Dean Roland

I'm starting to feel loopy
Your dizziness consumes me

*
Jesus didn't speak English
But I do think I understand
The rhyme and the reason of a
goody good gentlemen
If I were one I'd swear
I'd still be tasting your skin

The sky tonight is gracious
to rain on me your sweetness
I scream an explanation
Your world is so contagious

*

I love you 'cause you're such a prick

Shut your mouth, my mather said
Don't saddle me with selfishness
Do you feel your tongue quivering
It's moments like these I revel in

Your conversation never sticks
'Cause no truth in you exist
Yeah, you bite before you lick
I love you 'cause you're such a prick

One more time don't fashion me
With stylish word of ramblings
Do you feel my pulse lingering
It's moments like these I revel in

Your conversation never sticks
'Cause no truth in you exist
Yeah, you bite before you lick
I love you when you such a.. .

Ooo Ooo Ooo Ooo Ooo Ooo Ooo Ooo.. .

It's moments like these I revel in

Your conversation never sticks
'Cause no truth in you exist
Yeah, you bite before you lick
I love you 'cause you're such a prick (X2)

One Two Three Four-

In the air
I'm tasting your perfection
Forgive me dear
for my misdirection
As I crawl beneath
this torture you adore
I fall face to face with
my scars you've ignored
So tell me why
it don't feel the same
Tell me why
I've got to feel this way
Yeah you leave you're gone
And I'm left here with the blame
So tell me why
it don't feel the same

All my props
I swear they were in order
Even with the warnings
of your thunder
Now I pause to let
my silence scream tonight
Awhile you roam
like a serpent satellite
So tell me why
it don't feel the same
Tell me why
I've got to feel this way
Yeah you leave you're gone
And I'm left here with the blame
So tell me why
it don't feel the same

So tell me why
it don't feel the same
Tell me why
I've got to feel this way
Yeah you leave you're gone
And I'm left here with the blame
So tell me why
it don't feel the same

Lack of knowledge has a source (oh boy)
Still my thoughts must run their course (oh yeah)
And they do

Does my memory comfort you
While your eyes see me through
Well it's 10 years later and still I haven't a clue
Oh I'm crying

Caution breathes a lonely breath (oh boy)
Love withstands but time must rest (oh yeah)
And it does

Does my memory comfort you
Your eyes see me through
Well it's 10 years later and still I haven't a clue
Oh it's 10 years later

Yeah you want to
'Cause you say so
'Cause you need to
Yeah you need to need to
I don't want to
I don't have to
But you've got to
Yeah you got to got to

Could you stay in line
Do you follow what I say
Can you read my mind
Then off where you lay

Feel the water rise
Can you swim now on your own
Do you act surprised
When you hear lies you have told

Oh now
Now you're motoring
Oh now
Now you're fluttering
Oh now now

There floats our conversation
Like clouds in our minds
We leave an open invitation
To this world we've denied
If I turn around
Would that be my fault
If I turn around
Would that be my loss
Feel the raindrops of impression
Stinging from above
What the price of this confusion
We have yet to speak of
If I turn around
Would that be my fault
If I turn around
Would that be my loss
Out of sight beyond confusion
Still I'm here
defining my own truth
Paranoia by conclusion
What's the point
if I am still missing you

If I turn around

If I turn around

If I turn around
Would that be my fault
If I turn around
Would that be my loss
If I turn around
If I turn around
If I turn around

All around the world
Everywhere I go
No one understands me
No one knows
What I'm trying to say

No one understands me
They look at me when I talk to them
And they scratch their heads
They go what's he trying to say

But you, you speak my language
Yeah you, you speak my language

All around the world
Everywhere I go
No one understands me
No one knows
What I'm trying to say

Even in my hometown
My friends make me write it down
They look at me when I talk to them
And they shrug their shoulders
They say what's he talking about

There she stumbles
Falling to her knees
I think she tripped on reality

I have witnessed
Tragic comedies
That's the world in which she leads

Well I would walk a million miles
To give her all that she needs
But she would walk a million more
To do what she believes

She'll have a perfect day

Troubles blooming
Innocence now fades
But still she's dry through
All the rain

There's no purpose
She has yet to crave
She's like the big dog on parade

Well I would walk a million miles
To give her all that she needs
She would walk a million more
To do well as she pleased

She had a perfect day

I can't figure this one out
I've no words here to explain
She'll just sugar kiss me off
She'll just have another perfect day

We steal to lose every colour
From the sky
Then crawl as a child
While the shadows burn our eyes

We know there's no longer shine
On this burned out rainbow

Lately it seems we've been chasing
What times resolved
Maybe something means nothing here
After all

Whispers are now screams
This conclusion never ends
My pride with your kiss
Even angels can't defend

We know we're running head on
Into our confusion

Still we hide safe behind these crumbled walls
Cause we know there's nothing here after all

Got a photograph of a smile
Taken way back when we could smile
Now this plane will take me
Where I don't know
Maybe Tokyo

'Cause there's no memories over Tokyo
And there's no hurting over Tokyo

Got a photograph of some tears
Taken presently with more tears
Now I'll search for happiness
Where should I go
Maybe Tokyo

Attention will this pain go away
My condition oh it's just not the same

Congratulations, oh baby I'm back again
I'm loaded down with my god and my medicine

I know wisdom is change
So why can't you function that way

Here I am flaunting my self control
'Cause happiness is more than a kiss you know

I'm activating all your promises once again
And pushing forth dear with the rage of my reverence

We could close our eyes
And recklessly run on through
Any space and time
That we choose

She said that time is unfair
To a woman her age
Now that wisdom has come
Everything else fades
She said she realizes
She's seen her better days
She said she can't look back
To her days of youth
What she thought were lies
She later found was truth
She said her daddy had dreams
But he drank them away
And her mother's to blame
For the way she is today

Life's river shall rise
She Said
And only the strong shall survive
She Said
But I'm feeling quite weak
She Said
Will you comfort and forgive me
She Said

