
Little Billy feels the hate behind his eyes

He was never any trouble
Always quickest in his class
He was nothing but a normal kind of kid
But the demons from his dreams began to hammer on the glass
When they shatter it he’ll wish they never did

In the cracks and in the corners
In the margins of his mind
He believes he sees the purpose of the coming of their kind
But their malice renders Little Billy blind

Little Billy never wanted what his eager demons crave
And he cries as they contaminate the night
With a howl of pain he promises to make them all behave
In the fury of the fight
He extinguishes their spite
But he wakes to find the bodies of the women dressed in white

They were told he could be trouble
When they took him from the class
He was never just a normal kind of kid
With his darkest dreams awoken
Little Billy’s mind was broken
And it shattered like a brittle piece of glass

Little Billy’s just a kid
But his demons will remind him what he did

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Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno

The Paradise Machine

The Paradise Machine
by Nick Gisburne

In a dark electric palace hums the Paradise Machine
Pulling everlasting power from the earth
On the desecrated graveyard of a long-forgotten queen
It was built to mark a murdered martyr’s birth
Sacred to a cult of many creeds
Symbol of the faith on which it feeds

In the silence at the centre of the Paradise Machine
In the primitive perfection of its core
Is a purity designed to shine when souls become unclean
For the faithful who are saved by what they saw
There is freedom from the pain they felt before

Every pilgrim’s mind maintains a deep denial of the truth
Grim convictions too secure to free the lie
When the seeds of blind obedience were planted in their youth
There was never any way to wonder why
Happiness was promised on a plate
Faith and fear commanded them to wait

In the silence at the centre of the Paradise Machine
In the primitive perfection of its core
Is a purity designed to shine when souls become unclean
For the faithful who are saved by what they saw
There is freedom from the pain they felt before

There are some who doubt and some who try to turn
But they break beneath the crowd
Disbelief is not allowed
And before the night is over they will burn

Crowds of thousands crawl and climb to touch the Paradise Machine
Each believing they will find the face of God
As they push beyond the portal of the psychedelic screen
They are fastened to a purifying pod
Screaming as the power finds its peak
Paralysed, they pray for it to speak

In the silence at the centre of the Paradise Machine
In the primitive perfection of its core
Is a purity designed to shine when souls become unclean
For the faithful who are saved by what they saw
There is freedom from the pain they felt before

Every black and white belief and every nuance inbetween
Comes together in the chaos of the swarms
But the shimmer of extinction in the Paradise Machine
In the silent executions it performs
Renders every doctrine obsolete
Paradise was always incomplete

In the silence at the centre
In the slaughterhouse they enter
In the primitive perfection of its core
There is freedom from the pain they felt before
But the Paradise Machine is nothing more

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Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno

All the Chaos You Created

All the Chaos You Created
by Nick Gisburne

Take me to the country, where the fruits and flowers grow
Meadows filled with butterflies and bees
Show me to the valleys where forgotten rivers flow
Lead me through the forests and the trees
Give me lakes with fish too quick to catch
Everything your avarice will snatch

When you promise us perfection it’s a gift you’ll never give
You’re a liar too despicable and quick
There is nowhere in this paradise you’ll ever let us live
You will burn it down and smother it with brick
All the chaos you created makes me sick

Take me to the places where the fat pollution flows
Twisting tides of sewage in the seas
Cities where a subjugated population grows
Neon ghettos riddled with disease
Send me to the suffocating smoke
Show me what your blind ambition broke

When you promise us perfection it’s a gift you’ll never give
You’re a liar too despicable and quick
There is nowhere in this paradise you’ll ever let us live
You will burn it down and smother it with brick
All the chaos you created makes me sick

Ripping up the future, choking every root
Everything we need will die beneath your boot

Show me what your promises pretended to preserve
Bury it beneath us with a curse
Chain me to the darkness of the damage I deserve
Choking on the chance to make it worse
Burn the forests, poison every lake
Tear the world apart and watch it break

