from the album "Lucidity"
SEVER
Things that I thought I had put far behind find the mind, connect to sever.I felt deeply how my feelings combined, it is like they'll never sever.
In a way I started today to weave garlands for the grave.
It will break me til my knees bend, it will leave me with nothing in the end.
In a blatant mind my thoughts have entwined, but if you feel the real they will divide.
From beyond within the heart plays its part, the real and fake forever sever.
FROZEN
Misted windows hide your empty eyes, every moment, every whisper separates you from me.I've been screaming, won't you let me in, let me see a trace of the places hidden under your skin.
Answer me, til the day that you do I'll be one step behind you.
Answer me, til the day that you do I'll be waiting here for you.
Needles sting me when you look away, and your silence sounds like deafening screams to me.
I've been waiting, won't you open your heart and let me in, please let me in.
Answer me, til the day that you do I'll be one step behind you.
Answer me, til the day that you do I'll be waiting here for you.
Free your mind from doubts, all you have is now; free your mind from shame, it will only bring you pain.
SILHOUETTE OF A DANCER
My skin still burns all the places you've touched, so aware, leave no place for hiding, not last night, not this time.I close my eyes so the world can't see me and draw the silhouette of a dancer in my head.
I can't look through your eyes but my mind betrays mine, should I starve unmarked or confess to my blindness?
My eyes still hurt, fighting chasing lights as they form silhouettes behind me, let them go this time.
Waiting for a change, I can't fight these chains every day.
I bleed to avoid the pain, every day I fade a little more.
I close my eyes so the world can't see me and draw the silhouette of a dancer in my head.
I can't look through your eyes but my mind betrays mine, should I starve unmarked or confess to my blindness?
NO COMPLIANCE
It feels so dangerous, I don't know where you are, you can't control my every move, although you try so hard.Accept it, leave it, your wisdom doesn't make me wise; accept it, leave it, your tears don't make my cry.
Drifting apart, lay me to waste, I know your fears, I feel your pain.
Running away through a spinning maze, running away to a safe escape.
No compliance, your boundaries suffocate, my lungs are filled with poison in your cage.
Bruises and stains, no power left to stand, you held me down, help me rise again.
SEE ME IN SHADOW
Standing in the shadow of our lies to hide our imperfection, doing anything we can to hide.Eyes wide open but still blind to see what really matters, and insecurity won't go, see me in shadow.
Standing by the ruins of your soul that cries for some more meaning, wondering when you have become so cold.
And all the pictures of your past are gone, forget yourself and who you are, another life is not that far.
Standing by the paintings of your dreams, but you have awoken, and all the purples and the greens have turned to black,
And the ruins of your soul have died, no more meaning, I wonder when you have become so cold.
And all the pictures of your past are gone, forget yourself and who you are, another life is not that far.
SHATTERED
Engaged in a memory, engaged in a prison of guilt, surrounded by reproach and everybody knows.She flies over town in white shades, but you're left behind with a thousand troubled minds.
You cannot speak, you're blinded by your grief.
She flies over town in white shades and guides every step, but still you feel alone, cause angels don't come home.
As the sky is clearing, you clear your mind, hide all mirrors not to see what the morphine couldn't hide.
Shattered faces on the floor, your broken mask serves you no more.
She flies over town in white shades, but you're left behind with a thousand troubled minds.
You cannot speak, you're blinded by your grief.
She flies over town in white shades and guides every step, but still you feel alone, cause angels don't come home.
THE GATHERING
The song that angels sing, the spell that calls, the gathering; the magic that might bring, eternal life, the gathering.I see a world in anger, I see a world in pain, each day a different story but still the message is the same.
Hard news I set beside me, sweet dreams is what I need, what daylight wants to show me, at night appears to be insane.
May I ask you in? Shall I persuade you?
The song that angels sing, the spell that calls, the gathering; the magic that might bring, eternal life, the gathering.
My cards, the ones to choose from, the role they play tonight; which ones embrace the loved ones, which ones will summon for a fight?
Show me your precious darlings and I will crush them all, wave with your blooded sword and I'll kiss to show I'm not afraid.