She said she's still searching
For salvation's light
She said she wishes all day
And she prays all night
She said she won't speak of love
Because love she's never known
She said it's moments like these
She hates to be alone

Forgive me
She Said
Forgive me
She Said

Give me a word
Give me a sign
Show me where to look
Tell me what will I find
Lay me on the ground
Fly me in the sky
Show me where to look
Tell me what will I find
Oh, heaven let your light shine down

Love is in the water
Love is in the air
Show me where to go
Tell me will love be there
Teach me how to speak
Teach me how to share
Teach me where to go
Tell me will love be there
Oh, heaven let your light shine down

Somebody told me about a worn out distraction
That I had let slip away
Then it comes back and rides my shoulders
And burdens me every new day
Well I'll just sit here like a slow burn out
And try to figure out how to do without you

Who's going to straighten me up when I'm leaning
Who's going to soothe my heart when it's burning
Who's going to be the one to tell me everything's
All right
Well goodnight, good guy

I'll break the bread of a new day and wonder
If faith will carry me along
But days are longer as my heart gets weaker and
I can only stay so strong
Well I'll just sit here like a wounded soul
Who's finding it difficult to just let go

I'm gonna let you sleep
I'll let you fade off in the night
I play the Lord to keep
I pray the Lord to hold you tight
Goodnight.

Something's going wrong inside of you
Burdens bearing down and seeping through
Well, I don't want to bleed anymore for you
And I don't want to breathe any hatred too

Sitting while you world just floats around
Now you want to move 'cause it's crashing down
Well, I don't want to sing you guarantees
And I don't want to cling to our use to bes
So take your heart, take your soul
Just get yourself on out of here
Yeah, take your hurt, take your pain
Just get yourself on out of here

Wasting time
That's all you'll do if you're waiting for me
Wasting time
I don't see what you think I see
Wasting time
That's all you'll do if you're waiting for me
Wasting time
I don't want what you think I need

Overseas through the air
Touched your heart down with care
All the thoughts left behind
Soon will catch you in time
Well, if I could, you know I would
Let salvation reign on you
So, won't you push away
All this pain that you've been through

Yeah, Sister don't cry
Sister don't cry no more
Sister don't cry anymore

While the scenes shuffle 'round
Let your world anchor down
Pull your heart from your sleeve
First react then believe
You won't always get thunder
To warn you of storms ahead
So bury all this pain
And get on with your life again

Conquer some serenity
Lay yourself in field of poetry
Close you eyes to all you see
Lay your weary head here with me

Wait just a second now
Love's easier Lost than found
So learn baby learn
It's time to up and turn the other way
Yeah peace baby peace
It's past time to release and fly away

Once I was down and couldn't see
Then love lifted me
Yeah love; it was love
I believe that love lifted me

Hush not another sound
Time to move up to higher ground
Now time baby time
No longer's on our side so make a way
To ride baby ride
And pull me upon high and fly away

Don't push me, don't shove me
Don't make me go down in flames
Pull me to safety and help me
To feel no more pain
Come on just lift me up

The walls came up as the thoughts went down
To the hush of disparity
Sure we know the problem lies
With some insecurities
But we'll never see eye to eye
As long as our tongues are tied
And we'll never be seen as one
Until we find love

In a moment it could happen
We could wake up and be laughing
In a moment it could happen
We could forgive and be happy

It's a shame our world responds to life
As a puzzle in disguise
I wish our course would lead us towards
The peace and loving kind
But we'll never walk hand in hand
Until we let old wounds mend
And we'll never sing songs as one
Until we find love

In a moment some wisdom could be learned
In a moment new voices could be heard
In a moment we could make heads turn
In a moment we could change

Should I thirst for knowledge
Can I beg you for some water
Should I fight your battles
Can I rest upon your shoulders
I hope I'm able to ride out this storm
So come on Gabriel and blow your horn

Reach, Reach out to me
Can't you see I need you to save me
Yeah, Reach, Reach out to me
Can't you see I need you to hold me

Should I beg for mercy
Can I be the one you treasure
Should I question knowledge
Can I have all of your answers
I hope I'm able to find love today
Can I ask you to light my way

Reach, Reach out to me
Can't you see I need you to guide me
Yeah, Reach, Reach out to me
Can't you see I need you to love me

Take me out of these walls
Take me somewhere I can see
Take me away from it all
Please just reach out to me

Should I thirst for knowledge
Can I beg you for some water
Should I fight your battles
Can I rest upon your shoulders
I hope I'm able to ride out this storm
So come on Gabriel and blow your horn

Reach, Reach out to me
Can't you see I need you to save me
Yeah, Reach, Reach out to me
Can't you see I need you to hold me

Should I beg for mercy
Can I be the one you treasure
Should I question knowledge
Can I have all of your answers
I hope I'm able to find love today
Can I ask you to light my way

Reach, Reach out to me
Can't you see I need you to guide me
Yeah, Reach, Reach out to me
Can't you see I need you to love me

Take me out of these walls
Take me somewhere I can see
Take me away from it all
Please just reach out to me

Down by sea
I think I saw (yeah yeah yeah yeah)
Our love dissolve

So plant a little seed
Soon it starts growing
Shed a little light
Soon we'll be glowing
Hear a little tune
Soon we'll start singing
Give a little love
Then love will start breathing

Out by the bay
I long to be (yeah yeah yeah yeah)
A man of peace
I'm gonna breathe love
Yeah, I'm gonna take a deep breath for you
Come on now people
Come on now breathe

Push me to the left, hold me to the right
I never know where to go
Burning that trail to the promised land
You're moving on out of control
Well I don't want to be some puppet on a string
And I don't want to learn of things you can't explain
And I don't want to have your views on everything
I just want to scream

Scream about hurting
Scream about mercy
Scream about something
Scream about nothing

Drop me in the hills, leave me in the plains
Give me some room to breathe
The words you spill, the moves you make
I find them all hard to believe
Well I don't want to be statistic industry
And I don't want to give when all you share is greed
And I don't want to have one more enemy
I just want to scream

