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Slow Me Down

***"Slow Me Down"*** is the ninth and final song from the Devin Townsend Band album *Accelerated Evolution*, released in 2003.

Its ending guitar resonance is used to open the album with "Depth Charge" and runs throughout bonus track "I Really Love Korea."

Lyrically, it refers back to "Storm" ("I wanna go where nobody's gone").

## Appearances

* *Accelerated Evolution* (original studio recording)
* *Safe Zone* (live recording)

## Versions

### Slow Me Down

The original album version. It segues from "Sunday Afternoon."

### Slow Me Down (Live)

Available on *Safe Zone*, a bonus DVD accompanying the deluxe edition of *Synchestra*.

## Lyrics

```
    It's so easy when you call
    I was waiting by the phone
    Knowing that you're all alone
    And I ask you when you call,
    "But will you wait for me?"
    Will you wait for me?

    'Cause in a while I'll never look behind
    Even when I'll nearly lose my mind
    So when the devil wins that toss
    Will we be making it across?
    Hang on...

    Want it, need it,
    My want is found and feeding,
    Hanging around with a girl
    'Cause I want it, need it,
    So bad I can hardly breathe but it slows me down.

    And through all we bear the scars,
    On the soul, through the stars,
    Alone...
    Forever we roam.
    And you ask me when you call,
    "But will you wait for me?"
    I will wait for you!

    'Cause in a while I'll never look behind
    Even when I'll nearly lose my mind
    So when the devil wins that toss
    Will they be making it a cross?
    Hang on...

    Want it, need it,
    My want is found and feeding,
    Hanging around with a girl
    'Cause I want it, need it,
    So bad I can hardly breathe but it slows me down.

    Feel it in my mind and soul
    Feel it in my constant lies
    Feel it now, feel it go away... oh yeah!

    I wanna go, where nobody's gone
    While hanging around with that girl
    'Cause nobody knows where the river flows now...
    You've slowed me, slowed me, slowed me down
    Down!

```
Angel

***"Angel"*** is the thirteenth and final song from the Devin Townsend Project album *Epicloud*, released in 2012.

Its coda refers back to the opening track of the album, "Effervescent!"

### Song Credits

* Words and music: Devin Townsend
* Additional vocals: Anneke van Giersbergen

## Lyrics

```
    My angel!

    Cry from under, cry in time.
    Say on and on hard enough.

    Save my heart tomorrow.

    I'll...
    Save my heart tomorrow.
    I'll save my heart tomorrow.
    Save my heart tomorrow.

    Oh in you, love it goes away...
    I'll wait through the hardest kind of pain!

    Cry from under, cry in time.
    Say on and on hard enough.

    Save my heart tomorrow...

    Holding you, love it goes astray...
    I went through the hardest kind of pain,
    Cry from under,
    My angel,
    Cry in time
    Say on and on hard enough!

    So you will know by the light,
    Your hands and all that they write.
    Take comfort in knowing your fears are gone.
    Fears be gone, I believe in love!

    And everyone into forever,
    Everything a part of me,
    Dancing all into whatever.
    Effervescent quality!

```
Spirits Will Collide

**"Spirits Will Collide"** is the third track from the Devin Townsend album **Empath**, released 2019.

**Song Credit**

Words and music: Devin Townsend

## Appearances

* Empath 2019
* Empath Deluxe Edition 2019
* Empath Ultimate Edition 2019

## Lyrics

```
So they say,
You'll be OK
But words are not enough

Nobody remembered me
The words were not enough,

Calm yourself down
Don't you remember when we were young?
Don't you remember who I am? You're strong enough!

Dues to pay
Towards the way
Towards my friend, towards
Two must play
The foolish game
To war my friend to war!

So they rise: The 'fear and pain', but this isn't how I am
Don't you forget that you are loved!
Don't you forget that you are them,
It's hard enough

Remember the flame in your heart burns strong
Remember and the spirit will collide

Remember! Together!

Remember in the end that death is not the end…

So we rise!
Receive the pain, but this isn't where this ends…
Don't you forget that you are perfect
Don't you forget just who we are
We're strong enough!

Wherever the flame in your heart burns strong,
We may not be brave so let's start
Remember and the spirits will collide!

Remember! Together!
Remember! Together!
Remember! Together!
Remember! Together!
```
Two Weeks

***"Two Weeks"*** is the eighth song from the Strapping Young Lad album *Alien*, released in 2005. It is a very rare quiet, acoustic song in the SYL catalogue, more reminiscent of *Synchestra*, the emotional counterpart to this album, by the Devin Townsend Band.

The song was not present on the leaked *Alien* instrumentals disc, but did appear on the advance promo.

## Versions

### Two Weeks

The original album version. It flows directly from "Possessions" and into "Thalamus."

## Lyrics

```
    What do you wanna do now baby?
    should we take the day...
    ...maybe go to the beach?
    What do you want me to say now baby,
    I may be gone... but never out of reach.

    Ooh, baby blue.
    Ooh...

    Why?

```
Starchasm, Pt. 2

**"Starchasm, Pt. 2"** is the first track from **Nightwork** of **Lightwork Deluxe Edition** by Devin Townsend, released 2022. It's a cleaner less chaotic version of Starchasm, Pt. 1, it has a more Empath style to it.

