Edward Scissortongue - The Prospector lyrics

[Verse 1] He was woken at the break of dawn daily by the force of a light skim And the sense that something was dying inside him The first headline of the worst kept liar read: "You my friend have many lessons to learn" So he wrestled out the pharmaceutical blur Left his mistress in his cabin set to boot in the machines in the cold day The hum of that synthetic purr Pneumatics tunnelling dirt Priceless minerals peppered the earth Every single morning the richness of his vanishing world grew more distorted and blurred Cuboid and pixelated Eyeballs foggy blink blinking on the maps that he sketched of all the tunnels he worked A prophet of sorts The king of the serfs Mud portraits covered in dirt The prospector Son of the gold mines Son of the earth Work working where the bullion lurked Rapturous the bell toll Shrillings of a copper leaf Bigger than the sum of any honest evil He'd left his family behind every second in his mind they were running through a summer sequel Fuzzy apparitions of a cold transit Grey scale colours in this cold language Rubble deep on this war torn shore line War crimes rife in the plunder in a gold gambits Hunting for the shimmers in a pitch black pit map He would make every move more precise Engage repeat Vessels on a setting moon One shimmer shallow in the melee of the diesel fumes giving room The brightest brashest omnipresence That suffocated every person present in the belly of this warm globe Was never called to question He grasped it tightly cause heaven was his cargo Cogs stopped grinding and the rock fumes rising Every single worker felt the warmth of his discovery A once in a lifetime type find blinding (blinding) The biggest j**el that man had ever seen [Hook] Grey meridian Great giver of life Pay your citizens Make us millions We've been working all day, all night inside your mines providing Grey meridian Great giver of life Pay your citizens Make us millions We've been working all day, all night inside your mines providing Grey meridian Make us millions [Verse 2] He was woken by the sound of cycles in the silence The second birth synthesising artificial bodies out of stasis The data tanks were running at their optimum pace defrosting brain cells in the Medbay of the spaceship Shimmers on a mystic cause stationed on a lunar base A hundred metres shy of the most precious mine that man had made His woman never made it Lifeless in suspension Life in his depression saw him weeping in a doctors arms Heart rate normalised Thought patterns scattered on another bleak a**ignment War between the islands had the corporation frightened Turrets ripping day and night until the laser cannons settled scores of ultraviolence Water in the wires Lifelines coursing through the innards of the make-up of these automated pilots Futuristic miners Touring the terrain in metal mechanised suits in search of treasures in the silence Hybrids of man and machine laced a DNA sweepstake You could feel the metal entering through the adamantium keychain Phase one to see space differently Pneumatics drilling in deep space A grey-stained team made of meat heads, ex-marines, villains and sea snakes A sweepstake of criminals Keep safe your k**ers of peeps Break your fillings and teeth Take the tip of the tools Break your weak face Tools of the trade got the galaxy heated Production lines hunting the deep slate Greeted with occasional keepsakes An igneous heatwave To moon cross crumbling feet breaks It's doom-like these days Shimmering lakes of tranquillity Drank the lakes bare 'til the lakes are dead visibly Run the j**els under a hundred tools Cripple and crush the moon Slaving in caves of activity Scaffold the entrance and delve into stars Into parts unknown Every single one a savage on the path they chose Draining every pigment from the dark rainbow And pick a pathway home [Hook] Grey meridian Great giver of life Pay your citizens Make us millions We've been working all day, all night inside your mines providing Grey meridian Great giver of life Pay your citizens Make us millions We've been working all day, all night inside your mines providing Grey meridian Make us millions Grey meridian Make us millions