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a thousand words call out through the ages
the kindness I've lavished on strangers is more than I can explain
and God help you if you are a phoenix and you dare to rise up from the ash
a million shades of light
the old echo fades away
seven days and seven nights of thunder
pour myself a cup of ambition
what a way to make a living
for service and devotion
let you dream just to watch them shatter
I would never want to do what it seems I've done
you can never really run everything you start
hurry, boy, it's waiting there for you
frightened of this thing that I've become
bad things happen to the kindest people
yes, you're right / it's exactly as you say, but / the warning came much too late
I'll waste some time and buy him those cigarettes
the rules that someone had set became absolutely useless
it's not like I've got brakes to begin with
so far she hasn't run, though I swear she's had her moments
under the love is a stronger emotion
joy that comes out of sorrow
truth is not kind / and you say neither am I
shine on in the hearts of men
these changes ain't changing me
the gold-hearted boy I used to be
all these things that I've done
I'm still here / until I'm gone
don't rub it in too hard that I've been wrong
still I'm here / and still confused
I can finally see how much I stand to lose
went broke believing that the simple should be hard
it's hard to change the way you lose when you think you've never won
there's a part of me that's always true
'I'm lost,' I said, though I knew she was sleeping
I'm empty and aching and I don't know why
I spoke to you in cautious tones / you answered me with no pretense
still I feel I've said too much
my silence is my self-defense
and so it goes, and so it goes / and so will you soon, I suppose
you can have this heart to break
so I will choose to be with you / as if the choice were mine to make
can you say there are no mysteries in the house you choose to dwell?
he's proud of his scars and the battles he's lost
I believe I've passed the age of consciousness and righteous rage
I found that just surviving was a noble fight
he's never been able to learn from mistakes
he can't understand why his heart always breaks
another inch of your life sacrificed for your brother
anything it takes to wish me here
time will come when we'll know what happened here
we learn one thing, if we learn at all
in the secret wars we call our lives
we watch the days, we make our plans
we change in ways a life demands
whatever pleasure this life may allow, I'll give you the love I have for you now
although you know and I know you know / though I swear I'll never let you go / anything can happen
if this love can happen here, anything can
all of his life, he's mastered choice
in the shadows of all I have created
I don't need to fight to prove I'm right
I don't need to be forgiven
what's the sense in hurting my pride?
God damn them all!
fire no guns, shed no tears
as I send all the sins from your past as a gift to your future
like a self-inflicted wound
as I wait to watch you fall from grace
you can hide your sins but not from me
she's good, a good godsend
a fully-armed angel to cover me quickly
if nothing can be done, we'll make the best of what's around
I don't know if words from me can still upset you
you were the same as me / but on your knees
I'll become what you became to me
tell me, brother, where'd you get those scars?
kick the table over, send the pieces all to hell
dark deeds and secret matters
who's reflected in the broken glass?
between the black squares and the white, there's gonna be a sacrifice tonight
you think you're so smart, but I've seen you naked
if all else fails, you can blame it on me
forgive me, father, but I'm falling in love and that's all I have for confession today
you cut me open
it's not that I'm broken, and it isn't that I bleed
where will I put my hands now?
asking only workman's wages
the sun goes down alone
you got your hair combed back and your sunglasses on, baby
a voice inside my head said 'don't look back, you can never look back'
circles in sand are washed out into the sea
can you help me unravel my latest mistake?
here in town you can tell he's been down for a while / but my God, it's so beautiful when the boy smiles
'there's a light at each end of this tunnel,' you shout, 'cause you're just as far in as you'll ever be out
I know the difference between myself and my reflection / I just can't help but to wonder, which of us do you love?
