Fates Warning
[Murray/Harris]
Why is it some of us are destined to stay alive
And some of us are here just so that we'll die
How come the bullet hits the other guy
Do we have to try and reason why
[Chorus]
Be it the Devil or be it him
You can count on just one thing
When the time is up you'll know
Not just one power runs the show
Are we the lucky ones saved for another day
Or they the lucky ones who are taken away
Is it a hand on your shoulder from the Lord above
Or the Devil himself come to give you a shove.
[Chorus]
A volcano erupts and sweeps a town away
A hurricane devastates the cities in its way
The grief and misery for the ones that are left behind
The worst is yet to come a hell to face mankind
Was standing in the darkness
I was watching over you
And all the fears came drifting back
With every little breath you drew
Wished upon a falling star
Cold and pale against the night
And all the fears came drifting back
To cloud the view and steal the light
Was underneath a falling snow
I was lying next to you
And all the fears came floating down
With every little wind that blew
Wished upon a passing cloud
Cold and pale against the gray
And all the fears came floating down
To cloud the view and steal the day
May you never know this darkness
May you never be so blind
May you always know the peace
That I could never seen to find
May you never know this darkness
May you always see the light
May you always know the peace
are you listening
am i here screaming?
drowning in a silent sea
or only dreaming?
drifting in and out
his mind never rests
lying in shadows
replaying a thousand regrets
can you hear me
am i getting through?
a million miles away
or here beside you?
drifting in and out
his heart never forgets
lying in shadows
replaying a thousand regrets
and the minutes just pass
as the hours change
and the shifting sands
slowly rearrange
drifting in and out
his mind never rests
lying in shadows
replaying a thousand regrets
so where do we begin
and what else can we say?
when the lines are all drawn
what should we do today?
I know it's getting late
But I feel I need to explain
All the laughter and the lies
Can't stay the fear or hide the pain
Somewhere along the way
We exchanged our dreams for selfish pride
There was a common goal
But somehow that vision has died
Is it so hard to understand
The facts that YOU ignore
We've grown so tired of trying
Wasting our time criticizing
And nothing's easy anymore
Nothing's easy anymore
Is it too late to understand
The writing that's on the walls
While we watch time slip through our hands
We're deaf to our own demands
When the eleventh hour calls
The eleventh hour calls
And nothing's easy anymore
When the eleventh hour calls
The eleventh hour calls
I know it's getting late
We were born to brave cold weather
Stormy seas in search of treasure
Light you wield must blind another
Doomed to run forevermore.
How much more can I take?
And how much more, 'till I break?
Rain will pour again today
Never-ending daze cascades
Torn inside is there a way
To be freed before I fade
How much longer can I hold?
I'll live no longer in this cold!
Close your eyes, what do you see
Dreams in rhyme with reality
Or life to die in black scenery
Empty shells and what could be.
How much more can I take?
And how much more, 'till I break?
How much longer can I hold?
I'll live no longer in this cold!
In this cold!
I'll live no longer in this, this cold
What lurks behind the minds of men,
The switch is triggered once again.
A silent rage makes the front page
A work of art so neatly done homicide
Cannot decide was it accident was it suicide
She's just a face without a name never made
It home. They found her car down by
The lake the bottom was raked
The news says it's a classic case, she disappeared
Without a trace
A witness reward but nothing is heard but
Run rabbit run, hawk in sky hides in
The sun
Run for you life he'll take it away
Run run run fast away.
Don't look behind you'll stun if you look in his
Eyes
Run for your life he'll take it away
Run run run fast away
Defective unit on the street tonight
He hunts the weak and clips it wings
The moon ignites a flaming raging child
An empty soul is running wild.
He's just a name without a face, hides from
The camera in disguise.
His mother stands by wipes the tears from her eyes.
In an island in the sea rots a mind of seventeen.
[Instrumental]
Enter, young man
Welcome
Cast your dreams, I'll show you what to feel
Walk but keep the road I've paved
Know of nothing else
I, the one to guide your mind
I breed in stealth
I'm your master, soon you'll see
Shape your world what you'll be
Follow me
Or choose to bleed
Read my book, memorize
Disregard your mind
You may see only through my eyes.
Save me someone's come to change me
Mislead, delusions color real
Black and white, they'll never paint me
Never see until you feel
I will keep my own time
What's yours is really mine
I won't let you swallow me
Your doctrines will not shine
Rebellion is your pestilence
I'll never be confined
Forever you shall yield to me
ANARCHY DIVINE!
Save me someone's come to change me
Mislead, delusions color real
Black and white, they'll never paint me
I've watched in silence, without seeing
as a stranger within me grew.
Detached and distanced from the day
while youth's precious years flew.
Chasing time through empty skies
of endless hours,
living for the future.
Visions of brighter days to come
kept the shadows from my sight,
made the present bearable
and obscured the fading light.
Chasing time through the cold void
of solitary days,
living for the future.
Today is within my reach
and tomorrow is so illusive.
But I'm still chasing time
through increasing disillusion,
forever living for
We find ourselves in ruin
and it's come too far, how?
It's no use,
too much allowed and abused.
Worlds apart,
they're excused.
When we've warned
they're amused.
We slip right by, and ignore
this sable scene.
We've lives to live,
it's all for one you see.
Why should we think to care,
won't we soon disappear?
Worlds apart,
they're excused.
Balance waived as we speak.
Praised are those with fashions grand,
self concern leads their plans.
A moment's craze and natural crime
Young warrior to the drunken gallery slave
Running with the wind running wayward knave
I'm a vagabond with a maelstrom mind
My blood has left me behind
So go away leave me alone.
If you look in my eyes you see only stone
I won't let you in I can lock you out,
In your world, your fallacy, I don't want desolate
Isle of debris
Sister Superior, witch is on her winged flight.
Nightmare dream children scream,
Echo Orphanage Hall Tonight
I'm a misconception never had affection
I don't even know my name
Just as well who would know locked in
The closet all day, but I like it here
They leave me alone.
I the sheep, she is the wolf, I must run
Run to the end of the world.
Ophan Gypsy all I'll ever be
Magic for emotion I am free.
Ophan Gypsy all I want to be
Lift your chains from me.
No place to call home, sever my roots from
The earth, eternal exile from day one.
In this lease of life I entered as one
In the end I leave as one.
Not a single word of guile is heard
Come the clouds before the rain.
You've entered my sanctum blasphemed
And caused me pain.
You're a figment of my imagination
I am stone now you know I gave my
Never thought my time was coming
Wasn't in my dreams
Twice I visioned I was falling down,
Down to the ground, I screamed out loud,
Woke on a cloud.
Never really a holy man even though
I understand the father son and Holy Ghost
He's the on that scares me most
Ashes to rain you feel no pain.
Hell fire burns my conscience. My mind explodes
Spine is severed, blood runs cold, confess the
Deepest of sin, invision a king
With a white violin.
Crucifix hung above my death bed begins
To bleed.
Imagination, lunacy, has he come to hear my plea,
Grant absolution condone my sin.
The lady in black I ask what do you see.
A glimpse in your glass what good
Fortune for me.
The lady in black said your lifeline is damned.
The tarot of death card she held in her hand.
Kyrie Eleison. Christe Eleison
Kyrie Eleison. Christe Eleison
Segments of my life flash through my mind
Things never seen.
It must be fate warning me for now
The walls are closing in. Rosary in Hand,
Lost grain of sand.
Here I go I start to fall again.
Try to scream I'm mute it is the
End of my last fall.
To the land of nevermore
Isolation freezes my life, coldness grips my heart
Trapped within a world, a world apart.
Desolate am I, a tempest raging silently.
Lost a barren adrift at sea.
Catatonic state, it sharpens life's depressing edge
The clamor draws me closer to the ledge
As I gaze upon this burning world I curse this life.
A life through which I'm hurled
Lies, lies upon this side and that
Truthless violence deception mourned by the wise.
Thousands of voices drowning out his own
In a popular torrent of lies upon lies
Turn to stone.
So intense the pain that has crawled
From the bleeding corpse of pleasure.
That feeds the worm the writhes
Inside my brain.
In the deep of night it stirs again
In the heart of the sleeper,
From the crack of dawn I wake to curse
The rising of the sun.
Every life is built on hope
Now my dreams have surely passed,
Inner voices haunt my numbered days
Darkness calls me with her laughs
Torn between life and death inertia
Fills my soul.
No will to be nor pride to care
Reapers take your toll.
Strangers cast a menacing glance as
Existence I defy.
Shatter their dream like world I'm not
Afraid to die
Omen bird soars the desert land to the castle
Of idolence, there lies the shadow of a man.
See the colored flowers and marble towers
They fade to brown
Like the unknown inscribed in stone
He's abandoned, abandoned flesh and bones
He's lost in silence swallowed in vastness
Drowned in the depths of a meaningless
So you learn real hard, babe in the woods
Fight for your keep cause
Deep in the dark wolves rip at your
Heart as you lie asleep.
Endangered specie of the megahertz
Follow the yellow brick road, your
Asylum awaits you.
Sign on the dotted line.
Pirates of the underground, mutiny is in the air.
You're the wind in the sails mother ship
Drifters at sea remain to be, till
Land which speaks our tongue is found
On our way cut the tongues of dragons
Breathing fire
Ride the waves through the air down below
The mire.
Preacher man spins backward secret messages
What are you looking for? Something your
Subconscience can devise
Such a sin to disappoint your suspicion
Your force is ours there are no hidden lies
Tuned out in neutral vegetation, prime time
Bleeding hearts howl at the moon.
Foul temptress, oh she sings seduction,
As vultures feast forbidden fruit.
Live an abstract life in your hibernation.
A rude awakening for the underdog typhoon,
Set the thames on Fire.
