The Singing Hatchet lyrics:

Tar The Roofs / Shifty Lies / Shoveling Sons / All The Ghosts / Find The Hour / You're On An Island / The Pilgrim / You've Been Hired / To Be Free Again / Five Miles / Open Ocean Sailing / Gas Station Downs

1. Tar The Roofs [top]

Tar the roofs
of the houses
that are leaking
the religions
of who lived there
and are leaving
their infidelities
at the door
when they come in.

Tar the peaks
of the mountains
that are singing
the beliefs
of who lived there
and are leaving
their impurities
on their faces
and they're wasted.

2. Shifty Lies [top]

In between
chivalry of the armor clad
lies a focusing eye.

Now you're singing.
Takes too long to remind you of your parts.
You're way behind the county lines.
You must've fallen off somewhere sometime.
Now you're here delivering your

shifty lies and senseless visions
overflow like frozen rivers.
Stand in line then watch the time
you're cattled up and weeks behind.

How long til we reach the bottom of the lake.

And we'll see
murky water visions
misleading us again.
There you are delivering your

shifty lies and senseless visions
overflow like frozen rivers.
Stand in line then watch the time
you're cattled up and weeks behind.

How long til we reach the bottom of the

shifty lies and senseless visions
overflow like frozen rivers.
Stand in line then watch the time
you're cattled up and weeks behind.

How long til we reach the bottom of the lake.

3. Shoveling Sons [top]

shoveling sons keeping us awake
into the night's misfortunes we fade
given the land's only fair ride
shoveling sons are marching away

and you never will
be confused
by the few
who ride down
the only road
paved by dead souls

shoveling sons keeping good time
digging the holes where others reside
fortunate sons keeping us awake
into the night's misgivings we fade

and you never will
be confused
by the few
who ride down
the only road
paved by dead souls

and they never will
credit you
on the few
times you ride
the only road
worth your time

shoveling sons
shoveling sons
shoveling sons

and you never will
be confused
by the few
who ride down
the only road
paved by dead souls

and you never will
be confused
by the few
who ride down
the only road
paved by dead souls

shoveling sons
shoveling sons

4. All The Ghosts [top]

have you been paid
to bring us down
against our will again
and how'd you follow us
and how'd you see

visions lost to the touch
to see your eyes are painted shut and we
won't come clean

are you too late
to serve again
a locked out salary
just buy me something
i'll pay you later for these things

we'll be clear from your list
and all the ghosts who won't be missed
won't come clean
won't come clean

5. Find The Hour [top]

find the hour to tell me places I have never been
and educate me of all things lost through sleep and wasted time

out past the break and the slips
a row of foreign ships
our amnesty lies

keep reading lines from the books
and sleep with your pants on
and hold allegiance til your contract's up
your time is out

too real your head is a fog
and all that was done
is dead on the rug

keep reading page after page
hire me today
or throw me in jail

6. You're On An Island [top]

I listened too many times
to phone calls on your private lines
now you're loud and clear

your island suited us fine
your contact was better than mine
with all our missions clear
to take you out was never made too clear
it was never made too clear

7. The Pilgrim [top]

why'd you have to let
the pilgrim out of his cage
why'd you have to let
the pilgrim out of his cage

why'd you have to let
the pilgrim go free
why'd you have to be
responsible

why'd you have to let
the pilgrim out of his cage

8. You've Been Hired [top]

you've been hired for their dirty work
I can see it in your eyes
so long for now

I will always be true
to you
for awhile you'll have to kill
for food

turn off all your sensors most of all
and relinquish your control
you're dead for now

by the rocks we throw
you will be clear to hear
all the things
we'll be calling you

by the time you're here
all will be gone

all these changes
and bank statements
they must make you
kind of nervous

9. To Be Free Again [top]

demons once again
come down
to shed their light on you

sacred light
burn through the beast within
and you'll be free to run again
you'll be free again

keep your story please
but throw away your lies

priests of light
burn down the evil men
who still have time to make it alright
to be free again

10. Five Miles [top]

five miles of unused highway
three flares to bring you my way
too late the kitchen's closed
we'll have to sleep forever now

thin lines are paved between us
outside the symphony of
hellbound fortune driven soldiers out on holidays

as you walk away again
the dynasty of broken feet give in
for wakeless mornings beat the sun down on the chaplain's head

and as he cues for you to sing
rhapsody you promised would bring
all the chapel-beaten soldiers down upon their knees again

wake up the town to bring us
parodies of faceless demons scattering away
on borrowed time the clock will unwind

wake up the town to give us
rhapsodies of timeless rhythm scattering away
as formless creatures rip the time from every working day

11. Open Ocean Sailing [top]

you don't own me so you won't pay me anymore
and you won't hire me to come and clean your floor
but let me take you down to the bank so we can get paid
one more time around

and your technology has a fade in its life expectancy
and only one thing could release you from your misery
fight the waves of the slow production on a field day
fight the waves of a slow production day

until you're real i'll fall into your arms of hatred and harm
until you're safe i'll fall into those places you've been running from so far

and you won't feed me angry pages anymore
the salted windows you will view me from no more
let me turn you down so the rest of us can hear
one more time around

your technology has a fade in its life expectancy
and only one thing could release you from your misery
fight the waves of the slow production on a field day
fight the waves of a slow production day

12. Gas Station Downs [top]

show your face round here again
we'll have to burn the stations down
one by one
it's too bad your face
reveals the state you'll be living in
and in the time
it takes you to run
from end to end you'll be dead again

half undone
you're the same
in the photograph
so keep your hands tied up

you're the time
everyone tries to have and run their watches by
only time ain't what they need

half contained
with a limb
halfway out of  the cell again
and you've been made to think like others who've
come a long way to make you think like them

Tar The Roofs / Shifty Lies / Shoveling Sons / All The Ghosts / Find The Hour / You're On An Island / The Pilgrim / You've Been Hired / To Be Free Again / Five Miles / Open Ocean Sailing / Gas Station Downs