Zombie Rap

Those of you with better attention spans and memories than myself will know that I often collaborate with my buddy Will McD. Here is his brand new comedy video.

Usually my emotionless, detached and clumsy acting necessitates that I am first choice for such roles as “man in background”, “guy reading book” and “tree no4”. However, this time, my gangly form was well suited to being a zombie. I may have found my true path in life!

Anyway, I hope you enjoy and “like” / “share” / “subscribe” / get involved in petty feud with several other viewers over the smallest details.

I Am Shazzamo

Lyrics to I Am Shazzamo by The Fall Of Science

There’s nothing left to say
Except the obvious, the empty
The erudite one lies and squirms

We’re searching, we’re hoping
For something to save us
There’s still nothing left

As the truth has been revealed
And the tables have been turned
This distance brings me falling to my knees again

When elegy becomes memory
Shazzamo, they’ll never know

We’re becoming sentient
Soulless machines; breathing, bleeding
Knee deep in apathy

As the truth has been revealed
And the tables have been turned
This distance brings me falling to my knees again

If it makes you smile, I would say these words to you
And if it makes you smile, I would end this life tonight

Hey emptiness, this is our salute
To every breath, to every tear
You made it real;
The beauty of loving you

You don’t have to suffer,
You don’t have to see this to the end

Ethereal

Lyrics to Ethereal by The Fall Of Science

So hold tight baby
And you’ve never been so quiet
Yours was the loudest voice at her funeral
You’ve never been this quiet

I’ve tried so many times
And failed to make you see
But I’ll be here, emptying my lungs
Until I cease to breathe

You can’t be true to me
And you’re looking at me trying
To show me sorrow
And I can’t breathe
And I cannot breathe

When every word you uttered
Stands to be a fragile lie
Then the people left behind
Will finally bare their teeth

For this life we lead through
Disbelief I will crown you the pointless fool

I guess something had to shake you to the core
Something had to squeeze a tear
From those turquoise eyes

No you can’t be true to me
And you’re looking at me trying
To show me sorrow
And I can’t breathe
And I cannot breathe

Finality In Hope

Lyrics to Finality In Hope by The Fall Of Science

Will, will you ever, ever be, anything you claimed to be

If you’ve never felt love, how do you write about it?
If you’ve never been there, how can you tell the story?
I’ve crossed the water, I’ve sailed the ocean
I have to believe we are enduring

When you look into my eyes and see they are corroding,
I’m dying inside through this thought of confusion.

These words are so damn solid
Stand by your actions, go raise your armies
And now I see it clear, now I hold so dear
Only friends and brothers, for they are eternal

When you look into my eyes and see they are corroding,
I’m dying inside through this thought of confusion.
When you look into my heart and see that it’s still breaking
I’m dying inside through this thought of confusion.

You’ve really taken the best of my life, you’ve really taken the best of my life
You can’t ever seem to bring me down 
You’ve really taken the best of my life, you’ve really taken the best of my life
You can’t ever seem to bring me down.

There’s finality in hope, if you cling on to it
But I won’t
There’s beauty in love, if you can take it
But I don’t

You’ve really taken the best of my life, you’ve really taken the best of my life
You can’t ever seem to bring me down 
You’ve really taken the best of my life, you’ve really taken the best of my life
You can’t ever seem to bring me down.

If you need faith to find meaning in life then I pity, I pity you

You’ve really taken the best of my life, you’ve really taken the best of my life
You can’t ever seem to bring me down.

Platinum

Lyrics to Platinum, performed twice live by The Fall Of Science but not recorded

Your capricious schemes shall fail

You’re pushing mediocrity with a lust I’ve never seen
I know I might be wrong but I’ll never be one

To be, a captive to trends
Or know the fascination in another’s moves

I know it’s never looked so good
To be ignorant and capitalist

And if I’ve learnt something in all my years
It’s that passion is worth its weight in platinum

Transparency is everything to me
I’m crystal clear and you can see my love

My blood, my heart
My metaphors are better for it

I know it’s never looked so good
To be ignorant and capitalist

And sitting here I remember when you told me,
In so many words, it’s imperative to show what you stand for

The roads we travel down, these journeys are so cold,
Without a friend to share the weight
Without a friend to bear the load