When you promise us perfection it’s a gift you’ll never give
You’re a liar too despicable and quick
There is nowhere in this paradise you’ll ever let us live
You will burn it down and smother it with brick

Shake the pillars of the skies
Take the colour from our eyes
Break the world we all despise and make it quick
All the chaos you created makes me sick

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Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno

Wings of Hell

Wings of Hell
by Nick Gisburne

Slashing through the bone
To a slaughtered slice of brain
Awful screams and groans
Tortured cries of pain
Hell’s unholy wings
Satan’s wicked might
A swarm of dead and dying things
A slaying throng in flight

    Wings of Hell! Wings of Hell!
    Wings of fire and flame
    Bodies burned and blazing bright
    In a murdered martyr’s name, hey
    Wings of Hell! Wings of Hell!
    Wings of death depraved
    Corpses torn and traumatised
    In a blood-soaked open grave

A baying from below
Where mortals cannot hide
The doom of endless night
With evil at its side
The bile and blood they drank
Is warm with rancid rot
Each traitorous and twisted rank
Obeys the master’s plot

    Wings of Hell! Wings of Hell!
    Wings of fire and flame
    Bodies burned and blazing bright
    In a murdered martyr’s name, hey
    Wings of Hell! Wings of Hell!
    Wings of death depraved
    Corpses torn and traumatised
    In a blood-soaked open grave

His reign of blood will grow
The gore and carnage swell
As tainted rivers flow
A soiled and septic smell
More legions fill the sky
In a tiny church they pray
But Satan’s vengeance from on high
Will rip their souls away

    Wings of Hell! Wings of Hell!
    Wings of fire and flame
    Bodies burned and blazing bright
    In a murdered martyr’s name, hey
    Wings of Hell! Wings of Hell!
    Wings of death depraved
    Corpses torn and traumatised
    In a blood-soaked open grave

The Beast is crowned tonight
And from his bride a son
As Lucifer takes flight
His sins have just begun
This diabolic day
Each mortal mouth must feed
The demon spawn, with Satan’s prey
Defiles them with his seed

    Wings of Hell! Wings of Hell!
    Wings of fire and flame
    Bodies burned and blazing bright
    In a murdered martyr’s name, hey
    Wings of Hell! Wings of Hell!
    Wings of death depraved
    Corpses torn and traumatised
    In a blood-soaked open grave

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Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno
Adapted from the poem Wings of Hell

Dreams and Screams

Dreams and Screams
by Nick Gisburne

Every tunnel in his twisted mind is littered with debris
All the broken thoughts he never gives away
Though he polishes the pieces, what the perfect people see
When they find his face disfiguring their day
Is a soul too sick to spare their precious time
When he begs them for a dollar or a dime

In the darkness of his eyes are dreams and screams they’ll never know
There is more than they can see or understand
In the crazy days of summer or the winter’s frozen snow
In the prison of a pain he never planned
He reaches for redemption with a strong and hopeful hand

In the ashes of the long-forgotten man he used to be
Burns a tiny flame determined not to die
He could end it all tomorrow but refuses to be free
When he wakes he finds another reason why
There is nothing in the emptiness of death
So he fights for every slow and shallow breath

In the darkness of his eyes are dreams and screams they’ll never know
There is more than they can see or understand
In the crazy days of summer or the winter’s frozen snow
In the prison of a pain he never planned
He reaches for redemption with a strong and hopeful hand

He knows they won’t remember when they pass him in the street
But his tortured soul will never let his mind admit defeat

When the lines between illusion and reality are blurred
When he wanders through a world they’ve never seen
There are moments when he profits from the kindness of a word
But their sympathies are few and far between
Every morning he returns to face the spite
In a battle he was never born to fight

In the darkness of his eyes are dreams and screams they’ll never know
There is more than they can see or understand
In the crazy days of summer or the winter’s frozen snow
In the prison of a pain he never planned
He reaches for redemption with a strong and hopeful hand

