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Big city secrets

Big city secret

You bounce against my rectangular light
I fall asleep inside your spherical night
And dream about coming together again
As a fist comes from an open hand
And how the tide crashes on morning sand

And you say
Hey I don't understand
You and your big city secret
How come we dance
What makes us dance

A fist thrown against fear's menacing face
His blackened eyes become the dreams that you chase
Blood on your lip is like chaos you taste
It washes over you in some dramatic rush
And on the diving board you can feel him push

So you say
Hey I don't understand
You and your big city secret
Big city secret
How come we dance
What makes us dance
How come we dance
What makes us dance

I jump in the magnitude of your smile
Leap from the board of my last chance
Splash in the sea of your damnation
As you remind me of your past
Darling I thank you for this dance

You say
Hey I don't understand
You and your big city secret
Big city secret
How come we dance
What makes us dance
How come we dance
How come we dance
How come we dance
How come we dance

Mercedes

I been next to you for a lifetime
i been watching you from the start
Always trying to keep yourself put together
Always needing to fall apart

You wanna ride in my mercedes
Tonight we'll dance outside along the seashore
A quarter moon will paint our shadows on the cold sand
You ask me how come we dance
Well there is no reason at all

I hope that you will burn down this old house
And I hope that you will escape right through the front door
Turn aournd when you're safe
And talk about what they done to you
Turn aournd when you're safe
And watch this house burn to the ground

Oh I hope that you will rise
When you talk about what they done
Oh i know you will rise
When you watch yourself burn to the ground

Oh I hope that you will rise
When you talk about what they done
Oh i know you will rise

You wanna ride in my mercedes
Everyday we are closer and far away
Everyday we are closer and far away

Oh I hope that you will rise
When you talk about what they done
Oh i know you will rise
When you watch yourself burn to the ground

Oh I hope that you will rise
When you talk about what they done
Oh i know you will rise
When you watch yourself burn to the ground

Oh I hope that you will rise
When you talk about what they done
Oh i know you will rise
When you watch yourself burn to the ground

Oh I know you will rise
When you talk about it
You will rise, you will rise

You will rise

Mikel K

I've been watching you
I liked you right away
Cause you looked like you
Might have something to say
That I would want to hear
Like you looked at me
And liked me right away

You're easy for me
To bleed on
I said you're easy for me
To bleed on

Well I'll follow you
Anywhere you wanna go
Cause you look like you
Might already know
A place we can be that feels better
Than the hole I have inside of me

You're easy for me
To bleed on
I said you're easy for me
To bleed on

You're easy for me
To bleed on
I said you're easy for me
To bleed on

You're easy for me
To bleed on
I said you're easy for me
To bleed on

You're easy for me
To bleed on
I said you're easy for me
To bleed on

Good about me

It's monday morning
You miss yesterday
Tomorrow's coming again
So fast it's already today
You'll never get put down
Growing into your face
Moving to New York City
You got a line on getting paid
And you got two eyes that you always shade
Chaos and beauty
Trying to stay together on a razor blade
Always trying to prove you're being saved

When they ask you what's your church
You say I dance
When they say whatever happened to you
You say I never had a chance
I'm an open book
Come in take a look at me
I'm a boat that won't float
Out at sea
And when I try to compete for a seat
On a more expensive train
In the end you find out
The pain's the same as when the train was plain

You're never giving in
And you're sure you will win
As soon as you know how to begin
And with spite you scream
I'm moving my scene
Away from all you backwards marching human beings
And that includes you
'Cause I know what you seem to see
And that includes you
'Cause I don't feel good about me
Good about me around you

Daddy's on prozac

I'm in recovery
My daddy beat his love into me
Now I don't care about sticks or strones
The name he called me brake my bones
Put my daddy on prozac
I don't think I want him back
Make me feel dangerous

I was raised in a family
They look like the enemy to me
And when you're raised in captivity
Don't you know you never get free
Put my daddy on Prozac
I don't think I want him back
Make me feel dangerous

Marina

Marina coming off of methadone
Kickin and dreamin
And she's sleeping and screaming
Watching 90210
She'll be yelling at the screen
Until the late night show

I don't believe I'm alive she said
Everyday has something new
Aw baby with the moon I lie
And with the sun I will rise

It's all there in her eyes
You don't know how hard I try
Each time that Marina cries
It's like she's got no disguise

Marina is a human bicycle
She's riding in the park
Riding after dark
Spinning her wheels to make a psark
Hoping to change her blame into a plague

She plays guitar
She dreams and sings
She writes a song about what it means
That she never feels
Much like a human being

Birthday card

She wrote her name with a heart
Inside his birthday card
Right beside the PS which read
Please don't think I'm devious
It's not that obvious
In fact it's more of a mess
You're what I find most beautiful
But you're also what makes me the ugliest
So i'm taking away all of the love
I ever gave to you
I think you should've known
It was only ever on a loan
And i'm running away
I found myself a hiding place
I've been uncomfortable looking in your eyes
They always see right through my face

And if you find your eyes
You hunt me down
'Cause if I find my eyes
I'll hunt you down
And if you find your voice
You hunt me down
'Cause if I find my voice
I'll hunt you down

He wrote his name with her heart
On the back of a postcard
Right beside the PS which read
Please don't think this is malicious
But ever since you left me I am a mess
You made me happiest
And now I'm lonely cause there was only you
Touching your skin was like a showel through the ground
I had no idea what I found
A crown
You crown me king
Made me  lion in your ring
Training me with your see-through treasure
And bribing me with your guilty pleasure
You teach me how most things have no measure

Crying like a man

You must destroy
All who you employ
To protect your last invention
Work hard its destruction
Ignore your good intention
You must ignore the wrong voice
Whose voice
A peculiar choice
Well I'm sure
You and I can't remember
Living like a backwards trainwreck
trying to disguise the deceit
Intrinsic in our step
When love's got us by the neck
Why can't we just surrender

I'll be quiet
I won't wake you up

Don't whine
Drink wine
Like turpentine
Cleaning out your inside in line
From your toes up through your spine
Pretend you're a conductor
Maestro without music
God without man
Me without you
Holding your hand
Falling like a leaf
Crying like a man

We silently confess through open eyes
Setting fire to the web spun right behind
In my mind's a spider
And in your heart's a fly
When you're meek you are malicious
Somehow still suspicious
Faithlessly religious

Porcupine

A porcupine
Crawling out from inside of your mind
Like you growing a crown of thorns
But you're no messiah
You think more like a spider
'Cause guilty hearts beat upside down

Silver hubcaps replaced your eyes
As you went spinning on a daydream down
Forgiving the road every inch for miles
If your tyres survive
You know your heart will explode

And if this song was a sponge
Soaked in your blood
Well then I guess the story would be told
A fateful day
You became a spider
As I fed you blood from my nose

Now you're just like me

Dessert

You're the dessert brought burning in Bourbon
To smiles and glazy widening eyes
Extinguished by the breeze of hungry applause
And the grabbed forks shine
Awake enough to see quivering lips reach toward your soft sweet heart
Now loosening flesh in the spit of grinding teeth
Still trying to distinguish yourself from a ghost
Engulfed by the smile of swallowing

*** Thanx a lot to Leonor for this one ***

Haunted eyes

Your eyes are as big as a quarter when they're shining
Your fingers reach down in my stomach lining
Your voice sounds just like an alley cat is crying
I got the feeling you have never once stopped trying to undress me
You make yourself into a mirror to reflect me
I see my eyes are shallow stones
In a prison made of bones
Wrapped in a bag of skin
Highlighted by the lines of repetition
That all my fear's been carving

Haunted eyes
Sing in secret
Haunted eyes
Are huge and empty
Haunted eyes
Flutter just like butterfly wings
Haunted eyes
They always watch you breathing

