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"Harmony Square"

by Simeon Soul Charger USA

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Overture 03:29
Wake...
2.
As I strolled through the forest of concrete and dust, A great tree of confusion I met And although I’d arrived I did not recall when, Or the place before this I had left And it pointed its limb to a wind-beaten road, But its name had been weathered away, And I knew that my journey had fallen asleep As I stared down its passage that day. Go down the road I provide said the tree to me, I can but point you its way. There is a city that meets at its end And it’s calling your number today Go down the road I provide, question nothing And your end reward will be great. Walk with great haste on your side, Waste no minute This delicate hour grows late. So I began walking so swiftly in stride With a question mark hung in my mind And the forest grew thinner with each passing step ‘Til at last I had finally arrived. The road met its end at a cobblestone gate, In its center a single door swung And a single step offered its entrance to me, And above it a single sign hung. Welcome to Babylon Grove, population unknown Let our ghosts be your guide. Worries could fall on deaf ears, never here Please come in, So I hurried inside. There’s a circular city called Babylon Grove For it ends in the place it begins. And although unfamiliar it’s certain to me It is everywhere I’ve ever been There’s a man on the corner With a sandwich board sign That proclaims that the end is quite near And he points to a sign on the lamp post that reads That a dark fair is soon coming here. Pull back the curtain for me, what theatrical Madness and Pain amongst men Roll back the years that have gone Blessed beauty and chaos again and again I in my darkness so faithfully vexed What will the will of men conjure up next?
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All’s fair in Harmony Square See how the people here know All’s fair, no need for your cares Say the people of Babylon Grove Stop by the courtyard but Heavens don’t step on the lawn Wish by the fountain but Know there is nothing to want All’s fair in Harmony Square Smile so he knows that you’re glad It’s He who we seek to please Tammuz evolved from a man Best gray the buildings remain The 5th day it rains and it washes the paint All is fair in Harmony Square Each has a purpose and burden he bares Doris the florist, Paints flowers for us Able the shoveler, mixes the Mother Jane lights the lampposts Cane makes the clocks stroke All’s fair in Harmony Square We speak it for our own good sake All’s well when you hear the bell We work, and we pray, and we watch, and we take Sometimes I secretly cry The words that I speak do not match me inside All’s good, be grateful we should Then at the gate like a mountain he stood Finch and his bagful of goodies just walked through the door Now he brought us some more Blue ones to make us feel happy, And pink ones to sleep Do we ever so deep. See, Oh the king he provides like no other before It is He we adore How we adore him, How we adore him How we adore him, How we adore him Under the fountain of Harmony Square He through the lampposts and pigeons he stares And reports to the speak what his teller box sees, So be pure in your thoughts and your words and your deeds Look to the factory of colorful smoke Clouds hanging high like a billowing rainbow The Mother it meets with the stain on the streets How the colors they bleed when the rain pours in sheets You can go to the clock shop and buy you some time Stop by Ye Spirits and drink you some rind And the Mission Bell’s hall, it’s big belly fits all You can speak to the One who looks down from the sun on us all All’s fair in Harmony Square The sun shines with love on us all
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Miss Donce 03:14
Ms. Donce is calling me, Keep off the grass I just dyed it On her knees crawling, Green stains on her dress Why? I ask Darting her fading dark eyes Painstakingly, she picks up her aging bones Points out to the above sky Trembling as her bony crooked fingers scold You can see the smoke stacks blow green, red, orange, billowing Clouds like hung pillows in rainbow Why? Why is it colorless again I ask Tiptoeing through the spotted blades she forewarns me You are too curious, you will not last Best to remain oblivious and obedient This answer haunted me No one I gasp can hang me by strings This response from me made Ms. Donce mad Last long you shall not when authorities Hear of your plans They won’t be so forgiving.
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Spinning Across the grass A cyclones uncertain path Laughs at its defiance The unaware all cast Confounded glares and gasps Shouting in the distance Pig-Snouted men in fat suits Yell get off the grass Please remove your flat boots from the lawn Here there is a right way and a wrong We told you once; we will not tell you twice For every action ill there is a price Spinning across the Grass Grass in the facts, there is grass on the lawn There are ants in the grass that instinctively crawl There is grass in the cracks of the minds who have thoughts Fast grow the cracks in a man Grass in the facts, there is grass on the lawn There are ants in the grass that instinctively crawl There is grass in the cracks of the minds who have thoughts Last there are cracks in a man who denies that his world is illusion He’ll burst when he fills like a swollen balloon, Oh my...
6.
Doris 02:12
Doris, daughter of Darling My Doris, Rid me my longing When your eyes flash me like lightning bolts I die, Isn’t it obvious See me the way I see you Daylight, I dream of daylight These dark nights, blind me from seeing it Star bright, grant me my wanting How I lie frightened and haunted by Phantoms and Cracks in the Walls
