Sarah Mclachlan

Blackbird singing in the dead of night
Take these broken wings and learn to fly
All your life
You were only waiting for this moment to arise

Blackbird singing in the dead of night
Take these sunken eyes and learn to see
All your life
You were only waiting for this moment to be free

Blackbird, fly
Blackbird, fly into the light of a dark, black night

Blackbird singing in the dead of night
Take these broken wings and learn to fly
All your life
You were only waiting for this moment to arise

Blackbird, fly
Blackbird, fly into the light of a dark, black night

I can't beilieve this moment's come
It's so incredible that we're alone
There's so much to be said and done
It's impossible not to be overcom
Will you forgive me if I feel this way
Cuz we've just met - tell me that's OK
So take this feeling and make it grow
Never let it - never let it go

(Don't let go of thte things you believe in)
You give me something that I can believe in
(Don't let go of this moment in time)
Go of this moment in time
(Don't let go of things that I'm feeling)
I can't explain the things that I'm feeling
(Don't let go)
Np, I won't let go

Now would you mind if I bared my soul
If I came right out and said you're beautiful
Cuz there's something here I can't explain
I feel I'm diving into driving rain
You get my senses running wild

Ican't resist your sweet, sweet smile
So take this feeling'n make it grow
Never let it - never let it go

[후렴]
I've been waiting all my life
To make this moment feel so right
The feel of you just fills the night
So c'mon - just hold on tight

*Song For A Winter`s Night
The lamp is burning low upon my table top the snow is softly falling The air is still
in the silence of my room I hear your voice softly calling
If I could only have you near to breathe a sigh or two I would be happy just to hold the hands I love on this winters night with you
Smoke is rising in the shadows overhead my glass is almost empty I read again between the lines upon each page, the words of love you sent me
If I could know within my heart that you were lonely too I would be happy just to hold the hands I love on this winters night with you
The Fire is dying my lamp is growing dim shades of night are lifting morning light steals across my window pane where webs of snow are drifting
If I could only have you near to breathe a sigh or two I would be happy just to hold the hands I love on this winters night with you And you'll be once again with me

your love is better than ice cream
better than anything else
that i've tried
and your love is
better than ice cream
everyone here knows how to cry
and it's a long way down
it's a long way down
it's a long way down to the place
where we started from

your love is better than chocolate
better than anything else
that i've tried
oh love is better than chocolate
everyone here knows how to cry
and it's a long way down
long way down
long way down to the place

As the walls are closing in
And the colours fade to black
And my eyes are falling fast and deep into me
And I follow the tracks that lead me down
And I never follow what's right
And they wonder sometimes
when they see all the
Sadness and pain the truth begins to light

CHORUS
'Cause I can't see no reason
What is blind cannot see
'Cause I want what is pleasin'
All I take should be free
What I rob from the innocent ones
What I'd steal from the womb

If I cried me a river of all my confessions
Would I drown in my shallow regret
As the walls are closing in
And the colours fade to black
And the night is falling fast and deep
into the sea
And in the darkness all that I can see
The frightened and the weak
Are forced to cling to mistakes
they know nothing of
At mercy are the meek

Hold on
Hold on to yourself
for this is gonna hurt like hell.

Hold on
Hold on to yourself.
You know that only time can tell

what is it in me that refuses to believe
this isn't easier than the real thing.

My love
you know that you're my best friend.
You know that I'd do anything for you
and my love
let nothing come between us
my love for you is strong and true.

Am I in heaven here or
am I...
At the crossroads I am standing.

So now you're sleeping peaceful
I lie awake and pray
that you'll be strong tomorrow
and will see another day
and we will praise it
and love the light that brings a smile
across your face.

Oh god
if you're out there won't you hear me.
I know we're never talked before

and oh god
the man I love is leaving
won't you take him when he comes to your door.

Am I in heaven here or
am I in hell
at the crossroads I am standing.

So now you're sleeping peaceful
I lie awake and pray
that you'll be strong tomorrow
and we will see another day
and we will praise it
and love the light that brings a smile
across your face

Hold on
hold on to yourself
for this is gonna hurt like hell.

Hey your glass is empty,
it's a hell of a long way home,
Why don't you let me take you,
it's no good to go alone,
I never would have opened up
but you seemed so real to me,
After all the bullshit I've heard
it's refreshing not to see,
I don't have to pretend,
she doesn't expect it from me

So don't tell me I
haven't been good to you,
Don't tell me I
haven't been there for you
Just tell me why
nothing is good enough

Hey little girl would you like some candy,
your momma said that it's o.k.,
The door is open come on outside,
no I can't come out today,
It's not the wind that cracked your shoulder
and threw you to the ground,
Who's there that makes you so afraid
you're shaken to the bone,
You know I don't understand,
you deserve so much more than this

So don't tell me why
he's never been good to you,
Don't tell me why
he's never been there for you,
And I'll tell you that why
is simply not good enough,
So just let me try
and I will be good to you
Just let me try
and I will be there for you,
I'll show you why
you're so much more than good enough

* I will remember you
Will you remember me?
Don't let your life pass you by
Weep not for the memories

Remember the good times that we had?
I let them slip away from us when things got bad
How clearly I first saw you smilin' in the sun
Wanna feel your warmth upon me, I wanna be the one

* Repeat

I'm so tired but I can't sleep
Standin' on the edge of something much too deep
It's funny how we feel
so much but we cannot say a word
We are screaming inside, but we can't be heard

But I will remember you
Will you remember me?
Don't let your life pass you by
Weep not for the memories

I'm so afraid to love you,
but more afraid to loose
Clinging to a past that doesn't let me choose
Once there was a darkness,
deep and endless night
You gave me everything you had,
oh you gave me light

And I will remember you
Will you remember me?
Don't let your life pass you by
Weep not for the memories

And I will remember you
Will you remember me?
Don't let your life pass you by
Weep not for the memories
Weep not for the memories

Adia I do believe I've failed you
Adia I know I've let you down
Don't you know I tried so hard
To love you in my way?
It's easy....let it go...

