From the unreleased album City of Rain
Written 2012
Working Title: Gunship/Chrome
This song was written as a completely improvised jam. Colin tried singing it. I tried singing it. The original lyrics were me and Jeff, and then we scrapped them because they didn't work. Matt wrote the final lyrics and I added a few small bits. He was slated to sing lead on it. We made plans to get together and record them in 2019 but I never heard from him. Tom's improvised piano intro and the outro are beautiful.
lyrics
by Matt Seelye and Derrick Faith
Cry out all alone
Shaken to your bones
From them birth an indifference
Of your own
Whines and pleas of rage
Shouted from your cage
Ignored by the stock actors
Who mill about all littered on the stage
Parade
of charades
Of parts
well played
Slack jawed
but well paid
Spotlight flickers, curtains calling
Unchecked egos, hold your applause
The make up smears with counterfeit tears
Auditorium erupting with unearned cheers
Agonizingly,
Ill equipped
To portray
Any empathy
Set up the stage
Conflict for reason
Lights fade away
In spite of the treason
Typecast
to the last
Pointless
bombast
Sailed through
half mast
Listening all alone
Shaken to your bones
From them birth an indifference
Of your own
We're all singing from our own soapbox
Screaming out of tune (The voice disappears)
Picking wrong notes
In a song that ends too...
...Sooner or later, it's all just noise
You can tune it out when they come in
Picking up a measure of trust, and find the one again
Listen for the changes that divide your time
Discordant dissonance
Feigning a symphony
Of sympathy
Running back
When calm takes it's place
To reignite the spark
That shows my other face
We queens
Steal scenes
Needless
Obscene
Aimlessly careen
Watching all alone
Shaken to your bones
From them birth an indifference
Of your own
We act like TV stars
Embroiled in a feud
As Time passes passively
Amused
credits
from The Box Set 2007 - 2019,
released March 23, 2019
By Tom Howard/Derrick Faith/Matt Seelye/Jeff Forrester/Colin LaMure
Derrick Faith - Guitar/Drum Programming
Matt Seelye - Bass, (was also supposed to be lead vocals)
Tom Howard - Keyboards