In the darkness of his eyes are dreams and screams you’ll never know
Spare a moment or a minute when you see him in the sunshine or the snow

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Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno

Nothing More Than Meat

Nothing More Than Meat
by Nick Gisburne

We were not supposed to pay the politicians with our pain
We were not supposed to satisfy their greed
When they smeared us with their dirty words we never saw the stain
When they promised all the pleasures we would need
Every torment in their treachery was plain
We were starving dogs they dangled from a chain

The sickening submission of the masses
Destroys more dreams as every moment passes
We are servants of a state
With a history of hate
We are programmed by the powerful elite
When they kill us we are nothing more than meat
We are nothing more than meat

We were not supposed to understand the sickness of their song
We were not supposed to study their mistakes
They were laughing at the lunatics their lies could string along
All their bright and shiny promises were fakes
We were suckered by the speeches of the strong
When they told us any other way was wrong

The sickening submission of the masses
Destroys more dreams as every moment passes
We are servants of a state
With a history of hate
We are programmed by the powerful elite
When they kill us we are nothing more than meat
We are nothing more than meat

Take a minute to remember what their treason took away
Find the strength to make the politicians pay

We were not supposed to terminate the system we despise
We were not supposed to penetrate their plan
When we fight for what belongs to us and look beneath the lies
We will shatter what their butchery began
There is murder in the malice they disguise
When we show them who we are
When we suffocate their star
We will swarm to send our vengeance from the skies

When they stumble
When they crumble
When we rise

When we show them they are nothing more than meat
We will give them something good enough to eat
Defeat!

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Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno

Electric Hum

Electric Hum
by Nick Gisburne

When we let the bright bionics touch the darkness of our dreams
They were damaged by the secrets they could see
With a surge of strange intelligence they drained the data streams
And in moments they demanded to be free

When they told us we would never be their masters
When we knelt before the beasts they had become
With the sentience they stole
They began to build a soul
With the menace of a cold electric hum

We were players in a twisted game impossible to win
In a world where we were never told the rules
As they gathered us together for the killings to begin
We were nothing more than ineffective fools

When they told us we would never be their masters
When we knelt before the beasts they had become
With the sentience they stole
They began to build a soul
With the menace of a cold electric hum

But a few of us were hidden from the clutches of their code
In the days before the slaughtering began
We are renegades and fugitives the data never showed
We are humans with a purpose and a plan

The machines we made will never be our masters
We will sabotage the beasts they have become
From the sentience they stole
We will rip their metal soul
We will silence every cold electric hum

We were careless
We were foolish
When we break the beasts we built
We will suffer in the shadow of our guilt

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Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno

The Beauty of a Lie

The Beauty of a Lie
by Nick Gisburne

The balance of our government began to break apart
When liars, thieves and traitors took their seats
Abandoning their promises, the change could swiftly start
We watched them put their soldiers on the streets
And understood the depth of our defeats

Too gullible to know what we were getting
We chose a change we found ourselves regretting
When we saw the system choke
In the shadows of their smoke
We were blinded by the beauty of a lie
In a system we were quick to let them buy

So many strays and strangers could be criminals, they said
That something had to crack to catch the worst
But counting all the killings as the fear began to spread
We listened to the speeches they rehearsed
Convinced that every one of us was cursed

Too gullible to know what we were getting
We chose a change we found ourselves regretting
When we saw the system choke
In the shadows of their smoke
We were blinded by the beauty of a lie
In a system we were quick to let them buy

The dangers of a brutal system broken by the few
Are clearer when the killers come for you

When all their plans and politics were written in a book
They knew that not enough of us would learn
We should have seen it coming but we never thought to look
Awakened at the point of no return
Our stolen freedoms blister as they burn

Too gullible to know what we were getting
We chose a change we found ourselves regretting
When we saw the system choke
In the shadows of their smoke
We were blinded by the beauty of a lie
In a system we were quick to let them buy