**Song Credit**

Words and music: Devin Townsend

## Appearances

* The Puzzle 2021
* Nightwork 2022

## Versions

* The original Puzzle version
* Nightwork version

## Lyrics

```
Waste away and all will save: you waste away your precious days

We are young, we are frightened.
We are young, we are not home.

You waste away and all will say: erase away your racist ways

We are young, we are vital.
We are young, but we are not home.

So don't worry, don't worry at all.
We are ready to face, ready to face what comes.
We must fight what we are, find what we are alone.
And we'll be ready to face it, ready to face it all.

We break away, and all will change: Erase away ‘your right of way'
Be strong, we are vital!

So don't worry, don't worry at all
We are ready to face, ready to face the fall

And if you ever wondered, you ever wondered at all:
know that we are one and all!
```
Rain City

***"Rain City"*** is the ninth song from the Devin Townsend Project album *Sky Blue*, released in 2014.

It references "The Girl From Blue City" section of "Bastard" in the ambient coda ("Gone now in a field of green...").

## Appearances

* *Z²: Sky Blue* (original studio recording, promo mix)

## Versions

### Rain City (Promo Mix)

The same recording as the final version, but with the original mix before Townsend changed it just prior to mastering. It features a significantly longer ambient ending, running the song over 9 minutes.

## Lyrics

```
    Oh, do you know who we are inside?
    And oh, can you know what's right beside?
    You don't wanna know if the tide is high or low.

    If you don't wanna lend a hand then try to stay at home
    Millions more will come and go yet we are still alone
    Alone.

    I know:
    I have the right to fight for flight
    But oh, do we vilify what's right beside.

    If you don't wanna lend a hand then try to stay at home
    Human beings may take your heart and hang on to your soul
    ...your soul

    Please don't forget that you are beautiful

    Ah, do you know who we are inside?
    And oh, so they criticize...but we tried, we tried.

    If you don't wanna lend a hand then try to stay at home
    Millions more will close the door it chills us to the bone
    Others still will take your hand and consciously atone
    Subtlety reminds you that you never were alone

    You must fight for your soul!
    Your soul (you've got to want it for me...)

    Gone now in a field of green, gone where feelings go.

```
Stars

***"Stars"*** is the sixth song from the Devin Townsend Project album *Transcendence*, released in 2016.

It first debuted in a 2015 2 hour long livestream for Toontrack wherein Townsend recorded a demo of the song from scratch, showing his process.

## Appearances

* *Transcendence* (original studio recording)

## Versions

### Stars (Demo)

Available by watching the end of the Toontrack recording episode on YouTube.

## Lyrics

```
    (credits: genius.com)

```

```
I can see you in the stars tonight
Lost in love and light
Hear this call:
As they witness the immortal rise
Lost as love arrives
Hear this call

Anticipation of the morning comes again
We fear all through the night till the morning comes
Then we fear the light

But stay the course
You've stayed through worse
Or just stay because you said you would

Anticipation of the evil inside that never arrived
And ill feed it again, The fire burning inside

I can see you in the stars tonight
Lost in love and light
Hear this call:
As they witness the immortal rise
Lost as love arrives
Hear this call

Warrior, Warrior
Ways began the way, The ways began the way
Warrior, Warrior

I can see you in the stars tonight
Lost in love and light
Hear this calling
As they witness the immortal rise
Lost as love arrives
Hear this call

```
Sky Blue (song)

*This article is about the song. For the album, see Sky Blue*

***"Sky Blue"*** is the seventh song and title track from the Devin Townsend Project album *Sky Blue*, released in 2014.

Townsend admitted via Twitter that the song is specifically influenced by "DJ Got Us Fallin' in Love" by Usher.[1]

## Appearances

* *Z²: Sky Blue* (original studio recording, promo mix)

## Versions

### Sky Blue (Promo Mix)

The same recording as the final version, but with the original mix before Townsend changed it just prior to mastering. It features a different segue into "Silent Militia" due to the latter song's significantly different introduction arrangement.

## Lyrics

```
    I thought you might have wanted my heart
    You taste it, I fall and writhe
    In my life I've gone over, you were right
    In my life this will never go away

    Do what you want to, all will haunt you
    All is water, all I wanted.
    You have got to, not want to...got to.
    All is water, all is life!

    Down on my own,
    The paralyzing friction was love again
    Set on my own,
    the wheels are now ready to roll

    And I know you're sleeping tonight
    And I hope you're dreaming of light
    I thought you might have wanted my high
    You taste it, I fall and writhe

    In my life I've gone over, you were right
    In my life this will never go away

    Down on my own,
    I'm paralyzed, afflicted by love and death
    Set on my own,
    the muse is not ready to roll

    And I know you're sleeping tonight
    And I hope you're dreaming of light

    Have you found a way?
    'Cause you and I remain
    And, oh, my god, it's too late to pray

    Say the word!

    Down on my own,
    I'm paralyzed, afflicted by love and death
    Set on my own,
    the muse is now ready to roll

    And I know you're sleeping tonight (I have a fight and I have a right of way)
    And I hope you're dreaming of light (I have a fight and I have a right of way)
    And I hope you're dreaming of me.

    If I knew your words, in through your mind, silently.

```
Skin Me

***"Skin Me"*** is the eighth song from the Strapping Young Lad album *Heavy as a Really Heavy Thing*, released in 1995.

## Appearances

* *Heavy as a Really Heavy Thing* (original studio recording, remastered original studio recording)

## Lyrics

```
    Sit here
    Blue light
    Washed out

    Borrowed
    Pin me up and boil
    Welcome to the wrong

    ...skin me...
    Silent filter

    Sucks in the resting
    Whipping
    Children
    Posture frozen god.
    Hungry muted nations

    ...skin me...

    It's just a feeling I have
    It's like a feeling of death
    You can't be in it for the cash
    You must be in it for life
    And if your houses I need
    And if the payment is real
    And if your mind is at ease
    That is the death of music.

```
Resolve!

***"Resolve!"*** is the sixth song from the Devin Townsend Project album *Addicted*, released in 2009.

### Song Credits

* Words and music: Devin Townsend
* Additional vocals: Anneke van Giersbergen

## Appearances

* *Addicted* (original studio recording)
* *Contain Us* (original studio recording)
* *By a Thread* (live recording)

## Versions

### Resolve!

The original album version. The exact recording is republished as part of *Contain Us*. It proceeds directly into "Ih-Ah!"

