THE OFFICIAL FICTION

MAX PLANK

So the start is my seed, at 3700 feet
Forwards, backwards and underneath
Your last word turns like a cyclone just outside my window
Your good advice I'll tie around my ankle
Had to go, had to take off and hide myself from everyone
So their reasons won't become my reasons
'Cos they're talking, they're talking, talking again

In a chain reaction
Like a slow wave crashing 
To come and change everything 
And wash me away

So make way for some chaos
A ripple on the surface sends me secrets and I keep them
Like in a reacurring dream 
Of Max Plank and you running rings around me 
But you can't solve me
But you're trying, you're trying, trying again

In a chain reaction 
Like a slow wave crashing
To come and change everything 
And wash me away

We'll stumble in the dark
we'll stumble in the dark
And this is how it starts
This is how it starts, starts
You carry your escape everywhere
Just in case you find yourself there
Find yourself there

In in a chain reaction
Like a slow wave crashing 
To come and change everything
And wash me away
Wash me away


BEST WEAPON

From a walk to a run
By the time they’re done there is only rust
And the official language of fucked up and static
And before he speaks
His machines all agree lets wind them up and march them out
History repeated and read out loud

This could be our best weapon now
Said, hey don’t look now

Stripes and suits pushing the numbers through
They treat them like they don’t exist
And they count them up like they’re matchsticks
And they don’t recognise until spoken in a headline
They’re just more words
They’re just more words that I can’t wait to unlearn
I can’t wait

This could be our best weapon now
Better keep your head down

Said, this could be our best weapon now
Said, hey don’t look now
Our best weapon now

SONG FOR A SLEEPWALKER

No more will I play along 
And no more will tell myself how it's gonna be from now on
'Cos I've been stalling in between 
And I've been dragging my feet
Making bets that this isn't happening

And I sleepwalk around two feet off the ground
While the real world is trying to reach me
And when the rain comes down I see it all now

Standing on the great divide
Of some collission between ordinary and imaginary life
And this could be your lucky day 
'Cos if tomorrow ever comes
You'll be looking, looking the other way

And you sleepwalk around two feet off the ground
While the real world is trying to reach you
With stories that you already knew

It pulls you and pushes you

And you sleepwalk around two feet off the ground
While the real world is trying to reach you
When the rain comes down you'll find yourself now
Nowhere


KAPLAN / THORNHILL

You shake my senses and raise my alarm then drift away
You can't keep up with whoever you think you are any other day
You're weightless and drifting over the sea
Black interference invading the screen
On a red line trajectory

And you change my mind again
Because what you see is never what you get 
But I'll take my chances, yeah
When you come back around here again
And I know things now that I didn't know then
Well I'll second guess it

There's things that you believe about yourself that don't add up
This version of you, more like somebody else, but not enough
And now you're cutting a deal in your head
Conscience is crystal clear once again
And you lock up the skeletons

And I change my mind again
Because what you see is never what you get
But I'll take my chances, yeah
And you come back around here again
And you say that you know things you didn't know then
Well I'll second guess it

Nobody new, just passing through

And I change my mind again
Because what you see is never what you get 
But I'll take my chances, yeah
And you come back around here again
And I know things now that I didn't know then
Well I'll second, second guess it
I'll second guess it


LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL

Feels like you're coming apart
And you've entertained the thought that you're out of things to say
And you haven't even started
You haven't even started
You're gonna have to find the words 
To put on the page
And get around the corner 
Get around the corner
Where nothing is the way, the way it was before
You're left with just these after thoughts to keep you warm 

And when all the sunlight in your eyes feels forgotten,
Is there light the end of this tunnel?
And it feels like we're drowning, sinking to the bottom
Is there light at the end of this tunnel?
If the only thing to do now is just start running
For the light at the end of this tunnel

Sometimes anything just breaks your heart
And you hold out your arms to keep day and night apart
So this is never ending, nothing is ending
You turn back the clock 'till the clock is no more
Now time means nothing, time can't touch you
It's nowhere to the start and nowhere to end 
But tomorrow somehow finds it's way to us again

And when all the sunlight in your eyes feels forgotten,
Is there a light at the end of this tunnel?
And we feel like we're drowning, sinking to the bottom
Is there a light at the end of this tunnel
If the only thing to do now is just start, just start running
For the light at the end of this tunnel
For The light at the end of this tunnel
For the light...


LETTER TO THE EDITOR

A letter to the editor
From the man in the corner
It's all in vain
They want your head
They want your head on a plate
For every fly that's on the wall
The news don't travel too fast anymore
It's just information burned up
Passed out, spun to your door

There's a light in your eyes
And there's fiction falling from the sky
See it all in black and white

A letter to the editor
Scraped from sky by the river
Now could it be all the fear that seems to be
Catching all around here
They've been kicking down my door
But I'm not taking any calls
And the choice of words is choose no words
Saying nothing, nothing at all

There's a light in your eyes
And there's fiction found between the lines
See it all in black and white
See it all in black and white

Tell it like it is
Tell it like it is
I'll put the pieces together
But I'll never ever know

There's a light in your eyes
And there's fiction falling from the skies
See it all in black and white
See it all in black and white
Black and white
Black and white
Black and white


DEJA VU

Light globes wash up all along the beach
And they light me up with, and they light me up with certainty
But you calculate coincidence, and circumstance and turbulence
Gotta see what it is, and it’s everything, and it’s endless