DAYLIGHT LUCIDITY
Daylight lucidity, stream through me, let me dream, out of this world.I cannot sleep, sedate me, wide awake; animate this soul, I'm still following the pain.
Daylight lucidity, beam on me, come to me, into my sleep.
I cannot sleep, sedate me, wide awake; animate this soul, I'm still following the pain.
Don't try to wake what is unreal, the secrets only you must seal, you hold the key of what I need, unlock the door that will reveal.
SLEEPWALKERS DREAM
Close your eyes for the night is falling, fear no dark for it's warm and safe,And looks familiar as it comes approaching, come with me and I will take you.
A world beyond your sleep, beyond what's real, in safety hidden sphere,
Away from our daily reality, truth lies out there.
As the innocent lay their heads down, as the night chants its luring call,
Cross the borders of sense and foresight, come with me and I will take you, you don't have to be afraid.
A tear is only water, a sigh is only air, whenever you feel haunted, truth lies out there.
A DAY FOR GHOSTS
The livelong day there's a voice in my cry, growing like fire, it brings scorn to my smile.Time lengthens the night and shortens the day, the ghosts I host don't seem to go away.
I've got my reasons to burn the world, reasons all my own, a stitch by which I'm attached to this world of bone.
A day for ghosts.
Laws dissolve to reveal wonder as they open up to pull me under, and I will put my terms to the test, to put the ghost to rest.
I've got my reasons to burn the world, reasons all my own, a stitch by which I'm attached to this world of bone.
PRISTINE
Once upon the dawn, day will break, it begins on time, flowing while it's glowing, it arrives on time.Subjected to origin is to know that nothing becomes of the contemptible.
Waiting for the dawn, hope to find, I'll cling to my pride.
Clearest form, closest to pure perfection, the essence yet unfolds itself, the chain of strength it holds.
Waiting for the dawn, hope to find, I'll cling to my pride.
Reaching from the inside, all I know, night must go.
Open the dawn, behold the purest form, the essence unfolds, the chain of strength you held.
As a distant dream I hover, I call all the stars, as a distant dream I hover, call all stars to fall for cover.
(DEEP) FROZEN
Misted windows hide your empty eyes, every moment, every whisper separates you from me.I've been screaming, won't you let me in, let me see a trace of the places hidden under your skin.
I foster illusions of which I am afraid, unknown emotions repel your embrace.
I foster illusions of which I am afraid, afraid of your embrace.
Needles sting me when you look away, and your silence sounds like deafening screams to me.
I've been waiting, won't you open your heart and let me in, please let me in.
I foster illusions of which I am afraid, unknown emotions repel your embrace.
I foster illusions of which I am afraid, afraid of your embrace.
Free your mind from doubts, all you have is now; free your mind from shame, it will only bring you pain.
from the album "April Rain"
APRIL RAIN
How does it feel when all you're counting on is scatterbrain, every wind that you have sailed upon a hurricane?Every summer you have seen was filled with April rain, it doesn't get easy, don't you know
Fortune smiles on you, you're not watching, dig that hole deeper.
Fortune smiles on you, you're not watching, create your own fate.
Count your blessings and prepare to change your point of view, all those days that you spend waiting won't come back to you.
Take off the glasses that have treated your world black and grey, it doesn't get easy, don't you know
Fortune smiles on you, you're not watching, dig that hole deeper.
Fortune smiles on you, you're not watching, create your own fate.
It keeps raining cause we are blind, cause we are tired, cause we are blind to fortune's guidance now.
It keeps raining cause we are blind, it will keep raining cause we are tired.
STAY FOREVER
(Stay forever.)Silence in the living room, hours feel like days, silence when I speak to you, your thoughts seem miles away.
My euphoria, oh yes you're worth the prize, because when my mind gets clouded I forget about our fights.
Stay forever is never again, my words have been spoken, it will come to an end.
Stay forever is never again, our words left unspoken, it will come to an end.
Artificial energy running through my veins, chemical the love I feel for faces without names.
My euphoria, oh yes you're worth the prize, because when my mind gets clouded I forget about our fights.
