PHANTASM EP

all lyrics by Benjamin Lieberman

SMSR (Sun/Moon/Sleep/Rain)

The rain beats the fire escape
and in thick sheets, it covers the face
of the sun and the moon
They can't run
They'll drown soon

Ay-ahh (higher)

To save the sun and the moon
If sleep comes, I'll drown too

Higher
I am higher
I climb higher
I am higher

I can't sleep, can't stop the refrain
that the rain beats on my window pane
Melody of water and rage
Slowly, it takes me away

Fall asleep in the rain
with the sun and the moon
lost to sleep in the rain
with the sun and the moon

And I am higher
I climb higher
I am higher

The sky screams its soliloquy
of bad dreams made just for me
The night brings the leaves from the trees
to my window: sleep's tapestry

Stops the sun and the moon
So sleep comes and I die too


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Fire/History


She came to me in a dream
And laughed at me lovingly
Her wings spread unwillingly
Back turned to the unforeseen
She said
I’ve seen centuries ill-begot
I saw God die and Spirit rot
Seems to be the common lot
But I saw you and I forgot

You can’t put it out, you can’t undo
So let’s just light it up and enjoy the view
Can’t change the fact that the

The image in my eyes: it was fire
And the vision you realized: it was fire, It was fire, fire
The myth with which we died: it was fire, it was fire, fire, fire
The mirage of our lives: It was fire, fire

The wind blows from paradise
Its message clear, it cuts through ice
Its whispers were paralyzed
In the shrouds of sacrifice
And she said
Although I promised you
Another glance with gaze askew
The pile in my wake it grew
With history and forgotten tombs

That you can’t dig up, you can’t undo
So let’s just light it up and enjoy the view
Cause you can’t change the fact that the…

The image in my eyes: it was fire
And the vision you realized: it was fire, It was fire, fire
The myth with which we died: it was fire, it was fire, fire, fire
The mirage of our lives: It was fire, fire


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Strangest Winter

A violence is lingering
round the chords that I’m fingering
Caught in the whisperings
of the dreams I’m remembering

A coldness seems to enshroud
these nude walls that speak aloud
of my longings noble and proud
and promises disavowed

It’s been a strangest winter . . . 

Time laughs at my embrace
Its spit flecks fly in my face
Vanishing without a trace
in the vacuum of empty space

It’s been a strangest winter. . .

Cold air
and cold stares
Ice chips
In my hair

With the lights out I disintegrate
into the nonsense of time and space
Weightless I am misplaced
with the memories I won't erase

It’s been a strangest winter. . .

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Ghosts


I see the light behind the screen
Just projections of my broken dreams
I watch the blade blend with my fantasies
Where the ghosts are waiting for you, and for me...

Do you see? In my fantasies, ghosts wait for you and me
In my fantasies 
 
So I watch without intent and am deceived
Dense became all of our transparencies
I’m laughing into lightly colored scenes
I’m so glad we had this talk do you know what I mean?
 
Yes I do, I do, I do
Do you want to, want to, want to?
Yes I want to, want to, want to 
I want you, want you, want you, want you 

I’m restless
But I’m not sexless
Oo yea I’m restless
But I’m not sexless
Oo yea I’m restless
But I’m not sexless, no
I’m restless
But I’m not sexless, no

I talk so much into a thoughtless stream
As I see the steam stream off our restless bodies
I’m slipping into silent reveries
Like phantasms, so fantastic, of our made up memories

Do you see?
Do you see the steam?
As it slips away from our restless bodies?

Yes I do, I do, 
Do you want to, want to, want to?
I want to, want to, want to 
I want you, want you, want you, want you 

I’m restless
But I’m not sexless
Oo yea I’m restless
But I’m not sexless
Oh I’m restless
But I’m not sexless, no
I’m restless
But I’m not sexless, no

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Track 6

I see the stars fade, fade
I see the stars fade, fade

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Wake

Early morning finds you
Stirring softly you await
Blue rays pierce through windows
Scattered dreams run in their wake

At Sunrise
Am I unwise
To realize
The sunrise?

Slowly open your eyes
Come to know and then realize
Shadows cling to your mind
All the night has left behind

At sunrise
Am I unwise?
To realize
The sunrise?

Reach it slips from your hands. . .

Reach it slips through your hands
Slipping away like quick sand
Grasp at nothing but air
What night held the sun now scares

Away, away
Away, to my dismay

Why can’t we stay?
Why can’t I say?

Know the time and difference
Images that claim their mine
Breath deep of this instant
As you cross the waking line

At sunrise
Was I unwise?
To realize
The sunrise?

I was watching as you were dreaming
I was waiting for your waking
I was, I was waiting. . .
As I was watching as you were dreaming
I was waiting for your waking
All your beauty for my taking
But I am dreaming and mistaken

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