Songs of Ruin . . .

Ruin « Freedom Has No Bounds

2011-02-14T23:16:00.000-05:00

Ruin « Freedom Has No Bounds

hear the sounds by way of archivist Mike Eidle (WKDU 91.7 fm)

Play With Fire

2006-11-24T21:55:00.000-05:00

Well you've got no diamonds
but you got your petty goals
and your poison's got no vial
you let everybody know
but can you play with me?
Can you play with fire?

Someone is dealing diamonds
but they've got a hollow core
and your poison's turned to medicine
you don't want diamonds no more
no you don't, so you can
play with me
now you're playing with fire

This is a cover of the Rolling Stones tune penned by Jagger/Richards;
with heavily modified lyrics and music. Quite often the band would
pass out sparklers to be ingnited during the jam-out segment of the song.

Originally released on the "HE-HO" album (1984)
re-released on the CD re-issue compilation "Songs of Reverie and Ruin" (1996)

Rule Worshipper

2006-04-28T21:54:00.000-04:00

Need a judge and jury
judge and jury and a court
Need to have a witness
Need the law enforced
'til the end
of the rule
worshipper

Standing at the red light
standing when the light is green
Standing on the corner
standing on the in between
'til the end
of the rule
worshipper

Originally released on the "HE-HO" album (1984)
re-released on the CD re-issue compilation "Songs of Reverie and Ruin" (1996)

Twilight

2006-04-24T21:51:00.000-04:00

O
Say
Can
You
See

Keepin' it steady as she goes
Steady with her mission as she glows
into the night
into the night

Did you ever see the way she goes?
Always getting rougher, but she knows
she'll hold the light
all night

Twilight

O say did you see by the dawn's early light?
O say can you see by the vantage of the night?
Liberty! Libra! Light!

Originally released on the "Terminal! Magazine" soundsheet (1982) [version one]
Subseqently re-recorded and released on the "HE-HO" album (1984) [version two]
[version 1] re-released on the CD re-issue compilation "Songs of Reverie and Ruin" (1996)

Where Fortune

2006-04-20T20:23:00.000-04:00

Then suddenly
the bombs fall - skin peels like wax
The final scream - your brain's a blistering mass of tissue

There is but one
One action of consequence -
Remaking man
remaking man and the earth

O sorrow - upon the earth
O SORROW!

Then suddenly
the bombs fall - blue eyes turn black
the final dream - the nightmare's become the here and
NOW

Originally released on the "HE-HO" album (1984)
re-released on the CD re-issue compilation "Songs of Reverie and Ruin" (1996)

Ruin

2006-04-19T22:01:00.000-04:00

We
We are the moss
among the ruins

We
We are the spirit
of the earth

We
Submerged
beneath a stealthy dream

We
We are the moss
among the ruins

Originally released on the "Fiat Lux" album (1986)
re-released on the CD re-issue compilation "Songs of Reverie and Ruin" (1996)

Alarm

2006-04-18T23:04:00.000-04:00

I don't want to sleep - atomic clock alarming me
thought emergency - I feel a sense of urgency
awakening - Awaken me!

These are just the words of another sleeping hand
This is not the arm with a hammer in its hand
No one else can sleep or shit or eat it for you
No one else can think or dream it for you
so urgently - Awake and See!

I can hear you snoring -I can hear you crawling
I can hear you calling - I can hear you slowly
Awakening! Awake and see

Alarm! Alarm! Alarm!

Originally released on the "HE-HO" album (1984)
re-released on the CD re-issue compilation "Songs of Reverie and Ruin" (1996)

Baby Doll

2006-04-17T22:01:00.000-04:00

Tell them you can have it all
have it all completely
You can have it your way

Now you see right through it all
Life is incompletely -
all the games they can play

Will you stay a baby doll?
Whoa wo - getting awful dirty
Now you're not a baby doll
Whoa wo - found a new game to play

It's not enough to win if you have to make a loser cry
It's not enough to cry
Let's make the rules up for a game that we haven't tried
Let's beat the shit out of our minds

It's not enough to win if you have to make a loser die
It's not enough to die
Let's break the rules up for a game that we hardly try
Let's stop the tug of war in our minds