Stay forever is never again, my words have been spoken, it will come to an end.
Stay forever is never again, our words left unspoken, it will come to an end.
This empty house is not a home, find the will to stand alone, without your armour.
Flesh and blood have turned to stone, find the will to stand alone, too late to turn away.
INVIDIA
My achievements seem so humble while you're making wine from water,While my hands work the cold soil, all you touch turns into gold, and I don't want to be like you.
I don't want to be like you, it seems like you outrun me every time.
I want to be you, why can't I erase you from my mind?
All the heroes in the gutter finally get their ever after,
As they lay their final glance upon your ever shining armour, and I don't want to be like you.
I don't want to be like you, it seems like you outrun me every time.
I want to be you, why can't I erase you from my mind?
Looking from a distance, the difference seems so small.
Has the grass been greener on the other side at all?
CONTROL THE STORM
I can feel it grow, starting like a little storm, itching in my toes, but its will to take over ain't quite that small, I can feel it grow.I can hear it moan, I can hear its bitter cries, in my veins it crawls, underneath my tongue it hides, I'm in control.
An error in my genesis, the reason why I started this, where did we go wrong?
Don't you know in the end you're no stronger of hand, you are no stronger of heart?
Don't you know in the end, we'll be tragically torn apart if you can't control the storm?
Does it get to you, fury in your fingertips, does it get you too, turning hands to angry fists in rageful bliss?
Does it get to you, crying all your lullabies, do you lick your wounds, wondering how we could try to stop this useless fight?
An error in my genesis, the reason why I started this, where did we go wrong?
Don't you know in the end you're no stronger of hand, you are no stronger of heart?
Don't you know in the end, we'll be tragically torn apart if you can't control the storm?
ON THE OTHER SIDE
Will you wait, I'm on the other side.It's too late to tell you what I'm about, but God, I'm proud.
A giant in the sky, a light-flooded horizon, a silent peaceful cry,
And the sun that is rising warms me up, wears me out.
Will you wait, I'm on the other side.
It's too late to tell you what I'm about, but God, I'm proud.
A different kind of quiet, a different kind of warning.
You've said your last goodbyes and left your daughters mourning,
Breathing in, breathing out.
VIRTUE AND VICE
Whatever the prophecy, whatever prosperity.Heaven denied us its kingdom, tell me where we've gone wrong.
Oh, Fortitude, I'd be like you, but I only speak when spoken to.
Heaven forgive the mess I'm in, Temperance, why do I cast your prudence to the wind?
Whatever the prophecy, let it be; we'll live all there is to live, be it pleasure, be it sorrow.
Whatever prosperity lies in me, I'll be all that I can be, my forever starts tomorrow.
I am a nightmare haunting you, I steal away your sleep,
A poison running through your veins, a wound that always bleeds.
Call it love, call it lust, Luxuria, my enemy, you get the best of me.
Whatever the prophecy, let it be; we'll live all there is to live, be it pleasure, be it sorrow.
Whatever prosperity lies in me, I'll be all that I can be, my forever starts tomorrow.
GO AWAY
Understand you'll never be what they expect, it's out of reach.You're not the kind to reach that high, it's nothing like you had in mind.
Another act, another show you play, realise it will not make your problems go away.
You cannot act your way out of your daily demise, get real today, to hell, just go away.
Understand the road ahead is full of gaps, gets harder yet.
You're not the kind to lead us blind, it's nothing like you had in mind.
Another act, another show you play, realise it will not make your problems go away.
You cannot act your way out of your daily demise, get real today, to hell, just go away.
START SWIMMING
I'm waiting for another day, I'm waiting for the clock to reach the six and twelve,I'm waiting for a holiday, I'm waiting for myself.
And all I seem to hear is, "Stop, I'm catching up on you, don't leave me behind.
I can't see a soul out here, it's dark, I'm catching up on you."
And all I wonder is why do I try to start running, what am I running for?
Do you remember why we started running? Do you remember why we're running at all?
If I dared, I'd choose to swim, but it's safer on the shore.
Do you remember why we started running? Do you remember why we're running at all?
I would die to get away, but I fear to even more.
