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Just Heard the calling, got the hell out Now I’m tired of treading water I’ve been dead set on these big dreams and I’m plotting all my surefire schemes you tell me, “you’re far too old to stand on a glass earth throwing stones put all of your faith in hope” I’ve drained my soul to keep me just Hanging on, to keep me hanging on To keep me just… I’ve been falling through the dream mine And I’m hoping at the bottom All the mountains of coins I’ve thrown Have bought the wish I cast them for And it won’t be a reap-less sow Don’t tell me, “this garden won’t grow hope, you’ll bear only rose-less thorns” enough’s been born to keep me just Hanging on, to keep me hanging on To keep me just… Don’t fail me you’re all I know Don’t leave me desperate and alone When all other light is gone A single spark is all I need To keep whole the earth below To dig down for life beneath the snow To carry, to carry on, to carry on, to keep me just… Hanging on, to keep me hanging on To keep me just… TOP OF PAGE Quit or Run ‘This ain’t the life I’d planned Man I sank so quickly I’m drowning on dry land’ Shut your mouth, You haven’t drowned, You’re only 3 feet under ground You’re giving up before The Reaper’s at your door Push to shove, You’re just a chump You’re standing Cliffside scared to jump Bound for ground we’re all So leap, enjoy the fall It’s a lonely road I know And nothing ever stands between a bullet and your soul It’d be easier to just succumb The race is on, but you’re still waiting for the gun So either quit or run Paralyzed The venom is seeping, Hope is fleeting from your eyes Carrion before your time You’re atrophied from apathy You’ve been too long off your feet You dreamed of sanctity But everything’s gone wrong It’s a lonely road I know And nothing ever stands between a bullet and your soul It’d be easier to just succumb The race is on, but you’re still waiting for the gun So either quit or run You’ve got the world to own All you could ever hope Just tell me you’re still able enough There ain’t another way You either run or stay Tell me the will still remains It’s a lonely road I know And nothing ever stands Between a bullet and your soul It’d be easier to just succumb The race is on but you’re still waiting for the gun So either quit or run TOP OF PAGE Higher "Open wide, and stay open wide it’s a blue-streak, life but live as if you’ll never die" And whether wrong or right It’s an axiom I can’t deny And I’m beginning to like The thrill and perils of learning to fly Some moments are over way too fast, and I get swept away with them every time I close my eyes and I get, Higher and higher to the borders of Elysium Higher and higher Higher and higher to the borders of Elysium Higher and higher Morning light Hits like a dagger in a waking eye But at least I’m alive, With her asleep at my side Then she smiles and sighs, And I’m swimming in her opening eyes, It’s a rising tide that I’m content to drown in To drown inside These moments are over way too fast, and I get swept away with them every time, I close my eyes and I get Higher and higher to the borders of Elysium Higher and higher Higher and higher to the borders of Elysium Higher and higher I wanna be far away and long beyond the apogee I wanna feel air without the hindrance of gravity I want me to stall, and be out of control I’m fearless to fall, cause I know it won’t be long before I’m thrown Higher and higher And love, love is a catapult Your love, your love is a catapult Your love, your love is Higher and higher Till I fade away TOP OF PAGE Beginning There’s something wrong with me today It’s like the world, like the world is getting smaller like the walls are closing in I do my best to break away change the subject to the better times we’ve had Everyday I’m thinking to myself there is something better Something more than what we know, what we know There’s a voice we hold inside, deep inside we keep it silent till we’re ready, ready to explode Open your heart We’ll get it right from the start This is the beginning This is the time The time to make our mark This is the beginning And I don’t want to think about the past times we’ve had, The good or the bad I just want right here and right now We’re always looking for the other side, the greener side the better side But that’s no way to live our lives. Open your heart We’ll get it right from the start This is the beginning This is the time The time to make our mark This is the beginning The difference in your heart is what makes you stand apart Open your heart We’ll get it right from the start This is the beginning This is the time The time to make our mark This is the beginning This is a fire and you’re the only spark This is the beginning TOP OF PAGE The Meaning of Life I met an old man today Standing on the street Wearing a sign that read: “This is my last day alive” So I stopped to ask If in his long life, There was anything that he regretted And he spoke to me words I will never forget… He said, “I’ve lived my whole life knowing one day I’ll die, and that it’s alright, oh but it’s alright And if you are wise, You’ll take my advice And you’ll do alright Yes you’ll turn out fine” Oh, he said “life is just a phase You can only get out what’s put in And it’s over in a blink So why not give everything Boy are you listening? It won’t be repeated man, And this is the meaning of life” Saw an old friend today Standing in the rain Wearing a ring that she did not have the last time we met So, out of concern I Stopped to ask her why She’d