7.
In the valley nigh there is a beastly Unforgiving child, a tiny monster Pulls the wings from flies, and then he eats them With such an appetite, I think we’ve lost him Once his mother chided so he beat her With a sated smile and very neatly Pulled apart her hide and indiscreetly Chewed on her insides oh what a beastly boy Then the boy grew wide and uncontested A serpent man of size and barrel-chest and Deep sepulchral mind that never crested Word out to the wise, don’t ever cross him Then to no surprise, you could have guessed it He sought a kingly prize, then took and kept it Took the seat and spied upon the gentry Effort to up rise was ineffective noise Tammuz the cold, Tammuz the vain Tammuz the rainmaker call off your rain Tammuz the grey, Tammuz the stain If rain you make then provide us a drain Tammuz the cold, Tammuz the vain If me you’re seeking I’ll be Spinning across the Grass
8.
Mother we have a lot of toys But we are out of love Have it for you I do and father too But not enough The Piper plays a perfect polished pipe In perfect tune Pry me the pipe from Piper’s paws You’d think me perfect too Follow me, the piper is calling Follow me, the piper is calling Follow me, the piper is calling Follow me, the piper is playing sorrow The rats are in tune I set my sights on Piper’s prize He closed his eyes to sleep I waited for a time and took the pipe When thought it deep And brought for you and father too this prize So me you’ll keep But warn I must, the Piper woke as I arose to flee And then I heard him shout behind me Your day of reckoning is soon And mother surely when he finds me (and find you, I will) Your deed I’ve done he will assume
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The people gathered in the courtyard nearby The people serried up in rows They will adore him They will obey him Before the king they bow in reverent pose His face is militant and words are furious He’s lantern-jawed and buttoned up They will adore him They will obey him And now he steps up to the podium Do you know of the Devil? As if he spoke it to me. He stinks of your longing And he stinks of your dreams And he seeds your desires Through the gnash of his teeth Do you grow on the Devil, Do you like what he sees The People cheer and bark like seals on pavement The women’s lips press to his glove How they adore him How they adore him Intoxicated by his militant love I sit alone inside these beams of daylight Deaf to his words I sit alone They never hear me They never see me He beats his fist upon the podium Every soul knows the devil he continues his speech And no benevolent shovel can remove his debris And on some deeper level I would have to agree How I struggle to stifle his arrival in me I am the law, I am the way Heed if you fault or disobey For Rayoweith I’ll demonstrate Your severed heads upon my plate Swallow my might and comely crown And drink my words to wash it down Fear not children of my kingdom Trust I know what’s best for you Do not despair, be not afraid Those in the care of doubtless faith Will be rewarded, food and wage Inside a warm, comfortable cage And then said I on humble stage What thinker thinks, the maker makes The unaware cleave to the safe Familiar lives that keep them slaves From pedestal said he to stave Arrest the odd miscreant knave Think you that thine bobbery brave I’ll have you sliced upon my plate And now the pig men of the law Seize opposing thought The band De Mort Id plays him off
10.
Ring the bell, A King is dead The children wept as Charles bled They sang as they chopped off his head A joyful prayer for every flame he fed And King Tammuz sank through the moon And resonates Europa’s tune But worry not, you’ll be there soon with him He heard the choir of Angels sing As Charles sipped his final drink And one day too will be your last So try to sing the final spell you cast Luscious is an utter mess A madman and a masochist He waves his pills and drinks his poison apple sugar piss Luscious points down to his chest And pulls his heart out in protest He gives me chills and claims that we are all avoiding bliss He storms the courtyard projecting the changing wind and rain Yes Luscious is a madman He’s really quite insane Luscious thinks to manifest The sandman and the alchemist His words spill like a waterfall over a rigid cliff He storms the courtyard projecting the changing wind and reign Yes Luscious is a madman He’s really quite insane And Luscious cried That we were all together dreaming here His clawed out holes for eyes, Though blind, could not confuse the seer But ignored him the people, But ignored him the people The old man said that we were Sleep-walking through paradise The people cackled in amusement Yet he still advised If you don’t wake up soon You’ll stay asleep until you die Then I awoke and saw the world through his Unfettered eyes Walked in the old odd shoes Are you listening to the bows above They rattle rattle Fist all clenched for battle How they wasted the ilk on anybody else Though odd I know I’m One The old man points at me and says I recognize your soul Be you the former king of Babylon Bestowed this grove Now I rejoice For your return to here has been foretold I hope that you’ll remember I hope that you’ll remember And so I did recall a man Who ruled himself with love A young Tammuz above me stood To claim my very blood And with me took the colors Left behind the 5th day flood And knew that I was not a man That I just simply was
