1. |
Pale Tide
06:36
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The tide came in
Its burden floating still
Above the ivory horses
Careening toward the shore~
Meandering in silence
Conversing with each grain of sand
Rippled waves caressed her face
Away the ocean left in tears
Bereft of that which it bestowed
Upon the land in a state of love
In the light of the morning sun
Her eyes were as pure
And white as snow
She held me with her gaze
I can feel it calling me
I’m in ecstasy
Now there for days
She passed the time
That pale little girl in darkness
She tied to me
The strings int her heart
We’re lying in the pouring rain
This water woman
A miracle to see
I’m thanking the stars up above
I can’t believe that she came to me
Her eyes were as pure
And white as snow
She held me in her gaze
I can feel it calling me
I’m in ecstasy
It’s what she does to me
I’m feeling like a king
She is my ocean queen
With our love are all the answers
Eternity is ours for taking
Nevermore to face the darkness
Free from misery and sadness
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2. |
C.E.I.
03:51
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I draw the line
You’re the best
You’re thrilling me
With that dress
So c’mon baby and turn around
Let me show you
The love in me
What you wearing under there
Doesn’t rhyme with four and five
I got a fire that burns in me
To your beautiful soul
I’m bound
Hold me in your strange
Beating hearts in time
Cosmically, eternally intertwined
In a sleazy room in paradise
I came for one we made it three
I fell for you, a man insane
A slave to love at your command
Now every day and every night
With each embrace and every fight
Sexy, electric eyes on me
Celestial bodies we collide
I give you all I am
No longer to drift in space
Cosmically, eternally intertwined
You and me
Were born to be together
With each mistake
And every lie, its been a ride
Through chance and change
I’m redefined
With your hand in mine
We reunite
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3. |
Icarus
04:49
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If you should fall into the sun
I can’t save you I’m on the moon
Before the morning blooms
You’ll already be gone
I dream of Icarus
He calls me, he knows my name
In flames his destiny
And yet he continues on
Carelessly you prepare to fly
For all to see, a sideshow scene
The people come from miles around
To stare in awe
I please, dear Icarus
To slow down, to play it safe
Manic his energy
Impulsive and unrestrained
Hear me, dear Icarus,
This journey you won’t survive
See him fall
As he burns
Nothing is left
But his skeleton wings
I dream of Icarus
He calls me, he knows my name
In flames his destiny
And yet he continues on
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4. |
Snowblind
05:28
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I’m visiting from out of time
To ring the funeral bell
I’m shoving lovers in the trunk
With a gun in my hand
I saved them all from lethal injection
I’m burning up
Let’s dim the lights
We’ll have a dance or two
I’m seeing double that’s the trouble
With these alien eyes
Too many nights have I gazed in darkness
They wanted you all along
They wanted you right where they could see
What part of you isn’t gone
This isn’t my plan
I’m afraid to breathe
The games you play
Are a crying shame
You blow yourselves away
You’ll never stop
Til the Earth is a desolate rock
And you’re the last
Of your god’s creation.
They wanted you all along
They wanted you right where they could see
What part of you isn’t gone
This isn’t my plan
I’m afraid to breathe
I’m feeling the ragged edge
I’ll follow it down to where you lie
Awaiting the coronation
Kneel before me
There is no escape
These are the new commandments
Take heed you might survive them
Confused, undone and snowblind
Let it bleed to kill you faster
Won’t you stay awhile
For the death parade
You’re a god in hell
Im your master
It’s your fate indeed
To return to me
The devourer everlasting
Wont’ you stay awhile
See the great decay
As your vision fades
Into shadow
You will burn tonight
And I will bury you
Won’t you stay awhile
For the death parade
You’re a god in hell
Im your master
It’s your fate indeed
To return to me
The devourer everlasting
Wont’ you stay awhile
See the great decay
As your vision fades
Into shadow
In your soul I see
Not a sign of faith
You’re a mind diseased
Full aphasia
They wanted you all along
They wanted to peel you down to bone
And nothing was left to save
The barren earth is now your home
They’re crossing the borderline
Between the terror and your dreams
Unable to look away
I tear you apart at the scenes
Death parade
God is Hell
Blinding stars
God is hell
Evil mind-god is hell
Left behind god in hell
Eat the sun-god in hell
Break the night-god is hell
Breathe in light-god we sell
Firm in faith god we sell
Close your eyes embracing hell
Break the night-god is hell
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5. |
Mr. Zero
05:38
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My mind is running down
Like an old machine
I hold my head up and look around
For what is left of me
Out in the distance a pair of eyes
That never look away
In desperation I’m begging you
Be what I need today
Could I call you my hero
Because all of mine are gone
And I’m feeling like a zero
Before but not within
Could I call you my hero
My last one was a fake
We don’t need another Nero
Call me Mr. Zero
He was a shade of gray
I’d never seen before
A broken essence a withered man
Without the words to speak
Just then in my head I heard a call
A ghostly voice that said.
