Well, baby, there you stand....
With your little head down in your hands.
Oh, my God, you can't believe it's happening again
Your baby's gone and you're all alone and it looks like the end.
You're back out on the street and you're trying to remember.
How do you start it over? You don't know if you can.
You don't care much for a stranger's touch but you can't hold your man.
You never thought you'd be alone... this far down the line;
And I know what's been on your mind. You're afraid it's all been wasted time
The autumn leaves have got you thinkin' about the first time that you fell.
You didn't love the boy too much, no no, you just loved the boy too well.
So you live from day to day, and you dream about tomorrow.
And the hours go by like minutes, and the shadows come to stay
So you take a little somethin' to make them go away.
I could 've done so many things, baby if I could only stop my mind
From wonderin' what I left behind, and from worryin' about this wasted time.
Another love has come and gone and the years keep rushin' on
I remember what you told me before you went out on your own--
"Sometimes to keep it together, we got to leave it alone."
So you can get on with your search, baby, and I can get on with mine
And maybe someday we will find that it wasn't really wasted time.
Doctor, my eyes have seen the years
And the slow parade of fears without crying
Now I want to understand
I have done all that I could
To see the evil and the good without hiding
You must help me if you can
Doctor, my eyes
Tell me what is wrong
Was I unwise to leave them open for so long
'Cause I have wandered through this world
And as each moment has unfurled
I've been waiting to awaken from these dreams
People go just where there will
I never noticed them until I got this feeling
That it's later than it seems
Doctor, my eyes
Tell me what you see
I hear their cries
Just say if it's too late for me
Doctor, my eyes
Cannot see the sky
Is this the prize for having learned how not to cry
There's damage out there some place
You got to step aside
Where are you going that decision is made
That's how it started
Too hot and dirty inside
Contain your feelings when there's nowhere to go
Follow all the signs and they'll lead us away
And it's all good stuff for ... around the world today
Turn off your television
Don't be the hatchet man
His time has come and now I'm ready to go
Cut up and fear
Tap into the nervous system
Retrieve your message tell me what do I know
Follow all the signs and they'll lead us away
But it's all good stuff for ... around the world today
Tried on the feeding time
The truth is
It's going to get you and won't let go
I'm isolated
I'm going nowhere fast
There's no direction so where do I go
Follow all the signs and they'll lead us away
But it's all good stuff for ... around the world today
lay down all thoughts; surrender to the void
~it is shining it is shining~
We come on the sloop John B
My grandfather and me
Around Nassau town we did roam
Drinking all night
Got into a fight
Well I feel so broke up
I want to go home
So hoist up the John B's sail
See how the mainsail sets
Call for the Captain ashore
Let me go home, let me go home
I wanna go home, yeah yeah
Well I feel so broke up
I wanna go home
The first mate he got drunk
And broke in the Cap'n's trunk
The constable had to come and take him away
Sheriff John Stone
Why don't you leave me alone, yeah yeah
Well I feel so broke up I wanna go home
So hoist up the John B's sail
See how the mainsail sets
Call for the Captain ashore
Let me go home, let me go home
I wanna go home, let me go home
Why don't you let me go home
(Hoist up the John B's sail)
Hoist up the John B
I feel so broke up I wanna go home
Let me go home
The poor cook he caught the fits
And threw away all my grits
And then he took and he ate up all of my corn
Let me go home
Why don't they let me go home
This is the worst trip I've ever been on
So hoist up the John B's sail
See how the mainsail sets
Call for the Captain ashore
Let me go home, let me go home
I wanna go home, let me go home
Why don't you let me go home
Harry made a bareback rider proud and free upon a horse
And a fine coalminer for the NCB that was
A fallen angel and Jesus on the cross
A skating ballerina you should have seen her do the skater's waltz
Some people have got to paint and draw
Harry had to work in clay and stone
Like the waves coming to the shore
It was in his blood and in his bones
Ignored by all the trendy boys in London and in Leeds
He might as well have been making toys or strings of beads
He could not be in the gallery
And then you get an artist says he doesn't want to paint at all
He takes an empty canvas and sticks it on the wall
The birds of a feather all the phonies and all of the fakes
While the dealers they get together
And they decide who gets the breaks
And who's going to be in the gallery
No lies he wouldn't compromise
No junk no bits of string
And all the lies we subsidise
That just don't mean a thing
I've got to say he passed away in obscurity
And now all the vultures are coming down from the tree
So he's going to be in the gallery
lay down all thoughts; surrender to the void
~it is shining it is shining~
Silver needles
Golden eagles
Frightened faces
Basket cases
Jags and riches
Queens and witches
Electric mantras
And tight-fitting dreams
Never been so high
Never been so low
Never been so high
Gilded flowers
Long-lost hours
Morning programs
With fake suntans
Meet a maniac in the cul-de-sac
Otherwise it's this ennui
Chromium platin'
All this waiting brings me down
Suffocatin'
All those colors bring me around
Broken records
Faded labels
Songs to sing to
When you were young
A tattooed pierced arm
Fresh and perfumed
Switch your prison
Fly away
And jewels on your fingers
Tears in your dresses
Fabulous mansions
And damp little rooms
This one will shrink me
This one will grow me
Cue me to sleep
And reality looms
lay down all thoughts; surrender to the void
~it is shining it is shining~
Hey muneka, I think I wanna take ya
back to the lab, with my gift of gab
and a little dab'll do ya, maybe even school ya,
I'll rush your end zone like my man Don Shula
you're my four leaf clover even bending over;
I love you like rover; I'm your little lawnmower
but, lower, lower, I'm the seed sower
the funky weed grower, the mad rap thrower.
See, I'm a man's man; do you understand?
What I'm giving ain't cocked in the palm of my hand.
So take the nasty plunge plaid not grunge.
I know it's really hard when you love someone. You always
stood by me like Spanky did Stymiey and if anybody messes I'll
bust'em in the eye. And check that ass like Phil Esposito
the guido, U.P.S. next day back to Toledo.
Smoke 'em if ya gottem, if ya ain't gottem then ya hit rock bottom.