Adia, I'm empty since you left me
I try to find a way to carry on
I search myself and everyone
To see where we went wrong
There's no one left to finger
There's no one left to blame
There's no one left to talk to, honey
And there ain't no one to buy our innocence

'Cause we are born innocent
Believe me Adia
We are still innocent
It's easy, we all falter
Does it matter?

Adia, I tought that we could make it
I know I can't change the way you feel
I leave you with your misery
A friend who won't betray
I'll pull you from your tower
I'll take away your pain
Show you all the beauty you possess
If only you'd let yourself believe

That we are born innocent
Believe me Adia
We are still innocent
It's easy, we all falter
Does it matter?

'Cause we are born innocent
Believe me Adia
We are still innocent
It's easy, we all falter
Does it matter?
Believe me Adia
We are still innocent
'Cause we are born innocent
Believe me Adia
We are still innocent
It's easy, we all falter
Does it matter?

I have a smile
stretched from ear to ear
to see you walking down the road

we meet at the lights
I stare for a while
the world around disappears

just you and me
on this island of hope
a breath between us could be miles

let me surround you
my sea to your shore
let me be the calm you seek

oh and every time I'm close to you
there's too much I can't say
and you just walk away

and I forgot
to tell you
I love you
and the night's
too long
and cold here
without you
I grieve in my condition
for I cannot find the strength to say I need you so

oh and every time I'm close to you
there's too much I can't say
and you just walk away

and I forgot
to tell you
I love you
and the night's
too long
and cold here
without you

What ravages of spirit
conjured this temptuous rage
created you a monster
broken by the rules of love
and fate has lead you through it
you do what you have to do
and fate has led you through it
you do what you have to do ...

and I have the sense to recognize that
I don't know how to let you go
every moment marked
with apparitions of your soul
I'm ever swiftly moving
trying to escape this desire
the yearning to be near you
I do what I have to do
the yearning to be near you
I do what I have to do
but I have the sense to recognize

that I don't know how
to let you go
I don't know how
to let you go

a glowing ember
burning hot
burning slow
deep within I'm shaken by the violence
of existing for only you

I know I can't be with you
I do what I have to do
I know I can't be with you
I do what I have to do
and I have sense to recognize but
I don't know how to let you go
I don't know how to let you go
I don't know how to let you go

I knew you wanted to tell me
In your voice there was something wrong
But if you would turn your face away from me
You cannot tell me you're so strong
Just let me ask of you one small thing
As we have shared so many tears
With forever our dreams we planned a whole life long
Now are scattered on the wind

Chorus:
In the terms of endearment
In the terms of the life that you love
In the terms of the years that pass you by
In the terms of the reason why

Through the years i've grown to love you
Through your commitment to most would offend
But i stuck by you holding on with my foolish pride
Waiting for you to give in
You never really tried or so it seems
I've had more than myself to blame
I've had enough of trying everything
And this time it is the end...

Repeat chorus

There's no more coming back this way
The path is overgrown and strewn with thorns
They've torn the life blood from your naked eyes
Cast aside to be forlorn

Repeat Chorus

Funny,how it seems that all i've tried to do
Seemed to make no difference to you at all

Morning smiles
like the face
of a newborn child,
innocent, unknowing.

Winter's end
promises
of a long lost friend.
Speaks to me of comfort

but I fear
I have nothing to give.
I have so much
to lose here in this lonely place.
Tangled up in your embrace
there's there's nothing I'd like better than
to fall.

but I fear
I have nothing to give.

Wind in time
rapes the flower
trembling on the vine
and nothing yields to shelter
from above.
They say temptation will destroy our love.
The never ending hunger

but I fear
I have nothing to give
I have so much
to lose here in this lonely place
tangled up in our embrace
there's nothing I'd like better than
to fall

but I fear
I have nothing to give.
I have so much to lose.
I have nothing to give.
We have so much to lose...

Listen as the wind blows
from across the great divide,
Voices trapped in yearning,
memories trapped in time,
The night is my companion
and solitude my guide,
Would I spend forever here
and not be satisfied,

And I would be the one
to hold you down,
kiss you so hard,
I'll take your breath away
and after I'd wipe away the tears,
Just close your eyes dear

Through this world I've stumbled
so many times betrayed,
Trying to find an honest word,
to find the truth enslaved,
Oh you speak to me in riddles and
you speak to me in rhymes
My body aches to breathe your breath,
you words keep me alive,

And I would be the one
to hold you down,
kiss you so hard,
I'll take your breath away
and after I'd wipe away the tears,
Just close your eyes dear

Into this night I wander,
it's morning that I dread,
Another day of knowing of
the path I fear to tread,
Oh into the sea of waking dreams
I follow without pride,
Nothing stands between us here
and I won't be denied,

And I would be the one
to hold you down,
kiss you so hard,
I'll take your breath away
and after I'd wipe away the tears,
Just close your eyes dear

it doesn't mean much
it doesn't mean anything at all
the life I've left behind me
is a cold room
I've crossed the last line
from where I can't return
where every step I took in faith
betrayed me
and led me from my home

and sweet
sweet surrender
is all that I have to give

you take me in
no questions asked
you strip away the ugliness
that surrounds me
are you an angel
am I already that gone
I only hope
that I won't disappoint you
when I'm down here
on my knees

and sweet
sweet
sweet surrender
is all that I have to give

sweet
sweet
sweet surrender
is all that I have to give

and I don't understand
by the touch of your hand
I would be the one to fall

I miss the little things
oh I miss everything

it doesn't mean much
it doesn't mean anything at all
the life I left behind me
is a cold room

Your love
is better than ice cream.
Better than anything else that I've tried
and your love
is better than ice cream
everyone here know how to fight

and it's a long way down
it's a long way down
it's a long way
down to the place where we started from.

