Poets of the Fall

8/6/2019 Poets of the Fall

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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


You were there by my side on the frontline

And we fought to believe the impossible


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 horizonCos 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


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


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 humanityYou'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 ploySaid 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


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


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


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


So I'll know it will not leave me wanting, like my love, kissing me good bye


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


So I'll know it will not leave me wanting, I see my heart, waving me bye-bye


So I'll know it will not leave me wanting, like my love, kissing me good bye




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



Don't fall down when it's time to arise

No-one else can heal your wounds



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 rainSundown 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


So when I hear you calling my name, Yeah, I know you're the one



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


So when I hear you calling my name, I'll know the good I've done





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



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



If I can't choose my own design


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



If we all walk behind the blind


Whatever tomorrow wants from me

At least I'm here, at least I'm free

Free to choose to see the signsThis 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 newsOh, 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


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


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



Can I still leave behind my naivete of youth?


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



Can I still leave behind my naivete of youth?


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







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









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



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


Love's a onetime deal







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


Love's a onetime deal With a delicious dark appeal








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


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



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


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 seemsWe 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


it's a late goodbye, such a late goodbye


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


it's a late goodbye, such a late goodbye...

Based on a poem by Sam Lake



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 growThe bottom line here's I love you so

3 AM we seemed alright, couldn't be better




3 AM we seemed alright, like never better




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...



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 openingLead 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 breatheEmbrace 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 goThe 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 seeI am still secretly grateful you're living this moment with me

We can see where it leadsIt'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 endThere 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 meSecretly 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 feelingInside 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

Poets of the Fall

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