Dreaming Wide Awake Too late, the melody is over The joke seems to be on me cos I'm the one

not laughing Down here on the floor Deflate, the mystery of living In the most heartless fashion I could ever Imagine No pretense of decor Another place and time, without a great divide And we could be flying deadly high I'll sell my soul to dream you wide awake Another place and time, without a warning sign And we could be dying angel style I'll sell my soul to dream you wide awake I'll dream you... wide awake With me, disaster finds a playfield Love seems to draw dark, twisted pleasure tearing at me Cos I can't let you go Mercy, like water in a desert Shine through my memory like jewelry in the sun Where are you now Another place and time... I'll dream you... wide awake It's like I'm racing to the sun, blindly face the blazing gun Cos I'm afraid I will be left here without you Like I'm racing not to run, give more when I have none Cos I'm afraid I will be left here without you... wide awake Another place and time... I'll dream you... wide awake.

War Do you remember standing on a broken field White crippled wings beating the sky The harbingers of war with their nature revealed And our chances flowing by If I can let the memory heal I will remember you with me on that field When I thought that I fought this war alone You were there by my side on the frontline When I thought that I fought without a cause You gave me a reason to try Turn the page I need to see something new For now my innocence is torn We cannot linger on this stunted view Like rabid dogs of war I will let the memory heal I will remember you with me on that field When I thought that I fought this war alone You were there by my side on the frontline And we fought to believe the impossible When I thought that I fought this war alone We were one with our destinies entwined When I thought that I fought without a cause You gave me the reason why With no-one wearing their real face It's a whiteout of emotion And I've only got my brittle bones to break the fall When the love in letters fade It's like moving in slow motion And we're already too late if we arrive at all And then we're caught up in the arms race An involuntary addiction And we're shedding every value our mothers taught So will you please show me your real face Draw the line in the horizon Cos I only need your name to call the reasons why I fought When I thought that I fought this war alone...

Change You say you feel a chill in the season Like something is falling apart You say you can't hold it together much longer And I should look after your heart But I feel a change coming on Rolling out of the blue like a storm And it's bending your will like a willow tree twisting Trying to regain its form How does it make you feel When you remember the times the two us lay here In the arms of the world on the doorstep of heaven shining down Do you feel a change coming on, Rolling out of the blue like a storm, And it's throwing your dollhouse world in disarray So you can rebuild or conform How I wish you'd only see How your own choices make your dream Come out shining true before it can leave you I wish that you could see How your own choices make your dream Come out shining true all around you My worth is the look in your eyes My prize the smile playing tricks on your lips and I wonder again Do you ever dream of the world like I do I too fear the change coming on Rolling out of the blue like a storm Can you hear it scream at the hurt that I knew How I wish you'd only see... What is this chill at my heel That makes the protections I've built around my pseudo world premiere Tearing my utopian fiction apart as it happens to just pass along I feel a change coming on Rolling out of the blue like a storm Crashing against my delirious thoughts where humanity's waiting alone How I wish you'd only see...

15 Min Flame The reaper's kneeling at your field taking in what you've sown Can't help feeling apprehension No point in waiting, for a rating for what you have grown Look for liquid consolation If I act accordingly will it save my humanity You're either you or a loyalty disowned Well excuse me Who was it who wanted every sec of the fifteen minute flame of fame A name to last for all eternity Who was it who wanted ingratiation beyond definitions When love alone is enough to set you free No escaping though you're running, you cannot find home Drowning in your desperation Conviction seems to follow accusations alone No place here for an easy redemption If I lack your tears of joy, please forgive my heartless ploy Said the fool to his majesty dethroned Now excuse me Who was it who wanted every sec of the fifteen minute flame To name a love to last through all your infamy Who was it who wanted ingratiation in their definitions When name alone can jail eternally Who was it who wanted every sec of the flame Who was it who wanted every sec of the fifteen minute flame of fame A name to last for all eternity Who was it who wanted ingratiation beyond definitions When love alone is enough to set you free

Given and Denied Which way to the fountain of my youth I wonder Which way to the years I've let go by Let a thirsty man drink in its memories while the water still flows sweet and crystal clear For yesteryear Oh to see the sun's eclipse on the horizon like ships sailing way away from here Oh just one more time my dear Before I'll go hear me out Cos of this there ain't no doubt When it's time for curtain call Just before the shadows... Fall like a leaf in the wind on the ocean Of blue like your eyes in the twilight theater With symphonies playing in the world without sound We're given and denied Give me back my innocence cos I wish to dream again Like I never outgrew my old playground Where the sun sets slowly with a golden crown and the leaves sing lullabies 'round vacant swings Give me those wings Let me fly once again Like I did way back when I would gamble and win To lift me high above the din Of the future we see Does it hold something for me I'm weightless again Just before the shadows... Fall like a leaf in the wind... Before I'll go hear me out Cos of this there ain't no doubt When it's time for curtain call Just before the shadows... Fall like a leaf in the wind...