Your love
is better than chocolate
better than anything else that I've tried
and oh love is better than chocolate.
Everyone here knows how to cry

and it's a long way down
it's a long way down
it's a long way
down to the place where we started from.

All the fear has left me now
I'm not frightened anymore.
It's my heart that pounds beneath my flesh.
it's my mouth that pushes out this breath

and if I shed a tear I won't cage it.
I won't fear love
and if I feel a rage I won't deny it.
I won't fear love.

Companion to our demons
they will dance and we will play.
With chairs candles and clothes
making darkness in the day.
It will be easy to look in or out
upstream or down
without a thought

and if I shed a tear I won't cage it.
I won't fear love
and if I feel a rage I won't deny it.
I won't fear love.

Peace in the struggle to find peace.
Comfort on the way to comfort

and if I shed a tear I won't cage it.
I won't fear love
and if I feel a rage I won't deny it
I won't fear love.
I won't fear love.
I won't fear love

Spend all your time waiting
for that second chance
for a break that would make it okay
there's always one reason
to feel not good enough
and it's hard at the end of the day
I need some distraction
oh beautiful release
memory seeps from my veins
let me be empty
and weightless and maybe
I'll find some peace tonight

in the arms of an angel
fly away from here
from this dark cold hotel room
and the endlessness that you fear
you are pulled from the wreckage
of your silent reverie
you're in the arms of the angel
may you find some comfort there

so tired of the straight line
and everywhere you turn
there's vultures and thieves at your back
and the storm keeps on twisting
you keep on building the lie
that you make up for all that you lack
it don't make no difference
escaping one last time
it's easier to believe in this sweet madness oh
this glorious sadness that brings me to my knees

in the arms of an angel
fly away from here
from this dark cold hotel room
and the endlessness that you fear
you are pulled from the wreckage
of your silent reverie
you're in the arms of the angel
may you find some comfort there
you're in the arms of the angel
may you find some comfort here

You come out at night
That's when the energy comes
and the dark side's light
and the vampires roam
You strut your astor wear
and your suicide poem
and a cross
from a faith that died
before Jesus came
You're building a mystery

You live in a church
where you sleep
with voodoo dolls
and you won't
Give up the search
for the ghosts in the halls
You wear sandals in the snow
and a smile
that won't wash away
Can you look out the window
without your shadow
getting in the way
Oh you're so beautiful
with an edge and a charm
but so careful
when I'm in your arms
Cause you're working
building a mystery
holding on
and holding it in
Yeah you're working
building a mystery
and choosing so carefully
You woke up screaming aloud
a prayer from your
secret god
You feed off our fears
and hold back your tears oh
Give us a tantrum
and a know it all grin
just when we need one
when the evening's thin
Oh you're a beautiful
a beautiful fucked up man
You're setting up your
razor wire shrine
Cause you're working
building a mystery
holding on
and holding it in
Yeah you're working
building a mystery
and choosing so carefully

Woo you're working
building a mystery
holding on
and holding it in
Yeah you're working
building a mystery
and choosing so carefully
Yeah you're working
building a mystery
holding on
and holding it in
Yeah you're working
building a mystery
and choosing so carefully
The building a mystery

I have a smile
stretched from ear to ear
to see you
walking down the road
we meet at the lights
I stare for a while
the world around us
disappears
it's just you and me
on my island of hope
a breath between us
could be miles
let me surround you
my sea to your shore
let me be the calm you seek
oh and every time
I'm close to you
there's too much I can't say
and you just walk away
and I forgot
to tell you
I love you
and the night's too long
and cold here
without you
I grieve in my condition
for I cannot find the words
to say i need you so

oh and every time
I'm close to you
there's too much I can't say
and you just walk away
and I forgot
to tell you
I love you
and the night's too long
and cold here
without you
I grieve in my condition
for I cannot find the words
to say I need you so

doesn't mean much
It doesn't mean
anything at all
The life I've left behind me
Is a cold room
I've crossed the last line
From where I can't return
Where every step I took in
faith betrayed me
And led me from my home
And sweet surrender
Is all I have to give
You take me in
No questions asked
You strip away the ugliness
That surrounds me
Are you an angel
Am I already that gone
I only hope that
I won't disappoint you
When I'm down here
on my knees
Sweet surrender
Is all I have to give
Sweet surrender
Is all I have to give
And I don't understand
How the touch of your hand
I would be the one to fall
I miss the little things

I miss everything
but you doesn't mean much
It doesn't mean
anything at all
The life I left behind me
Is a cold room
Sweet surrender
Is all I have to give
Sweet surrender
Is all I have to give

Adia I do believe I failed you
Adia I know I've let you down
don't you know
I tried so hard
to love you in my way
it's easy let it go

Adia I'm empty
since you left me
trying to find a way
to carry on
I search myself
and everyone
to see where
we went wrong
there's no one
left to finger
there's no one here to blame
there's no one left
to talk to honey
and there ain't no one
to buy our innocence
'Cause we are born innocent
believe me Adia
we are still innocent
it's easy we all falter
does it matter
Adia I thought that
we could make it
I know I can't change
the way you feel
I leave you with your misery
a friend who won't betray
I pull you from your tower
I take away your pain
and show you
all the beauty you possess
if you'd only
let yourself believe
'Cause we are born innocent
believe me Adia
we are still innocent
it's easy we all falter
does it matter

