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I can fly I really can wave good-bye familiar land
Catch the wind make my climb breathin in born again feelin fine I can fly above distress I can fly to heaven no less Leave the earth forget the time light as air I don't care feelin fine Don't say I'm crazy don't say I'm out of my head I might be crazy but one thing's for certain one thing's for sure I can fly above the sea I can fly hey look at me Without a net leave it behind Feelin good feelin free feelin so fine My lofty purchase high above I'm losing sight of you I'm climbing up just like a kite the calm before the storm When all at once it dawned on me where I'm not supposed to be Clouds are black the sky is red I'm where the angles fear to tread I feel like I've lost my way Down and down and down I go I've lost all sense of my direction This flaming spitfire flight has come undone Grounding stages of rejection I am not worthy to have even tried Help me annihilate this foolish pride where Icarus died I say the act of my contrition be sure to bless all before I die Save my seat in the smoking section cut me loose and say good-bye I wake up on the doctors table where life and death are up for grabs I'm comin I'm comin you better shoot me Kill the pain and count the scabs no no no get out of my black dream Give me life give me life I'll make a vow I'll resist temptation I promise here and now You see it all started when I was younger they said I was good But I thought they said great I crown myself the king of liars I am what I have learned to hate |
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Why can't you see where we are going
Why can't you see where we have been You tell me the pain is still growing you tell me tell me who'll win I feel for you you know what I'm saying But I've got to do what's right in my head I've got to ride ride rocket ride Carry me quick to the one's who've cried I'm a saint I'm a sinner but you decide In desperate times Sled sled rocket sled Carry me quick to the one's who've bled I'm a saint I'm a sinner and these are desperate times I would give my soul to carry your burden I would give my soul cause I know you still grieve Where will we go to hide from their blindness Where will we go if we don't both believe Bad blood rains down we've got to take cover Cold blood rains down who can find any peace |
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The flower dies the camera never lies fire baptizes
The truth is light right or wrong is never black or white We all wear disguises If a picture could talk we would all look away There'd be too many voices Rain come on and wash away this hot city skin Pictures and memories and hope once again So many times I see you in my mind when I'm not trying to I see a trellis gate and I run like a child who's late Whose friends are waiting for him Well I never stopped to realize what was passing me by But love has a texture Catch a glimpse a reflection Of what would should or could have been Pictures and memories and hope once again I wonder if we know the future is now I wonder if we know the future is here |
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Well it looks like it might rain but rain ain't what we need
Sunshine and a war machine I'm gettin ready for another stampede Grease the gears with blood paint it black as night Ride through the city like a Trojan horse Convinced what you're doin's all right Hold on 'till the river goes down the river goes to the sea Hold on the rive's comin' down on me The killin' field has come to main street Scatter guns in the liquor store Rifled sinkhole graves in concrete it's out of hand At black fathom 4 Fallen leaves turn grey faces cold and worn Memories of a better time swept away like a firestorm Who can get it straight who can think it through When every time the telephone rings You think it's someone comin' after you Your mamma's shootin' Gallery wages Your daddy don't give a damn no more Keep these animals breakin' cages violent times At black fathom 4 Walk into my world where brave can get you dead You get together and a fight breaks out Someone didn't understand what you said Walk into my world anger's in my soul Quick money give me double trouble Friends are doing hard times in the hole Children crying sniper thunder case the alleys and the corridors Don't look back it ain't no wonder it's open season At black fathom 4 |
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Buried deep under blood and skin
A whisper a tempest is raging from within I hold my breath bitter proud Afraid to scream fire in the middle of a crowd I ponder incision envision the brain I beckon the surgeon to a slice against the grain now that I've waisted you the white room is pure the doctors are brave If there's a cure I want to be saved Sanctuary Under the knife sharp and shiny key Repair redeem resurrection Under the knife they'll cut you out of me Maybe love's imitation is life under the knife I have come to determine a reasonable doubt Where heaven and hell draw their boundary lines about Now that I've waisted you now that I've tasted you The white room had frost on the cold window pane Your love had been lost my love was in vain Sanctuary Cynical splices stitch and install Solder the filaments I feel nothing at all Second wind secrets let them rise let them fall I'll walk through your firestorm but never never crawl The gambler lives the blood stain dries It's time to forgive I open my eyes Sanctuary |
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I lost you a long time ago I tossed our love as far as I could throw
I can't help feelin tentative and blind I only wish that you could read my mind I need to pitch it all into the wind I need to face a wall that's cavin' in I need to fall fall again I do need you Can friends be lovers can lovers still be friends What about the story when there ain't no happy end Look around look around and tell me what am I s'posed to do To say goodby'd be a big mistake after all that we've been through Some familiar face some familiar song But those times have come and gone Sometimes I feel like my memories are only there to let me know That bein' lonely is so damn slow It's like a deep dark fever dream I get surges I take a midnight drive I'm goin' nowhere I don't care when I arrive I got questions the kind that got no clues I think I find the answer on the road that leads to you |
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Freak of nature fact or fright
Puts up with pain puts up with spite Scarred up shoes have lost their sheen It looks like better days they've seen Chameleon man naive tycoon Will eat the poor with silver spoon He'll jest and jeer through looking glass But nest right near the upper class Who'll be the first one pointing at the simple man Now I know I'm only lucky every freak of nature should know How to run the whole freakin' show Freak of nature'd rather be no less a man than you or me He'd rather look the other way choose to fight another day I take things for granted turn the tables 'round What if I was down To much goin' on runnin' out of time And I don't understand it |
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Cold grey morning without sunlight ghostly mist on the horizon
Empty visions of a world gone mad paints a picture so revealing Through my window dark tomorrow I can hear the sirens wailing For the future we are holding on as the ship of fools is sailing Such a long time such a long time We are waiting for a peace that's lasting Reaching upward sliding downward looks like just another Cold grey morning Hardly breathing hope is fading it's the end of the beginning Children playing in the empty streets it's a cold grey morning |
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I went driving through my old hometown
It was Thursday the bright sun on the horizon I was surprised to see no one had burned it down It seemed so peaceful and warm Floods of memories came back to me All the things we got away with when we were younger And I felt kind of like a refugee Like a scattered pile of leaves in a storm Peaceful memory like lights on a Christmas tree Every hometown should be peaceful and warm Every father mother sister brother friend of the family Peaceful and warm Somehow now and then didn't seem to blend 'Till a farmer plowing his field waved hello Another working man doing the best he can I hope he is peaceful and warm Peaceful memory plows in the green field sea Every hometown should be peaceful and warm Every father mother sister brother friend of the family Peaceful and warm On the Kansas banks of the Muddy Mo' I threw rocks in the river and dreamed of running away In a wind of change only a father knows In a world so hectic so cold I guess my old hometown's kinda dead and gone Miss the sign on I-29 and you blow right by But it's a place I can go remember where I come from It will help me keep me peaceful and warm Peaceful memory the only thing that's free Take them and try to be peaceful and warm Every father mother sister brother friend of the family Peaceful peaceful and warm |
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