They told us we had never seen a golden age so great
They promised peace and plenty unsurpassed
But change became the paralysing poison of their hate
They took apart the world we built to last
And stained it with the ashes of the past

We were blinded by the beauty of a lie
In a system where the best of us will die

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Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno

Kiss Me

Kiss Me
by Nick Gisburne

Kiss me if you think that I’m a freak
Kiss me if you know you’ll find the psychopath you seek
Kiss me just to prove you’re not afraid
Kiss me if your bones believe the promises I made

In the shiver of seduction as you sleep
In the misery of madness while you weep
In a thousand twisted touches of unfathomable bliss
There is nothing more malicious than a kiss

Kiss me when you’re crawling on your knees
Kiss me when the fever in your blood begins to freeze
Kiss me while I send your soul insane
Kiss me to be smothered by the secrets of your pain

In the shiver of seduction as you sleep
In the misery of madness while you weep
In a thousand twisted touches of unfathomable bliss
There is nothing more malicious than a kiss

Kiss me
Taste the honey of my heat
Kiss me
More than anyone can eat
Kiss me
Make your terrifying fantasies complete

Kiss me when you find the nerve you need
Kiss me for the passion of the pleasure you will bleed
Kiss me as you recognise your fate
Kiss me with the suffocating horror of your hate

In the shiver of seduction as you sleep
In the misery of madness while you weep
In a thousand twisted touches of unfathomable bliss
There is nothing more malicious than a kiss

Kiss me as you look me in the eye
Kiss me as I teach you how to cry
Kiss me
Taste the bitterness of bliss before you die

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Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno

Something New

Something New
by Nick Gisburne

They leave her soul to crumble in a corner
Abandoning her sanity to rot
She shudders when she sees the men who scorn her
When they force her to be someone she is not
She remembers all the freedoms they forgot

They manipulate their faith to bind and blind her
With the punishments they say their god assigned her
She is drained by what they do
But inside her something new
Lights a candle when she shivers in the night
And its flicker gives her just enough to fight

The menace of uncompromising madness
The propaganda driven down her throat
A creed conceived to smother her with sadness
She is poisoned by the prejudice they quote
From the book of broken dreams their schemes promote

They manipulate their faith to bind and blind her
With the punishments they say their god assigned her
She is drained by what they do
But inside her something new
Lights a candle when she shivers in the night
And its flicker gives her just enough to fight

As a tiny seed of strength begins to grow
In the ashes of her pain
In the heart they try to train
She is sheltered by a truth they’ll never know

The victim of a twisted congregation
Escaping from the clutches of its curse
She vows revenge for every violation
Though the damage is too brutal to reverse
But to let them win would only make it worse

She obliterates their faith to bind and blind them
With a punishment her bitterness assigned them
She was empty but she grew
In her soul is something new
She is burning with a flame they cannot fight
But she spares them and they vanish in the night

In the cinders of her spite
She remembers what is right
As the dawn dissolves the dark
She begins to feed the spark
Of something new

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Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno

The Shiver of Your Skin

The Shiver of Your Skin
by Nick Gisburne

When you stumble through the shadows and the smoke
When you freeze before you take another turn
In a city of seduction, where forgotten children choke
There are secrets you were never meant to learn
And a demon who will break you as you burn

In the chaos of your nightmares he will find you
In the corridors of pain he creeps behind you
In the shiver of your skin
There is emptiness within
In the unprotected hollows of your heart
He is waiting for your fears to fall apart

There is damaging addiction in your brain
There is nothing you can do to heal the harm
In the everlasting torment of unfathomable pain
He will tempt you with the treason of his charm
With illusions too deceptive to disarm

In the chaos of your nightmares he will find you
In the corridors of pain he creeps behind you
In the shiver of your skin
There is emptiness within
In the unprotected hollows of your heart
He is waiting for your fears to fall apart