Climb aboard this man of war
She'll take you far away
I saw YOU once again last night
Through a sea of sullen faces
Admiring eyes following
The path that the spotlight traces
Eye to eye
And the miles still divide
Eye to eye
What was it YOU saw last night
When YOU gave yourself to me
Was it the thread of a common bond
Or the touch of cold reality
Eye to eye
And the miles still divide
We can move each other to tears
But we can't see
Eye to eye
And the miles still divide
Each of us alone in silence
When we meet
Eye to eye
All we can really share
Is the coldness we feel
And the silent memory
Of the moment we met
Eye to eye
And the miles still divide
We can move each other to tears
But we can't see
Eye to eye
And the miles still divide
Each of us alone in silence
When we meet
Eye to eye
And the miles still divide
We can move each other to tears
But we can't see
Through another late night confession
Told to a captive audience
And YOU listen with your ear to the door
Waiting for pearls of wisdom to fall
Like open secrets overheard
Through the cracks in the wall
With calculated candor YOU play the part
Of a trusted confidant
Moving closer for a better view
Looking for more than eyes can see
On the tattered pages
Of an open diary
If YOU want to know
Just what I see
Look at yourself
And don't ask me
And if YOU want to know
Where we're going
Keep your distance
And don't follow me
Like an old friend with nothing left to say
You'll find I'm not who YOU thought I'd be
As YOU contemplate the silence
Waiting for pearls of wisdom to fall
From the still uncertain heart
That beats behind the wall
If YOU want to know
Just what I see
Look at yourself
And don't ask me
And if YOU want to know
Where we're going
Keep your distance
And don't follow me
If YOU want to know
Just what I see
Look at yourself
And don't ask me
And if YOU want to know
Where we're going
Keep your distance
And don't follow me
If YOU want to know
Just what I see
Look at yourself
Feeling the weight of unseen chains
This routine is growing thin
It's a narrow path that we walk
And the walls are closing in
Caving in
Is there room still for us to grow
Within the bounds we've come to know
Beneath the dust of our days
Hides the key to our emotions
And it's been a while since we've been moved
Without going through the motions
No emotions
Is there time still for us to show
Feelings we forgot long ago
Living life in still water
Blinded by what we've become
YOU get tired of screaming
When you're not reaching anyone
I think its time now for YOU to know
Holding on is easier than letting go
Living life in still water
Blinded by what we've become
YOU get tired of screaming
When you're not reaching anyone
Living life in still water
Blinded by what we've become
YOU get tired of screaming
Under brooding skys and watchful eyes
On convulsive seas of false urgency
We walk empty corridors in vain
Born to an air of apathy
Indifference shapes a fragile mind.
Questions formed at an early age
Beg answers unasked
Silent cries
Behind curious eyes resides a child who cannot speak.
Silent cries
Years find a mind alone whose
Questions flow too deep for words.
Covered in a shroud of silence
Watching the world go by
Silent cries
Behind outcast eyes, hides a child who cannot speak.
Silent cries
Time blindly races on
Toward the autumn years
Seasons unheeded pass
While we all drown in tears.
Questions unanswered remain alone
They mourn a fragile mind
Silent cries
Behind lifeless eyes, lies a child who cannot speak.
Silent cries
April thirtieth, the souls of the risen
Are leading the way. The first of May.
Black magic night, witches holiday,
Their torches glow.
Eternal evil, it summons
The lords of hell, just once a year,
Compel and beware the spell of the jackyl.
Can't break the spell,
Won't break the spell,
The spell of the shadowless man.
The witches fornicate, the demons dance,
Blackmass romance.
In hellish praise
Round Brocken they prance,
Their numbers grow.
A harpie chants, fire fountains glow,
Virgin of snow burnt by the torch
Of the one with no shadow.
I saw his face, I've seen him before,
The face of the shadowless man.
As dawn breaks through the trees,
Lonely town falls to their knees,
A solemn belfry begins to toll.
The mass begins sing familiar hymns,
Man in black has his back to the crowd.
Spreads his wings and turns around,
As my heart begins to pound.
Because you, you're the one I
Saw in flight, at Walpurgis Night.
You've betrayed and cursed the light,
At Walpurgis Night.
You're the one I saw in flight,
At Walpurgis Night.
At the setting of the sun.
Because you, you're the one I
Saw in flight, at Walpurgis Night.
You've betrayed and cursed the light,
At Walpurgis Night.
You're the one I saw in flight,
At Walpurgis Night.
[Instrumental]
Talk, talk to me, tell me your secrets
Speak, speak the words I need to hear
Help to conquer this growing fear
And when the winds of change come blowing through
And all the things I thought I needed
Go sailing out of view . . .
Shelter, shelter me
When I need someone to turn to
I turn and I lie within
The light of you
Shelter, shelter me
When I need somewhere to run to
I run and I hide within
The shelter of you
Walk, walk with me through this darkness
Teach, teach me to see the light
Help me to see beyond this night
And when the sunset hides sea from shore
And all the things I thought I needed
Don't mean that much anymore . . .
Shelter, shelter me
When I need someone to turn to
I turn and I lie within
The light of you
Shelter, shelter me
When I need somewhere to run to
I run and I hide within
The shelter of you
With this darkness all around
Tomorrow is hard to see
But I will face this night
Thousands of years,
Before the dawn of history. Ancient races tears,
Are flowing like a river to the sea.
Where sacred river ran,
White deer had roamed the land,
Brilliant twilight in our dreams.
Primitive child,
Your unforgotten tribe calls to you.
Descendants we are one,
The tangled maze is broken once again.
A myth without a meaning,
You shade the light from the seed.
The earth and virgin soil watch it bleed.
The earth and virgin soil.
Red, white, black, in city masses,
Corporate buildings spread like rashes,
Stacked upon each other forty high.
Stabbed each other in the back,
You money-hungry maniacs,
Dig up the earth and spit it in your eye.
To intrude this sacred land,
Where the mortals have been banned,
Where your own forefathers lie in rest.
To disturb this mountain side,
Where in battle we did ride,
And our warriors where they lie,
The earth digest.
Hear our cry from down below,
Let our restive spirits go.
You've trapped us in your world of sin,
Let the plague begin, Damnation.
Your cities disappear,
To earth's interior, don't you know
You've got to let your spirits go, let 'em go.
You've got to let those spirits go.
Let 'em go!
Morrigan you come again
Morgan La Fay, raven on my sill of frost far away from the sea of the setting sun
Island of fire and albatross
Taught so well magic merlin the wizard
Maiden of beauty dressed in rainbow
Come to me
Damon girl daughter of saul queen of the under world...
She'll have us all
Damon girl foul temptress of lust
Peasants to kings your heart surely turn to dust
Damian she's the mortal of man
Lives in your dreams in darkness, reaches out her hand
Come to me
Fata Morgana... She will take you
Hungry scarred harlot hunting another heart
Morrigan fallen angel queen of magic
Kneeling at the widows altar, temptress of my...
She's the widow of my dreams
Far beyond the realm of dream, your wildest dream
Ascend to the plane, an imaginary game to play
Past the golden pillars of the lore to Lemuria
Imagine your queen... take her she's yours
Damian upon her throne mirrored mirage of your desire
Of my desire
Passion slave, her life I gave
Has it been so long
I can't remember what we last talked about
My friend, forgive me
Do you think of me as I think of you
I owe my life to ...
I hold on clutching to the hope that I'll be strong
When it comes down to the wire
I'll hold on to with every ounce of strength within me
When it comes down to the wire
Don't think I've not thought
Of what you mean to me, I do constantly
My friend, forgive me
Do you think of me as I think of you
I owe my life to . . .
I hold on clutching to the hope that I'll be strong
When it comes down to the wire
I'll hold on to with every ounce of strength within me
When it comes down to the wire
My friend, forgive me
Do you think of me as I think of you
I wish it were different
I wish I could take your pain
And now that I've found you
There's a blind desire there's a drive
There's a need to leave some lasting feat
Something to hold, something to keep
A monument to complete
There's a written page there's a book
There's a search for something to say
Something to share, something to speak
A monument to convey
Is it fiction, is it confession
Is it passion or just a profession
Is it performance, is it expression
Is it passion or just an obsession
There's a photograph there's a frame
There's a time, a moment to confine
Something to save, something to see
A monument to enshrine
Is it performance, is it expression
Is it passion or just a profession
Is it fiction, is it confession
Is it passion or just an obsession
There's an empty room there's a blank page
There's a picture left incomplete
Something is lost, something remains
A monument to defeat
Is it fiction, is it confession
Is it passion or just a profession
Is it performance, is it expression
Have you stood at the edge of the world
Where the sea and sky collide
Looked out to a distant horizon
And dreamed of drifting away
Have you stood beneath a troubled sky
And watched the dark clouds gathering
Closed your eyes to the threatening tide
And woke to another day
Feel the cold winds all around you
Let the night circle and surround you
Breath deep the darkness that drowns you
Let your imagination take you
To where your sleepless mind rests
To where your thoughts all run free
To your island in the stream
Where you can dream at the edge of the world
To where your restless minds will sleep
To where our hearts will run free
To our island in the stream
Here I am looking out looking in
My eyes are open my mind's closed tight
I believe I know I need to let go
And I know I'm wrong but I think I'm right
So I shut you out
And hear what I want to hear
And hide in my opinions
Afraid to face my fear
Face the fear
There you are reaching in reaching out
Your arms are open, your heart's closed tight
You believe you know you have to let go
And you think you won't but you know you might
So you close your eyes
And pretend you're no here
And hide in your secrets
Afraid to face your fear
Face the fear
And you close your eyes
I hear what I want to hear
And we hide in our suspicions
Afraid to face the fear
Face the fear
And I shut you out
You pretend you're not here
And we hide in our loneliness
Afraid to face the fear
Face the fear
Here we are looking in reaching out
Together and alone
Facing the fear we're afraid to show
These walls are stained engraved with pain
You will find them under shadows casting shame
Some it's all they'll ever know,
Angels of the fortunate sons come and go...