I'm waiting for another day, the last one was so desperately disappointing.
I can't seem to focus on what I've done or where I've been, I can't see nobody here.
I would rather stay here the rest of my life than close my eyes and start swimming.
LOST
It seems we have lost, lay down your arrows, they won't cause flaming hearts.It seems we have lost, we keep on running in different directions.
Never again, the way you're turning all my wrongs to right, never again, this one you can't deny.
Never again, I wanted to reveal a softer side, never again, forgive me if I tried to do what's right.
I was only holding on to everything we had so far, thought I was ready to let go, but I'm not.
I was only holding on to everything we had so far, thought I was ready but now it seems, yes now it seems,
It seems we have lost, lay down your arrows, they won't cause flaming hearts.
It seems we have lost, forget about your pride, forget everything you're taught.
I'LL REACH YOU
Remember when you walked out into the rain, the railroad and the sky were calling your name?Can you hear them whisper, "Come and get lost with us"?
You've been chasing shadows in your hometown, you searched for answers that refused ever to be found,
So you compromised and found a new horizon, ever since you left you're always on my mind.
Here's to you if you care to listen, here's to you, let me cross the distance.
Even if you're not here, I'll reach you; even though you're away, I'm near, we'll forgive and forget, I'll reach you.
Seven years and seven days you've been gone, seven years of changing faith and opinion.
Would you recognise me if you walked beside me? I would keep on waiting, it's been too long.
Here's to you if you care to listen, here's to you, let me cross the distance.
Even if you're not here, I'll reach you; even though you're away, I'm near, we'll forgive and forget, I'll reach you.
NOTHING LEFT
Nothing left to make you feel high, nothing left to turn you on, laughing in your childish disguise, you rule the night.Follow me back home, cause the night is young and I'm tired of being alone.
Follow me back home, give me just one more to send shivers to the bone.
Nothing left, the magic is gone, pallor face in morning light.
Someone close the curtains, oh how it hurts your eyes.
Follow me back home, cause the night is young and I'm tired of being alone.
Follow me back home, give me just one more to send shivers to the bone.
Nothing left, it's time to leave, can you make it on your own?
Nothing left, it's time to breathe, can you follow me back home?
Nothing left to make you feel high, nothing left to turn you on, dwelling in your dreams every day disturbs your night.
COME CLOSER
I want to lay my head down, come closer, what's that uncomfortable sound of your key in the door?I hear you walking out again, why didn't you stay a while to say goodbye, my friend?
I want to lay my head down, come closer, I thought you'd turn me, but you were turning around.
I think I'm losing you again, why didn't you stay a while to say goodbye, my friend?
Winter shadow cools you, white before your eyes; summer shadow soothes, nothing on your mind.
Winter shadow cools you, white before your eyes; summer shadow suits you tonight.
I want to lay my head down, come closer, trying not to remember our most precious times,
Remember winters cold and summers by my side, please tell me I do leave a void of any kind.
Say goodbye now.
from the album "We Are the Others"
MOTHER MACHINE
Incomplete, cast in the concrete, walk the city streets, granite sky.My machine built the factories, feed the worker bees, get in line.
Round and round, the wheels come down, dreaming of the steam, the pounding sounds.
Round and round, the wheels come down, won't you electrify my soul, intensify it all.
Little girl in a concrete world, artificial hurt in your eyes.
You won't see any living trees, any flower fields in my time.
Round and round, the wheels come down, dreaming of the steam, the pounding sounds.
Round and round, the wheels come down, won't you electrify my soul, intensify it all.
I like the plastic people, paper world, the silver moon, the iron sun.
I'll fold you paper flowers, little girl, for you'll never see a real one.
ELECTRICITY
I can't forget the faces, I can't forget the sounds, I can't forget, can't get the fever down.I guess imagination, it makes it come around, whenever lightning strikes and thunder sounds.
We shared nothing but storm, but wind, one rainswept moment stuck within.
Day by day I walk the distance alone, day by day I fight the fever alone.
I can't forget the shaking, your hands over my own, both hot with fever to our very bones.
I do regret the feeling that we will never know what might have happened had we not let go.