'Cos baby can’t see through all this matter and make up and déjà vu
Yeah we drift here alone, with nothing to do
Until one of us makes the other one come true

She wants to meet her fate, but travel by free will
But you can’t have both and you can’t stand still, still, still
I’ll be the luckiest man in the universe if cause and effect doesn’t get there first
But she keeps looking for patterns and the world just happens

'Cos baby can’t see through all this matter and make up and déjà vu
Yeah we drift here alone with nothing to do
Until one of us makes the other one come true
Yeah one of us makes the other one come true

Yeah 'cos baby can’t see through, through all this matter and make up and déjà vu
Yeah we drift here alone, we drift here alone
Yeah we drift here alone, we drift here alone 
Yeah we drift here alone with nothing to do
Until one of us makes the other one come true
Yeah one of us makes the other one come true 
She said these questions don’t answer like other questions do
So just let me be here with you

REVERSE SOUNDTRACK

So you dance and you shuffle into the eye of the storm
Your eyes all on fire as if you've been here before
And you say it's all nothing, but tell yourself quiety
But I hear you for miles breathing differently
And when it all falls down

You won't just stand there looking at the ground
And holding your breath, holding out

So you drive 'till the water changes from blue to green
And you wait there until the wind knocks you out of your body
You can stay there forever counting the stars
Trying to separate yourself from how things are
But you know you won't get very far until it all falls down

So don't just stand there looking at the ground
And holding your breath, holding out


COLDWATER CANYON

So I find you there again
Shipwrecked on the back step
And laughing
And talking to the screen in your minds eye
Another restless daydream 
That you find easier than truth
And bigger than the days you've been living though

And now you're there with your senses blown open wide 
And you're tired watching 'till you're hypnotised
And you know that you'll be awake again sometime
And out of this still life

Sitting by the side of the railway line 
Nowhere else to be 
And changing with the light
The edges of things you only think you see

And now you're there with your senses blown open wide
And you're tied down watching 'till you're hypnotised 
And you know that you'll run aground again sometime
And out of this still life

Get out of this
Get out of this
Get out of this still life


SOUVENIR

This morning pressed itself into my eyes
With so much nameless light I couldn’t catch if I tried
And every device, every device I had I used
But it’s no use, the distance will get the better of me again

'Cos every street’s got somewhere to take me
And every stranger’s got something to tell me
I’ll take it, or leave it if I don’t need it
And I won’t take any souvenirs

Broken lines, broken lines direct us, and highway signs bless us
And I can’t wait to get lost, get outta here
It’s all money over mind over matter over miles
And nothing, nothing here

The faces so convincing
They’d make you believe, make you believe in nothing
No, I can’t see it and I won’t be it
And I won’t take any, won’t take any souvenirs

I can’t wait 
I can’t wait
I can’t wait
I can’t wait

'Cos every street’s got somewhere to take me
And every stranger’s got something to tell me
I’ll take it, or leave it if I don’t need it
And I won’t take any
No I won’t take any
No I won’t take any
Won’t take any souvenirs


MOVING RIGHT ALONG

Yeah what happened to you,
When you couldn't ignore the line,
That got marked across your life,
What did you do?

Did you get angry?
Did you get scared?
No I didn't think so,
You were just getting some air
And you're moving right along

Yeah they were asking about you
How were you're gonna cope
And was there any hope?
They thought they knew

Yeah they thought you'd falter,
They thought you'd fail
But I knew better,
You were just setting sail
And you're moving right along
Moving right along

Yeah, where did you go what did you do,
When it all just changed so fast
And the ground just came right out from under you?
Oh did it get you down, the things they say?
Well you know they've got nothing better to do, 
And anyway there's another morning, There's another day
And with a little time my friend you know that you can get yourself back on your way
Yeah and you'll be moving right along
Moving right along
Moving right along
Moving right, right along


ASLEEP AT THE WHEEL

Some highway at night
And I'm not driving the car
I drift among the headlights
My mind somewhere else now
I drive off the end of the earth
And every light on your street
Comes back to me
In a few more days
I won't let them get away

'Cos this is how we come and go
With ghosts for memories and memories for ghosts
But no one sees anything

I drive under the billboards
A sight to make my eyes sore
And wooden birds fly over
Every bright blue corner
Yeah they're going nowhere
In a few more days
I'll be out of your way

'Cos this is how I come and go
With ghosts for memories and memories for ghosts
But no one says anything

They don't mean anything
No one says anything

'Cos this is how I come and go
With ghosts for memories and memories for ghosts
But no one says, no one says, no one

Where did everybody go
And would anybody tell me if there's something I should know?
But no one says anything


NO MAN's LAND

Say good morning, same six signs
Today you'll get your money's worth
To revolve or revolutionise
Or put it in the paperwork

You've been sold a winning hand
Take a bow and raise your glass to no man's land
And it all goes right to plan
Play another round for another chance

A simple as simple mistakes
You hang your trouble in the sky
And one boy scout gone bad
A piece of cake
And let the think tank decide

You bury your head in the sand
As you rise to raise your glass to no man's land
And it all goes right to plan
You play another round for another chance

You bury your head in the sand
Take a bow and raise your glass to no man's land
And it all went right to plan
And you play another round if you get another chance

No man's land