Drenching thunder rolls right by me
I'm only visible when you're beside me
And what I can't possess still remains inside of me
Its violence coming out of your mouth now
Is at once menacing and hard to see
Oh but finally I think I see
That you are fat and you are flat
You are a star in a jar
You're a monster with nothing who's been chewing
On the worm your best friend your pet fish was pursuing

You're the only witness so if you die
I don't think I'm considered guilty of this crime
I take it to bed with me each and every night
The guilt wakes me up and shades my morning light
Cause people break
In fact I helped you to destruct
I'll say anything you want but I can't reconstruct
You only tell more lies in a darker shade of white
Hurry up and punish me so I can feel alright
Forever, if ever, only ever, never

Bottle of you

I squeeze the last bit of you
Out of a bottle of your old shampoo
It smells just like you
Now I do too
Rinse out my hair and wipe my eyes
As your soap rolls in between my toes
Dry myself off in the moonlight
And I can touch you
Every time I breath in through my nose
I wish that I had faith in you

I watched you breath into a heartbreak
The night we first held hands
Your eyes they switched from blue to green
Then they went back to being blue again
You say you never get to sleep
'Cause all your dreams are buried in the sand
I could barely hear you crying
Over the buzz of our electric fan
I wish that I had faith in you

You're a tether ball
Fastened to the end of my head
Who you are and who you want to be
Are competing at opposite ends
And when they hit you back and forth
You squeeze tight around my neck
Darling I can barely breathe
But I know that you mean
Absolutely no disrespect
I wish that I had faith in you

Vacancy

Hang around here

Your tongue is a razor blade
(should be) careful of the things you say
('cause you) you speak your mind at me all day
(of stitching) of stitching up the games we play

Hey yeah, don't have to hang around here
Hang around here
I keep getting left behind

Hey yeah, don't have to hang around here
Hang around here
I'll go someplace I can't be found

I'll hang like my picture of you
The one I took of you coming down
Your sitting on the sideways chair
My feet never touch the ground

Hey yeah, don't have to hang around here
Hang around here
I keep getting left behind

Hey yeah, don't have to hang around here
Hang around here
I'll go someplace I can't be found
I'll go someplace I can't be found
I'll go someplace I can't be found
I'll go someplace I can't be found

*** Thanx a lot to Christophe for this one ***

Bed of nails

In the past I'm burning in the flame of hope
Trouble come and turn me into solid smoke
In your bar I drink until I can't stand up
Your drowning heart in the bottom of my cup

You are hurting but you are learning
I'm still burning while I'm living
In my own world
On a bed of nails

No one here I would even think to trust
I would disappear but someone just stole my crutch
You're not here but then again you're nowhere else
In the spinning chair melting all around yourself

You are hurting but you are learning
I'm still burning but you are living
In your own world
On a bed of nails
In your own world
On a bed of nails

*** Thanx a lot to Christophe for this one ***

Prison

Help me find a reason
In my darkest time
To open up my heart
And survive
Help me gain my vision
As I stand here blind
Looking out for a place to be
Helpless and free
Where no one will recognize me

A prison inside myself
I look at you
I think I need your help
To make it through
Can you find the reason
To put it down
But you love the poison
You found
And all that you've been using
To get you through
Soon you'll see
That it was using you
A prison inside myself...

*** Thanx a lot to Christophe for this one ***

Making mistakes

I can't feel now anybody
Buried under who I am
Just another one of many
Wishing we could start again
Making mistakes
To kill some time
Waking up with the shakes
And a poisoned mind
I know that you might not feel the way I do
Still I hope you're going to come around

I don't need an explanation
Walking through your junkyard
I've reached the bottom of addiction
Just to make it to where we are
Lying on a killing floor
With a frozen spine
Back to where I was before
Only worse this time
I know that you might not feel the way I do
Still I hope you're going to come around

I've been locked up with my shadow
Bouncing off these crazy walls
Surrounded by all kinds of darkness
Praying for a light to fall
So if forgiveness avoids you
And all your love is soft like clay
I hope you will think to call me
You know I would be on my way
Making mistakes
Across state lines
Sweeping up the dirt
In my broken mind
I know that you might not feel the way I do
Still I hope you're going to come around
What I hope you're going to come around
And I hope you're going to come around

*** Thanx a lot to Christophe for this one ***

Vacancy

I know you're always alone
Looking for someone, a home
Don't wait for me
I'll be all right
In the ocean of your mind

I know I've seen better days
Walking through life like a maze
But I can see
You'll be alright
In the ocean of my mind

Turn on your light
Shining vacancy
With you I'm lost
Like a shell in the sea
But I'll pray for you
I hope you will pray for me

I know you're always alone
Looking for someone, a home
I know you're always alone
Looking for someone, a home
Don't wait for me
I'll be all right
In the ocean of your mind
And you'll be alright
In the ocean of my mind

*** Thanx a lot to Christophe for this one ***

Crying on sunday

Crying on Sunday
After church
To wake up on Monday
Everything's worse
Forgive me on Tuesday
Or live with the curse
Of crying on Sunday
After church

We believe in redemption
Yet we follow regrets
To the ones we are trying always to love
And respect

Crying on Sunday
The virgin gave birth
To wake up on Monday
Without her purse
Destroy me on Tuesday
I only get worse
For crying on Sunday
After church

I've never been so sure of love - love
I've never been so sure of love - love
I've never been so sure of love - love
I've never been so sure of love - love

We believe in redemption
But we follow regret
To the ones we are trying always to love
And respect

Crying on Sunday
After church
To wake up on Monday
Everything still hurts
Forgive me on Tuesday
Or be damned with the curse
Of crying on Sunday
After church

*** Thanx a lot to Christophe for this one ***

Toxic angel

Cold hearts pound all around
But I found my angel
In the desert looking all around
For someone to strangle
In chains
Like a mad dog barking over what you've done
So strange
That the one you need is the one you shun

Could you follow me down
With a love like yours
I don't know if I'm able
To keep my feet on the ground
With a mind like mine you know it's never stable

Are you near
Are you near
Are you near
Are you near

All my dreams underneath the ground
But I found my angel
Kicked off of the merry-go-round
By some toxic stranger
In pain
Like the way you feel when you know you can't complain
So strange
That the one who saved you is the one you still blame

Could you follow me down
With a love like yours
I don't know if I'm able
To keep my feet on the ground
With a mind like mine you know it's never stable

*** Thanx a lot to Christophe for this one ***

Hidden track

I'm going out tonight
(repeat again and again)

*** Thanx a lot to Christophe for this one ***

Speed of light

Good night New Orleans
Things are exactly as they seem
But I'm nowhere around
Hello Mexico
You're where I was told to go
If I don't want to be found
There's no end to the winter
Waking at the break of dawn
In the middle of summer
Living at the speed of light

Someday we may
See each other and look the other way
But I'll love you just the same
And if you hate your life
Just remember there used to be a time
When we could not feel a thing

In my heart is a hunger
I will never give away
Just try and stop from going under
'Till the dawn of judgment day
Living at the speed of light
Living at the speed of light
Living at the speed of light
And burning your love on the way
Burning your love away 
 

Redemption's Son

Redemption's son 

I don't know where we've been
Could you tell me where we are again ?
And Jesus is my only friend
No one else knows who I am

I know i'll never make it on the cross
Spend my days looking for what my daddy lost
He was too proud to have a boss
Sold himself out then he couldn't afford the cost

No one knows how he felt
Hung himself in the county jail
There are those who say he will burn in hell
I don't think they knew him very well

Angel of love
Shine a light on us
I was born to be
Redemption's son

Angel of love
Shine a light on us
I was born to be
Redemption's son

(Lord)
Forgive us for what we've done Lord
Forgive us for what we've done

I don't know were we are
Fearful eyes don't see very far
Driving in my daddy's car
Ashtray full of his cigars

Is it real what I see?
His ghost is riding next to me
Till he's gone I won't be free
From the burden of his misery

