Dilerium Trigger - Claudio Sanchez of Coheed and Cambria

We're now up here alone
Terror on the intercom
Can someone save us?
Systems malfunction
Blast it this damn machine
Over and out captain

Something lurks
Creeps on the counter top
Somewhere behind you
Parasitic cyst
I can't stand to watch
It's coming up and out of your chest

Remember when we were young
Sit up
Right on the table
A photograph of earth feeding me a way back
Frightened I tear alone or maybe not
The the only one there
Hello... hello?
When it rings will you answer?
There...
Corner tall short stance, It's you
Come on kill me!!

You made a good friend to me
But while you were outnumbered and torn
They made us do things...

Oh dear God, I don't feel alive
When you're cut short of misery
Will you pray it be the end?
Give a look surprise wide eyed to me
Then you'll know just what I am
The scare that triggers your fear
Come know me in a different light now
Come know me as god

You made a good friend to me
But while you were outnumbered and torn
They made us do things...

Run sand hourglass
It's my time, will I be worth?
Spin 'round carousel
When your horse isn't screwed in

Oh dear God, I don't feel alive
When you're cut short of misery
(raise forth lost cause)
Will you pray it be the end?
Give a look surprise wide eyed to me
(raise forth lost cause)
Then you'll know just what I am
(subtle demise the legitimate cry)
The scare that triggers your fear
Come know me in a different light
Come know me as god
(raise forth lost cause)

- "Is it just me or is this song about the movie 'Aliens'... Check out the intro. 'Come on... kill me.'"

- "They are a concept band... the cd as a whole tells a story... I believe its about war in the future and this couple who is in love..."

- "All the songs on the CD are like the soundtrack to [Claudio's] book. Coheed and Cambria are the main characters. The Second Stage Turbine Blade is the name of the 2nd chapter."

- "All of Coheed and Cambria's songs are based on the sci-fi novels that the lead singer Claudio is writing, where the main characters are Coheed and Cambria. So this song is probaly about an alien attack."

- "Most every song that is on 'Second Stage Turbine Blade' [*ed. Jon* that's the name of the cd on which this song is found] is specifically about the series, or whatever you want to call it, that Claudio is writing... I am an obsessed fan and I asked him... He said the songs were just about what Coheed and Cambria experience in his series he is writing."

- "Its about three people in a spaceship coming back to Earth. There is only enough oxygen for two of them to get home. While deciding who will have to kill themself, one of them goes crazy and kills the other two."

- "Its about a guy (Coheed) who had a dormant creature (the mon-star) surgically implanted in his heart to keep him alive, or bring him back to life when he was young: "remember when we were young sit up right on the table a photograph of earth feeding me a way back." Coheed is on a mission to save the power that keeps the planets of the solar system from coming apart (the Keywork) and supposedly the "Mon-star" in his heart gives him the power to do so. It was awakened however, by a serum injected into Coheed by a dragonfly (check out the cd cover picture), and it apparently comes out of Coheed: "something lurks creeps on the counter top somewhere behind you parasitic cyst i can't stand to watch it's coming up and out of your chest " Im not sure if it actually comes out, or if its Coheed's imagination. The whole intro might be Coheed's dream, and the rest might be him reflecting on the dream and imagining things about it. But he feels its presence: "frightened I tear alone or maybe not the the only one there hello... hello? when it rings will you answer? there corner tall short stance it's you!come on kill me!! " The rest is dialog with the Mon-star along with some narration. I guess it's Coheed maybe realizing what is inside him as it awakens."

- "Well, I saw C&C 3x times and one time I had a little chit chat with Claudio and I asked him if the lyrics to the songs will make more sense if you read the book he has written, and he said yes, the lyrics will make more sense once you read his book. And he said his book is finished, but they are looking for a publisher."

Say "yes" to concept albums!!!!!

- posted by Jonathan@ 1:01 AM