Sun Sky Stone - The Great Release Lyrics

"Good evening, ladies and gentlemen."
"Tonight I shall talk to you about glorious conformity...
about the delight and the ultimate pleasure of our unified society."
[The Twilight Zone episode 42 (11-11-60) "The Eye of the Beholder"]

"Danny?"
"Danny boy!"
"Danny?"
[The Shining (1980), Jack Nicholson]

Yeah!

That's right my name is Danny Boy,
and I like to drink at night.
I go down to the pub, wherein I buy myself a pint or three
I like to go out drinking, beer it is my life,
until I come home,
and lay eyes upon my darling wife.

Say, oh Danny won't you go home earlier tonight?
You're daughter doesn't know you...
You're giving us a fright when you say...

Shit
Say, something's wrong with anyone who's not like me.
With you the violence just comes so easily.
You never learn, I have to teach you constantly.

Just hush now.
Well hush now
Hush now, yeah

Yeah...Ho

You know my name is Danny Boy,
and I'll buy another round.
Then off to the market when this place closes down.
'Cause I say drinking's always done when the sun's up in the sky,
the sun is always up somewhere; it's your turn to buy.
And they say,
Oh, Danny won't you go home earlier tonight?
Your son he doesn't know you...
You're giving us a fright when you say...

Shit
Say, something's wrong with anyone who's not like me.
With you the violence just comes so easily.
You never learn, I have to teach you constantly.

Hush now.

Well hush now.

Shut Up

Yeah...

Did you ever wonder why you, you fucking sleep alone?

Say something wrong with anyone who's not like me
With you the violence just comes so easily
You just watch, I'll put you across my knee
With you the violence just comes
Just comes
Just comes

Hush now

Sleep.
Sleep.
Sleep.
Floating child sleep.
Sleep.
Sleep.
Floating child sleep.
Sleep.
Sleep now
Floating child sleep.
Sleep.
Sleep.

This is affectionate.

2. Peter The Destroyer

"I'm not afraid!!"
"I'll do it!"
"I swear to god!!
[Floater in the studio]

Ho Yeah

Ohhh.

Peter stood upon the mountain
surrounded by all of the infidels.
As his gaze surveyed the landscape,
Crosshairs dancing in his eyes,

Peter's cry from the tower
did not sound so merciful.

And he goes...

He goes down.
He goes down.

Ha.
Ohhh.
Yeah
Down
Down

Peter hears, ah, the voice again,
drowning out, out the icy sky.
In his head is the answer.
He loads his rifle with a sigh.

Peter's cry from the tower
shatters on the street below.
And he goes...

He goes down.
He goes down.
He goes down.
Yeah, yeah, oh
What's he going to do?

Oh yah
Oh yah
Aww

Peter feels a great release now.
He does not cry, letting go.
Letting go

And sees them captains and kings
And he feels the wealth they bring
Under their blue luxurious sky
And he feels the moral inside out
Yah he knows what the wealth is about
Telling himself it's all in the name of a friend
Who's a friend, who's a friend, you'll never know
You'll never know.
And he knows.
And he flies
And he circles again.
Singing all this time I feel frustrated
All these people are elated
Somewhere there's some kind of contact
Why for me, why for me, yeah

And he mutters beneath his breath, he says,
"We all go down, someday, we all go down,
someday, we all go down, someday,
but today, yeah today is the day you go down."

Any he goes!

He goes down.
He goes down.
He goes...down!
Down!
Yeah!
What's he gonna do?
Yeah
Down
Down
Down

"Y'all better get the police!"
[Chattahoochee (1989)]

Shit!

And we all pretended,
but he never intended
to take upon himself an action,
and carry it out.
Now we lie in what he knows.

Shit!

And we never expected
he'd mind being rejected.
He took upon himself an action,
and carried it out...

Oh my God.

Fuck!

Now we lie in what we know.

Ooh

Die
Die

[Church choir chanting]

3. Aah

Ahhhhhhhhhhh...
Ahhhhhhhhhhh...
Ahhhhhhhhhhh...

Night turn to day.
Night turn the hour.
Night turn the time
when you feel the power in you.
The power in you.
Night turn to rage,
not turn away.
Not turn to the day when you feel the master of you.
The master of you.

Ahhhhhhhhhhh...
Ahhhhhhhhhhh...
Ahhhhhhhhhhh...

4. Settling

Go to the window, boy.
Become what you would destroy.
Feed yourself on dissonance.
Make your belly grow...
Take heed of the cry
of all the sirens outside of here.
Yeah, this will be your inheritance

Here on this plateau...
Oh yeah

Where have those days gone?
South with other wings?
I'll just learn to settle on
Well slightly lesser things.

Gripped tight my face,
hold my place
with a cold grey vaccine line,
and I'm fighting off the cold,
slowly getting old,
slipping perfectly
into the design.

Drooling my drops of wine.