'Cause we are born innocent
believe me Adia
we are still innocent
it's easy we all falter
does it matter
believe me Adia
we are still innocent
'Cause we are born innocent
believe me Adia
we are still innocent
it's easy we all falter
does it matter

What ravages of spirit
conjured this temptuous rage
created you a monster
broken by the rules of love
and fate has
led you through it
you do what you have to do
and fate has
led you through it
you do what you have to do
I have the sense
to recognize
that I don't know
how to let you go

every moment marked
with apparitions of your soul
I'm ever swiftly moving
trying to escape this desire
the yearning to be near you
I do what I have to do
the yearning to be near you
I do what I have to do
and I have the sense
to recognize
That I don't know
how to let you go
I don't know
how to let you go

A glowing ember
burning hot
and burning slow
deep within
I'm shaken by the violence
of existing for only you
I know I can't be with you
I do what I have to do
I know I can't be with you
I do what I have to do
and I have sense
to recognize
but I don't know
how to let you go
I don't know
how to let you go

Make me a witness, take me out
Out of darkness, out of doubt
I won't weigh you down
With good intention
Won't make fire out of clay
Or other inventions
Will we burn in heaven
Like we do down here
Will the change come
While we're waiting
Everyone is waiting
And when we're done
Soul searching
And we carried the weight
And died for a cause
Is misery made beautiful
Right before our eyes
Will mercy be revealed
Or blind us where we stand
Will we burn in heaven
Like we do down here
Will the change come while we're waiting
Everyone is waiting

Will we burn in heaven
Like we do down here
Will the change come while we're waiting
Everyone is waiting

Spend all your time waiting
for that second chance
for a break that
would make it okay
there's always one reason
to feel not good enough
and it's hard at the end
of the day
I need some distraction
oh beautiful release
memory seeps from my veins
let me be empty
and weightless and maybe
I'll find some peace tonight
In the arms of an angel
fly away from here
from this dark
cold hotel room
and the endlessness
that you fear
you are pulled
from the wreckage
of your silent reverie
you're in the arms
of the angel
may you find
some comfort there

So tired of the straight line
and everywhere you turn
there's vultures
and thieves at your back
storm keeps on twisting
keep on building the lie
that you make up for
all that you lack
it don't make no difference
escaping one last time
it's easier to believe
in this sweet madness
oh this glorious sadness
that brings me to my knees
In the arms of an angel
fly away from here
from this dark
cold hotel room
and the endlessness
that you fear
you are pulled
from the wreckage
of your silent reverie
you're in the arms
of the angel
may you find
some comfort there
you're in the arms
of the angel
may you find
some comfort here

Unravel me a distant cord
On the outside is forgotten
a constant need
To get along and
the animal awakens
And all I feel is
black and white
The road is long
the memory slides
To the whole of my undoing
Put aside I put away
I push it back to
get through each day
And all I feel is
black and white
And I'm wound up
small and tight
And I don't know who I am

Everybody loves you
when you're easy
Everybody hates
when you're a bore
Everyone is waiting
for your entrance so
Don't disappoint them
Unravel me untie this chord
The very center of our union
Is caving in I can't endure
I am the archive
of our failure
And all I feel is
black and white
And I'm wound up
small and tight
And I don't know who I am
Everybody loves you
when you're easy
Everybody hates
when you're a bore
Everyone is waiting
for your entrance so
Don't disappoint them

Everybody loves you
when you're easy so
Don't disappoint them
Don't disappoint them
Don't disappoint them

the winter here's cold
and bitter
it's chilled us to the bone
we haven't seen
the sun for weeks
to long too far from home
I feel just like I'm sinking
and I claw for solid ground
I'm pulled down
by the undertow
I never thought
I could feel so low
oh darkness
I feel like letting go
if all of the strength
and all of the courage
come and lift me
from this place
I know I could love you much
better than this
full of grace
full of grace my love

better this way
I said
having seen this place before
where everything
we said and did
hurts us all the more
its just that we stayed
too long
in the same old sickly skin
I'm pulled down by the undertow
I never thought
I could feel so low
oh darkness
I feel like letting go
if all of the strength
and all of the courage
come and lift me from this place
I know I could love you much
better than this
full of grace

and know I could love you much
better than this

Morning smiles
Like the face of a newborn child
Innocent unknowing
Winter's end
Promises of a long lost friend
Speaks to me of comfort
But I fear
I have nothing to give
I have so much to lose
Here in this lonely place
Tangled up in our embrace
There's nothing I'd like
Better than to fall

Wind in time
Rapes the flower trembling
on the vine
Nothing yields to shelter it
From above
They say temptation will
destroy our love
The never ending hunger
But I fear
I have nothing to give
I have so much to lose
Here in this lonely place
Tangled up in our embrace
There's nothing I'd like
Better than to fall

But I fear
I have nothing to give
I have so much to lose
I have nothing to give
We have so much to lose

Morning smiles
Like the face of a newborn child
Innocent unknowing
Winter's end
Promises of a long lost friend
Speaks to me of comfort
But I fear
I have nothing to give
I have so much to lose
Here in this lonely place
Tangled up in our embrace
There's nothing I'd like
Better than to fall

it doesn't mean much it doesn't mean anything at all
the life I've left behind me is a cold room
I've crossed the last line from where I can't return
where every step I took in faith betrayed me
and led me from my home

you take me in no questions asked
you strip away the ugliness that surrounds me
are you an angel am I already that gone
I only hope that I won't disappoint you
when I'm down here

