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| 2. |
| 2:11 | 
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The lights come on
The set is down The curtain's flown away To all you creatures of the night I say it's time we play We'll show you things That in your life You'd never dreamed you'd know So now before the ghosts arrive It's welcome to the show Minstrels, kings, explorers Fantasies on order Ghosts and dreams awakened Stories long forsaken The minstrel and the sorcerer Are switching their disguise The jester drinks and starts to think That he alone is wise The governor and journalist Exchange a judas kiss And now before the song is done The plot begins to twist Ghosts and lost explorers Fate with all her daughters Saints and hopeless sinners Wise men in their winters Know Welcome to the show Welcome to the show Welcome to the show Welcome to the show His life was nearly over As he stood upon the beach Thinking about death and the ocean While still safely out of reach And he held there in his hand A well worn hourglass And though the sand was still inside Soon this too would pass Then he knelt to touch the water Where the waves would gently fall Thinking here I touch the ocean And the ocean touches all For from a line of countless sailors He was the last man of his kind And the world had changed around him He had no mountains left to climb And his last name was Magellan A descendant of the same Or so he said in late night bars Though few believed his claim And so he now talked with the ocean As he had often done before But now the waves spoke back to him As he walked along the shore For eighty years plus seven He had been upon this earth And all of them but eight He'd spent on that ocean since his birth But he was not the only one Who walked along this coast There was a lady old and pale To some nearly a ghost She had once been a great beauty It was rumored in some bars When she'd left here many years before To become a movie star But every wish is not to be Ahh this in time she learned And when her final chance had passed Back here she had returned And everyday at six o'clock She came to a small cafe And had herself a glass of wine And then she'd walk away To others she was gray and old Not the beauty she'd been before But it did not matter what she was What mattered was what he saw And so for near three years now He'd watch her everyday And though they always were so close He felt so far away For he could never quite arrange The words inside his mind That he could say to make her stay And he was running out of time He could not find the words to say To such a work of dreams And so he watched her walk away And always stayed unseen |
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| 3. |
| 6:01 |
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Stands all alone
Looks in the mirror And sees what she wanted to be Safely unknown To anyone near her She sees what she wanted to see And turns to me And turns to me And turns to... She was prophesied For an early slide Followed it to the letter Well kept beauty queen If there, always seen Still you thought she'd know better No erasing The time you're wasting But when you're wasting You don't care All those pieces In short term leases But when you need them They're not there For all those moments of yesterday She's traded every tomorrow And now all those moments are so far away Ghosts haunt each word she would say As she walks among the decay She had Oscar Wilde's Timeless sense of style As had been her intention Still she was afraid Time must be repaid And there'd be no redemption Youth and time collide She could not decide On a certain direction Time was catching up Carefully made up She avoided detection For all those moments of yesterday She's traded every tomorrow And now all those moments are so far away I saw it too Closer than you What else is there left to say Wait for me now I will be there for you This I will vow If you still want me to But it won't be This I have always known And in the dark There's no one to pray for me now I don't understand what I'm feeling tonight I don't understand but I'm waiting Searching the shadows that fade in the light But I'm feeling alive Trying to survive Float with the tide Till you arrive and I.... |
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| 4. |
| 5:49 |
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When you look at the morning sun
Do you see what I see Or could I be the only one Seeing just what I need I envision a different man Than the one I've become Pray the ocean will understand That my time isn't done Everyone's leading But nobody's dancing You stand on the stage Just to turn all alone I have waited this way For a lifetime of days I can't wait for the morning sun As I stand with the sea And the ocean she understands Just the man I could be Somewhere else there's a different world With a sun that will rise And a moon that will take its place In another man's eyes And perhaps it's a better world Than the one that I see Or if better for no one else Perhaps better for me Here in the dark where the sky shows its Graces Revealing each star while the moon plays the fool Saying how it must be while the night disagrees I can't wait for the morning sun As I stand with the sea And the ocean she understands Just the man I could be No, no, time doesn't wait for you No, no, leave it alone No, no, your days are far too few This thing I have always known When your time is up it & #146; s true They never give another day to you When your time is up it & #146; s through No one cares how Can't keep it Can't save it Can't take it away with you So I say we use it now Now his thoughts gave way to anger And he loudly cursed at fate That in a world of opportunities That he was doomed to wait That his life could be predestined To be stuck here on this shore He could not make himself believe That there was nothing more |
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| 5. |
| 4:36 |
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Times were changing