Me and my Les Paul is out droppin' science
pocket full of blunts and a full carry license
never walking streets, lookin' past my shouler acting kinda bolder
since my dog got older; I walked the walk and I aced the test
when I put the pressure on all your tendencies manifest
I'm a half spick peckerwood talkin' to the dead
I'll break into your house and I'll smell your bed.
Smoke 'em if ya gottem, if ya ain't gottem then ya hit rock bottom.
sometimes you're the boxer...sometimes you're the bag...
Do you really want to
Run away with me?
Would you really like to
Run away with me?
I can feel very clearly
But no longer see
For oh, looking at the sun
Waiting for you to appear
Watched you getting nearer
Like I knew it was in my heart
'Til the damage was already done
Looking at the sun
Burned my eyes out
And I'm blind now
I was looking for somebody
That you couldn't be
I was looking for somebody
That you will never be
I was so sure that there was
Nothing wrong with ne
For oh, looking at the sun
Waiting for you to appear
Watched you getting nearer
Like I knew it was in my heart
'Til the damage was already done
Looking at the sun
Burned my eyes out
And I'm blind now...I'm blind
[solo]
Do you really want to
Run away with me?
I can feel very clearly
But no longer
Oh, looking at the sun
Waiting for you to appear
Watched you getting nearer
Like I knew it was in my heart
'Til the damage was already done
Looking at the sun
Burned my eyes out
And now I'm blind
Waiting for you to appear
Watched you getting nearer
Like I knew it was in my heart
'Til the damage was already done
Looking at the sun
Burned my eyes out
And I'm blind now
Yeah I'm blind now
Everything is clicking, things are locking into place
It’s like clockwork and I’m stood sitting again, staring at your eyes, your eyes
I put my eye out come to see things half as well
I suppose it’s time to try and put my ear against a shell myself I’m not simple
You’re so sweet it tickles
Yeah
It’s all so clinical, clinical, so clinical, clinical
Peeling paint to understand why it’s falling off
Grab my hand and kiss it baby, try and call a stop
I put my eye out come to see things half as well
My clothes are finally dry and I place them on myself, myself I’m not sinful
You’re so sweet it tickles
Yeah
It’s all so clinical, it’s clinical, it’s all so clinical, clinical
All these things in my way
There are things in my way
All these things in my way
Things in my way
lay down all thoughts; surrender to the void
~it is shining it is shining~
Free--
Powerman 5000
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Let's go!
Everybody needs to start their own fire
Everybody needs a riot of their own
Everybody needs to be something that they are not
Everybody needs to go it alone
Because!
Living so free is a tragedy
When you can't be what you want to be
Living so free is a tragedy
When you can't see what you need to see
Okay!
All the time spent hanging on to anything
All the time spent knowing that they're wrong
All the time wasted, stolen back, innocent
You won't get a second more so move it along
Because!
Living so free is a tragedy
When you can't be what you want to be
Living so free is a tragedy
When you can't see what you need to see
Living so free is a tragedy
When you can't be what you want to be
Living so free is a tragedy
When you can't see what you need to see
Wishing and hoping and thinking it's you
That's got this all under control
Never a minute has passed you all by
When they haven? invaded your soul
It? not something you can hold
It? not something you own
It's not something you can buy or steal
You've got it when you're alone
Being free is a tragedy
When you don't know yourself
Being free is a tragedy
When you don't know who you are
Living so free is a tragedy
When you can't be what you want to be
Living so free is a tragedy
When you can't see what you need to see
Living so free is a tragedy
When you can't be what you want to be
Living so free is a tragedy
When you can't see what you need to see
Let's go!
Hey, hey, hey!
Alright then
This is the story of your life man
[And in other places around the world,
It's growing clear that the americans are trigger happy]
I've spent twenty years learning to live
In a world that takes back all that it gives
But I do not want a war
'Cause I'm not in for killing another man
Defending my holy land
As if there's a god who would understand
Feeding the promised land
With your blood by my own hand
At Allah's own command
At Allah's own command
I've spent twenty years learning to live
In a world that takes back all that it gives
But I do not want a war
I don't know what's going on
In the scenes behind
I worry about it some of the time
And I hope there's not a war
'Cause I'm not in for killing another man
Defending my holy land
As if there's a god who would understand
And I would walk across highways
To find my fate
If that might settle your crude debate
But I do not want a war
'Cause I'm not in for killing another man
Defending my holy land
As if there's a god who would understand
Feeding the promised land
With your blood by my own hand
At allah's own command
At allah's own command
I came up from the desert and here I will die
Tooth for tooth and an eye for an eye
Though I didn't want a war
I went in for killing another man
Defending my holy land
As if there's a god who would understand
As if there's a god who would understand
I went in for killing another man
Defending my holy land
As if there's a god who would understand
As if there's a god who would understand
Oh yeah...
look in the eyes
of the face of love
look in her eyes
oh, there is peace
no, nothing dies
within pure light
only one hour
of this pure love
to last a life
of twenty-seven years
only one hour
so come and go
Everyone not already familiar should check out Zakk Wylde with Pride and Glory or Black Label Society.
Here are some lyrics from Zakk Wylde's "Book of Shadows."
~Peddlers of Death~
Come, Take My Hand
Let Us Walk For A While
Your burden of pain
Replaced with a smile
Never So Far, Only So Close
As you melt in your false cradle below
Chorus:
For The Peddlers Of Death
Always Come Calling One More Time
Bearing promises of feeling fine
Chorus repeat
So called friends
are running loose
Draining you whole
'Til you're of no use
Letting go of things you need most
Son,
Early Wish
Early grave
Early ghost
Father stop
Criticizing your son
Mother please
Leave your daughters alone
Don't you see that's what wrong
With the world, with this world today
Everybody wants somebody
To be their own piece of clay
Everybody wants somebody
To be their own piece of clay
We all talked about kindness
But it's only only a word
Brother turned on a sister
In this cruel cruel world today
That's what's wrong
With all in this world today
Everybody wants somebody
To be their own piece of clay
Everybody wants somebody
To be their own piece of clay
Somebody to play with
Wanna to mold you, mold you
Shaker your love baby
Wanna to do their thing
Children are told
To give not just to take
If we were all children
You know the world
Will be a better place
Everybody wants somebody
To be their own piece of clay
We should all love each other
Love and take one another
We should love each other
Love and not hate, oh
Everybody wants somebody
To be their own piece of clay
Everybody wants somebody
To be their own piece of clay
True everybody wants somebody
To mold them, shape them own way
Everybody wants somebody
Try to make it
Or do their, do their thing
Everybody wants take somebody
Got to make it do their thing
Everybody wants somebody
To be their own piece of clay
God money, I'll do anything for you
God money, just tell me what you want me to
God money, nail me up against the wall
God money, don't want everything, he wants it all
No, you can't take it
No, you can't take it
No, you can't take that away from me
No, you can't take it
No, you can't take it
No, you can't take that away from me
Head like a hole
Black as your soul
I'd rather die than give you control
Head like a hole
Black as your soul
I'd rather die than give you control
Bow down before the one you serve
You're going to get what you deserve
Bow down before the one you serve
You're going to get what you deserve
God money, not looking for the cure.