### Resolve! (Live)

Available on the *By a Thread* box set, it features in the *Addicted* night.

## Lyrics

```
    Hah-hah-hah-hah… Ouh! Whoa…

    Turn your world around
    Turn your world around and focus on the mind
    All of this surrounds,
    All of this abounds when we focus on the mind

    We rise!

    I want resolve to receive what you'll be
    The ocean returns to the sea
    I want resolve to receive what you'll be
    The ocean returns to the sea, sea…

    I, I, I, I, I will not go!
    I, I, I, I, I never!
    I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I!

    We rise!

    I want resolve to receive what you'll be
    The ocean returns to the sea
    I want resolve to receive what you'll be
    The ocean returns to the sea

    I want resolve to receive what you'll be
    The ocean returns to the sea, sea…

    I, I, I, I, I will not go!
    I, I, I, I, I never!
    I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I!

```
Quiet Riot

***"Quiet Riot"*** is the eleventh song from the Devin Townsend Project album *Ki*, released in 2009.

Musically, it is an acoustic cover of "Cum On Feel the Noize" by Quiet Riot.

### Song Credits

* Music: Quiet Riot
* Words: Devin Townsend

## Appearances

* *Ki* (original studio recording)
* *Contain Us* (original studio recording)
* *By a Thread* (live recording)

## Versions

### Quiet Riot

The original album version. The same exact recording is republished in *Contain Us*.

### Quiet Riot (Live)

Available on the *By a Thread* box set, it features in the *Ki* night.

## Lyrics

```
    I wait for the pain
    It always comes again
    And I don't know why...
    And I don't care why anymore.
    Saved in the end
    By a long lost friend
    And I don't know why
    And I don't care why anymore.

    And the rain it keeps on coming
    And the pain it keeps at bay for another day
    Home.

    So thank you Jean-Michel
    I'm on my way to hell
    And I don't know why
    But I don't care why anymore.

```
Zodiac

***"Zodiac"*** is a bonus track from the Strapping Young Lad album *Alien*, released in 2005.

It is a cover of a song by the Melvins, originally released on their 1991 album *Bullhead*.

## Appearances

* *Alien* Japanese edition (original studio recording)
* *C:ENTER:###* (original studio recording)
* *The Complete Works* (original studio recording)

## Lyrics

```
    Like the dead
    We'll solve no dess
    It's like a ?? let it
    Lost in so
    Like a pour-ess
    Like a mow low led
    Moss walls
    Like a sez
    A poor song yeah
    Lost
    In paradise
    And rock a Thomas
    At home
    Walls moan like a man
    Like a tee sure one lag
    Hoarse man
    Like a toe this
    Keeps only

    Cost
    In both solids
    Like a warzone
    Lost mole
    And both san
    ...miracles...
    Cross man goes like a toad
    ...only...
    Lost...
    Like

    ...Oh yeah
    I forgot to get my pill
    Got to go downtown...

```
Ziltoidia Attaxx!!!

***"Ziltoidia Attaxx!!!"*** is the third song from the Devin Townsend album *Ziltoid the Omniscient*, released in 2007.

## Appearances

* *Ziltoid the Omniscient* (original studio recording)
* *Rockband 3* (downloadable content)

## Versions

### Ziltoidia Attaxx!!!

The original album version. It proceeds directly from "By Your Command" and directly into "Solar Winds."

### Ziltoidia Attaxx!!! (Rockband 3)

The dialogue was re-recorded specifically for the video game, though the musical content remains the same.

## Lyrics

```
    ATTACK!
    People of Earth!
    We are the Ziltodian Warlords,
    Resistance is futile!

    Ziltoidia attaxx!
    Ships are in the sky,
    Everything goes rushing past,
    And you know the reason why!
    Woah! Down! Woah! No!
    You give us some coffee!
    You give us some coffee!
    Give it to what they do!

    Ziltoidia Att-tack-tack-taxx
    Ships are in the sky,
    Colder than a robot mind,
    And you know the reason why!

    You better believe we'll destroy the Earth!
    You get up, you get up, you get up, get down!
    And you better, you better, you better believe it!
    We're coming to your town,
    We're coming to your town and you better, you better, you better, you better believe it!

    Ziltoidia attaxx!
    Ships are in the air
    Everything goes rushing by,
    There ain't no one to stare!
    Ziltoidia attaxx!
    No conceit anywhere,
    You better believe we come and sit,
    We present to you, Ziltoid the Omniscient

    [Ziltoid:]
    Check this out!
    I am the greatest guitar player ever to have lived! I am Ziltoid!

    You better believe we'll destroy the Earth!
    You get up, get up, get up and now!
    And you better, you better, you better believe it!
    We're coming to your town,
    We're coming to your town and you better, you better, you better, you better believe it!

    Ziltoidia attaxx!
    Ships are in the air,
    Everything goes rushing by,
    There ain't no one to stare!
    Ziltoidia attaxx!
    No conceit anywhere,
    You better believe we come and sit,
    We're in your planets air,
    You better, you better, you better believe it!
    You better believe it humans!
    Do you know what?
    You better, you better, you better believe it!
    You better...

```
Traveller

***"Traveller"*** is the sixth song from the Devin Townsend Band album *Accelerated Evolution*, released in 2003.

Its ending ambience samples "Sister" from *Ocean Machine*.

## Appearances

* *Accelerated Evolution* (original studio recording)

## Versions

### Traveller

The original album version. It proceeds directly from "Suicide."