I know I'll never make it on the cross
Spend my days looking for what my daddy lost
He was too proud to have a boss
Sold himself out then he couldn't afford the cost

All over the neighbourhood
Mostly he was misunderstood
In his heart the bad beat the good
Used to be a time I'd have killed him if I could

Angel of love
Shine a light on us
I was born to be
Redemption's son

Angel of love
Shine a light on us
I was born to be
Redemption's son

(Lord)
Forgive us for what we've done Lord
Forgive us for what we've done Lord
Forgive us for what we've done

Honey and the moon 

Don't know why I'm still afraid
If you weren't real I would make you up, now
I wish that I could follow through
I know that your love is true and deep as the sea

But right now everything you want is wrong
And right now all your dreams are waking up
And right now I wish I could follow you
To the shores of freedom
Where no one lives

Remember when we first met
And everything was still a bet in love's game
You would call, I'd call you back
And then I'd leave a message on your answering machine

But right now everything is turning blue
And right now the sun is trying to kill the moon
And right now I wish I could follow you
To the shores of freedom
Where no one lives

Freedom
Run away tonight
Freedom
Run away
Run away tonight

We're made out of blood and rust
Looking for someone to trust without a fight
I think that you came too soon
You're the honey and the moon that lights up my night

But right now everything you want is wrong
And right now all your dreams are waking up
And right now I wish I could follow you
To the shores of freedom
Where no one lives

Freedom
Run away tonight
Freedom
Run away
Run away tonight

We got too much time to kill
Like pigeons on my windowsill we hang around
Ever since I've been with you
You hold me up all the time I'm falling down

But right now everything is turning blue
And right now the sun is trying to kill the moon
And right now I wish I could follow you
To the shores of freedom
Where no one lives

Freedom
Run away tonight
Freedom
Run away
Run away tonight

Freedom
Run away
Run away tonight
Freedom
Run away
Run away tonight
Run away tonight

*** Thanx a lot to Lucas & Cliff who corrected some mistakes ***

You could be in jail 

Don't believe in dreams
You are
From a machine
Oh don't
You could be in jail

Brainwashing you
They control
Everything that you do
Oh don't
You could be in jail

They say they have the answer
But no one knows a thing
They say they know your way home
Some place you've already been

Don't believe in love
They gave
Without any blood
Oh don't
You could be in jail

Taking what you made
Say they will save you
Giving back what you gain
Oh no
You could be in jail

They say they have the answer
But no one knows a thing
They say they know your way home
Some place you've already been

I would rather hide

Yeah yeah
I know we're all insane
When there's no one else around
Yeah yeah
I know we're all insane
When there's no one else
When there's no one else you can blame

In the night I'm on my own
Unglue my mind and burn my telephone
I don't wanna go outside
I don't wanna go outside
Inside
I would rather hide

I feel a phantom fly from my fear
(Ain't going nowhere)
Follows the voice I sometimes hear
(Ain't going nowhere)
I don't wanna go outside
I don't wanna go outside
Inside
I would rather hide

Yeah yeah
I know we're all insane
When there's no one else around
Yeah yeah
I know we're all insane
When there's no one else
And there's no one left you can blame

I think aliens abducted me
I close my eyes if I want to see
I don't wanna go outside
I don't wanna go outside
Inside
I would rather hide

I don't wanna go outside
I don't wanna go outside
Inside
I would rather hide

*** Thanx a lot to Jon who corrected a mistake ***

Innocent world

We don't know which way we're going
Don't know where we are
Find a way out, find a way
Home is somewhere I'm missing
When I look around
Find a way out, find a way

Hell has no reason to smile
When you're living in an innocent world
You once had a heart like a child
Now it's buried under sadness and guilt

We don't know which way we're going
Don't know where we are
Find a way out, find a way
Home is somewhere I'm missing
When I look around
Find a way out, find a way

Hell has no reason to smile
When you're living in an innocent world
You once had a heart like a child
Now it's buried under sadness and guilt

Don't run away
Don't run away
Don't run away now
Don't run away
Don't run away
Don't run away now

*** Thanx a lot to LuAnne for this one ***

September baby

Your holiness is gone
Sometimes love will make you sad
Until you know where you belong
You'll dream of what you never had

I can feel the falling leaves
Filling up my vacant mind
When I fall onto my knees
And pray you don't leave me behind

Summertime is over
I don't owe you nothing
When you say you're leaving
I want you to hold on
Summertime is over
I don't owe you nothing

I can see September's sun
Sinking in the autumn sky
If you want me to be gone
I've left already in my mind

Summertime is over
I don't owe you nothing
When you say you're leaving
I want you to hold on
Summertime is over
I don't owe you nothing
When you say you're leaving
I want you to hold on

*** Thanx a lot to LuAnne & Francescka for this one ***

Nation of Slaves

Live in a time where we're all gonna fall apart
With chemicals rising up over the sun
A nuclear mind in a machine with human heart
Is the creation we're gonna become

Nation of slaves, who all say that
I can't find my way without following you
And I can't find my way without following you
And I can't find my way without following you
And I can't find my way without following you
And I can't

Burned by the sun
Burned by the sun
Burned by the sun
Burned by the sun

Live in a time where we get fed the same idea
Like junkies addicted to information
You go to a new place and you never get anywhere
And I already finished before you begun

Nation of slaves, who all say that
I can't find my way without following you
And I can't find my way without following you
And I can't find my way without following you
And I can't find my way without following you
And I can't find my way without following you
And I can't

Burned by the sun
Burned by the sun
Burned by the sun
Burned by the sun

I can't find my way without following you
And I can't find my way without following you
And I can't find my way without following you
And I can't find my way without following you
And I can't find my way without following you
And I can't find my way without following you

*** Thanx a lot to LuAnne for this one ***

Evidence

I need a dream, I need a bigger dream
Tell me if you know what I mean
I wanna live, I wanna live in your camera
Take a picture of my heart with ya

You could have
Evidence to know how I've been bad
Make me sad
Trying to find you in a world that's gone
away
I wanna sing, I wanna sing on your radio
So you would know the way I feel
I wanna die, I wanna die on your TV show
And be reborn as something that's real

You could have
Evidence to know how I've been bad
Make me sad
Trying to find you in a world that's gone away
World that's gone away

Nobody's son
I'm on the run under the gun
I'm not having any fun
What have I done, what have I done and what have I done
I don't even know what I've done

Cause you could have
Evidence to know how I've been bad
Make me sad
Trying to find you in a world that's gone away
World that's gone away (x8)

*** Thanx a lot to Raine & LuAnne for this one ***

Buy a bag 

She won't hesistate
To take me to dinner
Or to pay for my money
When I buy a bag
I pray like everybody else

She wears a nightgown
In front of me
Shows me her nipple
Or that's just what I see
But when I buy a bag
I pray like everybody else

The money makers are comatose
The money makers they make the most
And when they buy their bags
They pray like everybody else

All of their daughters are having fun
They spend their evenings looking for guns
And when they buy their bags
They pray like everybody else

It's okay to have fun with your mind
Hang onto anything decent you find
Cause when you buy your bag
You pray like everybody else

I been alone for a very long time
Take care of yours
Cause I take care of mine
If I sell you a bag
You'll pray like everybody

Termite song 

Couldn't make it up
As we go along
I don't have any words to put into your song
Looking through the junkyard of your heart
I need to find an engine for my car
I don't know where you are
I don't know where you are

When I drive
When I drive around the bend
Singing bye, bye, bye, bye

And though I really tried
I never have been good
And for my missing heart I carve one out of wood
Now I see the termites crawling into me
After they are finished I wonder where you'll be
I wonder where you'll be
I wonder where you'll be

