Feel Euphoria (2003)

Feel Euphoria

Produced by Spock’s Beard, recorded and mixed by Rich Mouser

Available in both standard and special edition (Digipak) formats.

Tracklist

  1. Onomatopoeia (5:17)
  2. The Bottom Line (7:33)
  3. Feel Euphoria (7:21)
  4. Shining Star (4:05)
  5. East Of Eden, West Of Memphis (7:05)
  6. Ghosts Of Autumn (6:55)
  7. A Guy Named Sid: pt. I - Intro (3:01)
  8. A Guy Named Sid: pt. II - Same Old Story (4:25)
  9. A Guy Named Sid: pt. III - You Don’t Know (3:12)
  10. A Guy Named Sid: pt. IV - Judge (3:20)
  11. A Guy Named Sid: pt. V - Sid’s Boys Choir (1:09)
  12. A Guy Named Sid: pt. VI - Change (6:18)
  13. Carry On (5:19)

Special Edition Bonus Tracks

  1. Moth Of Many Flames (2:50)
  2. From The Messenger (7:26)

Band Members

  • Nick D’Virgilio - lead vocals, drums, acoustic and some electric guitars, percussion, and loops
  • Alan Morse - electric and acoustic guitars and vocals
  • Ryo Okumoto - keyboards
  • Dave Meros - basses

Additional Musicians

  • Gina Ballina - french horn
  • Claire Pasquale - trumpet & piccolo trumpet
  • Steve Velez - cello
  • J’Anna Jacoby - violin on “Carry On”
  • John Boegehold - synths and backwards stuff on “East Of Eden, West Of Memphis”

Lyrics

01. Onomatopoeia

Alan Morse, Nick D’Virgilio & John Boegehold

The clicking wires
The ticking clocks
They’re in my brain
In my brain
In my brain
Like a wave of shocks

Bang goes the world
The bright sun cracks
There’s a train
There’s a train
There’s a train
And I’m frozen to the tracks

ONOMATOPOEIA
ONOMATOPOEIA
That’s enough

The hissing fire
The rumbling sky
They’re out of place
Out of place
Out of place
And I can’t remember why

Crash down around me
Emotions flow
Up through the floor
Through the floor
Through the floor
No matter where I go

ONOMATOPOEIA
ONOMATOPOEIA
ONOMATOPOEIA
ONOMATOPOEIA
That’s the buzz

Feeling fragile as a cobweb
Sinking faster than a stone
Beneath the weight of every word
A chill that burns me to the bone
Until the fever breaks
And I’m back in from the cold
I’ll hear whispers in my heart
And feel the distance in my soul

ONOMATOPOEIA
ONOMATOPOEIA
ONOMATOPOEIA
ONOMATOPOEIA

02. The Bottom Line

Nick D’Virgilio

Can we talk about our last conversation?
It was heated I got burned
And please don’t act like nothin’ even happened
Just listen and learn

We’ve invested too much time
This is yours as much as mine

What if I told you that I never loved you?
What would you do?
Is that what you always wanted to hear?

Your words are so few
This is all that I am
All I want is to understand

The lights turn dim
The fog rolls in
And I lay still
Check my thoughts
One by one
I think of you still

How everything ends is all fine
But can we just get to the bottom line

Here goes nothin’
Put all fear aside
Run with the bulls

Am I missin’ somethin’
Kiss all I love tonight
Light myself on fire

If time is all it takes to heal these wounds
Then I’ve got nothin’ but time
Nothin’ but time
That’s my bottom line
That’s my bottom line
I found my bottom line
Or it found me

03. Feel Euphoria

Nick D’Virgilio & Ryo Okumoto

If I come to break your balls
It’s alright
If you can’t keep from climbing the walls
It’s alright
When the clouds are closing in
It’s alright
No I will not give in
It’s alright

You can feel my every move
Sooner or later I’ll refuse
To let you into my good graces
See the smiles upon their faces
Leading up to my reply
Their voices fill up the night sky

Feel Euphoria
All around you

You made your own bed now lie in it
No one put a gun to your head

Did you hear the news today?
Have you read what the papers say?
Neon green in alabaster
Spinning heads are spinning faster
Should you stay or should you go
That’s for you to wonder and for me to know