## Lyrics

```
    The life I have
    Is the life I've always wanted
    And there's no more feeling low...
    Early morning, and I'm on the go!
    Here I'm finally on the road
    On the road!

    And I wanna put my faith in you, babe
    But I have to face it in another way
    Let go... free from all
    Now I'm a traveler, traveler (travel around).

    But don't worry baby I need someplace to call my home
    Don't worry baby I need someone to call my own.
    Right!

    And I wanna put my faith in you, babe
    But I have to face it in another way
    And I wanna put my faith in you, babe
    Let go... free from all
    Let go... I'll free fall

    Now I'm a traveler, traveler (travel around).
    Traveler, traveler (travel around)
    Traveler, traveler (travel around)
    Traveler, traveler (travel around)

```
Why?

**"Why?"** is the seventh track from the Devin Townsend album **Empath**, released 2019. If Dev wrote a song for Disney

**Song Credit**

Words and music: Devin Townsend

## Appearances

* Empath 2019
* Empath Deluxe Edition 2019
* Empath Ultimate Edition 2019

## Lyrics

```
Darling are you feeling alright? You look rather pale...
And all our friends are, all our friends are watching us

(I wanna go home)

But why run away?

Why, why, why?

Darling are you seeing inside? The wolves are alive
And all our faith is, all our faith is wrong

Let me go home!

But why run away?
Why, why, why?

And all we're feeling slowly comes unravelled
And all we're fearing, comes to pull us under

So why run away?
Why, why, why?

Say 'Yes': I'm alive
Say 'No': I'm alive
Say 'Yes': I'm alive
Say 'No': I'm alive

So, we feel so irrelevant, we're rolling televised
Our pride will bolt us to the ground
And the Earth itself will swallow us whole

We can't think for those who'll suffer

Darling, are you feeling alright?
Take a look at your fear
And all our fate is, all are faith in all!

But why run away?
Why?
When we can just walk away...

Why, why why?
```
The Hummer (album)

*This article is about the album. For the song, see The Hummer*

***The Hummer*** is an experimental album from Canadian musician Devin Townsend. It is his second dedicated foray into non-rock-based music (following *Devlab*) and was written at the same time as *Synchestra* and *Alien*.

## Hevydevy.com description

> *Synchestra was meant to counter Alien, but to be honest, it wasn't enough. I had thrown myself into a pretty deep hole and realized I needed to really analyze my way out of it. The bottom line was: I was afraid and paranoid, and my anxiety of people and circumstance was at an all-time high and needed to be dealt with. I felt in order to combat that, I need to make 'the most beautiful record I could make' and the hummer became my view on that at the time. It was never released commercially- just through my website, and as such, I didn't have to include a UPC code or anything (purposely) to keep it 'un-commercial' yet (let’s be honest) - it's an ambient record of low frequency humming noises, so 'commercial' was never really a consideration. I liked the idea of making a huge environment of low notes that once volume was added, would shake and vibrate the rooms it was played in in different ways. Different notes produced different effects. The beginning and end of the record is quite nice in my opinion, (sort of a cloudy, new-agey statement I suppose). I remember playing it loud to a bunch of friends of mine and someone commenting that it was almost like a sort of 'weapon' (and that bummed me out…) but actually, I listened to the record a year or so ago and realized that it is still actually a fairly dark statement. I may change my view on that eventually, but currently- through all of its kind of 'heavenly' soundscapes- there's a sense that it’s in the midst of combat still. Konrad Palkeiwicz did the art for the album and did a great, great job in my opinion. I included the lyrics to Ravi Shankars 'Prabhujee' inside the album as sort of a prayer to the infinite to allow me to get out of the hole I was in. I think The Hummer plays an important role for me, and it took the better part of a year to complete.*
>
>

## Track listing

All songs written by Devin Townsend.

1. "The Hummer" (15:55)
2. "Arc" (23:04)
3. "Consciousness Causes Collapse" (6:39)
4. "Equation" (3:16)
5. "The Abacus" (8:03)
6. "Cosmic Surf" (16:27)

## Personnel

* Devin Townsend – engineer, producer, all instruments except
* Jeff Feinstein – flute
* Ravi Shankar – text
* Konrad Palkiewicz – artwork, layout
Alice Jones (Enchanted Forest)

**Alice Jones**  was the wife of Brennan Jones and the mother of Killian Jones and Liam Jones I, mother-in-law of Emma Swan, step-grandmother of Henry and step-great-grandmother of Lucy.

She died when her son was young.

## Trivia

* In the wish Realm, Hook names his daughter after his late mother.

## Notes and references

1. ↑ Wish Realm Hook says that their lives in the Wish Realm were exactly the same as their original counterparts up until the casting of the Dark Curse. Therefore, Wish Realm Hook's mother's name is the same name of the original Hook's mother.
Stand

***"Stand"*** is the second song from the Devin Townsend Project album *Deconstruction*, released in 2011.

It was feature previously in a D'addario promo video called "Unleashed." The "Unleashed" promo had also featured parts of "Heart Baby." "It is referenced lyrically at the end of "Poltergeist" and musically in "Watch You."

### Song Credits

* Words and music: Devin Townsend
* Drums: Ryan Van Poederooyen
* Guest vocals: Mikael Åkerfeldt (Opeth)

## Appearances

* *Deconstruction* (original studio recording)
* *Contain Us* (remastered original studio recording, demo)
* *By a Thread* (live recording)
* Unleashed (live recording)

## Versions

### Stand

The original album version. The exact recording, remastered, is republished as part of *Contain Us*. It proceeds directly out of "Praise the Lowered" by fading in under a keyboard pad, and immediately into "Juular."

### Unleashed

A promo video with D'addario that included Stand and Heart Baby

### Stand (Demo)

Available in the *Contain Us* bonus audio content.

### Stand (Live)

Available on the *By a Thread* box set, it features in the *Deconstruction* night.