Rewind What do we have but illusions where one man's absolute is another's choice Giving in to confusion, till love and hate both tempt with the same voice Won't you take me to a higher ground, I need to see again the way I'm bound N' choose the uneasy redemption, run by fear and the flaws of attraction Rewind, I wanna go it again, light up the dark, halo on the side So I'll know it will not leave me wanting, I see my heart, waving me bye-bye Rewind, I wanna go it again, light up the dark, halo on the side If life itself has a meaning, is it anything more than what we choose to call it Sweet words make appealing, but they only serve to mask the smell of what you buried Is it worth your while to spend on a lie, even though you cannot see eye to eye N' give in to the rumor seduction, run by fear and all the good intentions Rewind, I wanna go it again, light up the dark, halo on the side So I'll know it will not leave me wanting, like my love, kissing me good bye Rewind, I wanna go it again, light up the dark, halo on the side If this is how we think we make amends We're in for a race that never ends Where is it we think we'll go What is it we think we know It'll never change until we change ourselves Rewind, I wanna go it again, light up the dark, halo on the side So I'll know it will not leave me wanting, I see my heart, waving me bye-bye Rewind, I wanna go it again, light up the dark, halo on the side So I'll know it will not leave me wanting, like my love, kissing me good bye Rewind, I wanna go it again, light up the dark, halo on the side

Dying to Live Tell me this, would you miss it, trying on another face again to see if it's you N' wondering where you've been and where you're gonna find yourself before the night is through I know the way you go cos I've been the same for too long Like I'm fearful that my choices are all wrong I know the way you go cos I've lived your life of make believe Dying to live Tell me this, is it lonely in the shadow of a masquerade for life you hide behind What's the deal with your reasons to run away and let your feelings leave you undefined I know the way you go... Behind me now the winding road they sing of I've come to stand before a silent wall Finally a chance to find a question To point out the right answer after all ...this time So rid us of the plight, the plight of self affliction Generations choice the drug of self deception I know the way you go...

You're Still Here Mercury dances in its skyscraper cell, rising and falling like rhapsody And I see winter's broken like lace, in time for a celebration Thaw wails inside the walls and laughs in the corners, delighting in its evident victory Till I feel springtime counting its days of flaunting a novel sensation Like it's leaving, leaving behind the weight vying for yesteryear Leaving promises in its wake, whispering, my love, you're still here Hold on to your memories of sundogs and rainbows, as time writes a premature eulogy And I feel summertime passing in haste, like running out of patience Quilted with knit and umbrellas and scarfs and a mild understanding of irony I feel autumn leaving the race, all done with the exhilaration It's leaving, leaving behind the weight vying for yesteryear Leaving promises in its wake, whispering, my love, you're still here Mercury dances in its skyscraper cell, rising and falling in harmony And I feel winter stealing my days, to herald another creation

Smoke and Mirrors I danced a tango with my hubris high on youth We swept across the dance floor to subjective truth But there was no harmony there No reason for coexistence Nothing to span the distance, now Do we even know who we are Living like all life is forfeit Like we can just go redefine it Regardless what we broke Who died and made us stars With our intellectual gambits Our millionaire flair and our antics We're like mirrors seen through smoke I tried a shanty with the fool to find my pace Anything from puns to jests to intertwine our ways But there was no loyalty to hope And funny the need for mercy How it makes us bleed all mercy, now Do we even know who we are... Now the melody's void of sympathy cos that shit's in byte size bits on YouTube so tell me what am I supposed to do When the malady's no remedy Till we reach the lowest absolute And necessity will finally force something through what's walling you Do we even know who we are...

Heal My Wounds I burn to make you understand One wrong word and it all may come crashing down For the fates are devious by heart They envy you your dreams, so they'll let you drown And there is no why, there is no how, it's like the sky, just one free flow But you're here right now, and this is your show, so take a bow, cos the show is on right... Here and now with all dreams realized Would you choose still more time to do Don't fall down when it's time to arise No-one else can heal your wounds Once again taboo becomes your law What you want seems taken by another tide turning Away from our flower field where we used to lay beneath the sky, riding dreams to some other side Do they burn, the wishes whispered, like secrets, they yearn, just to be heard I'm done with questions, I have no answers, the choice is yours, cos the show is on right... Here and now... The bigger the lies The more they want to believe them And like a vice Hold on to what they believe in Here and now with all dreams realized Would you choose still more time to do Don't fall down when it's time to arise No-one else can heal your wounds Here and now with all dreams realized Would you choose still more time to do Don't fall down cos I need you to rise No-one else can heal my wounds

More Yeah decency, she done left our home On her rollerskates, so I guess she's pretty far gone Left me with my greed, to answer for my own For how could a deadened sense tell right from wrong So thanks for nothing I ain't feeling the magic Kinda comic how I got tragic Mirror mirror on the wall What do you give someone who has it all More, just to be sure I got what I wanted, so naturally I want more What I paid for, entertain me now All I want is more, cos I like it Too good to let it go, keep it coming Cos I want more, cos I'm not sure What I really wanted, so all I want is more Yeah modesty, her rule now overthrown Packed her teddybear, so as not to go alone Left me with my pride to live beneath a stone For how could an amputee ever pick a bone So tell me something, isn't this a bit drastic My smiles are turning to plastic Mirror mirror on the wall What's the secret for staying droll You know it isn't particularly funny Killjoy walks in just when it's turning sunny Killjoy lives like it's all about the money All about the money, all about the money All about the money, all about the money

