Grotto of the Wired

Cover art by Jeff Ehinger - Š2008 Jeff Ehinger.

All songs written by I. Key, excluding track #9 - which is a Smiths cover originally written by J. Marr/Morrissey.
Track #6 features a lyrical excerpt of 'Fox in socks' by Dr. Seuss (the first two verses and repeats).

Squabbling children on 'Extinction' appear without consent.

Desertman, Deserted

I walk this desert land
Cause I am a desert man (deserted)
I walk with open hands
But not of penitance (it's cause I)

I can't always be there
I can't always be there

Every oasis has it's scarecrows
And if you look at the fine top hat on this specimen you'll know that
He asks me to clean all of these
But there's something there that I must reveal (I can't cause)

I can't always be there
I can't always be there

There is no curfew in desert land
Cause we cannot go anywhere
And mister 'crow all this sand please
Can't count it there's no way (I can't cause)

I can't always be there
I can't always be there
I can't always be there
I can't always be there
I can't always be there
I can't always be there

(top)

Unbecome

Vince the bird this is not my shape
Unbecome
There is no need to explain flight underground

And I am telling my presence
Now unbecome now unbecome

Vince the bird this is not my shape
Now become
Vince the bird you're the vulture of the sky become

(top)

A Look at the Future

The storm is vicious
Relentless
Rapacious

The school is deadly
The learning buried
Forgotten

Come sun and rise on this broken world

The land is vicious
Relentless
An exit

Come sun and rise on this broken world
Come sun and rise on this broken world
Come sun and rise on this broken world

(top)

Alternate Reality Disorder

A million lightyears I've roamed these lands
And anyway I see no reason to pretend
I am not you and you are not me
Short of alternate realities

Of all these constellations
Offering starvation
Where is the salvation
Consider it with me

Long before I had a troubled mind
My only worry was how to survive
But now I've thought it up and looked around
It's not so easy to claim hallow ground

Of all these constellations
Offering starvation
Where is the salvation
Consider it with me

What with the conservation
Of the consolation
Prized conversation
How inconsiderate of me

A million lightyears I've roamed these lands
And many more I will if I can
So would you mind if I took your remains
Offer them up for a few more days

(top)

Mr. Fox
(Contains excerpts from 'Fox in socks' by Dr. Seuss.)

First I'll make a quick trick brick stack
Then I'll make a quick trick block stack
You can make a quick trick chick stack
You can make a quick trick clock stack

And here's a new trick Mr. Knox
Socks on chicks and chicks on fox
Fox on clocks on bricks and blocks
Bricks and blocks on Knox on box

It's a battle of pride
And it seeps through the seams
It's not a matter of why
And it slips through my fingertips

First I'll make a quick trick brick stack
Then I'll make a quick trick block stack
You can make a quick trick chick stack
You can make a quick trick clock stack

And here's a new trick Mr. Knox
Socks on chicks and chicks on fox
Fox on clocks on bricks and blocks
Bricks and blocks on Knox on box

It's a battle of pride
And it seeps through the seams
It's not a matter of why
And it slips through my fingertips

And here's a new trick Mr. Knox
Socks on chicks and chicks on fox
Fox on clocks on bricks and blocks
Bricks and blocks on Knox on box

Foxes in boxes

Chuck chuck chuck Mr. Fox
Fox for chicks in boxes with locks
Tock tock tock clocks on blocks
Foxes in sock are the prettiest of the bunch

(top)

Hating the Tape

Once someone digs up this walkman
They can hear me talk on about my wicked life
But not understand
Hey

The tapes oh they tell it well; her husband died
She then realised she didn't love him
It was his child
Hey

Flipping to side B, what's it anyway?
This life about I read says nothing to me
I can't understand
Hey

Then suddenly hate

Then suddenly hate

Then suddenly hate(top)

A Rush and a Push and the Land is Ours
(Lyrics originally written by Morrissey.)

It was some eighteen months ago
I traveled to a mystical timezone
And I missed my bed
So I came straight home and they said

There's too much caffeine in your bloodstream
And a lack of real spice in your life
I said leave me alone cause I'm all right dad
I'm just surprised to still be on my own

Oh but don't mention love
Hate the pain of the strain again

A rush and a push and the land that we stand on is ours
It has been before so it shall be again
And people who are uglier than you and I
They take what they need then just leave

Oh but don't mention love
Hate the pain of the strain all over again

A rush and a push and the land that we stand on is ours
It has been before so why can't it be now?
And people who are weaker than you and I
They take what they want from life

Oh but don't mention love
No no don't mention love

A rush and a push and the land that we stand on is ours
Your youth may be gone but you're still a young man
So phone me phone me phone me phone me phone me phone me

Oh I think I'm in love
Oh I think I'm in love
Oh I think I'm in love
Oh I think I'm in love

(top)

Country Music

In all of my travels I met one native
And I don't know if that way she felt
Lilly Lemur had Michael Stipe's phonenumber
And a stripe on her back

And though for the spin she spun
All through the night in dance
When the moment to speak begun
She raised her voice and said

You don't like my country
Music you don't like my blues
You don't like my country
Music you don't like my blues

And though for the spin she spun
All through the night in dance
When the moment to speak begun
She raised her voice and said

You don't like my country
Music you don't like my blues
You don't like my country
Music you don't like my blues

It is not safe to clap
It is not safe to cry
It is not safe to try
(to want to die)

It is not safe to cry
It is not safe to cry
(to want to cry)

It is not safe to clap
It is not safe to try
(to want to cry)

It is not safe to clap
It is not safe to cry

And you don't like my country
Music you don't like my blues
You don't like my country
Music you don't like my blues

(top)

Shape of You

Stroll tonight
Might seem long that I'm trapped in ice
You're so eager to remind
Can't you see I'm happy to be blind?

There's oatmeal in my worms
All around I see the puzzled looks
And that's just all there is to say
Someone who would take the pain away

Opt for a stroll tonight
Might seem long that I'm trapped in ice
You're so eager to remind
Can't you see I'm happy to be blind?

There's oatmeal in my worms
All around I see the puzzled looks
And that's just all there is to say
Someone who would take the pain away

Stroll anywhere I want
Cause I can be everywhere at once
Look through the shape of you
My sights set as far as you threw 'em

And that's just all there is to say
Someone who would take the pain from me
This someone is all there is of you
A shape set as far as you threw

(top)

V56F00H3

I'll grow old sitting in my tree
Resent my prey for not trying to be

Self medication determination
I'll come later and you're still waiting

Might I look while the water is still
Cut us out my phonebook and my will

Might I creep the weathering mill
A skyclad stare when I crash in dirt

Any salvation is a humiliation
I'll come later and I'm still waiting
Self medication determination
I'll come later and you're still waiting

Self medication determination
I'll come later and I'm still waiting for you

(top)

Extinction, Yay!

The sun lights the prey
You didn't live to give them a name
Extinction
You can't catch it by surprise

Claws of the future and the beak of the desert
Now you wish that you could be there to witness the end

This is a rodent breed
Chewing radioactive diseases
Extinction
Revolution rises

Claws of the future and the beak of the desert
Now you wish that you could be there

Close enough to touch
The corpses are lining up
Make way for the new year
Make way for the new year

(top)

Lyrics noted as being someone else's work are copyrighted appropriately, probably.
Original content Š1996-2011 Ian Key.