THIRTEENTH STEP ALBUM.
ALBUM: Thirteenth Step (2003)
ARTIST: A Perfect Circle
TRACK: 1
NAME: The Package
Clever got me this far
Then tricky got me in
Eye on what I'm after
I don't need another friend
Smile and drop the cliché
Till you think I'm listening
Take just what I came for
Then I'm out the door again
Pheripheral on the package
Don't care to settle in
Time to feed the monster
I don't need another friend
Comfort is a mystery
Crawling out of my own skin
Just give me what I came for
Then I'm out the door again
Li-ee to get what I came for
Li-ee to get just what I need
Li-ee to get what I crave
Li-ee and smile to get what's mine
Eye on what I'm after
I don't need another friend
Nod and watch your lips move
If you need me to pretend
Because clever got me this far
Then tricky got me in
I'll take just what I came for
Then I'm out the door again
Li-ee to get what I came for
Li-ee to get what I need now
Li-ee to what what I'm craving
Li-ee and smile to get what's mine
Give this to me
Mine - Mine - Mine
Take what's mine
Mine - Mine - Mine
Take what's mine
Mine - Mine - Mine
[Interlude]
Li-ee to get what I came for
Li-ee to get what I need now
Li-ee to get what I crave
Lie just smile to get what's mine
Give this to me
Take what's mine
Mine - Mine - Mine
Take what's mine
[Whispers:] Give this to me
Take what's mine
Take what's mine
Miiiine
Take what's mine
Take what's mine
Take what's mine
This is miiiine
Miiiiiine
Miiiiiiiiiiine.
ALBUM: Thirteenth Step (2003)
ARTIST: A Perfect Circle
TRACK: 2
NAME: Weak and Powerless
Tilling my own grave to keep me level
Jam another dragon down the hole
Digging to the rhythm and the echo of a solitary siren
One that pushes me along and leaves me so...
Desperate and ravenous
So weak and powerless
Over you
Someone feed the monkey while I dig in search of china
White as Dracula as I approach the bottom
Desperate and ravenous
So weak and powerless
Over you
Hello angel, go away
Come again some other day
Devil has my ear today
I'll never hear a word you say
He promised I would find a little solace and some peace of mind
Whatever
Just as long as I don't feel so
Desperate and ravenous
So weak and powerless
Desperate and ravenous
So weeeeeeeeeeeak and powerless
Over you
Over you.
ALBUM: Thirteenth Step (2003)
ARTIST: A Perfect Circle
TRACK: 3
NAME: The Noose
So glad to see you well
Overcome and completely silent now
With heaven's help
You cast your demons out
And not to pull your halo down
Around your neck and tug you off your cloud
But I'm more than just a little curious
How you're planning
To go about making your amends
To the dead
To the dead
Recall the deeds as if they're all
Someone else's atrocious stories
Now you stand reborn before us all
So glad to see you well
And not to pull your halo down
Around your neck and tug you to the ground
But I'm more than just a little curious
How you're planning to go about making your amends
To the dead
To the dead
With your halo slipping down
Your halo slipping
Your halo slipping down
Your halo slipping down
[Singing begins overlapping]
With your halo slipping down
Your halo slipping
Your halo slipping down
Your halo slipping down
But I'm more than just a little curious
How you're planning to go about making your
More than just a little curious
How you're planning to go about making your
More than just a little curious
How you're planning to go about making your amends
More than just a little curious
How you're planning to go about making your amends
[Solo]
Your halo slipping down
Your halo slipping down
To choke you now.
ALBUM: Thirteenth Step (2003)
ARTIST: A Perfect Circle
TRACK: 4
NAME: Blue
And I didn't want to know
I just didn't want to know
Best to keep things in the shallow end
Cause I never quite learned how to swim
I just didn't want to know
Didn't want, didn't want
Didn't want, didn't want
Close my eyes just to look at you
Taken by the seamless vision
I close my eyes
Ignore the smoke
Ignore the smoke
Ignore the smoke
Call it aftermath, she's turning blue
Such a lovely color for you
Call it aftermath, she's turning blue
While I just sit and stare at you
Because I don't want to know
I didn't want to know
I just didn't want to know
I just didn't want
Mistook the nods for an approval
Just ignore the smoke and smile
Call it aftermath, she's turning blue
Such a lovely color for you
Call it aftermath, she's turning blue
Such a perfect color for your eyes
Call it aftermath, she's turning blue
Such a lovely color for you
Call it aftermath, she's turning blue
While I just sit and stare at you
I don't want to know.