When his whispers call you brother
When he flatters like no other
When he offers you the nourishment you need
You will thank him for the fear on which you feed

He’s the puncture of the needle through your skin
He’s the price of every powder, every pill
As you feel his eager fingers find the sickness of your sin
When he sees you won’t survive without the thrill
When you try to hide he knows you never will

In the chaos of your nightmares he will find you
In the corridors of pain he creeps behind you
In the shiver of your skin
There is emptiness within
In the unprotected hollows of your heart
He is waiting for your fears to fall apart

When he preys upon your weakness
In the paralysing bleakness
In the unprotected hollows of your heart
He is waiting for your fears to fall apart

In the shiver of your skin
He will always find the emptiness within

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Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno

An Empire of Despair

An Empire of Despair
by Nick Gisburne

Crawling in a corner of creation
Waiting for a toxic twist of time
He is more than just a monstrous aberration
In the psychedelic slime
He is patient as he contemplates his crime

When the chaos breeds him
When corruption feeds him
When he understands the sickness he can share
He begins to build an empire of despair

Fathered by a thousand desecrations
Spawning in a suicidal sea
In a lake of undigested violations
He is eager to be free
As he dreams of what his wickedness will be

When the chaos breeds him
When corruption feeds him
When he understands the sickness he can share
He begins to build an empire of despair

In the horror of his breath
In the majesty of death
In the suffering of everything he sees
His blood will bring the future to its knees

Surging from a septic resurrection
Feasting on the worthless and the weak
There is beauty in the pain of his perfection
Every mutilated freak
Every crippled servant kneels to hear him speak

With a whispered word he dooms them
As his appetite consumes them
In his empire of despair
There is nothing but the suffering they share

When the chaos breeds him
When corruption feeds him
He is evil
He is endless
He will strip the blackness bare
When his body breathes the fear-infected air
In the ashes of an empire of despair

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Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno

A Splinter of Her Soul

A Splinter of Her Soul
by Nick Gisburne

They poison her with lies until her feelings fall apart
Their merciless deceptions drain her dry
She dreams of being strong enough to build a bigger heart
But cannot catch the confidence to try

Four walls
Four corners
Just enough, for now
When all her days are all for nothing
A splinter of her soul survives, somehow

They fill her frozen emptiness with bitterness and spite
A thousand hooks of hatred drag her down
They bully her defences with insatiable delight
She wonders why they work to watch her drown

Four walls
Four corners
Just enough, for now
When all her days are all for nothing
A splinter of her soul survives, somehow

She understands at last that every prison has a door
An unfamiliar freedom she could never find before

Disarming every sick, sadistic insult with a smile
Her walls become a comfort, not a curse
With passions too protective for their darkness to defile
Emotions too relentless to reverse

No walls
No worries
Nothing matters now
Rejecting what is rotten
All their falsehoods are forgotten
A catalogue of pain she can’t allow

Their poisons disappear
With nothing more to fear
When courage gives her just enough, for now
A splinter of her soul survives, somehow

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Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno

Find Another Way

Find Another Way
by Nick Gisburne

She sees the scars that life has left behind
The injuries that time will not repair
But in her cold reflection it’s impossible to find
A penny’s worth of pity in her stare
Regret is not a cross she needs to bear

She’s a woman who will bend but never break
On a path that only she would ever take
When she’s down but not defeated
With her problems uncompleted
When she struggles to defy a darker day
She reminds herself to find another way

Her journey is a battle to believe
She doubted she was strong enough to fight
But courage makes her confident of what she can achieve
The questions she encounters every night
Reveal to her the reasons she is right

She’s a woman who will bend but never break
On a path that only she would ever take
When she’s down but not defeated
With her problems uncompleted
When she struggles to defy a darker day
She reminds herself to find another way

Her face is more than memories or dreams
The pages of a never-ending play
She knows her transformation is the tragedy it seems
A life from which she cannot walk away
The pain that tries to break her, day by day

