• Ruins - George Jones
• Ruins - Melissa Etheridge
• Ruins - Cat Stevens
• Ruins - Bebo Norman
• Ruins - Minutemen
• Ruins - InMe
• Ruins - Necronomicon
• Ruins - Unanimated
• Ruins - Dauntless
• Ruins - Panics
• Ruins - Frostmoon Eclipse
• Ruins - Kingsbury Manx
• Ruins - Carved In Stone
• Ruins - Jester
• Ruins - Alerion
• Ruins - O.children

Lost all the day, a brains escape
it just can erase it
and robbing graves of kings and slaves
wipe out an oasis
is there really anything to be ashamed of?
or is it something radiant and smart
and even ruins can all be ruined
wasting what is wasting
and even ruins can all be ruined
wasting what is wasted, taking what is taken
i am an ending
i am an infant
ive never really done anything
i am an ending
at the beginning
i've never really laid anything at your feet.
and history, insanity
a world is distracted
like or unlike all my parents
i don't want to escape it.
like or unlike all my parents
i might lack the inspiration
and even ruins can all be ruined
wasting what is wasting
and even ruins can all be ruined
wasting what is wasted, taking what is taken,
i am an ending
i am an infant
i've never really done anything
i am an ending
at the beginning
i've never really laid anything at your feet.

Don't try to call
There are some bridges that burn
Beyond recognition beyond repair
Don't say you've changed
There are some forces that turn
Beyond recollection beyond my stare
When I feel the cold in the dark
I know you're there
Long ago I was a woman in pain
A woman in need
I ran to you
Long ago I did not understand
You were making me bleed
I ran to you
When I feel the cold in the dark
I know what you do
I will crawl through my past
Over stones blood and glass
In the ruins
Reaching under the fence
As I try to make sense
In the ruins
I know your heart has held its own fear
It's perfectly clear
What they did to you
In my heart it's the screaming I hear
I won't let them come near
Since my love knew you
When I feel the cold in the dark
I remember you
I will crawl through my past
Over stones blood and glass
In the ruins
Reaching under the fence
As I try to make sense
In the ruins
Night after night
I am carving it out
I will carry it down to the waterside
Night after night
I am hearing the sound
Of wings that come beating
I will not hide
When I feel the cold in the dark
I will know why
I will crawl through my past
Over stones blood and glass
In the ruins
Reaching under the fence
As I try to make sense
In the ruins
But if I am to heal
I must first learn to feel
In the ruins

It's so quiet in the ruins
Walking though the old town
Stones crumbling under my feet
I see smoke for miles around
Oh, it's enough to make you weep
All that remains of the main street
Up in the park on Sunday
Dogs chasing and the children played
Old man with his head down
Can't see nothing more around, no
But he remembers how it used to be
Back in the old days
So nice to see you coming
Back in this town again
It's nice to see a friendly face
Come peeping through
Having tea In the afternoon, now
So nice to see you coming
Back in this town again
Ah, but it's all changed
Winter turned on a man
Came down on day
When no one was looking
And it stole away the land
People running scared, losing hands
Dodging shadows of falling sand
Buildings standing like empty shells
And nobody, helping no one else
Young child with his hands high
Ain't able to see no reason why, no
But he remembers how it used to be
So nice to see you coming
Back in this town again
It's nice to see a friendly face
Come peeping through
You'd better know
What you're going through now
You came back here to find
Your home is a black horizon
That you don't recognize
Evil destruction has taken everything
You'd better walk on the side
While you're still walking
Just keep on walking on
Down the street keep your distance
From the people you meet, oh, Lord
And you'd better watch your eyes
'Cause if smoke gets in them
Baby, you won't rise again
So nice to see you coming
Back in this town again
Where's it leading to
Freedom at what cost
People needing more and more
And it's all getting lost
I want back, I want back
Back to the time
When the earth was green
And there was no high walls
And the sea was clean
Don't stop that sun to shine

