Voivod. NOTHING FACE (p)1989

INTRO: (0:54)

THE UNKNOWN KNOWS: (4:59)

On this train, will it always rain? try to analyse this led venture Songless sky, digital bug-eye Octogonal seams so much clearer Indiscrete, status incomplete to provide me with something better Things come and go this world is droll all that I know... The Unknown Knows Talk to me you flying shadows wandering into this ozone stew keep your myths from the embryos who would miscontrue anything new An outright, official fiasco can you shield me from the drastic truth... times come and go how dull the flow all that I hope The Unknown Knows may some sign come to me that I am in their league back down to reality Look about, response is wanting events are carefully on display common sense, a gift is given but mystic mistakes are never made suspecting premature day dreams I surrender to ritual grey I come and go endless approach I must be close The Unknown Knows why all this commotion, now? Stop...Wait. I wish I knew the one who knows Yesterday will come with tomorrow's sun and merry-go-round stuck on muddy ground nineteen yelping fools half-wits spouting drool half of wich have some the others have none I knew all along.....

NOTHINGFACE: (4:12)

May I ?...May I?? Valves plugs pump to erase Rictus from my face Lapse of time Synchro freeze Loop rewind Forward speed Will to walk crossed out feet Fingers fall far from reach Mind to talk Still words bleed Optic box melted through Sonic shock silent clue Drop by drop Drain out tube I hope, I need I want to dream Cold choke choke cold I float unseen outside the screen Cold choke choke cold A wish extreme Against the stream.

ASTRONOMY DOMINE: (5:28)

Lime and limpid green The second scene The fights between the blue you once knew Floating down the sounds resounds around the icy water underground Jupiter and Saturn Oberon there on the ruin Titanian, Neptune, Titan stars get frighten Winding signs flap Flicker flicker flicker flam Pow! Stairways scared and death rules there Blindman limpid green the sound surrounds the icy water on the, Lime and limpid green the sound Surrounds the icy Waters underground.

MISSING SEQUENCES: (5:44)

Sleeping sky winding walk breezing by ravaged rock Swarming locust-land spiders spinning sand grubbing enterprise no time to reply, re-ply Down, down, far underground prime spot Sound, sound, ten thousand mounds lime-stock Stupendous flaking fume Tremendous dancing doom Smoke stack spill Momentous reeking ooze Enormous creaking crew Vapour-ville! Neuro-link, dementia Limbo-inc. amnesia I did, I did-n't know I think I should go, go! Post-calamity Bio-atrophy Boxite double-bind Forgetful retry, re-try Aphasic clouded cult Synaptic planet pulse Lost engram ellusive mythic doubt reactive spastic pause Dis-programmed Which was what who knows when Where was that? Way back then Do I know how Where to go now Mother lode out.

X-RAY MIRROR: (4:26)

Tunnel seems so long Touching the bottom A glim reflexion punctured my vision I didn't noticed beside the last door Standing on nothing There was a mirror Even inside... scrutinized I am, he is, the face I hate Refracting cells, a prismed self Who's X, who's Y, in a blank place I can't believe this is my image Like the mirror, without a frame Baring a scarred side open in day light Recoil and reply farside of my pride The introspection ruptures the blood core Magnification draws out the mirror Seeking me out what will he find? I am, he is, a repgunant state I can't shake his curiosity My privacy starts to fade, fade away... I can't believe this is my image Like the mirror a polar exchange He cloats over my fleeting age He used to be me He knows who is free How long will I wait ...here Stuck in this void place...'here Within the mirror, Into the chrome lake The glass is broken But I look the same...

INNER COMBUSTION: (3:44)

Crucible heats up Arsenic mercury An acid concoct Hermetic theory Hydrogen vapours Exclusion principle It's never over Forever practical And I try Throughout time Any rite For the sign Light rebounds Pure neon I surround All am I, I am all Fluorescent lava Pellucid mineral Essential dogma Excludes the logical Immobile centre One, two, three, for nothing Projection powder Under a raven's wing Catalyst, fusion Inner combustion A transmutation For I am all

PRE-IGNITION: (5:08)

Hey you... Tell me, what's your call name Closed, negative display Engaged on section three The acrid factories You... Putrid perfect product Proper platinum parts Proficient prototypes Steadily spew from these pipes Are you... The prime automaton Christened as YB-1 Hey you... Generated by waste Arid quarry displaced Enviro-mental squeeze Aluminum disease You... Conscious of origin Intent in the wind Atmosphere infected Descendants defected Are you... Novel stroke of design Or relics from this mine Casually, choke, Noxious nourishment Embodied, illicit cure Ground and rock and sand Come crumble tumble down Grinding round The hydraulic wheel Extraction, For ultimate greed Now... hidden from view Surveying stable shifts A feeble groove Unintentional split Then they return to work As if they're not disturbed Cybernetic beings Omniscient regiment Thriving with vigor Incessant loop an assumed order Auspicious tool Frantically, flow Spumous sediment Remedied, neurotic fuse Ground and rock and sand Come crumble tumble down Yonder sound, an echoing gong Disjunction Of their disowned song Now... some are set free Emotions flood their gaze Synthetic breed The pre-ignition phase Pre-ignition Flares up in you Pre-ignition Provokes me too.

INTO MY HYPERCUBE: (5:01)

In my backyard Sounds turn around Down, fall apart In my playground In my dome, of my own A locked thought in a closet Splinter moves, cracking moans Dank angles in the attic Sixth sense stockpiled In the cellar And the ladder is broken Memories sleep in dust This shelter is doubtfull... Blind windows, flat eyes Stitched tight into time Til I rise unbound Transient illusion Clairvoyant suspension Translucid condition Principal connection Rise high, rise higher Shining shallow spirit shadows Hypercube phenomena Shining shallow spirit shadows Tumult in the dark Telestrobic heart Murmur of the muse Whispering amused Fulfilling this square Circled in my lair Am I not awake This ever forever Perhaps a faulty premonition Perhaps this doesn't change anything But for certain, I will be hanging around Nether hallway Wisdom's dipping Spiral stairway Logic's dripping Silent squeeze, shrinking scene This remains my domain Grave intrigue, I'm relieved All these stains, left unnamed Grinches snicker, sneer at me Like grinning cheshire cats Running amuck, mad, crazy This cuboid up side down cell.

SUB-EFFECT: (4:29)

The one so down is alive It is apart of my plight The one inside makes a sign And keeps an eye to the light I sense panic over board Obscure, viscid sprawling fog I hear a sonar rumour That says I'm far from the shore How I am stricken with non-emotion It crawls above. Periscopic cognition Where it strives to dwell In abnormal contortion I navigate, in my maze Investigate, to be safe safe safe Across the ocean Of sheer compromise There is no matrix, Not even a guide The last wave of sanity Rolls over my frequency Skyline under water field The depths above the high seas A twilight house keepers Dim-on dim-off now A concrete cyclops Blinking down his dull eye Does this code signal Something somewhere somehow? Why me? It goes on and on and on Please no Too late for S.O.S. Mute island, Fish-eye view Circling the border line No resource, no rescue I'm stranded, I'm otherwise The error is perfect Like this sub-effect Of my mind....my mind.


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