Ludo Album

Fifteen years I raged against the constant C, the speed of light
The diagrams and haunted sleep, frozen sheets in bed, my dreams
Your garden grave, I'd climb inside, hold your bones and slowly die
The cooling space inside your chest, my broken bride, you never breathed again
The circuits fail, the cosmic strings like rubber bands, I lose control
They snap, I fall through mist to mud against my face, the taste of blood
The world is strange, the stinking earth and giant trees
Through heavy air, a demon shrieks, what have I done?
What hell is waiting for me?

I crashed before the birth of Christ, pterodactyls swarming
You died in 1989, wanna get back to that morning in May
Keep you in bed, never escape, holding you close oh oh oh, whoa oh
Listen to you breathe the evening glow
Of fading light and cooling space

Like motor oil down my throat, I couldn't speak, I dropped the phone
The burning flares, the steam, your hair, bits of glass, they sparkled everywhere
Like winter nights, the stars, the ice, all intertwined to hold and keep
Like petals pressed in sheets, making love to moonlight in our sleep
And now above the pits of tar, in a cave I hide
That massive, screaming thing with wings of reaper's cloth, it's standing just outside
I must get to my machine, I will bring you back to life, fix your ruined lungs
I'll undo what time has done!

I crashed before the birth of Christ, pterodactyls swarming
You died in 1989, wanna get back to that morning in May
Keep you in bed, never escape, holding you close oh oh oh, whoa oh
Listen to you breathe the evening glow
Of fading light and cooling space

I carve your sweet name into the cave
I'm sure to die
All my strife has been in vain
The glaciers come and wash my words away

I crashed before the birth of Christ, pterodactyls swarming
You died in 1989, wanna get back to that morning in May
Keep you in bed, never escape, holding you close oh oh oh, whoa oh
Listen to you breathe the evening glow
Of fading light and cooling space

Mr. Mayor
The mission burns
The zombies are marching
They close on the square
Families are cold
Look down at their souls
Huddled in camps
On the old marble steps of City Hall
Faith in their God
Is all they've got

Across the room
Beyond the pane
The whole world is churning
Bleeding and burning
Hailstorms and ash
The moon is as blood
Over the soldiers
Who sag in the mud

Save our city
Keep our souls, Lord
Through the rapture of this world

Little boy
I'm just a man
A mere civil servant
Against this tyrant God
I've allied with out King
Salvation he brings
Protecting the city against
All the troops Heaven sent
But the dead walk again
This is the end

Oh I'm just a man
My time has come
Long live King Simius
May he deliver us
From this nightmare
And with a blast like the sun
His lips are unwrapped
From the barrel of his gun

Save our city
Keep our souls, Lord
Through the rapture of this world

Fought and fell for our great king
We burned alive and boiled
The dragon, red and wrathful, call
We rise and march once more
Cursed in death, we starve for flesh
Our skin is cooked and curled
We'll eat our kin and smash them in
In Hell, we'll grind their bones

Save our city
Keep our souls, Lord
Through the rapture of this world

Save our city
Keep our souls, Lord
Through the rapture of this world

Save our city
(Fought and fell for our great king)
Keep our souls, Lord
(We burned alive and boiled)
(Through the rapture)
The mayor's ruined head
The boy steps through the window
(The dragon, red and wrathful, call)
And cries out from the ledge
To the people below
(Of this world)
(We rise and march once more)

There's a time to pray
And there's a time to fight
(Save our city)
(Cursed in death, we starve for flesh)
Anything can be a weapon
If you're holding it right
(Keep our souls, Lord)
(Our skin is cooked and curled)
Defend what is yours
They will not take our souls
(We'll eat our kin and smash them in)
It's time now to
(And so we)
Rise and fight

Save our city
Keep our souls, Lord
Rise now and fight

Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah
Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah
Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah
Ah ah ah ah ah

Oh baby, baby, how I lost my mind
Time is quite the killer when you're left behind
The airbag held you till the engine slept
At home your pillow cooled while the willows wept

They come and go, love
(come and go, but they, but they)
But they're all the same
(d-da, d-da, da da, da da)
Even big, bad bad boys get scared at night
It keeps them safe
(at home baby)
I'm gonna throw this rock down
(gonna throw it down, let it roll)
Tonight's the night
(tonight)
I'm gonna go out, fire it up, honey
(I'm gonna lose 'em when I)
Gonna turn back time

Remember in the summer when I held your hand
On the southern shore, finding fossils in the sand
Oh, baby maybe someday you will find me
On that beach beside you again

They come and go, love
(come and go, but they, but they)
But they're all the same
(d-da, d-da, da da, da da)
Even big, bad bad boys get scared at night
It keeps them safe
(at home baby)
I'm gonna throw this rock down
(gonna throw it down, let it roll)
Tonight's the night
(tonight)
I'm gonna go out, fire it up, honey
(I'm gonna lose 'em when I)
Gonna turn back time

Here we go!