Laying flat upon my back
All the world in motion
Everything goes by so fast
I feel like I'm frozen
After all is said and done
Did I fail to mention
Everything I haven't done
All my good intentions
This is my holy hour, This is my world on fire
This is my desperate play, This is where I am saved
I've no fear of height or depth
I've no fear of crashing
The single thing I fear the most
Simply feeling nothing
This is my holy hour, This is my world on fire
This is my desperate play, This is where I am made
This is my kingdom come, This is my freedom song
This is my helpless state, This is where I am saved
Let my ruins become the ground you build upon
Let my ruins become the start
Let my ruins become the ground you build it on
From what's left of my broken heart
This is my holy hour, This is my world on fire
This is my desperate play, This is where I am made
This is my kingdom come, This is my freedom song

culture moves the hands of the man
yet scanned in the beginning
who's judgment
the matter was life
who got the hand shake?
the ruins of a culture
still maimed
remember the camps before you were born

Remove the cables from my sins,
Add to the collection of all my things,
She sails away to an unknown land,
And all these words will never be the same,
Take me back to the real world,
Gifts of anger in all of my wasted days,
Get away if the pillars fall,
My wicked ways,
Adapt to all of my conflicts,
Illegal spells are in the air again,
It's a wish so simple and insane,
And all these words will never be the same,
It's all in ruins,
It's all crumbled,
They are ruins,
It's all ruins,

Night's fallen down on this land
Hopes melt away
Like dust in my hand
All the promise a lie
Hearings decay
Like tears in my eyes
Blinded disfigured unanswered cries
There is no place to hide
Innocent children must die
Insanity rules
blood paints the sky
Senseless dictate their minds
They will cry tomorrow
They ain't got no time
Blinded disfigured - unanswered cries
There is no place to hide
Ref:
Ruins They will cry tomorrow
Ruins (Forgive me)
The end of the rainbow so close
A treasure in sight
But so far away
Try to catch a dream
But they'll cry tomorow
They ain't got no time
Blinded disfigured unanswered cries
There is no place to hide
Ref:
Ruins They will cry tomorrow
Ruins Forgive me
Blinded disfigured unanswered cries
There is no place to hide

ruins among laughing dreams... so real
knowledge of a wind so old... whispers through the dark
the taste of haunted words... comes forth
and pleasures a night so violent... and pure insane
statues of stone wandering
wandering among the ruins... among us
a wind through a solitude so dark
it sleeps in a path of anguish blood
thorns of steel cries in a fire of greed
of pain it leaves the day, and takes away
rivers of stone, deserts among... me
statues of of stone wandering

Forces of the doomed land
a battle that got out of hand
to the end they stand
Exaggerated revolution takes your life
Tanks are roaring, the earth quakes
Soldiers march in a good faith
the rage of war they'll face
Hide your face and throw the bottle
flames are burning down your land
From the ruins freedom rises
after everything is lost
In their minds the battle haunts
after the bodies have been counted
and then more will be found
Exaggerated revolution takes your life
Motivation vanished
gunfire pierced their bodies
The enemy will punish
Face to face with the enemy
you aim and it fails
Face to face with the enemy

I'm close enough to know you're near
but not enough to make it real
have I become like all the others here
a ruin in the deepest of all fears
before I had a chance to look
you went and turned your back for good
don't act as if it's understood
when it only takes one look
at the crater where we once stood
I don't know what we will become
I just know that I'm not the one
yeah I know that I'm not the one that you're
looking for
I hope that I can go without
someone else will have to guide you now
that can only break a spirit down
guided by a goal you never found
somewhere in the back looms a kitchen that's
become her own tomb
on the wall I watch the shadow of her figure
floating round the room
'til she hits the lights and is gone from view
I don't know what we will become
I just know that I'm not the one
yeah I know that I'm not the one that you're
looking for
yeah I know that I'm not the one that you're