## Lyrics

```
    Some may sever
    Some may never...
    Some may take their needs then go...
    Some find heaven,
    ...In sevens and elevens
    Some may chase the even flow.
    But some may never…some may never even know.

    Some may leave us
    …Take us or leave us.
    Some must face their fears to grow.
    Some mind heaven,
    ...Through sevens and elevens
    Some must taste their heathen glow.
    But some may never,
    Some of you will never even know…

    ...Ready?

    I'VE COME FACE TO FACE WITH MYSELF, MAN.
    SANCTIFY THE EARLY LIGHT JUST LIKE THE OLD MAN CAN, BOY!
    CHANGE THE WORLD?? YOU BETTER CHANGE YOURSELF MAN, BOY…MAN
    CHALLENGE THE MIND TO BE MORE LIKE THE ROLLING OCEAN MAN!

    And BURN! BURN!!!

    Thou now behold us: The souls of those who anger overcame

    SOME FIND JESUS
    SOME MAY NEVER EVEN STAND!!!
    STAND!

    I WILL NOT, I WILL NOT GO!
    (I want to know why we are metal…)
    I WILL LET, I WILL LET GO!
    I I I I I (harmony, harmony…walk to war)

    I STAND!!! STAND!!!
    I WILL LET GO! I WILL GO!!!

    I fall now… I'm letting go.
    I call tonight, I'm letting go.
    I crawl…but now, I'm letting go.
    I fall tonight…I'm letting go...
    I'm letting go
    (I will let go babe…)

    To thine own selves be true…show me
    I'm not afraid... I know myself…
    SHOW YOURSELF!!

    Do not pretend to know…there's NEVER a time but now
    And I will never back down…DO YOU HEAR ME ?!?!?

    I STAND!!! STAND!!!
    (no more hate, no more hate!!!)
    STAND!!!

    I WILL NOT, I WILL NOT GO!!!
    (I want to know why we are metal…)
    I WILL LET, I WILL LET GO!

    FALL OUT, THEN FALL BACK IN LINE…SHUT IT!!

```
Octavia Yen

Octavia Yen is a Zantine woman living in Melekess. She is the wife of Watchman Dimiter Yen, and a childhood friend of Marcus Roland.

Along with her husband, she escaped her homeland during the Iskirran invasion, but was left badly scarred and disfigured by the experience. She currently lives at Nykara Chapel, where she assists her husband in his duties as priest and sings in the choir.
Sinner

***"Sinner"*** is a song by Devin Townsend, released on *A Tribute to Judas Priest: Legends of Metal vol. 1*, released in 1996. It is a cover version of a song originally by Judas Priest.

It is the second Judas Priest cover of Townsend's career. Earlier, he covered "Exciter" as Strapping Young Lad, which was included as a bonus track on various versions of *Heavy as a Really Heavy Thing*.

### Song Credits

* Words and music: Rob Halford, Glen Tipton

## Appearances

* *A Tribute to Judas Priest: Legends of Metal* (original studio recording)

## Lyrics

```
    Sinner rider, rides in with the storm
    The devil rides beside him
    The devil is his god, God help you mourn
    Do you, do you hear it, do you hear the thunder
    Deafen every living thing about
    Can you, can you see it, can you
    See the mountains darken yonder
    Black sun rising, time is running out

    Sacrifice to vice or die by the hand of the
    Sinner!

    His steed of fury,
    Eyes of fire and mane ablaze
    Demonic vultures stalking
    Drawn by the smell of war and pain
    He roams the starways
    Searching for the carcasses of war
    But if it's hungry then its very presence
    Disrupts the calm into the storm

    Curse and damn you all you'll fall by the hand of the
    Sinner!

    God of the Devils, God of the Devils
    Won't you help them pray
    God of the Devils, God of the Devils
    Is there no other way

    Can't you hear their souls calling out in their plight?
    Can't you see their blood is boiling setting them alight?

    Thirty years now sleeping, so sound
    War raises its head, and looks slowly around
    The Sinner is near, sensing the fear
    And the beast will start movin' around

    Can't you see their souls calling out in their brain?
    Can't you hear their blood is boiling setting them alight?

    ...Sinner, Sinner, Sinner, Sinner!

    Sacrifice to vice or die by the hand of the
    Curse and damn you all you fall by the hand of the
    Sinner!

```
Summer (demo)

**"Summer (demo)"** is the tenth track from **Test Of Manhood** of **Empath Deluxe Edition** by Devin Townsend, released 2019.

**Song Credit**

Words and music: Devin Townsend

## Appearances

* Empath 2019
* Empath Deluxe Edition 2019
* Empath Ultimate Edition 2019

## Lyrics

```
Arms around the world
Wanting to be seen
Through all the words and prose we're all just easily decieved

Fear is overworked
We walk each other home
Time may occupy your minds but all they are alone

If you're counting waves, you're coming down
If you're counting waves, you're coming down
If you're counting waves, you're coming down
If you're counting waves, you're coming down
Head to the ground

Time to go
We both know
Time is saved

[?]
All is frozen hard
Fall in love with creatures watch the ego tear apart

'Cause I'll be on the sky
I'll be on the stars
Time may occupy us but we're only who we are

If you're counting waves, you're coming down
If you're counting waves, you're coming down
If you're counting waves, you're coming down
If you're counting waves, you're coming down
To the ground
To the ground
To the ground

Time to go
We both know
Time is saved
I am saved now
```
Total Collapse (demo)

**"Total Collapse"** is the ninth track from **Test Of Manhood** of **Empath Deluxe Edition** by Devin Townsend, released 2019.