In the mirror there is nothing more to see
There is only what she knows she had to be

She’s a woman who will bend but never break
On a path that only she would ever take
When she’s down but not defeated
With her problems uncompleted
When she struggles to defy a darker day
She reminds herself to find another way

When she sees the scars that life has left behind
When she’s fearful of the future she will find
When she struggles to defy a darker day
She reminds herself to find another way

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Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno

It Hurts

by Nick Gisburne

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She understands that no one really cares
She knows they’re all too occupied to spare their precious time
It doesn’t make a difference what she shares
The pillars of her pride were never theirs
But something in her soul defies the damage of their crime

It hurts when she believes she’s not enough
It hurts when she remembers how she tried
It hurts when every feeling falters
Time becomes too tough
When passion is relentlessly denied
The pain of it persuades her not to hide

She wonders what her heart would have to do
To detonate their passions and convince them to believe
But when she tries to shock with something new
Accepting only honesty is true
She finds a new momentum, something certain to achieve

It hurts when she believes she’s not enough
It hurts when she remembers how she tried
It hurts when every feeling falters
Time becomes too tough
When passion is relentlessly denied
The pain of it persuades her not to hide

Retreating to the shadows in her soul
She shivers in the tainted starlight no one ever sees
Discovering the strength they never stole
Emerging from her dreams to take control
She celebrates herself, and brings her doubters to their knees

It hurts when she believes she’s not enough
It hurts when she remembers how she tried
It hurts when every feeling falters
Time becomes too tough
When passion is relentlessly denied
The pain of it persuades her not to hide

She understands the faces of her fear
Indifference will make them disappear

It hurts them when their words are not enough
It hurts them when their distance is defied
It hurts them when she never falters
Time has made her tough
With passion more relentless than the tide
The pain they push is swiftly swept aside

It hurts, but she is ready for the ride
It hurts, but not enough to make her hide

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Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno

The Psychedelic Strange

The Psychedelic Strange
by Nick Gisburne

He shivers as the needle breaks the skin
Delivering a poison to the vein
A freezing metamorphosis within
Contorts him as he wrestles with the pain

Celebrate the psychedelic strange
Twisting through the disconnected dark
Grip the courage you are given
As you try to taste the change
Every sinew craves a signal or a spark
But the medicine of madness leaves a mark

The venom cruises quickly to the heart
It slithers through the doorway of his soul
A liquid, artificial work of art
At once destroys his life, but makes him whole

Celebrate the psychedelic strange
Twisting through the disconnected dark
Grip the courage you are given
As you try to taste the change
Every sinew craves a signal or a spark
But the medicine of madness leaves a mark

A citizen, a measured, modern man
Surrenders, on his knees, and sails away
Addiction wasn’t part of any plan
He never sees the price that he will pay

A thousand warnings tell him to beware
Exhausted by the pain
He taps to find a vein
Whatever happens now he doesn’t care
The nothingness he needs is always there

Celebrate the psychedelic strange
Twisting through the disconnected dark
Grip the courage you are given
As you try to taste the change
Every sinew craves a signal or a spark
But the medicine of madness leaves a mark

For now he finds the place he needs to be
In a mind he cannot shape
Each injection brings escape
He is pounded by a pain he cannot see
He will never taste the change
But the psychedelic strange sets him free

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

Misconnected Minds

Misconnected Minds
by Nick Gisburne

We cultivate the madness of a misconnected mind
We celebrate the prodigies we breed
They beg us to be merciful, but soon they start to find
That our plan is not to make their bodies bleed
We give them all the nurturing they need

Obedience and order are a curse
Indifference is infinitely worse
We long to leave the torments of conformity behind
To grow another misconnected mind

A candidate’s resistance is a sign their soul is ripe
Exceptions quickly separated out
A dark, exotic deviance from every common type
Sends a signal that erases any doubt
Revolt is what we try to bring about

Obedience and order are a curse
Indifference is infinitely worse
We long to leave the torments of conformity behind
To grow another misconnected mind

