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Meet Your Maker lyrics

intro "... and that was enough ..." Mason's self-imposed exile to Cairo, Egypt.
Mercury (Burn Out) Mason loses himself in the Western Desert of Egypt.
Here Comes the Sunburn The elements begin to take their toll.
Awakening Mason realizes his folly. Too late.
Just Add Water Mason encounters the mirage.
Going My Way Mason attempts to hitch a ride with a Bedouin's wayward camels.
Ozymandias a poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley
The Crawl "slung so low, one with shadow ..."
Pretty Birds The vultures gather as Mason nears the end.
Mercy Who deserves mercy?
Meet Your Maker "Are you ready?"
Miracle Rain Hope arrives in the heart of utter hopelessness.
Bedouin Girl Found, rescued and provided for by those with little to give.
Tomorrow A new lease on life. "Why should I worry ... ?"
outro "... and for today, that is enough."

"Intro"

... and that was enough.

"Mercury (Burn Out)"

"Where there's life, there's hope," it's said
well, i'm here to watch the two go down together
hand in hand

as i find
i've little left of one
and dim memory of the other
so it fades
brighter days of smiles have flown

like Mercury, my brother
keep my face toward the Sun
with my back in blackness
torrid face and frozen spine
burn out
fade

empty sand and vacant sky
i am lost within the absence of all detail
deep and wide

if you pause to count the time
on my wrist, you'll find the pulse
is beating slower
as it fades
waning as my shadow grows

the mercury is falling
summer heat to winter chill
with the setting sun
i'm lying in the cold
burn out
fade ... away

instrumental section

tarry here
in this no man's land
as i dumbly stare into that bleak horizon
deep and wide

leave the print ...
my steps behind
let them be my final words
to lie unspoken
as they fade
"fare thee well to all i've known"

like Mercury, so swiftly now
the end is drawing near
with an outstretched hand
Sahara beckons "come"
to the fate i know
i've known it all along ...

burn out
fade out
burn out
fade out
burn out
fade out
burn out
fade away...

"Here Comes the Sunburn"

here comes the sunburn, Masey
red hot white man
cutting through the savage tan

here comes the sunburn, Masey
red light white heat
incinerating by degree

with the sun protection factor
running zero down on me ...
gonna wear the blackest shade of coal
that the world has ever seen

here comes the sunburn, Masey
deep sky wide sand
only creature in the land

here comes the sunburn, Masey
spare time, no plans
idle mind and busy hands
busy, busy

if absence makes the heart grow fonder
everybody's loving me ...
gonna build the biggest sand castle
that the world has ever seen

well, i can feel my body blister
as i cross this desert land
i'll expire here in style
in my palace in the sand
if i had my old umbrella
i'd be singing in the rays
no tea across the Great Sand Sea
no shelt'ring from the sky
and no shade

instrumental section

here comes the sunburn, Masey
all beach, no shore
crawling on the desert floor
little darlin'

here comes the sunburn, Masey
pale face blood red
peeling skin begin to shed
little darlin'

i feel my eyes are slowly melting
it's been so long since they've been clear
gonna leave a bleach-blonde skeleton
and i'm going to leave it here

well, i can feel my body blister
as i cross this desert land
i'll expire here in style
in my palace in the sand
if i had my old umbrella
i'd be singing in the rays
no tea across the Great Sand Sea
no shelt'ring from the sky
and no shade

"Awakening"

open my diary
to journal my private life
i've had a quiet day
settling down to write about it

i found myself today
my senses were undisturbed
a reason to celebrate, if only
a lesson i had learned
sooner

waken
awakening

must have been deluded
when i signed up for that trip across the ocean
had to be a fool to think
that anyone would notice, much less find me here

waken
awakening

who's going to find my bones
wondering why i came
who's going to bury me
who's going to know my name
will no one?

remember
remember me

awakening

"Just Add Water"

well, how far to Farafra?
how long 'til i see Siwa?
way station in the wasteland
a balm for bleary eyes

buzzing head rings hollow
my mouth too dry to swallow
wander on through the wall-less maze
as i'm flipped by rolling floors

and this could be a lovely place, truly
skipping stones across the lake with you beside
fabled Atlantis pales before such liquid grace
... just add water