You may not
Entities pass in the night Guardians and the
Reaper fight the will to live shall win
Mares of hope ride through their dreams blinding light awakens sleeping dawn it seems
It was all a dream endless dream
I will wish upon a star I believe in you
And if my will has strayed afar I rememebered you
Will you remember me
I the one you sentenced Pennance unabsolved
Answer me save my will have you forgotten me
Pace the hallway blindman for a million miles of stars
His mind has seen. think you may he lives in darkness
We're the dark he's seen the light of dream
Karen's been asleep forever I know she hears me
She has so much to say, Machine shoots sparks through face
Unto my hand, unto my heart
I'm a fire without a flame helpless child without a name
With broken wings catch me I'm falling
I'm a question with no answer
Who are you that takes my life away from me
Unveil the bondaries of the black
I had a dream I was you strong as the fire
In your veins then when I called out your
Name I would remain and witness the pain
I am beyond silent black I will be back
As your guardian
Angels in white you have sacrificed witness and bury the pain
Walk hand and hand with the fear stricken child
Strengthen the weak and the lame pillar of pennance and lore
In a time long past tomorrow sleeping in the
castle of the black. In the Leland hills are
the monster tracks of a giant. The darn of
autumn playing in the garden of the rising
sun the children they run in the yard of the
giant. If he awakens he will crush them in the
earth, fear the children inherited at birth.
Thunder clouds close the skys he opened up
his eyes
he's awakened hears the children in his
paradise
You must leave this land forever more or
live behind these iron doors o the darkest
dungeon
So they left with the passing storm
The Gods were awakened they will crush
him in the earth. He is forsaken till he
shares his worth.
Kings queens pirate giants castle walls
dungeon doors
Bound to earth treasures sunken heart to
the ocean floor I will remember knock-
ing on the cold side of your door
Spring came soon to the outside world but
the worth wind whirled through the castle
halls
Children played in the outside sun, frost
giants stayed in the garden walls. Seaons
past locked in winter filled with remorse
his frost bitten heart
Through a crack in the garden wall came
a child with the gift of spring the frost giants
went away
the dawn of autumn came into the garden
of the rising sun
his heart was awakened he was forgiven
then
Always remembered as a giant among men.
there's a cloud above us
and there's a shadow on us
and outside of us
hangs this shade of gray
rain falling
hours crawling
all around this shade of gray
there's a chill about us
and there's a sadness with us
and deep within us
lies this shade of gray
rain falling
hours crawling
all around this shade of gray
this shade of gray
"rain's falling, hours crawling"
this shade of gray
"rain's falling, hours crawling"
there's a space beside us
and there's miles between us
and all around us
grows this shade of gray
rain falling
hours crawling
all around this shade of gray
rain falling
hours crawling
all around this shade of gray
this shade of gray
"rain's falling, hours crawling"
this shade of gray
"rain's falling, hours crawling"
this shade of gray
this certain sadness
this cold morning light
and this silent madness
it hangs in the air
it hangs like a memory
it hangs like a cloud
it hangs on desperately
between dark and light
between was and be
between young and old
between you and me
between you and me
i remember cities
and i remember rain
like the sound of your voice, falling
these memories and more remain
i remember winter
and i remember strain
like the sound of your voice, breaking
these memories and more remain
i remember the nights
and i remember pain
like the sound of your voice, alone
these memories and more remain
so where do we begin
and what else can we say?
when the lines are all drawn
what should we do today?
close our eyes awhile
as morning shadows play
and listen to the rain
wash the long night away
face to face we'll awake
to see another day
and with hope in our hearts
embrace this shade of gray
this pleasant shade of gray
do you think that i, that i remember
do you think that i, that i recall
when you were falling
and i just watched it all?
do you think that i, that i remember
do you think that i, that i recall
when you were breaking
and i just let the pieces fall?
don't you think that i remember
don't you think that i recall
when you were alone, oh all alone
and i didn't hear, hear your call?
call... hear your call, hear your call, hear your call...
[Instrumental]
[Instrumental]
stare from the darkness
hear the silence call?
devise divisions, delay decisions,
watch the hours crawl and...
let nothing bleed into nothing
and do nothing?
let nothing bleed into nothing
and do nothing at all?
recite soliloquies
to shadows on the wall?
revise revisions, reverse decisions
watch our heros fall and...
let nothing bleed into nothing
and do nothing?
let nothing bleed into nothing
and do nothing at all?
"i want you to do me a favor..."
"i want you to get a gun...and just shoot me! shoot me!"
let nothing bleed into nothing
and do nothing?
let nothing bleed into nothing
and do nothing at all?
let nothing bleed into nothing
and do nothing?
let nothing bleed into nothing
and do nothing at all?
i know that i don't know you
and you couldn't know me
but time and space collided
and here we are, here we are
i know that you don't understand
and i can't explain
but circumstance conspired
and here we are, here we are
"the time is four nineteen..."
"time flies..."
"???"
"the answer is no..."
and i know we can't turn back all the years
time reflected in a shade of gray
but i often wonder what could have been
and i still hold on to yesterday
and i know we're not children any more
innocence lost in a sea of gray
but i often wonder what else could be
and i still dream of running away
so where do we begin
and what else can we say?
when the lines are all drawn
what should we do today?
murdered in munich
crucified in rome
was killing time
on the long road home
let nothing bleed into nothing
and did nothing
let nothing bleed into nothing
and did nothing at all
withered in winter
wished away the night
was out of mind
while out of sight
let nothing bleed into nothing
and did nothing
let nothing bleed into nothing
and did nothing at all
let nothing bleed into nothing
and did nothing
let nothing bleed into nothing
and did nothing at all
watched the days just pass
as the seasons changed
and the shifting sands
slowly rearranged
but i will not eulogize
i won't apologize
i will not defend
anymore, anymore
i will not dramatize
i won't soliloquize
i will not pretend
anymore, anymore
stayed up late last night
lying here in bed
looking for words
to say the things i left unsaid
wind at my window
whispers to me instead
and i lie alone
writing letters in my head
where you are, i am
through nights that never end
where you are, i am
in words i'll never send
walked alone last night
cold streets of could be anywhere
looking for words
to share the thoughts i could not share
road at my heels
takes me away instead
and i walk alone
writing letters in my head
where you are, i am
through streets that never end
where you are, i am
in words i'll never send
where you are, i am
through nights that never end
where you are, i am
in words i'll never send
never, never send
stayed up late last night
lying here in bed
still looking for words
still writing letters in my head
listen
only us breathing
and the rain keeping time
dividing the silence
in a distant thunder
listen
only hearts beating
and the rain keeping time
measuring out the minutes
and taking us under
[Verse 1:]
Girl if I didn't have a plan
Could I be your man still
And if you couldn't watch cable
Would you be able to understand
And if I couldn't buy you diamond rings
Take you out and things
Or do nothing special
Would you deal
Would stick around and chill
Would you keep it real
Tell me
[Chorus]
Would you be here if I had nothin
Would you be here if I was strugglin
If I had nothin
Would you be here at any cost
Would you be here if I didn't have a boss
At any cost
Would you be here to pay the rent
Would you be here no benefits
Girl if that was it
Would you be here if I gave up
Straight outta luck
Would you give a what
[Verse 2:]
Girl if all hope was gone
We didn't have a phone
Would you stay at home with me
How long would you stay by my side
If I applied
And wasn't qualified, babe
What if I was finish
And you should do nuthin else with it
Would you forget it
Girl do you swear to tell the whole truth
Nothing but the truth
I'm listen baby
[Chorus:]
Would you be here if I had nothin
Would you be here if I was strugglin (if I was stugglin)
If I had nothin (if I had nothin)
Would you be here at any cost
Would you be here if I didn't have a boss
At any cost
Would you be here to pay the rent
Would you be here no benefits (no benefits)
Girl if that was it
Would you be here if I gave up
Straight outta luck
Would you give a what
[Hook 1:]
The day may come
When things ain't going to good
So for my sake I gotta be sure
Who I'm choosing is all the way with it
And outta line
I don't want to get caught in sticky situations
Girl
You'll never know you might not be so cold you might get a little older
[Chorus 2x]
Would you be here if I had nothin
Would you be here if I was strugglin
If I had nothin
Would you be here at any cost
Would you be here if I didn't have a boss
At any cost
Would you be here to pay the rent
Would you be here no benefits
Girl if that was it
Would you be here if I gave up
Straight outta luck
Would you give a what
[Hook 2:]
What if I was ugly
And struggling
And crummy
Would ya love me
If I was grungy
A little dingy
Would you still be with me
If I was ugly
And struggling
A little bummy
Would ya still love me
If I was crummy
And stuggly
Would you hug me
[Repeat Chorus]
I. INNOCENCE
(Instrumental)
II. COLD DAZE
The coldness of confusion
hangs in the morning air as
Brazen bells ring reality
To announce the conqueror dawn
Removed from nights fleeting trance
Plunged headlong into cold days
Where in a circle we wander
The barren wastes of our pasts.
III. DAYLIGHT DREAMERS
Daylight dreamers awaken on
Deserts of desperation
Lonely lives learn to live on
Islands of isolation.
Surrounded by violent oceans
of hate and hopeless sorrows
Daylight dreamers envision
tranquil seas in safe tomorrows.
