You’ve played this hand, refused to stand
Has dignity dissolved?
How far away I heard you say
In empathy devolved
You cast your heart two worlds apart
And lost sight of your soul
But the sun will rise with cleaner eyes
That you pretend to know
I stood here waiting for so long
I stood here praying I was wrong
You said that we could last forever
Forever and a day
You said that we could last forever
If only I would stay
I know, within your soul
The light fights trough the rain
But if you promise me forever
I know that it’s in vain
If silence slips from sacred lips
Shall the world un-become
The tears of saints in blood you paint
A cowards word is none
And with no voice you forfeit choice
And crucify your thoughts
But see a face in tortured grace
Whose eyes belonged to God
I stood here waiting for so long
I stood here praying I was wrong
You said that we could last forever
Forever and a day
You said that we could last forever
If only I would stay
I know, within your soul
The light fights trough the rain
But now a promise of forever
Won’t take away the pain
Sangrael, sangrael
A lovers cup before a wishing well
Sangrael, sangrael
Where all who thirst shall drink
Sangrael, sangrael
From heavens height to the depths of hell
Sangrael, sangrael
All who thirst shall drink
I stood here waiting for so long
I stood here praying I was wrong
You said that we could last forever
Forever and a day
You said that we could last forever
If only I would stay
I know, within your soul
The light fights trough the rain
But if you promise me forever
I know that it’s in vain
You said that we could last forever
Forever and a day
You said that we could last forever
If only I would stay
I know, within your soul
The light fights through the rain
But now a promise of forever
Won’t take away the pain
“Don’t ask me to surrender”
Her voice fell tired and spent
“My hopes and dreams, a silent heart
I carry here within”
Her outstretched wings, left tattered
A sail aged with rust
“a breath in time, that’s yours and mine
It belongs to only us”
And I will write her name and cast it to the sky
Silhouettes recede into a mother’s tearful eyes
A host of angels clamor to her side
A light dissolves to kiss the wind
Release the dragonfly
See the rose within the field of white
She’s searching for the grail
But the rain descends to snatch the light
From distant dying suns
A faint resounding in the night
Calls angels wings to beat
Singing silent lip-sewn songs
But the distance is too deep
And I will write her name and cast it to the sky
Silhouettes recede into a mother’s tearful eyes
A host of angels clamor to her side
A night dissolved to kiss the wind
Release the dragonfly
And I will write her name and cast it to the sky
As precious moments will slip away in time
Angels fall from grace, and sometimes heroes die
But tonight, my love, ascend the gates,
Release the dragonfly
“Sometimes angels fall, but love will never die
Tonight my soul is something more”
Calls the dragonfly.
In this fading realm of silent dreams
All falls quiet in front of me
I have to think, I must believe
That this is only sleep
As the day has tread into the night
And memory is painted white
A kiss will carry you away
And find us another place
Still I want again to hold your hand
A moment more to understand
How much it means, these little things
To savor one more smile
But in the silence nothing stirs
Not a rising breath to reassure
So I hang my head and hold you close
For this is only sleep
And that’s the way I watch the sky
With a simple prayer to sail her by
I have to think, I must believe
That this is only sleep
Only sleep… only sleep…
Only sleep… only sleep
If morning comes and all is quiet
A liftetime dances in my mind
But I have to think, I must believe
That this is only sleep,
And that’s the way I watch the sky
With a simple prayer to sail her by
I have to think, I must believe
That this is only sleep
Only sleep… only sleep…
Only sleep… only sleep…
And that’s the way I watch the sky
With a simple prayer to sail her by
I have to think, I must believe
That this is only sleep
I have to think, I must believe
That this is only sleep
Only sleep…
“I walk alone at night,
Raindrops and streetlights
Reflecting flashes
Across the asphalt
In a seconds time, I might refrain from breathing
With her hand in mine, something is breaking faster
Through a blackened sky, I see a world unravel
I look into her eyes to see the end
In a seconds time, the walls swim cold electric
With a tearful smile, she whispers my undoing
In the hollow night, I find no trace of comfort
I turn just in time to see the end
I walk the edge
Standing on the velvet edge
Looking backwards in the rain
I wonder just how many times
I’ve watched you walk away
All that fascination bleeds
Is a piece of infinity
In frustration still believing
What I know will never be
Blurry eyes growing weak
Fading with the light of time
Piercing nothing to redeem
The emptiness with lies
Pride has raped the sorrowed heart
And stolen what I love,
Though the cut is digging still
How much deeper it could go…
Why did you come here,
Just to break my heart again?
