Archive for October, 2008

Second Coming

Posted in delphi, lyrics, music, poetry with tags on October 24, 2008 by skyscraped

Based on the poem by W.B Yeats. I hope I can do it justice, with what I see in it.

Watch out tonight,
there’s not a star in the sky I see.
Nothin but Inanna’s Chariot
winking back at me.
I draw the poison inside my veins
and I smell your shaman’s weed
Like the stones at Mecca we are more
than what we seem.

But we fear this war
like we fear this economy
Romans rolling in the blood-dimmed tide
loosed in hypocrisy
I look deep into your eyes
And I know you see what I see
I cry now as I start to fly
But I know I have to leave

(chorus)
Turning and turning this widening gyre
the falcon cannot hear the falconer
things fall apart, the center cannot hold
and Anarchy is loosed upon the world
I’m running and running as fast as I can
I know that I won’t find a better man
but this Storm is bigger than I am
and it hurts so hard
It hurts so hard

Interconnection, inner space, enter time
this is the sacrament of turning blood into wine
We come to the stars, our DNA the divine
Chariots of the Gods spinning truth in the rhyme

You opened the wormhole from hatred to love
Desire the sygil bound in ink and in blood
Over quantum space and folded time
we tell the story of the sacred vine

That grows out from the rooftops and climbs high
no Tower of Babel can touch this sky
It is our only hope, our prayer to the night
That this which has been done will come round right

And that the fire in our chests is the Eternal Flame
Not bound by secrets but only to the Name
of the Rose in our souls which has been maimed
by illusions of those who said we’re all insane

The prophecy is this: divine it now
We are the ones who’ve been waiting around
To change this world, to spread the Light
and only with unity will we set things right

WE are the Second Coming of Christ

Turning and turning this widening gyre
the falcon cannot hear the falconer
Things fall apart, the center cannot hold
As Anarchy is loosed upon this world
I’m running and running as fast as I can
I know that I won’t find a better man
But the Storm is bigger than I am
And it hurts so hard…

We are the Second Coming of Christ
Not one man, or one woman, but all of you and I
We breathe in the darkness, and give out the Light
Hold it tight
Hold it tight
We are the sun to the Darkest Night
Not one man, or one woman, but all of you and I
We breathe in the darkness, and give out the Light
For we are the Second Coming of Christ.
Hold it tight.

Still Inside

Posted in poetry on October 22, 2008 by skyscraped

Still inside

Never regret
the tears we brought
Never regret
the fights we’ve fought

each brings us closer
each brings us hard
each brings us laughter
and each is a shard

of heart-still crystal
and silent nights alone
meant to distill
our hermetic tone

And we will wander
and hunt the white doe
we will know hunger
we will know what we know

And we may forget
What we’ve started to see
But the story is greater
than either of us can be

When all this is over
and time has come home
I’ll hold you, my lover
still inside my soul.

Josh Reeves interviews Delphi…

Posted in Uncategorized on October 21, 2008 by skyscraped

Josh Ritter, “The Temptation of Adam”

Posted in lyrics, music with tags , , , , on October 15, 2008 by skyscraped

This is one of the greatest songs ever written, in my opinion.

Lyrics to The Temptation Of Adam :
If this was the Cold War we could keep each other warm
I said on the first occasion that I met Marie
We were crawling through the hatch that was the missile silo door
And I don’t think that she really thought that much of me

I never had to learn to love her like I learned to love the Bomb
She just came along and started to ignore me
But as we waited for the Big One
I started singing her my songs
And I think she started feeling something for me

We passed the time with crosswords that she thought to bring inside
What five letters spell “apocalypse” she asked me
I won her over saying “W.W.I.I.I.”
She smiled and we both knew that she’d misjudged me

Oh Marie it was so easy to fall in love with you
It felt almost like a home of sorts or something
And you would keep the warhead missile silo good as new
And I’d watch you with my thumb above the button

Then one night you found me in my army issue cot
And you told me of your flash of inspiration
You said fusion was the broken heart that’s lonely’s only thought
And all night long you drove me wild with your equations

Oh Marie do you remember all the time we used to take
We’d make our love and then ransack the rations
I think about you leaving now and the avalanche cascades
And my eyes get washed away in chain reactions

Oh Marie if you would stay then we could stick pins in the map
Of all the places where you thought that love would be found
But I would only need one pin to show where my heart’s at
In a top secret location three hundred feet under the ground

We could hold each other close and stay up every night
Looking up into the dark like it’s the night sky
And pretend this giant missile is an old oak tree instead
And carve our name in hearts into the warhead

Oh Marie there’s something tells me things just won’t work out above
That our love would live a half-life on the surface
So at night while you are sleeping
I hold you closer just because
As our time grows short I get a little nervous

I think about the Big One, W.W.I.I.I.
Would we ever really care the world had ended
You could hold me here forever like you’re holding me tonight
I look at that great big red button and I’m tempted

Conspiracy of Roses OUT NOW AND FREE!

Posted in Uncategorized on October 14, 2008 by skyscraped

So here’s where you can get my new album, “Conspiracy of Roses” for FREE:

http://drop.io/delphinator

Tracks are not in order, so here’s the track listing:
1. 33rd Degree
2. Crematorium
3. Tower in the Water
4. Liftoff
5. On the Cusp of the Great Change
6. Easter Again
7. Gunslinger
8. This Apocalypse
9. Kabal
10. The Key
11. Revolution Rock Star
12. Conspiracy of Roses

Conspiracy of Roses OUT NOW!!! Downloads for FREEE

Posted in delphi, lyrics, music, poetry, song, syncronicity with tags , , , , , , on October 10, 2008 by skyscraped

Here it is:
Conspiracy of Roses. All songs copyright 2008. Please burn, distribute, cover, chop up and murder if you wish. Give to homeless people. :)

Please go to and DOWNLOAD THE TRACKS FOR FREE!!!

Additional B-Sides are also available at !!!!

Thank you to Free America 365 for this version of the “33rd Degree” music video. http://www.myspace.com/freeamerica 365

Silence

Posted in Uncategorized on October 5, 2008 by skyscraped

Get me out of my head.
It’s going to collapse with all the noises, the voices
the sparrows of thought that get trapped in my roof
cause I can’t close the windows just yet.

Gunslinger

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , on October 2, 2008 by skyscraped

Hold my hand, I cannot speak
There’s words in my chest, but no heartbeat
the Kindly Ones watch over me
as the desert wind bares her teeth

And sing,
Oh, Gunslinger
Why did you have to Go?
Oh, Gunslinger
callin’ hell your earthly home

You walk through my dreams
as real as life
a dust covered man
to his ghost-faced wife
Will you return the same man to me
or will the desert claim another feast?

Oh, Gunslinger
Why did you have to go?
Oh, Gunslinger
Hell is your earthly home

Love is strong
it doesn’t stop with life
but your path is the bullet
and my pen is a knife
I’m a lowly scribe
while you give your life
know that my words
flow like blood tonight