5280-RED SHELTER EP

And to proliferate your state, the most massive thing you've made
is your albitross so maybe one more lost is not an empty grave
And it serves to cement just what you meant and gave
No barrel or boat or makeshift float was ever meant to save
Well it's just a mile high
Why did you build what you could not defy?
Your public awaits
They wanna see you do what you dared the dead to do

You will fall out over that cliff
No precedence, nobody's ever tried and lived
You'll draw breath from this waterfall you built
No laughing now, I can't believe you fell for it

Noone would admit they just came to see you quit
All these jokes from all these folks
How did you fall for it?

Hold that camera steadier
Time to make history



BECOMING BLUE-RED SHELTER EP

Gunfight, shootout, how are you still alive?
It's a process that you go through
Becoming blue
Shoot first, second guess, no witnesses
Pissed on the topsoil so your burial'd go well
You're a co-conspirator, don't let 'em get away
Blood on your hands, no time to clean

Find out what's wrong with yourself
Let me know how it ends
Are we enemies or are we friends
To protect and serve, then cover up what's happening

Privilege, virtue and the honor of being white
Befouled your headstone and the flag they gave your wife

My enemies are uncomfortable with the demons you've chosen as your friends

Find out how fast we go when you ain't around
We put the pedal on the floor
To protect and serve, then cover up what's happening



EMPTY, HEARTLESS, AND LOST-RED SHELTER EP

With the tears frozen to my face and the wind getting colder
All I can do is pray that the hard part is over
Could I step in for something warm? Could I cry on your shoulder?
When there's nothing left to say, I say, "Nothing is over."

Streetlights shine down where I want noone to see
I'm empty, heartless, and lost
This world could break me in the time that it would take me to apologize
We both know that I'm empty, heartless, and lost
(But it's best to pass it off)

I got one foot inside the grave and the other's in prison
I'm forced in from the cold
I gotta make a decision

You don't know
I'll take so many secrets to my grave
Here we go



RED SHELTER-RED SHELTER EP

Power
The power to build a bomb just to eradicate
What matters
To afraid to discriminate so I'll just destroy it all
Hours
Pass without consequence
You'd better take advantage then
It's sour
I'm tired of all the talk so I'll just desroy it all

You can't take it from me my hands are untied
I know what it feels like to be alive
If you stay topside then soon you will die
I beg you to come down

I'll meet you in red shelter, we'll count our losses together
And I've complicated my cause, desecrated your stars
And if you don't believe, I'll push the little red button and you'll see
Complicated my cause and I pulled down your stars



OVEREXPOSURE-RED SHELTER EP

The moon's light is so much closer so we can see if something's happening
A star's life much more explosive so if it dies, it's much more frightening
It makes hell just seem wasteful when you've got so much more to be afraid of
I'm afraid I might be able to wield the same dust those stars are made of

When it opens up and the core pours out
Die my love, die my doubt

I can't stop staring back in time
Light the void
These solar explosions are vast and wide
I can't stop staring back in time
Light the void
This overexposure has left me blind

The room's light is much more comfortable
If it burns out, you're safe even if you're alone
Your eyesight, so much more wonderful
Look up and you can see a billion miles from home

They pour out their molten hearts to the Earth as if to say, "Why can't you see the stars?"
"Oh, because the ceiling covers."
They pour out their molten hearts to the Earth as if to say"Why can't you see the stars"

And if you pour out your heart, I'll open my eyes
We'll stare through this void together
All who're alive were not made to suffer but some still go blind forever
 


SONATA non GRATA-RED SHELTER EP

Relax my love, try to suspend your disbelief
How many seekers have we seen?
Go home and pack your things and together we will go and see
Too many Pharisees in Gallilee

Is it real what they say? Should we kneel?
Should we pray? Should we just throw stones and say, "I love my city just the way it was!"?
We're buried in violence and we have no excuse for our world or so they say

Have you ever seen a body, surely dead, disappear?
Just gain the strength to walk away?

There on the mark where they bled the broken king just yesterday, my love
Is where I'll lay my doubt and pain, cause tomorrow things will change
I know they will.

Did he just get up and leave?
How is it possible?
Did he just get up and leave?
But this is damn near impossible

For the love, for the lust
Through the ash and the dust
Who remains that we can trust?
"We loved our city just the way it was!"
If everyone's silent then we have no excuse for those words that we don't say

How did you spend your Saturday?

PARACHUTE-ELEPHANT GUN EP

This wall is not too high to climb, I swear we can get over it
All we got to do is try
If not, then see I've got the knife, I swear we'll just dig under it
Just this one time
So rip the sheets right off the bed, find somewhere else to lay your head
Just for one night
We've only got this tower to climb, we're jumping to the skies
See if we can fly

Oh, the sun is going down
Tonight's the night
Oh, we're jumping to our death
And we're gonna let the parachute decide
Our sheets are tied up tight

Parachute, don't let me down inside these killing fields
Allison won't hold my hand 'til I get home

Who's got the sticks, who's got the guns, there's nothing we can't overcome
Just this one time



YEAR OF THE RAT-ELEPHANT GUN EP

Here we sit, claiming we're together when we are so far apart
Here we dine. Drop it on the floor again. One more lifeless friend.
If you ever hurt me, I will not forgive
I will call on my godless friends and they won't forget

Vermin aplenty will attack your door and gate
Oh, so many. There'll be just no way to escape.

Trash
What's in your hand? What do you feed your rodents?
Trash
No chemical ban. Is it thallium mixed with lye?
Lye
And it burns my eyes
Why do you hate the bloods in mice?

Starved as we are, we'll be eating anything
I am poised to spoil your plan
Starved as we've been, you won't give us anything at all
I can smell cheese from trap

Vermin aplenty will infest your bed while you sleep
Oh, so many. There'll be just no way you won't eat

Now is the rodent's time

We're crawling out behind the walls and we'll find our way to you



HOW WE'RE INFECTED-ELEPHANT GUN EP

Will the queens hold the sceptors when the kings are all gone?
Will the world be collapsing around your sacred home?
Nearly all of our wanting reeks of entitled air
But we all feel so numb that we hardly even care
you don't care!

You were bored when the pills wore off
Cut the cord they just don't work
When you're forced to fly out on your own again

Will the homeless have shelter when the lean years are gone?
Or are they desperately clung to the doubt of things to come?
Nearly all of our choking is done with purified air
But we all feel so numb that we hardly even care.
you don't care!

It's just not a question of how we're infected, but why was there any doubt
One more regression and your whole confession is mine, it's already out
Can you live without your medicine?



THE ELEPHANT GUN- ELEPHANT GUN EP

Don't want to contemplate the time
No more ridicule, there'll be plenty of time to hope
Beast, when you woke it up
it started focusing on your throat
Yell, it isn't good enough
You've been given to throwing fits in my face
Fill, until you want it all
You let your gluttony turn to waste

And the devil's way is divine sometimes

I'll use my elephant gun to blow my enemies down
It goes away. Eventually, you will bow.

I wish you'd stop it with the lies
What's been eating you? Have you told anybody the truth?
Gun, when you load it up, it gets pointed right back on you.
Yell, it isn't good enough
Do you need more blood to mix with your proof?
Sell, you'll never get enough
You'll be lucky to just get screwed

It's not fair how you get to grow old and spend your inheritance
It's not fair how you get to die in your sleep eventually