finding my way back to sanity again
I've been sleeping a thousand years it seems
don't let me die here
with all the colors in the world, yours had to be blue
watch out, you might get what you're after
strange but not a stranger
fighting fire with fire
and use this chance to be heard
got down on my knees / and I pretend to pray
and then that word grew louder and louder / until it was a battle cry
all you can do is try to know who your friends are / as you head off to the war
pick a star on the dark horizon and follow the light
if you call, I will answer
you think we're here to play a game of who loves more than who
it's time to make this something that is more than only fair
ten thousand years I've searched it seems and now
across the floor, dreams and shadows play
a rough stone that shines like a diamond from within me
when what you thought wouldn't break / has broken all too soon
when the sunset has entered your heart
although it's such a small light right now
I can see so much from this cold height
oh darkness my work is done
poured this bottle of light from the sun
I've shown them all that I can
tug at the seas and illumine the earth
I can't stand up for falling down
strengthen your lyre and sing the hymn of death
go to him, stay with him if you can / but be prepared to bleed
it's time I found myself totally surrounded in your circles
I can still smell you on my fingers and taste you on my breath
glass so dark they won't even know your name
every day you're in this place you're two days nearer death
there's thunder all around me and there's poison in the air
the young men like their money and they all come back for more
just call me Cleopatra, everybody, 'cause I'm the Queen of Denial
I can sing this song to everybody / and pretend it's not about you
you still have a rage inside you that you carry with a certain pride
if a vow is what it takes, haven't you paid for your mistakes?
barely waking and I'm tangled up in you
the moon is on fire
suddenly it moves with perfect grace
she sits there so refined and drinks herself half blind
ink and paper, epic offers
inside feels like there's a thunder
spellbound, you've taken me under
anonymous and undemanding, enchantment passing through
how far we are from morning
I can ride your heart 'til it breaks
run it up the flagpole and see who salutes
if there's anything to say, if there's anything to do, if there's any other way, I'd do anything for you
was this the question, pulling, pulling, pulling you?
we are but a moment's sunlight
so here I am at the end of the road
all the words have been spoken, and the prophecies fulfilled
it sure was a grand waste of time
kicking out all of the windows and setting fire to this life
twelve hundred miles and you never asked why
I'm your mind giving you someone to talk to
there's no point in direction, we cannot even choose a side
drink up, dreamers, you're running dry
in that thunder crash, you're a thousand minds within a flash
don't be afraid to cry at what you see
if we break before the dawn, they'll use up what we used to be
sometimes we still curse gravity when no one is around
things we missed that might have changed our lives
morning will come, and I'll do what's right
before we end and then begin, we'll drink a toast to how it's been
what breaches and faults are concealed
back to the place of my worst defeat
forfeit all my lives to get just one right
not everything you run to wants you
not everything you love will love you
one more starry-eyed messiah meets a violent farewell
here's to reaching higher ground
death is a mighty uniter, the defeat that comes to every fighter
my heart dances, but not for joy
it's easy to be certain that another's heart will fall / much harder to be certain of your own / it moves you and inspires you, then it drives you to the wall / and leaves you so excited but alone
she's the wave; she turns the tide
I no longer know myself, but I still know you
and you want her, and she wants you
there's a tightening in my chest; I know that I am drawn in
oh God let it not be you
damn, girl you do it well / and I thought you were innocent / you took my heart and put it through hell / still you're magnificent
carnival night, and they're stringing the lights around you
the furnace wind is a flickering of wings about your face
in a cloud of incense - yeah, it smells like heaven in this place
ghosts from every corner of your life
never again is what you swore the time before
what more in the name of love?
love a young woman who I don't understand
killed still waiting for her word
went on strangling in the solitude she preferred
like a vapor are the days we live; this is no life for the cautious
hold the light given unto you
in this broken world we choose
tell your story now, we have so much to know
to those that stand on empty shores and spit against the wind
in that fuzzy picture, the writing stands out on the wall
if that's the only place that you can leave your doubts
I believe there is a time for meditation in cathedrals of our own
hard to come away with anything that feels like dignity
if I could fly across this night, faster than the speed of light
there beneath the stars I'll leave you, before you go of your own free will
dear world I'm pleased to meet you
maybe someday we will find that it wasn't really wasted time
up is what he chooses, the kisses and the bruises
time will tell of stars that fell a million years ago
the good news is I'm better for the time we spent together / but the bad news is you're gone
In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day.
Character is what you are in the dark.
Maybe you have to know darkness before you can appreciate the light.
Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come.
Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.
One must have a good memory to be able to keep the promises one makes.