“Head on but know
That the life you live
Is on the way to death”
But could I call you my hero
Because all of mine have died
And the end is near oh no
Within but not beyond.
Could I call you my hero
Will you fake it for a day
I could settle for a Nero
Call me Mr. Zero
Eternally now left to wander
Within the valley of the dead
Cold beneath the earth
If you let me call you hero
I won’t get in your way
I’m not living in fear oh no
Help me cross the great divide
The silence in the air is haunting
I fell into the end
Look into the sky
Blinded by the sun.
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6. |
Whatev Kev
03:36
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A common cause
Keeping time
Waiting for an alabaster dream
I fell into a shallow grace
So many eyes looked away
Right here
You can forget the voice of reason
Going insane like Jackie Gleason
Straight to the moon I’m out of season
How about you come with me.
I feel no damn value here
Wrapped up in your cellophane
Trapped between two windowpanes
Beneath the sheets two lovers
Miles apart but next to each other
There’s nothing more that you could do
This deep emotion is a raging ocean
Reality consumed in the fire
Treating away all trace
Of madness looming
Burning at midnight
Yearning to feel right
Running away I’ve been running forever.
I feel so much better
Let down like a feather
Receiving you loud and clear
Everybody knows now
That I fear my shadow
But if I try to fake it
I’ll never get a heaven
There’s nothing more that I can do
For faithless wasteful youth
I’d rearrange the stars
If I were bored with the view
Right here
You can forget the voice of reason
Going insane like Jackie Gleason
Straight to the moon I’m out of season
How about you come with me.
Hey
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7. |
From the Top
04:21
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A sudden quickening
I’m seeing everything
But the faces are to me a blur
The silence in my head
Through passages of time
I cannot see beyond the veil
A prison of my own design
The darkness in the sky
Washes over me
Sweeping me away
And every friend to me
Is now an enemy
I got no reason
Left to believe
In anything but breathing
A burning effigy
Is what I want to be
Haven’t got a reason left
To frame the visions
Underneath my skin
I feel buried alive
And sleep is just a dream
I’m running out of time
To reverse the slow decay
When I’m alone at night
It doesn’t feel right
I’ve only got myself to blame
I couldn’t make them stay
I pushed them all away
In a better place I might reclaim
The better memories of mine
I’m tearing it down
To build it back up
I don’t want to die
But I’m not living this way
Show me an ending where I’ll be alright
For I have tried and failed
To be anything
But a stone of lies
Everything I see is cold and gray
Give me what I need to survive
Another day
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8. |
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I’m staring at precisely nothing
Confounded in dire need of truth
I cannot take away
The unrelenting sense of doom
I can no longer tell you who I am
You’ll find me there beyond the borderline
On a throne of memories
I’m insane that is why I indemnify
To compensate for the effect
A sea of dissolution
Cleanses me of all joy
Self-righteous and yet self-deluded
I dance around the hole I made
In flames I erase the pain
With a narrow point of view
I’m dying ever faster
The suffering everlaster
Devoid of reason
Yet the trees above
They sway in deadly ways
I’m insane that is why I indemnify
To compensate for the effect
A sea of dissolution
Cleanses me of all joy
I can’t avenge the little boy
I used to be
So long ago the day he died
Above the clouds he’s soaring
Through the Milky Way
The suffering everlaster
I’m dying ever faster
The suffering everlaster
Come on and test me
I’m insane never more to indemnify
Tragically it had no effect
A sea of dissolution disappears
Without a trace
I’m insane that is why I indemnify
To compensate for the effect
A sea of dissolution
Washes over me.