Do you remember how we swam?
Out beyond the dams?
Yeah, yeah.
We were diving down with confidence...
Up from our plateau.

Yeah
Where have our days gone?
Have they gone south with other wings?
We'll just learn to settle on
slightly lesser things.

Fight to keep pace
In an endless race.
Coveting yours
And clutching mine.

Just take me back,
take me home,
can't find my way...
My way back home.
Back home

I'm slipping into the design.
My shelter is crumbling fast from the inside.
I'm open to any change outside.
Ah, yeah

Today let us live,
That we may stop surviving.
Stay here in the shallows,
I've got to keep on diving.
Wait here at the stoplight,
The busses are arriving,
Wait here, wait here, wait here...

You wanna be my passenger?
You wanna be my passenger?
You wanna be my passenger!
Just sit back, just sit back, just sit back,

Let me do the driving!

Let me do it, just let me do it,
Let me do it, let me do it...
Let me do it

Feel it slipping away.
Feelings are slipping away
Feel it slipping away.
Feelings are slipping away,
And I won't suffer.
No.

5. Out Of Sheer Loneliness

[Bombs, voices, church bells]

Withering up to die...
letting it all go...

Look inside, and say goodbye.

Look around me now...
and say hello...
say hello...
hello.

Aww..

I'll be with you all now.
I'll be with you all now.
I'll be with you all now.
I'll be with you all now.
I'll be with you all now.
I'll be with you all now.

[Birds chirping, grasshoppers]

6. Endless I

[Birds chirping, grasshoppers/Symphony]

And what will they say when you're gone?
That you conquered?
That you burned like a rocket
from the womb to the world...
and you ran with your colors
and your flags unfurled...
and that you ignited everything
like a gasoline rain?

Will they say you were insane?
While their life is drained?

Yeah

All of us go down slow
and then we rise again.
Yeah, just like a tide out at sea,
we lower and rise again...

And the days go by,
and the nights all feel the same.
And the beast in your eyes
slowly becomes tame and dim...
Tame and dim.
Tame and dim.
Tame and dim
Aww becomes tame

Why don't you form a line
Form a line and swim
Aw now form a line
Form a line and swim
Ahh, you see me kickin' at a tin-can,
Yeah, and I blame it on the sea.
You see I'll never know when, I'll never know why,
I'm never gonna be you...
No I'm never gonna be you.

And all of us go down slow
Then we rise again
Just like a tide out at sea
We lower and rise and again
And again
I said the days go by
And the nights all feel the same
The beast in your eyes slowly becomes tame and dim
Tame and dim
Tame and dim
Yah you'll become tame
Yah you'll become tame
And dim.

7. Persecutor

"Why are you persecuting me?"
"Why are you against me?"
[The Last Temptation of Christ, Paul (1988)]

Here we go...
Oh no, ahh

I am of alien intelligence.
At least they say so.
I could show you anything.
Unless I want to.
Many people run away from me, yeah,
I make them angry.
They don't like the way I shake.
'Cause I am reminded. Yeah, aw yeah,

Oh, I am reminded.

Aww, stop and take a look at where your words are falling.
Listen to where your wisdom goes.
Oh, you might be disappointed
just how much your victim knows. Oh
You better kick in.

Oh, I am sickened.
Oh, you won't listen.
Won't listen.
Won't listen.
Won't listen.

Ohhhh.

Little girl has learned a lesson today.
She has a value.
Get up and change the sheets again.
A late night with Gallo.
Many people run away from her, yeah.
She makes them angry. Yeah.
They don't like the way she moves.
She is reminding.
Yeah, oh yeah.

Oh, she is reminding!

Oh, stop and take a look at where your words are falling.
Listen to where your wisdom goes.
Oh, you may be disappointed
at just how much your victim knows.

You better kick in.

Oh, I am sickening.
Oh you are listening.
Won't listen
Won't listen

Tell me did you wake up today?
Do you know if you woke up yesterday?
Did you wake up today yeah?
Well, do you know if you woke up yesterday?
Will you, will you,
Will you wake up tomorrow?

Tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow,
tomorrow, wake up tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow
tomorrow, wake up tomorrow,
Oh, Ohh will you wake up?
Will you wake you?
Will you wake up?

And it came up from the water's edge,
Went down into the village now,
I saw it follow me to my home.
Staring at me.

Spider-leg fingers
Seashell hair
Looking glass eyes
It said, "don't you know why I am, boy?
Do you recognize me yet?
Oh, do you recognize me yet?
I brought you everything
I brought you all you know
I brought you everything
I'm everywhere you go
I'm everywhere you live
I'm everyone you see
I'm every corner darkened
I'm everything you can't see"

And it said, "I'm am the prophet
And I am the king
And I am the gold
And all the silver they bring
And I am the trumpets
And I am the swords
And I am the devil
And I am the angel of the lord
I'm the persecutor
Come to torture you now
And I am the ruler someday
I'm everyone you know
Everyone you know
Everyone you know
I'm everyone you know
Everyone you know

Night after night the same question
Don't try, give in, it's all the same to me now
It's all the same to me now
Aw don't worry
Cause this is only meant to be a
little warning to you from me, yeah,
and I am only meant to be affectionate.