**Song Credit**

Words and music: Devin Townsend

## Appearances

* Empath 2019
* Empath Deluxe Edition 2019
* Empath Ultimate Edition 2019

## Lyrics

```
Anybody, everybody goes in the end now
I know the way I gotta go. Send me to war!
Everybody sing: I am not goin' away
Oh no!
Anybody, everybody goes in the end now
I know the way I gotta go. Send me to war!
Everybody sing: I am not goin' away

You are the pain which you are revealing
You are the captain of what you're believing
See the ways of your past
Then capture the weight of your task
And we are the ways in which we're deceiving
Our head is on our drugs and all we've been eating
We see the ways in your mother
Yet you capture the pain of your father

Live! I want to live!
Live! I want to live!

Ah, you're running away from me
I fall in love with you
Ah, you're running away from me

Live! I want to live!
Live! I want to live!

(HAAAAAAAAAAOHW)
```
Spirituality

***"Spirituality"*** is the ninth and final song from the Strapping Young Lad album *City*, released in 1997.

It contains a short hidden track at the end of Microsoft Sam saying "Strapping Young Lad rocks my hairy anus."

## Appearances

* *City* (original studio recording, remastered original studio recording)

## Lyrics

```
    I'm right here where you left me experimenting
    Bored out of my fucking mind...
    Please, give me a sign, please, show me a sign
    Please, show me that you're alive

    There’s got to be
    Another way
    Another place for me
    Please, help me, please...

    You'll never be what you try to be if you want to be it
    God help the king of nothing

    It's getting late
    I'm getting old
    And every night I just sleep,
    We never talk

    And every night,
    I look to the sky
    And pray the god to hear me...

    And if that’s all there is
    …if this is it
    Won't... won't someone tell me

    'Cause I'm so fucking sick of all you
    Sick stupid people

    Ooh-oh

    Leave me alone

    (...I finally found a way out of here...)

```
Skeksis

***"Skeksis"*** is the second song from the Strapping Young Lad album *Alien*, released in 2005.

## Appearances

* *Alien* (original studio recording)
* *Alien* instrumentals (original studio recording)
* *Chaos Years* (remastered original studio recording, live recording)

## Versions

### Skeksis

The original album version. It flows directly from "Imperial."

### Skeksis (Instrumental)

Unofficially leaked from the *Alien* sessions, this version is the same as the album, but without vocal tracks, and without segues from surrounding songs.

## Lyrics

```
    I control an awkward soul
    And my lines
    Are automatic, automatically drawn
    Realizing a multiverse in just one thing
    And then I'm automatic, automatically gone

    WRITING DOWN MY INFINITY
    WRITING FOR ALL ETERNITY

    Colors relate to numbers relate to SOUND
    ...relates to FORM relate to WAR relate to SEX
    relates to HEALING
    Relates to ALL GOD VI-BRA-TION!!!!

    Formula!!!

    I'D LIKE TO TAKE IT EASY
    ...I'D LIKE TO THINK I TRY
    I'D LIKE TO THINK FOREVER...
    I WOULD NOT QUESTION WHY!?!
    I'D LIKE TO SAY I'M SORRY,
    I DO NOT KNOW THE WORDS
    All I can say right now is
    EVERYTHING HAPPENS WHEN NO ONE'S AROUND!!!

    Writing down my Infinity
    Writing for all eternity
    Eliminate inner parenthesis,
    now combine like terms remembering to watch negative signs
    I'M RIGHT HERE FORWARD
    Incriminate, fall down, hide soft; inner terminated.
    Om!!!Om!!!OM!!!!
    BE CAREFUL WITH POLYNOMIAL COLORS...
    Colors...
    THERE CAN NEVER BE AN ANSWER
    we can never factor OM

    And I know you've found your pain...
    And it's the last thing you'll ever do
    ...And you've only got YOU to thank!!!

    ...OOO I control an awkward soul...
    In my time...
    And then I'm automatic, automatically GOD

    FIGHT!
    FUCKING FIGHT!!!

```
Time Overload - demo

**"Time Overload"** is the fifth track from the Devin Townsend Project bonus album Holding Patterns, released 2016.

**Song Credit**

Words and music: Devin Townsend

## Lyrics

```
Time! You give me time overload.
Oh, time! You give me time overload.

Everyone goes easy upon everything we do...
Fill the void with weakness, be afraid, it's nothing new...

But now it's time! Oh, time!

Say there's other places, different than our own
But all the world is frightened.
We'll be so; look what we've been shown.

Time!
Want to be yours
You give me time overload
Want to be yours, baby
Oh, time!
Want to be yours
You give me time overload
Want to be yours, baby
[2x]

Through the depths of this all is only fear!
Fear that not all this is truly here!
Through it all, will you conform to the horror?

Time!
Want to be yours
You give me time overload.
Want to be yours, baby
Oh, time!
Want to be yours
You give me time overload.
Want to be yours, baby
[4x]

Time!
Want to be yours
You give me time overload.
Want to be yours, baby
Oh, time...
```
Tour EP

***Tour EP*** is an EP by Canadian extreme metal band Strapping Young Lad released 2003 to promote their then-upcoming album, also called *Strapping Young Lad*.

## Track listing

All songs written by Devin Townsend.

1. "Devour" (2:55)
2. "Aftermath" (6:48)
3. "Oh My Fucking God" (3:27)
4. "In the Rainy Season (Live)" (4:56)
5. "Detox (Live)" (6:25)

## Personnel

* Devin Townsend – vocals, guitar, production
* Jed Simon – guitar, backing vocals
* Gene Hoglan – drums, percussion
* Byron Stroud – bass, backing vocals
The Death of Music

***"The Death of Music"*** is the eleventh song from the Devin Townsend album *Ocean Machine: Biomech*, released in 1997.

The vocal melody of the bridge ("Don't die on me") references the chorus of "Japan" ("Goodbye my love") by Strapping Young Lad.