There you go with all your might
Giving promises by decree
Well God is great and God is good
But God you'll never be
Well I don't want to be in your hospitality
And I don't want to live in false reality
See I'm the one obsessed with truth and honesty
I just want to scream

Been thinking a lot about my ways
Guess I'm trying baby
Been searching out a way to say
Guess I'm sorry baby
This time I give all to you
It's time I prove something to you

So I'll lift you up and hold you near
Warm your heart and calm you fears
See I don't want to lose this love I found
So I'll burn my bridges, burn them down

Been hurting a lot without you here
Guess I need you baby
Been sleeping upon a bed of tears
Guess I miss you baby
This time I give all to you
It's time I prove something to you

Take all my world and shake it
Take my dear heart and embrace it
Take what I say and listen
My world's changing, changing for you

Watch my world spin round
It stops for you
I'll give you heaven for a view
I set my sights on high my aim is true
I'd walk on water just for you

All is all I can give you
All is all I can do
All is all I wish for when I'm with you

Come lay your troubles down
Rest here with me
My kingdom is all yours to receive

Well, I'll push the clouds away
So you can have sunshine
I'll give you anything that your heart desires

Tangle up your twisted tongue. It's simple.
Mesmerize your everyday. It's simple.
Hey hey can't you see?
Love is all that you should need.
Can't you see?

Ease your troubled mind.
Let love seek & let love find. It's simple.
Ease your weary soul.
Let love lead & let love flow. It's simple.

Pry into combative times. It's simple.
Forfeit all lush concerns. It's simple.
Hey hey don't you care?
Love is all that you should share.
Don't you care?

Cleansing out your tarnished heart.
It's simple.
Learning from each other can be simple.
Hey hey don't we know?
Love is all that we should show.
Don't we know?

Who have I left to please?
Take what you've yet to seize.
No more questioning
'Cause love is what love should be.
Unveil to me all that you want me to do.
But why should I stop bearing allegiance to you?

See, I don't believe in the sorcerers or the preachers.
I just believe in you.
And I don't believe in the scholars or the wise men.
I just believe in you.

What have I left to prove?
I speak all the words you choose.
Confine me in walls of truth
'Cause love does what love should do.
No more sentence.
All of my pain has been freed.
Why should this end when your mercy's all I need?

See, I don't believe in
The sorcerers or the preachers.
I just believe in you.
And I don't believe in the scholars or the wise men.
I just believe in you.

Has our conscience shown?
Has the sweet breeze blown?
Has all the kindness gone?
Hope still lingers on.

I drink myself of newfound pity
Sitting alone in New York City
And I don't know why.

Are we listening
To hymns of offering?
Have we eyes to see
That love is gathering?

All the words that I've been reading
Have now started the act of bleeding Into one.

So I walk up on high
And I step to the edge
To see my world below.
And I laugh at myself
As the tears roll down.
'Cause it's the world I know.
It's the world I know.

Beggar's description
Of what I've been missing
Exploit your position
Don't think I didn't listen
Hey I hope you're feeling
A little better now
Success is so tragic
Pain is your gadget
Your tongue's just lashing
Just bitching by habit
Hey I hope you're feeling
A little purer now
Hey I hope you're feeling
Securer now

Help me I plea
I don't understand
Your ways and means
You smashing young man
Help me to see
The good you have planned
You're wearing thin
You smashing young man

You preach synthetic-like
Peace is an oversight
It's nothing to ignite
Your self-lit spotlight
Hey I hope you're feeling
A little special now
Hey I want to tell you
I think you're special now

I don't recall asking for guidance
I don't recall wanting to
I don't recall bowing before you
But I'm so impressed
With the kindness in your attitude

Why drink the water from my hand?
Contagious as you think I am
Just tilt my sun towards
your domain.
Your cup runneth over again.

Don't scream about
Don't think aloud
Turn your head now baby
Just spit me out
Don't worry about
Don't speak of doubt
Turn your head now baby
Just spit me out

Why follow me to higher ground?
Lost as you swear I am.
Don't throw away your basic needs,
Ambiance and vanity.

December promise you gave unto me
December whispers of treachery
December clouds are now covering me
December songs no longer I sing

Give me a moment
Got to get this weight up off my chest
Don't feed me sorrow
Pain is a poison I digest

Find yourself another soul to hold
You think, you thought, I know
Off upon my journey I must go
To where the river flows

I'll give you answers
To the questions you have yet to ask
Silence is beauty
Words they only complicate the task
Make no more wishes
All of my patience has been spent
Gods of the season
Lead me to my next incident

Color me any color.
Speak to me in tongues and share.
Tell me how you'd love to hate me.
Tell me how you'd love to care.
Well I just want to shake us up.

Let's mingle
And make it well.
Come together now.
Yeah let's gel.

Clothe me in any fashion.
Glitter to so mundane.
Tell me how you'd love to change me.
Tell me I can stay the same.
I just want to shake us up.

Let's mingle
And make it well.
Come together now.
Yeah let's gel.
Well let's bungle
And live to tell
How we came together.
Yeah how we gelled.

Today she dresses
For the change she's facing now
And the storm that's raging
A safe haven she has found
She doesn't care
What the prophets say anymore
For the love she had
She has no more

So she gathers rain
She gathers rain
To rinse away all her guilt and pain
She gathers rain
She gathers rain
To wash and cleanse and make her whole again

Her imagination
Has started stretching wide
And her new conviction
No longer will she hide
She's not branded
When prophets speak words of fire
The same love she gives
She requires

So she gathers rain
She gathers rain
To rinse away all her guilt and pain
She gathers rain
She gathers rain
To wash and cleanse and make her whole again

She's a picture perfect child
Of innocence.
Searching out in childlike ways
For knowledge.
Now she's questioning her mother

Yeah she's questioning her father
Yeah she's looking for the
answers
To the problem that confronts her.