Dreaming through the darkened day
Along tempest torn strands
Desperately grasping the grains
of hope that flit through our hands
As they fall we tighten our hold
While the waves claim the final few
taken without ceremony
They drift out of view.
Washed away with the tides of time
Slipped through our fingers as dreams do.
IV. Quietus
From sleeping visions
Daily were torn
In waking hours
Hopes our forlorn.
Is all we do and all we dream
doomed to drown in a hopeless stream?
Wishing life were made of lasting visions
in eternal sleep
And if that rest were filled with sorrow
still we'd sleep.
In the madness of a silent eternity
We'd find solace in
False visions that protect us
from reality.
Enter ivory gates through midnight skies
Daylight dreamers in private parades
Perform before perpetual dawn
As dusk engulfs the gate of horn.
Ivory towers appear beyond the gate
Invisible fortresses of escape
Traversed by ramparts made of hopes and fears
Impervious to reality.
V. Ivory Tower
Behind sullen doors
Untouched within
Sale from summer storms
and winter winds
Relentless tempests
Can weaken walls
Towers falter when
reality calls.
Untouchable by all without
Lost in the silken web youth may weave
Tangled threads seem a stronghold
But illusions can deceive
A cold daze plagues the air
Driven by aging winds
The walls give way to the rush
and let reality.
VI. Whispers on the wind
Misty morning on windswept plain
Embers of a fortress all that remain.
The seeds of life that burned within
have flown like whispers on the wind.
From the sleepers world
I look toward darkening skies.
Through the violet haze of summer storms
The sun leaves tired eyes.
VII. Acquiescence
Betrayed by innocence
Deceived by delusions
Plagiarized promises
Pale into empty hopes.
Ivory towers bow down
In reverence to daylight
As dreamers awaken
In sleepers somber shade.
Ocean Waves shift leaving
only memories.
Final traces of hope
are swallowed in the deep.
Despair sends a certain calm
A vague sense of relief
released from all our longings
Silently we'll sleep.
Hope leads to quiet desperation
When reality obscures the dream
Makes the mind a grave of memories
That wander like the lonely breeze
Whose whispers echo through ruins rust
of towers torn and dreams turned to dust.
VIII. Retrospect
Air currents grind, monotony.
Image defined, static scene.
Adherents bent opinionless
following scent of commoness.
Fit the latest rage,
whatever stains the page.
Then fears allayed,
of lonely shade.
Wheels, they grind... industry.
Insipid finds, out of key.
Opinions bent toward standard waves,
bleaching out divergent shades.
Mock integrity.
Veiled hypocrisy.
Ironic finds,
when selves decried.
Ban expressiveness.
Bold repressiveness
dictated by minds closed tight
and walls that shut out light,
We're walking within a shadow
Where echoes of different times resound
Looking for memories to relive
In yesterdays that can't be found
Through different eyes we keep looking for what we lack
Changing minds take us away, and you can't go back
And staring into ageless eyes
That shared secrets too dark for light
We're searching for old bonds in places
That lie forever out of sight
Through different eyes we keep looking for what we lack
Changing minds take us away and you can't go back
To different times or ageless eyes, free from sorrow
Changing hearts will hide the past from tomorrow
Through different eyes we try to find
People and places we've left behind
Through different eyes we keep looking for what we lack
Changing minds take us away, and you can't go back
To different times or ageless eyes, free from sorrow
Changing hearts will hide the past from tomorrow
Through different eyes we keep looking for what we lack
Changing minds take us away, and you can't go back
Today was the end of a dream
As I watched your shadow disappear
Another moment for the memory
As we lose another year
Thought I heard You call my name
But YOU only said goodbye
Always somewhere we only say goodbye
Going nowhere
We only say goodbye
There's never time to say
All the things we need to say
When it's too late
We can only say goodbye
Tonight I felt your presence again
As we shared the sorrow we've always known
But I heard the distance in your voice
And I knew I was alone
Tried to tell YOU my deepest thoughts
But I only said goodbye
Always somewhere we only say goodbye
Going nowhere
We only say goodbye
There's never time to say
All the things we need to say
When it's too late
We can only say goodbye
Across the miles
Both of us reaching we try
But it's so hard to touch
When we only say goodbye
Always somewhere
We only say goodbye
Going nowhere
We only say goodbye
There's never time to say
All the things we need to say
When it's too late
We can only say goodbye
Always somewhere
We only say goodbye
Going nowhere
We only say goodbye
There's never time to say
Bedroom mirrors do tell who's the fairest of them all
Lime light silhouette transparent attic walls
Dancing shadows cascade paper walls
Wailing ghost guitars send in the clowns
Painted plastic faces stealing mommies make up
Masque the false gods with mannequin smiles
Prima donnas play upon their pedestal of fame
Unborn girls false fascade illegitamate child
I won't play your game
Blasphemous black bible bias you betray bigotry
Slay the hydra prety fair maidens spread leprocy
Hungry children feed from hype of perpetual ego's
I slay the hydra, burn the talisman, holocaust
Run with the pack illegitimate child the unborn wench at war.
Tear him inside she became a bride wedlock to a whore.
Shatter the dream the tangerine dream bow to kings not queens.
Back where you reign rule your domain Valley of the Dolls!
Bow to kings of yesterday they have given you wings to fly away,
What have the phantom queens but deceived you
Army of shadows climbing silvery mountains lineing molton and ask kiss my
Camouflage the battle scars with oxy ten and maybelline
Cloning the hero's in hype magazine
Sometimes when this place gets kind of empty,
Sound of their breath fades with the light.
I think about the loveless fascination,
Under the milky way tonight.
Lower the curtain down in memphis,
Lower the curtain down all right.
I got no time for private consultation,
Under the milky way tonight.
Wish I knew what you were looking for.
Might have known what you would find.
Wish I knew what you were looking for.
Might have known what you would find.
And its something quite peculiar,
Something thats shimmering and white.
Leads you here despite your destination,
Under the milky way tonight
(chorus)
Old man time, Wisdom and Rhyme
Seeker of reason, reaper of time
Born to a spell he walks the beaten path
To hell, rusty shackles of time burden his mind
Once on his side time turns to defy.
In a flash of the lightning he's come and gone.
The clock strikes the hours, he climbs to the belfry
As he's done a thousand hours before.
Many dark years, not a vacant hour through
War and fear had the bell been ever strayed,
Hypnotized rhythmic pendulum synchronized
With the beat of the old man's heart.
Man or machine he's living a dream
Forever the clock lives so does he
Faces below fade with seasons of long ago
Forever awake in his brass bed.
Who holds the key.
It's all a matter of time, is there reason
Or Rhyme - is there?
Traveler in time another left
Behind - you are
Tangled in the web of time you've
Swallowed the pill of illusion.
Writings so clear on the wall you
Waste in seclusion
Mirror reflects the mark of the crowfoot
In his eyes now he realize.
Nearing his hour he climbs to the belfry
As he's done a thousand hours before
Moon of blue is in the sky
West wind he whispers why
Sacrifice living for life his perpetual vice
Lonely win blows through his empty soul.
He cries a river of tears on the clock below
Nothings forever and time will tell
The more I try
The more I feel I'm missing
The more I run
The more my feet keep slipping
The more I think
The more I tend to worry
The more I look
I see my thoughts before me
And I dream of a strand
As I struggle on the waves
And I see the end of a passing day
As I see the strand
In the corners of my mind
Windows offer the view
Of a coming day
The more I stretch
The more these walls confine me
The more I beg
The less it all seems likely
The more I mind
The matter that surrounds me
The more I find
My thoughts before me
Drifting on an open sea
Shipwrecked clinging to broken beams
Waters to my neck
I strain to catch my breath
Drifting in the boundaries
I've built up deep within me
Waters to my neck
I strain to catch my breath
I'm tired of treading again
I search alone, dark the night,
Deep the blackest forest,
Down the devil's hopyard on my way from Salem I lit a fire
Magical brimstone sparks ashes from the hazel wood
Dancing with the banshee, fire rose up to the sky.
The dead of night parts the sky,
The Salem witch hunting eyes Malefica spells
She soars the ocean shore of Kildare
Over tombs of the harpy fields
Ride the great beast abandoned girls
Lonely girls ride the great beast
Virginal goddess of Hunt Diana
Through the Brocken Spectre rose a lureing
Angel
Sister of Morgana, forever dressed in black
Journey through the witch trials learned of lore
And wives tales
We fathomed the deepest oceans o her darkest mind
Searching lands of giants and dragons sail the oceans of serpents and krakens
Under ages of dark the Salem witch
Burned beneath mindless torture of men through the castles of demons and wizards
Cast to their fate the Moerea the sisters
Two hundred fifty thousand the Salem witch
In the bog of the Witch Meadow run
Malifica revenge plague have begun
Burned alive for a crim never done
Children of the darkness dance on the coven of the lost
In blazing pyre suspended in air she demands holocaust
She can exorcise with the whites of her eyes
She'll devour your children, in a wink of an eye,
Descend from the sky to the cauldren of the damned.
Her burning lips urned the infamous kiss
She took me by the hand
In a wink of your eye she ascends to the sky
Its so cold in the shadow of distant lights
And the chilling wind slows our pace and tests our will
Still a voice whispers it will be over soon
And there we find the courage to climb the hill
Sometimes I lose sight of where I'm going
Fanned by a flame I can't remember
But distant lights still burn bright
And the road goes on forever
Year after year with renewed ambition
We scale the walls to find there's nothing there
Still idle hands clutch the empty page
With the passion of a desperate prayer
Sometimes I lose sight of where I'm going
Fanned by a flame I can't remember
But distant lights still burn bright
And the road goes on forever
And here we are again
The doors close behind us
And the road goes on and on and on and on...
