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So Long, Crassus
Seraphim Serenade
Beauty and Death
Rotation
Nick the Dickens
The Beast

So Long, Crassus
Slow down, Crassus
Can we rest a while
As time passes
And we march single file

Into ruin
Or into history
What am I doin’
I say that my fate
Belongs to me

Please tell my commander, I’m not dying for his pride
His vision’s far too narrow and this desert’s far too wide

Good luck, Crassus
Your destiny awaits
Lead your masses
And feed them to the fates

Heat is rising
Morale is falling low
It’s not surprising
But I won’t say
I told you so

Please tell my commander that I’m laying down my arms
It’s a long way from Damascus and this desert’s lost its charms

So what’s a little shame
When history knows your name
Your story will be told
That’s worth its weight in gold

So, go and drink your fill
Down that golden swill

Please tell all my cohort that I hate to say good-bye
But I’m thinking of my children and this desert’s no place to die

So long, Crassus
This desert’s no place to die
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Seraphim Serenade
“Man is a god in ruins.”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Is the world outside your mind
Just a useless destination
Can you hide among the stars
Of your psychic constellation
Can the criminals in your head
Corrupt the poets in your heart
Do you lie awake in bed
While your ego falls apart

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I plan to have myself a final fling
Just give me one more night
I long to listen to that sultry seraph sing
That’s when I’ll set things right

With my terrors on the run
I can write a different song
I’ll be traveling with my gun
And I’m bringing hell along
All the aces favor fools
While the wise are forced to fold
So I’m taking all my jewels
And hording all my gold

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Middle:
Perdition: As far as the eye can see
Superstition has a strange hold on me
Hyponymous junkies in search of the perfect addiction
Celestial monkeys offer a sly benediction

Will you force them all to smile
Can you make love like a man
Will you do them all in style
Can you play a hustlers hand
Will your heavy conscience clear
When you put your angst to bed
Will the nightmares disappear
When you short-circuit your head

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Beauty and Death
For awhile I could not smile
I burrowed deep into all of my fears
Plodding my course on a cynical horse
Who often told me that heroes were queer
With great care I tousled my hair
And curled my lips in a defiant sneer
Here tonight I’m flesh and light
I’ve been this way for 10,000 years

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Having looked behind the scenes
Between the darkness and my dreams
I’m content to be a fool

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Out of my depth between beauty and death
My senses unwind at the seams
Setting my sights between disease and delights
Surrounding myself with extremes
Passing a smoke and sharing a joke
Taking some tea in a cave
Pondering the breadth of beauty and death
And laughing my way to the grave

Once I wept and hardly slept
I cast a shadow ten stories high
Here tonight I’m long as light
Dusting the earth and painting the sky
Spinning in space with a smile on my face
Winking at god with a cosmic eye

Middle:
And what should I see
There was heaven and hell
All laughing with me
We were drinking like kings
And painted like whores
There were devilish grins
And angelic roars
Oh My

Pre-Chorus
Having looked above the gloom
Between the dancers and the doomed
I’m content to be a fool

Solo

Once I sulked and tightly skulked
I took my refuge in common fear
Here tonight I’m sharp as light
I’ve been this way for 10,000 years
I can say I will stay this way
Until the day all light disappears

Pre-chorus:
Having looked behind the curtain
Between the dubious and the certain
I’m content to be a fool

Chorus:
Out of my depth between beauty and death
My senses unwind at the seams
Setting my sights between disease and delights
Surrounding myself with extremes
Passing a smoke and sharing a joke
Taking some tea in a cave
Pondering the breadth of beauty and death
And laughing my way to the grave
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Rotation
Was it sunny outside when I left my heart on the temple floor
Were they looking for less or was it me asking for more
And I fell to the ground like Assyrian armies in sight of the lord
Weeping to think of Jerusalem town falling to Babylon’s sword

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I will work my lands
Furrowing my righteous brow
And though it may break my small hands
Gardens will spring from my simple plow

Was it stormy outside when I burnt my fruits as a token of praise
Was she selling my grains while I was at work in her field of maize
And I fell like a giant stung by a shepherd boy’s stone
Weeping to think of an eagle in flight spoiling Jerusalem’s throne

Chorus
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Nick the Dickens
I was feeling kind of’ strange
Perhaps the air portended change
This music had me all a’ tizzy
And I was calm and dazed and dizzy

Killer diamond nightmare eyes
Charming lips and soothing lies
Things spun on a kinky dime
So let me tell about the time
That…

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The Devil met me in the city
He was small and kind of pretty
We sat and spoke for quite a while
I was taken by his smile

Now things aren’t quite the same
But I’m not feeling any shame
This music’s got me feeling dandy
And I’m ripped and raked and randy

Velvet waistcoat satin pants
Mellow wine and sweet romance
Slow surrender so sublime
So let me tell about the time
That…

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The Beast
Crowing crying in a snit
Growing dying bit by bit
Leaving all my cares behind
Poison on a rotten mind

Grabbing, groping, caring, coping, drooling, schooling, giggling, wiggling
Picturing a place more to my taste
Though it seems like such a waste
To run and hide
I’ve grown
Quite dry
Performing fierce fellatio on my pride
I don’t know what I should say or do
And it causes me to sweat profusely
How about you

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And you’re always in my plan
I’ll do all that I can
Please try and understand
I’m the superstential, quintessential
Merely moderate, morbid, mutually muzzled, moody, minor, malleable
Make-shift modern man

While you sleep and breathe
Slumbering sound and tight
Smoke forms a wispy wreathe
And wafts in the dead of night

Well you know
That it’s just me
Keeping my little eye
Open for you

Laughing lounging on a lark
Scrimping scrounging in the dark
Holding out for better days
Slurping swill like mayonnaise

Shouting, screaming, scrapping, scheming, doubting, doting, dubious dreaming
Picturing a life more ordinary
Though it’s scary
I can almost make-believe that you are with me
Here, in this pre-apocalyptic Shangri-la
And it causes me to scream with great intensity
Though I’m dim I see what’s possible
How about you

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