When I drive
When I drive around the bend
Singing bye, bye, bye, bye

You never have been young
You never have been sane
And though you say that you don't care
In your eyes I see the shame
Looking through the window of your mind
I see a lonely shadow running out of time
Running out of time
Running out of time

When I drive
When I drive around the bend
Singing bye, bye, bye, bye

Permission

I got a new job
I got a new job
And I don't need your permission
To fade away

I'm right behind you
I'm right behind you
And I don't need your permission
To make my play

On the way down, you're falling up
On the way down, you're falling up
On the way down, you're falling up
(on the way down, on the way down)

On the way down, you're falling up
On the way down, you're falling up
On the way down, you're falling up
(on the way down, on the way down)

I'm right inside you
I'm right inside you
And I don't need your permission
To dig your grave

I've got religion
I've got religion
And I don't need your permission
To pray for you

On the way down, you're falling up
On the way down, you're falling up
On the way down, you're falling up
(on the way down, on the way down)

On the way down, you're falling up
On the way down, you're falling up
On the way down, you're falling up
(falling up, falling up)

On the way down, you're falling up
On the way down, you're falling up
On the way down, you're falling up
(on the way down, on the way down)

On the way down, you're falling up
On the way down, you're falling up
On the way down, you're falling up
(falling up)

Tell the darkness what you're thinking
Tell the darkness what you see
You got everything you wanted
In the darkness you are naked
In the darkness you are near
You got everything you wanted

Oh the world will never hear your pain
Oh the world will never hear you cry
Fly, the way you fly
Fly, the way you fly
Fly, the way you fly

*** Thanx a lot to Phalen & Patrice & Francescka & LuAnne for this one ***

Favorite girl

In your version of this world
You're everybody's favorite girl
But that don't mean I'll be the victim
Of any pain you are inflicting today

I don't know what I should do
I've been so happy
Being unhappy with you
But I've just had a revelation
My heart's been dying of starvation and I need
Somebody who will feed me

And if salvation only comes when you fall
Oh Lord
It's so hard for me to believe
Oh Lord
I'm still waiting for you to call
Oh Lord
Trapped inside my memory
Oh Lord

Pretending to be
Someone you know nothing about
Oh I wish you were
Someone I knew nothing about

You're looking for any explanation
Your words they only find a meaning in between
What's real and what will only ever be
Your dream

And if salvation only comes when you fall
Oh Lord
It's so hard for me to believe
Oh Lord
I'm still waiting for you to call
Oh Lord
Trapped inside my misery
Oh Lord

Will salvation only come if I fall ?
If I fall ?

Your are the dark

I'm up all night
Against my will
My medicine
Won't let me feel
Anything at all

The doctor gave
Me sleeping pills
And I took one
Then I felt all alone
Sleeping like a stone

And babe
You were the light
But now
You are the dark

I dream about
The autumn leaves
And you were one
Falling in the sun
Where are you now?

A TV burns
Our hollow room
I cleaned it up
Now I don't know what to do
I'm just lying down

And babe
You were the light
And now
You are the dark

I guess I live
Up in my head
I call you up
But my phone is dead
And I need too much

The doctor said
I need a cure
But what I got
He's not really sure
I won't say much

And babe
You were the light
And now
You are the dark

In the night

And where we live
Is where we hide
Cause we can't forgive
What's inside
We have sweet love
We have sweet love

In the night
Voices will fight
Voices of the shadows
And the runaways
Running from love
And every sorrow left behind

And when we wake up
It's already dark
And I touch your face
To feel your heart
We have sweet love
We have sweet love

In the night
Voices will fight
Voices of the shadows
And the runaways
Running from love
And every sorrow left behind

Blue lips 

I prayed to god from hell
Rung like a midnight bell
Dancing naked in these streets
Thought I was Jesus Christ
As I dug out my eyes
And threw them past the prison gate

So I still can't explain
What I had to do
To try and make it
Since your red lips turned blue

Now I'm a hunted man
Singing the song you sung
Wearing the noose from which you hung
I guess we lost the war
The air I breathed before
Only filled the dead man's lungs

So I still can't explain
What I had to do
To try and make it
Since your red lips turned blue

The devil is the lord
Of this confusing world
Where all the wrong dreams come true
I never needed light
I never felt like I was right
Did not deserve the love I knew

So I still can't explain
What I had to do
To try and make it
Since your red lips turned blue

You've been loved 

You don't know how you feel
Are you a dream? Are you for real?
Cause you don't ever slow down
To find what you lost or lose what you found
No one's saying what you need to hear

You've been loved
You've been loved
You've been loved

You've been loved
You've been loved
You've been loved

And so it's hard to admit
Most days you feel like you don't exist
Temptation sneaks past your fist
Until the devil won't let you resist
Oblivion is what you want

But you've been loved (All the way)
You've been loved (All the way)
You've been loved (All the way, All the way)

But you've been loved (All the way)
But you've been loved (All the way)
But you've been loved (All the way)

What you wanna do with your life?
What you gonna do with your life? (Make it to the light)
What you gonna do with your life?
What you gonna do with your life? (Make it to the light)

You've been loved (All the way)
You've been loved (All the way)
You've been loved (All the way, All the way)
You've been loved (All the way)
You've been loved (All the way)
You've been loved (All the way)

*** Thanx a lot to Christophe who corrected some mistakes ***

Let's embrace

( US Release of redemption's son )

I think the world belongs to me
I want to set you freer than free
I want to touch you

Come up to my place
And then let's embrace
And then let's replace
Our fear with our faith

And come up to my place
And then let's embrace
And then let's replace
Our fear with our faith

We are together now
And love is our child
Born from the unity
Of our human heart

I think the sun is shining on me
I can feel it
God's eyes are looking down onto me
I will reveal it

Come up to my place
And then let's embrace
And then let's replace
Our fear with our faith

And come up to my place
And then let's embrace
And then let's replace
Our fear with our faith

And come up to my place
And then let's embrace
And then let's replace
Our fear with our faith

And come up to my place
And come up to my place
And come up to my place
And come up to my place

*** Thanx a lot to Jonathan for this one ***

Holding the Void

Candy Store

Tell me if you know the way to the candy store
I guess we really should decide if I'm your pimp or your whore
Cause if you give me a little all I need is some more
Tell me if you have a key or should we break down the door

You don't understand yourself at all
You don't understand you're bound to fall

Tell me if you know the way to the other side
Tell me if you know the way to the end of time
And could you help me get rid of my begging mind
I'm calling out for you at the end of the line

You don't understand yourself at all
You don't understand you're bound to fall

You don't understand you're bound to fall
You don't understand yourself at all

Blue Jays and Honey Bee

Waking up
I wanna go back
But it's too late
Oh I'm still awake

I wanna love you
I wanna be nice
But the weekend comes and the money and the drugs and the parasites

Hey don't be sad
My blue jays and my honey bees
Hey don't be sad
My blue jays and my honey bees baby

If I were you
I would unscrew
My head from the shoe (?)
And forget what I knew

I wanna love you
I wanna be clean
But the predators bite even when you dream at night it's the ugliest scene

Hey don't be sad
My blue jays and my honey bees
Hey don't be sad
My blue jays and my honey bees

Hey don't be sad
My blue jays and my honey bees
Hey don't be sad
My blue jays and my honey bees baby

Hey don't be sad
My blue jays and my honey bees
Hey don't be sad
My blue jays and my honey bees

Gone Without it

Gone without it
Gone without it
Gone without it
Gone without it
Without it
Without it
Without it

Got no possession, without it
Got no possession, without it
Got no possession, without it
Without it

Gone without it

Miracle

I
I get by
Without a miracle
You
You get by
Without a miracle

So we should compromise
And we should stop telling lies

You
You get by
Without a miracle
I
I get by
Without a miracle

So we should compromise
And we should stop telling lies

When will you leave?
Where will you go?
When will you leave?
Where will you go?
When will you leave?
Where will you go?
When will you leave?
Where will you go?
When will you leave?
Where will you go?
When will you leave?
Where will you go?