The Ultimate Fling Today, it's in the air again today, another incident that just went off No way, this time I will not take blame, its pretty obvious who needs to shut up Ashtrays filled with the fruits of our transgressions, here and there sarcasm overflows Do stay, I'll need this sitcom to be re-run till I get the gist of just how it goes What would you have me do Gimme a reason, c'mon now make my day Cos I'm out of cheeks to turn the other way Ask yourself just how lucky do you feel Somehow I've been blindsided by my own kindhearted notion of just who we are No doubt we'd have collided anyway with me indicted and you raising alarm First round I'll take my bows into my corner take my vows, regroup and run back again Bloodhound and of no better pedigree than what you see so you could not offend Did I act like a fool cos I didn't know what to do, when you gave me just a little bit more than I bargained for, a little too much in my hands when my hands are tied It's the ultimate fling to go frolicking, licking the muck from the soles of the boots of your pride, everytime you lied Gimme a reason, c'mon now make my day Spoken my pleas now someone's gotta pay Ask yourself just how lucky do you feel Can you gimme a reason, movin' into grey Something I can hold on to at the end of the day Cos I can't move on till I know what's the deal

Revolution Roulette If this machine doesn't stop, what will you do if it never goes out Never goes out of season It never stops as it turns, there ain't no passion, yet it burns Introducing my prison Losing myself in this place, soon I'm gone without a trace Freed with that final incision Look my heart it's a bird, it needs to sing and to be heard Not this clockwork precision And the machine grows idiotic Who's gonna be its ingenious critic Everybody loves the perfect solution To beat the odds against the poorest possible substitution What you see is never what you're gonna get Everybody's playing revolution roulette Leaves you no arguments to trade, you can try the key or you can wait But the lock will not open So you're left with sanity to lose, cos the machine is a ruse Another invention to rule them It's like a fistful of snake eyes, a hand grenade with bye byes Like a million spent on nothing It's kinda like a pick in their lock, when you never went "knock knock, hello, anybody home? I'm coming in". With a touch of foreboding And the machine grows parasitic Who's gonna critisize the good critic Everybody loves... Everybody has the perfect solution It's just hard to resist the sweet seduction There ain't no trick to winning double what you bet Welcome to revolution roulette Everybody loves...

Psychosis Well it's a different man in your face And so out of place That you can see anything there that you wish Kiss my bliss It's like I'm a welcoming freakshow doormat Held in awe while growing fat in the head This is where we all should see red A big fat wet slab of red And I see that it makes me anti everything And I see that it makes me want to shed my skin, shed my skin Revelation leading to my psychosis and inspiration Digest another hallucination, psychosis by recreation Happy till the next deterioration, psychosis For you it's a different notion of music and motion A dance of lights, a prosaic ocean A delicate, nearly transparent creation of somebody's soul on the screen Has caught you in between Of somebody's life on the stage and somebody's life on the frontpage And this is where we all should see red A big fat laughing mouth of red And I see that it makes me anti everything And I see that it makes me want to shed my skin, shed my skin I think I'm gonna start my own religion Seems to be the recipe for a new sensation Think it's gonna make a trendy revolution Quite the contribution to the unnatural selection

Fragile You've been biting bullets all these years, I know There beside yourself, choking back tears And you aced avoiding possibility When you made your bed upon the bittersweet Oh now don't you worry There's no need to be sorry There's still time to step lightly Cos the love you used to feel is still in there, inside It may be the faded photograph, the lock of hair, don't hide If you're scared, I'm here to hold you, If you get lost I'm here to guide you Love is peace when peace is fragile Love is all the good in you that still remains Love is peace when peace is fragile You've been going out of way to agree Like you've been rubbing yourself all wrong just to be somebody else's genie Catering to your disasters every need Waiting to finally be set free I said baby don't worry Life will carry Just take it slowly Cos the love...

Clevermind Looking at the road that rises up ahead I thought I'd learned a thing or two But this is where it's all made new N' I gotta throw my hands up I can't go on if I can't stop Look the leaves are dead The moments gone, there's no surrender Forever now unsaid The words that might've warmed December Cos it's all inside your head Like fragments of a dream you remember So never mind, your clever mind, never mind me Staring at the ceiling from my bed I thought I'd earned a chance or few Thought I'd be paid in due Time isn't made for waiting Past isn't worth debating Look the leaves are dead... Feeling like a fool again Just need a new direction a new beginning , a new beginning I can't hold back and I can't hold on It's all about gratification See me running, see me running Look the leaves are dead...

Miss Impossible She can see about four satellites every minute of the hour And find a four leaf clover where you never saw a flower She's habitually paradoxical, a parallel perpendicular Barefoot in nightgowns, that's how she dances in the rain Sundown to sundown, like she was washing 'way her pain As she is beautiful, she's unpredictable Damned irresistible, is it plausible to hate her She is my common sense, revels on decadence But what's the difference, it's impossible to bait her She can really be a handful like the brownies that she bakes you It can be a tad hysterical, but never quite the breakthrough She's some kind of an epitome, the sea of intranquility In flimsy nightgowns, barefoot she dances in the rain Sundown to sundown, like she was washing 'way her pain As she is beautiful, she's unpredictable Damned irresistible, is it plausible to hate her She is my common sense, revels on decadence But what's the difference, it's an impossible debate

