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The original Selenium album, Element 34, is now available for download in Windows Media Audio format on this site!

1.Element 34 (2:39)
2.Growing Up (2:44)
3.This World (6:20)
4.Color TV (5:02)
5.God Is… (2:39)
6.Shoot Me Now, Kill Me Later (2:04)
7.Slow (2:44)
8.Son of God (3:28)
9.One For Me (2:38)

Element 34 is Copyright 2001 by Selenium. Unauthorized duplication is a violation of applicable laws. These files may only be downloaded for personal use and may not be retransmitted, broadcasted, or sold by anyone.

This album was recorded at ASP Studios (AKA: Peter Pike’s bedroom). For best results, play loud. Repeat as necessary. These comments have not been endorsed by the FDA. This product is not intended to cure, diagnose, or treat any illness, real or imagined, including but not limited to chills, fever, sore throat, or death.

1. Element 34
Words and Music by Peter Pike.

Spoken:
It comes up. Bubbling from the depths.
Down where the fires keep everything warm in the center of the Earth.
You can look for it, but you can’t see it.
But it’s there, beneath the surface.
Element 34.

Sung:
Element 34

Spoken:
Yes. Element 34. Selenium.
A band dedicated to one thing, and one thing only.
The glorification of God.
God on High. The Creator of everything that we see.
It’s for Him, and Him alone that music exists.
Yeah.

2. Growing Up
Words and Music by Peter Pike

Another summer wasted there
In the temple of despair
Another dollar too soon spent
And you’re wondering where it went.
Another place on the map
You miss while you nap
Another squandered chance
At the Homecoming Dance

Responsibilities, but everyone wants to be free.
New attitudes to carry you through the days
Responsibilities no one wants to take up
New attitudes, yeah, this is growing up.

Another Saturday in the dirt
And it doesn’t even hurt
Another Sunday in the sun
But you know it’s just begun
Another dime in the slot
You waste another shot
Another night at home
Thinking of the chances you’ve blown.

People tell me I just don’t understand
What you’re going through in this land
Can’t you see it happened to me too?
Growing up: It’ll happen to you too.

3. This World
Words and Music by Peter Pike

Let me show you all that you can be
Everything I give is all for free
Let me close your eyes so you can see
There’s no reason you cannot be me.

So let me be the one to close your eyes
Let me be the one to mesmerize
Why are you acting so surprised?
Everything I told you has been lies.
All lies.

This world betrays
Pulls you to the grave
This world of fools
Imitating mules
This world of fiction
Blinding contradiction
This world betrays
And sucks you to the grave.

I know you want it
Come on and get it
I know you taste it
I’m the one who holds it.

4. Color TV
Words and Music by Peter Pike

I wish I was a Color TV
So you could look and you could see
God reflected in the things that I do
So you could see a love that is true.

I remember days, days long ago
When I first believed and faith I did show
But then the stumbling came, then I fell
Good deeds gone, I am guilty they can tell
Ooh, on my color TV
Yeah, on my color TV

God didn’t leave me there, this I can say
He pulled me up when I began to pray
Another chance and another and more
I do not know what He loves me for.

5. God Is…
Words and Music by Peter Pike

People ask me about my God
They don’t understand what I see
The truth is something you just can’t hide.

God is real.

Deep down inside there is a truth
You know you cannot hide
They try to supress the truth
By living in a lie.
But you can’t deny the things I say are true
Because you know the truth just like I do.

6. Shoot Me Now, Kill Me Later
Words and Music by Peter Pike

I think of how it could be
Alone with only me.
And the life I thought I had
It’s over and won’t begin.

The lights are so dim
And I feel so bad
Why must you torture me like this?
Bringing these things up again!

It’s been such a long, long time
I wish I never met you
You’re ripping apart my insides
And no one cares but me.

7. Slow
Music by Peter Pike

8. Son of God
Words and Music by Peter Pike

God save me.

All I want in life is to be a son of God
But everywhere I look all I see is failing.
My hands hurt from the last time I fell down
The skin was scraped beneath the railing.

Oh how I wish this wreckage was gone
Oh how I long for the day I am free.

Now all I feel is the pain of yesterday
Coming down in the sheets, I can’t find my release.
The people stand and point and mock me.
They won’t leave me be. They won’t grant me peace.

I long so much to do the things God wants
But I always fail, my flesh is too weak.
The spirit is willing but it’s not enough for me
When perfection is what He will seek.

9. One For Me
Words and Music by Peter Pike

Another useless night
With no blazing light
Another flame dies
Ending with another goodbye
Alone once again
With all the pain within
She looks to the Son
And cries out, “It is done!”

You’re the one for me

Casting down her crowns
On to the stoney ground
It’s easier to do
When you know the truth
The world is empty shadow
Where you reap what you sow
But eternity waits for her
An eternity secure.

Another night alone
So far from her home
But happy she can be
In the God she can see
With eyes of her faith
She knows she can wait
Until He comes
To take her home.