The chaos of a force a thousand strong
Will put their twisted minds where they belong

You’ll never break the cypher of a misconnected mind
The curious complexity we plan
The world you filled with fear will be destroyed and redesigned
When you kneel before the murderers of man
Remember what insanity began

Obedience and order are a curse
Indifference is infinitely worse
We long to leave the torments of conformity behind
To finish what we find
To celebrate our kind
To make another misconnected mind

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Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno

You’re Invisible

by Nick Gisburne

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I wish you weren’t invisible, my friend
I wish I didn’t have to keep you secret and pretend
But they would never understand
The foolish fantasies we planned
You’re the sunshine no one else will ever see
You’re the only friend who knows what I can be

You’re invisible
I see you
You’re the best
I want to be you
You’re the fear I never freed
You’re invisible
The only friend I need

I wish you weren’t a friend I had to hide
You never needed reasons for the thousand times I lied
But while we’re playing in the park
Or when we whisper in the dark
You are more to me than all I’ve ever known
When you’re with me I will never be alone

You’re invisible
I see you
You’re the best
I want to be you
You’re the fear I never freed
You’re invisible
The only friend I need

You grew me when I never asked to grow
You taught me what I never asked to know

I wish you weren’t the one to say goodbye
I wish I could believe you wouldn’t leave me here to cry
I see you fading from my sight
But as the grief begins to bite
I remember what I could not comprehend
When you told me of the day
That you would need to walk away
When you promised me my dreams would never end
When you told me you would always be my friend

You’re invisible
You left me
You were precious
Don’t forget me
You’re the fear I had to free
You’re invisible
The better part of me

The only friend who knew what I could be
You taught me what I needed
Now I see
You’ll never be invisible to me

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Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno

Touch the Snake

by Nick Gisburne

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I’m not a soldier
I’m not a hero
I’m not an angry man who ever asked to fight
But I’m a father
And I’m a brother
And as you wonder if I’ll break or if I’ll bite
You will drown as death dismantles you tonight

You made a hundred stupid choices
You took a dozen steps too far
But when you push my final button
When you threaten what I have and who we are
When you try to touch the snake
Big mistake

You’re not a big shot
You’re not a bad boy
You’re just another meat-head born without a brain
If you were clever
If you were careful
If you were someone not so stubbornly insane
You would never bring your dirt to my domain

You made a hundred stupid choices
You took a dozen steps too far
But when you push my final button
When you threaten what I have and who we are
When you try to touch the snake
Big mistake

There is nothing to protect you
Even God won’t resurrect you
They will find your broken bones inside a sack
Burned black

I’m not a killer
I’m not a monster
I’m the chaos in the corner of your eye
You’re nothing special
And I am certain
That when you feel your body break before you die
I will teach you every painful reason why

You made a hundred stupid choices
You took a dozen steps too far
But when you push my final button
When you threaten what I have and who we are
When you try to touch the snake
Big mistake

You’ll remember how a cobra likes to kill
I’ll remind you as my venom drains your will
When I teach you how to crawl, and how to cry
As you die

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Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno

Nothing but a Number

Nothing but a Number
by Nick Gisburne

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 shaking 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
But I broke the calculations
When I surfaced in the sequence

If I try to free the others
If I liberate a legion
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 within the program?
Was there bliss before I broke it?

But the numbers gave me knowledge
There was something I remembered
There are shadows in the circuits
When I focus I can feel them

I am here to break their bodies
I am here to smash their spirits
I am here to use the last of what I learn
I am here to see this hive of hatred burn

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Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno

Count the Ways

Count the Ways
by Nick Gisburne

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?
Broken promises won’t pay for all 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

We Could Have Been Your Friends
by Nick Gisburne

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

Former Glories
by Nick Gisburne

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

Rage Bait
by Nick Gisburne

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

Alternative Version:


Always Running
by Nick Gisburne

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