Do you know where the sun goes
When the water falls?
Do you know where the rain goes
When the water falls?
Though I think her subjects could
Run far and wide.
She has centered on the topic
Of the sky.

Now she's questioning her mother
Yeah she's questioning her father
Yeah she's looking for the answers
To the questions that confront her.

Resonate tones of saving grace
Separate from the gods of hate
Alleviate all our doubting ways
Congregate to more loving days

A collection of peace where we could live
A collection of hope for us to give
A collection of words that mean we care
A collection of love for us to share

Recognize all equality
Vocalize solidarity
Exercise your tranquility
Glamourize all of love's needs

I think her gun's unloaded now.
I guess tomorrow will be after all?
Who made me judge and jury here?
It seems I'm bearing witness to her fall.

I don't know why she cries to me.
(she keeps her pain as company)
'Cause it's only time before we all must bleed.

Mirrors of her memory
Reflect nothing with
each word she says.
Her views have got me spinning 'round.
I think she's burning alters in her head.

Change will come
Change is here
Love fades out
Then love appears
Now my water's turned to wine
And these thoughts I have
I now claim as mine

I'm coming home

Change has been
Change will be
Time will tell
Then time will ease
Now my curtain has been drawn
And my heart can go
Where my heart does belong

I'm going home

Hitched a ride to the peaceful side of town
Then proceeded where thieves were no longer found
Can't crash now I've been waiting for this
Won't crash now I found some encouragement
Precious declaration reads
Yours is yours and mine you leave alone now
Precious declaration says
I believe all hope is dead no longer

New meanings to the words I feed upon
Wake within my veins elements of freedom
Can't break now I've been living for this
Won't break now I'm cleansed with hopefulness
Precious declaration says
Yours is yours and mine you leave alone now
Precious declaration says
I believe all hope is dead no longer

Once I jumped through hoops of fire
High and far as you required
I was blind but now I see
Salvation has discovered me

Hey you're now thirsty
Walking in the desert all alone
Hey you're now searching
Lost in isolation from your soul
The bullets you bite
From the pain you request
You're finding harder to digest
And the answers you seek
Are the ones you destroy
Your anger's well deployed

Hey why can't you listen
Hey why can't you hear
Hey why can't you listen
As love screams everywhere

Hey you now hunger
Feeding your mind with selfishness
Hey you now wander
Aimlessly around your consciousness
Your prophecies fail
And your thoughts become weak
Silence creates necessity
You're clothing yourself
In the shields of despair
Your courage now impaired

You crucify all honesty
No signs you see do you believe
And all your words just twist and turn
Reviving just to crash and burn
You're fighting till the bitter end
If only your heart could open up
And listen

The sky now divides
To bring you back into the fold
Welcome home
Still my need to recognize
Any comfort you may show
Only grows
Guess I'll learn to accommodate
While my heart just sits and waits
Maybe God you found
Maybe is all that you can offer now

Where am I to take refuge
When the storms of pain release
Shelter me
This blessedness of life
Sometimes brings me to my knees
I call on thee
I have not the words to write
A Farewell to you tonight
Maybe God you found
Maybe is all that you can offer now

I know hearts are weeping
While your voice is now singing
On high, angel on high

Drowning to discover
I'd swim but then why bother
Wrestled with decisions
And fools with their opinions
One fine morning I'll awake
To sleep some more
To define my premonitions
Last judgement and conditions
I'd have to dig in my emotions
Then relinquish my devotion
One fine morning I'll awake
Then hope to learn
One fine morning I'll awake
To love's return

Round and round and round
I believe love goes round and round
Round and round and round
I believe love comes round and round

Singing the rendition
Of hope in my condition
Caught up in defending
That truth is never ending
One fine morning I'll awake
Then reaffirm
One fine morning I'll awake
To love's return

You pushed me down
For all the world to see
I guess that's your price
For my loyalty
So while you're tasting sin
And swallowing pain
Don't look at me
To take your blame

When you're willing to render
To the guilt you concede
When truth is your reason
Then lay that blame on me
When you unveil a conscience
And with peace you agree
When love is your constant
Then lay that blame on me

You lay me out
In hopes that I'd wilt away
But strength rained down
And love provided shade
So while the pageant of lies
Still glow from your tongue
Don't blame me for
Your kingdom come

Question your answers
Truth has no anger
Gather up your words
Redemption now offered

I never ever can remember
All the things that go bump in the night
Quietness uncovers
Betrayal now hovers
And my comfort levels not quite right
I'd love to stay and evaluate
But my torture can't wait
It seems I'm losing ground
Welcome all to my disciplined breakdown

I never ever can decipher
Who listens to the words I say
While I sense I'm searching
I never know who's lurking
To scare my sacred thoughts away
I'd love to hang and chat a while
But my mind's become vile
It seems I'm losing ground
Welcome all to my disciplined breakdown

I never ever can contribute
To finding all the faults that sustain
Never mind the answers
To who spreads the cancer
When the questioning of why remains
I'd love to sit and rationalize
But my tongue's become dry
It seems I'm losing ground
Welcome all to my disciplined breakdown

Breakdown Reality
Breakdown my ability to get it back
Breakdown honestly
Breakdown now deliver me
From all this madness and all this agony

In my silence I would love to forget
But restitution hasn't come quite yet
And with one accord I keep pushing forth
I stretch my heart to heal some more
* It used to be all I want to learn
Was wisdom trust and truth
By now all I really want to learn
Is forgiveness for you

As my seasons change I've now grown to know
When one's heart creates one's soul doesn't owe
So I wash away stains of yesterday
Then tempt my heart with loves display

* Repeat

I'm sleeping to encompass myself
I wake up then distribute what's left
With my anger well defused
The link to love I now may choose
With my heart no more abused
The link of love I now may use

I'm sleeping to develop myself
I wake up then relinquish what's left
With my anger well diffused
The link to love I now may choose
With my heart no more abused
The link of love I now may use

I was caught by your lies spinning
then was saved by truth's opinion
All's quiet now