There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.
the kindness I've lavished on strangers is more than I can explain
and God help you if you are a phoenix and you dare to rise up from the ash
a million shades of light
the old echo fades away
seven days and seven nights of thunder
pour myself a cup of ambition
what a way to make a living
for service and devotion
let you dream just to watch them shatter
I would never want to do what it seems I've done
you can never really run everything you start
hurry, boy, it's waiting there for you
frightened of this thing that I've become
bad things happen to the kindest people
yes, you're right / it's exactly as you say, but / the warning came much too late
I'll waste some time and buy him those cigarettes
the rules that someone had set became absolutely useless
it's not like I've got brakes to begin with
so far she hasn't run, though I swear she's had her moments
under the love is a stronger emotion
joy that comes out of sorrow
truth is not kind / and you say neither am I
shine on in the hearts of men
these changes ain't changing me
the gold-hearted boy I used to be
all these things that I've done
I'm still here / until I'm gone
don't rub it in too hard that I've been wrong
still I'm here / and still confused
I can finally see how much I stand to lose
went broke believing that the simple should be hard
it's hard to change the way you lose when you think you've never won
there's a part of me that's always true
'I'm lost,' I said, though I knew she was sleeping
I'm empty and aching and I don't know why
I spoke to you in cautious tones / you answered me with no pretense
still I feel I've said too much
my silence is my self-defense
and so it goes, and so it goes / and so will you soon, I suppose
you can have this heart to break
so I will choose to be with you / as if the choice were mine to make
can you say there are no mysteries in the house you choose to dwell?
he's proud of his scars and the battles he's lost
I believe I've passed the age of consciousness and righteous rage
I found that just surviving was a noble fight
he's never been able to learn from mistakes
he can't understand why his heart always breaks
another inch of your life sacrificed for your brother
anything it takes to wish me here
time will come when we'll know what happened here
we learn one thing, if we learn at all
in the secret wars we call our lives
we watch the days, we make our plans
we change in ways a life demands
whatever pleasure this life may allow, I'll give you the love I have for you now
although you know and I know you know / though I swear I'll never let you go / anything can happen
if this love can happen here, anything can
all of his life, he's mastered choice
in the shadows of all I have created
I don't need to fight to prove I'm right
I don't need to be forgiven
what's the sense in hurting my pride?
God damn them all!
fire no guns, shed no tears
as I send all the sins from your past as a gift to your future
like a self-inflicted wound
as I wait to watch you fall from grace
you can hide your sins but not from me
she's good, a good godsend
a fully-armed angel to cover me quickly
if nothing can be done, we'll make the best of what's around
I don't know if words from me can still upset you
you were the same as me / but on your knees
I'll become what you became to me
tell me, brother, where'd you get those scars?
kick the table over, send the pieces all to hell
dark deeds and secret matters
who's reflected in the broken glass?
between the black squares and the white, there's gonna be a sacrifice tonight
you think you're so smart, but I've seen you naked
if all else fails, you can blame it on me
forgive me, father, but I'm falling in love and that's all I have for confession today
you cut me open
it's not that I'm broken, and it isn't that I bleed
where will I put my hands now?
asking only workman's wages
the sun goes down alone
you got your hair combed back and your sunglasses on, baby
a voice inside my head said 'don't look back, you can never look back'
circles in sand are washed out into the sea
can you help me unravel my latest mistake?
here in town you can tell he's been down for a while / but my God, it's so beautiful when the boy smiles
'there's a light at each end of this tunnel,' you shout, 'cause you're just as far in as you'll ever be out
I know the difference between myself and my reflection / I just can't help but to wonder, which of us do you love?