I
I get by
Without a miracle

So we should compromise
And we should stop telling lies

False colored eyes

Give up your lies
And your false colored eyes
You're buried alive
Under your mind

I don't care who you have left behind
I don't care who you have compromised
Give up your lies

The things you despise
Have you hypnotized
Give up your disguise
And the places you hide

I don't care who you have compromised
I don't care who you have left behind
Give up your lies

And I need an answer
Am I here all by
Myself, myself
If you can surrender
You will only hurt yourself
Yourself
Yourself

Disposable

You lied to me
Now I'll never see your face again
You never knew you were my only friend
Now you've just become disposable

You needed love
But don't you know that love and lies can't mix
Eventually I saw through your tricks
The way you get your fix off of other people's souls

We were so young
Out of control
I bought the dream
The one you stole

So let's not pretend we're good
No let's not pretend we're good

I gotta go
And I won't come back this way again
I guess your disguise just got too thin
And now I can see exactly who you are

I hope for you
Eventually you'll learn to follow through
But when you do you won't be who I knew
Back when we threw ourselves off of every single ledge

We were so young
Out of control
I bought the dream
The one you stole

So let's not pretend we're good
No let's not pretend we're good

We were so young
Out of control
I bought the dream
The one you stole

So let's not pretend we're good
No let's not pretend we're good

We were so young
Out of control
I bought the dream
The one you stole

So let's not pretend we're good
No let's not pretend we're good

Hands birn dirty

Help me to bury
Feelings I can't stand
Take me to wherever
Take me by the hand

Maybe I need it
Maybe I'm a slave
Hands are born dirty
And I dig my own grave

I can't wait another minute more
Can't you see I've lost my self control?

Sun will blind me
Make it in the light
Throw me from my window
Hold me in the sky

Maybe I need it
Maybe I'm a slave
Hands are born dirty
And I dig my own grave

I can't wait another minute more
Can't you see I've lost my self control?
I can't wait another minute more
Can't you see I've lost my self control?

I can't wait another minute more
Can't you see I've lost my self control?
I can't wait another minute more
Can't you see I've lost my self control?

Look over your shoulder

Give me back oblivion
Take away my need
Someone's always chasing me
Underneath the trees

Look over your shoulder
Look over your shoulder

Everything around me now
Everything I see
Couldn't get much further from
Where I wanna be

Look over your shoulder
Look over your shoulder

And I can't feel a thing
And I can't feel a thing
And I can't feel a thing
And I can't feel a thing

Look over your shoulder
Look over your shoulder

And I can't feel a thing
And I can't feel a thing
And I can't feel a thing
And I can't feel a thing
Can't feel a thing
And I can't feel a thing

Call a friend

Don't be paranoid
You are a killer
You're too serious
Dancing with that corpse

Could you call a friend?
Could you love yourself again?
Could you call a friend?
Could you love yourself again?

When you got it
Feels good
But without it
You're so down
So down
So down

It could all fall apart
Any day of the week
A circus marching through your mind
Underneath all the dreams you used to seek

I could call a friend
I could love myself again
Could you call a friend?
Could you love yourself again?

When you got it
Feels good
But without it
You're so down
So down
So down

When you got it
Feels good
But without it
You're so down
You're so down
So down
So down
So down

Nothing wrong with the city

I don't need ghosts
They're impossible to see
Gimme what you got
What's believable to me

You are my host
I come inside of you for free
In you I'm lost
Far beyond where you could see

There's nothing wrong with the city
There's nothing wrong with my love
And if you think I'm so very very pretty
Why don't you buy me a diamond ring?

I don't need love
It's disposable to me
Your suffering is safe
It's a habit that you keep

Give me your ghosts
They're impossible to see
Hey let's hook up
Yeah back to where we used to be

There's nothing wrong with the city
There's nothing wrong with my love
And if you think I'm so very very pretty
Why don't you buy me a diamond ring?

I don't need ghosts
They're impossible to see
Gimme me what you got
Oh it's believable to me

You are my host
I come inside of you for free
In you I'm lost
Far beyond where you could see

There's nothing wrong with the city
There's nothing wrong with my love
And if you think I'm so very very pretty
Why don't you buy me a diamond ring?

I don't need ghosts
I don't need ghosts
I don't need ghosts

Don't be afraid

Don't be afraid
Tonight
Don't be afraid
Inside
Your mind

You're on your own
Tonight
You're on your own
Inside
Your mind

How do I know if you're for real?
How do I know if you're for real?
How do I know if you're for real?

Don't be afraid
Tonight
Don't be afraid
Inside
Your mind

You're on your own
Tonight
You're on your own
Inside
Your mind

How do I know if you're for real?
How do I know if you're for real?
How do I know if you're for real?

How do I know if you're for real?
How do I know if you're for real?
How do I know if you're for real?

Our shadows will remain

*** Thanx a lot to the Unofficial Joseph Arthur Website ***

In Ohio

In Ohio
You were born
You will die alone

I'm gonna wait up
(I'm) gonna wait up
(I'm) gonna wait up
For you

Can't exist

Well I can't exist
When you disappear
Disintegrating eyes
Swallow everything

Oh sister don't be scared
A thousand times or more
I've walked away alive
On my feet again

(Kill your light/life/lie?)
I will wait for you mother
I will wait for you father
I will wait for you sister
I will wait for you brother

Well I can't exist
So I can't explain
How I lost a thousand dollars
On the street again

Sister don't be scared
A thousand times or more
I've walked away alive
On my feet again

Sister don't be scared
A thousand times or more
I've walked away alive
On my feet again

(Kill your light/life/lie?)
I will wait for you mother
I will wait for you father
I will wait for you sister
I will wait for you brother

Stumble and pain

All your gifts come out of hell
You brought them back for love
Throw a bucket down into your well
You fill it with your blood

And you let it go
With the greatest ease
Cause something always stays the same
And always seems

With the need you never fill
Try to leave before it come
Like a man you've paid to kill
Asking you what should be done

And you let it go
With the greatest ease
Cause something always stays the same
And always seems

Sun down on a shady grin
Shaking hands on a sinking ship
Prostitute and a poison friend
Telling you you'll never quit

Devil's broom

In a time when I can't get enough to make it
Give me back half the sense that I used to have
Waking up in the sun face down on the pavement
Everything I own in a garbage bag

Where are you?
What did I do?
Why can't you see?
You mean everything to me
To me

Waking up in the tank, disorderly break-up
And no one here will even tell me what I did
With the guilt and the shame completely vacant
It's hard to stay alive when you don't know how to live

Where are you?
What did I do?
Why can't you see?
You mean everything to me
To me

(?Aren't you coming back, I'll never/won't make it alone?)