Eighteen years and fading Ain't a lot of time left to be a star On an island All alone and dying Walk upon the water But you won't get far Dreams and visions Tied into decisions Saw you on a postcard From the other side Hope and glitter Never feeling bitter Walk upon the water Just to be your bride Don't tell me now That there is nothing more There is a how Just like there is a door And if there's not to be another way You tell me why Why Why Stay and follow If the words are hollow Gotta' go along Cause it's all you got Each day earn them Turn around and burn them Think your fitting in But you hope you're not Neatly drowning Every drink your downing If you drink enough You'll forget the game Each illusion Wrapped in absolution Live your life in weekends But it's not the same Don't tell me now That there is nothing more There is a how Just like there is a door And if there's not to be another way You tell me why Why Why Why |
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| 6. |
| 4:33 |
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Blackjack guillotine
Razor sharp Always clean Gotta lie Very wide Once inside she knows what to do She knows what to do Skin tight China white Just another neon life In the vein Leaves a stain All the time you know that it's true You know that its true So tell me what you had in store It doesn't matter anymore It never did, it never will But I'll be out there waiting still You're moving fast but leaving tracks A compromise to your attacks There comes a time you want to take it back Back Back Back But can't think of nothing I Can't think of nothing I Can't think of nothing I Lack Junkie Credit card Gotta vein Goes for yards Hypnotised You decide Every neuron's changing its view Changing its view Gentlemen Summarize Every lie Well disguised Don't forget Neuron death In the mind awaiting its cue Awaiting its cue And so we found it very mod The worshiping of lesser gods And lie they do For lie they must For they know it's the lie we trust And so we're out there laying tracks Wherever there's a vein to pack There comes a time you want to take it back Back Back Back Back But I can't think of nothing I can't think of nothing I can't think of nothing I lack |
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| 7. |
| 5:34 |
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Day
Into night Into day Into I don't know you anymore But I stand Where you say Thinking all the time you planned it You've been gone away too long Leaving us to carry on Though in truth you never tried Just stepped back and watched the slide Paragons of innocence Questioning of your intent Never quite sure what you meant From the other side Moments on the carousel Must admit we ride it well And the horses never tell All throughout the ride That no one leaves No one leaves No one leaves... Alive Time On my hands Slips away Till I just don't feel it anymore Thinking back When I can To the time when it began with Bits of dreams all in a line And somehow we missed the signs That it all was never real And in truth a fatal deal Paragons of innocence Questioning of your intent Never quite sure what you meant From the other side Moments on the carousel Must admit we ride it well And the horses never tell All throughout the ride No one leaves No one leaves No one leaves... Alive There always comes a time When you do what you want to do You know you shouldn't do it But you do it anyway And when he had that time When he knew what he wanted to He quickly placed his order Though he never thought he'd pay But the lines turned to lies And the lies turned to tangles And you're pale as a cadaver Though you think it doesn't show So you live with the lies And the friends that it gathers But somewhere in your heart you know you Got to let it Got to let it Go Paragons of innocence Questioning of your intent Never quite sure what you meant From the other side Moments on the carousel Must admit we ride it well And the horses never tell All throughout the ride No one leaves No one leaves No one leaves... Alive Then the sailor picked a coat up That had been laying there And placed it over the body And then he said a little prayer And the ocean brought in on a wave An old waterlogged wreath And pushed it up along the sand Till it touched the dead man's feet And written on that wreath In letters of gold foil Was the name veronica guerin But the letters were bent and soiled The sailor said I see these flowers That you so kindly gave Are obviously from far away And from another's grave And I cannot help but to think The sailor gently said That it's unwise in god eyes To steal flowers from the dead The ocean said please trust me friend This gift will cause no pain And the person to whom they once belonged Would surely say the same You see this wreath was from the funeral Of a woman who showed no fear Of men who lived in mansions Bought with other people's tears Of men who lived in mansions Bought with bits of others lives Who at night still hugged their children And brought gifts home to their wives With money made from heroin And packets of cocaine And if a buyer overdosed They never felt the pain There were many flowers at her funeral But none for this boy I fear So the wind has blown this wreath to me And I have brought it here She gave her life to stop the spread Of drugs among her kind And if we leave these flowers for this boy I'm sure she wouldn't mind |
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| 8. |
| 2:37 |
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Complaint In The System (Veronica Guerin)