It's utter dehydration
No drop of perspiration
my brain begins to boil
like an egg inside the shell

On the verge of vision
a palm and cool reflection
Could this have once been Eden
here in this Godforsaken land

and this could be a lovely place, truly
gliding through canals past drawn Venetian blinds
racing the dolphin with his blissed and kindly face

instrumental section

... just add water

A diving swan, so sweetly see
the surface rush to greet me
The point of my entry
cast in ripples on the pool

the final sound that i hear
as the sand pours into my ears
is the laughter of the Northern wind
as it howls across the dunes

and this could be a lovely place, truly
shoot the curl all day and ride the perfect wave
off in a barrel down Niagara's raging face
hydroplane
hurricane
a geyser unrestrained

"Going My Way"

head says i wait for the buzzards
tail says i move along
the cycle keeps repeating
over and over again

too long without a direction
too soon i change my mind
my will is two-faced
like the coin that i'm throwing

over the dune and far behind
hey joe, hey joe
a shuffling dromedary line
are you goin'
oh...

chorus:

[bgv: goin' my way]

oh, take me, run to the water
hey, get me out of here
if you're going anywhere
you're going my way

this ain't no hitchhiking weather
worn legs are giving out
stagger until i stumble
over and over again

i know you soak up the water
you'll last for seven days
it wouldn't bust your hump
to give me a tow in

over the dune and far behind
hey joe, hey joe
a shuffling dromedary line
are you goin'
oh...

repeat chorus

bridge:

together we could clear the sand
together we'd survive the day
but Kipling says you got that hump
by blowing off the job
so 'scrutiating idle
how you got this far, i've got no clue

finally climb up the last dune
the first of ever more
no sign of transportation
looks like i've blown it again

sauntering after the nomad
such placid state of mind
your chance to save the day
and you'll never know it

over the dune and far behind ...

instrumental section

repeat chorus

one camel turns to the other
"hey, man, you got a light?"

"Ozymandias"
a sonnet composed by Percy Bysshe Shelley, written in 1817 A.D.

I met a traveler from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert ... Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed:
And on the pedestal these words appear:
"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.

"The Crawl"

slung so low
one with shadow
hand over hand
crawl

when i can crawl no further
i'll know
i have reached the end

dust to dust

alternate: haiku form

slung so very low
one with shadow, hand by hand
crawl from light to dark

I shall know the end
when I can crawl no further
dust to dust returns

"Pretty Birds"

lying in the sand bed waiting
deeper than the Qattara Depression
to the north of the Great Sand Sea

Ezekiel did his best
describing wheels upon the sky
i struggle now to name that darkened ring on high
it's turning slowly ...

who am i to lay the blame
in their form would i not do the same?
kin of a feather

hang the inconvenience
still i've got the rhythm
... if an odd one

patience she is with 'em
time is on their side
and they're coming lower

chorus:
ring me 'round like satellites
encircle me, you pretty birds
tumbling airborne appetite
fall on me, such pretty birds
herald that eternal light
yeah...

frying in the sand bed fading
yet my vision is improving
i can see them clearly now

i could pluck a lucky feather
from the tail of the closest
- there; i got one

i could take that muff for my own bald neck
it's out of reach
but it's getting closer

repeat chorus

"Mercy (Not Me)"

Who deserves mercy?
No one I can think of.
Who deserves a second chance?
Not me.

Only God can save me now
God owes no one favors
Who deserves mercy?
Of anyone, not me.