Originally released on the "HE-HO" album (1984)
re-released on the CD re-issue compilation "Songs of Reverie and Ruin" (1996)

Freedom Has No Bounds

2006-04-09T20:51:00.000-04:00

Juxtaposed our solitude
formed into community
always seek out others
because you fear to be alone

Of course, of course I love you
won't you take me from myself?
Society and boundaries
are products of our weakness
Take away the structures
and the boundlessness remains

Freedom has no bounds

Originally released on the "HE-HO" album (1984)
re-released on the CD re-issue compilation "Songs of Reverie and Ruin" (1996)

Proof

2006-04-08T22:25:00.000-04:00

To do or did? The bark or the bite?
A dog stays in the rain
waiting for a master who will
free him from the chain

Is this reality? Proof to see?
oh what it is, the PROOF to be?

Hog in the trough - snout in the line - bacon to the core -
suey suey - sty or the sky? Which one are you cooking for?

Is this reality? Proof to see?
oh what it is, the PROOF to be?

(3rd verse on FIAT LUX album version only)
Sleep in the sun... shiver tonight... little birdy's cold...
wishes about, "...build a shelter tomorrow..."
Feathers muffle; getting older...

Originally released on the "Get Off My Back - We're Doing It Ourselves - Philly Hardcore Compilation" album (1983) [version one]
re-recorded and released for the "HE-HO" album (1984) [version two]
re-recorded and released for the "Fiat Lux" album (1986) [version three]
[version one ] re-released on the CD re-issue compilation "Songs of Reverie and Ruin" (1996)

Phenonemal Expression

2006-04-07T23:58:00.000-04:00

Phenonemal expression of one's own being
Thoughts and words take shape
unleashed into one's world
There is no world outside you
No perspective to be reached

Originally released on the Terminal! Magazine Soundsheet(1982)
re-released on CD re-issue compilation Songs of Reverie and Ruin (1996)

Dionysian

2006-04-06T23:08:00.000-04:00

We are not Apollonian.
We are the Dionysian!

We are the conquerors!
Destroy! Destroy! And Rebuild!
What's a task worth achieving?
What's a task? NO MORE WAR!!

LET THERE BE LIGHT!

Living scared
a tired and suffering people
what might come next?
as war's approaching so damn quickly!

Cultivate your garden - world's aflame
warheads readied - cold state's game
no more war - world's aflame
no more war - world's aflame
no more war - NO MORE WAR!!

Originally released on the HE-HO album (1984)
re-released on CD re-issue compilation Songs of Reverie and Ruin (1996)

Great Divide

2006-04-05T22:52:00.000-04:00

Somewhere I thought in outer space
I lost my head, I lost my face
and all the things you said to me
I think about them frequently

We are the society
We are the government policy
We believe in E.S.P.
We receive
what we be
We receive
what we be
What we be
we believe

We can cross the great divide
with each stranger passing by
Throw a line to the other side
and say,"Have you heard
from the other side."
have you heard
from the other side
What have you heard
from the other side
What have you herd
from the other side

What was the word?

We took our places in your room
and put them somewhere not all
and everything began to move and
everything began to fall
as everything begins to move
and everything begins to fall

Originally released on the Fiat Lux album (1986)
re-released on CD re-issue compilation Songs of Reverie and Ruin (1996)
covered by Northern Liberties on their Secret Revolution album (2006)

Alter

2006-04-04T10:51:00.000-04:00

Happy Birthday! Tonight you'll die -
Tomorrow tells the truth of how we live a lie.
Warned by yesterday, but will we heed?
Or will we fulfill some fatalistic prophecy?

Sometimes you are a falling star,
sometimes you're just a smashed up car -
Destiny, got such a hold on me
lets me be, what I don't wanna be!

Do you choose the way you are?
Can you even say you are,
of the free?
to choose your destiny
of the free?
and do you want to be?

Give it up! Give it up! Give it up! Give up the lie!
Is it all so hopeless? Have you really tried?
I AM ALIVE! I wanna be....
Free of self-imposed inauthenticity.

I can change my destiny - I can change your destiny -
at the altar...

Destiny, what do you want from me?