## Appearances

* *Ocean Machine: Biomech* (original studio recording)
* *Ziltoid Live at Royal Albert Hall* (live recording)

## Versions

### The Death of Music

The original album version. It flows directly from "Bastard."

### The Death of Music (Live)

Available on the *Ziltoid Live at Royal Albert Hall* blu-ray/CD.

## Lyrics

```
    Question...
    Leapt like dog from man...
    Terminate high thinking...
    Known in your prophecy...

    Sun... Son...
    Sun it shifts, and brittleness subsides
    To sleep... sleep away

    One comes, the rain will always be
    And things I am
    Are things that should not be
    They laughed at me but we never bothered

    My friends and I
    There were no others

    Now it comes...
    Bolt across the blue...
    Shadows dance over the land...
    Walls high, water deep
    Brick and steel gathering speed
    Guess it's just a feeling
    ...Guess it's just a feeling...

    Rain may come
    The rain may never be
    In things you are
    Are things I need to be
    My friends were there but they never bothered

    Now there's you and I and
    There are no others

    It's like when death becomes musical
    ...It's musical
    It's like a death becomes musical
    Musical

    And it comes...
    To make sure that he will never rise
    And the groans from the bellies
    Have never cried this hard
    And the eyes of the wicked ones
    Have never been full of dust
    In the middle of the sea it waits...
    ...Closer...

    Home, nor anywhere on Earth on that final day will anyone be apart
    ...one...schooled...together...
    Towards the sea...
    And we may drown, fly, fall from faith
    ...but the pain won't be realized
    Because the emotions will hit as god should
    And the mountains will offer no shelter
    And the clouds will be no cover...
    No matter where we run...

    Don't die on me
    Don't go away
    When I need you here
    In my need

    The rain will come
    The rain will always be
    In things I am
    Are things that have to be
    My friends have come and I never bothered

    Myself and I
    There is no other

    It's like a death becomes musical
    It's musical

```
Sit in the Mountain

***"Sit in the Mountain"*** is the third song from the Devin Townsend EP *Christeen (Plus Four Demos)*, released in 1998. It is an outtake from *Infinity*.

### Song Credits

* Words and music: Devin Townsend and Ginger

## Appearances

* *Christeen (Plus Four Demos)* (original studio demo)

## Versions

### Sit in the Mountain

The original demo version. It begins immediately after "Om" and crossfades into "Processional."

## Lyrics

```
    what have we done everybody?

    I know why and where the water flows
    I know I don't remember anything at all
    I sit in the mountain, sit in the mountain, alone
    sit in the mountain, I know, I know
    'cause I've been there before

    stay a while, and let the feelings go...
    stay... stay... don't remember anything today
    sit in the mountain, sit in the mountain alone
    sit in the mountain, I know, I know
    'cause I've been there before

    and they say you're out of your mind
    and everything is just fine
    you say you don't want to use me
    so lose me, lose me

    I sit in the mountain, sit in the mountain, alone
    sit in the mountain, I know, I know
    'cause we've been there before

    stay... stay... stay...

```
The Contrarian (demo)

**"The Contrarian"** is the first track from **Test Of Manhood** from the Deluxe Edition of **Empath** by Devin Townsend, released 2019.

**Song Credit**

Words and music: Devin Townsend

## Appearances

* Empath 2019
* Empath Deluxe Edition 2019
* Empath Ultimate Edition 2019

## Lyrics

```
Here comes the sun and it's a violent star

Every day the fear is flowing away from me
Hands up today, the sun shines on the city
It's a hell of a world and afraid of the unknown, we are

So speak up in the quiet time
Reach out to the demon
But don't wake the demon
O contrary, wait for me
Speak up, say
Keep your tears out of my
Play time (play time)
It's play time (it's play time)

So contrary, fight before tearing it down
Say you're there for me
And I always swear I'll be
Should we be high?
Shouldn't we buy?
Should we back down?
You think that we'd be grounded by now

Every day the fear is flowing away from me
Hands up today, the sun shines on the city
It's a hell of a world and afraid of the unknown, we are
(Keeps us all in line)

(REEEEEEEEEEH!!!)

I want the will to fight again
And on and on and on
I want the will to fight again
If you're confused, right or wrong
And you can't go on
Say the word to me
It's okay to be vulnerable
It's okay to be

Every day the fear is flowing away from me
Hands up today, the sun shines on the city
It's a hell of a world and afraid of the unknown we are

You're king of the world but you have to defend your heart
Because the fear is going away
```
Young Gods - demo

**"Young Gods"** is the twelfth track from the Devin Townsend Project album Transcendence (Japan Edition), released 2016.

**Song Credit**

Words and music: Devin Townsend

## Appearances

* Transcendence Japan Edition
* Transcendence Limited Edition

## Versions

The original Transcendence Japan Edition version

## Lyrics

```
so a Japanese bonus track, where am i?
I've been doing this for so many years man,
......?
i actually kinda like it,
it like being able to recollect on the past and recognise that progress has been made,

...?25/26 now
I dont even know anymore
i still enjoy it, its strange?
it's lost it significants,
in a way it was significant to me because it was a projection of the identity,
you have so much of yourself invested in what you do apose to who you are,
for a long time you end up using that,
Using it as a your whole reason to be,
as in without the music i as a person would cease to exist,
thats far from the truth,
i think that one of the main components to be a musicain an artists in general,
is a type of need of validation,
on one level you see your self as self-destructive, in a way that makes sense,
but on another level perhaps it's a keen connection to something beyond,
and all you are trying to do is stress it in a way that ....? in the sake of others,

i think in the root of it human beings are terrified and confused,
myself included,
theres nothing that really happens now that has the same emotional impact as it did as child
clearly,
however it doesn't stop the creative process it just morphs it,
if you ever had the opportunity to do nothing,
to be so financially independant that you could rationalise doing whatever you want,
or something you would do,
i often thought that,
i often wonder if defining what it is you ....? life is the most difficult part,
you would often think .....?
.........................?

compelled based on fear and fear is something that doesn't go away that morphs,
as an artist you've got nothing to fear,
theres probably no reason to create what you should right about,
what would you write about?
would you write about a lack of fear?
is that not in and of its self, a type of fear?
......................? sitting in the backyard,
...................?
.................?
the silence is your ..?
to engage in silence with full commitment.....?
..................?
......................?
we see ourselves, we see ourselves objectively,
we realise, not only your not alone,
..........?
.................?
..............?
.....?free
```
Sprite