Feel Euphoria
All around you

If I choose I will give nothing
You can’t stop me from feeling something
Digging in I’m digging faster
Trying hard to avoid disaster

04. Shining Star

Nick D’Virgilio

I close the shutters tight and fall asleep
To the sound of the fan
The wind flows over me
And I dream you’re not very far
Cause you’re my shining star
Shine your light on me

Awake I feel the blood rush to my skin
I call you out and somehow let you in
And I dream you’re not very far
Cause you’re my shining star
Shine your light on me

The body’s getting old but seems to find the way
For just enough to blow it all
When I’m running blind and I can’t see anymore
You’re there to open the door

When all feels lost I turn and there you are
Now I know you’re never very far
Cause you’re my shining star
Shine your light on me

Tomorrow never knows about what is today
But that’s OK, yes that’s OK
Cause when I’m running blind and I can’t see
Your light shines down, right down on me
Some people call it luck some people call it fate
But all I know is I’m here today
Bathing in the light that lights my way

05. East Of Eden, West Of Memphis

Alan Morse & John Boegehold

Once a lost soul raced his shadow
Down a dark road out of town
Tried to leave himself behind him
EAST OF EDEN WEST OF MEMPHIS
Like a dagger through the heartland
Over gravel dust and glass
Storm-dark clouds and neon halos
EAST OF EDEN WEST OF MEMPHIS

This is how the story goes
Took a miracle to make him go

Stopped at midnight miles from nowhere
Got out dropped down on his knees
In the dirt he wrote her name out
EAST OF EDEN WEST OF MEMPHIS
Home was just a broken promise
No good reason to turn back
AM stations drift to static
EAST OF EDEN WEST OF MEMPHIS

The greatest story never told
Took a miracle to make him go

In a house there hangs a picture on the wall
Of them in better days before the bitter fall
Before a quiet man slipped out into the night
A disillusioned man walked out without a fight

SIHPMEM FO TSEW NEDE FO TSAE

06. Ghosts Of Autumn

Dave Meros & John Boegehold

Listen to the whisper of the rain
Voices in the mist
Beyond your window
And you remember
Days of love she spun a web of chains
That wrapped around your heart
And when you held her
You held forever

Green to grey
As forever slipped away
And down through the years
The seasons changed
Still a cold wind blows today
No sun to melt the frost
Because she’s lost among the
GHOSTS OF AUTUMN

Fate’s a quiet river at your feet
It rose up slow and dark
Without a warning
And pulled you under
Now she’s gone but haunting every dream
Scattered on the wind
And in the rolling
Of distant thunder

Green to grey
As forever slipped away
And down through the years
The seasons changed
Still a cold wind blows today
No sun to melt the frost
Because she’s lost among the
GHOSTS OF AUTUMN

07. A Guy Named Sid

Nick D’Virgilio

pt. I - Intro

(Instrumental)

pt. II - Same Old Story

Sid was wild when He was a kid
Never quite understood why he did just what he did
Now he wonders why nobody likes him
Now he wonders why he can’t get any respect

His is the same old story
(yet another chapter in your book)
He fell flat in his moment of glory
(you try to turn away but you take a look)
Now he want us all to feel his sadness
(you cannot win the game if you go insane)
With all the junk spilling from his mouth of madness

Sid went high to the top of the mountain
Stood tall with the weight of the world upon his back
In a sea of money and power
Fought for his name until the final hour

His is the same old story
(yet another chapter in your book)
He fell flat in his moment of glory
(you try to turn away but you take a look)
Now he wants us all to feel his sadness
(you cannot win the game if you go insane)
With all the junk spilling from his mouth of madness

I used to be an honest man
I used to laugh
I used to cry
Now it’s gone and I don’t know why
No matter how hard I try
I can’t lie to myself anymore

His is the same old story
(yet another chapter in your book)
He fell flat in his moment of glory
(you try to turn away but you take a look)
Now he wants us all to feel his sadness
(you cannot win the game if you go insane)
With all the junk spilling from his mouth of madness

pt. III - You Don’t Know

Every story has two sides
But no one ever wants to hear mine
No no one ever wants to hear mine