betrayed solitude Her attribute I’d most admired Then she spoke to me words I will never forget, She said, “I’ve lived my whole life hoping one day I’d find something beautiful that I could both share and call mine and if you’re as blessed as I one day you will find Cyclicality between souls is what makes you whole And falling in love is like an eclipse, For it only occurs once or twice And you could miss it if you blink, So why not embrace it when you become faced with it It’s so amazing man, And this is the meaning of life” TOP OF PAGE Bombs Away Let’s set fire to it all Let’s start a fire they’ll remember I’ve seen the writing on the wall I wanna burn it down, burn it down Burn it till our lives become the embers And take the black out of the night Don’t wanna struggle to remember That I would send my soul into the sky For you Bombs away Every word you say Is pulling me Deeper inside the flame With you We can make our way into the heat And it might take away the burning Play in the ashes underneath Till the dreaming stops I know what everybody’s saying And now you’ve had some time to think About what everybody’s saying Oh but I never thought I’d hear it From you Bombs Away Every word you say Is Pulling me Deeper inside the grave With you TOP OF PAGE Dreams of Youth I should’ve known, I should’ve known When I set out to chase you down I could’ve done, oh what I could’ve done! Had never I begun the hunt I’d rather wash forlorn to adverse shores, than safe with my regrets at home And watch another toil and row, to might achieve what I had hoped Had only I’d the nerve to go Instead of pining here alone I’m wearing down from inside out but I’m not over you I live without in endless doubt, but im not over you But I’m not over you…yet Any port in every storm will never get you far from home, And lost at sea, I’d rather be, eternally, than never go And even if it takes my soul, and everything I’ve ever owned, just to keep this ship afloat, just keep alive these oars, then I’ll forge on into the storm with all the stars to guide me on I’m wearing down from inside out but I’m not over you I live without in endless doubt, but im not over you But I’m not over you…yet And I can’t decide if, most days I can’t decide at all if I’m lost, if I’m lost I can’t decide if… oh am I lost? Am I lost? I’m wearing down from inside out but I’m not over you I live without in endless doubt, but im not over you But I’m not over you…yet I’m not over you All my dreams of youth TOP OF PAGE Hurricane You shimmer like the Northern Star And I’m just the guy with the Telescope on the ground You’re rushing like a waterfall and I’m just the dribbling of a faucet that won’t turn off I got concrete shoes, and you’re strapped to rockets, If it’s sink or swim, then I’m swiftly drowning I’m on the ocean floor and you’re out of the atmosphere Why do I not see this coming? The more I try, the less you’re enamored When it all plays out, well who was I kidding? To say you’re out of my league doesn’t start to explain it I’m a drop of rain and baby you’re a hurricane I whipped out the big guns, aimed to impress, centered those cross-hairs on your chest crossed my fingers, pulled the trigger just hoping for the best you probably wish the bullet had caught my head but it landed in my foot instead Why do I not see this coming? The more I try, the less you’re enamored When it all plays out, well who was I kidding? To say you’re out of my league Doesn't start to explain it I’m a drop of rain and baby you’re a hurricane Those chemicals made synapses fire, made illogical seem probable Like a cannonball, I’m bound to soar and fall I’m just a lead balloon, you’re anti-gravitational. And I’m out of my head Why do I not see this coming? When the more I try, the less you’re enamored When it all plays out, well who was I kidding? To say you’re out of my league doesn’t start to explain it I’m just a drop of rain and baby you’re a… But if I had what I want, I’d get you off and I’d turn you on And I’d have what I need, to bring down a goddess to her knees I’d sell my soul to know, what to give to the girl who’s got it all I’d conjure the winds to blow and knock you off of that pedestal I’m calling your bluff, and I bet it all so you better fold If I don’t strike gold, what’s left to give when you got it all? TOP OF PAGE All I Need Twenty years running, I’m hopelessly caught in this maze Well I dart around corners through corridors that all look the same I’m revived by the sound of your voice as you whisper my name With each step that I take I more fervently taste my escape I can feel it like it’s pouring through my veins I give all that I have Cause I’m hoping this maze will unfold Right at your door, baby And when I get home you’re all that I need And when I grow old you’re all that I need Azraline, my queen I spent twenty years floating and I’m hopelessly stranded at sea Well I’m searching for green in this fusion of blue around me I steer for the horizon at the corner of the world Where the advent of a zephyr and the swelling of a purl Let me know I’m close I can feel it like it’s pouring through my veins I give all that I have Cause I’m hoping this breeze carries me Onto your shore, baby And when I get home you’re all that I need And when I grow old you’re all that I need I know it’s a long way But I’ll get there someday And when I get home you’re all that I need Azraline And I know there’s a thousand miles dividing us And no, I won’t – till I’m standing in your door – give up and I know it won’t be long Now that I found out where to go I