God money, not concerned with the sick among the pure
God money, let's go dancing on the backs of the bruised
God money, not one to choose
No, you can't take it
No, you can't take it
No, you can't take that away from me
No, you can't take it
No, you can't take it
No, you can't take that away from me
Head like a hole
Black as your soul
I'd rather die than give you control
Head like a hole
Black as your soul
I'd rather die than give you control
Bow down before the one you serve
You're going to get what you deserve
Bow down before the one you serve
You're going to get what you deserve
Hey, hey
Just one more and I'll walk away.
All the everything you win
Turns to nothing today.
And I forget how to move
When my mouth is this dry,
And my eyes are bursting hearts
In a blood-stained sky.
Oh, it was sweet,
It was wild
And oh, how we...
I trembled,
Stuck in honey.
Honey
Cling to me...
So, just one more.
Just one more go.
Inspire in me the desire in me
To never go home.
Oh, just one more and i'll walk away.
All the everything you win
Turns to nothing today.
So, just one more.
Just one more go.
Inspire in me the desire in me
To never go home.
... and the will to show I will always be better than before.
Son?
Yeah Dad?
How's your day, Pal?
Great Dad! How's yours?
Super! Say Son, how'd you like to go fishing this week-end?
Great Dad. But I've got homework to do.
Well that's OK son. You can do it on the boat.
Dear, isn't our son swell?
Yes Dear. Isn't life swell?
I was walking with my brother
And he wondered what's on my mind
I said what I believe in my soul
Ain't what I see with my eyes
And we can't turn our backs this time
I am a patriot
And I love my country
Because my country is all I know
I want to be with my family
The people who understand me
Ive got nowhere else to go
And the river opens for the righteous
And I was talking with my sister
She looked so fine
I said baby, what's on your mind
She said I want to run like the lion
Released from the cages
Released from the rages
Burning in my heart tonight
And I ain't no communist and I ain't no capitalist
And I ain't no socialist and I ain't no imperialist
And I ain't no democrat and I ain't no republican
I only know one party and it is freedom
I am, I am, I am
I am a patriot
And I love my country
Because my country is all I know
And the river opens for the righteous
Someday
~Jackson Browne
The time has gone, the song is over, thought I'd something more to say...
Son?
Yeah Dad?
How's your day, Pal?
Great Dad! How's yours?
Super! Say Son, how'd you like to go fishing this week-end?
Great Dad. But I've got homework to do.
Well that's OK son. You can do it on the boat.
Dear, isn't our son swell?
Yes Dear. Isn't life swell?
......from The Breakfast Club eh? great movie. cuts right through the bs. here's another line---when they're all talking about their parents and Ally Sheedy's character says, "but that's what happens when you grow up--your heart dies". I always thought of it as the child in them dying. --or the reality of life tearing away your hopes and dreams?
~~got a little extra time on my idle hands and just got back from an hour road trip with nothing to do but think~~
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part 1
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Light in Your Eyes--Sheryl Crowe
Something's happenin'
cause everything's different,
but everything is fine, yeah
Cause this is the good stuff
and yesterday is only what you leave behind
it's only in your mind
Chorus:
You gotta talk to the one who made you
talk to the one who understands
talk to the one who gave you
all that light in your eyes
all that light in your eyes
There's no use pretendin'
you (or it) never existed
til you saw the light, yeah
Cause you're just beginning
you haven't missed it
it's only in you,
and you know what to do
Chorus:
You gotta talk to the one who made you
talk to the one who understands
talk to the one who gave you
all that light in your eyes
all that light in your eyes
If the world wasn't the way she is now
you'd be mysterious
she's got more use
and give it to me
When nobody's happy
that's not the world outside
where everybody hides
Chorus:
You gotta talk to the one who made you
talk to the one who understands
talk to the one who gave you
all that light in your eyes
all that light in your eyes
You gotta talk to the one who made you
talk to the one who understands
talk to the one who gave you
all that light in your eyes
all that light in your eyes
Yeah, thank you, thank you
yeah, everything will stop
yeah, thank you, thank you
for the light in your eyes
yeah, thank you, thank you
yeah, everything will stop
yeah, thank you, thank you,
for the light in your eyes
for the light in your eyes
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part 2
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Sheryl Crowe--I Shall Believe (heard a remake of it by a Christian rock band on radio the other day)
Come to me now
And lay your hands over me
Even if it's a lie
Say it will be alright
And I shall believe
I'm broken in two
And I know you're on to me
That I only come home
When I'm so all alone
But I do believe
That not everything is gonna be the way
You think it ought to be
It seems like every time I try to make it right
It all comes down on me
Please say honestly you won't give up on me
And I shall believe
And I shall believe
Open the door
And show me your face tonight
I know it's true
No one heals me like you
And you hold the key
Never again
would I turn away from you
I'm so heavy tonight
But your love is alright
And I do believe
That not everything is gonna be the way
You think it ought to be
It seems like every time I try to make it right
It all comes down on me
Please say honestly
You won't give up on me
And I shall believe
I shall believe
And I shall believe
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part 3
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Rebecca St. James--You Are Loved (Christian rock)
We were younger then, you and me, full of dreams, weren’t we?
I went my way, you went yours, where did you go, dear?