Since you gone ain't nobody else gonna save me
Cause I can't trade a bottle for an empty room
I just pray that the lord is gonna come down and take me
Sweep me off this floor with the devil's broom

Where are you?
What did I do?
Why can't you see?
You mean everything to me
To me

To me
You mean everything
To me
You mean everything
You mean everything
You mean everything
You mean everything
You mean everything

Echo Park

Walking with you down through Echo Park
The ghosts fill in the tree
A fire never understands the spark
The way it is with you and me

Freedom
Freedom
Our love won't fade away
Freedom
Freedom
Our love it won't fade away

The children running through the greenest field
The light of love pouring down
And only you and I know how it feels
When no one else is around

Freedom
Freedom
Our love won't fade away
Freedom
Freedom
Our love it won't fade away

Freedom
Freedom
Our love won't fade away
Freedom
Freedom
Our love it won't fade away

Walking with you down through Echo Park
The ghosts fill in the tree
The fire never understands the spark
The way it is with you and me

Even Tho

I'm getting cold
You used to have a heart
Now I guess there's just a stone
You said leave me alone
But even tho I'm here
You know that I'm already gone

Gone baby
Even tho I'm here you know that I'm already gone
Gone baby
Even tho I'm here you know that I'm already gone

We've got some time
So let's walk hand in hand together
And hold our heads up high
Since I can't read your mind
You've got to tell me what you're thinking
I won't write in the sky
I won't write in the sky

We're getting old
We've planted our seeds and now we wait for them to grow
You say I never show
You how I really feel or which way I'm gonna go

Gone baby
Even tho I'm here you know that I'm already gone
Gone baby
Even tho I'm here you know that I'm already gone
Gone baby
Even tho I'm here you know that I'm already gone
Gone baby
Even tho I'm here you know that I'm already gone

We've got some time
So let's walk hand in hand together
And hold our heads up high
Since I can't read your mind
You've got to tell me what you're thinking
I won't write in the sky
I won't write in the sky

No one to hold
The world will make a dream
And a prayer out of our bones
To find where we belong
Our shadows will remain
Even after we are gone

Gone baby
Even tho I'm here you know that I'm already gone
Gone baby
Even tho I'm here you know that I'm already gone

Puppets

Give less than I take
Genuine as any fake
I have no memory
Every moment eternally

I wanna try
To get away from everybody else
To get away from everybody else
To get away from everybody else
To get away from everybody else

I cut myself
But no blood came
And no one helped
Strings that we can't see
Puppet you
Puppet me

I wanna try
To get away from everybody else
To get away from everybody else
To get away from everybody else
To get away from everybody else

And you don't know
What it's like to try
To change where you go
And break the lie
And you never show
What it's like inside
To raise your low
And break your pride

Hearts crack like eggs
As children pull the spider's legs
Strays out in our yard
Of buried bones and boulevards

I wanna try
To get away from everybody else
To get away from everybody else
To get away from everybody else
To get away from everybody else

Wasted

If you're not sorry for who you are
Why are you sorry for where you've been?
I know you carry a secret star
The one you got from your invisible friend

I met you walking in the New York night
I said "Why are you walking so slow?"
You said "I'm looking for a book I can write
And after that I ain't got nowhere to go."

(I'm)
Wasted
I need to find a place to cry
Wasted
I need to find a place to cry

We stayed connected underneath the stones
You told me all the places you come from
I had a feeling I was being born
Inside your world where my heart could never be more

Wasted
I need to find a place to cry
Wasted
You need to find a place to cry
Wasted
We need to find a reason why
Wasted
We need to find a place to cry

If you're not sorry for who you are
Why are you sorry for where you've been?
I know you carry a secret star
The one you got from your invisible friend

(You're)
Wasted
You need to find a place to cry
Wasted
I need to find a place to cry
Wasted
You need to find a place to cry
Wasted

I need to find a place to cry

Failed

Now you're gone and I don't know why
You removed yourself in the blink of an eye
When the seasons change all you can do is cry
Now you're gone and I don't know why

Maybe I failed
Maybe I failed
Maybe I failed

(What's it like where you are?)
(What's it like to fall that far?)

Now you're gone and I don't know why
You removed yourself in the blink of an eye
When the seasons change all you can do is cry
Now you're gone and I don't know why

Maybe I failed
Maybe I failed
Maybe I failed

(What's it like where you are?)
The way you were I loved you
(What's it like to fall that far?)
The way you were

The way you were I loved you
The way you were

I am

You live in a darkness
Made out of your fear
Look into the future
Never are you here

You are not a person
Nor are what you see
Beyond this world you live in
Beyond your memory

To find out what you really are
You must wake up from this long night
Repeat the words I am
Repeat the words I am
Repeat the words I am
Repeat the words I am

Your world is in danger
But your world isn't real
You see what is imagined
Dreaming what you feel

To find out what you really are
You must wake up from this long night
Repeat the words I am
Repeat the words I am
Repeat the words I am
Repeat the words I am
Repeat the words I am
Repeat the words I am
Repeat the words I am
Repeat the words I am
I am
I am
I am

You are beyond the sun and the stars
You are the ever present light
Repeat the words I am
Repeat the words I am
Repeat the words I am
Repeat the words I am
Repeat the words I am
Repeat the words I am
Repeat the words I am
Repeat the words I am
I am
I am

A smile that explodes

Too young to fall
For a light I think I see
Can't say for sure
The plants have died
My hair has grown
From the thought of you
Coming home

Cause it ain't easy, uh
Waking up at dawn
To find I lost my crown
If I found you there
With flowers in your hair
I'd hold you in my arms
Till we came back down
A smile that explodes
I could never understand

My room too small
To get by without the help of alcohol
Pin my arm to the wall
Now I'm too gone to fight
Not afraid to fall

Cause it ain't easy, uh
Waking up at dawn
To find I lost my crown
If I found you there
With flowers in your hair
I'd hold you in my arms
Till we came back down
A smile that explodes
I could never understand

I write one more
Letter I won't send
Except for across the floor

Leave us alone

He was cut and then there was no fear
The dogs of hell were then unborn
And like a ghost without an atmosphere
His voice sang without a song

Singing to the ships as the foghorns blow
Shipping light where darkness hides
The night was blind but it could see him go
For in this dark his light survives

Go away
Leave us alone
We don't know yet
Who you are
So far
From home

He stands before them as they judge his life
His shadow reaching underneath
He will fight he will reveal his knife
They will question his belief
They will shatter all his teeth

Blood from his mouth and darkness he can see
His suicide is love reborn
And hanging from a noose in secrecy
His mind and spirit will divorce

Go away
Leave us alone
We don't know yet
Who you are
So far
From home

Don't run away

Go away
Leave us alone
We don't know yet
Who you are
So far
From home

All Of Our Hands

Until we feed the starving, blood is on all of our hands
Babylon is burning and there is no promised land
Until we clothe the naked all of us are damned
Dreams are just for savages calling themselves men

And in time fire will rain down
On our head
The sky will open up
And life will be bled
We are all the same spirit, we are all the same love
And still somehow we've chosen to slaughter the white dove
There is only one energy just different sets of clothes
For human being is to dress up and protect what no one knows

So in time fire will rain down
On our head
The sky will open up
And life will be bled

All of us will fall into the same hole
And all will reunite into the same soul
The death that we allow is the death that is our own
The murders we commit are committed in our home

So in time fire will rain down On our head
The sky will open up
And life will be bled

Murdered by indifference, murdered by our greed
Murdered by our riches taken from the ones in need
Murdered in our churches and murdered by belief
We who just do nothing shall be murdered in our sleep

In time fire will rain down
On our heads
The sky will open up
And life will be bled

Truth is just a word said to the ones who plead
What will we get back when we plant a poison seed?
Consumed by our consumption that can never be enough
The hungry are attacking, they are swallowing our blood

And in time fire will rain down
On our head
The sky will open up
And life wil be bled

The victims are now victimized and the world is inside out
Everyone is terrified the faithful are in doubt
Religion is a gimmick we want back the god they stole
But everyone is fighting to go deeper in the hole
Some believe salvation comes when the world is gone
But we have been forsaken, there is nowhere we belong

So in time fire will rain down
On our head
The sky will open up
And life will be bled

*** Thanx a lot to Susana & Dave for this one ***

Nuclear Daydream

Too Much To Hide

The needle says she'll tell you when she's through
No sense now in trying to believe in you

Too much to hide
In your own two eyes
Too much to hide
In your own world

There's some you know you follow into doom
By yourself and in an empty room

Too much to hide
In your own two eyes
Too much to hide
In your own world

Dream you're gone
Dream you're gone, so far gone
(So far, oh)
Dream you're gone
Dream you're gone, so far gone
(So far, oh)
Dream you're gone
Dream you're gone, so far gone
(So far away)
Dream you're gone
Dream you're gone, so far gone
(So far away)

