I put the new INCUBUS album lyrics up here because I have read through them and I believe they are awesome.
The intellegence here is amazing. The point of view is remarkable!
This guy says a lot about life, alot about love, and even more about he way I feel personally. Like "Make Yourself" come on.. you have to know who you are before you do anythign in life and be happy! = )
(that's the psych major in me speaking!)
I bought this album because I'm a huge incubus fan severly cause the music itself kicks. But now this albums lyrics have really hit me hard.
Read this for personal fullfillment, if not for anything else.
The story here is sweet, and the life behind it is just astounding.
Completely from my heart.... if nothing else. I give this guy all the credit in the world!
Thanks Brendon Boyd for some cool lyrics!
INCUBUS is the top!
They play an aweseome concert!!!
INCUBUS
“Make Yourself”
1.Privlage
2.Nowhere fast
3.Consequence
4.The Warmth
5. When It Comes
6. Stellar
7.Make Yourself?
8.Drive
9. Clean
10.Battlestar Scralatchtica
11. I Miss You
12. Pardon Me
13. Out From Under
1.Privlage
Isn’t it strange that a gift could be an enemy?
Isn’t it weird that a privilege could feel like a chore?
Maybe it’s me but this isn’t going anywhere,
Maybe if we looked hard enough, we could find a back door.
(Find yourself a back door)
I see you in line dragging your feet
You have my sympathy.
The day you were born, you were born free
That is your privilege.
Isn’t it strange that the man standing in front of me
Doesn’t have a clue why he’s waiting or what he’s waiting for?
Maybe it’s me but I’m sick of wasting energy.
Maybe if I look in my heart I can find a back door.
(Find yourself a back door)
I see you in line, dragging your feet
You have my sympathy.
The day you were born, you were born free,
That is your privilege.
2. Nowhere Fast
Will I ever get to where I’m going?
Will I ever follow through with what I had planned?
I guess it’s possible that I have been a bit distracted
and the directions for me are a lot less in demand.
Will I ever get o where I’m going?
If I do, will I know when I’m there?
If the wind blew me in the right direction,
would I even care?
I would.
I take a look around; it’s evident the scene has changed.
And there are times when I feel improved on the past.
then there are times when I can’t seam to understand at all
and yes it seams as though I’m going nowhere...
really fucking fast.
3. Consequence
Blink and you miss a beat.
Keep one of your eyes open at all times.
Think that your on the brink?
The shit hasn’t even begun to hit the fan.
Consequence you’ll see will be stranger than a gang of drunken mimes!
Situation has a stink.
Better clear the air before your son becomes a man.
Blink. Everything’s been augmented,
you’ve been left so far behind.
Think, for sure, next time you should
wear a pair of eyes in the back of your head.
Consequence you’ve seen has been stranger
than sci-fi of any kind.
Situation baffles me.
I guess it’s true you are one of the walking dead.
4.The Warmth
I’d like to close my eyes and go numb
but there’s a cold wind coming from
the top of the highest high-rise today
It’s not a breeze cause it blows hard
Yes and it wants me to discard the humanity I know,
Watch the warmth blow away
Do you think I should adhere
to that pressing new frontier?
and leave in my wake a trail of fear?
Or should I hold my head up high
and throw a wrench in spokes by
leaving the air behind me clear?
Don’t let the world bring you down
Not everyone here is that fucked up and cold
Remember why you came and while your alive
experience the warmth before you grow old.
5. When It Comes
It’s comin’ around again.
They’re letting it out again, again.
It’s comin’ around again.
They’re letting it out again, again.
When it comes
It comes abrupt
When it feels
It feels like trading brains with an imbecile... for real.
Yes I feel empathetic about not being static
and not buying philosophies that are sold to me,
at a steal.
Just when you thought it was safe to think,
becomes mental piracy!
What I’m looking for
Cannot be sold to me
I wish they all would stop trying.
Cause what I want and what I need
Is and will always be free.
It’s comin’ around again.
They’re letting it out again, again.
It’s comin’ around again.
They’re letting it out again, again.
When it comes,
it comes unannounced
and it feels
It feels like a matador’s taunting me with his reddest red cloth and,
I am the bull.
Yes I feel empathetic about not being static
and not eating the bullshit that’s being fed to me no more...
cause now I’m full.
Just when you thought it was safe to think,
becomes mental piracy!
What I’m looking for
Cannot be sold to me
I wish they all would stop trying.
Cause what I want and what I need
Is and will always be free.
6. Stellar
(Roxanna)
Meet me in outer space.
WE could spend the night;
watch the Earth come up.
I’ve grown tired of that place;
won’t you come with me?
WE could start again.
How do you do it?
make me feel like I do.
How do you do it?