Someone said you had left the life we lived together then
This is my way of reaching out ‘cause I remember…
This is what I want to say to you
If I had one chance to speak to your heart
You are loved
More than you could ever know
This is what I want to say to you
If I had one chance to tell you something
You are loved
More than you can imagine
Imagine
If I told you would you believe, the narrow road, I did not leave
If I told you would you understand that I’ve found truth
Are you jaded? Are you hurting now? How I wish that I could tell
Where your heart’s at…can you see? Mine has found – home
Not sure if I’ve, made it clear enough
It’s not my love I sing about
Everybody asks, “Is God good?”
I believe, He is
In fact I know, He is
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for me, all the songs are about God...and an example of how Christian rock has come a long way...with influences from all around
Words are flowing out like endless rain into a paper cup,
They slither while they pass, they slip away across the universe
Pools of sorrow, waves of joy are drifting through my open mind,
Possessing and caressing me.
Jai guru de va om
Nothing's gonna change my world,
Nothing's gonna change my world.
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million eyes,
That call me on and on across the universe,
Thoughts meander like a restless wind inside a letter box they
Tumble blindly as they make their way
Across the universe
Jai guru de va om
Nothing's gonna change my world,
Nothing's gonna change my world.
Sounds of laughter shades of earth are ringing
Through my open views inviting and inciting me
Limitless undying love which shines around me like a
million suns, it calls me on and on
Across the universe
Jai guru de va om
Nothing's gonna change my world,
Nothing's gonna change my world.
Break me down
You got a lovely face
We're going to your place
And now you got to freak me out
Scream so loud, getting f'n laid
You want me to stay, but I got to make my way
Hey!
You're a crazy bitch
But you f*** so good, I'm on top of it
When I dream, I'm doing you all night
Scratches all down my back to keep me right on
Hey!
You're a crazy bitch
But you f*** so good, I'm on top of it
When I dream, I'm doing you all night
Scratches all down my back to keep me right on
Take it all
The paper is your game
You jump in bed with fame
Another one night paid in full, uh
You're so fine, it won't be a loss
Cashing in the rocks, just to get you face to face
Hey!
You're a crazy bitch
But you f*** so good, I'm on top of it
When I dream, I'm doing you all night
Scratches all down my back to keep me right on
Hey!
You're a crazy bitch
But you f*** so good, I'm on top of it
When I dream, I'm doing you all night
Scratches all down my back to keep me right on
Get the video
F*** you so good
Crazy bitch
You want it all
To be a star
You'll have to go down
Take it off
No need to talk
You're crazy
But I like the way you do me
Hey!
You're a crazy bitch
But you f*** so good, I'm on top of it
When I dream, I'm doing you all night
Scratches all down my back to keep me right on
Well you wish upon a star that turns into a plane
And I guess that's right on par
Who's left to blame?
If you were a pill
I'd take a handful at my will
And I'd knock you back with something sweet and strong
Plenty of times you wake up in February make-up
Like the moon and the morning star you're gone
(chorus:)
Tonight makes love to all your kind
Tomorrow's makin' Valentines
Hey you pop up in this old place
So sick and so refined (divine?)
Are you strung out on some face?
Well I know it ain't mine
If you were a pill, I'd take a handful at my will,
And I'd knock you back with something sweet and strong
Trouble keeping your head up when you're hungry and you're fed up,
Like a moon and a lone star you're gone
(chorus)
If you were a pill, I'd take a handful at my will,
And I'd knock you back with something sweet as wine
Yesterday was theirs to say, this is their world and their time
Well if tonight belongs to you, tomorrow's mine
(chorus)
(chorus)
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Son?
Yeah Dad?
How's your day, Pal?
Great Dad! How's yours?
Super! Say Son, how'd you like to go fishing this week-end?
Great Dad. But I've got homework to do.
Well that's OK son. You can do it on the boat.
Dear, isn't our son swell?
Yes Dear. Isn't life swell?
One 'n one is eleven!
Two 'n two is twenty-two!
Won't somebody kindly tell me,
What's the government is tryin' t' do...
Dickie's just to tricky
For a chump like me to use
You take that sub-committee seriously, boy
You could get a seizure from the evenin' news
Millions 'n millions of dollars...
Much as he might need...
He could open up a chain of motels, people
On the highway, yes indeed!
Quadrafonic desperation!
Just might be some confinement loaf all up under your bed
If you just might pinch a little loaf in your slumber
The FBI gonna get your number
THE FBI
GONNA GET YOUR NUMBER
THE FBI
GONNA GET YOUR NUMBER
etc.
Tryin' not to worry
Tryin' not to care
But you know, I get delighted
When that soup goes over there
Can't have no private conversation
Nowhere
In the USA
Can't wait 'til the rest of the people all over the the world
Find out their government
Is just the same ol' way
Every day...
The gangster stepped right up,
'N kissed him on the lips good-bye
Made him a cocksucker by proxy, yes he did,
An' he didn't even bat an eye!
The man in the White House -- oooh!
He's got a conscience black as sin!
There's just one thing I wanna know --
How'd that asshole ever manage to get in?
Forget your perfect offering, there is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in. - Leonard Cohen
This could be destiny
Oh, sweetheart
I've had no sense of time
Since we started
I got friends in need
Oh, sweetheart
I'd go lengths and lengths and lengths of love
Since we started this thing now
Combat salacious removal
Combat salacious removal
There is a bitter breed
Oh, sweetheart
They will be watching you sometimes
With their bitter hearts
But we went through with these
Oh, we're shifting the heartache
We want strong summer love that must roam washed up blood
Just to stay away
We, in our present life
Knew that the stars were right
That if you are the first to go
You'll leave a sign to let me know
Tell me so
Please, carry the Lantern light
You crossed the sea of night
Free from the spell of fright
Your cloak it is a spirit shroud
You'll wake me in my sleeping hours
Like a cloud
So, please, carry the Lantern high
Me, in my sorry plight
You waiting ev'ry night
My face, it turns a deathly pale
You're talking to me, through your veil
I hear you wail
So, please carry the Lantern high
The servants sleep
The door's are barred
You hear the stopping of my heart - we never part
So, please carry the Lantern high
-Stones
lay down all thoughts; surrender to the void
~it is shining it is shining~
Comments
With your little head down in your hands.
