The creatures: Paroles de l'album "Hai!"(Part 2).

Tourniquet

Pushing too hard - trying to hard
Force against force - negates itself
You grind and you grind
Time after time

So tightly wound so tightly bound
A strangling sound - ground to the ground
Unwind and unfurl
Unwind and uncurl

Land locked - turned to rock
Land locked - your power blocked
You grind and you grind
Running blind - running blind

Constrictor of thought - constrictor of breath
Toiling a square with a circular peg
You grind and you grind
Running blind - running blind

Land locked - turned to rock
Land locked - your power blocked
Stem the flow - tourniquet
Wind and you bind
Time after time

Pushing too hard - trying too hard
Force against force - negates itself
You grind and you grind
Time after time

Stem the flow - dam the tide
Turn the screw - turn the screw

Further nearer

Nowhere nearer we have travelled
Nearer further from the start
Somewhere distant waiting close at hand
Further nearer to the stop

It's not all we ever wanted
We could want for nothing else
It's not all we ever wanted
We could want for nothing else

Out of sight and right in front of us
Sooner longer still to go
Reaching out to touch horizon
Sooner longer than you know

It's not all we ever wanted
We could want for nothing else
It's not all we ever wanted
We could want for nothing else

If the skies should snow in summer
Back beyond and on the brink
Falling up a moving mountain
Now is later than you think

Nowhere nearer we have travelled
Nearer further from the start
Somewhere distant waiting close at hand
Further nearer to the stop

It's not all we ever wanted
We could want for nothing else
It's not all we ever wanted
We could want for nothing else

It's not all we ever wanted
We could want for nothing else

City Island

Drowning in a crowd
Drowning in the sound
An island from within
Silence flooding in

I am silent
I am still
I am silent
Island within

Silent as a shrine
Whirling mists of time
Silent as the snow
Falling snow on snow

I am silent
I am still
I am silent
Island within

Ticker-tape parade
Cities held at bay
Echoes of the snow
Fade in afterglow

Tantara!

Through the streets and thoroughfares
Fanfare is everywhere
Now is here and then is gone
Time to dazzle and move on

Tantara to begin - tantara start again
Tantara in a throng - tantara everyone

Don't be lame don't be limp
Don't be dowdy don't be meek
I'm in no mood to sit and weep
Coloured lights and high jinks

Tantara with a flair - tantara if you dare
Tantara anywhere - tantara everywhere

It's a toast and not a boast
With a swagger to the host
It's a party a pageantry
To celebrate our clarity

Hour zero by jingo
A new day fandango
Now is here and then is gone
Time to dazzle and move on

Tantara euphoric - tantara mesmeric
Tantara to begin - tantara start again