"Meet Your Maker"

Mother, can you hear me
can you tell me what to do
did you find a hole in Heaven
is there room to pull me through

is this my last soliloquy
and these, my final lines?
if this is what i wanted
well, i must have lost my mind

are you ready - bring the curtain down
are you ready - call the final round
are you ready - to meet your maker

i ran until i fell and then
i crawled this barren sea
and now i lie and tremble
waiting for the end of me

i am undone by my own hand
and my own clear design
covered o'er with Khamsin sand
obscured beneath her tide

are you ready - am i out of time
are you ready - to complete this rhyme
are you ready - to meet your maker

i may not be perceptive
or as shrewd as other men
but i don't need the sky to fall
to tell me what i've been

a bigger fool with my own life
than anybody else
i'm balanced on the edge of it
and it's time i asked myself

are you ready - to cross that line
are you ready - for the other side
are you ready - to meet your maker

Father, please forgive me
for i know not what to do

"Miracle Rain"

the sun shines down so hard it's beating me
shell so parched, it's cracked and bleeding
i'm praying ... for a miracle
watching ... for a miracle
waiting ... on the miracle rain

the rain falls scarce in the western desert
it might this year, and it might not ever
i'm hoping ... for a miracle
lost ... without a miracle
aching ... for the miracle rain

fall down, fall down come cover me
upon, around all over me
within, without, be part of me

it's been so long since i've tasted water
chased that dream, and i never caught her
i'm hoping ... for a miracle
begging ... for a miracle
longing ... for the miracle rain

the field, my soul, so dry and barren
i've laid down want, i've laid down care and
i'm praying ... for a miracle
gone ... without a miracle
dying ... for the miracle rain

fall down, fall down come cover me
upon, around all over me
within, without, be part of me

hope lay dead, but again it's stirring
revival as the horizon's blurring
i'm staring ... through a miracle
pelted ... by a miracle
soaking ... in the miracle

fall down, fall down come cover me
upon, around all over me
within, without, be part of me

drinking from the miracle rain
wonder at the miracle rain
laughing in the miracle rain
singing in the miracle rain
swimming in the miracle rain
revel in the miracle ...

"Bedouin Girl"

right about the time
that i gave up hope
felt a weathered hand on my shoulder
when i thought there was nobody 'round

just about then
before it all went black
said, "i could swear that i'm floatin' through the air"
i was riding on a camel's back

CHORUS:
life! (she's giving)
life! (she's giving)
life! (i'm living)
Bedouin girl

lying on the ground
in a handmade tent
soothing cool rag on my forehead
mercy angel by my side

i can't understand
a single word she says
but her eyes say "everything will be okay"
thank God for that Bedouin girl

CHORUS:
life! (she's giving)
life! (she's giving)
life! (i'm living)
Bedouin girl

life! (she's giving)
life! (she's giving)
life! (i'm living)
Bedouin girl

BRIDGE:
she kept me alive
for one more night
one more night
of living

BAND JAM:

CHORUS OUT:
life! (she's giving) she kept me alive
life! (she's giving) for one more night
life! (i'm living) one more night - of living
Bedouin girl

her eyes say everything will be okay

"Tomorrow" (lyric under contstruction)

always so dim and somber
always the hollow man
i left my soul buried in the sand
it's a quiet existence
a dark and lonely view

the echoing of laughter
among these solemn hills
and now i realize how good it feels
just to open my eyes and
breathe and think it through

my life could go a million ways
it's ever new

why should i worry about tomorrow, before tomorrow?
i'll never hurry along tomorrow, before tomorrow
why should i worry about tomorrow
when today is not my due?
the morning arrives, i'm still alive
it's ever new

i saw the Khamsin blowing
it spoke a living word
it was the sweetest sound i ever heard
through the maelstrom raging
the word rang clear and true

"somewhere somebody loves you
your flesh was given spark
from the dust that fills your eyes
i made your heart
and i set it beating
let the rhythm follow through"

gotta make the most out of the time
that's given you

why should i worry about tomorrow, before tomorrow?
i'll never hurry along tomorrow, before tomorrow
why should i worry about tomorrow
or wonder if i'll find my way
there's more than enough to just getting by
day by day

instrumental

bridge:
grab today and hold it close
until it lives within my skin
the veil that held me blind is wearing thin

why should i worry about tomorrow, before tomorrow?
i'll never hurry along tomorrow, before tomorrow
why should i worry about tomorrow
when today is not my due?
the moment slides into another day
it's ever new

"Outro"

to wake
to breathe again
to meet another sunrise

... and for today, that is enough