Originally released on the HEHO album (1984)
re-released on CD re-issue compilation Songs of Reverie and Ruin (1996)

Discography of Ruin

2006-04-03T17:20:00.000-04:00

Everything is out of print.
Maybe buried in the bins of independent record shops
or for auction on ebay.

1982 - Terminal! Magazine soundsheet

Side One
1. Phenomenal Expression
2. Twilight [version one]

1983 - Get Off My Back - We're Doing It Ourselves - Philly Hardcore Compilation

Side Two:

1. Proof [version one]
2. Love Dog

1984 - HE-HO album (Produced by Bob Bell)

Side I

Alter
Dionysian
Freedom Has No Bounds
Baby Doll
He-Ho/Laudium
Alarm

Side II

Master Song (written by Leonard Cohen)
Where Fortune
Play With Fire (altered original written by Jagger/Richards)
Twilight [version two]
Proof [version two]
Rule Worshipper

1985 -That Was Then This Is Now! 4 song 7" compilation
(engineered, co-produced by Marc Bryan)

Side One

1. By the By

1985 - White Rabbit promotional cassette single
(Engineered by Dan McKay and Marc Bryan)

White Rabbit (altered orginal written by Jefferson Airplane)

1986 - Fiat Lux album (Produced and Engineered by Mark Springer)

this side

You
Make Believe
Hero
Famous Blue Raincoat (written by Leonard Cohen)
Life After Life
Proof [version three]

that side

China
Taster
White Rabbit
Ruin
Great Divide
Real Good Time

1996 - Songs of Reverie and Ruin
Blackhole CD re-issue compilation of selections
from recording sessions of previous releases.
(remastered by Jon Lovrich)

Tracks 01 to 10 from "HE-HO"
Tracks 17 to 26 from "Fiat Lux"
Tracks 12 & 14 from "Get Off My Back ...Philly HC Comp"
Tracks 11 & 13 from "Terminal! soundsheet"
Track 15 from "That Was Then ... 7" ep"
Track 16 from "Promotional Cassette Single"

01 Alter
02 Dionysian
03 Freedom Has No Bounds
04 Baby Doll
05 He-Ho/Laudium
06 Alarm
07 Master Song
08 Where Fortune
09 Play With Fire
10 Rule Worshipper
11 Twilight
12 Proof
13 Phenomenal Expression
14 Love Dog
15 By The By
16 White Rabbit(Promotional Cassette single version)
17 You
18 Make Believe
19 Hero
20 Famous Blue Raincoat
21 Life After Life
22 China
23 Taster
24 Ruin
25 Great Divide
26 Real Good Time

07 "Master Song" & 20 "Famous Blue Raincoat" written by Leonard Cohen
09 "Play With Fire" written by Jagger/Richards (ruined)
16 "White Rabbit" written by Jefferson Airplane (ruined)
19 "Hero" covered by Superchunk - 1996 - The Laughter Guns ep cd
25 "Great Divide" covered by Northern Liberties - 2006 - Secret Revolution

1997 - Carbon 14 Magazine - Legends of Philly Punk 4 song 7" ep
(remixed by Jon Lovrich 1996)

Taster

a few mp3 selections to stream or download:

http://soundlift.com/ruin

Thanks to Ruin's Bloody Rich for helping me to compile this.

He Ho / Laudium

2006-04-01T13:10:00.000-05:00

He Ho the world's on fire!
He Ho the world's on fire!
Don't you know the world's aflame?!

They eat worlds, spy vengeance in a bush.
They think they are the ones that matter.
All, All and All, the dry worlds lever.
All, All and All, the desert heart's pumping.

Don't participate or understand the isolation.
Say it's just a form of social reaction.
Don't look right at the space between the cracks.
Concentrate on something that doesn't really matter.

They plea being, what being is there?
They plea being, but being is there?
They plea being, what being is there?
They plea being, but becoming persists!

Have you seen the moon and the naked days?
Do you think the world might fall apart?
Ready, Ready for what? and doing it all for who?

Be-e-e-e o! Be-e-e-e o!
Now you face the night alone
Now you face the night alone

Be-e-e-e o! Be-e-e-e o!
in a mirror I watch alone
so alone

Originally released on the HEHO album (1984)
re-released on the CD re-issue compilation Songs of Reverie and Ruin (1996)