ALBUM: Thirteenth Step (2003)
ARTIST: A Perfect Circle
TRACK: 5
NAME: Vanishing
Disappear
Disappear
Higher
Higher
Into the air
Slowly disappear
No, no longer here
Disappear
Disappear
Thinner, thinner
Into the air
Never really here
What that never
[Interlude]
... away floating away
floating away [repeated]
Vanishing like a
Cyan Sunday
Disappear
Disappear
Vanish, vanish into the air
Slowly disappear
Never really here.
ALBUM: Thirteenth Step (2003)
ARTIST: A Perfect Circle
TRACK: 6
NAME: A Stranger
[Mulder to Krycek]
Cast the calming apple
Up and over satellites
To draw out the timid wild one
To convince you it's alright
And I listen for the whisper
Of your sweet insanity
While I formulate denials
Of your affect on me
You're a stranger so
What do I care
You vanish today
Not the first time I hear
All the liiiiiiiiies
What am I to do with all this silence
Shy away
Shy away, phantom
Run away
Terrified child
Won't you
Move away
You fucking tornado
I'm better off without you
Tearing my will down.
ALBUM: Thirteenth Step (2003)
ARTIST: A Perfect Circle
TRACK: 7
NAME: The Outsider
Help me if you can
It's just that this
Is not the way I'm wired
So could you please,
Help me understand why
You've given in to all these
Reckless dark desires you're
Crying to yourself again
Suicidal imbecile
Think about it, put it on a faultline
What'll it take to get it through to you, precious?
Hmm, over this?
Why do you wanna throw it away like this?
Such a mess
I don't wanna watch you...
Disconnect and self-destruct
One bullet at a time
What's your rush now?
Everyone will have his day to die
Medicated
Drama queen
Picture-perfect non-belligerence
Narcissistic
Drama queen
Craving fame and all its decadence
Lying through your teeth again
Suicidal imbecile
Think about it, put it on a faultline
What'll it take to get it through to you, precious?
Hmm, over this?
Why do ya wanna throw it away like this?
Such a mess
I don't wanna watch you...
Disconnect and self-destruct
One bullet at a time
What's your rush now?
Everyone will have his day to die
They were right about you
They were right about you
Lying to my face again
Suicidal imbecile
Think about it, and put it on a faultline
What'll it take to get it through to you, precious?
Hmm, over this?
Why do you wanna throw it away like this?
Such a mess
Over this?
Over thiiiiiiiiiiiiiis?
Disconnect and self-destruct
One bullet at a time
What's your hurry,
Everyone will have his day to die
If you choose to pull the trigger
Should your drama prove sincere
Do it somewhere far away from here!
ALBUM: Thirteenth Step (2003)
ARTIST: A Perfect Circle
TRACK: 10
NAME: Pet
Don't fret, precious, I'm here
Step away from the window (step away from the window)
Go
Back to sleep
Lay your head down, child
I won't let the boogeyman come
Count the bodies like sheep
To the rhythm of the war drums
Pay no mind to the rabble
Pay no mind to the rabble
Head down, go to sleep
To the rhythm of the war drums
Pay no mind what other voices say
They don't care about you,
Like I do (like I do)
Safe from pain and truth and choice
And other poison devils
See, they don't give a fuck about you
Like I do.
