The Valley Prison

As per the description, this is a bit of conceptual poetry, meant to be made into an album eventually. I thought I might try to get an opinion on the lyrics before I started recording. So please, if you have any suggestions, corrections, or confusions, let me know. But remember, this is conceptual, and thus, the message may be interpreted in a variety of ways...

THE VALLEY PRISON

The Beginning of This Time

Nothing is real when you're
alone
Just yourself next to a chair of
bone
Nothing to hold onto
Nothing to own
But I'm hoping to find someone
And somewhere else to go...
But will it be you?

...

We're trapped here,
You and I
So accept it
And kiss the old world
Good-bye
The grass is dying
Right under my feet
And this buzzing is making me
Dizzy...

The heat
The relentless sun
Without light
This land was forgotten
I am cracking
Seeing things
Everything is failing
and I see you with my dying eyes
Just as you start to cry...

Shut up!

We're stuck here now
In the Valley Prison
And the only solace I can say
Is that the ending has begun...

The Valley Prison

Look around now
I suppose you know
Don't try to get out
There's nowhere to go
Look up, then down
Try to look around
This place is a field
Burning in the heat
And it hums with the sounds
of complete defeat

The reason we're dropped here
Was from the sins before
Now we'll burn away here
And be seen nevermore
Surrounded by
The Tall Trees...

Swallow us whole
Leave nothing behind
As we circle down below
The pure sanity we once had
Don't leave me...
Stay here now
We'll find a way out
We'll climb the Tall Trees
We can't give in now
So follow me
We'll soon be free
Climb the Tall Trees
And soon we'll be
Out of the chains that bind us
And I know they'll never find us...

And ye t If eel the ir ey e onmy sho ulde r. ..

The Tall Trees

To the top
Don't stop until you get there
To the edge
Don't fail until you reach it
We'll make it together
Fall over and never
Be held in this hell anymore...

Over this gate of trees
For once they won't topple me
Out of eternity
Deep into peaceful sleep
Escaping the trees...

I can feel the top
In my fingers
I know the edge is near
The sound lingers
We fall off the side
Only for us to find
The same exact place
At the same exact time
And I feel insanity
Coming over me...

Anger is seeping in
Again you're crying
I stop caring about your
Incessant whining
We are trapped here
In eternal fear
In the grass
On the plane
When I notice a factory
Not so far away...

Run.
Run with me
Go.
Here is where we must be
A billowing smoke
This can't be a joke
Maybe its here
Maybe freedom is near
I need to know
So go.
With me.
We'll see
The factory in me...
O r am I a lr eady co nsu meeed d dd .?.??

The Factory

Keep thinking...
Keep feeling
This place is a menagerie
Of ghost noises and screeching
Keep running
Keep fleeing...

No bodies here
No souls are near
Just emptiness...
Just noise...
You go one way
I'll go the next
And we'll find a way out

Keep going
Keep turning
the wrong turn captures me
The wires dig in deep
Keep eating
Keep digging...

I feel it taking hold
My blood turning cold
The wires in my veins
Digging up to my brain
A Caterpillar Crawl
Through my whole body
A Caterpillar Crawl
Through my whole mind

Keep bleeding
Keep hiding
Where are you running now?
How long will your legs allow?
Keep breathing
Keep RUNNING

These thoughts aren't mine
This body isn't mine
These ideas aren't mine
This place is now mine
These walls are now mine
This fate is now mine
The Caterpillar Crawl is complete...

AAAaaAh ha h ahhb hahh hahah hahahahhhhaa ca n yo u eve rtr ust me ag ain ?? /.,#

Caterpillar Crawl

Hello there. I'm here to replace you. Your mind? Junk. Your thoughts? Garbage. Your personality? A joke. Your hope? Crushed.

No no no no no no no
This can't be me
This soul is still free
I just can't believe
That this place is inside me
No no no no no no no

Now that you've signed on to this place, there are certain laws to follow. First, no screaming. Second, no hoping. Third, you try to escape, I'll electrocute your brain until its just a hot puddle of mud. Slime. Useless grime that sticks to the inside of your skull and leaks out your ears.

No no no no no no no
Maybe I can fight
I can still see light
But my eyes have no sight
How long can I keep up this fight?
No no no no no no no

If you think you can resist, don't. This idea is a fallacy. Your body is mine. Your mind is mine. Your everything belongs to me. Ao run now. Yes, use those legs. Pump them in the pattern of motion. Kinetics. Find her. She must belong to me. If she finds the smoke, follow her through. This isn't your fight anymore.

No no no no no no no
I don't wanna find her.
I must though.
This is not my fight,
My soul belongs to you.
No no no no no no yes.

I know its a bit cliched, but it doesn't make it any less true: RESISTANCE IS FUTILE.

