Porcupine Tree - In Absentia

PORCUPINE TREE

IN ABSENTIA (2002)

  1. Blackest Eyes
  2. Trains
  3. Lips Of Ashes
  4. The Sound Of Muzak
  5. Gravity Eyelids
  6. Wedding Nails
  7. Prodigal
  8. .3
  9. The Creator Has A Mastertape
10. Heartattack In A Layby
11. Strip The Soul
12. Collapse The Light Into Earth

PORCUPINE TREE

IN ABSENTIA

1. BLACKEST EYES

Mother sings a lullaby to a child
Some time in the future the boy goes wild
And all his nerves are feeling some kind of energy

A walk in the woods and I will try
Something under the trees that made you cry
It's so erotic when your make up runs

I got wiring loose inside my head
I got books that I never ever read
I got secrets in my garden shed
I got a scar where all my urges bled
I got people underneath my bed
I got a place where all my dreams are dead
Swim with me into your blackest eyes

A few minutes with me inside my van
Should be so beautiful if we can
I'm feeling something taking over me

I got wiring loose inside my head
I got books that I never ever read
I got secrets in my garden shed
I got a scar where all my urges bled
I got people underneath my bed
I got a place where all my dreams are dead
Swim with me into your blackest eyes

I got wiring loose inside my head
I got books that I never ever read
I got secrets in my garden shed
I got a scar where all my urges bled
I got people underneath my bed
I got a place where all my dreams are dead
Swim with me into your blackest eyes.

2. TRAINS

Train set and match spied under the blind
Shiny and contoured the railway winds
And I've heard the sound from my cousin's bed
The hiss of the train at the railway head

Always the summers are slipping away

A 60 ton angel falls to the earth
A pile of old metal, a radiant blur
Scars in the country, the summer and her

Always the summers are slipping away
Find me a way for making it stay

When I hear the engine pass
I'm kissing you wide
The hissing subsides
I'm in luck

When the evening reaches here
You're tying me up
I'm dying of love
It's OK

When I hear the engine pass
I'm kissing you wide
The hissing subsides
I'm in luck

When the evening reaches here
You're tying me up
I'm dying of love
It’s OK.

3. LIPS OF ASHES

Paralysed
Lips of ashes
Synchronised
Blue vein crashes

Touching
Touching you
Inside (8 x)

Idolised
Black eyes fading
You and I
Connection failing

I drill
I drill down
Inside (8 x).

4. THE SOUND OF MUZAK

Hear the sound of music
Drifting in the aisles
Elevator prozac
Stretching on for miles

Music of the future
Will not entertain
It's only meant to repress
And neutralise your brain

Soul gets squeezed out
Edges get blunt
Demographic
Gives what you want

One of the wonders of the world is going down
It's going down, I know
It's one of the blunders of the world that no-one cares
No-one cares enough

Now the sound of music
Comes in silver pills
Engineered to suit you
Building cheaper thrills

Music of rebellion
Makes you wanna rage
But it's made by millionaires
Who're nearly twice your age

Soul gets squeezed out
Edges get blunt
Demographic
Gives what you want

One of the wonders of the world is going down
It's going down, I know
It's one of the blunders of the world that no-one cares
No-one cares enough

One of the wonders of the world is going down
It's going down, I know
It's one of the blunders of the world that no-one cares
No-one cares enough

One of the wonders of the world is going down
It's going down, I know
It's one of the blunders of the world that no-one cares
No-one cares enough

One of the wonders of the world is going down
It's going down, I know
It's one of the blunders of the world that no-one cares
No-one cares enough.

5. GRAVITY EYELIDS

Open your eyes now
Hear me out before I lose my mind
I've been waiting for hours
Let the salt flow, feel my coil unwind

Give me a smile please
Count the calm and watch my breathing slow
Winding me up tease
Get inside my head and make it show

Oh yeah, gravity eyelids
Gravity eyelids come down
Oh yeah, gravity eyelids
Gravity eyelids come down

Touching your oil skin
Slipping hands down past your waist to find
I've been waiting for hours
Let the salt flow, feel my coil unwind
Go to the edge swim
Brown the eyes that sleep has rendered blind

Oh yeah, gravity eyelids
Come love so young with your
Gravity eyelids come down
Gold arms, so I wake her
Oh yeah, gravity eyelids
Come love so young with your
Gravity eyelids come down
Gold arms, so I wake her
Come love so young with your
Here's a will that will glow
Come love so young with your
In the dark
Come love so young with your
Here's a will

Oh yeah, gravity eyelids
Come love so young with your
Gravity eyelids come down
Gold arms, so I wake her
Oh yeah, gravity eyelids
Come love so young with your
Gravity eyelids come down
Gold arms, so I wake her.