Diamonds for Tears Why in these days of manmade wonders we still bicker over flies When you come seeking for forgiveness, I'll be forced to choose my side If I deny you what you're searching, do I do it out of fear Am I ruling out my reason, killing that which I hold dear Out of my way I'm coming, with an excuse just underway Reality's so daunting, and I've got no way to explain Cos when you're sound asleep next to me, I know you're the one So when I hear you calling my name, why do I turn away to run I guess that's why it's raining diamonds, sweet happiness in tears Crying heaven shed your diamonds, diamonds for tears In the light of recent findings, there's no greater taint than grace But to relinquish all our bindings, always finds us out of place If I rested here a while more, would you hold me to your heart Will I know what it's meant for, will I know to play my part Out of my way I'm coming, another excuse before I'll stay Reality's applauding, I know I don't know the right way Cos when you're sound asleep next to me, I know you're the one So when I hear you calling my name, Yeah, I know you're the one I guess that's why it's raining diamonds, sweet happiness in tears Crying heaven shed your diamonds, diamonds for tears Is it a lost cause, Can we overlook this taint Are these the dead laws Like a doubt eating the saint And though I fear these shackles, like my darkness closing in I will hold out my hands, I will hold out my hands Cos when you're sound asleep next to me, I know you're the one So when I hear you calling my name, I'll know the good I've done I guess that's why it's raining diamonds, sweet happiness in tears Crying heaven shed your diamonds, diamonds for tears

Passion Colors Everything This is my toothpaste moment, oh, I'll need to flash a smile I'll be the super-absorbent-man, watch them flock to me in single file And I'll need to do it with style, I need to keep me up to date Swallowing the sun run another mile, it's overrated how we underrate I dance in tune with what I fear To do adrenaline Completely rapt with what I hear When passion colors everything The songs I sing, from way out there to deep within The face I wear behind my grin The mess I made to the original sin Everything, everything, everything I have a mind for simple things, but things are not of mind to simplify There's always some loophole technicality you buy into and pay until you die Money doesn't bring me joy, it's more like a darling dead weight And I seem to have lost my appetite, it's underrated how we overrate I dance entangled with my dear She pulls my every string Completely trapped yet never here When passion colors everything... And when I'm finally brought to my senses Parade the rain on my parade Before I'm back to my defenses To watch the whole thing escalate

Save Me Gotta get a hold of myself I see them gathering around And they need me to do their will It's like I'm standing again On the same window sill Am I happy on the pill If I wanna be the man Should I open my wrist again Would that make it excellent, yeah If I wanna be the one Should I book me an interview To get an audition Save me I'm my own worst enemy Running headlong to the wall cos I want my freebie Save me You're the only out I see N' I need your love the most when I least deserve it Gotta get a shot of something Before I'll enter the ring Gimme just a minute, just a minute Did I really ask for all this Did I really cut open the goose Just to lose what's in it If I wanna be the man Should I open my wrist again To find the way in Yeah, if I wanna be the one I'll need to get me that interview To get that audition Looking at myself in the mirror Funny I should see only headlines and ads with my name I was told I'd see my ally So who are these skeletons with guns taking aim Save me, save me...

Where Do We Draw the Line On your palm an endless wonder Lines that speak the truth without a sound In your eyes awaits the tireless hunger Already looks for prey to run down So why do we keep up this charade How do we tell apart the time to leave from the time to wait What does tomorrow want with me What does it matter what I see If it can't be my design Tell me where do we draw the line The dance of flames and shadows in the street Make poetry nobody's ever heard The weight of loneliness stands on your feet The cage already there around the bird So why don't we join the masquerade Before it all falls apart before our love becomes insatiate What does tomorrow want with me What does it matter what I see If I can't choose my own design Tell me where do we draw the line Where's the cooling wind Where's the evergreen field Where's my mother's open arms Where's my father lionheart S'like the sun's gone down Sleeps in the hallowed ground now With the autumn's browns leaves With the one who never grieves What does tomorrow want with me What does it matter what I see If we all walk behind the blind Tell me where do we draw the line Whatever tomorrow wants from me At least I'm here, at least I'm free Free to choose to see the signs This is my line

Fire It's a bit like a trip, but you hit it with a slip of a tongue, like a whip, and we're sinking, it ain't cool to be cool, though you may think it a laudable tool of self evaluation, of ego cultivation, n' I'm rolling my eyes like the stones for the lies, is it really all about the size or just a simple vice... Oh, and it makes the news Oh, cos it sings the blues I feel the fire flare alight inside me Higher so I can see N' aspire to survive this fight in spite of Liars and travesty Oh fire Did you think that I'd blink, that I'd go and take the ink to your control, that I'd sell my soul, and does it ring any bells that it sells that we're living out of shells in a shotgun, if we couldn't shoot, we'd have to run, and finally the cerebral fantasy, better genes and machines, so we can die looking like we're teens, like snapshot scenes in smithereens... Oh, and the ones we choose Oh, witch hunting fools I feel the fire... Look there it is in the news again, yeah There it goes singing the blues again Fire flare alight inside me... Fire, return my joy cos I'm so Tired, tired of me Inspire the weary eyed to see the Ire and Irony Oh fire

