A Perfect Circle has really blown me away... their album emotive shows such a variation of different styles it is really absolutely amazing. Fiddle and the Drum is a duet with no instruments and has tinges of Simon and Garfunkle somewhere in there while Annihilation is a peice with a bell like keyboard and no otherinstruments and the entire lyrics are whispered into the mike to create an incredibly haunting effect... its like tension that is created and never released... i mean at any point in the song im expecting screaming guitar riffs to come into play but the song comes, the song continues and the song ends and the guitars never come... its wow.

A Perfect Circle - Fiddle And The Drum Lyrics

And so once again
My dear Johnny my dear friend
And so once again you are fightin' us all
And when I ask you why
You raise your sticks and cry, and I fall
Oh, my friend
How did you come
To trade the fiddle for the drum
You say I have turned
Like the enemies you've earned
But I can remember
All the good things you are
And so I ask you please
Can I help you find the peace and the star
Oh, my friend
What time is this
To trade the handshake for the fist
And so once again
Oh, America my friend
And so once again
You are fighting us all
And when we ask you why
You raise your sticks and cry and we fall
Oh, my friend
How did you come
To trade the fiddle for the drum
You say we have turned
Like the enemies you've earned
But we can remember
All the good things you are
And so we ask you please
Can we help you find the peace and the star
Oh my friend
We have all come
To fear the beating of your drum

A Perfect Circle - Annihilation Lyrics

From dehumanization to arms production,
For the benefit of the nation or its destructionPower,

power, the law of the land,
Those living for death will die by their own hand,

Life's no ordeal if you come to terms,
Reject the system dictating the norms

From dehumanization to arms production,
To hasten the nation towards its destruction

Power, power, the law of the land,
Those living for death will die by their own hand,

Life's no ordeal if you come to terms,
Reject the system dictating the norms

From dehumanization to arms production,
To hasten the nation towards its destruction

Power, power, the law of the land,
Those living for death will die by their own hand,

Life's no ordeal if you come to terms,
Reject the system dictating the norms

From dehumanization to arms production,
To hasten this nation towards its destruction,

It's your choice, your choice, your choice, your choice,
Peace or annihilation...