don’t need much Just open up and let me in And when I get home you’re all that I need And when I grow you’re all that I need Oh it’s a long way But I’ll get there someday And when I get home you will be all I need Azraline, my queen TOP OF PAGE Thick & Thin In the glow of a street light, when the night cloaks her shame, she looks for love and the comfort of a hollow embrace And though it offers her gold, and brief escape from the cold She’s after something much more than simply warming her bones She says, “a few lays, alleviate the sharp pangs of hunger, But a heartbeat’s still all I have” And she says, “I want someone to love me just the way I am, just the way I am” She says, “I want someone beside me whether lose or win, through thick and thin” In the blaze of the limelight To unanimous pride She outshines every diamond in a starlet’s sky But she’s shrouded in darkness like a waning moon she knows there’s much more to her than is seen by the world She says, “I can’t find peace of mind when nobody knows me And a heartthrob is all I am” And she says, “I want someone to love me just the way I am, just the way I am” She says, “I want someone beside me whether lose or win, oh through thick and thin” “When the light fades to night brings the cold rain and thunder When a desert sun, is burning up every drop of hope there under Be an anchor in an ocean of change” And she says, “I want someone to love me just the way I am, just the way I am” “Say to me, come on and say to me Say you’ll love me just the way I am, just the way I am Stay beside me whether lose or win oh through thick and thin” TOP OF PAGE Someone to Blame There’s a feeling in this room tonight Everybody here wants to be somebody else You feel alone I can see it in your eyes You feel alone even when you’re with somebody else Well let’s not take this to hard Oh no Cause everybody’s got a thorn in their side Pull it out everytime you hear somebody else say, “It’s not your fault” A little to late and somebody’s gone But, it’s not your fault And there’s a movement in the world outside A lot of big plans, with nowhere to go You try to fight if you want to survive You try to run, try to hide But there’s nowhere to go But let’s not take this to hard, oh no Cause everybody’s got the sun in their eyes You block it out everytime you hear somebody else say, “It’s not your fault” A little to late and somebody’s gone But, it’s not your fault It’s not your fault, You’re someone to blame when something goes wrong But it’s not your fault, no But let’s not take this to hard, oh no Cause everyone’s got a skeleton to hide, Pull it out everytime you hear somebody else say, “It’s not your fault” It’s not your fault, A little to late and somebody’s gone But, It’s not your fault. And It’s not your fault, You’re someone to blame when something goes wrong, It’s not your fault. TOP OF PAGE Navigator I like the way you look tonight Wearing only moonlight You sparked a fire And I am smoldering You feign indifference darling, But I feel you trembling You’re trying so hard To not be physical Why even fight it child, When it’s this natural? When we’re all alone and no one needs to know Without a single light on Let me be the navigator, and I will guide you I know you’re scared to fly, let me ease your mind If I’m the navigator you’ll be alright we’ll find euphoria before sunrise I like the way you hesitate, Often lust so prolonged can be the right kind of wrong For you, You say you’re bound by a circle so you can’t acquiesce You should rely on your senses cause it’s senseless distress To deny what your conscience screams is A consequent-less trip Cause no one needs to know We’re all alone, so why just dip your toes? Why not breathe in deep and dive down? Let me be the navigator, and I will guide you I know you’re scared to fly, let me ease your mind If I’m the navigator you’ll be alright we’ll find euphoria before sunrise Drip drops that poison thawing from her mind, Adrift at last, she’s swimming in the sky And all her doubts are far behind And she falls in love Her body ebbs in the undulating tide, Blanketed in stars, she whispers the night That all I am is all she needs And she falls in love TOP OF PAGE Ghost A single ray of light is dancing in a darkened room it penetrates an eye close-by, but the black is not removed the face in which the eye resides is a mix of cloth and stone a pale linen veil draped over withered bones She hovers like a moth over the flame, But it’s not the light she needs, only the heat it brings And as I watch the powder start to change I know where seven years have gone to waste I would give the world To go back all those years And stop you at the start before you disappeared I’ll be there for you when I can just show me there’s yet something there that’s still worth fighting for The world around her is just spinning like a carousel All attempts to revert back to normalcy have quickly failed As her immortality is sizzling on a silver spoon She’ll contemplate the point in space and then create the wound I do not know this solemn ghost It’s not the human I recall her shell’s remained the same But all the hope in her is gone I would give the world To go back all those years And stop you at the start before you disappeared I’ll be there for you when I can just show me there’s yet something there that’s still worth fighting for save me save me save me come on say save me save me save me and I’ll replace the flame my little ray of light is dancing in a cloud she made I wish she’d come back down where it is safe And stay TOP OF PAGE |