Just
Stay with me
Safe and ignorant
Go
Back to sleep
Go
Back to sleep
Lay your head down, child
I won't let the boogeyman come
Count the bodies like sheep
To the rhythm of the war drums
Pay no mind to the rabble
Pay no mind to the rabble
Head down, go to sleep to the rhythm of the war drums
I'll be the one to protect you from
Your enemies and all your demons
I'll be the one to protect you from
A will to survive and a voice of reason
I'll be the one to protect you from
Your enemies and your choices, son
They're one in the same
I must isolate you
Isolate and save you from yourself
Swayin' to the rhythm of the new world order and
Counting bodies like sheep to the rhythm of the war drums
The boogeymen are coming
The boogeymen are coming
Keep your head down, go to sleep, to the rhythm of the war drums
Stay with me
Safe and ignorant
Just stay with me
Hold you and protect you from the other ones
The evil ones
Don't love you, son
Go back to sleep.
ALBUM: Thirteenth Step (2003)
ARTIST: A Perfect Circle
TRACK: 12
NAME: Gravity
Lost again
Broken and weary
Unable to
Find my way
Tail in hand
Dizzy and clearly unable to
Just
Let this go
I am
Surrendering
To gravity and the unknown
Catch me
Heal me
Lift me back up to the sun
I choose to live
I fell again
Like a baby unable to
Stand on my own
Tail in hand
Dizzy and clearly unable to
Just
Let this go
High and
Surrendering
To gravity and the unknown
Catch me
Heal me
Lift me back up to the sun
I choose to live
I choose to live
I choose to live
Catch me
Heal me
Lift me back up to the sun
Help me survive the bottom
Calm these hands befooooore they
Snare another piiiiiiiill and
Drive another naaaaaaaaail down
Another needy hoooooole please
Releeeeaaase me
I am
Surrendering
To gravity and the unknown
Catch me
Heal me
Lift me back up to the sun
I choose to live
I choose to live.
EMOTIVE ALBUM.
ANNIHILATION
From dehumanization to arms production,
For the benefit of the nation or its destruction
Power, power, the law of the land,
Those living for death will die by their own hand,
Life's no ordeal if you come to terms,
Reject the system dictating the norms
From dehumanization to arms production,
To hasten the nation towards its destruction
Power, power, the law of the land,
Those living for death will die by their own hand,
Life's no ordeal if you come to terms,
Reject the system dictating the norms
>From dehumanization to arms production,
To hasten the nation towards its destruction
Power, power, the law of the land,
Those living for death will die by their own hand,
Life's no ordeal if you come to terms,
Reject the system dictating the norms
From dehumanization to arms production,
To hasten this nation towards its destruction,
It's your choice, your choice, your choice, your choice,
Peace or annihilation .
IMAGINE
Imagine there's no heaven
It's easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today...
Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace...
You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will be as one
Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world...
You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will live as one.
PEACE LOVE AND UNDERSTANDING
As I walk through
This wicked world
Searchin' for light in the darkness of insanity.
I ask myself
Is all hope lost?
Is there only pain and hatred, and misery?
And each time I feel like this inside,
There's one thing I wanna know:
What's so funny 'bout peace love & understanding?
What's so funny 'bout peace love & understanding?
And as I walked on
Through troubled times
My spirit gets so downhearted sometimes
So where are the strong
And who are the trusted?
And where is the harmony?
Sweet harmony.
'Cause each time I feel it slippin' away, just makes me wanna cry.
What's so funny 'bout peace love & understanding?
What's so funny 'bout peace love & understanding?
So where are the strong?
And who are the trusted?
And where is the harmony?
Sweet harmony.
'Cause each time I feel it slippin' away, just makes me wanna cry.
What's so funny 'bout peace love & understanding?
What's so funny 'bout peace love & understanding?
What's so funny 'bout peace love & understanding?.
WHAT'S GOING ON?
Mother, mother
There's too many of you crying
Brother, brother, brother
There's far too many of you dying
You know we've got to find a way
To bring some lovin' here today
Father, father
We don't need to escalate
You see, war is not the answer
For only love can conquer hate
You know we've got to find a way
To bring some lovin' here today
Picket lines and picket signs
Don't punish me with brutality
Talk to me, so you can see
Oh, what's going on
What's going on
Ya, what's going on
Ah, what's going on
In the mean time
Right on, baby
Right on
Right on
Father, father, everybody thinks we're wrong
Oh, but who are they to judge us
Simply because our hair is long
Oh, you know we've got to find a way
To bring some understanding here today
Oh
Picket lines and picket signs
Don't punish me with brutality
Talk to me
So you can see
What's going on
Ya, what's going on
Tell me what's going on
I'll tell you what's going on
Right on baby
Right on baby.