I don't understand
I miss the little things oh I miss everything

sweet sweet sweet surrender is all that I have to give

Spend all your time waiting
for that second chance
for a break that
would make it okay
there's always one reason
to feel not good enough
and it's hard
at the end of the day
I need some distraction
oh beautiful release
memory seeps from my veins
let me be empty
or weightless and maybe
I'll find some peace tonight
In the arms of the angel
fly away from here
from this dark
cold hotel room
and the endlessness
that you fear
you are pulled
from the wreckage
of your silent reverie
you're in the arms of
the angel
may you find
some comfort here
So tired of the straight line
and everywhere you turn
there's vultures and thieves
at your back
storm keeps on twisting
you keep on building the lies
that you make up for all
that you lack
it don't make no difference
escape one last time
it's easier to believe
in this sweet madness
Oh this glorious sadness
that brings me to my knees
you're in the arms of
the angel
fly away from here
from this dark
cold hotel room
and the endlessness
that you fear
you are pulled
from the wreckage
of your silent reverie
you're in the arms of
the angel
may you find
some comfort here
in the arms of the angel
fly away from here
from this dark
cold hotel room
and the endlessness
that you fear
you are pulled
from the wreckage
of your silent reverie
in the arms of the angel
may you find
some comfort here
You're in the arms of
the angel
may you find
some comfort here

I have a smile
Stretched from ear to ear
To see you walking down the road
We meet at the lights
I stare for a while
The world around disappears
Just you and me
On this island of hope
A breath between us could be miles
Let me surround you
My sea to your shore
Let me be the calm you seek
Oh and every time i'm close to you
There's too much i can't say
And you just walk away
And i forgot
To tell you
I love you
And the night's Too long And cold here
Without you
I grieve in my condition
For i cannot find the strength
to say i need you so

Oh and every time i'm close to you
There's too much i can't say
And you just walk away
And i forgot
To tell you
I love you
And the night's Too long And cold here
Without you
I grieve in my condition
For i cannot find the strength
to say i need you so

And i forgot
To tell you
I love you
And the night's Too long And cold here
Without you
And i forgot
To tell you
I love you
And the night's Too long And cold here
Without you
I grieve in my condition
For i cannot find the strength
to say i need you so

Give me releasewitness meI am outsidegive me peaceHeaven holds a sense of wonderand I wanted to believethat I'd get caught upwhen the rage in me subsidesIn this white waveI am sinkingin this silencein thi

As the walls are closing in
And the colors fade to black
And my eyes are falling fast
and deep into me
And I follow the tracks that lead me down
And I never follow what's right
And they wonder sometimes
when they see all the
Sadness and pain the truth begins to light
'Cause I can't see no reason
What is blind cannot see
'Cause I want what is pleasin'
All I take should be free
What I rob from the innocent ones
What I'd steal from the womb

And in the darkness all that I can see
The frightened and the weak
Are forced to cling to mistakes
they know nothing of
At mercy are the meek
'Cause I can't see no reason
What is blind cannot see
'Cause I want what is pleasin'
All I take should be free
What I rob from the innocent ones
What I'd steal from the womb

Listen as the wind blows from across the great divide
voices trapped in yearning, memories trapped in time
the night is my companion, and solitude my guide
would I spend forever here and not be satisfied?

and I would be the one
to hold you down
kiss you so hard
I'll take your breath away
and after, I'd wipe away the tears
just close your eyes dear

Through this world I've stumbled
so many times betrayed
trying to find an honest word to find
the truth enslaved
oh you speak to me in riddles
and you speak to me in rhymes
my body aches to breathe your breath
your words keep me alive

And I would be the one
to hold you down
kiss you so hard
I'll take your breath away
and after, I'd wipe away the tears
just close your eyes dear

Into this night I wander
it's morning that I dread
another day of knowing of
the path I fear to tread
oh into the sea of waking dreams
I follow without pride
nothing stands between us here
and I won't be denied

and I would be the one
to hold you down
kiss you so hard
I'll take your breath away
and after, I'd wipe away the tears
just close your eyes...

Hold on
Hold on to yourself
for this is gonna hurt like hell.
Hold on
Hold on to yourself.
for this is gonna hurt like hell.
Hold on
Hold on to yourself.
You know that only time can tell
what is it in me that refuses to believe
this isn't easier than the real thing.
My love
you know that you're my best friend.
You know that I'd do anything for you
and my love
let nothing come between us
my love for you is strong and true.
Am I in heaven here or
am I...
At the crossroads I am standing.

My love
you know that you're my best friend.
You know that I'd do anything for you
and my love
let nothing come between us
my love for you is strong and true.
Am I in heaven here or
am I...
At the crossroads I am standing.
So now you're sleeping peaceful
I lie awake and pray
that you'll be strong tomorrow
and will see another day
and we will praise it
and love the light that brings a smile
across your face.
Oh god
if you're out there won't you hear me.
I know we're never talked before
and oh god
the man I love is leaving
won't you take him
when he comes to your door.
Am I in heaven here or
am I in hell
at the crossroads I am standing.
So now you're sleeping peaceful
I lie awake and pray
that you'll be strong tomorrow
and we will see another day
and we will praise it
and love the light that brings a smile
across your face

I looked into your eyes
they told me plenty
I already knew
you never felt a thing
so soon forgotten all that you do
in more than words I
tried to tell you
the more I tried I failed
I would not let myself believe
that you might stray
and I would stand by you
no matter what they'd say,
I would have thought I'd be with you
until my dying day

I used to think my life
was often empty
a lonely space to fill
you hurt me more than
I ever would have imagined
you made my world stand still
and in that stillness
there was a freedom
I never felt before
I would not let myself believe
that you might stray
and I would stand by you
no matter what they'd say,
I would have thought I'd be with you
until my dying day

Crouching down inside a deep ravine
Those angry cries pass quickly by, he can't be seen
So many ways spent hiding in so many undone plans
Forgetting what it's like to fight when no one understands
Close call there in the shadows
There's a fear in the dark
There's one out there

