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Get Back to the Ship

by Lord Helmet

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1.
Phased Out 04:28
PHASED OUT In the tunnel where you hide / These reflections play inside / Look what’s staring back at you / Nothing special, nothing new / In the corners of your mind / These excuses you will find / Nothing special, nothing new / Even ghosts abandon you / Make it go away / And you call this fate? / And you call this real life? / Even fortune tellers take their things inside / Phase me out / In the mirror of your past / Put your fist right through the glass / Nothing special, nothing new / Just broken pieces of you / And there’s nothing you can do / And you call this fate? / And you call this real life? / Even fortune tellers take their things inside / Phase me out / Just a copy of a theft / Nothing taken, nothing left / Make it go away / And you call this fate? / And you call this real life? / Even fortune tellers take their things inside / Phase me out
2.
NOTHING TO SEE Brother you were barely here / Now I watch you disappear / I feel my grip on certainty die / It all was a lie / How is it that you’re gone? / Someone I could rely on / Waking from this dream to a world of plastic empathy / Where everybody pretends there is nothing to see / Mother why is there no cure for feeling wounded and obscure? / I closed the door and silently cried / Still trying to hide / Father on the spiraling stair / Always gasping for more air / Nothing saved you from the greatest crime on the earth / Of death and birth / How is it that you’re gone? / Someone I could rely on / Waking from this dream to a world of plastic empathy / Where everybody pretends there is nothing to see / All gone away / Someone to rely on
3.
YOU WILL BE GONE The earth opens wide / And in you fall / Away from me / We’re miles beyond / The words you scrawl / The things that could be / Either way you will be gone / And I’m not understanding how to carry on / Somewhere out of sight / With weapons of blame / Of outrageous misfortune / I won’t be the same / Either way you will be gone / And I’m not understanding how to carry on
4.
ETCHED ON STONE The sun is fading / A habit of late / I’m out of time / All the pages that used to turn have left me blind / And Avalon has gone away / Is the future etched in stone? / Do we begin and end alone? / The things that seemed important now can wait / I lie awake night after night / And never get the answers right / A voice tells me what I have always known / You’re on your own / Imagination used to call the words to rhyme / Until the last breath passes on / You’re in my mind / and Avalon has gone away / Walk over broken glass to spend another day / Nothing makes sense / There’s got to be some other way / For just a moment more / No price I wouldn’t pay
5.
Moth 07:37
MOTH I know where you come from / I know where you’ve been / Beautiful butterfly / You always win / See how they watch you / See how they smile / They want to collect you / It’s me they revile / It’s so obvious / You have no shame / It’s so obvious / All fashion, all frame / It’s so obvious / Something to hold on to / Somewhere to belong / It’s just like a monarch / To string me along / You own the sunshine / I own the night / I make children scream / When they turn on the light / It’s so obvious / You have no shame / It’s so obvious / All fashion, all frame / I take the blame for us / Like a moth to a flame / It’s gone all wrong, it’s all gone wrong …
6.
THESE EYES (I DON’T DARE) I see the damage / Ruthless and savage / And wonder what happened to you / I see the wasteland / Smiling and suntanned / Scrolling off endlessly / These eyes that I dare not meet in dreams won’t look away / These eyes that I swear see right through me won’t look away / You pull the lever / We fall together / Drifting off endlessly / These eyes that I dare not meet in dreams won’t look away
7.
Real to Me 04:42
REAL TO ME I can fly in my mind / Carried softly away from my crime / I can fly / Feeling low / A dead wing in a murder of crows / Live for me / I was wrong / Forgive me now that I’m gone / So I stay high to survive / I stay high to survive / It’s all that keeps me alive / See things the way they should be / Nothing is real to me / It’s all that keeps me alive / So I stay high to survive / I can see your eyes lie / And when you blink at me I will know why / I can see fires rise / The glow is brightest right before it dies / It’s not me / I was wrong / Forgive me now that I’m gone / I stay high to survive / I stay high to survive / See things the way they should be / Nothing is real to me / It’s all that keeps me alive / So I stay high to survive / I stay high to survive / It’s all that keeps me alive
8.
THE SETTING SUN Will you dissolve completely when memories get buried alive? / When the evening comes to greet me will the things that I dreamed of survive? / These spirits cannot save me from the void that I stare inside / There’s no time left to borrow / Too late to hesitate / One day the fires will reach me / One day the waters will rise / There’s no time left to borrow / Too late to hesitate / These spirits cannot save me from the timeless void I stare inside / All these mistakes cannot teach me, teach me to hide / There’s no time left to borrow / Too late to hesitate / The setting sun will cast its shadow / Like it has so many times before / When all is lost the heartbeat slows and the breathing grows shallow / I always know and dread the cost / When all is lost / When all is lost

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released June 18, 2021

ADAM FIGURA drums DAVID TOMKINS remainder

Written, arranged, produced, and engineered by Lord Helmet
Recorded at RTPC Studio, Los Angeles, CA and Naughty Pine Studio, Bristol, TN

Mixed & mastered by Tomkins / Art design: Shane Rice Studio

Copyright 2021 David Tomkins & Adam Figura

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Lord Helmet blends classic and contemporary progressive rock influences from King Crimson to Porcupine Tree with Berlin-era Bowie, early '80s post-punk, and '90s alternative to form a punchy and propulsive sound all their own.

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