I walk the edge ——
Why did you come here,
Just to sever my last remaining thread –
Why did you come here
Just to watch me fall again?
I walk the edge ——
Why did you come here….?
I walk the edge…”
Beneath the doubt and confusion
Beneath the sting of betrayal
Survives the core of a nation
Trapped in a state of denial
Do you hear the calling
Voice from deep within
The forgotten heart of an anthem
Like whispers on the wind
It calls the shameful to honor
It calls the darkness to dawn
It calls the captive with the will to be free
And the anthem marches on.
There’s nothing like a blind man’s memory
Music colors refuse to see
I play with smoke and mirrors now
Living life across your many screens
And I’m sure there is no utopia
But always vision is a step away
Your viewpoint becomes a technicality
The only chance we have
Is the chance we take!
The weakest fall in compliance
As fear discarded the dream
In subtle silence masking liberty
They take away by degrees
But I still hear the calling
A voice felt deep within
The forgotten heart of an anthem
Like whispers on the wind.
It calls the shameful to honor
It calls the darkness to dawn
It calls the captive with the will to be free
And the anthem marches on.
Strange skies!
Strange skies!
The sun burns through the windows.
Rising from the stones
As dear as ancient clockwork
To mark our time alone
As order moves to chaos
So time cannot reverse
Watching from the tower spire
A finite universe
And all our burning questions
And all out greatest fears
They look to find the evidence
But they will not find it here
Strange skies!
Strange skies!
Science and religion
Upon each other’s throne
Naive to thought beyond their box
They cannot stand alone
And all our burning questions
And all out greatest fears
They look to find the evidence
But they will not find it here
For all our deepest secrets
Distilled in heartfelt prayers
Only concludes to claim as true
What consciousness may bear
Strange skies!
We’re living in the age of reason…
I’m not convinced you understand
For all the insight in your hands
Living in the age of reason…
I’m not convinced you comprehend
The consequence we are
Living in the age of reason
To boldly reach without support
A premise bridged from nothing more
Living in the age…
Than what you’ve seen and deem is real
For god is not contained
God is not contained
God is not contained
Strange skies!
God is not contained
Strange skies!
Strange skies!
Because a dream to quantum space
A particle to love
Cannot conclude to prove as true
What we know nothing of
And all our burning questions
And all out greatest fears
They look to find the evidence
But they will not find it here
For all our deepest secrets
Distilled in heartfelt prayers
Only concludes to claim as true
What consciousness may bear
Strange skies
We’re living in the age of reason…
I’m not convinced you understand
For all the insight in your hands
Living in the age of reason…
I’m not convinced you comprehend
The consequence we are
Living in the age of reason
To boldly reach without support
A premise bridged from nothing more
Than what you’ve seen and then believe is real
For god is not contained
God is not contained!
The lines are clear with tomorrow standing against me
And I am silent as I face my fears alone
Responsibility weighing down upon my shoulders
When all that I needed in a heartbeat is taken from me
The truth is unclear if you close your eyes too tightly
What dream is life spun like silver to the night
Don’t wake me up and do not let me go
And if the world falls from the sky
Shall we like the atlas rise
If time collapses to this end
Beneath the avalanche
With love like pages stripped away
My heart must find another way
Courage comes from circumstance
Beneath the avalanche
And I fear the sky is falling
It’s the price we pay if we act with our convictions
But the faces I see still believe me too naive
We are not lost or forgotten to our conscience
When all that we need for survival we carry inside
I will not fall before you
I will not grovel at your feet
I will not let you crush me
My will is stronger than you think
Opportunities are lost
In a starving shade of silence
And every battle fought
Has left me looking back
What we obtain through isolation
Often leads us deeper into war…
So tell me how can I retreat?