6. WEDDING NAILS
Instrumental

7. PRODIGAL

I don't know whose side I'm on
I don't think that I belong round here
If I left the stage would that be wrong?

I tried to find myself a better way
I got religion, but I went astray
They took my money and I lost my faith

Rain keeps crawling down the glass
The good times never seem to last
Close your eyes and let the thought pass

I tried the capsule and I tried the smoke
I tried to aid escape like normal folk
But I never seemed to get the joke

Rain keeps crawling down the glass
The good times never seem to last
Close your eyes and let the thought
Close your eyes and let it pass

These are my old clothes
This is a new low
This is my blood flow
This is my headstone

I spend my days with all my friends
They're the ones on who my life depends
I'm gonna miss them when the series ends

Rain keeps crawling down the glass
Pull yourself together
The good times never seem to last
You know it's not so bad
Close your eyes and let the thought
Close your eyes and let it pass

These are my old clothes
This is a new low
This is my blood flow
This is my headstone.

8. .3

Black the sky, weapons fly
Lay them waste for your race
Black the sky, weapons fly
Lay them waste for your race
Black the sky, weapons fly
Lay them waste for your race
Black the sky, weapons fly
Lay them waste for your race.

9. THE CREATOR HAS A MASTERTAPE

He captured and collected things
And he put them in a shed
He raised a proper family
So he could tie them to a bed

The creator had a mastertape
But he left it in a cab
I stared into the void tonight
The best dream I ever had

He worked himself into the ground
And drove a spike into his head
A voice said: "Are you happy now
Your sordid home is running red?"

The creator had a mastertape
But he left it in a cab
I stared into the void tonight
The best dream I ever had

Pills and chloroform
All the pages torn
Pills and chloroform
All the pages torn
Pills and chloroform
All the pages torn.

10. HEARTATTACK IN A LAYBY

I pull off the road
East of Baldock and Ashford
Feeling for my cell
In the light from the dashboard

Hissing from the road
The smell of rain in the air con
Maybe check the news
Or just put a tape on

Lighting up a smoke
I've got this feeling inside me
Don't feel too good

If I close my eyes
And fell asleep in this lay-by
Would it all subside
The fever pushing the day by

Motor window wind
I could do with some fresh air
Can't breathe too well

She waits for me
Home waits for me

I guess I should go now
She waits for me
She's waiting to make up
Home waits for me
To tell me she's sorry
She waits for me
And how much she missed me
Home waits for me
I guess I'm just burnt out
She waits for me
I really should slow down
Home waits for me
I'm perfectly fine, but
She waits for me
I just need to lie down
Home waits for me
She waits for me

We'll grow old together
We'll grow old together
We'll grow old together
We'll grow old together
We'll grow old together
We'll grow old together.

11. STRIP THE SOUL

This is my home, this is my own, we don't like no strangers
Raise the kids good, beat the kids good and tie them up
Spread it wide, my wife, my life, push the camera deeper
I can use, I abuse, my muse, I made them all

This machine
Is there to please
Strip the soul
Fill the hole
A fire to feed
A belt to bleed
Strip the soul
Kill them all

They are not gone, they are not gone, they are only sleeping
In graves, in ways, in clay, underneath the floor
Building walls, overalls, getting bored, I got faulty wiring
Brick it up now, brick it up now, but keep the bones

This machine
Is there to please
Strip the soul
Fill the hole
A fire to feed
Do you want a western home in the rubble?
A belt to bleed
Strip the soul
Kill them all

Do you want a western home in the rubble?

This machine
Is there to please
Strip the soul
Fill the hole

This machine
Is there to please
Strip the soul
Fill the hole

This machine
Is there to please
Strip the soul
Fill the hole

This machine
Is there to please

Strip the soul
Fill the hole

Strip the soul
Fill the hole

Strip the soul
Fill the hole.

12. COLLAPSE THE LIGHT INTO EARTH

I won't shiver in the cold
I won't let the shadows take their toll
I won't cover my head in the dark
And I won't forget you when we part

Collapse the light into earth
Collapse the light into earth

I won't heal given time
I won't try to change your mind
I won't feel better in the cold light of day
But I wouldn't stop you if you wanted to stay

Collapse the light into earth
Collapse the light into earth
Collapse the light into earth
Collapse the light into earth

Collapse the light into earth
Collapse the light into earth
Collapse the light into earth
Collapse the light into earth.

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