Sorry Go 'Round The devil may smile with an angel's face A cat may be stolen of its grace They say it's just a matter of time and place A man may be less than an animal The antichrist write up the honor roll The tightrope walker take the final fall (at his house, in the bathroom, on a holiday, and that's in the news) Oh, the things you see Makes ignorance bliss for you and me, yeah, When arrogance does publicity, Smiling happily It's a merry go round and around and around The begging boy becomes the begging man The zealot never saves the sacrificial lamb And a child wants to know if the Candyman can Everybody wants the fancy car And we've all been told not to run too far But everybody wants to be a rock'n'roll star Oh, the things you see Makes arrogance seem the way to be, yeah, When ignorance spreads conformity, Smiling happily It's a merry go round and around and around

Carnival of Rust D' you breath the name of your saviour in your hour of need, n' taste the blame if the flavor should remind you of greed, Of implication, insinuation and ill will, till' you cannot lie still, In all this turmoil, before red cape and foil come closing in for a kill Come feed the rain Cos I'm thirsty for your love dancing underneath the skies of lust Yeah feed the rain Cos without your love my life ain't nothing but this carnival of rust It's all a game, avoiding failure, when true colors will bleed All in the name of misbehavior and the things we don't need I lust for after no disaster can touch us anymore And more than ever, I hope to never fall, where enough is not the same it was before Come feed the rain... Don't walk away, don't walk away, oh, when the world is burning Don't walk away, don't walk away, oh, when the heart is yearning

Locking Up the Sun They're locking up the sun, the light of reason gone, n' hope has been succesfully undone The question's burning on, where is it coming from, no-one seems to know the monster born It's a bad trip on a sinking ship, when no-one seems responsible Scapegoat to rock the boat, yeah, we need someone expendable Volunteers to face the fears, can we be sensible And find a way to break the fall, find out the cure for all Is there a hero somewhere, someone who appears and saves the day Someone who holds out a hand and turns back time Is there a hero somewhere, someone who will never walk away Who doesn't turn a blind eye to a crime They're locking up the sun, they have their chosen one, you know this time they'll make him play along They're taking to the arms, the fathers and their sons, there's nowhere left to run and hide It's a bad trip on a sinking ship, when no-one seems responsible Scapegoat to rock the boat, yeah, we need someone expendable Volunteers to face the fears, can we be sensible And find a way to break the fall, find out the cure for all Is there a hero somewhere, someone who appears and saves the day Someone who holds out a hand and turns back time Is there a hero somewhere, someone who will never walk away Who doesn't turn a blind eye to a crime And in the emptiness, there's a solution, just look within yourself for absolution

Gravity Here at the station, standing in the rain, lost in my train of thought Looking around for a better time again, but yesterday ain't running on this track Unpredictable fortune, my past, lights up my future, at last, ending my torture Like gravity like love, You get up after you fall Like gravity like love I'm not afraid anymore Like gravity like love, You get up after you fall, I ain't afraid no more Out of no reason I've decided to stay, present a solution, to the problem, Typical of me, that I concentrate on the destination so much that I miss the journey there and back Unpredictable fortune, my past, lights up my future, at last, ending my torture Like gravity like love, You get up after you fall Like gravity like love I'm not afraid anymore Like gravity like love, You get up after you fall, I ain't afraid no more If gravity was love, if gravity was love, if gravity was love...

King of Fools I worry that I can't give you what you need That you'll find nothing underneath the peel That I can't undo the times we disagreed That I can't ignore the way I feel Cos what I feel is the only truth I know And I get by on this naivete of youth If what I feel is the only truth And what I give out will make up what I'll receive Can I leave behind my naivete of youth? Will I be crucified for wanting to believe? I believe Could you hold us up if I would drag us down? Resurrect emotions from our past N' if they had a king for fools would you wear the crown? Build us up again and make us last Cos what I feel is the only truth for me And I get by on this naivete of youth If what I feel is the only truth And what I give out will make up what I'll receive Can I still leave behind my naivete of youth? Will I be crucified for wanting to believe? I believe And if we don't worry about a thing Will we be sorry when the rain is falling again And what does it matter If fortune should favor It's never the final amen If what I feel is the only truth And what I give out will make up what I'll receive Can I still leave behind my naivete of youth? Will I be crucified for wanting to believe? I believe

Roses I've walked the distance, I paid my dues and tried to have a go at what I thought I knew was real, held no appeal I've been to places, I've seen the tidings, I bought a book of rules for every coin that I could steal And so I came to gaze upon the stars, when they were yet unborn And consequently, tear at my old scars, and the mask I had outworn So when I'm crying alone Yeah, when I'm cold as a dying stone Grow me a garden of roses Paint me the colors of sky and rain Teach me to speak with their voices Show me the way and I'll try again I've heard the rumors, started fires, I sowed a sordid lot of plays for keeps for what I need, behold the demons that I freed I've tried my best at wearing the hard hat, but healing doesn't seem to happen when you hide away the seed And so I came across the medicine man, and he showed me what I'd forlorn For if I'm stayed it happens by my own hand, and my own voice full of scorn So when I'm crying alone Yeah, when I'm cold as a dying stone Grow me a garden of roses Paint me the colors of sky and rain Teach me to speak with their voices Show me the way and I'll try again Without you I'm nothing at all And life has the face of a morbid game With you nothing seems impossible It all seems to fit the frame So when I'm crying alone Yeah, when I'm cold as a dying stone Grow me a garden of roses Paint me the colors of sky and rain Teach me to speak with their voices Show me the way and I'll try again

