A Tension Of Souls

(album: Psychedelicatessen - 1994)

I have lost the unattainable
I am faithless and afraid
My emotions are unstable
Control is hanging by a thread
And the misery of the world
Is weighing heavy on my shoulders
My belief has not unfurled
And I'm not getting any older
No, I'm not getting any older
And the world is turning colder

There's a gathering storm eating up the night
There's a tension of souls, can you feel it bite?
It's because we're not living on our own terms
Swept on a wave branded by society's burns
We're not happy with this unnatural law
We've moved into check, into a corner of flames
Half of us stalled in a late mating game
We're just trying, just crying for

The right to give
The right to fail
The right to fall
The right to live
The right to have feelings
The right to see
The right to be
The right to need
The right to feed
The right to give meaning

The right to love
The right to care
The right to share
The right to sow
The right to show the right signals
The right to fight
The right to spite
The right to do
The right to lose
The right to find the right answers

I am nailed (I am nailed) to the cross (To the cross)
Of my own pernicious anguish
And I'm bribed by irresistible, strangled by the air
Blind and still equivocal, dispossessed by heir

And I have no faith, I have no unbelief
There is no neutral ground, there is no relief (No relief for me)
I didn't get what I expected to receive
Don't let them tell you what they want you to believe

And I'm searching for some space in my life
While people all around me are multiplying just like flies
All the whispering millions of their hunger, it is loud
A silent frustration breeds in every crowd

And I have no faith, I have no unbelief
There is no neutral ground, there is no relief (No relief for me)
I didn't get what I expected to receive (What should I receive?)
Don't let them tell you what they want you to believe
That I'm drowning in a sea of my own futility

And I have no faith, I have no unbelief
There is no neutral ground, there is no relief (No relief for me)
I didn't get what I expected to receive (What should I receive?)
Don't let them tell you what they want you to believe

Look at me drowning in a sea
Look at me drowning in a sea