Oh, my God, you can't believe it's happening again
Your baby's gone and you're all alone and it looks like the end.
You're back out on the street and you're trying to remember.
How do you start it over? You don't know if you can.
You don't care much for a stranger's touch but you can't hold your man.
You never thought you'd be alone... this far down the line;
And I know what's been on your mind. You're afraid it's all been wasted time
The autumn leaves have got you thinkin' about the first time that you fell.
You didn't love the boy too much, no no, you just loved the boy too well.
So you live from day to day, and you dream about tomorrow.
And the hours go by like minutes, and the shadows come to stay
So you take a little somethin' to make them go away.
I could 've done so many things, baby if I could only stop my mind
From wonderin' what I left behind, and from worryin' about this wasted time.
Another love has come and gone and the years keep rushin' on
I remember what you told me before you went out on your own--
"Sometimes to keep it together, we got to leave it alone."
So you can get on with your search, baby, and I can get on with mine
And maybe someday we will find that it wasn't really wasted time.
And the slow parade of fears without crying
Now I want to understand
I have done all that I could
To see the evil and the good without hiding
You must help me if you can
Doctor, my eyes
Tell me what is wrong
Was I unwise to leave them open for so long
'Cause I have wandered through this world
And as each moment has unfurled
I've been waiting to awaken from these dreams
People go just where there will
I never noticed them until I got this feeling
That it's later than it seems
Doctor, my eyes
Tell me what you see
I hear their cries
Just say if it's too late for me
Doctor, my eyes
Cannot see the sky
Is this the prize for having learned how not to cry
Jackson Browne - one of my favorite poets
You got to step aside
Where are you going that decision is made
That's how it started
Too hot and dirty inside
Contain your feelings when there's nowhere to go
Follow all the signs and they'll lead us away
And it's all good stuff for ... around the world today
Turn off your television
Don't be the hatchet man
His time has come and now I'm ready to go
Cut up and fear
Tap into the nervous system
Retrieve your message tell me what do I know
Follow all the signs and they'll lead us away
But it's all good stuff for ... around the world today
Tried on the feeding time
The truth is
It's going to get you and won't let go
I'm isolated
I'm going nowhere fast
There's no direction so where do I go
Follow all the signs and they'll lead us away
But it's all good stuff for ... around the world today
~it is shining it is shining~
My grandfather and me
Around Nassau town we did roam
Drinking all night
Got into a fight
Well I feel so broke up
I want to go home
So hoist up the John B's sail
See how the mainsail sets
Call for the Captain ashore
Let me go home, let me go home
I wanna go home, yeah yeah
Well I feel so broke up
I wanna go home
The first mate he got drunk
And broke in the Cap'n's trunk
The constable had to come and take him away
Sheriff John Stone
Why don't you leave me alone, yeah yeah
Well I feel so broke up I wanna go home
So hoist up the John B's sail
See how the mainsail sets
Call for the Captain ashore
Let me go home, let me go home
I wanna go home, let me go home
Why don't you let me go home
(Hoist up the John B's sail)
Hoist up the John B
I feel so broke up I wanna go home
Let me go home
The poor cook he caught the fits
And threw away all my grits
And then he took and he ate up all of my corn
Let me go home
Why don't they let me go home
This is the worst trip I've ever been on
So hoist up the John B's sail
See how the mainsail sets
Call for the Captain ashore
Let me go home, let me go home
I wanna go home, let me go home
Why don't you let me go home
And a fine coalminer for the NCB that was
A fallen angel and Jesus on the cross
A skating ballerina you should have seen her do the skater's waltz
Some people have got to paint and draw
Harry had to work in clay and stone
Like the waves coming to the shore
It was in his blood and in his bones
Ignored by all the trendy boys in London and in Leeds
He might as well have been making toys or strings of beads
He could not be in the gallery
And then you get an artist says he doesn't want to paint at all
He takes an empty canvas and sticks it on the wall
The birds of a feather all the phonies and all of the fakes
While the dealers they get together
And they decide who gets the breaks
And who's going to be in the gallery
No lies he wouldn't compromise
No junk no bits of string
And all the lies we subsidise
That just don't mean a thing
I've got to say he passed away in obscurity
And now all the vultures are coming down from the tree
So he's going to be in the gallery
~it is shining it is shining~
no Lines are
drawn
from here
no lands
are owned
13,000 and holding
swallowed
in the purring
of her engines
tracking the beacon here
is there a signal there
on the other side?
and you said
that you would find me here
and you said
that you would
find me even in death
and you said
and you said
you'd find me
but i
can't see new york
as i'm circling down
white clouds,
i'm falling out
i know his lips are warm
but i can't seem to find
my way out
my way out,
i
can't see new york
as i'm circling down
through white clouds,
falling out and i know
your lips are warm
but i
can't seem to find my way out
my way out of this
hunting ground
tori amos
Of which we're caught in the middle.
A couple of lucky ones
Tangled up in too much love
~cowboy junkies
as you have
rearranged the mess
in your head
he will show up looking
sane
perfectly sane
if i know crazy
tori, again
Of which we're caught in the middle.
A couple of lucky ones
Tangled up in too much love
~cowboy junkies
Golden eagles
Frightened faces
Basket cases
Jags and riches
Queens and witches
Electric mantras
And tight-fitting dreams
Never been so high
Never been so low
Never been so high
Gilded flowers
Long-lost hours
Morning programs
With fake suntans
Meet a maniac in the cul-de-sac
Otherwise it's this ennui
Chromium platin'
All this waiting brings me down
Suffocatin'
All those colors bring me around
Broken records
Faded labels
Songs to sing to
When you were young
A tattooed pierced arm
Fresh and perfumed
Switch your prison
Fly away
And jewels on your fingers
Tears in your dresses
Fabulous mansions
And damp little rooms
This one will shrink me
This one will grow me
Cue me to sleep
And reality looms
~it is shining it is shining~
back to the lab, with my gift of gab
and a little dab'll do ya, maybe even school ya,
I'll rush your end zone like my man Don Shula
you're my four leaf clover even bending over;
I love you like rover; I'm your little lawnmower
but, lower, lower, I'm the seed sower
the funky weed grower, the mad rap thrower.
See, I'm a man's man; do you understand?