PASSIVE
"Dead as dead can be," my doctor tells me
But I just can't believe him, never the optimistic one
I'm sure of your ability to become my perfect enemy
Wake up and face me, don't play dead cause maybe
Someday I will walk away and say, "You disappoint me,"
Maybe you're better off this way
Leaning over you here, cold and catatonic
I catch a brief reflection of what you could and might have been
It's your right and your ability
To become…my perfect enemy…
Wake up and face me, don't play dead cause maybe
Someday I'll walk away and say, "You disappoint me,"
Maybe you're better off this way
Maybe you're better off this way
Maybe you're better off this way
Maybe you're better off this way
You're better of this…you're better off this…
Maybe you're better off!
Wake up and face me, don't play dead cause maybe
Someday I'll walk away and say, "You fucking disappoint me!"
Maybe you're better off this way
Go ahead and play dead
I know that you can hear this
Go ahead and play dead
Why can't you turn and face me?
Why can't you turn and face me?
Why can't you turn and face me?
Why can't you turn and face me?
You fucking disappoint me! .
GIMMIE GIMMIE GIMMIE
Gimme gimme gimme
I need some more
Gimme gimme gimme
Don't ask what for
Sitting here I'm a loaded gun
Waiting to go off
I've got nothing to do
But shoot my mouth off
Gimme gimme gimme
I need some more
Gimme gimme gimme
Don't ask what for
You know I'm gonna go out
Get something for my head
If I keep on doing this
I'm gonna end up dead
Gimme gimme gimme
I need some more
Gimme gimme gimme
Don't ask what for
I know the world's got problems
I've got problems of my own
Not the kind that can't be solved
With an atom bomb
Gimme gimme gimme
I need some more
Gimme gimme gimme
Don't ask what for.
PEOPLE ARE PEOPLE.
People are people
So why should it be
You and I should get along so awfully
People are people
So why should it be
You and I should get along so awfully
So we're different colours
And we're different creeds
And different people
Have different needs
It's obvious you hate me
Though I've done nothing wrong
I've never even met you
So what could I have done
I can't understand
What makes a man
Hate another man
Help me understand
People are people
So why should it be
You and I should get along so awfully
People are people
So why should it be
You and I should get along so awfully
Help me understand
Help me understand
Now you're punching
And you're kicking
And you're shouting at me
And I'm relying on your common decency
So far it hasn't surfaced
But I'm sure it exists
It just takes a while to travel
From your head to your fist (head to your fists)
I can't understand what makes a man
Hate another man
Help me understand
People are people
So why should it be
You and I should get along so awfully
People are people
So why should it be
You and I should get along so awfully
I can't understand
What makes a man
Hate another man
Help me understand
I can't understand
What makes a man
Hate another man
Help me understand
I can't understand
What makes a man
Hate another man
I can't understand (people are people)
What makes a man (why should it be)
Hate another man
Help me understand.
FREEDOM OF CHOICE
A victim of collision on the open sea
Nobody ever said that life was free
Sank, swam, go down with the ship
But use your freedom of choice
I'll say it again in the land of the free
Use your freedom of choice
Your freedom of choice
In ancient Rome
there was a pawn
who followed along
and watched it fall
he cast a stone
he felt secure
he felt that his voice would never be heard
Freedom of choice
Is what you got
Freedom of choice!
Then if you got it you don't want it
Seems to be the rule of thumb
Don't be tricked by what you see
You got two ways to go
I'll say it again in the land of the free
Use your freedom of choice
Freedom of choice
Freedom of choice
Is what you got
Freedom of choice!
In ancient Rome
there was a pawn
who followed along
and watched it fall
he cast a stone
he felt secure
he felt that his voice would never be heard
Freedom of choice
Is what you got
Freedom from choice
Is what you want .
LET'S HAVE A WAR
There's so many opposites,
So many opposites
So many, there's so many, there's so many
Let's have a war
So you can go and die!
