My "Yes" wasn't a response to "good?", but actually, the fast songs are as good as they were in, say, 1993 and the intro's a successful experiment, but there are also some stinkers in the Empire.
"The scientist purported that there aint no purpose
And the theologian told me that its all been designed
And Im trying to maintain objectivity
The world wont illuminate what really matters
And Im an imperfect moral meaning extractor
Processing the complexity
Born of the earth (are we blind? )
We werent given a choice (theres no way)
What about free will? (what we have)
Do we have a voice? (is shattered faith)
See them run in place (here and now)
In the human rat race (no reward)
So much dead weight (no debate) to our disgrace (accept your fate)
Life begins when you accept your fate
Paralysis from forces raging out of control until
My confidence and will are at an all-time low
Just directionless wandering
Eternal life, eternal truth, eternal secrets
Isolated hopes and hypotheses just
Leave me feeling so hungry...
Right or wrong,
The main criterion is what you do and not what you say
The roads you take, the friends you make and those you throw away
The method is a simple synthesis of the past and present state
You never lose if the path you choose is one you can easily navigate..."
didn't like much what i heard when i downloaded an album, but weirdly, I spoke to the lead singer on a video conferencing program a few months back :Smug:
"...just a little tale from the streets of America
sparkled promises paved with pathos and hysteria
trenchant, weary native sons
step back
and see the damage done...
of men and women
senior and child
who look to you
and your sterile miles
and in their stares
is bald dismay
for what you promised
led them astray
hard-cracked, daunting, lifeless veins
false hope corridors to greener pastures is all that remains..."
haven't heard the new one. I'm still trying to scrape up some cash to buy those (re-released??) albums I've yet to buy or lost along the way, like no control and recipe for hate.
just missed them on may when they we're in helsinki. i was in thailand