Some things are worth… fighting for…
And how do we justify
When actions are conceived in weakness?
Is there honor in my heart
If I lack the strength to act?
And though my hand is trembling
And my eyes are wreathed in so much doubt
And every instinct shows me fear
I stand my ground
We have no olifant resounding
Nor fortunes here to carry home
No epic tale becoming legend
Only choices: right and wrong
But somewhere in the haze of life I find
There is a perfect shining light
That each of us must seek to know the truth
Of who we really are…
So sing a song for Roland
And all of those who sacrificed their lives
Their colors traded in for…
A world of black and white
So sing a song for Roland
And all of those who fought for what was right
You may never understand
For whom they died
Perhaps they will banish me
From the annals of history
In the end it matters not
We direct our destiny
I’ve lived beyond myself, for an instant…
And heard echoes in the hearts and faces
I will never know…
But still I cannot forget
I do not know the mind of God
And I can not guess His thoughts…
But I have searched for you across the void
When my sense of self was lost.
The answers danced to brush my grasp
In the darkness and the pain.
And I saw myself for all I am
Through decisions I have made.
With hearts Immortal
We stand before our lives.
A soul against oblivion
Forever asking “Why?”
This upside-down symphony
In a paradox called life.
Are hearts immortal?
What you give to love
Will never die.
And when my ashes scatter me
With my memories to the wind,
What endures beyond the silent edge
Is the essence found within.
Have we forgotten truly who we are
And what our living means?
Our purpose lies in others’ eyes
And the realities that we bring.
With hearts Immortal
We stand before our lives.
(Stand before our lives)
A soul against oblivion
Forever asking “Why?”
This upside-down symphony
In a paradox called life.
(Stand before our lives)
Are hearts immortal?
What you give to love
Will never die.
All that I am and all that I dream
Lives somewhere beyond your image of me;
And who I become and what I will be
Is not yours to decide:
It comes only from me.
With hearts Immortal
We stand before our lives.
A soul against oblivion
Forever asking “Why?”
This upside-down symphony
Is a paradox called life.
Are hearts immortal?
What you give to love
Will never die. (x3)
Fragments of my life
Are slipping through time
In washed out memories
I just can’t seem to find
It seems I break
All my fragile dreams
When I call
The angel into me
So what have I done?
What have I done?
Have I made you proud
Or have I driven you away?
Her eyes are complicated
Silently she slips away
And in her wake I find
A cascade of regret
All that I believe in
The anchors in my heart
Cannot be for nothing
But we still stand apart
In silence
It seems I break
All my fragile dreams
When I call
The angels back to me
So what have I done?
What have I done?
When time has claimed my fire
And left me in exile
Shadows cross in essence
That’s part of what I am
When you try to see the angel
Standing like a man
Paper hearts and faded pictures
That we cherished all the while
And guard of distant forests
Raining tears placed in exile
What have I done?
Who have I become?
Though these words may come alive
Poets and prophets die.
God, are you sleeping?
God, are you dreaming?
Are you watching me tonight,
Finding tears to mark the time?
God, are you sleeping?
God, are you dreaming?
Are you crying for my life?
Falling angels in exile
(God, are you sleeping?)
Never give up.
(God, are you dreaming?)
Never give in.
There is fight within.
Do you hear me in the dark?
(God, are you sleeping?)
Never give up
(God, are you dreaming?)
Never give in
There is fight within
And I long to see your smile
What have I done?
Who have I become?