All those memories, pain and anger, flood back one by one
They must be just around the bend, they always come
At night as I lay sleeping they come to me in herds
Their lies remain, the dreams the same, it's only fleeting words
No one calls there in the shadows
There's no end to the dark
But there's one out there, no one but me

The hours pass so slowly, the life's slipping out of me
No way's the right way.
Is there a way out for me?
My life's slipping out

Rising up, the night is done, and now the bright lights come
Held back in my pitied world where everything's undone
A cold wind blows right through me, I'm made a hollow shell
There's nothing left, just ash remains, enrich the soil, no soil, no soil

Close call there in the shadows
There's an end to the dark
'Cause there's someone out there
Someone like me

The hours pass so slowly, the life's slipping out of me
No way's the right way, is there a way out for me
The hours pass so slowly
The life's slipping out of me
Is there a way out for me?
The hours pass so slowly
The life's slipping out of me
Is there a way out for me?
There must be a way out for me

In the desert of my dreams I saw you there
And I'm walking towards the water steaming body cold and bare
but your words cut loose the fire and you left my soul to bleed
And the pain that's in your eyes decieving me has go me scared
Oh Why?

Through your eyes the stairs of battle like a brooding storm
Your up and down these pristing velvet walls like focus never forms
My walls are getting wider and my eyes are drawn astray
I see you now a wauge deception of a dying day
Oh Why?

I fall into the water and once more I turn to you
And the crowds were standing staring faceless cutting off my view to you
They start to limply flail their bodies in a twisted mime
And I'm lost inside this tangled web in which I'm lain entwined
Your gone and I'm lost inside this tangled web in which I'm lain entwined
Oh Why?

We walk without a sound across a barren landscape
Your eyes are twisted down to a dew entrailed ground
We watch the stars as they slowly fade away and in the clearing sky I see
The cold stone face of morning setting in on me

It's a strange world
It's a very strange world that leaves me
Holding on to nothing when there's nothing left to lose

Your touch is cold and damp, the devil's in your eyes
I wonder why I always let you lead me on this way
'Cause you see only what you want to see
You feel only what you want to
And I am on the outside of your strange world

It's a strange world
It's a very strange world that leaves me
Holding on to nothing when there's nothing left to lose

We're walking hand in hand, we'll walk this way forever
Our eyes have risen to the water's edge watching with the tides
The stars have fallen to another day and the sun warms our path to
Find the reasons leave us far behind in our strange world

It's a strange world
It's a very strange world that leaves me
Holding on to nothing when there's nothing left to lose

Somewhere deep inside me
I hold a picture of a time long gone
A time of ease and simple pleasures
And days in shadows not so long
Now with my mind I'm struggling
Holding on to what I believe
Listen to the fragments of my thoughts
That leave me broken and deceived

'cause I don't know the way
He said "i can take you there,
I can show you places where our time has had no ware"
And as we walked the plains
The skies they opened wide
Revealing all the shame for what's been lost inside us all

[Chorus]
It's a day in the life
In my mind I've seen it all
Sometime soon for all to see
The walls are slowly breaking down
In my mind I've seen it all
And someday we'll be free

We're searching for a message
Or so I thought but so it seems
The ignorance in the myths of others
Is easier to redeem
I've never questioned the answers given
To find the faith that's been lost within
'cause where I lay my trust in others
Where it lies the ground is thin

'cause I don't know the way
He said "i can take you there,
I can show you places where our time has had no ware"
And as we walked the plains
The skies they opened wide
Revealing all the shame for what's been lost inside us all

[Chorus: x2]

I know you say you love me
If what you say is true
So show me something that's not deceiving
'cause I wouldn't lie to you

[Chorus]

You're always waiting on the tide

It's time you decide

I've walked down long roads that
seem to have no end at all

You never wanted time to end

To let my life offend

It's time to realize what hides
deep inside your holy eyes

Hold on tight, hold on fast

This ain't the kind that always lasts

If you want me to go just ask me to go, I'll go

All the way my love,
over the hills and right on through you

Run away my love,
over the hills and right on through you
Over the hills and right on through you

Lying awake in these restless dreams

Life's never what it seems

I've always tried to read your eyes

To get inside that scornful mind

Hold on tight, hold on fast

This ain't the kind that always lasts

If you want me to go just ask me to go, I'll go

All the way my love,
over the hills and right on through you
Run away my love,
over the hills and right on through you

Over the hills and right on through you

I was with you on that pallet steaming

Spinning 'round in circles dreaming

I was with you on that pallet steaming

Running 'round in circles screaming...

All the way my love,
over the hills and right on through you...
Run away my love,
over the hills and right on through
All the way my love,
over the hills and right on through you...
Run away my love,
over the hills and right on through

A time so haunting moonlight in the mist
Lay me down Beside you oh as long as it lasts
From the river comes a Figure drifting slowly by
Trailing long the water, leaving softer than a sigh
Softer than a sigh
All the feelings they remain like a still life
A dying swan song forever lost your cries of glory

The rain is falling down like silence in a shroud
When All that really matters left to lose
I'm all alone
I'm all alone
All the feelings they remain like a still life
A dying swan song forever lost your cries of glory
Walking from the shadows, a fear of sadness grows
Your heart is in your hand your knowing looks
Our Time is gone
My time is gone
Swan's dying song...

On the hills of fire the darkest hour
I was dreaming of my true love's pyre
Who will bring a light to stoke the fire
Fear not for you're still breathing
On a winter's day
I saw the life blood drained away
A cold wind blows on a windless day
Hear the cry for new life the morning's flame
You were the brightest light that burned too soon in vain
Who will bring you back from where there's no return
Fear not for you're just dreaming
On a winter's day
I saw the life blood drained away
A cold wind blows on a windless day

In the desert of my dreams I saw you there
And I'm walking towards the water steaming body cold and bare
but your words cut loose the fire and you left my soul to bleed
And the pain that's in your eyes decieving me has go me scared
Oh Why?