Let's have a war!
We could all use the money!
Let's have a war!
We need the space!
Let's have a war!
Clean out this place!
It already started in the city!
Suburbia will be just as easy!
Let's have a war!
Jack up the Dow Jones!
Let's have a war!
It can start in New Jersey!
Let's have a war!
Blame it on the middle-class!
Let's have a war!
We're like rats in a cage!
It already started in the city!
Suburbia will be just as easy!
Let's have a war!
Sell the rights to the networks!
Let's have a war!
Let our wallets get fat like last time!
Let's have a war!
Give guns to the queers!
Let's have a war!
The enemy's within!
It already started in the city!
Suburbia will be just as easy!.
COUNTING BODIES LIKE SHEEP TO THE RHYTHM OF THE WAR DRUMS
Don't fret precious I'm here, step away from the window
Go back to sleep
Safe from pain and truth and choice and other poison devils,
See, they don't give a fuck about you, like I do.
Count the bodies like sheep
Count the bodies like sheep
Counting bodies like sheep
To the rhythm of the war drums
Count the bodies like sheep
Go back to sleep
Go back to sleep
Counting bodies like sheep
To the rhythm of the war drums
Go back to sleep
Go back to sleep
Counting bodies like sheep
To the rhythm of the war drums
Go back to sleep
Go back to sleep
Counting bodies like sheep
Go back to sleep
Go to sleep [x14]
Go back to sleep
Go back to sleep
Go back to sleep
Counting bodies like sheep
Go back to sleep
Go back to sleep
Counting bodies like sheep
Go back to sleep
Go back to sleep
Counting bodies like sheep
To the rhythm of the war drums
Go back to sleep
Go back to sleep
Counting bodies like sheep
To the rhythm of the war drums
Go back to sleep
Go back to sleep
Counting bodies like sheep
To the rhythm of the war drums [x2]
I'll be the one to protect you from your enemies and all your demons
I'll be the one to protect you from a will to survive and a voice of reason
I'll be the one to protect you from your enemies and your choices son
They're one in the same, I must isolate you…
Isolate and save you from yourself …
WHEN THE LEVEE BREAKS
If it keeps on rainin', levee's goin' to break
If it keeps on rainin', levee's goin' to break
And the water gonna come in, have no place to stay
Well all last night I sat on the levee and moan
Well all last night I sat on the levee and moan
Thinkin' 'bout my baby and my happy home
If it keeps on rainin', levee's goin' to break
If it keeps on rainin', levee's goin' to break
And all these people have no place to stay
Now look here mama what am I to do
Now look here mama what am I to do
I ain't got nobody to tell my troubles to
I works on the levee mama both night and day
I works on the levee mama both night and day
I ain't got nobody, keep the water away
Oh cryin' won't help you, prayin' won't do no good
Oh cryin' won't help you, prayin' won't do no good
When the levee breaks, mama, you got to lose
I works on the levee, mama both night and day
I works on the levee, mama both night and day
I works so hard, to keep the water away
I had a woman, she wouldn't do for me
I had a woman, she wouldn't do for me
I'm goin' back to my used to be
I's a mean old levee, cause me to weep and moan
I's a mean old levee, cause me to weep and moan
Gonna leave my baby, and my happy home.
FIDDLE AND THE DRUM
And so once again
My dear Johnny my dear friend
And so once again you are fightin' us all
And when I ask you why
You raise your sticks and cry, and I fall
Oh, my friend
How did you come
To trade the fiddle for the drum
You say I have turned
Like the enemies you've earned
But I can remember
All the good things you are
And so I ask you please
Can I help you find the peace and the star
Oh, my friend
What time is this
To trade the handshake for the fist
And so once again
Oh, America my friend
And so once again
You are fighting us all
And when we ask you why
You raise your sticks and cry and we fall
Oh, my friend
How did you come
To trade the fiddle for the drum
You say we have turned
Like the enemies you've earned
But we can remember
All the good things you are
And so we ask you please
Can we help you find the peace and the star
Oh my friend
We have all come
To fear the beating of your drum.