Sometimes I lose sight of where I'm going
Fanned by a flame I can't remember
But distant lights still burn bright
And the road goes on forever
A cry shivers the night, a voice in agony
That shrieks above the trees.
In a land where no one comes
In a land where spirits dwell,
Hear their fatal screams.
The old man clutches his heart
As he looks to the window,
He knows his time has come.
Woman stands in the dark,
Her hair is white with the snow
Nightmares just begun.
Fates Warning is heard,
Run shivers up and down the spine
Of those who believe.
The old and decrepit have seen,
They mourn in the night,
Young and restless can't conceive
Moon looks through the drifting storm,
Thunder cracks the sky,
She screams throughout the night.
The laughing magpie spreads his wings,
And looks you in the eye,
And laughs at you in spite.
Spirits of innocence take me away.
Dancing her pitiful ritual,
She's stalking her prey.
The bard and the banshee
Sound a harmonious wail.
Predestined hour has come.
Let it come.
The old man wakes with the dawn,
Sweat upon his brow, he casts the spell,
Father O'Reilly found in the moors,
The people mourn, hear the church's bell.
Moon looks through the drifting storm,
Thunder cracks the sky, and she screams, YEAH!
The laughing magpie spreads his wings,
And looks you in the eye, and laughs, HA-HA!
The spirits of innocence take me away
Dancing her pitiful ritual,
She's stalking her prey.
She's coming your way
The bard and the banshee
Sound a harmonious wail.
Predestined hour has come.
When the stars are right and you're alone
Take a journey, lock the world tight
Out of your mind.
The hall beckons your presence, the doors
Open wide you're to decide to turn back.
Deep the bowels of this black abyss.
Compelled I just can't resist it, take me
Take me away take me away
I wanna know what's deep within
Take me away
Drawing near someone passes through me,
A silent entity never looking back I won't dare
Evil eyes staring through he walls of stone
As I feared I travel not alone.
Laughter's echoes with the blatant wind
I have passed the threshold deep within me
A voice of thunder said turn back
Tabernacle is forbidden
No mortal dares to enter here
I want to know
Flame is burning center of a fountain yearning, waters
Spring eternal, spiritual water physical fire
Above center is sky, cold neverness
Just vastness filled with stars upon stars
In the four corners of life are the golden mirrors
Reflecting what you are and what you are to be
In the first is a young boy white dove in
His hand, in the second is a warrior in armor
In the third is the old man gold watch
In his hand fourth and last
No reflection at all
No reflection at all
No reflection at all
Waters rise toward physical fire, voice says
Tabernacle is forbidden never looking back I don't dare
If the water touches the flame
Forever in darkness yes I'll remain.
White dove flies from the young boys hand
Something in me
I don't understand, a demand
A threatening voice
With a firm command
A liar, a danger
A killer, a stranger
Yeah, I guess that's me
I will extol you
I will control you
I will pick you up
Just to let you down
I will desire you
I will tire of you
I will pull you in
Just to see you drown
Someone in me
I don't recognize, a disguise
A faint reflection
With far away eyes
A liar, a danger
A killer, a stranger
Yeah, I guess that's me
I will extol you
I will control you
I will pick you up
Just to let you down
I will desire you
I will tire of you
I will pull you in
Just to see you drown
I will extol you
I will control you
I will pick you up
Just to let you down
I will desire you
I will tire of you
I will pull you in
I had so much to say
But no words to speak
The feelings were strong
But I was only weak
So there we were again
Tragic and absurd
Choking on every line
And every final word
A few pages from an old diary
A dusty shelf, an unread history
All these words and memories
Are all of you that's really left for me
And a fading memory
Can't cloud the pain
When the voice is gone
The words still remains
And the years that fall away
Can't stop the rains
When illusion's gone
The truth still remains
A few lines from life's long soliloquy
A dying voice in one part harmony
All these words and memories
Are all of you that's really left for me
And a fading memory
Can't cloud the pain
When the voice is gone
The words still remains
And the years that fall away
Can't stop the rains
When illusion's gone
The truth still remains
A final moment of clarity
A touch, a look, a last apology
All these words and memories
Are all of you that's left for me
And a fading memory
Can't cloud the pain
When the voice is gone
The words still remains
And the years that fall away
Can't stop the rains
When illusion's gone
The truth still remains
Where is the way
Where is direction
The ever open arms
Of over protection
Where is the hope
Where is laughter
The wild winter dreams
Of happy ever after
Deep in the night
Underneath the darkest skies
Searching for some sign or some distant light
Searching yet unheard
Repeating every line
And every final word
They remain, they remain
You still remain
All these words and memories
And everything you were to me
They remain, they remain
You still remain
And here I am again
Tragic and absurd
Repeating every line
Some things burden me
These thoughts cut deep
Sometimes I feel
Sometimes I see
I won't close my eyes
I won't look away
We've chased our dreams
We've had our way
Stood here so long
I've forgotten what I was even looking for
Nothing changes
It's all the same if nothing changes, changes
I thought I never needed
Everything I knew was wrong
I never thought I needed so much
I thought I never needed
Everything I knew was wrong
I never thought I needed more
Standing alone
I see what I was looking for, for so long
It's not where I am
It's everywhere I've been and where I'm going
I thought I never needed
Everything I knew was wrong
I never thought I needed so much
I thought I never needed
Everything I knew was wrong
I never thought I needed more
Take.... take from nothing
Take.... take from everything
Take.... take from nothing
Make it, make it, make it something
So it's more, so much more than I need
So much more, so much more
I thought I never needed
Everything I knew was wrong
I never thought I needed so much
I thought I never needed
Everything I knew was wrong
Little soldier, plastic pistol
Aiming for the head.
Now you see me, now you don't.
You missed me, you're dead.
Laughing, hiding in the bushes,
Scatter for your life.
Little soldier tripped and fell,
Get him with your knife.
Electric eye is loaded,
It shows them it's okay to kill.
They eventually will.
Mother calls you in for lunch,
Put the war on hold.
Too rough to play with other kids,
How many times you've been told.
Laugh at pain it's silly.
He'd make the soldiers bleed.
Break the flesh, twist the bone,
Bring them to their knees.
You don't throw stick and stone,
You leave the little girls alone she said, leave them
Alone.
First sight of blood at ten,
Fell off the swing and cracked his head, it's all red.
A still and quiet conscience,
Regardless of their doom,
The victims play, they're on their way,
Soldier Boy.
No sense they have, of ills to come.
Nor care beyond ills of today,
They've lost their way, Soldier Boy.
Playgrounds into battle fields,
Diapers into greens and stripes,
Mold plastic into steel, the war is real,
The solders fight tonight.
Little solder falls once more,
Sees red glow like the sun.
Mother calls him back to
Arlington, in Washington.
You don't throw stick and stone,
You leave the little girls alone she said, leave them
Alone.
First sight of blood at ten,
Fell off the swing and cracked his head, it's all red.
A still and quiet conscience,
Regardless of their doom,
The victims play, they're on their way,
Soldier Boy.
No sense they have, of ills to come.
Nor care beyond ills of today,
Feeling so strong
I feel so inspired
Like a man with all the words
I could move the world
If I weren't so tired
So, so tired
So, so tired
Feeling so proud
I feel so admired
Like a man on a stage
I could play the part
If I weren't so tired
So, so tired
So, so tired
Tired of mind
And all I think
Tired of thirst
And all that I drink
Tired of will
And all that I need
Tired of body
And all that I bleed
Tired of breath
And all that I breathe
Tired of heart
And all that I grieve
Tired of sight
And all that I see
Tired of you
And tired of me
Feeling so full
Nothing desired
Like a man with everything
I should be happy
But I'm only tired
So, so tired
So, so tired
Stand right there man
I can see right through you
Make me understand
The mind within my head
Yeah, I am a simple human like you
Yeah, I am a simple human too
Speak what's on your mind
A simple thought, a reason
Some self righteous blind
Deconstructive thinking
I want to rip it away
I want to tear the walls down
Don't be afraid
You can't feel anything
Yeah, I am a simple human like you
Yeah, I am a simple human too
We're all caught
It's like a giant tangled web
We're all trapped going nowhere
Now you know, now you know
Yeah, I am a simple human like you
Yeah, I am a simple human too
Yeah, I am a simple human like you
If there isnt light when no one sees
Then how can I know what you might believe?
A story told that cant be real
Somehow must reflect the truth we feel, yeah
Fade away, fade away
Vanish into small
Fade away, fade away
Break the crystal ball - oh!
Its the sign
Feels like the time!
On a small world, west of wonder
Somwhere, nowhere all
Theres a rainbow that will shimmer
When the summer falls
If an echo darts in dancer
When it hears a certain song
Then the beast is free to wander
But never is seen around
And its the sign of the southern cross
Its the sign of the southern cross
All right
Sail away
To the sign
From the book, the word is spoken
Whispers from forgotten psalms
Gather all around the young ones
They will make us strong
Reach above your dreams of pleasure
Given life to those who died
Look beyond your own horizons
Sail the ship of signs
And its the sign of the southern cross
Its the sign of the southern cross
Fade away, fade away
Break the crystal ball
Fade away, fade away
I cant accept it anymore
On a real world, west of wonder
Somwhere, nowhere all
Theres a rainbow, see it shimmer
When the summer falls
From the book, the word is spoken
Whispers from forgotten psalms
Gather all around the young ones
They will make us strong!
Its the sign of the southern cross
Its the sign of the southern cross
Dont live for pleasure
Make life your treasure
Fade away!