What I'm giving ain't cocked in the palm of my hand.
So take the nasty plunge plaid not grunge.
I know it's really hard when you love someone. You always
stood by me like Spanky did Stymiey and if anybody messes I'll
bust'em in the eye. And check that ass like Phil Esposito
the guido, U.P.S. next day back to Toledo.
Smoke 'em if ya gottem, if ya ain't gottem then ya hit rock bottom.
Me and my Les Paul is out droppin' science
pocket full of blunts and a full carry license
never walking streets, lookin' past my shouler acting kinda bolder
since my dog got older; I walked the walk and I aced the test
when I put the pressure on all your tendencies manifest
I'm a half spick peckerwood talkin' to the dead
I'll break into your house and I'll smell your bed.
Smoke 'em if ya gottem, if ya ain't gottem then ya hit rock bottom.
Run away with me?
Would you really like to
Run away with me?
I can feel very clearly
But no longer see
For oh, looking at the sun
Waiting for you to appear
Watched you getting nearer
Like I knew it was in my heart
'Til the damage was already done
Looking at the sun
Burned my eyes out
And I'm blind now
I was looking for somebody
That you couldn't be
I was looking for somebody
That you will never be
I was so sure that there was
Nothing wrong with ne
For oh, looking at the sun
Waiting for you to appear
Watched you getting nearer
Like I knew it was in my heart
'Til the damage was already done
Looking at the sun
Burned my eyes out
And I'm blind now...I'm blind
[solo]
Do you really want to
Run away with me?
I can feel very clearly
But no longer
Oh, looking at the sun
Waiting for you to appear
Watched you getting nearer
Like I knew it was in my heart
'Til the damage was already done
Looking at the sun
Burned my eyes out
And now I'm blind
Waiting for you to appear
Watched you getting nearer
Like I knew it was in my heart
'Til the damage was already done
Looking at the sun
Burned my eyes out
And I'm blind now
Yeah I'm blind now
It’s like clockwork and I’m stood sitting again, staring at your eyes, your eyes
I put my eye out come to see things half as well
I suppose it’s time to try and put my ear against a shell myself I’m not simple
You’re so sweet it tickles
Yeah
It’s all so clinical, clinical, so clinical, clinical
Peeling paint to understand why it’s falling off
Grab my hand and kiss it baby, try and call a stop
I put my eye out come to see things half as well
My clothes are finally dry and I place them on myself, myself I’m not sinful
You’re so sweet it tickles
Yeah
It’s all so clinical, it’s clinical, it’s all so clinical, clinical
All these things in my way
There are things in my way
All these things in my way
Things in my way
~it is shining it is shining~
Powerman 5000
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Let's go!
Everybody needs to start their own fire
Everybody needs a riot of their own
Everybody needs to be something that they are not
Everybody needs to go it alone
Because!
Living so free is a tragedy
When you can't be what you want to be
Living so free is a tragedy
When you can't see what you need to see
Okay!
All the time spent hanging on to anything
All the time spent knowing that they're wrong
All the time wasted, stolen back, innocent
You won't get a second more so move it along
Because!
Living so free is a tragedy
When you can't be what you want to be
Living so free is a tragedy
When you can't see what you need to see
Living so free is a tragedy
When you can't be what you want to be
Living so free is a tragedy
When you can't see what you need to see
Wishing and hoping and thinking it's you
That's got this all under control
Never a minute has passed you all by
When they haven? invaded your soul
It? not something you can hold
It? not something you own
It's not something you can buy or steal
You've got it when you're alone
Being free is a tragedy
When you don't know yourself
Being free is a tragedy
When you don't know who you are
Living so free is a tragedy
When you can't be what you want to be
Living so free is a tragedy
When you can't see what you need to see
Living so free is a tragedy
When you can't be what you want to be
Living so free is a tragedy
When you can't see what you need to see
Let's go!
Hey, hey, hey!
Alright then
This is the story of your life man
[And in other places around the world,
It's growing clear that the americans are trigger happy]
In a world that takes back all that it gives
But I do not want a war
'Cause I'm not in for killing another man
Defending my holy land
As if there's a god who would understand
Feeding the promised land
With your blood by my own hand
At Allah's own command
At Allah's own command
I've spent twenty years learning to live
In a world that takes back all that it gives
But I do not want a war
I don't know what's going on
In the scenes behind
I worry about it some of the time
And I hope there's not a war
'Cause I'm not in for killing another man
Defending my holy land
As if there's a god who would understand
And I would walk across highways
To find my fate
If that might settle your crude debate
But I do not want a war
'Cause I'm not in for killing another man
Defending my holy land
As if there's a god who would understand
Feeding the promised land
With your blood by my own hand
At allah's own command
At allah's own command
I came up from the desert and here I will die
Tooth for tooth and an eye for an eye
Though I didn't want a war
I went in for killing another man
Defending my holy land
As if there's a god who would understand
As if there's a god who would understand
I went in for killing another man
Defending my holy land
As if there's a god who would understand
As if there's a god who would understand
Oh yeah...
(Matthew Sweet)
of the face of love
look in her eyes
oh, there is peace
no, nothing dies
within pure light
only one hour
of this pure love
to last a life
of twenty-seven years
only one hour
so come and go
dedicated to a friend
Here are some lyrics from Zakk Wylde's "Book of Shadows."