I'm down here and walking with you still
And part of me I guess always will

Too much to hide
In your own two eyes
Too much to hide
In your own world

Be here now

Black Lexus

Your black Lexus has
Two hundred thousand miles
Underneath the missing roads

You don't know where you're going
Almost anytime
Things lost just lighten up your load

Maybe you're headin' out
To LA
See if they'll put you in a show

First you'll check with the stars
Read both your sign and mine
In the back of the New York Post

You can't find her
You can't find her
In the mirror everything's reversed
And you can't find her
You can't find her
Everyday you feel a little curse

Now your car's been towed
You misread the sign
Something left to do
Must have slipped your mind

Got no money left
Guess you'll stick around
And anyway the stars
Said not to go right now

But you can't find her
You can't find her
In the mirror everything's reversed
And you can't find her
You can't find her
Everyday you look a little worse

You can't find her
You can't find her
In the mirror everything's reversed
You can't find her
You can't find her
Everyday you feel a little curse

You can't find her
You can't find her
In the mirror everything's reversed
You can't find her
You can't find her
Everyday you feel a little curse

Enough To Get Away

What's the difference from a Saturday night
Where the light spreads dark around the drunk hearts
In their headless hallways where bodies are
put on the market place
To happiness endlessly taking pills
With the young going down
I see nothing or nowhere
I know what I've found
Must be in paradise

Next year we will live in the country
With our money, by day the sky builds
Doing our laundry and renting us some random machines
Getting our religion and sex on the TV
Assumptions made simply to get away
Everyone old is already with me
On tiny decks enjoying midsummer weather and friendly company
And in their picture frames there you and I will be
Knowing what we've found

Enough to get away
Knowing what we've found
Enough to get away
Knowing what we've found
Enough to get away
Knowing what we've found
Enough to get away

Bright drops of blood so my thoughts are
I turn to lie down but sleep stays far
I'm just an echo of the song going through my head
The light behides the ghost
But I'm the one that's dead
And I think of who you be
When you're here with me
Maybe it's a spiritual disease
Sliding through shoots of oblivion into infinity
Back into our maker's hands
No more rain or controversy
Knowing what we've found

Enough to get away
Knowing what we've found
Enough to get away
Knowing what we've found
Enough to get away
Knowing what we've found
Enough to get away

Slide Away

No matter what you want
Do or say
I hope you make it to
Better days
If you're a junkie heart
Be reborn
And every dime in bag
Leave your home

If they don't get to you
Get to me
We're gonna walk a path
Ever free
And stare into the sun
Till we're blind
Destroying every thought
In our mind

What you say counts
What you say counts
Till you fall down
Black as the night you crashed apart
Till every piece was gone

No matter where you live
Where you've been
You found an open road
And a friend
If you're a peaceful soul
Peace will come
So don't you hide away
What you've done

What you say counts
What you say counts
Till you fall down
Black as the night you crashed apart
Till every piece was gone

Slide away
Now won't you
Slide away
Now won't you
Slide away
I want you all the way
I want you

Slide away
Now won't you
Slide away
Now won't you
Slide away
I want you all the way
I want you

Slide away
Now won't you
Slide away
Now won't you
Slide away
I want you all the way
I want you

Slide away

Electrical Storm

How do you live cold
Before you're young
You're so old

You're born and then you die
You're born and then you die
And you are born

Past the city and the thieves
Past the wolverines and trees
Until the sunrise
In the electrical storm

Last night with you
When we turned blue
I saw right through
When we turned blue

I can see you now
You are me
Anyhow

You're born and then you die
You're born and then you die
And you are born

Past the city and the thieves
Past the wolverines and trees
Until the sunrise
In the electrical storm

In the sunrise
In the sunrise
And we are born
In the electrical storm

In the sunrise
In the sunrise
And we are born
In the electrical storm

Last night with you
When we turned blue
Were you untrue
When we turned blue
When we turned blue

You Are Free

Time is moving on
You and me
You and me
Suffering is gone
You are free
You are free

I know I let you down
Those days are over now

I'm no longer who I was
No longer who I thought I was
I'm no longer who I was
No longer who I thought I was
I'm no longer who I was
No longer who I thought I was
I'm no longer who I was
No longer who I thought I was

Time is moving on
You and me
You and me
Suffering is gone
You are free
You are free

I know I let you down
Those days are over now

I'm no longer who I was
No longer who you thought I was
I'm no longer who I was
No longer who I thought I was
I'm no longer who I was
No longer who I thought I was
I'm no longer who I was
No longer who you thought I was

I'm no longer who I was
No longer who I thought I was
I'm no longer who I was
No longer who I thought I was
I'm no longer who I was
No longer who you thought I was
I'm no longer who I was
No longer who I thought I was

I'm not afraid of nothing
I'm not afraid of anyone
I'm not afraid of losing myself
There ain't no self to lose
I'm not afraid of losing myself
There ain't no self to lose
I'm not afraid of losing myself
There ain't no self to lose
I'm not afraid

Time is moving on
You and me
You and me
Suffering is done
Let it be
Let it be

When you feel you're strong
You are free
You are free

Automatic Situation

Automatic who you blame
Like a moth into the flame
Burn your wings, have scars to show
Always gone before you go

It's all down from here
(Automatic, Automatic, Automatic situation)
The fall you prepared
(Automatic, Automatic, Automatic situation)

Damaged pride in a twisted heart
Little thief who was never caught
Wanna give you what she earns
Souvenirs of the wings she burns

It's all down from here
(Automatic, Automatic, Automatic situation)
The fall you prepared
(Automatic, Automatic, Automatic situation)

It's all down from here
(Automatic, Automatic, Automatic situation)
The fall you prepared
(Automatic, Automatic, Automatic situation)

When I Was Running Out Of Time

When I was running out of time
I turned it into a dream
And you went drifting into my mind
Things ain't the way that they seem
I turn you into a dream
And make it all go away
You know your hair looks different when you wear it that way
You've got a painted face and a body made of clay
You are my super star

They will fill you with big ideas
They'll hang your heart in the sky
I know you want to save the world
How long have you been that high
How long have you been that high
And did you make it all go away
You know your eyes look different when you look the other way
You've got a cheating heart bleeding emeralds everyday
You are a shooting star

Things ain't the same as when we was young
They hung us from shooting stars
Let's tell the world we're doing fine
I know how lucky we are
I know how lucky we are
To make it all go away
You know this world is topsy-turvy in days like today
We got a million souls looking for a place to stay
Each one a shooting star

Don't Tell Your Eyes

Don't tell your eyes
Don't tell your eyes
Your eyes are mine

Don't tell your mind
Don't tell your mind
Your mind is mine

Jesus loves you more than you know
More than you know
Jesus loves you more than you know
More than you know

Don't tell your dream
Don't tell your dream
Your dream is mine

Don't tell your sex
Don't tell your sex
Your sex is mine

Jesus loves you more than you know
More than you know
Jesus loves you more than you know
More than you know

Jesus loves you more than you know
More than you know
Jesus loves you more than you know
More than you know

Don't Give Up On People

Give 'em one more chance
One more thing to say
I made a very big mistake
Followed by a thousand days

Don't give up on people
Who want you to stay

Satellites and moonbeams
Signal dreams to play
Last time I saw you
Was in the sunless time of day

Don't give up on people
Who want you to stay

Don't give up on people
Who want you to stay

Woman

Woman
Woman
You make me feel
Woman
Woman
Are you for real?

