Much Afraid

Empty againSunken down so farSo scared to fallI might not get up again So I lay at your feetAll my brokennessI carry all of my burdens to you [Chorus:] All of these thingsI’ve held up in vainNo reason nor rhymeJust the scars that remainOf all of these thingsI’m so much afraidScared out of my mindBy […]


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Famous Last Words

You say you heard every word, but I watched you turn awayYour eyes grew colder than winter"Love is so intrusive," I thought I heard you sayAnd laugh so unconvincingly Famous last words, "I’m not ready yet""I won’t be gone a minute" Narrow is the road and too high a price to payWhen loneliness is such […]


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Flood

Rain, rain on my faceIt hasn’t stopped raining for daysMy world is a floodSlowly I become one with the mud [Chorus:] But if I can’t swim after forty daysand my mind is crushed by the thrashing wavesLift me up so high that I cannot fallLift me upLift me up – when I’m fallingLift me up […]


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Crazy Times

You’re cold that wayAnd that’s why you sayThe things that you sayYou can’t attractThe things that you lackYou’re trying in vain [Chorus:] It seems it’s always the crazy timesYou find you’ll wake up and realizeIt takes more than your saline eyesTo make things right You spiral downYou’ve broken your crownYou don’t feel like a queenYou’ve […]


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Hand

I’m here waiting for something new to break my heartSo callous laden, I can’t feel a thing at allWill You catch my fall? From lost and not found, to run and not hideMy hand inside… (Your hand) Fear is keeping time with the beating of my heartDoin’ way too much thinkin’And it’s tearing me apartBut […]


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Tea And Sympathy

Fare thee wellTrade in all our words for tea and sympathyWonder why we tried, for things that could never bePlay our hearts lament, like an unrehearsed symphony Not intendTo leave this castle full of empty roomsOur love the captive in the tower never rescuedAnd all the victory songsSeem to be playing out of tune But […]


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Liquid

Arms nailed down,are you telling me something?Eyes turned out,are you looking for someone? This is the one thing,The one thing that I know. Blood-stained brow,are you dying for nothing?Flesh and blood,is it so elemental? This is the one thing,The one thing that I know. Blood-stained brow,He wasn’t broken for nothing.Arms nailed down,He didn’t die for […]


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Hymn

Oh refuge of my hardened heartOh fast pursuing lover comeAs angels dance ’round Your throneMy life by captured fare You own Not silhouette of trodden faithNor death shall not my steps be guideI’ll pirouette upon mine graveFor in Your path I’ll run and hide [Chorus:] Oh gaze of love so melt my prideThat I may […]


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Goodbye, Goodnight

A flower for your vanity, a penny for your thoughtsAbout the world’s insanity and how we’ve gotten lostStrike up the band to play a song as we go waltzing byAnd fake a smile as we all say goodbyeGoodbye, oh goodbye Say a prayer for recognition, kiss the ones you loveGather up the ammunition, sigh for […]


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Revolution

[verse]Peace takes a taxi To the undergroundI wanna love the worldBut I don’t know howBlame it on the d.j. Playin’ all the fast songsAin’t spinnin’ anythingThat I can sing along [chorus]So if you know the wordsThen try to sing alongAnd when you get the beatGrab a hammer, bang a gongCuz you don’t got to fightOr […]


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