Though these words may come alive
Poets and prophets die…
The trial is set before us
And its hard to understand
The mechanics of this world we tread
The potential in our hands
Truth is born in uncertain stages
And in turn life will reveal
That though we stand before the crown
The future is concealed
So we must move to face our enemies
And to each of us his own
Perspectives change across the board
As the last among us knows
And I am proud of what I’ve sacrificed
And I am proud of what I’ve saved
In commitment to a greater good
Strength grows from splintered faith
And if the darkness falls upon me
In the silence of my heart
And if the world turns to abandon
I will not fall apart
For I believe in something deeper
Than the physics that we share
And I will strive with all my power
To reach the 8th and final square
For in every evil and every loss
A finer verity unfolds
You are free to face this trepidation
And with your weakness grow
For the strongest bones are broken
And the soul needs to redeem
With courage face the thing you fear
So the pawn becomes the queen
I go inside the darkness
I go within the light
I find the open spaces
My world is black and white
One pill makes you larger
And one pill makes you small
And the ones that your mother gives you
Don’t do anything at all
Go ask Alice
When she’s ten feet tall
And if you go chasing rabbits
Then you know you’re going to fall
Tell them a hookah smoking caterpillar
Has given you the call
He called Alice
When she was just small
When the men on the chessboard
Get up and tell you where to go
And you’ve just had some kind of mushroom
And your mind is moving low
Go ask Alice
I think she’ll know
When logic and proportion
Have fallen sloppy dead
And the White Knight is talking backwards
And the Red Queen’s “Off with her head!”
Remember what the dormouse said:
“Feed your head”
“Feed your head”
A soul of pure mechanics
A sentinel to this edge
Battle bruised and filled with holes
Last living to protect
Burning chrome and steel becomes
Something more alive
That to destruction so consigned
Believing will survive
Look up now child
To the sky
And hear the titans
Fearless cry
For you these mortals
Now become
An offering to life
And all the men
Who will not die
Even though
They give their lives
Return to us
And in our hearts and minds
As heroes will survive
Engines burn in glowing rage
High above the clouds
Where bullets reign
And metal bleeds
As smoke comes streaking out
Now limping back sad victory
Its wings are losing flight
And down it goes
This fireball
Its etched into my mind
I lost sight of the raging waters
Below the surface where I lay
Fractures slip like ghosting fish
Below my fingertips
I watched the days in proud procession
Upon the icy pools above
And seen the stars like distant fires
That follow each day through
Cold dawn in the world that I built
Cold water and chiseled stone
Maybe time will one day find me
Maybe then I’ll get back home
Cold dusk in a world that I made
My memories are all I know
So if you’re searching, I’m still waiting
Where is time to bring me home
I drew regret with a dull blue pencil
Deep beneath the danger mark
It left me here below the ocean
Below the wreckage of my heart
And now I breathe this cold dead water
No time to give what others steal
No song of life to make things better
No warmth in love for me to feel
Cold dawn
Waiting for the night to come
Words scribbled on the underside of an old envelope
Becoming everything inside
Ink spilled on paper, but in a deeper sense
Several sentences blurred by tears
Represented more sentiment
More that was meaningful and real
Than the years that led to this crossroads
I heard the door close
Not slamming, but slinking shut
In an unfortunate and unhappy desire to be undetected
As if secrecy could lesson the pain
Sometimes our lives descend, ensnared
As storms upon the soul
And rains may strike dividing
To sever what was whole
But though your limbs feel torn and twisted
And your memories turn cold
Take heart, for I am with you still
And will catch you should you fall
Eyes to Heaven
Lost and searching for the truth
The words to mend your broken heart
Can only come from you
Eyes to Heaven
Building secrets from your pain
A virtue lost in innocence
Is lost here all the same
A beautiful dreamer locked in reticence
In a tower of your soul
What lies so deep and undisturbed
Fears torment in the world
Lightning flashes warning
To whispers in the rain
The fire climbing upwards
Your fortress lies in flame
Just pray you do the right thing
Eyes to Heaven
Lost and searching for the truth
The words to mend your broken heart
Can only come from you
Eyes to Heaven
Building secrets from your pain
In prayers to end the suffering
Heard by a soldier’s saint
Eyes to Heaven
Lost and searching for the truth
I am lost, and I’m falling
Just pray you do the right thing
Something falls on the horizon
I see a silhouette disappear
And in the distance, I heard him cry
As he fell deeper, into this
(Laughing)
Dull is life with a poets vice
Pretty, pretty girls and a lifetime of lies
Making something of another turn
Down an empty corridor
Smoking guns and apologies
Never given what you need
Scrap the simple games you play
And take them to the floor
Take back, take back your memory
Hitting hard, muscles bent in agony
Playing out your personal tragedy
Take back, take back the dancefloor
What’s it for?