Desire Fatal velocity, comes on with a rush, overpowering, gives the final push What never moves, is never still, who has the final word It holds the world in a single pill, and all life rendered absurd Kill sweet desire, faith may numb the trial, but can you run all your life Kill sweet desire, truth will make a liar, you can run but not hide So run for your life A false sincerity, a liar and a thief, my pulse and memory, a comfort within grief What never moves, is never still, who has the final word It holds the world in a single pill, and all life rendered absurd Kill sweet desire, faith may numb the trial, but can you run all your life Kill sweet desire, truth will make a liar, you can run but not hide Given into this sensation, feel I've run too far Cannot see beyond emotion, see what the options are With no faith to trust the notion, I fear I'm losing all control Kill...

All the Way / 4U Seems to matter what I do, so I'm saving this 4 U Cos it seems to be the last piece there is And you haven't had a chance yet to taste this Fragments of a life you shouldn't miss Seems to matter what I say, so I'll hold my tongue at bay And rather use my mouth to kiss your frown away So your doubts no longer darken your day So you can hold your head up high come what may So please remember that I'm gonna follow through all the way Cos it seems to matter where I go, I will always let you know That the place where I am is never far You know, you're not alone, don't be alarmed I'll find you no matter where you are So please remember that I'm gonna follow through all the way Oh my love, if it's all I can do, I'll take the fall 4 U Cos I will soar when I lay down with you and give my all 4 U

Delicious I hear a sigh, longing for loving in this life The how and the why, that keeps us running through the night Touching divine, for me it has only your face I'm looking to find pieces of wisdom I've misplaced I don't make the rules dear You don't hear the symphony I hear We don't get a dollar bill for every shining tear Fictitious and so real Love's a onetime deal With a delicious dark appeal And a religious kind of zeal, yeah So precious, yet surreal Life's a onetime deal With a delicious dark appeal And a religious kind of zeal, yeah Witnessing fault in every pawn in the game The only one called proudly answers to my name No I don't know why love is a thief in the night The one that you try, is your most devoted guide We don't make the rules dear We don't hear the symphony they hear We don't get a dollar bill for every shining tear Fictitious and so real Love's a onetime deal With a delicious dark appeal And a religious kind of zeal, yeah So precious, yet surreal Life's a onetime deal With a delicious dark appeal And a religious kind of zeal, yeah So thank you for choosing me, playing me, displaying me And selling me to slavery, yeah Thank you for using me, flaying me, erasing me Awarding me for bravery Fictitious and so real Love's a onetime deal With a delicious dark appeal And a religious kind of zeal, yeah So precious, yet surreal Life's a onetime deal With a delicious dark appeal And a religious kind of zeal, yeah

Maybe Tomorrow is a Better Day I'd stay the hand of god, but the war is on your lips How can I brace myself for razor blades on whips When everything with meaning is shattered, broken, screaming And I'm lost inside this darkness and I fear I won't survive I could pray and trick with a double tongue, but the only fool here's me I choose the way to go, but the road won't set me free Cos I wish you'd see me, baby, save me, I'm going crazy Tryin' to keep us real, keep us alive This day will die tonight and there ain't no exception We shouldn't wait for nothing to wait for Love me in this fable, babe, my heart is in your hand Our time is waiting right outside your door And maybe tomorrow is a better day I do not deal the cards and I play a lousy hand I celebrate no victories and my promises are sand Against all this I contrast you, when all is lost the war is through Hey angel, dare the winds now we can fly This day will die tonight and there ain't no exception Why should I wait for nothing to wait for Let me love you in this fable, hold your heart in my hand Our time is waiting right outside your door And maybe tomorrow is a better day This day will die tonight and there ain't no exception Why should I wait for nothing to wait for I won't cry for my solitude, lay my head and dream of you And hope that you'll come knocking on my door And maybe tomorrow is a better day I know tomorrow is a better day

Dawn When darkness is no less than everything you've built become undone There's no fight and no flight, disaster leaves your passion overrun It's time to let go, it's time to carry on with the show don't mourn what is gone, greet the dawn n' I will be standing by your side together we'll face the turning tide Remembrance, can be a sentence, but it comes to you with a second chance in tow Don't lose it, don't refuse it, cos you cannot learn a thing you think you know A new light is warm, shining down on you after the storm Don't mourn what is gone, greet the dawn n' I will be standing by your side together we'll face the turning tide

Lift Times when I just can't Bring myself to say it loud 'Fraid that what I'll say comes out somehow awry That is when it seems We move in circles day to day Twist the drama of the play to get us by And it feels like fear Like I'll disappear Gets so hard to steer Yet I go on Do we need debate When it seems too late Like I bleed but wait Like nothing's wrong You lift my spirit, take me higher, make me fly, Touch the moon up in the sky, when you are mine You lift me higher, take my spirit, make it fly, Where all new wonders will appear Like the other day I thought you won't be coming back I came to realize my lackluster dreams And among the schemes And all the tricks we try to play Only dreams will hold their sway and defy When it feels like fear...