~Peddlers of Death~
Come, Take My Hand
Let Us Walk For A While
Your burden of pain
Replaced with a smile
Never So Far, Only So Close
As you melt in your false cradle below
Chorus:
For The Peddlers Of Death
Always Come Calling One More Time
Bearing promises of feeling fine
Chorus repeat
So called friends
are running loose
Draining you whole
'Til you're of no use
Letting go of things you need most
Son,
Early Wish
Early grave
Early ghost
Chorus repeat 4x
Criticizing your son
Mother please
Leave your daughters alone
Don't you see that's what wrong
With the world, with this world today
Everybody wants somebody
To be their own piece of clay
Everybody wants somebody
To be their own piece of clay
We all talked about kindness
But it's only only a word
Brother turned on a sister
In this cruel cruel world today
That's what's wrong
With all in this world today
Everybody wants somebody
To be their own piece of clay
Everybody wants somebody
To be their own piece of clay
Somebody to play with
Wanna to mold you, mold you
Shaker your love baby
Wanna to do their thing
Children are told
To give not just to take
If we were all children
You know the world
Will be a better place
Everybody wants somebody
To be their own piece of clay
We should all love each other
Love and take one another
We should love each other
Love and not hate, oh
Everybody wants somebody
To be their own piece of clay
Everybody wants somebody
To be their own piece of clay
True everybody wants somebody
To mold them, shape them own way
Everybody wants somebody
Try to make it
Or do their, do their thing
Everybody wants take somebody
Got to make it do their thing
Everybody wants somebody
To be their own piece of clay
God money, just tell me what you want me to
God money, nail me up against the wall
God money, don't want everything, he wants it all
No, you can't take it
No, you can't take it
No, you can't take that away from me
No, you can't take it
No, you can't take it
No, you can't take that away from me
Head like a hole
Black as your soul
I'd rather die than give you control
Head like a hole
Black as your soul
I'd rather die than give you control
Bow down before the one you serve
You're going to get what you deserve
Bow down before the one you serve
You're going to get what you deserve
God money, not looking for the cure.
God money, not concerned with the sick among the pure
God money, let's go dancing on the backs of the bruised
God money, not one to choose
No, you can't take it
No, you can't take it
No, you can't take that away from me
No, you can't take it
No, you can't take it
No, you can't take that away from me
Head like a hole
Black as your soul
I'd rather die than give you control
Head like a hole
Black as your soul
I'd rather die than give you control
Bow down before the one you serve
You're going to get what you deserve
Bow down before the one you serve
You're going to get what you deserve
You know who you are.
Just one more and I'll walk away.
All the everything you win
Turns to nothing today.
And I forget how to move
When my mouth is this dry,
And my eyes are bursting hearts
In a blood-stained sky.
Oh, it was sweet,
It was wild
And oh, how we...
I trembled,
Stuck in honey.
Honey
Cling to me...
So, just one more.
Just one more go.
Inspire in me the desire in me
To never go home.
Oh, just one more and i'll walk away.
All the everything you win
Turns to nothing today.
So, just one more.
Just one more go.
Inspire in me the desire in me
To never go home.
Yeah Dad?
How's your day, Pal?
Great Dad! How's yours?
Super! Say Son, how'd you like to go fishing this week-end?
Great Dad. But I've got homework to do.
Well that's OK son. You can do it on the boat.
Dear, isn't our son swell?
Yes Dear. Isn't life swell?
Someday
I was walking with my brother
And he wondered what's on my mind
I said what I believe in my soul
Ain't what I see with my eyes
And we can't turn our backs this time
I am a patriot
And I love my country
Because my country is all I know
I want to be with my family
The people who understand me
Ive got nowhere else to go
And the river opens for the righteous
And I was talking with my sister
She looked so fine
I said baby, what's on your mind
She said I want to run like the lion
Released from the cages
Released from the rages
Burning in my heart tonight
And I ain't no communist and I ain't no capitalist
And I ain't no socialist and I ain't no imperialist
And I ain't no democrat and I ain't no republican
I only know one party and it is freedom
I am, I am, I am
I am a patriot
And I love my country
Because my country is all I know
And the river opens for the righteous
Someday
~Jackson Browne
......from The Breakfast Club eh? great movie. cuts right through the bs. here's another line---when they're all talking about their parents and Ally Sheedy's character says, "but that's what happens when you grow up--your heart dies". I always thought of it as the child in them dying. --or the reality of life tearing away your hopes and dreams?
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part 1
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Light in Your Eyes--Sheryl Crowe
Something's happenin'
cause everything's different,
but everything is fine, yeah
Cause this is the good stuff
and yesterday is only what you leave behind
it's only in your mind
Chorus:
You gotta talk to the one who made you
talk to the one who understands
talk to the one who gave you
all that light in your eyes
all that light in your eyes
There's no use pretendin'
you (or it) never existed
til you saw the light, yeah
Cause you're just beginning
you haven't missed it
it's only in you,
and you know what to do
Chorus:
You gotta talk to the one who made you
talk to the one who understands
talk to the one who gave you
all that light in your eyes
all that light in your eyes
If the world wasn't the way she is now
you'd be mysterious
she's got more use
and give it to me
When nobody's happy
that's not the world outside
where everybody hides
Chorus:
You gotta talk to the one who made you
talk to the one who understands
talk to the one who gave you
all that light in your eyes
all that light in your eyes
You gotta talk to the one who made you
talk to the one who understands
talk to the one who gave you
all that light in your eyes
all that light in your eyes
Yeah, thank you, thank you
yeah, everything will stop
yeah, thank you, thank you
for the light in your eyes
yeah, thank you, thank you
yeah, everything will stop
yeah, thank you, thank you,
for the light in your eyes
for the light in your eyes
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part 2
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Sheryl Crowe--I Shall Believe (heard a remake of it by a Christian rock band on radio the other day)
Come to me now
And lay your hands over me
Even if it's a lie
Say it will be alright
And I shall believe
I'm broken in two
And I know you're on to me
That I only come home
When I'm so all alone
But I do believe
That not everything is gonna be the way
You think it ought to be
It seems like every time I try to make it right
It all comes down on me
Please say honestly you won't give up on me
And I shall believe
And I shall believe
Open the door
And show me your face tonight
I know it's true
No one heals me like you
And you hold the key
Never again
would I turn away from you
I'm so heavy tonight
But your love is alright
And I do believe
That not everything is gonna be the way
You think it ought to be
It seems like every time I try to make it right
It all comes down on me
Please say honestly
You won't give up on me
And I shall believe
I shall believe
And I shall believe
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part 3
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Rebecca St. James--You Are Loved (Christian rock)
We were younger then, you and me, full of dreams, weren’t we?
I went my way, you went yours, where did you go, dear?
Someone said you had left the life we lived together then
This is my way of reaching out ‘cause I remember…
This is what I want to say to you
If I had one chance to speak to your heart
You are loved
More than you could ever know
This is what I want to say to you
If I had one chance to tell you something
You are loved
More than you can imagine
Imagine
If I told you would you believe, the narrow road, I did not leave
If I told you would you understand that I’ve found truth
Are you jaded? Are you hurting now? How I wish that I could tell
Where your heart’s at…can you see? Mine has found – home
Not sure if I’ve, made it clear enough
It’s not my love I sing about
Everybody asks, “Is God good?”