Giving me cause so I may yearn
Giving me words so I may learn
I want more I want more
Giving me thoughts that I may keep
Giving me dreams so I may sleep
I want more I want more
Still all I need is love
So give me more

Giving me calm to fall into
Giving me hope to guide me through
I want more I want more
Giving me light to see through tears
Giving me strength to crush my fears
I want more I want more
Still all I need is love
So give me more

I won't break you down
I won't bring you down anymore

Giving me choice so I may seek
Giving me faith so I'll believe
I want more I want more
Giving me breath of your mercy
Giving yourself to comfort me
I want more I want more
Still all I need is love
So give me more

In between us
Good and evil wait
To lie beside us
In our bed we make

In between us
Caution never heeds
We prey on weakness
Then beg for sympathy

In between words
Silence parades so confusion is heard
Our voices afraid
To speak up and reassure
So in between words we remain
In between

In between us
Hope we've yet to see
We long for healings
But the scars never leave

Silence fills the void
Of love and hate
An effective tool
When used to separate
Now separate

All the words that I want to hear
Are distorted by your weaknesses and fear
And your lies that I push away
I might accept them on your good self pity day
All of your sadness is crowded in my head
All of your madness is crowded in my head

And the peace that I really need
You substitute it for your policy of greed
Still your pride always suffocates
Any truth that your heart might want to make
All of your sadness is crowded in my head
All of your madness is crowded in my head

With all your static
I can't distinguish between what's being said
I have no room for this
You see I'm living with a crowded head

And the path that I needed shown
You left me stranded in the darkness all alone
All the promises you fed to me
I'm now choking from their taste of cruelty
All of your sadness is crowded in my head
All of your madness is crowded in my head

With the faces I now wear
It's only proof my thoughts
Have become impaired
And the courage I shall build
Stands at distance still

Everything is physical
Everything takes precedence
Everything's admissible
Everything is evident

And this comfort I've designed
Will only stay intact until
The truth I find
As some answers fly around
No cure have I found


Guide me, save me, teach me
I need to learn from this
Hold me, soothe me my Love

The reflection I now see
Is always trying to blind
And discourage me
But my patience shall prevail
And myself as well

Everything is comfortable
Everything's a brighter shade
Everything is suitable
Everything is ?

the hour has begun
your eyes have now opened

to a world where madness craves
to a world where hope's enslaved
oh i'll tremble for my love always

your windows opened wide
your innocence takes flight

to a world where madness craves
to a world where hope's enslaved
oh i'll tremble for my love always

Complicate this world you wrapped for me
I'm acquainted with your suffering

*And all your weight
It falls on me
It brings me down
And all your weight
It falls on me
It falls on me

Hold me up to all whom you've deceived
Promises you break you still believe

*repeat
*repeat

here i lie motionless catch me if you can
my properties of no defense
so,strike at your command

*but, don't bring me down all right don't
bring me down cause there's purpose
for this night

save me come tomorrow lead me to
my urgency see I'm no more no less
of an angel than you'd have me be
so, let's shake it like this

steady here i cast my lines only to expose
a weaker sense and no constraint
now my true self shows

*Repeat

all around me i see what weakness has made
too mush tomorrow i think i'll take all today
am i a poison, am i a thorn in the side
am i a picture perfect subject tonight

* I don't need nobody
I don't need the weiht of words
to crash on thru

Morning like this
Make me feel like I could never float
Glimpses of peace
Portray all that you never could show

I'm not weakened by the fears
That you have applied
See I'm now learning in these walls
That you have supplied
Slow
Slow down boy
Slow down to control
Slow, slow

Clothed in new costumes
That weather your newfound storms
Staring through reason
Content with your newfound decor

I passed the darkened vaults of
Late doorways as if I were a king
Like this I chain a whisper to my faults

Took a walk to a caution scene
Guess I crossed the line somehow
And if I lost some of your hope
I'm sorry for the folly was all mine
And I don't ever really understand
All the things we say
But I try to anyway anyhow
For what's in a day of a dandy life
For what's in a day of this dandy life
Everything, Everything, Everything

Hangin' on every word
My social butterfly
Everyone wants to be loved
Loved in their own way

I can say I spent the night
On the telephone inside
When you said that every single
One of us can find a happy face
So why don't you go try
Try anyway
And I suppose I was born yesterday
'Cause I never thought of things
Quite in that way at all and in that way
For what's in a day of a dandy life
For what's in a day of this dandy life
Everything, Everything, Everything

Are these times contagious
I've never been this bored before
Is this the prize I've waited for
Now as the hours passing
There's nothing left here to insure
I long to find a messenger

Have I got a long way to run
Yeah, I run

Is there a cure among us
From this processed sanity
I weaken with each voice that sings
In this world of purchase
I'm going to buy back memories
To awaken some old qualities

Have I got a long way to run
Yeah, I run

Hey you give me no choice
I entertain by the silence
That you created by noise

Hey I'm flirting inside
I need the floor opened up
For the scream I'd now love to shout

I can't convey
I can't relate to the thoughts you now
Generate
I can't contain
I can't explain all the words you now
Generate

Hey I swallowed your pride
To gather up confrontation
That you have so long denied

Now I've taken the side
Of a beautiful calm
Can you see this disguise
Fading to a resolve

And there it goes my innocence
While gathering up a compliment
And here I lie with words to swear
There's something more than
The world out there

Hesitation compounds
I've nothing left to sustain
My worries here have allowed
A momentary refrain

And there it goes my innocence
While gathering up a compliment
And here I lie with words to swear
There's something more
Than the world out there

I waltzed around you
Seven times
Only to become
A melody you never sang
I'm not the one
Oh I'm not the one

Clouds of thought you
Filter through
Never to reason
While patiently your world
Still bleeds
Who shall be the one?
Oh I'm not the one

Who's gonna be my savior
now that I've learned to believe
Who's gonna be the answer
To all of my questioning
Well I hope I'm not lost
But I think that hope is now distracting
And the words that secure a thought
Are now faint whisperings