Eight miles high, about to fall
And no one there to catch you
Look for the sign, the time
By black we ride, or so they say
Our need for reason, there greed is paid
Powers rumble for spiritual sway
Paths are laid then leaders stray
It's right then left, witch way to turn
Follow me or forever burn
We evil blessed, bring your soul to sell
All wish away into empty wells
Fortunes found in holy halls
Redeem your every fault
When dogmas given are blindly held
And treasures given caught
Any wish can only last
Until the spell's descried
While subtle, wicked ways
Fracture weakened minds
Slaves of a different kind march to broken bells
Freedom in a bind and make it all sound well
Blackened blue etched in glass forming outer walls
Tell clearly of the emptiness and mute distressful calls
Lines lead to dead ends where
Plays seen are never clear
And those who ride never fare
Crowned voids forever rule
In worlds lived and learned of fools
They laughed at their god
And fought him in vain
So he turned his back on them
And left them in pain
Now here come the saints
With their banners held hig
Each one of them martyrs
Quite willing to die
Wake the dead, the saints are in Hell
Wake the dead, they've come for the bell
Cover your fists
Razor your spears
It's been our possession
For eight thousand years
Fetch the scream eagles
Unleash the wild cats
Set loose the king cobras
And blood sucking bats
Wake the dead, the saints are in hell
Wake the dead, they've come for the bell
We are saints
In hell
We are saints
In hell
We're going down
Into the fire
We're going down
Into the fire
The streets run with blood from the mass mutilation
As carnage took toll for the bell
Abattoir, abattoir, mon
Dieu quelle horreur
For a time is was like second hell
Saints in Hell
Saints in Hell
The battle is over, the saints are alive
How can we all thank you, we felt so despised
Saints in Hell
Saints in Hell
Saints in Hell
Saints in Hell
Saints in Hell
Her, with her loving eyes
Her, with her open arms
A shelter in the night
As we drift into sleep
A soothing voice singing
River wide ocean deep
Her, with her vacant eyes
Her, with her withered arms
A vague promise of rain
Overhead storm clouds creep
A distant voice thundering
River wide ocean deep
Her, with her wild eyes
Her, with her clutching arms
A tempest pouring down
A flood no wall can keep
A drowning voice crying
River wide ocean deep
The ties that bind are the ties we keep
And she cried river wide ocean deep
The ties that bind are the ties we keep
Part IV of "The Ivory Gate Of Dreams."
From sleeping visions
Daily were torn
In waking hours
Hopes our forlorn.
Is all we do and all we dream
Doomed to drown in a hopeless stream?
Wishing life were made of lasting visions
In eternal sleep
And if that rest were filled with sorrow
Still we'd sleep.
In the madness of a silent eternity
We'd find solace in
False visions that protect us
From reality.
Enter ivory gates through midnight skies
Daylight dreamers in private parades
Perform before perpetual dawn
As dusk engulfs the gate of horn.
Ivory towers appear beyond the gate
Invisible fortresses of escape
Traversed by ramparts made of hopes and fears
Look to sunrise man tell me what you see
The eagle has flown underground abandoned
You abonded me
Fifty two falling stars are burning up the sky
Blazing torch falls to the ocean bottom where
Black predictions lie
Have you faith in scripture visions of kings
Reaper of reality your destiny the sisters sing
Vultures scavenge the subsconsious of your mind
Their ally is time for you to fall and yield
Your mind to the cynic
They should be held so high and not looked down upon
They are the root of the country.
The roots so firm and tranquil, when will the spirits be welcomed,
Listen the music is heard again.
When there are lofty high roof tops carved walls and yielding crops
When the palace is wild for lusting.
When the forest if wild for hunting.
Existance of anyone thing has never been but the prelude to ruin
Wars and temper tantrums are the make-shifts of ignorance
Regrets illuminate to late. Depth beyond sin is fathomed
Wandering through the devils field sowing his seed
Guardian angel guide us through the night we compel
His long constant fight. the moerea they call your destiny the sisters all of three.
Clotho she spun the web to live the thread so tentative.
Lachesis she measured out the years.
Atropos cuts the thread with her shears.
Time Time Time an imaginary line mine not yours nor yours mine
They lead the blind back to mothers womb tomb of the unborn child
Coming events cast their shadows before wintery wind the eye of the storm witness the past the future
Looking out on a familiar scene
There's no agreement in what we see
Your perception lacks clarify
And my perspective is blinding me
Side by side
Divided they stand
Parallel lives running parallel with YOU
To the point where our horizons divide
My opinion is just a point of view
And your position is the other side
Caught up in our convictions we forget
How our senses distort things we see
We can't accept our differences
But we can always disagree
Side by side
Divided they stand
Parallel lives running parallel with YOU
To the point where our horizons divide
My opinion is just a point of view
And your position is the other side
Where I stand is not so far from YOU
A different opinion is just another point of view
Parallel lives running parallel with YOU
To the point where our horizons divide
My opinion is just a point of view
And your position is the other side
Parallel lives running parallel with YOU
To the point where our horizons divide
My opinion is just a point of view
And your position is the other side
Parallel lives running parallel with YOU
To the point where our horizons divide
My opinion is just a point of view
I'm lying broken under jagged pieces
Of burned out bridges
Suffocating I can't breathe
No direction
I'm scattered in the breeze
Living on memories
Everywhere I look
As far as I can see
Broken promises, broken promises
Pieces of me...
I'm drowning, choking
Falling deeper into this
Black hole we call living
And I can't breathe
No connection
I scattered in the breeze
Living on memories
Everywhere I look
As far as I can see
Broken promises, broken promises
Pieces of me...
All that I remember now
Are people and shadows
Everywhere I look
As far as I can see
Broken promises, broken promises
Staring, silent, naked and cold
Outside looking in
Peeling away this fragile shell
To face the fear within
And the man in the mirror looks on
As the cuts begin
Outside looking in
Getting over my fears and under my skin
Tearing myself apart
To feel whole again, outside looking in
Running, tired, tortured and torn
Outside looking in
Clawing away these open scars
To heal the wounds within
And the man in the mirror looks out
As he reaches in
Outside looking in
Getting over my fears and under my skin
Tearing myself apart
To feel whole again, outside looking in
Too many things left undone
Too late to turn back
I could change course before the end
But when all is said and done
All I really want
Is a chance to start again
Staring, silent, naked and cold
Outside looking in
Feeling my way through this wilderness
For a place to begin
And the man in the mirror reaches out
Under the spotlight
I feel our world becoming one
Around me I feel
Everything we are everything we see
I'll take a part of you
You take a part of me
Knowing at a glance
Where we all stand
Searching for another chance
To make us all one
Above the staring eyes
I sense that we are one
Knowing, showing
Everything we are everything we see
I'll take a part of you
You take a part of me
Knowing at a glance
Where we all stand
Searching for another chance
To make us all one
After the fading lights
I felt that we were one
I know I need
Everything we are everything we see
I took a part of you
You took a part of me
Knowing at a glance
Where we all stand
Searching for another chance
He was the sun of champion,
A proud Olympian.
Taught his boy all the tricks
He'd ever need to win.
The games were fierce as battle,
Not for ordinary man.
A man born of royal blood
Must live by sword in hand.
This one not so lucky,
As he fell to his knees.
Suddenly inflicted,
Deranged with disease.
His father act with fury,
You must not scorn his name.
Cast him to the forest,
Return never again.
The nights cold and darkened
As the boy turned into man.
Took shelter in the jackyl's den,
The cave Tartarean.
Confronted by the serpent
Now your soul belongs to me.
For your health and strength,
Sell your soul and you'll go free.
Eager to accept the bribe,
For revenge in his mind.
Dawn reflect from the blade,
The forest left behind.
His strength grew with every stride,
He was healthy as an ox.
No one would stop him.
You live by the sword,
And die by the sword.
Avenge everyone in your way.
Condemning a Misfit
For innocence his sin.
His blade will avenge you someday.
He's a Misfit.
He's a Misfit.
Defeating every wild beast
And swordsman in the ring.
Victor of the main event
Wed daughter of the king.
He glances to the throne
Where sits the royal regime.
The king who cast the misfit died,
His father reigned supreme.
The charge begins, first pass is made
The serpent's face revealed.
Time has come to meet his fate,
The bribe kept concealed.
He casts his blade with vengeance
And pierced his father's soul.
Satan would take him.
You live by the sword,
And die by the sword.
Avenge everyone in your way.
Condemning a Misfit
For innocence his sin.
His blade will avenge you someday, oh no.
He's a Misfit.
Left Here long ago
Was passing through the years
I was waiting for the day
Chasing a distant star
While the sun just slipped away
Lost my way long ago
Was running in circles
I was drifting through the night
Tracing a fading star
Moving slowly out of sight
Lost my way back then
Now it seems I'm lost again
I left here long ago
Was someone else back then
I left here long ago
Now I'm leaving again
I lost my way long ago
Was somewhere else back then
Lost my back then
And now I'm lost again
Everything changes
Everyone moves apart
Left Here long ago
Now I'm staring into space
As my thoughts drift back to you
I'm facing a falling star
Moving swiftly out of view
Left Here way back then
Now I'm leaving again
I left here long ago
Was someone else back then
I left here long ago
Now I'm leaving again
I lost my way long ago
Was somewhere else back then
Lost my back then
And here we are again the door is closed behind us
And the long road lies ahead
Where do we go from here
It's time to make a change
Lets trace the problem to its source
No more riding the waves
On a river that's run its course
I stood at the door to a new beginning
Two choices before me and I was afraid
Leave the past behind
The long road lies ahead
Bury your pride and say goodbye
Leave the past behind
Tied to a fading memory
Of something lost in time
Afraid to make the change
Scared to leave the past behind
I stood at the door to a new beginning
The future called and frightened I turned away
Leave the past behind
The long road lies ahead
Close your eyes, forget the fear
Leave the past behind
We stand at the door to a new beginning
Two choices before us don't be afraid
Leave the past behind
The long road lies ahead
Close your eyes, forget the fear
Leave the past behind
Leave the past behind
The long road lies ahead
Close your eyes, forget the fear
High priest, the man you look for
Prays in the garden tonight, tonight.
