there, in the dust at my feet something flickered in
the heat and then just like that it disappeared
last night the mutiny spread
the cops were on the run, the kids were out for blood
you can see for miles but there's not a thing in sight
not one sign of life
i've tried but i can't feel a thing
could this really be right?
someday i will stop trying
fights for imitations of life
everything is predefined
no surprises, no defiance
you can see for miles but there's not a thing in sight
not one sign of life
but you can see for miles
for miles
the pool was ours for just a fraction of time in the
cover of night
flashlights tight in our shaking hands, too rare to die
weekend comes in the wastelands
you're always, or at least sometimes, on my mind
disillusion tears new holes, miles wide, through an
already empty space
coming to at the waters edge
i feel the waves embrace
you look so handsome on my bathroom floor, like the
blond side of life
the scent of gasoline still fresh on your hands in the
By God i'm tired
I'm tired and i want to go home
She's warm, like a fire
The smoke will lead you home
My hands are tied
Tied to the evil I know
It's wild, like fire
The smoke will lead you home
My heart has tired
Tired from the bag of stone
She's wild, like fire
These are hands made to dig holes
One for every waiting soul
These are eyes made to deceive
To serve the lie we're made to believe
This is what I got for staring the sun in the eye
I will surely be condemned
For this sin I will go to hell
For the warning that I never got
For my dreams of a raging sun
This is what I got for staring the sun in the eye
Why is the sun so bright?
Why is the sun so bright?
Why is the sun so bright?
Why is the sun so bright?
Here it comes, full war, a fucking chronic alarm
I’d dig my own hole and repay the Devil with my soul
to just for one day be taken away from the flames
we learn our way from watching the sun
we find our way by watching the sun
can't come with you when you go south (x2)
come back 'til spring (x2)
i'll have to stay behind this year
i'll try to stick it out this year
can't come with you when you go south (x2)
the night is calm so lets go for a ride
it's these simple things that keep us alive
left the children sleeping for all i know now
let the neons show us the way to go
the night is calm but a cold wind blows
living is dying sometimes i know
there's a bad unkind thing in the air tonight
but we let the neons show us where to hide
I can hardly wait
Until I fall asleep
Tomorrow I'll throw away
Everything I keep
The days I tried to cage
Had already escaped
The months I tried to save
Were wasted anyway
Death to your concern
Death to my return
Death to my hometowm
Death to your regret
Death to my respect
Death to my hometown
I can hardly wait
Until I wake again
Tomorrow when you wake
I'll be on my way
Death to your concern
Death to my return
Death to my hometowm
Death to your regret
Death to my respect
I wake up a ghost on a dry river bank
Thrown off a bridge in a bag full of stone
This night and I are all but one
Oh, City, I'm sorry no one's ever kind
The sun rises
The sun rises
Just minutes from daylight
The sun rises
The sun rises
City, I'm sorry
for all the nights
for all the bars
for all the fights
The minutes have turned to hours
It's a new day now
Gone
The cold, shut eye
That is the enemy
While i'm gone you are my open eyes
Call back the shadows i tried to forget
i can't, i can't understand
how the winter can stay this long and so cold
it gets worse it only gets worse
and the weaker i get the deeper it bites
everything is on ice it's so cold outside
everything is on ice it's so cold outside
thinking it's beginning to sink in
i guess you can turn into whatever you like
then what have i become?
a monster scary only to itself?
everything is on ice it's so cold outside
everything is on ice it's so cold outside
tonight i'll try to go outside
i'll close my eyes and hope i got it all right
and everything, everything will change
and someday i'll trick myself, forget all this, rewrite
the whole thing and the ice will melt and the winter will
end and then I'll be ok and then it will, then it will be
I chocked, woke up high
The morning drenched in light, in fire
My mind hurled and turned
My thoughts coiled and curled like wires
Mary, I saw the eye
it rearranged my mind
I saw the eye
It cut the logic line
I reassessed the world that i had defined
How long? Where and why?
Whatever this is it's alright tonight
Mary, I saw the eye
It rearranged my mind
You know love for love knew of the blood on your shoes
For sure is that blood is what love is
The black dust kicked up by your black shoes in my black
heart
has choked up the thin lines that carry love
Briefly the sky wears thin lines
it's happening again
but this time you know it isn't real
you know it's a mistake
but mistakes are all you ever get
once you thought you'd found a way
but now you know you should have known
nothing ever rhymes
and you know you should have just gone home
the darkness around the corner wore her name
a name that you knew well
you knew that she was trouble
and you knew you just could not leave it alone
and when the invitation came
you knew it was an introduction to the end
so this is how it ends
oh well i guess you should have guessed
it's happening again
but this time there's violence in your eyes
violent and strange they seem to stray
as if they're always on their way
but as they see her shadow edging around the corner
they just don't know where to go
nothing ever rhymes
and you know you should just go home
cold, when you see that girl
you get cold when you see that girl
you thought that your luck would turn
you always thought that your luck would turn
never thought that you'd lose your nerve
you never thought that you'd lose your nerve
but you get cold when you see that girl
across town the fires
break out all around.
far off the sirens
bleed for the unsound.
waiting for nothing now.
but waiting is all
that we can do for now.