The Futility of Resistance

I'll find you
These spider webs all around
Choking me by the throat
My dead stomach starting to bloat
Until i vomit sound
I'll find you

We're at the edge of the factory
The edge of prison
Industry and nature, side by side
Juxtapositioned
Smoke rising from the ground
Making a wall
You plunge in, trying not to be found
Just a big stall
But while we're in this haze
This choking prison
I start to see younger days
Memories of then
Washing over me
This smoke burning up the sky
Burning up what's left of me
I'm alive, but so weak...

W HER E AAAR RERE YYO UYOUYUUUYUO??.?'

Smoke Burns Up The Sky

I was happy once
So long ago
So very long ago

I was myself once
So one with all
So filled with love

When our love existed
We were one in a whole
When we were both so full
Of all this hope and joy
But its all gone
Now that we're here...

I was in love once
With you
With only you

I was a boy once
Long ago
So very long ago

Did you miss me?
Was my soul not clean enough?
Were my lies not believable?
Was my smile deceiving?
Is my heart really bleeding?
Does this place even need us?
Are our deaths even real to it?
Are these wires in my brain
Really driving me insane?
Or is it all just one big game?
To this place and my name?
Who can I blame?
Is it just me and my cynical mind?
Is that the reason my eyes are blind?
Are you any part of this?
Any part of this?
Any part of this pain?
Are our lives the same?
Who can I blame?

I was happy once
But never again
I've given in
But please...get away...please stay
My mind is a...lockdown...memory...

WH O AA M I?

My Mind's A Prison. My Heart's A Cage.

(All my rage could never rearrange this relentless pain)

Hold me like you used to
Crack my spine with your fingertips
You never hold me...what did I do?
Bend my ribs into my esophagus

Outside my window
Are a million tiny birds flying by
Outside my window
Is a smoke cloud burning up the sky
Outside my window
(I wished that I could fly
But I knew that if I tried
All that I'd do is die)

Hold me closer to you
Let my eyes pop onto your shoulder
You can hurt me, I won't hurt you
But I want to break you now that I'm older

Outside my window
Is a tree in full bloom
Outside my window
Are the thumps of hammers boom
Outside my window
(I thought running from my room
Would help save me from my gloom
But it only spelled my doom)

I'm an animal...under a contract...In association with the CIA, working so hard...every day, to make sure it all goes your way...oh...yeah...

Deep Fields of Silence

Who else is out there?
Its not only me
Who can be out there?
No one I can see
Trees are like towers
And the flies crawl around
The sun dried all the flowers
And I cannot make a sound
I'm sinking, yeah, I'm sinking
Deep into the field
I'm drowning yeah, I'm...
I can't see or hear

What's out there?
I'm asking you
What else is out there?
What do I do
About the silence around me?
About this constant pain I feel?
About this nagging belief
That I cannot be real?

Who are you?
Why do you care?
Who the hell are you?
What's that noise in the air
That strikes me with fear?
That pries into my brain?
that whispers in my ear?
That fills me with pain?

Where am I?
Who are you?
What do we do now
That all of this is no longer real?
What do I say?
Where do I go?
I have to leave here
And escape your desperate gaze
Identity
Is a tragedy
So let it all go
Wash your brain of all you know

The buzzing won't quit
The humming is always here
My mind's having a fit
Its cracking my skull in fear
That its trapped deep within
The prison its been put in
My mind's a prison
My heart is a cage...

...no

When the Flies Come to Play

Lose yourself
Run away in this plane
This plateau
A green field of the insane
No shadows
The light is always away
Abandoned
Is the innocent at play
No sadness
Don't bother trying to pray
No relief
This is all I'll say
Nothing here
In the deep fields of silence...

Don't make a sound
Don't wake them, now
The flies are all around
They dig up from the ground
And when you have been found
They'll suck you dry
Your soul will fry
So say good-bye
As they all take you down
To the depths of the
Deep Fields of Silence...

The Tree On the Edge of the Valley

While your here, your mind slips away
Deep on the field far away
You can feel your brain start to decay
Deep on the field far away
"Do not try to run" I say
"Because to day is the day
The flies come out to play"

Tens by the hundreds by the thousands
By the millions by the billions
They'll fly around your face
Eat you, not leaving a trace
This is where our lives end

Still, you run far away
Run far into perpetual day
I don't see why you can't stay
And have your eyes eaten away
Yes, you know today is the day
That the flies come out to play

Buzz BUzz

The Endings Have Started

You're climbing the limbs
Up to the sky
Stretching your arms
Up way too high
To the very top
'Cuz its only there
Will this ever stop

I've already died
Before you left
My eyes eaten up
Skin has melted
Don't turn to find me
I've gone to the end
But you didn't join me
You chose to pretend

So climb all the way
To the top of
The Tree At the Edge of the Valley
There you will see
The beginning of time
And there you will be
Of the immortal kind

Good-Bye.........

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