Conceived by immaculate conception,
King Nazareen creator of light.
Healing cripples,
Gives sight to the blind,
Transforms himself,
He's not of our kind.
I know this begot by a kiss,
He knows not that he's been defied.
Demon lords won't you ride with me,
Mount your horse to Gethsemane.
Judas Iscariot, money man and thief of Judah
Tell me haven't you dined with the man
And preached with him in Galilee.
You deny being one of the twelve,
You wish to trade your king for gold.
Thirty silver pieces be your reward
And may your rotten conscience never grow old.
Demon lords won't you ride with me,
Mount your horse to Gethsemane.
I am in you, you are in I
You have defied me,
I see through your eyes.
Beware the kiss of death.
Pharisees I fall to my knees,
We must nullify the contract we have made.
I have pined, defied innocence blood
And returned the silver pieces that you've paid.
What's this you say, who is he to us,
See to thyself you greedy man.
The place of the skull
Is where lies your king.
We have washed our hands.
I am in you, you are in I
You have defied me,
I see through your eyes.
I wake up in the morning
And the sun begins to shine
The day did sneak up on the night
I see your face and I see myself
And I get a little taste of life
I try to stand it for a while
But Im in a trance
Hey baby tell me cant you hear me calling
Im in a trance
I take too much in the saturday night
Hey... hey
Hey baby tell me cant you hear me calling
Im in a trance
I wanna try to stop this life
I feel so sad Im feeling down
On the radio the music plays
Im in love with her and I feel fine
I close my eyes
I think today is getting better with a sip of wine
And I can stand it for a while
When Im in a trance
Hey baby tell me cant you hear me calling
Im in a trance
I take too much in the saturday night
Hey... hey
Hey baby tell me cant you hear me calling
Im in a trance
I wanna try to stop this life
Im in a trance
Hey baby tell me cant you hear me caling
Im in a trance
I take too much in the saturday night
Hey...hey
Hey baby tell me cant you hear me calling
Im in a trance
I move in slow motion
And the world Is no longer at my heels
I wither and falter somehow
I wither and fall silent now
Sometimes I say too much
Even when there is no one listening
I wither and falter somehow
I wither and fall silent now
Hey, are you out there
Did you feel my sacrifice
Hey, do you see me
Can you really be that blind
Hey, can you hear me
Are you out there in the night
I'm haunted by your voice
And you are satisfied
Your words are the cross I bear
And I am crucified
Heal me
Hey, have I reached you
Are you too far gone now
Take a look around you
I this what you had in mind
I'm haunted by your voice
And you are satisfied
Your words are the cross I bear
And I am crucified
Heal me
And now I've reached a part of me
That I know shouldn't be
A certain kind of calm
A false tranquillity
I see now what's in the dark
It's looking back at me
I see now what's in the dark
In a time long past tomorrow sleeping in the castle of the black.
In the Leland hills are the monster tracks of a giant.
The darn of autumn playing in the garden of the rising sun the children they run in the yard of the giant.
If he awakens he will crush them in the earth, fear the children inherited at birth.
Thunder clouds close the skys he opened up his eyes
He's awakened hears the children in his paradise
You must leave this land forever more or live behind these iron doors o the darkest dungeon
So they left with the passing storm
The Gods were awakened they will crush him in the earth.
He is forsaken till he shares his worth.
Kings queens pirate giants castle walls dungeon doors
Bound to earth treasures sunken heart to the ocean floor I will remember knocking on the cold side of your door
Spring came soon to the outside world but the worth wind whirled through the castle halls
Children played in the outside sun, frost giants stayed in the garden walls.
Seaons past locked in winter filled with remorse his frost bitten heart
Through a crack in the garden wall came a child with the gift of spring
The frost giants went away the dawn
Of autumn came into the garden of the rising sun
His heart was awakened he was forgiven then
Morning desert sun horizon rise above the sands of time
Mystic journey to Arcana travel starry spheres in trine
Sands of the dunes dust of the bones
Swallow the trace of creatures left behind
Gods of the fire fall from the sky reaped
All the fruit and plagued earth dry
Distant vision tempting water fall to me
Knees I'm going to drink it dry.
Blazing desert sun reflection on the water
He caught my eye
Up in a tree preying on me vulture of fear why don't you let me be
He said you're mine one day
Spit out the sand of the mirage
Be on your way
Exodus ascend the plane
Exile this medium of bondage far beyond the prophecy of tyrant guardians
Traject the esoteric sisters they are mythical
Exodus ascend the plane
Exuke this medium of bondage far beyond the myriads of crypt and pyramids beyond the harpy vultures guarding their tombs
Arcana awaits you
Oh guardian predestination calls
Silent wind I felt what you said
Soon I'm exhumed for consumation
He charmed my soul with his book of the dead
He read it said beat no children
He will inhere the malignant fear in man
Sovreign the force more than emotion
It controls your destiny at hand
False guardian I will compel false as the fear of heaven and hell
I should have known its all a mirage just as well
The power of good will not be shown by conquering fear
Let it be known its a constant resist
Instrumental
Spoken words:
"I say to you, there is only one way in which the world can be saved from itself and that is by the realisation that love overcometh all things.
That those who have gone before you are concerned for you, each one.
We come back to your world endeavouring to break down the barriers that you have created by foolishness and ignorance over the centuries and we knock at your door, hoping and praying that you will open just a little, that we may enter therein and save you from yourselves.
Down beneath my underlying thoughts
There lurks a silent scream
How can I breath when the weight
Of words crash down on me?
And I feel stranded
I can't take it
I'm wandering lost
Don't make me comfort you
Don't make me crawl inside your head
Don't make me comfort you
Don't make me crawl, crawl, crawl
I will take apart the view
And you will take apart the scene
Take away the mask of innocence
It doesn't suit you
Don't make me comfort you
Don't make me crawl inside your head
Don't make me comfort you
Don't make me crawl, crawl, crawl
And I feel stranded
I won't take it
I'm wandering lost
Don't make me comfort you
Don't make me crawl inside your head
Don't make me comfort you
Rush
And the men who hold high places
Must be the ones who start
To mould a new reality
Closer to the heart
Closer to the heart
The blacksmith and the artist
Reflect it in their art
They forge their creativity
Closer to the heart
Closer to the heart
Philosophers and ploughmen
Each must know his part
To sew a new mentality
Closer to the heart
Closer to the heart
Yeah!
Ooohhhh
You can be the captain
I will draw the chart
Sailing into destiny
Dark and dampness lingers
In body and in soul.
Dead wall of stone I cry out
For twenty years alone.
Exanimate a penance
Not fit for man nor beast.
Innocent of mortal sin,
Do hear me out at least.
Man of strong mind and soul
Deserves a second chance.
Just to see a glimpse of light
Would warm my icy hands.
Any kin or family
Just an echo in my mind.
Silence loudens tribulations
That I left behind.
Just then a beam of light projects
From underneath a rock.
Could it be escape I'm free.
I'll dig my fingers raw.
Man of strong mind and soul
Deserves a second chance.
Just to see a glimpse of light
Would warm my icy hands.
Deep in your mind look for the answer,
It'll be there.
Life, strange illusion,
Stay low, it'll take care.
Time is the sentence in which
You must abide.
Make sin your companion,
Then Satan be your bride.
The tunnels deep and twisting
As I press my body through and through
Entrapped in this one way passage,
In light I must pursue and soon.
I grasp the bars at the end of my crawl,
As I gape down to the sea.
The skeleton of a man who tried,
A fool just like me.
Man of strong mind and soul
Deserves a second chance.
Just to see a glimpse of light
Would warm my icy hands.
Deep in your mind look for the answer,
It'll be there.
Life, it's a strange illusion,
Take it slow, it'll take care.
No time is the sentence in which
You must abide.
Make sin your companion,
You tell me you love me
And I wonder why
The sun is overhead
But I can't see past the clouds in my eye
You show me what is real
And I just pretend
Another perfect day
And I wonder how it all will end
Another perfect day
And I will hide away
From all the sights and sounds
Another perfect day
And I will walk away
From all the light that surrounds
Shadows embrace this room
As I draw the shades tight
Close the curtains, shut out the day
Shut out the light
Another perfect day
And I will hide away
From all the sights and sounds
Another perfect day
And I will walk away
From all the light that surrounds
Lying awake again
Restless in this bed
Summer night whispers soft
But I can't sleep through the noise in my head
Soon the sun is rising
And I just descend
Another perfect day
And I wonder when it all will end
Another perfect day
And I will hide away
From all the sights and sounds
Another perfect day
And I will walk away
From all the light that surrounds
Another perfect day
And I will hide away
From all the sights and sounds
Another perfect day
And I will walk away
Twilight and I lie awake
Afterglow is all around me
I lie awake, in this light
And I wonder where you are tonight
Voices turn to silence
Echoes never fade away
Twilight and I lie awake
Afterglow is all around me
Voices turn to silence
Echoes never fade away
I lie awake listening
[Part I]
So where do we begin
And what else can we say?
When the lines are all drawn
What should we do today?
[Part II]
Are you listening
Am I here screaming?
Drowning in a silent sea
Or only dreaming?
Drifting in and out
His mind never rests
Lying in shadows
Replaying a thousand regrets
Can you hear me
Am I getting through?
A million miles away
Or here beside you?