Oh, the demise of the empire!
Receded and dark its walls began to fall
The alliance, no one saw it die
The scene of the crime was not checked for evidence
Now it is all gone
The theory seems all too easy
You see, the thesis is said to be dead and so are you
Name the contractor and the assassin
Memorize the face and the plates and the prayer
I got a suit
I got a black suit
You got horns but I got a black suit
I got a band
I got a black band
You got thorns and I got a black band
You got a shield
You got a black shield
I got a point but you got a black shield
I got a wish
I got a death wish
You got a badge but I got a death wish
The truth I know can not be bent, oh no
It has been raised as a monument to the dead
The truth they say is stated in the Book of Revelations
The truth I know is mounted on the bones of generations
I got a mark
I got a black mark
You got a book
i figured it out
there's nothing to hide
because there's nothing inside
i think i finally figured it out.
it fell into place
there's nothing to see here
there's nothing to feel here
i think it finally fell into place.
time to go or everything will
stay the same and this will only hurt
this confusion must have an end now
i'm going away
i'm going away
i wanted to stay but now
i know i have to go away
time to go or everything will
stay the same and this will only hurt
this confusion must have an end now
hope tomorrow will be better
i'm so tired this is going to hurt
I need a shot to remember
The sun is challenging over my head
A long night
Takes clear eyes to know the enemy
One last chance of a death trap
One last flight out of my head
Sick and tired
Weary eyed
You'll be my open eyes
The night has tired
It's been a waste of time
The morning sleeps with open eyes
The lost youth lost it once again
Nothing they do will ever mean anything
But they've been robbed of nothing
Not a purpose, not a name
Beauty hides in your eyes
A long override of science
My hope lies in you now
I'm heavier than a broken heart
You are the rendering of a dream
Let's go
headed into their world.
headlights off.
we're not.
despite the sign.
welcome at all.
don't let them know who we are.
don't let them know where we're from.
sorry sir. we were just trying to get home.
waiter. serve us our drinks then leave us alone.
don't let them know what we've got.
because they don't know what they want.
but right or wrong.
this place it makes you wonder
well it just doesn't figure
somehow i can't help thinking somewhere there's something
missing
sometimes i check that i'm still breathing
the billboards claim there's a place far away on the
other side with palm trees and white beaches
somehow i find doubt about it
sometimes i check that i'm still breathing
the door was not locked so i went on inside
i had been there before and i knew that i was out on
thin ice
i was meeting someone but no one showed up
and when trouble came by i tried to find a friendly
face in the night
but whoever i was looking for was nowhere in sight
i chose sides
i lost the fight
whatever happened to saturday night?
it was dark like december and the sun was on the run
staggering through the streets and my fear i tried to
make my escape
i lay down on the pavement, tried to rest my head
but i woke up from one nightmare to another full of
words i'd never heard
i believe they were my friends but then i saw them as
ghosts
and now i wonder if maybe those ghosts had been mine
all the time
though i think there was a reason for my actions, who
knows?
tonight i've got a reason and the reason is it's
saturday night
now I see the reason why
now i see
i see the reason why - i've got a ghost that i can't
escape
a gloved hand in the night
you're my misguiding light
can you hear, hear the bell.
the church bell, the church on the hill.
the sound is off, it's off the ground.
have you seen, seen the men.
the dead men, the office men.
they are men of the sky.
Mirror fastest guy on the strip
fastest mind on this ship
hey check your mirrors
on a bathroom mirror
she writes her name
and she writes my name
yeah check your...
fastest ship in the fleet
with my princess up front seat
hey check your heading
note on bathroom mirror
hey check your mirrors
yeah check your mirrors
blankets for cold nights
we will need them
God has a wavering hand
Shakes like a leaf
Smoke pours out her windows
It's a liar's fire
Death is my teacher's bed
She was going to call my mother
Don't fucking bother
I'm already gone
Mile after mile of lights
Mile after mile of night
Hey, look at all those lights
They serve to remind
I cruised for miles along the seaside drive and when I
arrived the world was lit
I had my head in the sand
At the back of the book where no one looks I keep a
broken heart
Mile after mile of lights
Mile after mile of night
I saw the water, the sky, the islands of lights and i
knew she was lying
She'd been lying all along
My teacher, she was lying
But she was just the lock on the door
they said he'd been in for quite a while.
when they found him by the riverside.
those bones won't be identified.
i saw a man the other night.
yeah he looked just like a lookalike.