8. Centerfold
(previously unreleased)

Ooh.
Woke up this morning
lying in my bed.
Someone was next to me,
or was she in my head?
It was a centerfold
with hair so red.
Sleeping right next to me,
lying in my bed.
Uhh.
Aw...
Whoa...

Did she quietly creep into my room last night?
And I wonder if I should feel so uptight. Oh
And I would try to talk to her, but it wouldn't feel right.
No it wouldn't feel right.
No it wouldn't feel right.
Wouldn't make it feel right

I reach for my lighter,
at the foot of my bed.
I lit the corner of the nylon,
purple bedspread.
Set her on fire,
and I was clutching my head.
ignite that centerfold,
but I kept her head.

Right here.

Yeah.

Did she quietly creep into my room last night?
And I wonder if I should feel so uptight.
Oh, and I would try and talk to her, but it wouldn't feel right.

No it wouldn't feel right...
No it wouldn't feel right...
wouldn't feel right

Uhh, Uhh, Uhh, Woah!

9. The Beast

With every twitch of the brain
comes a thick, black chain.

And I see the body's a beast, and I am the rider,
and whither the beast goes...
So shall I.

Shall I warm these bones?
By her dark night moans?

And I see the body's a beast,
and I am the rider,
and whither the beast goes...
So shall I.

10. All the Stories But One...

"I won’t be scared, I love to fly. It’s just your
long, piece and quiet, nothing around. Clear blue sky..."
[Streetwise, Ratt (1985 documentary)]

What's it gonna take tonight,
just to get you by my side?
In my book on lies...
I’ve got a chapter on you.

You know where the answers lie,
you're in love with Jesus Christ
In my book on spite...
There’s a chapter on you.

You’re electrified,
and you take a life.
And without question, you don't question,
stick to the question, without question you know...
Oh, yeah you know.

And what can you say?
Hey some of it's true
as she takes that throat and tries to kill for you.
Oh, I said it's all coming true.
Look at your father,
and I'm looking at you.
I'm watching you tell
all of the stories but one...
Tell me all of the stories but one.

"I'm a liar."
"A hypocrite..."
"I'm afraid of everything."
"I don't ever tell the truth,"
"I don't have the courage."
[The Last Temptation of Christ, Jesus (William Dafoe) (1988)]

I've got a book on people
it's got so many blank pages.
Keep filling it up with the things I see.
Have you any lies to tell me?
How much you care about me?
Now don't hold back, give it all to me.

You’re electrified...
And you take a life.
And without question, you don't question,
stick to the question, without question, you know...
Yeah you know it all.

And I said what can you say?
Hey some of it's true,
as she takes that throat and tries to kill for you.
Oh, I say it's all coming true.
Look at your father,
and I'm looking at you.
I'm watching you tell all of the stories but one.
Tell me all the stories but one.

Yeah. Oh. Yeah.

Pete: I've got a book on people
Rob: How many must crawl?
Pete: it's got so many blank pages.
Rob: How many must die?
Pete: Keep filling it up with things I see.
Rob: Before your realize that this is gonna go?
Pete: Have you any lies to tell me?
Rob: How many must die?
Pete: How much you care about me?
Rob: Just like the bones in your well,
Pete: Now don’t hold back, give it all to me.
Rob: before you realize...That you're an insect?

Yeah!

Pete: I've got a book on people
Rob: How many must crawl?
Pete: it's got so many blank pages.
Rob: How many must go?
Pete: Keep filling it up with things I see.
Rob: Before your realize where this is gonna go?
Pete: Have you any lies to tell me?
Rob: How many must die?
Pete: How much you care about me?
Rob: Just like the bones in your well,
Pete: Now don’t hold back, give it all to me.

Rob: before you realize...That you're an insect!?

Yeah

There's always the injection if you weary of thinking.

And the voice...

Deep in your reflection, is a crawling little creature.

And the voice...

And the voice in your head won’t go away.
No, the voice in your head won't go away.

When you go down to the lakeside
and want to take yourself a swim
you want to get in the water,
but you don't know where to go now,
where to begin.
You want to be clean but you've never been.
You want to be clean but you've never been.
You want to be clean but you've never been...
This is the water, my friend.
Go in my friend.
This is the water my friend.
Jump in the water my friend.
This is the water.

Water!

Ahh!

More risky
More risky
More of what we feel tonight
It’s not safe, it’s all right.
Safety's not for us tonight. No!

She's talking to you, feel the pressure.
She's talking to you, feel the squeeze.
She’s talking to you, feel the pressure

And these broken bones and this body are your own.