Written by Jon Oliva, Paul O'Neill Welcome to the system Here's the situation It's a bit confusing Welcome to the maze Everybody sees what Everybody wants to Everyone avoids Every other gaze I will be your mentor I'll be your advisor I'll do what I do And you will look away Forgetting what you see Has always been much wiser But someone in the back is missing what I say Got a complaint in the system Got a complaint in the system Welcome to the park now We supply amusements Everybody rides But everybody pays What good's causing problems When no one's complaining What good is a martyr If no one is saved Everybody knows us Everybody sees us Every single child Can tell you where we are Every politician Says that we are leaving But in all this time We haven't gone too far Got a complaint in the system Got a complaint in the system Got a complaint in the system Got a complaint in the system You should understand it It's not underhanded It's really quite simple you see The right and the wrong of it Long and the short of it Black and the white of it Forget the sight of it It is so much cheaper To be no one's keeper Trust me In the dead of the night You can stab with a knife But it's rare you'll ever get anywhere So we laugh in delight Till you turn on a light And we scatter for the darkness Or the corners filled with blackness And we're There There There There There There Where Where Where Where Where Where There |
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| 9. |
| 3:52 |
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Each man has a soul
That struggles to escape And in the shallows of his dreams We can often see its wake For we all have our secrets That we all keep deep inside Away from light, in darkest night Where it's always safe to hide Away from all that we should meet Less someone else should share That thing that hides inside our soul That we pray was never there And out upon that ocean A lifetime from the shore Miguel stood his night watch Recalling everything he saw For he was a deckhand Aboard the "maersk dubai" He had sailed her round the world From hamburg to sendai But this trip had been different More than any he had known For on board there was an evil And the evil had been shown For halfway through this voyage They had found two stowaways That the captain had thrown in the sea And left them to the waves And when he tried to close his eyes And pretend he did not know The evil did not go away But used the time to grow For later on that same trip They found a stowaway once again But the captain soon met this one too And brought him to the same cold end He wondered what that boy thought inside Before that final sleep When water was all that was around And his lungs had screamed breathe deep He wondered what went through his mind As he gasped for air And the last moment when he prayed for help To find nobody there He wondered to himself If he could have been the one To stand up at that moment And say this cannot be done To stand up to the captain And say this thing it cannot be But there is nothing closer to god on earth Than a captain on the sea And he was just a deckhand With no right to plead the case Of this stranger in their midst And so he kept his place And what is done is done And undone cannot be And so he pushed it from his mind And stared out across the sea |
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| 6:10 |
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As he stood upon the watch deck
Looking out onto the sea It would offer no solutions Only silent company So he took hold of the reasons As he tried to understand But they offered just confusion As they bled into his hands Dear god Couldn't you decide What should happen to a man's assassins Dear god Is it suicide I have never been a man of passions I believe what the prophets said That the oceans hold their dead But at night when the waves are near They whisper And I hear There are wounds that bleed inside us There are wounds we never see They are part of our refinements That allow a man to be There are wounds that bleed in silence With aristocratic grace There are tears we keep beside them Never seen upon a face Dear god Do you think it's wise To remember everything that's ever happened Dear god Could we compromise Or must the shadows of this night be everlasting I believe what the prophets said That the oceans hold their dead As I contemplate this stand What I do Is who I am I believe what the prophets said That the oceans hold their dead But at night when the waves are near They whisper And I hear Don't see the storms are forming Don't see or heed the warning Don't hear the sound of tyrants Surrounded by the silence Columbus and magellan and de gama Sailed upon the ocean In a world of ignorance With thoughts so primitive That men were killed With no more will Than that they simply had the notion But in this world of heartless men This thing they never did Don't hear it Don't hear it Don't hear it Don't hear it Got to keep it underground Pretend you never heard a sound If they find it kill it blind it If they find it kill it blind it Lord tell me what is to be Lord tell me what is to be They whisper and I hear |
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| 5:17 |
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Don't want to walk upon the water
Don't want to look across the waves Instead of seeing hills of water I just see markers on their graves But in the fading of a season To look across an empty sky For a forgotten childhood reason To once more wish that you could Close your eyes and just believe again There's a god does he remember when We were young and faith was not pretend Anymore Anymore Anymore Anymore And in the night he sees the ocean Carve its thoughts upon the shore For in the way it was created It can do this and nothing more And every message it would leave him The next wave carefully erased As the tears that passed between them Were so real that you could Close your eyes and just believe again There's a god and he remembers when We were young and faith was not pretend Anymore Anymore Anymore Anymore And all at once the waves were getting Higher And as they crashed I thought I heard them say There'd be a time when men would all be wiser When everyone, everyone, Yes everyone is Saved And as he walked away he thought about That third stowaway once more And wondered if the body had washed up Upon some far and distant shore Or if it sank down through the depths Of cold reality To rest upon the ocean floor For all eternity For at the bottom of the sea The dead do not feel pain And neath the ocean made of tears They never fear the rain But what had really happened Was a stranger twist of fate That the deckhand was to never know But to you I will relate |