Sometimes it’s like I don’t exist
I’m number one on everyone’s most hated list
Tearing me down is something no one can resist

You don’t know
What it’s like to sink so far below
The truth is there
I just need someone to show me where
I need someone to lead me there

There was time when I knew love
But I can’t remember when it was
No I can’t remember when it was
I couldn’t have been born this way
It’s been building up day after day
A little bit of pain can go a long way

You don’t know
What it’s like to sink so far below
The truth is there
I just need someone to show me where
I need someone to lead me there

pt. IV - Judge

This is the story of a guy named Sid
Who lost his heart when he was just a kid
Don’t judge him on the things that he did
This is the story of a guy named Sid

Just how far will any one man go
Can you turn back at the end of the road
Feel the shock as your reality grows
Just how far will any one man go

pt. V - Sid’s Boys Choir

I was born and then I rose
It came to me and then I froze
I lost my voice I couldn’t see
I felt the sweat pour out of me
The limelight dimmed and turn me in
All my deeds turned to sin
The flesh upon my skin began to crawl

pt. VI - Change

I can’t help the way that I am
Cause it was you that made me
You never offered to lend a hand
So I did it for myself
I did it for myself

I know there’s something missing
Got to find a way to make it happen
It’s been such a long long time
Got to find a way to clean up my mind

It’s time to change my story

The leaves on my tree have withered and died
A long long time ago
But the tree is not dead the voice in my head says
I’ve a long long way to go
Whether for you and whether for me
All is not lost if I can let it be
All is not lost if I can let it be
All is not lost

It’s time to change my story
(If you find a way you can save the day)
To get back my moment of glory
(Jump into the fire and burn away)
Everybody can you feel my madness?
(there is nothing left for you to say)
Take it all in and shout it to the masses

It’s all right!

13. Carry On

Alan Morse, Stan Ausmus & John Boegehold

I dreamed a journey
And left to begin it
I opened my mind
But I fell deep down in it
Lost at the crossroads of two worlds
Watching the future unwind
I was blind to a truth I
Always knew

CARRY ON
When your whole world comes apart
There’s a place for you to start

So I kept searching for
Someone to find me
I tried to define
What was always denied me
Traveling mazes of mirrors
Searching for one perfect sign
I was a miner for fools gold
Though I knew

You have to
CARRY ON
When your whole world comes apart
There’s a place for you to start
When the current drags you down
There’s a way up to be found

CARRY ON
Through the days and through the nights
CARRY ON
Though you might
Feel your burden drag you down
There’s a way up to be found
When your whole world comes apart
There’s a place for you to start
When the current drags you down
There’s a way up to be found

I dreamed a journey
And left to begin it
I opened my mind
But I fell deep down in it

Special Edition Bonus Tracks

14. Moth Of Many Flames (lead vocal by Al)

Alan Morse & John Boegehold

Take a giant leap
Off the only ledge you know
Kiss the ground above your head
Surf the blue sky down below
Taste the air that’s burning sweet
With all the words you can’t take back
Eighteen orchids at your feet
So ride the one that leads the pack

You’re a grifter off his game
In a town with many names
You’re a MOTH OF MANY FLAMES
You’re a MOTH OF MANY FLAMES
You’re a MOTH OF MANY FLAMES

Play it safe and sterile
Staying on the well-worn path
Praying that your ferile friends
Never find the strength to laugh
They lead you through the shadows
Where you live beyond your means
Not a whim is sanitized
When you give into your dreams
Or so it seems

Yes it really seems a shame
That your’re gonna have to take the blame
You’re a MOTH OF MANY FLAMES
You’re a MOTH OF MANY FLAMES
You’re a MOTH OF MANY FLAMES

So you sift down all your thoughts
Like fine dust through a cloth
But there’s no way out my friend
Cause the law of nature’s one that you can’t bend

You’re a MOTH OF MANY FLAMES
You’re a MOTH OF MANY FLAMES
You’re a MOTH OF MANY FLAMES

15. From The Messenger (instrumental)

Ryo Okumoto