I believe, He is
In fact I know, He is
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for me, all the songs are about God...and an example of how Christian rock has come a long way...with influences from all around
They slither while they pass, they slip away across the universe
Pools of sorrow, waves of joy are drifting through my open mind,
Possessing and caressing me.
Jai guru de va om
Nothing's gonna change my world,
Nothing's gonna change my world.
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million eyes,
That call me on and on across the universe,
Thoughts meander like a restless wind inside a letter box they
Tumble blindly as they make their way
Across the universe
Jai guru de va om
Nothing's gonna change my world,
Nothing's gonna change my world.
Sounds of laughter shades of earth are ringing
Through my open views inviting and inciting me
Limitless undying love which shines around me like a
million suns, it calls me on and on
Across the universe
Jai guru de va om
Nothing's gonna change my world,
Nothing's gonna change my world.
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When I was just a little girl
I asked my mother, what will I be
Will I be pretty, will I be rich
Here's what she said to me.
Que Sera, Sera,
Whatever will be, will be
The future's not ours, to see
Que Sera, Sera
What will be, will be.
When I was young, I fell in love
I asked my sweetheart what lies ahead
Will we have rainbows, day after day
Here's what my sweetheart said.
Que Sera, Sera,
Whatever will be, will be
The future's not ours, to see
Que Sera, Sera
What will be, will be.
Now I have children of my own
They ask their mother, what will I be
Will I be handsome, will I be rich
I tell them tenderly.
Que Sera, Sera,
Whatever will be, will be
The future's not ours, to see
Que Sera, Sera
What will be, will be.
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Break me down
You got a lovely face
We're going to your place
And now you got to freak me out
Scream so loud, getting f'n laid
You want me to stay, but I got to make my way
Hey!
You're a crazy bitch
But you f*** so good, I'm on top of it
When I dream, I'm doing you all night
Scratches all down my back to keep me right on
Hey!
You're a crazy bitch
But you f*** so good, I'm on top of it
When I dream, I'm doing you all night
Scratches all down my back to keep me right on
Take it all
The paper is your game
You jump in bed with fame
Another one night paid in full, uh
You're so fine, it won't be a loss
Cashing in the rocks, just to get you face to face
Hey!
You're a crazy bitch
But you f*** so good, I'm on top of it
When I dream, I'm doing you all night
Scratches all down my back to keep me right on
Hey!
You're a crazy bitch
But you f*** so good, I'm on top of it
When I dream, I'm doing you all night
Scratches all down my back to keep me right on
Get the video
F*** you so good
Crazy bitch
You want it all
To be a star
You'll have to go down
Take it off
No need to talk
You're crazy
But I like the way you do me
Hey!
You're a crazy bitch
But you f*** so good, I'm on top of it
When I dream, I'm doing you all night
Scratches all down my back to keep me right on
You're crazy
But I like the way you do me.
Well you wish upon a star that turns into a plane
And I guess that's right on par
Who's left to blame?
If you were a pill
I'd take a handful at my will
And I'd knock you back with something sweet and strong
Plenty of times you wake up in February make-up
Like the moon and the morning star you're gone
(chorus:)
Tonight makes love to all your kind
Tomorrow's makin' Valentines
Hey you pop up in this old place
So sick and so refined (divine?)
Are you strung out on some face?
Well I know it ain't mine
If you were a pill, I'd take a handful at my will,
And I'd knock you back with something sweet and strong
Trouble keeping your head up when you're hungry and you're fed up,
Like a moon and a lone star you're gone
(chorus)
If you were a pill, I'd take a handful at my will,
And I'd knock you back with something sweet as wine
Yesterday was theirs to say, this is their world and their time
Well if tonight belongs to you, tomorrow's mine
(chorus)
(chorus)
Two 'n two is twenty-two!
Won't somebody kindly tell me,
What's the government is tryin' t' do...
Dickie's just to tricky
For a chump like me to use
You take that sub-committee seriously, boy
You could get a seizure from the evenin' news
Millions 'n millions of dollars...
Much as he might need...
He could open up a chain of motels, people
On the highway, yes indeed!
Quadrafonic desperation!
Just might be some confinement loaf all up under your bed
If you just might pinch a little loaf in your slumber
The FBI gonna get your number
THE FBI
GONNA GET YOUR NUMBER
THE FBI
GONNA GET YOUR NUMBER
etc.
Tryin' not to worry
Tryin' not to care
But you know, I get delighted
When that soup goes over there
Can't have no private conversation
Nowhere
In the USA
Can't wait 'til the rest of the people all over the the world
Find out their government
Is just the same ol' way
Every day...
The gangster stepped right up,
'N kissed him on the lips good-bye
Made him a cocksucker by proxy, yes he did,
An' he didn't even bat an eye!
The man in the White House -- oooh!
He's got a conscience black as sin!
There's just one thing I wanna know --
How'd that asshole ever manage to get in?
Oh, sweetheart
I've had no sense of time
Since we started
I got friends in need
Oh, sweetheart
I'd go lengths and lengths and lengths of love
Since we started this thing now
Combat salacious removal
Combat salacious removal
There is a bitter breed
Oh, sweetheart
They will be watching you sometimes
With their bitter hearts
But we went through with these
Oh, we're shifting the heartache
We want strong summer love that must roam washed up blood
Just to stay away
Combat salacious removal
Combat salacious removal
Combat salacious removal.
Knew that the stars were right
That if you are the first to go
You'll leave a sign to let me know
Tell me so
Please, carry the Lantern light
You crossed the sea of night
Free from the spell of fright
Your cloak it is a spirit shroud
You'll wake me in my sleeping hours
Like a cloud
So, please, carry the Lantern high
Me, in my sorry plight
You waiting ev'ry night
My face, it turns a deathly pale
You're talking to me, through your veil
I hear you wail
So, please carry the Lantern high
The servants sleep
The door's are barred
You hear the stopping of my heart - we never part
So, please carry the Lantern high
-Stones
~it is shining it is shining~