The winds are waiting quiet for the storm to make the
call
while the collectors of skulls prepare for war
and the lights from sovereign states flicker in the dark
The darkness has erased the features of the lands
The lights from sovereign states are all but dead
we plod our way
through the ashes and the dust
left of our plans
of all things we've shared
we plod our way
today buries tomorrow
but no stone is raised
killed in cold blood
at the onset of night
my forehead against the glass.
an imprint that will last.
waiting for a bus.
for you to get off.
for life to go on.
to get out of that town.
out of that house.
my forehead against the glass.
an imprint that will last.
brother call our mom.
tell her of her car.
tell her of my scars.
and tell her what i found.
i'm writing reports of the days and the nights.
locked up for years in a measure of mind.
when with a net of nothing.
i was trying to catch the motions of a mind.
and the methods of a crime.
i never saw the chance.
and never what i held in my hands.
the lights are all red in this town.
where i'm killed by exhausts.
and alcohols that dry out my skin.
i never had a clue of the role that i played.
you're so very late but i'm glad you came
this city has eyes
they keep me up at night
there's somebody there with eyes that stare
at night i dream a sleepless dream
small, hungry points of light surrounding me on every
side
like a forest at night this city has eyes
from somewhere outside they pan my walls like
searchlights another night without sleep and another day
without dreams
it's dark outside
it's almost night
the nights, they're all alike
they'll show when i close my eyes
I fell into the well
i fell through hell
You moved, through the dark you moved and i saw you
The dark reset my eyes
Reset my mind
You turned and smiled and said that nothing ever ends
Now only a colossal wreck remains
You walked for months to find the other side awash
The burning desert stretches out before your eyes
Flood the lands and drown the world once and for all
You are the ghost that i evoked, the empty cage and the
missing page
Quick lunch to witness our demise
If ever the days would consume my time
An easy target
An easy win
The coat is warm like the apocalypse
Destiny's dead
The trust is lost
The bastard's sided with the bank
How come someone who's got enough keeps wanting more?
Well, why not make yourself a million times richer?
I need a drink before bed to help forget
I need a drink
I must have had one too many
Once at the vault my thoughts stood still
What was the combination?
All gone from the back of my hand
The ship has sunk
Gone down with all the men
The cargo is lost
We can wait forever
A prayer for the dead and one for the living
Is this your last offer?
Is this your final bid?
Now where is that drink?
We’d made it across the border when lights went out and
all went black
I remember lying halfway out over the edge clenching a
hand
At this my arm was weakened
At this my arm was weakened
Didn’t we just leave this party?
That was the last thing on my mind
My god, where was the fuck-up?
From where came the blow to my head?
At this my mind was weakened
I couldn't see for the symmetry
The cloack was choked in the trembling reeds
The disguise was compromised
I threw up on a winter's dream
I got lost in the imagery
Because life was compromised
I wrote a letter to the King and Queen
I set sail for the mystery
And life was in disguise!
I took my change chance on the open sea
I lost sight of the waving trees
All this time awaiting night
At its end awaits a trial
The reflections of a knife cut through the dark and an
alliance of hearts
With the setting sun
the tides rise
with the setting sun
to end a life
with the setting sun
As the waves pull back the treasures are revealed
I heard I would fear but I’m not scared of an inevitable
With the setting sun
the tides rise
with the setting sun
the hearts divide
As the waters rise
you fight for life
with the setting sun
week upon week of seamless night
i was going to get something off that guy
got robbed and hit in the knees
because i could not see for all the trees
i lost my shoes, with naked feet
i ran and i ran through rainy streets
but when i caught up one guy had become three and
i could not see for all the trees
piece by piece the image cleared
no one ever made a friend around here
i tried to make them see but they would not see for all
the green
one night i’ll fight you but not tonight
this lonely night is already lost
sad men with sadder ends,
lonely nights and city lights
i thought that i could see
but i could not see for all the trees
one night i’ll fight you but not tonight
There's a fire at sea
There's a ship that bleeds
I have turned my eyes
I have turned my mind
I defy the sun
I defy the sea
I hope it burns
I hope it bleeds
He will concede
I will sever him
The fire is dying
The night will be cold
Not a light in sight
I’ve got to go
Can you tell these eyes are awaiting the end?
That nothing's waiting around the bend?
While we stay here sitting still all the hypocrisy's
leading us in
Light rain upon the fire
You’ve got a ride
Free beer all night and I got to drive
Beat and battered, gray and old
The many years are taking their toll
Vote for Democracy, yeah
Vote for a word
Vote for a word
The girl you knew had her own car, her own scars, her own
cross
The farther out you reached into the night the less she
Do you remeber the way?
Do you know the grave?
Do you know the name?
My memory is red hand digging through the lost events for
evidence
Comes crashing throught the door
Drives up by your side
You stop at a red light
This is a dead end
it's one am and time to leave
we're back on empty streets
there's so much time but nowhere to go
but anyway, we can't go home
i'm up for treason anytime, i can cheat and i can lie
the only danger here is being safe so there's no more
time to waste
no time for being bored, no fear and no resort
the party's over, the lights are out
but hey, we can't stop now
let's find some place off the map
a place where it's not so safe
a place where it's not too late