**"Sprite"** is the fifth track from the Devin Townsend album **Empath**, released 2019.

**Song Credit**

Words and music: Devin Townsend

## Appearances

* Empath 2019
* Empath Deluxe Edition 2019
* Empath Ultimate Edition 2019

## Lyrics

```
Once upon a time, in a tiny little town in a tiny little house, where no one came around,
There lived a bird who was just so sad
For this little bird didn't have a mom or a dad
He had forgotten how to fly, and he had lost the will to try
Until one day a bear came around, and the bird heard its terrible sound
And through his fear, his courage did appear
He lifted once more from the ground.

Show me through your animal heart, and not through your mind
You and I can't find our 'one'
Throws me naked into the eternal… don't go now…

You and I run...

In a world that's so inviting
Find your own sanctuary and play along

Show me to the fundamental tenet, hard times have come to return
You and I can't find our 'one'

Everybody, everyone in a world that's subdivided
Hold your own ceremony, and carry on…

Soul: Soul and the body are broken-hearted
So: Sons and your daughters are broken-hearted
But know: Only the body is broken, hardened

Show me to the hear that's in your mind

Show me through your animal heart, and not through your mind!
(You and I can't find our one)

In a world that's self-divided
You count your hopes, face the morning, and pray along

Think of everyone you know, everyone is broken
Take a look around, everyone is sad

Monsters and robots are broken-hearted
Octopus lovers are broken-hearted
Dad in the garden, all broken-hearted…

Thank you for the morning and the light
But more than this: Thank you for keeping trying
Slow progress is still progress!

Hold the world in your heart
I'm so afraid to say anything now…
Hold the world in your heart
I won't let you fall
```
War

***"War"*** is the fourth song from the Devin Townsend album *Infinity*, released in 1998.

Lyrically, it links to "3 A.M."

## Appearances

* *Infinity* (original studio recording)
* *Official Bootleg 2000* (live recording)
* *Ass-Sordid Demos* ("Morwar" demo)
* *The Retinal Circus* (live recording)
* *Z²* Japanese edition (live recording)

## Versions

### War

The original album version. It flows directly from "Bad Devil." Due to a mastering error, the CD track contains the intro of "Soul Driven" at the end; the proper song length is thus 5:40.

### War (Live, *Official Bootleg*)

Available on the *Official Bootleg 2000* CD-R/DVD-R. Recorded live in Tokyo on February 26, 1999, it leads in from the end of "Truth" using the snare drum pattern intro used in the demo of the song.

### Morwar (Demo)

Available on *Ass-Sordid Demos 1990-1996*. Demo version with guitars removed; opens with snare drum pattern from the break after the first verse.

### War (Live, *The Retinal Circus*)

Available on *The Retinal Circus* blu-ray/CD.

### War (Live at Loud Park '13)

Available on the *Z²* limited edition Japanese bonus DVD.

## Lyrics

```
    In the morning 'bout three or so
    Can't stop thinking about what I know
    In the morning 'bout three or so
    Can't stop thinking of the universe

    I keep rocking, I keep rolling
    Trade in the minute for a minute that isn't there
    Keep dropping, keep rolling
    Put out the fire with the water
    Thinking creosote

    In the morning with a beat up bud I know
    I can't fight a war without losing blood

    In the morning 'bout three or so
    Can't stop seeking what I need to know
    God is in the mountain as is in the rock
    And god is not concerned about keeping stock

    So keep rocking, keep rolling
    Trade in the minute for a minute that isn't there
    Keep dropping, keep rolling
    Put out the fire with the water
    Thinking creosote

    All he ever wanted was to be alone
    But you can't feel love without being loved!!

    (Can't fight a war without losing blood)
    (Blood... Blood... Blood...)
    All we ever wanted was love
    Love! (doo wop boddum... doo wapideewapideewapideedoo...)

    We can see the enemy, they say...
    Hey! we don't want your war!

    It's quite nice, white light, it's quite, it's quite extraordinary!
    Window! It's a window! It's white! It's quite... quite...

```

```
    You say you wanna get high
    Oh, let's do this, a way down the hill
    Higher still, there's a way against the will
    Oh, let's do this, a way down the hill

    God, quiet! Just a little bit of quiet please!
    Just stop the noise for once... please!!

```
Cyrus Spyridon

Cyrus Spyridon was a human slave of Dardani descent. He was owned by Luther Arimanes, who forced him to serve as his arena champion.

At some point, Cyrus fell in love with Luther's wife, Queen Philomena. Consumed by hatred for his master, he schemed with the magician Ardath Dastagir to kill Luther by sabotaging a ritual meant to grant him supernatural powers.

During the ritual, Cyrus made a deal with the Magician, asking to be forgotten about so he could leave his old life as champion behind. The Magician instead made it so everyone who encountered Cyrus forgot him immediately afterwards.

Unbeknownst to others, Cyrus has spent the nine years since the ritual working quietly as the palace gardener, a job which enables him to remain close to Philomena even though she no longer remembers him.