When life is shallow and the living’s fast
Making love for things that’ll never last
Forget your heart, forget your past
And live inside the moment
When TV’s ugly and the sentiments cheap
And dreams are living outside of sleep
You can trust your heart to make you weak
And break down your fear of safety
Take back, take back your memory
Hitting hard, muscles bent in agony
Playing out your personal tragedy
Take back, take back the dancefloor
Project your heart, project your soul
Use your body, take control
(Repeat 3x)
When you’d make it crisp, much sharper to see
Like the spaces hidden in-between
The candy faces are all I need
To make my heartbeat faster
Laying claim in a crowded room
To the sounds of thumping buzzcut zoo
Ask forgiveness if you fail
But take the floor for me
Take back, take back your memory
Hitting hard, muscles bent in agony
Playing out your personal tragedy
Take back, take back the dancefloor
(Repeat)
Project your heart, project your soul
Use your body, take control
(Repeat 3x)
(It’s basically disco)
She cries, children often do
When they’re cold, and hungry too,
Come closer, look deeply in her eyes
So delicate, quite unlike her smile
Life clinging backwards,
In the fall of dread confusion,
Still this silence gnaws upon your fingertips,
Cold yielding breath, for instant isolation,
Far more sinister than the price of doubt,
Yet you remain,
Still you remain,
And she says:
Pray for daylight,
Pray for morning,
Pray for an end to our deception… (2x)
Life clinging backwards,
In the fall of dread confusion,
Still this silence gnaws upon your fingertips,
Cold yielding breath, for instant isolation,
Far more sinister than the price of doubt,
Yet you remain,
Still you remain,
And she says:
Pray for daylight,
Pray for morning,
Pray for an end to our deception…
Yesterday with eyes away the briefness of a moment
As in a blinding flash of light the world came remade
Vauge my life, A distant shadow filtered through my mind
And dreamed my lovers kiss subdued the emptiness inside
I watch a thousand ships go by
From the cliffs abouve the helpless tide
I raise my chin to the god within
As to carry fear with a failing grin
And blizzard rage fills every page
Fills every breath and every taste
I raise my chin to the god within
As to carry fear with a failing grin
And blizzard rage fills every page
Fills every breath and every taste Within
Twas Brillig and the slithy Toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe,
All mimsy were the borogoves
And the momeraths outgrabe.
Beware the Jabberwock, my son,
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jub-jub bird and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch
He took his vorpal sword in hand,
Long time the manx-ome foe he sought,
So rested he by the Tum Tum Tree
And stood a while in thought.
And as in uffish thought he stood
The Jabberwock with eyes of flame
Came whiffling thru the tulgey wood
And burbled as it came!
One two one two, and through and through the vorpal blade went snicker snak!
He left it dead and with its head he went galumphing back.
And hast thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms! My beamish boy!
Oh frabjous day! Cllooh, Calay! He chortled in his joy.
Twas brillig and the slithy Toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe,
All mimsy were the borogoves
And the momeraths outgrabe
Scented pain and separation
Defies the physics and the form
That life must to exist consume and be reborn
Why is this strange attraction
A call to arms with my destiny?
What choice or course of action?
Will you leave a path for me?
Love laced with tragedy
A sense of agony
Why can’t i feel love as in a fairy tale?
My world is growing stale
And now I’ve lost this love
Systematically paralyzed from the soul out towards the eyes
What I feel I have no traction to hold or realize
Winking into motivation
I do not trust the things I’ve seen
And now these lost and found sensations want to devour me
Love laced with tragedy
A sense of agony
Why can’t I feel love as in a fairy tale?