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Rest in Peace Death’s endless sleep does not my soul apply And though he’s dead, the old man said I see him in your eyes Rest in Peace, Death’s sweet release Unfolds an endless sky And Heaven speaks through every breeze And everything alive Rest in Peace, Infinity lay… Every color beautiful and every shade divine Wake me up when it rains Gradual insights Are coming through in waves It saturates the flies That can’t drink through their graves A pale illusion dies And every color beautiful and every shape divine You won’t go to heaven If you don’t keep your nails clean Hey, Did you make the beg Did they greet you with a stride Or tail between their legs He was once a child Fused him with a snake His blood is in the line Of Rah and Charlemagne You can escape the iron Fist with which he reigns But he’ll confuse your rise But every struggle beautiful and every fate divine I’ll stay today as long as I can wake them They dream in this reality and they’ll stay here Wait here Rendered by an honest hope Be gone today, it clogged the scope But wash them with the rich man’s soap It cleans them and reveals the dope I saw the lie and gone it went There was no light on us to shed And though the dark was heaven-sent All scuffled in the Infinite Rats don’t know that they are rodents No one knows the piper Like the piper knows the piper And God, bestowed a son Semirimus, for moon the sun Tammuz abides, his loaded lung (his serpent tongue) All full of lie Follow it sung Wake me up when he reigns He who swims in fire Tangled me in flame Just because he smiled Doesn’t make him brave He knew it was I But veiled me with a stain Of well constructed lies And covered them in paint A pale illusion dyed With every color beautiful And every shade divine
12.
The Norman’s are a screen A surface flat and clean A projection of a dream Encased in knobs and plasticine Janie walks the dog And mans the coffee pot She smiles and waves She paints her face And tidies up the lawn But somewhere in her distant stare A battlefield is just slowly unwinding Janie dear Is your attic cold and haunted Did you live the life you wanted So late at night I hear your husband’s roar He drinks every night His liver looks like a schoolyard fight A bulldog of a fully loaded man King Charles Norman’s Castle Stood cold and tall No windows and no tassels Across the crawl, Here we go again Please don’t lock the door I will be home after a while And King Charles Norman’s eyes are set on me He stands by the gate Where I suspect that he will wait Yes King Charles Norman’s eyes are set on me Charles is a name A figure in a frame He plucks the children from the street And feeds them to his flame His hair is slick and mean And squeezed in Vaseline His suit is pressed He juts his chest His walk is long and lean A flag hung down from every porch of every house As they were passing by me And somewhere in the cellar of the Norman’s house A life was passing by me Buzzing gadfly in the kitchen Bit the apple, scratched the itch and Made it home for dinner and a drink On the fringe of their existence When they realized this was it well Doesn’t getting older make you think King Charles sat by the fire in his castle The crackle and cries were like music and rain A breath puts a test to a withering candle The piper plays death in a flickering shame In blinding smoke, their cries wrote a symphony I’m home, his eyes spoke, so bright and free Cut through your ribbon and meet me outside We’ll crawl through the back door to find him I close their eyes so they can’t see me
13.
See Sharp 02:54
Below the fountain in the square There lives a man who stares Beware His pigeons spy They are his eyes The lampposts join And so do I He’ll never know, he’ll never know, he’ll never know, unless you tell him But the keen spy pigeons and the men in blue And the lampposts chatter were all watching you Now our cold steel hammer pounds your ill-colluding thin And I don’t know whether it is right or wrong But here you fly with the pigeons or you don’t belong Now the band De Mort Id plays its tired song again And though my beating heart grew loud I bowed my head to please the crowd Above the blade, its promise hung And glistened in the fleeting sun They’ll never know, they’ll never know, ‘ they’ll never know unless you show them Soon or now Soon and here Soon or now and here Is the air getting clear Will the surface divide Will the oceans retire to the land
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Drop, Drop, Drop Rayoweith’s Guillotine And the pale sun faded and a cold wind blew But the crowd breath bated like stuck pigs in glue Paralyzed by the weight of their impending doom Remained It was a great ship flashing with exquisite light As it spun in circles in the kettle sky And it spat out ashes black and snowy white and grey And the ship lay crushing down the Mission Bell And its fire baked fury on its gushing shell Yet the town folk hushedly within its spell remained Rain poured sheets upon the ashy ground And the great ship opened up its giant mouth And a flood of foreign figures started stepping out to wave Arrived a gift from the sky Fear us not May we present GodSpoon The Great
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Ashes 05:56
Ashes, sifting through the ashes Sifting through the war Sifting through them all I never thought it could be so pretty Colors (them all) and awe But glinting embers remained the city Made me love them even more Ashes, lyard on their lashes Crawling to the floor Ashes, dripped upon the grasses Coloring their floor Green and blue and gold Ashes, drifting with the ashes Children they were all Ashes, pictured me in flashes Pictured me in form Ashes, shifting through the axis Shifting through the war Shifting through them all

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released September 14, 2012

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Simeon Soul Charger USA Akron, Ohio

Simeon Soul Charger is an American Psychedelic Rock band. Their music has been described as a cinematic pastiche of folk, blues, progressive, 70's psychedelic and stoner rock.

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