Through your eyes the stairs of battle like a brooding storm
Your up and down these pristing velvet walls like focus never forms
My walls are getting wider and my eyes are drawn astray
I see you now a wauge deception of a dying day
Oh Why?

I fall into the water and once more I turn to you
And the crowds were standing staring faceless cutting off my view to you
They start to limply flail their bodies in a twisted mime
And I'm lost inside this tangled web in which I'm lain entwined
Your gone and I'm lost inside this tangled web in which I'm lain entwined
Oh Why?

Listen as the wind blows
from across the great divide
voices trapped in yearning,
memories trapped in time
the night is my companion,
and solitude my guide
would I spend forever here
and not be satisfied?

And I would be the one
to hold you down
kiss you so hard
I'll take your breath away
and after, I'd wipe away the tears
just close your eyes dear

Through this world I've stumbled
so many times betrayed
trying to find an honest word to find
the truth enslaved
oh you speak to me in riddles
and you speak to me in rhymes
my body aches to breathe your breath
your words keep me alive

And I would be the one
to hold you down
kiss you so hard
I'll take your breath away
and after, I'd wipe away the tears
just close your eyes dear

Into this night I wander
it's morning that I dread
another day of knowing of
the path I fear to tread
oh into the sea of waking dreams
I follow without pride
nothing stands between us here
and I won't be denied

and I would be the one
to hold you down
kiss you so hard
I'll take your breath away
and after, I'd wipe away the tears
just close your eyes...

Under a blackened sky
Far beyond the glaring streetlights
Sleeping on empty dreams
The vultures lie in wait
You lay down beside me then
You were with me every waking hour
So close I could feel your breath

When all we wanted was the dream
To have and to hold that precious little thing
Like every generation yields
The new born hope unjaded by their years

Pressed up against the glass
I found myself wanting sympathy
But to be consumed again
Oh I know would be the death of me
And there is a love that's inherently given
A kind of blindness offered to appease
And in that light of forbidden joy


Oh I know I won't receive it

When all we wanted was the dream
To have and to hold that precious little thing
Like every generation yields
The newborn hope unjaded by their years

You know if I leave you now
It doesn't mean that I love you any less
It's just the state I'm in
I can't be good to anyone else like this

When all we wanted was the dream
To have and to hold that precious little thing
Like every generation yields
The new born hope unjaded by their years...

I looked into your eyes
they told me plenty
I already knew
you never felt a thing
so soon forgotten all that you do
in more than words I
tried to tell you
the more I tried I failed

I would not let myself believe
that you might stray
and I would stand by you
no matter what they'd say,
I would have thought I'd be with you
until my dying day
until my dying day

I used to think my life
was often empty
a lonely space to fill
you hurt me more than
I ever would have imagined
you made my world stand still
and in that stillness
there was a freedom
I never felt before

I would not let myself believe
that you might stray
and I would stand by you
no matter what they'd say,
I would have thought I'd be with you
until my dying day
until my dying day

Hey your glass is empty
it's a hell of a long way home
Why don't you let me take you
it's no good to go alone
I never would have opened up
but you seemed so real to me
After all the bullshit I've heard
it's refreshing not to see
I don't have to pretend
she doesn't expect it from me

So don't tell me I
haven't been good to you
Don't tell me I
haven't been there for you
Just tell me why
nothing is good enough

Hey little girl would you like some candy,
your momma said that it's o.k.,
The door is open come on outside,
no I can't come out today,
It's not the wind that cracked your shoulder
and threw you to the ground,
Who's there that makes you so afraid
you're shaken to the bone,
You know I don't understand,
you deserve so much more than this

So don't tell me why
he's never been good to you,
Don't tell me why
he's never been there for you,
And I'll tell you that why
is simply not good enough,
So just let me try
and I will be good to you
Just let me try
and I will be there for you,
I'll show you why
you're so much more than good enough

Mary walks
down to the water's edge
And there she hangs her head
To find herself faded
A shadow of what she once was
She said How long
have I been sleeping
And why do I feel so old
Why do I feel so cold
My heart is saying one thing
But my body won't let go
With trembling
hands she reaches up
A stranger's flesh is offered
And I would be the last to know
I would be
the last the let it show
I would be the last to go

Take her hand she will lead you
Through the fire
oh give you back hope
And hope that you
won't take too much
Respecting what is left
she cradled us
She held us in her arms
Unselfish in her suffering
She could not understand
That no one seemed to
have the time
To cherish what was given
Oh and I would be
the last to know
And I would be the
last to let it show
I would be the last to go

Mary walks

Oh and I would be
the last to know
And I would be the
last to let it show
I would be the last to go

I love the time and in between
The calm inside me
In the space where I can breathe
I believe there is a
Distance I have wandered
To touch upon the years of
Reaching out and reaching in
Holding out holding in
I believe
This is heaven to no one else but me
And I'll defend it as long as I can be
Left here to linger in silence
If I choose to
Would you try to understand
I know this love is passing time
Passing through like liquid
I am drunk in my desire
But I love the way you smile at me
I love the way your hands reach out and hold me near
I believe
I believe
This is heaven to no one else but me
And I'll defend it as long as
I can be left here to linger in silence
If I choose to
Would you try to understand
Oh the quiet child awaits the day when she can break free
The mold that clings like desperation
Mother can't you see I've got
To live my life the way I feel is right for me
Might not be right for you but it's right for me
I believe
I believe
This is heaven to no one else but me
And I'll defend it as long as
I can be left here to linger in silence
If I choose to
Would you try to understand it
I would like to linger here in silence
If I choose to
Would you understand it
Would you try to understand

There are two of us talking in circles
And one of us who wants to leave
In a world created for only us
An empty cage that has no key
Don't you know we're working with flesh and blood
Carving out of jealousy
Crawling into each other it's smothering
Every little part of me
What kind of love is this that keeps me
Hanging on
Despite everything it's doing to me
What is this love that keeps me coming
Back for more
When it will only end in misery
I know too many people unhappy
In a life from which they'd love to flee
Watching others get everything offered
They're wanton for discovery
Oh my brother my sister my mother
You're loosing your identity
Can't you see that it's you in the window
Shining with intensity
What kind of love is this that keeps me
Hanging on
Despite everything it's doing to me
What is this love that keeps me coming
Back for more
When it will only end in misery

The ice is thin come on dive in
underneath my lucid skin.
The cold is lost, forgotten.