Who's gonna wear my crown
I don't know I just might alone
Who's gonna wear my crown
I don't know I've just got to go my way

Who's gonna be my partner
Now that I stand here alone
Who's gonna be the shepherd
To lead this poor boy back home
Well I hope I'm not lost
But I think that hope is now distracting
And the words that secure a thought
Are now faint whisperings

Now I've taken the side
Of a beautiful calm
Can you see this disguise
Fading to a resolve

And there it goes my innocence
While gathering up a compliment
And here I lie with words to swear
There's something more than
The world out there

Hesitation compounds
I've nothing left to sustain
My worries here have allowed
A momentary refrain

And there it goes my innocence
While gathering up a compliment
And here I lie with words to swear
There's something more
Than the world out there

And you said we would be golden
when we grow old
and you said we'd never be broken
when we grow old

(CHORUS)
But if a river can dry to dust
I guess the angels we learn to trust
can fly away
Like a mountain can lose it's peak
I now know a heart can change it's needs
quietly

And you said we'd never be parted
when we grow old
and you said I'll see you in heaven
when we grow old

(CHORUS)

and so goodbye, come tomorrow
goodbye, come tomorrow
goodbye
goodbye
Yeah, goodbye, come tomorrow
goodbye, come tomorrow
goodbye
goodbye

and you said we would be golden
when we grow old

December
by Collective Soul



Why drink the water
from my hand?
Contagious as you think I am
Just tilt my sun towards
your domain.
Your cup runneth over again.

Don't scream about
Don't think aloud
Turn your head now baby
Just spit me out
Don't worry about
Don't speak of doubt
Turn your head now baby
Just spit me out

Why follow me to higher ground?
Lost as you swear I am.
Don't throw away your basic needs,
Ambiance and vanity.

December promise you gave unto me
December whispers of treachery
December clouds are now covering me
December songs no longer I sing

She said good day boy, are you ready to shake
I said I love noise and this life that it makes

See I have a line though it's subject to change
I once had a thought but then I gave it away
Yeah sooner or later I'll be perfect to stay

She said good night boy, are you feeling alone
I said I love time but never ever this long

Like the sun surely loves it's newborn days yeah
Like all oceans love their waves I'm perfect to stay

Whenever I taste honey from your lips
It's a moment of purpose only you can give
Whatever I hear, whatever I may see
Whatever my cause dear, I know you'll believe

'Cause you're beautiful my love
When I close my eyes
Yeah, you're beautiful my love
Under Heaven's skies

If ever you think careless is the night
I'll comfort you with silence, till the morning light
Wherever you turn, wherever you may roam
Whatever you conquer, I'll always be your home

'Cause you're beautiful my love
When I close my eyes
Yeah, you're beautiful my love
Under Heaven's skies

You fly me through your skies of harmony
Then you lay me down with words of honesty
Yeah, you're beautiful
You're beautiful here with me

She said that time is unfair
To a woman her age
Now that wisdom has come
Everything else fades
She said she realizes
She's seen her better days
She said she can't look back
To her days of youth
What she thought were lies
She later found was truth
She said her daddy had dreams
But he drank them away
And her mother's to blame
For the way she is today

Life's river shall rise
She Said
And only the strong shall survive
She Said
But I'm feeling quite weak
She Said
Will you comfort and forgive me
She Said

She said she's still searching
For salvation's light
She said she wishes all day
And she prays all night
She said she won't speak of love
Because love she's never known
She said it's moments like these
She hates to be alone

Forgive me
She Said
Forgive me
She Said

Hey baby are you listening?
I've battened all the hatches down
I've taken all of your prescriptions
But no remedy I've found

Counting the days
Yeah, until some freedom can scream my name
Counting the days
Yeah, until the gods break these chains

Hey baby are you watching?
I'm saddled in for your sideshow
I'm never one to become precious
'Cause life is so touch and go

Counting the days
Yeah, until some freedom can scream my name
Counting the days
Yeah, until the gods break these chains

Dig in, get in, dig in
What you're looking for
Dig in, get in, dig in
What you're searching for
Dig in, get in, dig in
Yeah, dig

Soon a man will kneel to pray
Soon the light will burn our shade
And with the sweet the bitter fades
So take my heart and take your place

Cause I will be your force
And I will be your right
And I will watch over you like a satellite

Soon reason will have rhyme
Soon wisdom will imply
And with courage doubt subsides
So take my heart and take my pride

Cause I will be your force
And I will be your right
And I will watch over you like a satellite
And I will be your sword
And I will be your might
And I will watch over you like a satellite

River will flow from scenes unknown
I'll guide you through by the love I'll show
And the stars will wish upon the night
That they could have a guiding satellite

(Solo)

And I will be your sword
And I will be your might
And I will watch over you like a satellite
And I will be your days
And I will be your nights
And I will watch over you just like a satellite
Just like a satellite

You're now thirsty
Walking in the desert all alone
You're now searching
Lost in isolation from your soul
from the bullets you bite
to the pain you request
You're finding them harder to digest
When the answers you seek
Are the ones you destroy
Your anger's well de ployed

Why can't you listen
Why can't you hear
Why can't you listen
As love screams everywhere

You now hunger
Feeding your mind with selfishness
You now wander
Aimlessly around your consciousness
When your prophecies fail
When your thoughts become weak
Silence creates necessity
When you're clothing yourself
With the shields of despair
Your courage now impaired

Why can't you listen
Why can't you hear
Why can't you listen
As love screams everywhere

You crucify all honesty
No signs you see do you believe
And all your words just twist and turn
Reviving just to crash and burn
Fighting till the bitter end
If only your heart could open
Up and listen

Why can't you listen
Why can't you hear
Why can't you listen
As love screams everywhere

Why can't you listen
Why can't you hear
Why can't you listen
As love screams everywhere

All the words that I want to hear
Are distorted by your weaknesses and fear
And your lies that I push away
I might accept them on your good self pity day
All of your sadness is crowded in my head
All of your madness is crowded in my head