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9. |
Stop
04:21
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I think I’ve been awake
For forty days
Yet I can’t get this
Crown of thorns to stay on
And I get the feeling
I’ve been led astray
I’m drowning
In a sea of paranoia
The devil’s coming to get me,
His face so familiar
Like my own reflection
Yes
Take a look
Beneath the sheet for me
See the little boy
You left in pieces
In that little room
You locked away
With your disease
You brought to life my nightmares
Momma’s coming to get me
The anger so familiar
As she starts to beat me
Who not to blame
For my emotions
Don’t pray for me
I’m doing fine
Im not sick
But there’s a ghost in my head
And it needs release
To set me free
Though my history
Is filled with pain
I will rise
Above my shame victorious
Any minute now
You’re gonna see
You can’t do anything to me
You’re just another voice
In my head
You’re just a voice
But to me you’re dead
You’re dead
To me you’re dead.
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10. |
Turn Ups
04:02
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There’s not much left here to save
Witness the dawn fade to gray
And I’ll be fine it’s just
Everything weighing on my mind
I’m hollow in need of your shelter
Unfortunately I’ve arrived too late
All they left me was pain
A smile is the hardest to master
When you feel like you’re dying
Though I make it look easy
It’s a lie tonight tonight
I’m burning alive
Please stay with me now
There in your arms
Peaceful and sane
What could I do to repay
I’ll worship the earth
That you’re walking on.
You gave me the power to conquer
All my shadows and demons
It hasn’t been easy
But tonight tonight
The lie is burning alive
You’re here with me now
Help me restore my will to change
Under the light of the stars
I finally found
The strength to move on
Gave into the fledgling flame
All I am is there to see
All of my life all the answers
Have eluded me have eluded me
Then you found me like an angel
Broke the chains of my insanity
My insanity
You’re here with me now
Forever more
I will remain
The light in the flame
More than the light of the stars
My love will live on
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11. |
Never in Time
04:33
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Desperation is a rising mountain
Unable to to ascend
Unrelenting like a raging ocean
The voices inside your head
Any minute you’ll be cold and broken
A shadow lost in time
In a never ending state of delusion
Lost between the lines
I see you coming down
Your soul
In disgrace you will die
Who will save you now
From yourself
From losing all you control.
You’re a paragon of overreaction
And wild insanity
The wheel are turning
But you’re going nowhere
Fighting just to breathe
Any minute you’ll be on a the inside
A cage of your misery
It’s all chaos and confusion
You’re no different from me
I see you coming down
Your soul in disgrace soon to cease
Who will save you now
From losing all you control
Lost in isolation
Contemplate your failed creation
And you abandoned us all
Under cover of night
Oh mother
You inflicted agony
I’ve been through hell and finally I realize
You were both the master and the slave
As I leave you behind
Mad with paranoia
Pay heeds these words
It’s not too late
Give up your pain
Rise above the fire
Breathe and be one with the light
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12. |
Wars at Home
05:32
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Your homeland in ruins
Defaced and buried deep beneath the sand
And yet you seem to carry on
In exile,
All sense of justice broken in your mind
Tonight you may give up your life
Your rights of passage are denied
Their faces forgotten
Barely breathing rapture in despair
The world in vain is rendered blind
Hey Israel you war machine
Erasing all of life in Palestine
Tonight you may give up your life
Your rights of passage are denied
You seek to find the answers
Your faith in god never unraveling
No hope for resolutionDenied the revolution
Your pride restrained afraid to fall
Deny deny the truth will die
Your soul’s been tried in the deepest grave
Consumed for all to see to feel
Can’t you see the women
The children the men are slaughtered
By the thousands
On and on and on
The cleansing carries on
Tonight you may give up your life
Your rights of passage are denied
Consumed for all to see to feel
Your soul’s been tried in the deepest grave
Deny deny the truth will die
Give it back
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