Overboard I see you crying and it rains, washing away the bad days, washing away the pain loss brings... And then you smile though it aches, cos you don't believe in mistakes, just that we made a mess of things... When the deal that you made with love is just a one way street, a one way street, you feel you'll go overboard, cos you're incomplete, incomplete. You're not afraid to rely on any way you can try to learn to make some sense of things. And the way you say we'll get by, with a little laugh we can fly, you know the measure of hope that brings. I hear you laughing like a child, instead of choking all riled, instead of staring at shortcomings. Just like the rain when you cried washed all the stains of false pride, you'll learn to make the best of things. Have a little more of not enough More of what is less but isn't love Little of the same you're dreaming of That's enough, that's enough.

Late Goodbye in our headlights, staring, bleak, beer cans, deer's eyes on the asphalt underneath, our crushed plans and my lies lonely street signs, powerlines, they keep on flashing, flashing by and we keep driving into the night it's a late goodbye, such a late goodbye and we keep driving into the night it's a late goodbye your breath hot upon my cheek, and we crossed, that line you made me strong when I was feeling weak, and we crossed, that one time screaming stop signs, staring wild eyes, keep on flashing, flashing by and we keep driving into the night it's a late goodbye, such a late goodbye and we keep driving into the night it's a late goodbye the devil grins from ear to ear when he sees the hand he's dealt us points at your flaming hair, and then we're playing hide and seek I can't breathe easy here, less our trail's gone cold behind us till' in the john mirror you stare at yourself grown old and weak and we keep driving into the night it's a late goodbye, such a late goodbye... Based on a poem by Sam Lake

Don't Mess With Me Sometimes I know there's nothing to say. So do I pick up my puzzle and just walk away? Do I follow my conscience? Am I mock sincere? I don't know what I'm doing here. I have a knack for perceiving things. I can see how it sounds. I can feel how it sings. When you paint me an image of who you are, I know it's the best by far. Don't, don't, don't mess my hair, if all you do is fake it. Don't, don't, don't say you care, cos I could never shake it. Don't, don't, don't mess with me. Don't, don't, don't mess with me. I'll say it's not surprising. You're sweet talking, mesmerizing, juicy and appetizing. True.

But will I need to get over you? Feels like my sun is rising. So, Tick, tick, tick, synchronizing, readjusting, organizing me. Don't, don't, don't mess my hair, if all you do is fake it. Is this fiction reality? Don't, don't, don't say you care, cos I could never shake it. Bless the uncompromising Don't, don't, don't mess with me. with no shame for advertising Don't, don't, don't mess with me. when my needs go through downsizing I need someone to pick up my beat. No point of view is enough to quell, the rigors of passion in this world I dwell. My dreams need realizing. If I'm going to scale the highest wall, Candles on sugar icing. I'm gonna give it my all. Judgment and harmonizing, or it'll end up like before. Riding along with this train of thought, I see everything, I find all I sought. Don't, don't, don't mess my hair, if all you do is fake it. And I try to kick the habit of trying to reach. Don't, don't, don't say you care, cos I could never shake But there's something I do beseech. it. Don't, don't, don't mess with me. So please, Don't, don't, don't mess with me.

3 AM More than you know it I'm aware Of this connection that we share I know it seems like sometimes I don't care But you are the colors that I wear It's been a few hours, nearly dawn You've been real quiet all along Now, I cannot help but think there's something wrong Hey baby, what's going on? 3 AM we seemed alright, couldn't be better On our way into the light Now 3 AM is gone, along with when there's nothing wrong 3 AM it seemed alright If I have been thoughtless, let me know I can take a hint you know, though I'm a little slow Don't keep it in you, lest it take root and grow The bottom line here's I love you so 3 AM we seemed alright, couldn't be better On our way into the light Now 3 AM is gone, along with when there's nothing wrong 3 AM it seemed alright 3 AM we seemed alright, like never better On our way into the light Now 3 AM is gone, along with when there's nothing wrong 3 AM it seemed alright 3 AM...

Stay Morning comes slow today Memories push through from yesterday Where will I be tomorrow What do I have to show From my life Stay, I need you here for a new day to break Stay, I want you near, like a shadow in my wake Flow with life down the drain Memories and force of will sustain Where will I be tomorrow What will be left to show It's the little things, little things, little things, that make the world.

Seek You Out Never said you'd promise anything Never told to trust you blindly Never thought you'd hurt me either Never had a chance now ain't that so Never should've wept when you let go Never thought you'd push me away Sad as it may be I'm glad it's over finally Speaks volumes of me When letting go is never easy So I'll seek you out, just to find myself And I'll worry 'bout consequences later I hear you out, till I hear myself Hear myself in you Never knew if we were really true Never thought I'd ever get to you Never thought I'd end up like this Never was I stronger than I'm now Never felt this much a fool somehow Never had much thought for myself

Shallow More in my face Than is my taste I grow so weary I'll surrender To what they say Let them lead the way Till' I can no longer remember My darling dreams Prewritten scenes Whatever felt my own So to save face I'll take my place Where I may safely feel alone Glad the waters are so shallow When the river runs so cold I'm quick to wait Too slow to take They call me gracious for my patience And I feel proud Under that shroud And all the while it's all evasion Some humor here To fend off fear And I'm a little more lost, oh dear So to save face I'll hold my place So I may safely feel alone...