It’s better than I ever knew.
Meet me in outer space.
I will hold you close if your afraid of heights.
I need you to see this place, it may be the only way
that I can show you how
it feels to be
inside you!
How do you do it?
make me feel like I do.
How do you do it?
it’s better than I ever knew
You are a stellar.
7. Make Yourself
If I hadn’t made me, I would have been made somehow.
If I hadn’t assembled myself I’d have fallen apart by now.
If I hadn’t made me, I’d be more inclined to bow
Powers that be would have swallowed me up and that’s more than I can allow.
If you let them make you, they’ll make you papier-mâché.
At a distance your strong until the wind comes then you crumble and blow away.
If you let them fuck you, there will be no foreplay.
But rest assured, they’ll screw you complete till your ass is blue and gray.
You should make amends with you.
If only for better health.
But if you really want to live.
why not try and make yourself
Make your self.
If I hadn’t made me, I’d have fallen apart by now.
I won’t let em make me, it’s more than I can allow.
So when I make me, I won’t be papier-mâché
And if I fuck me, I’ll fuck me in my own way!
You should make amends with you
If only for better health.
But if you really want to live.
Why not try and make yourself.
8. Drive
Sometimes I feel the fear of uncertainty stinging clear.
And I can’t help but ask myself how much I’ll let the fear take the wheel and steer.
It’s driven me before, and it seams to have a vague, haunting, mass appeal.
But lately I am beginning to find that I should be the one behind the wheel.
Whatever tomorrow brings I’ll be there
with open arms and open eyes.
So if I decide to wavier my chance to be one of the hive
will I choose water over wine and hold my own and drive?
It’s driven me before and seams to be the way that everyone else gets around.
But lately I’m beginning to find that when I drive myself my light is found.
So whatever tomorrow brings I’ll be there.
With open arms and open eyes. yeah
Would you kill the queen to crush the hive?
Would you choose water over wine...
hold the wheel and drive?
9. Clean
Today, everything was fine.
Until round about quarter to nine, I suddenly found myself in a bind.
Was it something I said?
Something I read and manifested that’s getting you down?
Don’t you dare come to bed, with that ambiguous look in your eyes.
I’d sooner sleep by an open fire and wake up fried.
Say what you will, say what you mean.
You could never offend, your dirty words come out clean.
Tomorrow, What price will I pay?
Could I make it all up to you by serving coffee for two in bed,
would you then give me the time of day?
I need a map of your head, translated into English so I can learn to not make you frown.
You’d feel better if you’d vent,
put your frustrations into four letter words and let them out on
my, the most weathered ears in town.
Say what you will say what you mean.
You could never offend, your dirty words come out clean.
10. Battlestar Scralatchtica
(instrumental)
11. I Miss You
To see you when I wake up is a gift I didn’t think could be real.
to know that you feel the same as I do is a three-fold Utopian dream.
you do something to me I can’t explain.
So would I be out of line if I said
I Miss You (?)
I see your picture, I smell your skin on the empty pillow next to mine.
you have only been gone ten days but already I’m wasting away
I know I’ll see you again, weather far or soon.
but I need you to know that I care
and I Miss You
12. Pardon Me
A decade ago, I never thought I would be
at twenty-three on the verge of spontaneous combustion.
Woah-is-Me
But I guess it comes with the territory; an ominous landscape
of never ending calamity.
I need you to hear, I need you to see that I have had all I
can take and exploding seams like a definite possibility to me.
So pardon me while I burst into flames.
I ‘ve had enough of this world and it’s people’s mindless games.
So pardon me while I burn, and rise above the flames.
Pardon me, pardon me... I’ll never be the same.
Not two days ago, I was having a look in a book,
and I saw a picture of a guy fried up above his knees.
I said “I can relate” cause lately I’ve been thinking of combustication
as a welcomed vacation from the burdens of the planet Earth.
Like gravity, hypocrisy, and the perils of being in 3-D...
and thinking so much differently.
So pardon me while I burst into flames.
I ‘ve had enough of this world and it’s people’s mindless games.
So pardon me while I burn, and rise above the flames.
Pardon me, pardon me... I’ll never be the same.
13. Out From Under
To resist is to piss in the wind.
Anyone who does will end up smelling.
Knowing this why do I defy?
Because my inner voice is yelling.
There is a fist pressing against
anyone who thinks something compelling.
Our intuit were taught to deny,
and our soul we’re told is for selling.
Get out from under them
resist and multiply!
Get our from under precipice and see the sky!!
Get out from under them
resist, unlearn, defy!
Get our from precipice and see the sky!
~Incubus is:
Brandon Boyd
Michael Einziger
DJ Kilmore
Dirk Lance
Jose Pasillas II
