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Prometheus Run

by Likewise

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1.
Aethon 01:13
I break with your reasons, while Atlas is kneeling Under your weight You ain’t worth the warmth of a fire I’m stealing To build own fates
2.
I’m a rich land’s son in a dead man’s fate I got graves along the interstate Cause so long as time has got me caught I don’t plan to seek a sense at all While armies kill and cultures mourn The scales they weigh with broken arms And the ferryman he boosts the price For the fee we place upon their eyes at dawn So you been riding on your own now But you merely roam your cage If we don’t ride as one together it’s gonna be too late So I’m out at sea doing farmers work And the labor marks on my arms hurt Cause the temperature don’t stop to rise With that torch we traded for our eyes What matters most is not to see But to burn what might bring peace to me Cause of peace my friend, no money’s made So I’m digging graves with high-tech-spades at dawn So you been dying on your own now But if you’d asked we could have helped Cause only teamplay puts some meaning to the heat down here in hell
3.
My Kids 06:18
Once I’s in love, very much so She worked at a circus, walking ropes And all the world would come out To see her show Yeah, she was tough, though so petite, Danced on those ropes like they were fields Always one eye turned to the crowd To smile at me But then one night her tender smile Lingered too long there by my side She lost her hold and I watched her fall From the sky They took her out with eyes closed She whispered me a dirty joke The following were the last things She said to me Home is where the heart runs hiding and the walls ain’t caving in The abstract concept you call dying is the only thing that’s real So that’s why I read these books all day Try and force her words to make some sense I’ve come to find, I don’t agree, Not at all So I need to hope her home is far, Hope that she’s wrong, hope only scarred For I need to find that ropewalking girl of mine I lay a curse on homes to be To make them dry out hearts like leaves To make her run in circles till She’s returned to me Home is where the heart runs drying out Later in life down at the zoo I take my kids there after school Their eyes grow big, when they behold A circus tent 80 feet tall And look who does glide From rope to rope My love, our kids, I brought them home Home is where the heart runs hiding and the walls ain’t caving in The abstract concept you call dying is the only thing that’s real
4.
Himadleed 04:20
This country is landlocked and yeah so are we We’re wearing our blindfolds with so much to see Each one of us carries a bag of fresh air But between our arms, well there’s nobody there We got a cross on our mountains, a cross on our graves A circular history and a mortgage on caves I need to leave more than anything My reckoning Won’t you run with me This thing we call neutral, is brutal at best We’re drugging our memory, for in fake peace to rest We pray to two-headed eagles, a trinity dove, We wish hell on our neighbors and help from above You felix Austria marry, marry sour sons And in case they start thinking, divorce them at once I need to leave more than anything My reckoning Won’t you run with me This is my country in the valley, the shadow of death suits her good This is who Mary stole the child from, turn the page, hit reset, start anew But even in foresight or in memory, this fog is our medium of truth Hard to tell sunshine from the moonlight, hallelujah you got us all fooled
5.
Blowing down a dusty road, blow it down and take me on Take me far across the plain where the priestess’ child’s done slain Do your wave and hitch a ride, hitch a ride out of my mind Like a civil war kills time I know exactly what I like You got fixed now more than soon by some fit mechanic tube And like the morning light you sobered out and overt Turns your tale Look at all this perfect doom, terror sharp-teethed bloody womb That is tearing down in size what the floodwave left behind Take tequila shots in pints till the shine of sun runs blind Through the darkness of a mind, it all with emptiness now rhymes You blew my mind just like a flute, conduct a cavalry of news So bad, they make us feel more grateful, in respect to What we got When all is done who needs a resurrecting son, I need a fluorescent dream, I need some hope upon my heels When all is, when all is, when all is… Just then the lime light turns to green, reveals a circus low-life scene And the officials they cut the cables for something stable In the dark
6.
PPPA 04:47
Softly falls the weight of your porcelain shape Like a river from the mountain to its port And heavy flood the rays of the sun by mistake Oh that room you hardly can afford Listen to the ballroom as it sways Tame that lion ‘fore he walks away Form that lump of clay back into sand And crack my eager skull between your hands Easy does the breeze tickle hair inbetween My upper and your sober lower lips And steady as I wait creeps a sigh from your face Silverlining cheaply sinking ships Split a mortal man right into sides Spread your legs as if you were to fly Lick that liquored salt from ‘neath your throne And take your pretty poison punk ass home I could be headed for the shoreline six feet down I could be running from the northstar way back south Or I could just stay here, be that ugly rock among your pearls Until they then find me by the railroad tracks far from this world
7.