[Music by Claudio May 2001]

the way i bleed
the way i fought
the way your drink dribbles down your jaw
and with our starry eyes we saw
it isn’t the time and it isn’t the place
offer out a hand for me to take
this is a canopy of shade
underneath it lies our shame
it isn’t the time and it isn’t the place
these are the ruins of a great mistake
the way i lean
the way i walk
the way you trace me with the chalk
and with our sorry eyes we saw
it isn’t the time and it isn’t the place
with a rolled up fist and a blinding rage
this is a graceful looking age
they always said we’d be afraid
it isn’t the time and it isn’t the place
these are the ruins of a great mistake
it isn’t the time and it isn’t the place
these are the ruins of a great mistake
the way i lean
the way i walk
the way i lean
the way i walk
the way i lean
the way i walk
the way i lean

Quiet ruins,
covered with snow,
they keep the legends from ages long ago;
the stones are silent,
but yet they talk,
their words are full of magic, so if you walk alone
do not be frightened
and have no fear,
there´s nothing there to hurt you, nobody´s near;
and if there are whisp´rings
out of the snow
then you are told a holy secret only you must know...
Quiet ruins,
covered with green,
how long have they been standing, what have they seen?
They´re old and rotten,
but full of might,
who would not be craving for knowing who lived inside
the walls, when they were standing,
strong, young and high?
Perhaps kings and queens were born here, or here they
did die...
Nobody knows it,
only the grey wall;
it is the one and only witness who knows it all.
Quiet ruins,
let them dream
and let them stand there in the sunlight´s golden
stream;
their days are over,
so let them rest
and dream forgotten dreams in the grey shadows that
they cast
when summer´s sun is shining;
and when it´s grey
then let the old songs of the kings wash all your tears
away,
and keep your holy secret,
let noone know,
and think about it when you see the ruins in the

Castles fall around my ears
Where is she now
I'm alone in my fears
And I'm crying out loud
Kingdoms fall down
There’s nowhere to hide
I am trapped without you
Too scared to fight.........Without you
And I'll be here
In the ruins
Waiting for you
Come save me
Please hurry
It's getting cold
I'm lying here
I'm oh so scared
And where are you know
I'm not sure
I think Im dying

You know the place where eagles soar
They feel the distance, love the distance
You know the place we used to stand
Together hand in hand
In all these years I never thought
I'd dread the distance, hate the distance
You clipped my wings, oh how I long
To flee the distance, disrespect
Disappointment, disconnect
You hold me back!
I loved the man I dreamed of when I looked into your eyes
But now I know I hate the man you are
Dislocated reasons feed our discontented minds
This dissonance has long turned into warfare
So now I'm
Burning Bridges
Tearing down your towers now
Tearing pages
Burning down the ruins of our life
I fought for you, I bled for you
Rejoiced in all I said to you
Believed you, swallowed every little lie
You tore my feathers one by one
But now you're done, oh now I'm gone
This mutilated bird will learn to fly
But first I'm
Burning Bridges
Seething anger is consumed
Cleansed within the fire of my
Burning bridges
Scoured clean and burned to dust
Wreathed in shadows
I revel in the ashes of my life
The bridge is gone, the path is set
All letters sent, no words unsaid
New chance to soar, new leash on life
Come what may, I know I will survive
Come what may, I know I will survive

Valentine, there's no-one left apart from you an I,
Bandits from the east have squeezed us dry,
And if we should be calm before we lay,
We'll thank our lucky stars for yesterday.
Killin' time, cruising round the ruins in the sun,
Seething blood, embezzled by this gun,
Don't dare make a peep before they go,
Not a shiver, from head to toe.
Stick with me,
Go mad here,
Don't be scared,
I'm here.
Out of the shadows, I'm cutting and screaming,
Protecting your honour, with a shot in my hand,
A number knife gun, I'm cutting and kicking,
The sand of the desert, the eyes of the damned,
I've got nothing to say, I'm fine I'm okay,
I don't having nothing to say, I feel fine I'm okay,
You've gotta run, run, run, run, run,
Don't let them be crying, with the blood in my hands.
Valentine, the ruins are not a place for you to play,
They'll kill you if you come back here again,
The ruins are no place for you to play,
They'll kill you if you come back here again,
Save yourself and run down to the sea,
Find a place to lay and wait for me,
The ruins are no place for you to play
They'll kill you if you come back here again