Day by day I walk the distance alone, day by day I fight the fever alone.
I can't forget the faces, I can't forget the sounds.
WE ARE THE OTHERS
I'm walking with Sophie tonight, she lives in the air that I breathe.I can't get it out of my mind, how you were left to bleed.
Was it how you dressed or how you act?
I can't believe how they could act so violently, without regret, well, we will not forget.
We are the others, we are the cast out, we're the outsiders but you can't hide us.
We are the others, we are the cast out, you're not out there on your own.
If you feel mistreated, torn and cheated, you are not alone, we are the others.
As simple as air in your lungs, as simple as words on your lips,
And no one should take that away, no one should argue this.
Now with our heads up high, we'll carry on and carry out,
That we won't let them get us down or wear us out, cause we are not alone.
We are the others, we are the cast out, we're the outsiders but you can't hide us.
We are the others, we are the cast out, you're not out there on your own.
If you feel mistreated, torn and cheated, you are not alone, we are the others.
Normal is not the norm, it's just a uniform.
(We are the others, we're the outsiders, we are the others.)
Forget about the norm, take off your uniform, we are all beautiful.
MILK AND HONEY
The sun was golden-flamed, the air was sweet like honey, the grass was soft, we made a pledge to keep on running.The clouds all shied away, the air was warm and damp, on this golden day you ripped my heart away.
It was the dawn of May, a lonely blackbird singing, now the same melody brings back the pain.
(Bring back the pain) You'll get it, regret it, take my advice; you'll get it, regret it, if you are wise.
As long as you are getting older, always look over your shoulder twice.
The moon was silver-lined, the air was sweet like honey, we said our last goodbyes, now what are we becoming?
Outside the blackbirds sing, but you keep down the blinds, cause each time you kiss her lips they'll sing my lullaby.
(Bring back the pain) You'll get it, regret it, take my advice; you'll get it, regret it, if you are wise.
As long as you are getting older, always look over your shoulder twice, always look twice.
Not so long ago, now we are sober and cold, there's no way to return, we've got to let our bridges burn.
(You played with my heart, you ripped it apart.)
HIT ME WITH YOUR BEST SHOT
Hit me with your best shot, give me all that you've got, hit me til I'm down and out and black and blue,Now for the love of God, hit me with your best shot.
It was the last thing on my mind, well could it be at the wrong place, the right time?
Bittersweet surrender, I let the face of concrete meet with mine.
Way to kick me when I'm on the ground, way to kick me when I'm already down.
When you thought that I would turn around, I turned the other cheek.
Hit me with your best shot, give me all that you've got, hit me til I'm down and out and black and blue,
Now for the love of God, hit me with your best shot.
You made my peaceful bubble burst, well, you don't just leave, destroy me first.
Bittersweet surrender, I let you mark the spot.
Hit me with your best shot, give me all that you've got, hit me til I'm down and out and black and blue,
Now for the love of God, hit me with your best shot.
We are falling to pieces one by one, we're going down.
Will you pick up the pieces or leave them scattered on the ground?
This will be your final chance to fight for what we've got.
I WANT YOU
I've been trying to deny it, oh what to do when I'm such a fool for you?I want you so bad, I want you, I want to hold you, babe, you look away, what did I say? I want you.
For better or for worse I will make you mine, each warm heart gets cold in time.
I'll follow like a shadow, you won't get through the web I have spun for you.
I want you so bad, I want you, I want to hold you, babe, you look away, what did I say?
I want you so bad, I want you, I watch each step you take, I will not bend, I will not break.
I want you bad, I want your innocence, I want your bitterness, your loneliness, I want you.
I want you bad, I want your innocence, I want your every breath, in life or death, I want you.
No one could see it coming, a tragic day, how did that car get in your way?
I got you, at last I got you, she'll never see your face forever bound in my embrace.
I got you, at last I got you, she'll never send you thrills, if I can't have you no one will.
WHERE IS THE BLOOD
(Carve your name in my heart, love will tear us apart.)Unavoidable the break, we both realised from the start.
All our expectations the same, so why do I take the blame?