Cause I don't know if I make it on without you
I don't know if I could make it on my own back
home

Mother
Mother
Are you right here?
Mother
Mother
I share your fear

Cause I don't know if I make it on without you
I don't know if I could make it on my own back
home

Sister
Sister
You're here I see
Sister
Sister
You see through me

Cause I don't know if I make it on without you
I don't know if I could make it on my own back home

Woman
Woman
Are you for real
Woman
Woman
You make me feel

Cause I don't know if I make it on without you
I don't know if I could make it on my own back home

Nuclear Daydream

You can hold your needle
You can point your gun
You can shoot and kill me
Or you could let me run

But I won't ever cry for you anymore
The days when I would die for you are now gone

If there's a plan then tell me
If you know who you are
A princess or a mummy
A flower or a scar

So I don't have to cry for you anymore
The days when I would die for you are now gone
Are now gone

What's it like to lose control
Are you even here at all

This is a nuclear daydream
It's my atomic bomb
I already lost my passage
I already lost our home

So I won't ever cry for you anymore
The days when I would die for you are now gone

There's only dreams and numbers
And wishes left unsaid
In all the burning letters
Underneath our bed

Saying I won't ever cry for you anymore
The days when I would die for you are now gone
Are now gone
Are now gone
Are now gone

Let's just be

*** Thanx a lot to http://www.coldestsea.net for these lyrics ***

Diamond ring

[You know it]

I wanna go out
But not really
I keep droppin' the bucket
Until it's dry
Until it's dry

I wanna go out
But not really
I keep stuffin' the muskett
Until you cry
Until you cry

You could be my diamond ring
I say You
You could be my diamond ring

I wanna go out
But not really
I keep droppin' the bucket
Until it's dry
Until it's dry

[Come on]

I wanna go out
But not really
I keep stuffin' your muskett
Until you fly
Until you fly

I say you could be my diamond ring
I say You
You could be my diamond ring
I say You
You could be my diamond ring
I say You
You could be my diamond ring

[ Baby yes, Baby yes-saaa (?) ]

I say you could be my diamond ring
I say You
You could be my diamond ring
I say You
You could be my diamond ring
I say You
You could be my diamond ring

Good life

There is a ghost in each of us
Before we're ever born
There is a ghost in each of us
And all must learn mourn
Muhammad Ali
He said what's on his mind
Muhammad Ali
Could change the course of time
There is a ghost in each of us
Before we hit the grave
There is a ghost in each of us
A ghost we each must save
Muhammad Ali
Spoke in poetry
Muhammad Ali
Gave all to you and me
There is a ghost in all of us
Who runs when we're asleep
There is a ghost in all of us
A diamond you can't keep

Sometimes I want to take you home
Sometimes, sometimes I want to be alone
To wake up from the good life
To fix up from the dull night

Sometimes I want to take you home
Sometimes, sometimes I want to be alone
To wake up from the good life
To fix up from the dull night

To wake up from the good life
To fix up from the dull night

Oh, let's go
You
Let's go
Rock
And roll

To wake up from the good life
To fix up from the dull night
To wake up from the good life
To fix up from the dull night

Precious one

Taste you like a woman
Taste you like a woman in the evening sun
Taste you like a woman
Taste you like a woman you're my precious one

Lights come with fighters and live in dark circles
I've lived in your fires and now I'm comin' home

Taste you like a woman
Taste you like a woman after all we've done
Taste you like a woman
Taste you like a woman when I'm on my run

Lights come with fighters and live in dark circles
I've lived in your fires and now I'm comin' home
Comin' home

Taste you like a woman
Taste you like a woman in the evening sun
Taste you like a woman
Taste you like a woman you're my precious one

Lights come with fighters and live in dark circles
I've lived in your fires and now I'm comin' home

Lights come with fighters and live in dark circles
I've lived in your fires and now I'm comin' home
Comin' home

Spacemen

Wake up sister
Sister come on
You know it's for you (x2)

Come on brother
Give us your song
It's all you can do (x2)

Here come the spacemen
Out of the sky
Ah Ah
Here come the spacemen
Out of the sky
Ah Ah
Here come the spacemen
Out of the sky
Ah Ah

So come on mother
You could be wrong
In fact now you are
The light in the star

Come down father
You could be strong
So come on
I say come on

Here come the spacemen
Out of the sky
Ah Ah
Here come the spacemen
Out of the sky
Ah Ah
Here come the spacemen
Out of the sky
Ah Ah

Here they come now
Here they come

So come on

Take me home

Take me home
Look good on your own
Take me home
Look good

I can see the sun
I think the evening's done
Take me home
You look good on your own

Sometimes it's good
To say goodbye
Before you make it
To the end of time
Yes, sometimes it's good
To say goodbye
Before you make it
To the end of time

Take me home
Take me home
Look good on your own

I can see the sun
I think we just begun
Please take me home
You look good

Sometimes it's good
To say goodbye
Before you make it
To the end of time
Sometimes it's good
To say goodbye
Before you make it
To the end of time

Take me home
I can see the sun
Take me home

Chicago

You're my best friend
I need you until the end
No, you i will never betray

Don't run away from yourself
Or follow anyone else
No, you never have to be a slave

If they don't play you in chicago
Oh no no no
And if they don't save you when you're lonely
Only you
Could see your light, see your light, see your light, you
Could see your light, see your light, see

Your mirror is destroyed
I see you now trying to avoid
The truth of who you really are

The heat will stay with the flame
So your beauty never will change
To me you will always be a star

And if they don't play you in chicago
Oh no no no
And if they don't save you when you're lonely
Only you
Could see your light, see your light, see your light, you
Could see your light, see your light, see

Some turn lunatic
Others learn how to forget
This world to which they just don't belong

I wonder who you will be
A dream with no memory
A beggar looking for one magic song

And if they don't play you in chicago
Oh no no no
And if they don't save you when you're lonely
Only you
Could see your light, see your light, see your light, you
Could see your light, [see what i see] see your light, [see what i see] see your light, you
Could see your light, [see what i see] see your light, [see what i see] see your light, you

Cockteezzze

We could be free
You and me
But i'd rather be a
Cockteezzze

Hey, get on your knees and pray with me
I don't care what you wanna believe

We could be free
You and me
But i'd rather be a
Cockteezzze

Hey, get on your knees and pray with me
I don't care what you wanna believe

Let me get witcha, witcha one time
Witcha, witcha one time
One time

Oh hey, hey, hey

We could be free
You and me
But i'd rather be a
Cockteezzze

Hey, get on your knees and pray with me
Oh, i don't care what you wanna believe

Be free
You and me
But i'd rather be a
Cockteezzze

Get on your knees and pray with me
I don't care what you wanna believe

Let me get witcha, witcha one time
Witcha, witcha one time
One time

Oh hey, hey, hey

Lonely astronaut

Here comes the rain
Falling down like ecstasy
I feel your pain
Raining now inside of me

Far from where we're going
Away from where we've been
Everything we lost out here
One day must be lost again (2x)

The moon will rise
Worship lonely astronauts
To our surprise
We can never get the light we lost

With the weight of our emotions
Which are gone before they end
Are they here just to remind us
Of everything we've lost again
Everything we've lost again

When you cry your eyes are hollow (4x)

Send out the probe
To help us find eternity
It won't return
Or no one will be left to see

The stars are in their solitudes
The light it comes from them
By the time it hits our open eyes
All of it is lost again (2x)

We disappear
Into one another's mind
And reappear
With faith in something new to find
We are resurrecting our history so thin
With graduatin' needs to fill
The love we'll only lose again (2x)

When you cry your eyes are hollow (4x)

Cocaine feet

You can feel
Numb in your bones
You and i live
Without anyone

Cocaine feet
Wrecked cities in the dark
Another dirty street
Where you don't belong

Don't you ever put me down on the white line
No matter what i put you through
Don't you ever put me down on the white line
No matter what i put you through
No matter what i put you through

Your brown head
Has too many thoughts
Your brown bed
Has too many spots

Where have you been
And who have you been with
Who did you kill
And who did you kiss

Don't you ever put me down on the white line
No matter what i put you through
Don't you ever put me down on the white line
No matter what i put you through
No matter what i put you through

Don't you ever put me down on the whit