My heart is growing frail
And now I’ve lost this love
Dreams lie shattered shards endure now the wraiths her mind possess
like shells of precious flowers dried out and hung with love
making eyes into frozen temples that stale you in her gaze
so pale so cold so beautiful if not clinically insane
Now the decades pass unanswered and she prays with silent lips
sometimes she talks to angels when she has her little fits
but you must believe in something – sometime that something’s real
sometimes our motivations are tied up in what we feel
So elegant her poetry falls from her pallid lips
she flows like icy roadways when the wheels start to slip
and if her course lays waste to this i pray away to your design
her minions shall dance your dreaming eyes and sing her fragile rhymes
Now the decades pass unanswered and she prays with silent lips
sometimes she talks to angels when she has her little fits
but you must believe in something – sometime that something’s real
sometimes our motivations are tied up in what we feel
Ave maria
just give us something
but it’s lost on deafened ears
ave maria
just give us something
to ears that cannot hear
Now the decades pass unanswered and she prays with silent lips
sometimes she talks to angels when she has her little fits
but you must believe in something – sometime that something’s real
sometimes our motivations are tied up in what we feel
Ave maria
just give us something
but it’s lost on deafened ears
ave maria
she’s saying something
to ears that cannot hear
Ave maria
just give us something
but it’s lost on deafened ears
ave maria
if god is speaking
she’s the only one who hears.
It was many and many a year ago
In a kingdom by the sea
That a maiden there lived whom you may know
By the name of Annabel Lee;
And this maiden she lived with no other thought
Than to love and be loved by me
I was a child and she was a child
In this kingdom by the sea;
But we loved with a love that was more than love-
I and my Annabel Lee;
With a love that the winged seraphs of heaven
Coveted her and me
And this was the reason that, long ago
In this kingdom by the sea
A wind blew out of a cloud, chilling
My beautiful Annabel Lee;
So that her highborn kinsman came
And bore her away from me
To shut her up in a sepulcher
In this kingdom by the sea
The angels, not half so happy in heaven
Went envying her and me-
Yes!- that was the reason
(as all men know, In this kingdom by the sea)
That the wind came out of the cloud by night
Chilling and killing my Annabel Lee
But our love it was stronger by far than the love
Of those who were older than we-
Of many far wiser than we-
And neither the angels in heaven above
Nor the demons down under the sea
Can ever dissever my soul from the soul
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee
For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And the stars never rise but I feel the bright eyes
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side
Of my darling, my darling, my life and my bride
In the sepulcher there by the sea
In her tomb by the sounding sea
Here comes the rain again
Falling on my head like a memory
Falling on my head like a new emotion
I want to walk in the open wind
I want to talk like lovers do
I want to dive into your ocean
Is it raining with you?
Chorus:
So baby talk to me
Like lovers do
Walk with me
Like lovers do
Talk to me
Like lovers do
Here comes the rain again-
Raining in my hand like a tragedy
Tearing me apart like a new emotion
I want to breathe in the open wind
I want to kiss like lovers do
I want to dive into your ocean
Is it raining with you?
Chorus:
So baby talk to me
Like lovers do
Walk with me
Like lovers do
Talk to me
Like lovers do
So baby talk to me
Like lovers do
So baby talk to me
Like lovers do
Walk with me
Like lovers do
Talk to me
Like lovers do
Talk to me
Here comes the rain again-
Falling on my head like a memory
Falling on my head like a new emotion
Here it goes again
Here it goes again
I want to walk in the open wind
I want to talk like lovers do
I want to dive into your ocean
It is really with you
Here comes the rain again-
Falling on my head like a memory
Falling on my head like e new emotion
I want to walk in the open wind
I want to talk like lovers do
I want to dive into your ocean
Is it raining with you?
Here comes the rain again-
Falling on my hand like a memory
Falling on my hand like a new emotion
Dear Angel,
Where are your warming wings tonight?
It’s so cold outside won’t you hold me for awhile?
And angel, I feel alone and unalive.
The night is frozen and these tears have stung my eyes.
Dreams may pass and dreams may fade,
Nothing I love will stay the same;
Nothing ever stays the same.
So angel I feel so numb and so far away.
I can see myself on the pavement where I lay.
Oh angel why do I stare so? what do I see?
Why do these lifeless eyes look that way back at me?
Dreams may pass and dreams may fade,
Nothing I love will stay the stay the same;
Nothing under heaven stays the same.
Dreams may pass and dreams may fade,
Nothing I love will stay the stay the same;
Nothing ever stays the same.