You yourself were king of the game, so why do I pay for your pain?
If I hurt you so much, then where is the blood?
(Undeniably yours, now, forever and more.)
Do you buy these lies yourself, when I caught you in the act?
All our expectations the same, so why do I take the blame?
You yourself were king of the game, so why do I pay for your pain?
If I hurt you so much, then where is the blood?
Can you believe I still think of you, can you believe I still dream we could turn around?
But I forgave, forgot too many times.
GENERATION ME
Here I am in all my majesty, there is nothing you won't get to see.Come along and I'll give you my world in one hundred forty characters.
Don't you try to analyse, we are just raised to reach the stars.
Can't you see it's generation me, I don't need anyone or anything, I'll make it alone.
Can't you see it's generation me, we don't need anyone or anything, just leave me alone.
I don't know if I spend my time in vain, in getting everyone to know my name.
All I know is my face looks fucking right from this certain angle, certain light.
Don't you try to criticise, it's no crime but a product of our time, so here I am.
BABYLON
Easy now, we don't need this, take a breath and believe it's just a phase that we're going through.I try to shout, but my words go in and out, did you even hear me say that I still love you?
We are losing our way, can't you hear what I say, like a child calling out in the night?
We're lost in Babylon, time is slipping away, holding on, it won't be long until the dawn of the day.
Lost in Babylon, still we need to believe, when love is gone we're moving on, not a long way from home.
Back to back, we're too proud to face the facts, though we sleep in the same bed, there's no coming though.
Face to face, I can see you through a maze of the words we spoke in vain.
You know this will go out of hand if we don't understand this confusion of tongue, feels so wrong.
We're lost in Babylon, time is slipping away, holding on, it won't be long until the dawn of the day.
Lost in Babylon, still we need to believe, when love is gone we're moving on, not a long way from home.
There's a right to your wrongs, there's a truth in my lies, I can't hear from your words but I see in your eyes.
ARE YOU DONE WITH ME
This city drinks and roars, each word so meaningless; each word, especially yours, echoes inside my head.Why can't you see I won't let you get your way, let you get the best of me? I just need to know, are you done with me?
So are you done with me, and if you are won't you just let me be?
I try to understand your reason for leaving, I cannot believe it.
This city drinks and screams, this night will never end; this city made of dreams, my dreams have turned to sand.
Why can't you see I won't let you get your way, let you get the best of me? I just need to know.
So are you done with me, and if you are won't you just let me be?
I try to understand your reason for leaving, I cannot believe it.
So are you done with me, are you honestly, did you realise that I can't be all you need?
Are you done with me, are you honestly, if love is gone then I am done again.
This city drinks and roars.
GET THE DEVIL OUT OF ME
I don't know what to feel, I don't know what to say, I don't know what to do, what makes me treat you this way.I get numb in my bones, I get numb in my heart, why don't you leave me alone before I tear you apart?
I'm no Jesus Christ, I'm the one mistake that you love to hate, I apologise, it's your destiny to get the devil out of me.
I don't know what to do, it always ends the same way, though I have been here before I know the rules to this game.
And though I try not to lose it, in the end I will fall, better to have you in tears than not to have you at all.
I'm no Jesus Christ, I'm the one mistake that you love to hate, I apologise, it's your destiny to get the devil out of me.
If you think I'm hard to handle (you give up so easily), I just need a good example (to be what I used to be).
NOT ENOUGH
Judgement is easy, you pick a side and a comfortable lie.Heavy the burden when every victim is self-defined.
Try to understand it's harder to apologise when all committed crimes, they're just in our minds.
It's not enough, how hard I try, it's not enough to clear my mind.
It's not enough, I'm the jury, I'm the judge, and I committed all the crimes.
How hard I try, it's not enough.
I walked away and left you bleeding as I kicked the mud off my feet.
Lay on the ground and watched you leaving, my heart fights for every beat.
Try to understand it's harder to apologise when all committed crimes, they're just in our minds.
It's not enough, how hard I try, it's not enough to clear my mind.
It's not enough, I'm the jury, I'm the judge, and I committed all the crimes.
How hard I try, it's not enough.
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