Drifting in and out
His heart never forgets
Lying in shadows
Replaying a thousand regrets
And the minutes just pass
As the hours change
And the shifting sands
Slowly rearrange
Drifting in and out
His mind never rests
Lying in shadows
Replaying a thousand regrets
[Part III]
There's a cloud above us
And there's a shadow on us
And outside of us
Hangs this shade of gray
Rain falling
Hours crawling
All around this shade of gray
There's a chill about us
And there's a sadness with us
And deep within us
Lies this shade of gray
Rain falling
Hours crawling
All around this shade of gray
This shade of gray
"rain's falling, hours crawling"
This shade of gray
"rain's falling, hours crawling"
There's a space beside us
And there's miles between us
And all around us
Grows this shade of gray
Rain falling
Hours crawling
All around this shade of gray
Rain falling
Hours crawling
All around this shade of gray
This shade of gray
"rain's falling, hours crawling"
This shade of gray
"rain's falling, hours crawling"
[Part IV]
Listen
Only us breathing
And the rain keeping time
Dividing the silence
In a distant thunder
Listen
Only hearts beating
And the rain keeping time
Measuring out the minutes
And taking us under
[Part V]
Murdered in munich
Crucified in rome
Was killing time
On the long road home
Let nothing bleed into nothing
And did nothing
Let nothing bleed into nothing
And did nothing at all
Withered in winter
Wished away the night
Was out of mind
While out of sight
Let nothing bleed into nothing
And did nothing
Let nothing bleed into nothing
And did nothing at all
Let nothing bleed into nothing
And did nothing
Let nothing bleed into nothing
And did nothing at all
Watched the days just pass
As the seasons changed
And the shifting sands
Slowly rearranged
But I will not eulogize
I won't apologize
I will not defend
Anymore, anymore
I will not dramatize
I won't soliloquize
I will not pretend
Anymore, anymore
[Part VI]
I know that I don't know you
And you couldn't know me
But time and space collided
And here we are, here we are
I know that you don't understand
And I can't explain
But circumstance conspired
And here we are, here we are
"the time is four nineteen..."
"time flies..."
"???"
"the answer is no..."
And I know we can't turn back all the years
Time reflected in a shade of gray
But I often wonder what could have been
And I still hold on to yesterday
And I know we're not children any more
Innocence lost in a sea of gray
But I often wonder what else could be
And I still dream of running away
So where do we begin
And what else can we say?
When the lines are all drawn
What should we do today?
[Part VII]
Stare from the darkness
Hear the silence call?
Devise divisions, delay decisions,
Watch the hours crawl and...
Let nothing bleed into nothing
And do nothing?
Let nothing bleed into nothing
And do nothing at all?
Recite soliloquies
To shadows on the wall?
Revise revisions, reverse decisions
Watch our heros fall and...
Let nothing bleed into nothing
And do nothing?
Let nothing bleed into nothing
And do nothing at all?
"I want you to do me a favor..."
"I want you to get a gun...and just shoot me! shoot me!"
Let nothing bleed into nothing
And do nothing?
Let nothing bleed into nothing
And do nothing at all?
Let nothing bleed into nothing
And do nothing?
Let nothing bleed into nothing
And do nothing at all?
[Part VIII]
[Instrumental]
[Part IX]
Stayed up late last night
Lying here in bed
Looking for words
To say the things I left unsaid
Wind at my window
Whispers to me instead
And I lie alone
Writing letters in my head
Where you are, I am
Through nights that never end
Where you are, I am
In words I'll never send
Walked alone last night
Cold streets of could be anywhere
Looking for words
To share the thoughts I could not share
Road at my heels
Takes me away instead
And I walk alone
Writing letters in my head
Where you are, I am
Through streets that never end
Where you are, I am
In words I'll never send
Where you are, I am
Through nights that never end
Where you are, I am
In words I'll never send
Never, never send
Stayed up late last night
Lying here in bed
Still looking for words
Still writing letters in my head
[Part X]
[Instrumental]
[Part XI]
Do you think that I, that I remember
Do you think that I, that I recall
When you were falling
And I just watched it all?
Do you think that I, that I remember
Do you think that I, that I recall
When you were breaking
And I just let the pieces fall?
Don't you think that I remember
Don't you think that I recall
When you were alone, oh all alone
And I didn't hear, hear your call?
Call... hear your call, hear your call, hear your call...
[Part XII]
This shade of gray
This certain sadness
This cold morning light
And this silent madness
It hangs in the air
It hangs like a memory
It hangs like a cloud
It hangs on desperately
Between dark and light
Between was and be
Between young and old
Between you and me
Between you and me
I remember cities
And I remember rain
Like the sound of your voice, falling
These memories and more remain
I remember winter
And I remember strain
Like the sound of your voice, breaking
These memories and more remain
I remember the nights
And I remember pain
Like the sound of your voice, alone
These memories and more remain
So where do we begin
And what else can we say?
When the lines are all drawn
What should we do today?
Close our eyes awhile
As morning shadows play
And listen to the rain
Wash the long night away
Face to face we'll awake
To see another day
And with hope in our hearts
Embrace this shade of gray
Seven hours
And a handful of doubt
The candle burns quick now
And time is running out
I never asked for this
Yet somehow here we are
I never asked for this
Now I can't live without
Time moves
Time heals
Time slips
Time steals
Forty pages
And a handful of doubt
The eyes are tired now
And the words are fading out
I never asked for this
Yet somehow here we are
I never asked for this
Now I can't live without
Time flies
Time fills
Time wastes
Time kills
I will leave behind all of the hours
I will find a way, a way out
I will walk away from all the years
With a handful of doubt
I will leave behind all of the pages
I will live without, live without
I will walk away far from here
With just a handful of doubt
Twenty years
And a handful of doubt
The candle burns quick now
Ours is the cry of the helpless, told
in the timeless truth of the written word.
Trapped by the tempest of the blind
our muted calls can't be heard.
Helpless as we stand
amidst the push of thoughtless hands.
We are adrift without direction
in a raging storm on a calm sea.
Clinging to our expectations
to stem the tide of destiny.
Helpless as we fall
I thought I reached the final stage,
Time enough now to catch my breath.
Holding on to each fleeting moment,
Until the winds of change come blowing through.
And all the things I
Thought I needed
Go sailing out of you.
I thought I reached a new beginning;
Faint, distant glow on the horizon.
Holding on to the promise of the day,
Until the sunset hides sea from shore.
And all the things I
Thought I needed
Don't mean much anymore.
Circles within circles,
Hoping one more turn
Will bring us to the end.
When truth and fiction finally meet,
We find again
New beginnings become old ends.
Circles within circles,
Hoping one more turn
Will bring us to the end.
When the circles complete,
We find ourselves
Starting all over again.
Too many things left undone,
Too late to turn back,
I can change course before the end,
But when all is said and done,
All I really want is a chance
To start again.
Circles within circles,
Hoping one more turn
Will bring us the end.
When truth and fiction finally meet,
We find again
New beginnings become old ends.
Circles within circles,
Hoping one more turn
Will bring us to the end.
When the circles complete,
We find ourselves
there's a blind desire there's a drive
there's a need to leave some lasting feat
something to hold, something to keep
a monument to complete
there's a written page there's a book
there's a search for something to say
something to share, something to speak
a monument to convey
is it fiction, is it confession
is it passion or just a profession
is it performance, is it expression
is it passion or just an obsession
there's a photograph there's a frame
there's a time, a moment to confine
something to save, something to see
a monument to enshrine
is it performance, is it expression
is it passion or just a profession
is it fiction, is it confession
is it passion or just an obsession
there's an empty room there's a blank page
there's a picture left incomplete
something is lost, something remains
a monument to defeat
is it fiction, is it confession
is it passion or just a profession
is it performance, is it expression
Just another face in the crowd
wandering towards obscurity
Driven by the dull desires
of a worn out routine
Stagnant in the suffocating silence
of emotional exile,
a fugitive from freedom
surrenders to mediocrity.
A helpless voice
starting to sink.
You could make a choice
but you never learned to think.
Weary and weakened
victims fall prey
to vague ideals
and passionless play.
Systematic spontaneity
in synchronized society.
Immersed in the cause
and the call of the day,
sacrificed inner needs
give way.
To shared individuality
in collective reality.
A spirit of belonging
satisfies your longing
but the truth is never seen.
False sense of freedom grows
but dependency shows
your part of the machine.
A hopeless choice,
searching for someone real.
You could find that voice
Walking through a wasteland of words and memories
Looking for the person I used to be
Thoughts I don't recognize make me realize
Times have changed and so have I
And a familiar fear comes back to me
Pale fire
Dry land getting drier
Nothing can grow
In the ashes of desire
Pale fire
Burned on the desire
No one can grow
With nothing to inspire
The bitter harvest of a barren land
I'm painting pictures you don't understand
Dust blinds my eyes, makes me realize
I'm choking life with living lies
Pale fire
Dry land getting drier
Nothing can grow
In the ashes of desire
Pale fire
Burned on the desire
No one can grow
With nothing to inspire
And a familiar fear claims another day
I remember the endless longing
that called inside of me
from fountains of expression
trying to break free.
Nothing left to say
when the walls give way.
Still I can faintly recall
the subtle purity
of youthful inspiration
and insecurity.
Nothing left to say
when the child finds his way.
Pride and the drive that started the dream
turned in time to an endless obsession.
Caught in a vicious circle of compulsion.
Desires bind the truth to secrecy
but behind the aspirations I see
a life devoted to blind ambition
and a mortal man searching for eternity.
Behind the desires
and the wall that gave way
there's a forgotten cause
consumed by the day.
Behind the ambitions
of a child who found his way
there's a cold realization
that our deeds die with the day.
And behind the disguise
of a man with a cause
there's a child screaming
with nothing left to say.
Paralyzed by inhibitions
and indecisions.
What was once a release
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