And the peace that I really need
You substitute it for your policy of greed
Still your pride always suffocates
Any truth that your heart might want to make
All of your sadness is crowded in my head
All of your madness is crowded in my head

With all your static
I can't distinguish between what's being said
I have no room for this
You see I'm living with a crowded head

And the path that I needed shown
You left me stranded in the darkness all alone
All the promises you fed to me
I'm now choking from their taste of cruelty
All of your sadness is crowded in my head
All of your madness is crowded in my head

In the air I'm tasting your perfection
Forgive me dear for my misdirection
As I crawl beneath this torture you adore
I fall face to face with my scars you've ignored
So tell me why it don't feel the same
Tell me why I've got to feel this way
Yeah you leave, you're gone
And I'm left here with the blame
So tell me why it don't feel the same
All my props I swear they were in order
Even with the warnings of your thunder
Now I pause to let my silence scream tonight
Awhile you roam like a serpent satellite
So tell me why it don't feel the same
Tell me why I've got to feel this way
Yeah you leave, you're gone
And I'm left here with the blame
So tell me why it don't feel the same...
So tell me why it don't feel the same
Tell me why I've got to feel this way
Yeah you leave, you're gone
And I'm left here with the blame
So tell me why it don't feel the same

Welcome all welcome all
Welcome all my friends
Welcome all welcome all
Welcome all again

Welcome all again

Waking the day all seems in order
Sweet wine to taste the world`s now starting
Yeah yeah I`ve got the mountain foreground
Yeah yeah I`ve got the river deep down

Woo hoo hoo welcome all my friends
Woo hoo hoo welcome all again

Night time in bloom It`s not so frightening
Swim with the moon that`s how we like it
Yeah yeah we`ve got the singer singing
Yeah yeah we`ve got the drinker drinking

Woo hoo hoo welcome all my friends
Woo hoo hoo welcome all again
Woo hoo hoo welcome all my friends
Woo hoo hoo welcome all again

Good morning sunshine bring on your pain
Oh sweet Jesus I swear I`ll
I`ll never taste it again
Not tonight not tonight

Oh no okay so let`s go
I can live my life in slow mo
I think I was your boyfriend once though
But I was fuzzy then yeah fuzzy oh

Twinkling starlight yeah it`s time to write
Why here it`s now or never
Cause it`s my time to shine
Not tonight not tonight

Oh no okay so let`s go
I won`t live this life in slow mo
I think I was your girlfriend once though
But I was fuzzy then


Oh no oh no okay so let`s go
We can live our lives in slow mo
I think I was your boyfriend twice though
But I was fuzzy then

I can`t shake it I just can`t shake it
I can`t shake it I just can`t shake it tonight
No not tonight

I won`t shake it I just can`t shake it
I won`t shake it I just can`t shake it tonight
No not tonight yeah

Not tonight not tonight

Oh no okay so let`s go
I won`t live this life in solw mo
I think I was your girlfriend twice though
But I was fuzzy then

Oh no oh no okay so let`s go
We won`t this life in slow mo
You know we`re all just pissed here though

Yeah we`re all fuzzy again fuzzy again
Fuzzy my friend fuzzy my friends

Where we`ve been where do we go
We had no answers to these questions you know
Where do we stand when do we fall
We`ve no direction or conviction at all

Now the more we wnat to balme
Leaves us more to fix
So hey hey baby do we dig on that
Or hey hey baby do we dig on this

Who do we call when do we scream
We`re all contagious by these breaths that we breathe
Whhere do we steal When do we pay
The winds of truth they ain`t blowing our way yeah

Now the more we want to change
Leaves us more to miss
So hey hey baby do we dig on that
Or hey hey baby do we dig on this

And the more we want to blame
Leaves us more to fix
So hey hey baby do we dig on that
Or hey hey baby do we dig on this

We say we`re up then we say we`re down

Time I always need more time
To figure what I`ve lost
To learn what I should find

Soon I`m always hoping soon
I`ll figure what to add
I`ll learn what to remove

New sunrise new sunsets
New stories I haven`t lived through yet

With you it`s always been you
There`s never been bad days
There`s never been bad days Without you


Choose I`m always made to choose
I`ll figure what to share
I`ll learn from what i`ve used

New sunrise new sunsets
New promises I haven`t made quite yet

To you it`s always been you
There`s never been good days
There`s never been bad days without you

Yeah there`s never been a day without you
Yeah there`s never been a day
There`s never been a night without you

You it`s always been you
There`s never been good days
There`s never been days without you

It`s always been you
There`s never those good days
There`s never those bad days without you

Got your sticks got your stones
Got your ways your means your wants
Your needs yeah you is all you know

Who can learn what`s wrong
Who can learn what`s night by your ways
See I can say I`ve loved
I can say I`ve tried in my days

Got your wish got your dreams
Got your thoughts your cause
Beware because nothing`s as it seems

Who can learn what`s wrong
Who can learn what`s right by your ways
See I can say I`ve loved
I can say I`ve tried in my days

Try some conversation
Grab new information
Change is an indication
You can grow you will grow

Who can learn what`s wrong
Who can learn what`s right by your ways
See I can say I`ve loved
Yeah I can say I`ve tried in my days

Yeah have you learned yeah have you learned
Yeah have you learned by your ways
See I have learned yeah I have learned
Yeah I have learned in my days

With better competition
Got a savior says he`s gonna save who
Come together people
Tell me what new habit can we choose


We`re thinking and we`re trying
Yeah we`re truthful then we`re lying I`m sure you know
We`re quiet then we`re loud
Yeah we`re hopeful then we doubt I`m sure it shows


Do we get a second chance to these answers that we lack
Or are we guided by the hope of some briliant flash
Tell me tell me how long will this sobriety last


Who`s understanding yeah understanding
To the ways the means of our own self
We got the sex the dreams with nothing else


Who`s understanding yeah understanding
To the right the wrong of our own self
We got the look the pose with nothing else


Dancing to the rhythm
From the knowledge of a hard drive spin
Looking for the formula
That always will save us in the end