finding my way back to sanity again
I've been sleeping a thousand years it seems
don't let me die here
with all the colors in the world, yours had to be blue
watch out, you might get what you're after
strange but not a stranger
fighting fire with fire
and use this chance to be heard
got down on my knees / and I pretend to pray
and then that word grew louder and louder / until it was a battle cry
all you can do is try to know who your friends are / as you head off to the war
pick a star on the dark horizon and follow the light
if you call, I will answer
you think we're here to play a game of who loves more than who
it's time to make this something that is more than only fair
ten thousand years I've searched it seems and now
across the floor, dreams and shadows play
a rough stone that shines like a diamond from within me
when what you thought wouldn't break / has broken all too soon
when the sunset has entered your heart
although it's such a small light right now
I can see so much from this cold height
oh darkness my work is done
poured this bottle of light from the sun
I've shown them all that I can
tug at the seas and illumine the earth
I can't stand up for falling down
strengthen your lyre and sing the hymn of death
go to him, stay with him if you can / but be prepared to bleed
it's time I found myself totally surrounded in your circles
I can still smell you on my fingers and taste you on my breath
glass so dark they won't even know your name
every day you're in this place you're two days nearer death
there's thunder all around me and there's poison in the air
the young men like their money and they all come back for more
just call me Cleopatra, everybody, 'cause I'm the Queen of Denial
I can sing this song to everybody / and pretend it's not about you
you still have a rage inside you that you carry with a certain pride
if a vow is what it takes, haven't you paid for your mistakes?
barely waking and I'm tangled up in you
the moon is on fire
suddenly it moves with perfect grace
she sits there so refined and drinks herself half blind
ink and paper, epic offers
inside feels like there's a thunder
spellbound, you've taken me under
anonymous and undemanding, enchantment passing through
how far we are from morning
I can ride your heart 'til it breaks
run it up the flagpole and see who salutes
if there's anything to say, if there's anything to do, if there's any other way, I'd do anything for you
was this the question, pulling, pulling, pulling you?
we are but a moment's sunlight
so here I am at the end of the road
all the words have been spoken, and the prophecies fulfilled
it sure was a grand waste of time
kicking out all of the windows and setting fire to this life
twelve hundred miles and you never asked why
I'm your mind giving you someone to talk to
there's no point in direction, we cannot even choose a side
drink up, dreamers, you're running dry
in that thunder crash, you're a thousand minds within a flash
don't be afraid to cry at what you see
if we break before the dawn, they'll use up what we used to be
sometimes we still curse gravity when no one is around
things we missed that might have changed our lives
morning will come, and I'll do what's right
before we end and then begin, we'll drink a toast to how it's been
what breaches and faults are concealed
back to the place of my worst defeat
forfeit all my lives to get just one right
not everything you run to wants you
not everything you love will love you
one more starry-eyed messiah meets a violent farewell
here's to reaching higher ground
death is a mighty uniter, the defeat that comes to every fighter
my heart dances, but not for joy
it's easy to be certain that another's heart will fall / much harder to be certain of your own / it moves you and inspires you, then it drives you to the wall / and leaves you so excited but alone
she's the wave; she turns the tide
I no longer know myself, but I still know you
and you want her, and she wants you
there's a tightening in my chest; I know that I am drawn in
oh God let it not be you
damn, girl you do it well / and I thought you were innocent / you took my heart and put it through hell / still you're magnificent
carnival night, and they're stringing the lights around you
the furnace wind is a flickering of wings about your face
in a cloud of incense - yeah, it smells like heaven in this place
ghosts from every corner of your life
never again is what you swore the time before
what more in the name of love?
love a young woman who I don't understand
killed still waiting for her word
went on strangling in the solitude she preferred
like a vapor are the days we live; this is no life for the cautious
hold the light given unto you
in this broken world we choose
tell your story now, we have so much to know
to those that stand on empty shores and spit against the wind
in that fuzzy picture, the writing stands out on the wall
if that's the only place that you can leave your doubts
I believe there is a time for meditation in cathedrals of our own
hard to come away with anything that feels like dignity
if I could fly across this night, faster than the speed of light
there beneath the stars I'll leave you, before you go of your own free will
dear world I'm pleased to meet you
maybe someday we will find that it wasn't really wasted time
up is what he chooses, the kisses and the bruises
time will tell of stars that fell a million years ago
the good news is I'm better for the time we spent together / but the bad news is you're gone
In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day.
Character is what you are in the dark.
Maybe you have to know darkness before you can appreciate the light.
Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come.
Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.
One must have a good memory to be able to keep the promises one makes.
There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.