from the album "Interlude"
BREATHE ON ME
Breathe on me.A stranger's face that I have never seen, but on photographs, but on TV screens.
Your songs of romance ringing in my ear, you are all I see, you are all I hear.
Your eyes met mine, just one split second and I knew tonight.
Yes you can be my solitary man, I'll be your girl named Joy, yes I'll be all you need and more.
Breathe on me, light my way, bring me back to life.
Breathe on me, fill me up, make me feel alive.
My heart is black, my soul is bleeding, give me something to believe in, breathe on me tonight.
Trying to stay cool as I'm approaching you, hitching up my skirt as I start to flirt.
My nervous breathing when I'm close to you, I can't help but being breathless over you.
Who needs the stars, you are my only star tonight, who needs the moon when you are my loverman,
Until the bitter end, I'll do all I can and more.
Breathe on me, light my way, bring me back to life.
Breathe on me, fill me up, make me feel alive.
My heart is black, my soul is bleeding, give me something to believe in, breathe on me tonight,
And call me a wild rose.
COLLARS AND SUITS
Trying so hard to get by, to be the next big thing alive, but all the same, every colour I see, a pale shade of grey.Trying so hard and they say, "You're just a signature away, just one handshake."
Well, here's to collars and suits and things that they say.
"Once more it's your chance, just take it; once more, don't be so blind.
For all I care, you fake it, it's your chance to shine."
And it's all that I dream of, there's nothing I want more, there's nothing I would trade it for.
All I dream of, it's all I really want, there's nothing I want more, there's nothing else, it's my problem if I can't take it.
(My mistake if I'm not taking it, all at stake if I'm not making it, my big break if I'm not breaking it, my problem if I can't take it.)
Why would we change our own game, these are the rules by which we play,
I've heard it all before, "Try to make up your mind and make up your face."
I don't believe in a way to skip a chapter and be great, there's no such thing where all traumas and flaws are gently erased.
Here's to the collars and suits and the things they say, you've got bring something better to the table to tempt me.
Here's to the collars and suits and the things they say, better put your money where your mouth is.
SUCH A SHAME
Such a shame to believe in escape, a life on every face, but that's a change, until I'm finally left with an eight.Tell me to relax, well I just stare, maybe I don't know if I should change, a feeling that we share.
It's a shame, such a shame, number me with rage, it's a shame, such a shame.
Number me in haste, such a shame, this eagerness to change, it's a shame.
The dice decide my fate, that's a shame, in these trembling hands my faith
Tells me to react, well I don't care, maybe it's unkind if I should change, a feeling that we share.
It's a shame, such a shame, number me with rage, it's a shame, such a shame.
Number me in haste, such a shame, this eagerness to change.
Such a shame, number me with the rage; such a shame, write across my name.
CORDELL
Though once you ruled my mind, I thought you'd always be there, and I'll always hold onto your face.But everything changes in time and the answers are not always fair, and I hope you've gone to a better place.
Cordell, time will tell, they say that you passed away, and I hope you've gone to a better place.
Time will tell, they say that you passed away, and I know that you've gone to a better place, Cordell.
Your lover and baby will cry but your presence will always remain, is this how it was meant to be?
You meant something more to me than what many people will see, and to hell with the industry.
Cordell, time will tell, they say that you passed away, and I hope you've gone to a better place.
Time will tell, we all will depart and decay, and we all will return to a better place, Cordell.
SMALLTOWN BOY
Run away, turn away.You leave in the morning with everything you own in a little black case.
Alone on a platform, the wind and the rain on your sad and lonely face.
Run away, turn away.
Pushed around and kicked down, always a lonely boy, but you never cried to them, just to your soul.
Run away, turn away.
Cry, boy, cry.
from the album "The Human Contradiction"
HERE COME THE VULTURES
I once had an understanding that everything would go my way,But now we've come too far along for me to hold on to my own beliefs.
I'm not in it for the fun of it but for the pain, I'm not at all interested in your temporary fame.
I just want to see you stare as I lay my soul bare for you to crush upon with heavy feet, I'm in it for the beat.
Stranger the faces, stranger the places, they're becoming us.
Here come the vultures, heading over us.
It's just a black murder of crows across the sky, the moon announces that it will soon be night.
The light dies down, the spot goes on, as loveless lips break into song.
I once had an understanding that everything would go my way,
But now we've come too far along for me to hold on to my own beliefs.
I'm not in it for the fun of it but for the pain, I'm not at all interested in your temporary fame, and the same old song we sing.
Here's to the ghost we still seem to host, how he's becoming us.
Here come the vultures, screaming down at us.
They said you cannot sing the blues when you're pretty and young, let me show you a face that fits to neither one.
This heart is black like blood that has dried, this song is blue like bruises bright.
I once had an understanding that everything would go my way,
But now we've come too far along for me to hold on to my own beliefs.
I'm not in it for the fun of it but for the pain, I'm not at all interested in your temporary fame, and the same old song we sing.
Murder of crows across the sky, the moon announces that it will soon be night.
Fog closes in and all I see all empty eyes through silent screams.
I once had an understanding that everything would go my way,
But now we've come too far along for me to hold on to my own beliefs, I'm in it for the beat.
YOUR BODY IS A BATTLEGROUND
Any infection, any affliction, each imperfection, spread the addiction.(Imperfection, don't you settle, take some action.)
Any disorder, bi- or tri- polar, for your protection, just an injection.
One bitter pill, hard to take, and one more each day just to feel the same, kill the pain.
Any disorder, no concentration, too hard to handle, no hesitation.
For your protection, just an injection, we'll write you a letter, the younger the better.
One for your heart, for your head, one for every monster under your bed, kill the pain.