I keep the fan on while sleeping To dry my wet dreams In the morning I’m waking In South St. Louise Home is where the party is Reads on her wall My girl Saint Louise Must have carried me home Keeping me company, last of a monarchy Trading its traitors for gold Blue-blood Louise in her panties of green Makes me royally feel I belong Two light-bulbs are missing From her chandelier Impeaching a symmetry Vital in here She sings Neva Dinova While I fix the lights Then she puts her new clothes on To catwalk the bedside Shaking off bad dreams in sheets made of satin She’s amiably making me stay How she motherly cares for me, porcelain-touch gracefully Hectic she gets when I say Thanks for the delay of the real world that waits Out there, I must go back to, I’m sorry But see for yourself that I came seeking help and i Found it as I passed your doorway Late afternoon I’m enchanted by june-light Erotically captures our story In platonic ways I look back how we laid My return’s predetermined and honest and chronic and homelessly modest She keeps her tongue in when kissing She confides in me So that kissing gets less of a conformity In her gestures she gives weight to pictures she speaks When she recites Van Morrisson lyrics to me Her father baked rolls so deliciously gold The north-east they rolled round in a van Till that castle they built up that suburban hill Grew a fairy-tale sung by a band
8.
Reminder 04:23
I don’t wanna bend and break Like your future does I don’t wanna be awake When your mornings come I don’t wanna feel afraid On your sunny days I don’t wanna be the grass Growing from your corpse’s face Please leave me, I beg you to Cause I cant stand how I depend on you, depend on you Oh what to do, all the worst things in life they remind me of you I have seen you scrubbing floors With the clothes I bought I have seen you pouring drinks From my hollowed heart I have seen you sleep in peace Through my darkest hours You would always steal the things I’m most lost without You won’t leave me, if I beg you to Cause that’s exactly what you want me to, you want me to Oh what to do, all the worst things in life they remind me of you Hurricane season, the drunks in the street and The Viennese cops and their trouble with speaking Brotherly treason, your face when you’re sleeping The fun you have telling the secrets you’re keeping Matrix the sequel, in fact every sequel, Especially ours was more like a fever Outdoor Sativa, over achievers, Posh senoritas and die hard believers Airplanes that steal us away from our lovers My lung and the weird noise it makes when I get up Raisins in sweet stuff, alarm clocks and sit ups Anything colder than Austrian winters The junk that we feed on, the truth of a mirror Her car crash and funeral, the loss of a keeper Your name im still breathing, your reasons for leaving The worst things im seeing remind me of - Oh what to do all the worst things in life they remind me of you
9.
Well Sally the wind blows Our lies into circles Our minds over meadows We’re dragging behind You stare up to their windows To those warm homes we don’t own And you weep in your trenchcoat Out of cinder-red eyes You spend your life on the riverbed The glistening waves are your morning dress We stop by the drug store For some pills to make up for A love that got lost or Killed away So what you’re holding my hand for Did you hope that it leads towards Somewhere in our past or Are you just seeking warmth You spend your life ‘hind a piece of glass The shattering parts are your morning dress You hide your face ‘hind a warpaint-mask The downrunning ink is your morning dress And then down by our old town’s well You haste to stop and you kneel yourself It looked as if you’d just cast a spell When you rose in a smile You laid your clothes off to take a bath Inside the water was when you yelled ‘oh my dear wishing well I was gone for a while’ So you took me into your waterbed Life poured from you as my morning dress
10.
Bring me a saber and I’ll cut you down Bring me some money and ill bail you out Bring me a hammer and Ill build your house Bring me a guitar and I make you proud Bring me the silence of your home And I can tell you what went wrong Somebody’s dead, somebody’s out That body’s leaving no reasonable doubt Crime scene enunciates, evidence clear You brought ‘em your trust and they dragged out your fear And ill be your avenger, dear Bring me a saber and ill carve my sign Into every frontporch in this town of mine Bring me your past and ill cut hands of time Bring me tomorrow and ill make it thine Show me the hollow of your soul Each life I take to fill that hole You used to be none of that sad None of that bitter or sleepless in bed Now they’ve come again, bring endings to starts But ill be beside you, massaging your heart Cause I am your, avenger love
11.
Khaleesi 02:15
12.
Become what you love, from what you lost Become what you love, from what you lost Steal that fire from their skies, Make men from clay, from what you look like, Prometheus, run! There’s a burning inside of me I cant describe It’s not fresh its old news but its there all the time I see a van and a band and the lone countryside I wanna travel and sing I wanna fall from the sky I see birds moving south I feel wings in my mouth a song that can fly that can take me out now a desert, a prairie, a place I can shout empty my lungs before my time’s run out Feel an urge to just leave these old sheets far behind tuck myself in with needles and cones from the pines roll me tobacco till my voice is a whine and just walk play and sing till my strings lose their shine

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Prometheus Run is the debutalbum of the Viennese Indie-Folk Band Likewise. The record was released in 2012 via schoenwetter schallplatten.

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released June 8, 2012

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Likewise Wien, Austria

Hey, we're LIKEWISE, we're 5 people, we're based in Vienna, we make some kind of indie-folk-music and we really like each other.

Some kind words about us:

"likewise- from austria, raw it is, like punk or two gallants or irish drinking songs, it’s so pleasant…no shit, full-blooded breathes of life"
(F. Clemons Hall)
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