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| 3:45 |
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| 8:09 |
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Standing alone by the edge of a river
He's traded his life for a glass full of tears The bargain was quick for one's life is less dearer When the sand's running out and the ending is near The ending is near The ending is near The ending is... The man climbed aboard and set sail for the ocean He put on the mast all the canvas she'd take Then laid himself down on the deck neath the tiller The ship was his coffin this moment his wake Runaway reasons Runaway seasons Time is a treason That I give back to you now The wind touched the sail and the ship moved the ocean The wind from the storm set the course she would take From a journey to nowhere towards a soul on the ocean From the wake of magellan to magellan's wake Runaway reasons Runaway seasons Everything in it Hours and minutes You take tomorrow Because it means nothing To me To me To ... In the dark he heard a whisper Asking him to understand In the desert look for water On the ocean look for land In the dark he heard a whisper Asking him to understand In the desert look for water On the ocean look for land And there in the waves Was a man in his grave That he saw in the night 'Tween the flashes of light And he Could not be there And all he had prayed Or had given away He now found to be wrong In the grip of the storm And he Could not be there Could you keep our lives together Safely back onto the shore Could you grant this last illusion Only this and nothing more Could you keep our lives together Safely back onto the shore Could you grant this last illusion Only this and nothing more And all at once the heavens bled their fire The anchor broke the chains they flew away And suddenly the waves were reaching higher And in the dark I thought I heard them say Could you keep our lives together Safely back onto the shore Could you grant this last illusion Only this and nothing more Everything I ever had for one more tomorrow Everything I ever had for just one more night And if this is not to be I pray could I borrow Just another final hour onto my life Did you ever really want to Did you ever really want to Lord, tell me how it will be Lord, tell me how it will be Standing once more by a boat on a river He pushes it off while he stays on the land And seeing the hourglass now so much clearer Which someone had refilled by hand And somewhere that boat's now adrift on the ocean The mast at full sail and there's no one on board The hourglass no longer sits by the ocean Only his footprints all alone on the shore And soon they're no more No more No more |
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| 4:40 |
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So what can I tell you
If life's the length of this play Perhaps God gave the answers To those with nothing to say The years are forgiven If God's forgiving and kind Perhaps we'll all find the answers Somewhere in time Somewhere in time You were never one for waiting Still I always thought you'd wait for me Have you from your dream awakened And from where you are what do you see Which of us is now in exile Which in need of amnesty Are you now but an illusion In my mind alone you breathe You believed in things that I will never know You were out there drowning but it never showed Till inside a rain swept night you just let go You're thrown it all away And now we'll never see The ending of the play The grand design The final line And what was meant to be In the dark a distant runner Now has disappeared into the night Leaving us to stand and wonder Staring from this end into your life You believed in things that I will never know You were out there drowning but it never showed Till inside a rain swept night you just let go You've thrown it all away And now we'll never see The ending of the play The grand design The final line And what was meant to be |
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| 15. |
| 4:16 |
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Hey there you
Way out there in the distance Can you hear me Are you there I know it's late So please forgive my persistence But I'm hanging Do you care So lay back Call off the attack Cause if you look deep Dreams are nothing that I lack And all I seek A final chance to speak And I would let the whole thing keep If I could just sleep Hey there you Way out there could you show me Just a signal Or a sign That after all All these years that you've known me And I'm not just killing time So lay back Call off the attack Cause if you look deep Dreams are nothing that I lack And all I seek A final chance to speak But I would let the whole thing keep If I could just sleep As I lay there late at night Building castles in the air Out of alibis and all those little lies And then I look inside And pray that I don't care I don't care I don't care Hey there you way out there in the distance |
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| 2:49 |
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Hey child
Out on your own You never look back Never called home You never turned round Tell me the games that you've played Nighttime Wander the streets You never give ground Never retreat You're always Oz-bound Have all the dreams been betrayed Stay Here where dreams tend to stray Here you're safe when the night fades away When the night fades away Hey there Oz-refugee You took the wrong road Hatters and tea are all that you found Out on the great white way Times change You never did Life came You overbid Join us Vassals of courvasier Stay Here where dreams tend to stray Here you're safe when the night fades away When the night fades away |
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