Everything Fades Silly thoughts of small deeds. Everything that once answered to your needs. The thoughtless but kind. The caring but blind. Everything fades away. Everything fades away, come turning of the tide. For your love I'm sorry. For your pain, don't worry. Everything fades away. Silhouettes and false leads. That which drew you, like a crow to glass beads. Secrets spied. Wishes sighed. Everything fades away. All I'm saying is don't give up, when you're getting so close. All I'm saying is don't give up, it's the right way you chose.

Someone Special I wake up to the sound of rain upon my sill Pick up the pieces of my yesterday old thrill Can I deliver this used up shiver To how I pronounce my life And leave it up to faith to go by its own will Back row to the left A little to the side Slightly out of place Look beyond the light Where you'd least expect There's someone special A foggy morning greets me quietly today I smell a fragrance in the wind blowing my way And ever further I run to find her I yearn to define my life Placing my faith in chance to meet me in half way Back row to the left A little to the side Slightly out of place Look beyond the light Where you'd least expect There's someone special And she's here to write her name On my skin with kisses in the rain Hold my head and ease my pain In a world that's gone insane...

Illusion & Dream Look in my eyes I'll make you see We're drifting aimlessly Blind in a world of make believe Hear them sing their songs off key N' nod like they agree Buying the need to be discreet I've got no hand in matters worldly, I hardly care at all What's going on fails to concern me, Cos I'm locked behind my wall But you know what drives me out Out of my mind It's whatever makes you see, makes you believe And forget about the premonition you need to conceive That the images they sell are illusion & dream In other words dishonesty If I speak Ill, please, humor me Won't rant on endlessly Just thought I'd try to make you see It doesn't solve a thing to dress it in a pretty gown A stone will not need you to guess if You're still going to drown So you know what drives me out Out of my mind It's whatever makes you see, makes you believe And forget about the premonition you need to conceive That the images they sell are illusion & dream In other words dishonesty So can you name your demon? Understand its scheming I raise my glass and say "here's to you" Can you chase your demon? Or will it take your freedom? I raise my class and say "here's to you" I've got no hand...

Sleep Hear your heartbeat Beat a frantic pace And it's not even seven AM You're feeling the rush of anguish settling You cannot help showing them in. Hurry up then Or you'll fall behind and They will take control of you And you need to heal The hurt behind your eyes Fickle words crowding your mind So Sleep, sugar, let your dreams flood in, Like waves of sweet fire, you're safe within Sleep, sweetie, let your floods come rushing in, And carry you over to a new morning Try as you might You try to give it up Seems to be holding on fast It's hand in your hand A shadow over your A beggar for soul in your face Still it don't matter If you won't listen If you won't let them follow you You just need to heal Make good all your lies Move on and don't look behind Day after day Fickle visions Messing with your head Fickle, vicious Sleeping in your bed Messing with your head Fickle visions Fickle, vicious

The Beautiful Ones

Flies with a broken wing, she's ever so graceful, so like an angel, but I see, tears flow quietly. The struggle she's seen this spring, when nothing comes dancing, paying a handsome fee, and still she smiles at me. And I can't take it, no I can't help but wonder... Why do we sacrifice the beautiful ones? How do you break a heart of gold? Why do we sacrifice our beautiful souls? Heroes of tales unsung, untold. Sweet as an angel sings, she gives though she has none left but the last one, free, unhesitatingly. And I am humbled, I'm a broken mirror, and I can't help but wonder... Why do we sacrifice the beautiful ones? How do you break a heart of gold? Why do we sacrifice our beautiful souls? Heroes of tales unsung, untold. Why do we sacrifice the beautiful ones? Why when they walk with love alone? Why do we sacrifice our beautiful souls? Just trying to find their way home.

Can You Hear Me Hiding deep within, doors cry opening Lead into the light of love deep like the sea Rich in variety, heartfelt and open, wide like a life, unique, yet so alike Can you hear me, I know I'm just a whisper Can you hear me, brother mine, sweet sister Love will find an answer You flow inside of me, language and imagery, pure in simplicity Thirsting for unity, realised harmony, No need to hide away your life, unique, yet so alike Can you hear me... There's yet life in these words I speak for peace of mind and our release, And you can have what you want if you want it like you need to breathe, like you need to breathe, like you need to breathe Embrace reality Can you hear me, I know I'm just a whisper Can you hear me, brother mine, sweet sister Love will find an answer

No End, No Beginning We can't seem to let go The thread's so thin it just doesn't show anymore It seems like we're playing charades Playing like we're afraid to live And this is one sacrifice I don't want to make If there's no end There can be no beginning, there can be no beginning If there's no end It feels like forsaking the dawn, we awaken and still we don't see I am still secretly grateful you're living this moment with me We can see where it leads It's like you can't, can't kill the monster that feeds on you No matter what you do it seems to get you every time And that's a predicament if I know anything If there's no end There can be no beginning, there can be no beginning If there's no end It feels like forsaking the dawn, we awaken and still we don't see I'm still secretly grateful you're living this moment with me Secretly grateful you're sharing this moment with me If it's just one life we're given, one time you're living I feel your touch light up a wild desire Borne on my ache to take us ever higher In our love we are birds of prey Every cry serves to lead astray So carry my ache and you will know the feeling Inside I am weak but for this love I'm bearing So breathe your life in my shades of grey Or kill the lights and we'll fade away