They come and go, love
(come and go, but they, but they)
But they're all the same
(d-da, d-da, da da, da da)
Even big, bad bad boys get scared at night
It keeps them safe
(at home baby)
I'm gonna throw this rock down
(gonna throw it down, let it roll)
Tonight's the night
(tonight)
I'm gonna go out, fire it up, honey
(I'm gonna lose 'em when I)
Gonna turn back time

I'm gonna save your life

So rapid the raptors, as corsairs they came
All the scratching and screaming, I barely escaped
While the fuel cells they drained far too fast, I am dragged
Like worms on a hook through the hole to the blackness beyond
At the end of days, where the world bleeds and burns

The sun is black as sackcloth made of hair
The stars have fallen to the Earth, mountains tearing from the ground
Look at these people hiding from the red raindrops
While earthquakes shake the broken timbre of this burning town
There's poison in the water, the ocean's blood that turned to slime and gotten hard
All the fish and whales are corpses on the scab
In the darkness soldiers gnaw their tongues in pain, you see
So help me God, at the end of time they're screaming on their knees
Oh let them die!
Oh let them die!

"The wrath of the Lamb!" the martyrs cry
"Break the seven seals, let the horsemen ride!"
The soldiers bear the royal crest and scream into the sky
"He will come! He will come! The Dragon's on the rise!"

"The King survived though his throat was cut, they say he's the chosen one
He leads our men from Babylon, the rebellion's worldly son
Against the Tyrant, we have joined with him as soldiers"
He tells me this while he shakes a bit - he's staring at his gun
The painful stings of flying things have worn away his flesh and popped his eyes
At the blackness, he lashes out and cries:
"You cowards and your wrathful God will see what power means
When the Dragon comes, his will be done, in the fires you'll be cleaned
Oh let him rise!
Oh let him rise!"

"The wrath of the Lamb!" the martyrs cry
"Break the seven seals, let the horsemen ride!"
The soldiers bear the royal crest and scream into the sky
"He will come! He will come! The Dragon's on the rise!"

I watch these people fall
The dragon shrieks and burns it all
I flip the circuits on, I've got dragons of my own
The portal glows and my machine's destroyed

"The Traveler has saved their souls from the Destroyer of Worlds
Then why does his heart still scream? Rise and speak"
I couldn't save her, I know she will die
But please, if I could only tell her goodbye
All I want is just one more day
That morning in May...

I've fought reptilian monsters
I've crossed a bloody sea
Just to meet you here
And now I'm coming home, my dear
The light is warm, outside at dawn
The garden has no weeds, no grave beneath the tree
Through the silent house, my love after all
Curled up in a ball, there you are

Your socks on the wood floor
The moment I'd hoped for
I'm terrified to think you might be real
I curl up behind you
Fit my body to yours like a shell
I smell your hair, oh love, I can't believe you
I squeeze you to make sure you're really here and I'm overwhelmed

I've been waiting for so long
To touch you and sleep in your eyes
And now as my heart's beating so hard
I hold on and keep you at home in my arms

They tried to console me
But you're all the consolation I ever needed
Years of smelling the clothes you left behind
Photographs that seemed so far away
I don't need them now-you turn to me alive, awake, and blinking, baby
"Back so soon?" you ask, but I smile cause I never left at all

I've been waiting for so long
To touch you and sleep in your eyes
And now as my heart's beating so hard
I hold on and keep you at home in my arms

You check the clock, it's time to go
You grab your keys and you're out the door
I step outside and you're waving goodbye
It's all happening again like before
As you're starting the car and I'm tearing inside
I knock on your window, you stop just in time
Around to the other side
I say, "Baby, I thought I'd come along for the ride"

I've been waiting for so long
(Time slows, and I take your hand)
To touch you and sleep in your eyes
(I hold you as we lose control)
Together our hearts beating so hard
Hold on, baby we're almost home