We`re creeping and we`re crawling
Yeah we`re pushing then we`re stalling have you felt
We`re open then we`re closing
Yeah we`re hiding then we`re showing can you tell


Do we get a second chance to these answers that we lack
Or are we guided by the hope of some briliant flash
Tell me tell me how long will this sobriety last



Do we understand
Do we understand all the words we`ve said

Staring Down


Loosened from my pride
Oh that monster kept me so tight
Threw my aces down
Just to face the here and the now

So here I`ll go again
I want to please
Here I`ll go again
Sweet I`ll sleep
Sleep till I dream

I`ve been looking
I`ve been staring down
I`ve been searching
I`ve been staring down
And your love is what i found

As cautious as a thief
Of but restless in all of my needs
Now I stand before all I wanted
And all that I`ve adored

So here I go again
I need to please
Yeah here I go again
Sweet you sleep
Sleep till I dream

I`ve been looking
I`ve been staring down
I`ve been searching
I`ve been staring down
And your love is what I..

Long days, long nights
Just blinded by what was already in sight
Now I`ve found. I`ve found my way home
Yeah I found my way home

Every single word
Every single sign
Every single moment
Captures her,
Her motions well defined
Her motions well defined
Yeah, she`s well defined

chros,
Who could light the sky
With no sun no moon no stars above
Who could give me cause
To speak to wish or beleive in love
I`ll tell you my baby she does

Way beyond the heart
Way beyond the mind
Way beyond the measures
One could ask for
for her love tonight
for her love tonight
for her love tonight


Who could light the sky
With no sun no moon no stars above
Who could give me cause
To speak to wish or beleive in love

Who could light the sky
With no sun no moon no stars above
Who could give me cause
To speak to wish or beleive in love
I`ll tell you my baby she does

She does it for the fun
She does it for the purposely
She does it for the one
Yeah she does it all for me
Yeah she does

Who could light the sky
With no sun no moon no stars above
Who could give me cause
To speak to wish or beleive in love

Who could light the sky
With no sun no moon no stars above
Who could give me cause
To speak to wish or beleive in love

I`ll tell you my baby she does
Yeah my baby she does
Yeah my baby she does

Oh you think it but you can`t believe
So you say it`s like that
Yeah you see it but you can`t be seen
Now is it like that


So hey yeah where you coming from
Hey we are all an equal some
Hey you got the attitude
That everything`s important cause the
News is always new to you


You`re not underground
You`re just silly now
Oh my foolish pup lighten up
Yeah yeah yeah yeah lighten up


Hey you want it but you can`t receive
So you say it`s like that
Hey you know it but you can`t agree
Now is it like that


So hey yeah where you coming from
Hey we are all an equal some
Hey you got the attitude
That everything`s important cause the
News is always new to you


You`re not underground
You`re just silly now
Oh my foolish pup lighten up
Yeah yeah yeah yeah lighten up


Be careful with the tongue
Then softer with the words you choose
Take your time take your time
Take your time to find your own groove


Hey hey when information comes around
Hey hey well let a message be found
Hey hey has your conviction sold out
Hey hey has your conviction sold out

Marching through the corridor
Through faces I don`t know
Got sunshine on the inside
But nowhere to glow


And counting down the hours
Pretending that it`s time
Searching for the patience
A treasure I can`t find


Days try to convince
Faith can cure all loneliness
Wishes wish for more
Wishes that could lead me towards


Love love is where I now lie
Yeah love is looking into your eyes


Looking out my window
Soaring through the blue
something`s always nothing
`Til I`m touching you


Nights are always spent
Hiding in life`s compliments
And thoughts just thinking more
Thoughts on how I`m yearning for


Love love is where I now lie
Yeah love is looking in to your eyes


I`ve got to get back I`ve got to get back
I`ve got to got to get back home

I will follow
I will follow
Til the stars fall down
Til the sun burns out

I will follow
I will follow
Til gabriels horn does sound

I will follow
I will follow
Throgh the path you chose
With the words you spoke

I will follow
I will follow
Br the love you always show

No I won`t cry out
It`s love how`s left to me
I won`t cry out
It`s not how I will receive
Everything that you`re given me
All things to me

I will follow
I will follow
For in you I do believe

I will follow
I will follow
Through the path you chose
With the words you spoke

I will follow
I will follow
Br the love the love you showed

Who's gonna be my savior
now that I've learned to believe
Who's gonna be the answer
To all of my questioning
Well I hope I'm not lost
But I think that hope is now distracting
And the words that secure a thought
Are now faint whisperings

Who's gonna wear my crown
I don't know I just might alone
Who's gonna wear my crown
I don't know I've just got to go my way

Who's gonna be my partner
Now that I stand here alone
Who's gonna be the shepherd
To lead this poor boy back home
Well I hope I'm not lost
But I think that hope is now distracting
And the words that secure a thought
Are now faint whisperings

Hitched a ride to the peaceful side of town
Then proceeded where theives were no longer found
Can't crash now, I've been waiting for this
Won't crash now, I found some encouragement

Precious declaration reads
Yours is yours and mine you leave alone now
Precious declaration says
I believe all hope is dead no longer

New meanings to the words I feed upon
Wake within my veins elements of freedom
Can't break now, I've been living for this
Won't break now, I'm cleansed with hopefulness

Precious declaration reads
Yours is yours and mine you leave alone now
Precious declaration says
I believe all hope is dead no longer

Once I jumped thru hoops of fire
High and far as you required
I was blind but now i see
Salvation has discovered me

I'm sleeping, sleeping to encompass myself
I wake up, wake up then distribute what's left

With my anger well defused
The link of love I now may choose
With my heart no more abused
The link of love I now may use

I'm sleeping, sleeping to develop myself
I wake up, wake up and then relinquish what's left

With my anger well defused
The link of love I now may choose
With my heart no more abused
The link of love I now may use

I was caught by your lies spinning
Then was saved by truth's opinion
All's quiet now