Your body is a battleground, and chemicals are scattered round.
Your body is a battleground, but don't think you can do without.
Your body is an industry, your pain nothing but gain to me.
Your body is an industry, you can't break free, no.
Any disorder, for your protection, spread the addiction.
STARDUST
Dreamscape in a blanket silver-grey, homesick for a memory washed away, all light in hollow eyes is stardust.Once you learned there is no return to lies, heaven cried as we left the earth to die, homesick for a memory, in silent sleep eternally.
Bring me to life, bring me the starlight, bring me the sun and moon, release the stars tonight.
Far away in a distant memory, there is lush, there is green, there's you and me, now all blood in our hollow heart is stardust.
Washed away like a face drawn in the sand, at the edge of the sea is how we end, painful is the memory, we did it to ourselves.
Awaken me, bring back my heartbeat, bring back the warmth of skin, the world we're living in.
Bring me to life, bring me the starlight, bring me the sun and moon, release the stars tonight.
MY MASQUERADE
Your face, my face, you breathe and I breathe, you fail, I fake, I pray.You lose and I lose, you bruise, I bruise, I hunt, you stay my prey.
My masquerade, if you're not afraid to take a step into my world, my masquerade.
A ball tonight, cover your eyes, by touch and taste we'll find our way.
Your secrets deep, yes I will keep, I hunt, you stay my prey.
My masquerade, if you're not afraid to take a step into my world, my masquerade.
Take off your mask and the world will see the freak in you, the freak in me.
Tonight we hide from judging eyes, we'll dance til the sunrise.
TELL ME, MECHANIST
Tell me, mechanist, is it true, does none of it bother you?Once upon a time, upon a time behind us, the mechanist inclined, clockworks of time define us,
Who you are, merely springs that tick the time of things away.
The cry from the beast is just the noise of a spring that you have touched, not a human, not a voice.
If only we could go back to the start, we would see we're not that far apart.
Realise the likeness of our hearts, if we could go back.
One and the same, likely to one another, but the mechanist inclined, merely our kind can suffer
Who you are, does it justify pleasing your palate with the other's blood?
Tell me why have the writings on the wall nor the dawn of DNA changed a single thing at all?
If only we could go back to the start, we would see we're not that far apart.
Realise the likeness of our hearts, if we could go back to the start.
Closing collision, the end of our divide, savour the flavour of our ancestry rites.
Closing collision, we'll realise in time, no opposition, we're genetically entwined.
SING TO ME
Happy tears fade fast, sad tears tend to last, you've got your bloodstained heart in your nicotine-stained hands,And your twenty-nine years did not help you pass the roadkill, cheap thrill, obstacle-filled path.
White lies, black dress, brightest of darkness, you close your tearstained eyes to your silver-lined madness.
After twenty-nine years you might want to confess that we have made a fucked-up place that I cannot erase, sing to me.
White lies, black heart tearing us apart, you breathe the frost-filled air from my lungs to your lungs.
After twenty-nine years how much more to come, that we have made a fucked-up place that I cannot erase, sing to me.
Happy tears fade fast, sad tears tend to last, you've got a sad, sad song and it's stuck in your aching head,
And your twenty-nine years did not teach you that changing melodies will change your destiny at last.
Now we have made a fucked-up place we're trying to erase.
ARMY OF DOLLS
How do you look into the mirror when you're too tired to fake a smile?Your misery won't make you look thinner, reality is bitter.
It's your hand and yours alone that has opened the door to let their voices in,
Into your head, under your skin, fix your face or you will never fit in.
Do you want me to burst your bubble now? Do you want me, I will break it, make it loud.
Do you want me to break the paradigm? These rules were made by us, they break you up inside.
Army of dolls stole your reflection, army of dolls stole all your perfect imperfections.
Just shut them out, don't let them in, into your head, do you really think
Misery tastes so much sweeter served with a perfect smile?
Do you want me to burst your bubble now? Do you want me, I will break it, make it loud.
Do you want me to break the paradigm? These rules were made by us, they break you up inside.
Don't you look into the mirror, army of dolls made you so bitter.
Make-up magpul follow the leader, never have seen a face much sweeter.
LULLABY
We are sinking this ship now this midnight hour, how long can you hold your breath?To the sirens who sing to the broken hearts, we are humming the same tune, goodbye my lullaby.
Under water reflected flashes of life floating up from your lungs, your lips.
When you decided to sail to the other side, well, you decided to sink too, goodbye my lullaby.
We are sinking this ship now by midnight hour, how long can you hold your breath?
To the sirens who sing to the broken hearts, we are humming the same tune, goodbye my lullaby, I will miss you.
THE TRAGEDY OF THE COMMONS
To another commotion, to another disruption, to another explosion, I raise my glass.To another investment into the future of wasteland, well, here's to pulling the waistband.
I know at least I thought, at least I fight, at least I know, at least I tried,
I know I thought, I know I'll fight, tonight I kiss the world goodbye.
We are one and one is all, through self-destruction we fall, close your eyes to darkened skies, our ignorant demise.
To another obsession over another possession, another deal well made, well I raise my glass,
And to the blissful ignoring that the unclaimable objects decide our pitfall or prospect.
I know at least I thought, at least I fight, at least I know, at least I tried,
I know I thought, I know I'll fight, tonight I kiss the world goodbye.
We are one and one is all, through self-destruction we fall, close your eyes to darkened skies, our ignorant demise.
This will lead to personal gain, but I won't feel any personal pain.
All the global implications in vain, yes, the price is high but so are the stakes.
This belongs to all of us, so really this belongs to no one at all.
When it comes to owning up to our fall, better brace yourself for the end of it all.
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