The Pledge and The Turn

Lyrics to The Pledge and The Turn by The Fall Of Science

Promise me
Sitting here, I remember
Assure me
Where I was when you told me
That this trust
In so many words it’s imperative
Was not misplaced
To show what you stand for

As clarity cuts through cecity
Integrity will end this nightmare

Promise me
Sitting here, I remember
Assure me
Where I was when you told me
That this trust
In so many words it’s imperative
Was not misplaced
To show what you stand for

I’ll hold this up as evidence
That every word you ever said
Was meaningless though eloquent
Promise

I’m not one for conflict or dramatic stands
I guess that’s why this internecine drags inexorably on
But you could not repent for my soul
But it’s never you with the white flags
Or fresh made bouquets

I’ll hold this up as evidence
That every word you ever said
Was meaningless though eloquent

Take a look inside your self and promise me

When loyalty is just an empty word
That’s when your weight is not your worth

Poets and Visionaries

Lyrics to Poets and Visionaries by The Fall Of Science

Every century is defined by great men
But who do we have
To carry the torch of the time of our lives

I doubt you will ever see with a dose of clarity
Do you not hunger for something more demanding to pull you through
A brave new world, subsides in stagnant seas
For this I will never be happy with this life

And I promise you, for all your gold
They won’t know you in ten years time

So go and seize the day and hold it close
And never let it go because time is both
Your lover and your enemy
The meek shall inherit the earth but I can’t wait til then

All our poets died long ago and our visionaries are blind
To a culture in decline and choking for breath
We are choking for breath
Your fame doesn’t mean a thing if you do nothing to enhance the story of mankind

For this I will never be happy with a little life
Now you’ve taken my soul and turned it to dust
For this I will never be happy with a little life
Now you’ve taken my soul and turned it to dust

A brave new world

Mera

Lyrics to Mera by Through Autumn We Bled

So here I am just standing
Screaming I love you as my lungs bleed dry
My cracked lips coated with a thin residue
Of regret that’s just a little too tough to shake

Death nears, but all my fears
Seem so misplaced now
I regret
In the light of revelation
In the halogen glare
I regret

These hardened veins are being torn up by you
Oh bleeding redeemer
Those tears in your eyes taste of my failures
And flood to fill the cup

Transient

To wander down steeple steps,

Beneath a blackened sky.

With book in hand and smoke twixt lips,

To taste that echoed scent.

To drink from flagons hung from hips.

I bound through grass unkept.

 

With enthuse lent from Bacchus,

And calmly drawing on my tobacco,

I sat a while in that cold field and studied prose and verse.

The world revolved as i filled my head

With Thermopylae and Troy in turn,

And through ancient tongues i did learn

More of life than e’er before i’d found

In testament, textbook or hymn.

 

As night drew in and i wrapped in

Little more than summer cloth

I closed my tomes and started out

Back onto darkened path.

I left behind the parkland and Thrace and ancient Greece

And out into the street i stumbled, mind filled with sentiment

And as i passed beggar, drunkard, hooker and thug.

In my heart i trembled and could not help but lament

The state of once verdant England and all we now know

Though through my eyes i’m sickened

In my mind i’m free, to read of work of freeing verse

Of Argos, Mars and Galilee.

Sand In The Hourglass

And they’l say keep on running and don’t look back

Because there’s no going back, everythings changed and you’re

Just a part of the past, you’re not the only one

 

And i would spend so long looking for some answers

That you would come and go without me clocking it

And by the time i reached thirty i’d over-analysed

Every little thing to the point that, i’d gone over

The answer a hundred times and let it slip by

 

You can’t hold onto life if you’re left on

The sidelines searching for the reasons

To this, that and why, because time

Waits for no man, so it’s about time

You worked it out

 

I looked into your blue eyes and saw

Something so wonderous it woke me up

Drink it in son, for you only get one chance and

You’d better be sure she’s the one and don’t

Fuck it up this time, cos you haven’t got the same looks

You relied on

 

Ten years ago and boyish charm doesn’t stretch into your

Middle age, so i came home and found that beauty still

Shone brightly but something had changed, dulled, and those

Eyes were outshone by the amethyst on your finger

 

Don’t look back son, keep on walking, those

Legs tire too quick from running, you’re just part of the past

 

And you’re not the only, not the only one

But you’re far too cold to see it