Alternate Sound of Life  --  EP 01

all lyrics by Ian Mora, copyright 2004-2005

Teething

She was thin from wasting away among

the L.A. vampires and their tepid desires

Fear had her owned but she's standing toe to toe

and she filters all of this out now

Way beyond the wall

Found a way to change it all

Way beyond the wall

Found the will, the will to change it all

(she knows now how)

She spent 10 years afraid to face her fears

but she's finally realized that to be self-actualized

her teeth she'll show

She'll prove that she's let go

of all the little things that kept her so very

Frightened / Enlightened

Fight them to the end

Brace the fall graceful

Way beyond the wall

Found a way to change it all

Way beyond the wall

Found the will to leave it all

behind the fear is gone

She left it all to this song

Way beyond the wall

way beyond the wall

way beyond our walls

way beyond our

way beyond our walls

way beyond our walls

she’s beyond our

way beyond our walls

she’s way beyond our walls

way beyond our

Cyprian

i'll collect you tonight without the right

you were the girl that i could always degradate

the flies on the wall will see you evolve

into that cyprian that i could never love

a face of youth of beauty

you would never trust me if you knew

a face so clean so perfectly awaiting my corruption and pain

crawl across the floor down on all fours

you're measuring up to my very favorite whore

yet i'm so bereft, the love i've missed

you seem to be all that i have left

a face of youth of beauty

you would never trust me if you knew

a face so clean so perfectly awaiting me to finally

fight the way that i rolled my eyes

left the way that i could have lived, so long

stay one, choose which side you're on

stay one, now you're gone

now you’re gone

fight the way that i rolled my eyes

left the way that i could have lived, so long

now you’re gone

now you’re gone

Dim Casa Dust Altar

This altar that she earned

That once seemed so ageless was dustier

Upon which we’ve returned to pay respects

To give up our lives exchanged for hers

Because this little girl was nameless

Her death was blameless

I meant to hold you so lightly

The act paragraphed within your eulogy

This dust altar that you've left me

Will be clean again

This day of reckoning

Hair and nails still grow

her form twisted in shapes that she’d not know

If I could have kept her from the ground

and pray that my own redemption’s found

I meant to hold you so lightly

The act paragraphed within your eulogy

This dust altar that she left me

Will be clean again

This day of reckoning

I meant to hold you so lightly

The act paragraphed within your eulogy

So hold lightly, hold tightly

We'll be free again

This day of reckoning

Share Them All

i found these walls

were weighted down with memories

sated was a feeling never felt till this day

we'll paint them all

a squalid shade of guilty conscience

and reminisce accounts of our sordid ways

hearts i've broken / we can share them all

hearts i broke / we can share them all

streets are blackened from gray

the rain it stains them that way

like the memories of our self serving ways

if we share the dirty

ways that we've been hurting

everyone that's ever crossed through our gaze

hearts i've broken / we can share them all

hearts i broke / we can share them all

feel lust start to bide

for a little time

what she doesn’t find

she won't mind

hearts i've broken / we can share them all

hearts i've broken / we can share them all

we can share them all

we can share them all

we can share them all

we can share them all

we can share them all