Hours pass days pass time stands still
light gets dark and darkness fills
my secret heart forbidden...

I think you worried for me then
the subtler ways that I'd give in
but I know you liked the show.

Tied down to this bed of shame
you tried to move around the pain
but oh your soul is anchored.

The only comfort is
the moving of the river.
You enter into me
a lie upon your lips.
Offer what you can
I'll take all that I can get
only a fool's here...

I dont like your tragic sighs
as if your god has passed you by
well hey fool that's your deception.

Your angels speak with jilted tongue
the serpent's tale has come undone
you have no strength to squander.

The only comfort is
the moving of the river.
You enter into me
a lie upon your lips.
Offer what you can
I'll take all that I can get
only a fool's here to stay.

Only a fool's here to stay.

Only a fool's here...

Hold on
Hold on to yourself
for this is gonna hurt like hell
Hold on
Hold on to yourself
you know that only time will tell
What is it in me that refuses to believe
this isn't easier than the real thing
My love
you know that you're my best friend
you know I'd do anything for you
my love
let nothing come between us
my love for you is strong and true

Am I in heaven here or am I...
at the crossroads I am standing
So now you're sleeping peaceful
I lie awake and pray
that you'll be strong tomorrow and we'll
see another day and we will praise it
and love the light that brings a smile
across your face

Oh god if you're out
there won't you hear me
I know that we've never talked before
oh god the man I love is leaving
won't you take him
when he comes to your door

Am I in heaven here or am I in hell
at the crossroads I am standing
So now you're sleeping peaceful
I lie awake and pray
that you'll be strong tomorrow and we'll
see another day and we will praise it
and love the light that brings a smile
across your face...

Hold on
hold on to yourself
for this is gonna hurt like hell

your love is better than ice cream
better than anything else
that i've tried
and your love is
better than ice cream
everyone here knows how to cry
and it's a long way down
it's a long way down
it's a long way down to the place
where we started from

your love is better than chocolate
better than anything else
that i've tried
oh love is better than chocolate
everyone here knows how to cry
and it's a long way down
long way down
long way down to the place

Morning smiles
like the face of a newborn child
innocent unknowing
Winter's end
promises of a long lost friend
speaks to me of comfort

but I fear
I have nothing to give
I have so much to lose
here in this lonely place
tangled up in our embrace
there's nothing I'd like
better than to fall
but I fear I have nothing to give

Wind in time
rapes the flower trembling on the vine
nothing yields to shelter it
from above
they say temptation will destroy our love
the never ending hunger

but I fear
I have nothing to give
I have so much to lose
here in this lonely place
tangled up in our embrace
there's nothing I'd like
better than to fall
but I fear
I have nothing to give
I have so much to lose
I have nothing to give
We have so much to lose...

All the fear has left me now
I'm not frightened anymore.
It's my heart that pounds beneath my flesh.
it's my mouth that pushes out this breath

and if I shed a tear I won't cage it.
I won't fear love
and if I feel a rage I won't deny it.
I won't fear love.

Companion to our demons
they will dance and we will play.
With chairs candles and clothes
making darkness in the day.
It will be easy to look in or out
upstream or down
without a thought

and if I shed a tear I won't cage it.
I won't fear love
and if I feel a rage I won't deny it.
I won't fear love.

Peace in the struggle to find peace.
Comfort on the way to comfort

and if I shed a tear I won't cage it.
I won't fear love
and if I feel a rage I won't deny it
I won't fear love.
I won't fear love.
I won't fear love...

Blue, songs are like tattoos
You know I've been to sea betore
Crown and anchor me
Or let me sail away
Blue, here is a song for you
Ink of a pin
Underneath the skin
An empty space to fill in
Well there're so many sinking now
You've got to keep thinking
You can make it through these waves
Acid, booze, and ass
Needles, guns, and grass
Lots of laughs, lots of laughs
Well everybody's saying that hell's the hippest way to go
Well I don't think so
But I'm gonna take a look around it though
Blue, I love you

Blue, here is a shell for you
Inside you'll hear a sigh
A foggy lullaby
There is your song from me

When we wore a heart of stone we wandered to the sea

Hoping to find some comfort there yearning to feel free

And we were mesmerized by the lull of the night and the smells that filled the air

And we layed us down on sandy ground it was cold but we didn't care

CHORUS

And we were drawn to the rhythm

Drawn to the rhythm of the sea

And we were drawn to the rhythm

Drawn to the rhythm of the sea

We fell asleep and began to dream when something broke the night

Memories stirred inside of us the struggle and the fight

And we could feel the heat of a thousand voices telling us which way to go

And we cried out is there no escape from the words that plague us so

CHORUS

In the still and silent dawn another day is born

Washed up by the tireless waves the body bent and torn

When you wake in the face of the blinding sun and you search only to find

That heaven is a stranger place than what you've left behind

CHORUS

Mother teach me to walk again
Milk and honey so intoxicating

And into the fire
I'm reunited
Into the fire
I am the spark
Into the fire
I yearn for comfort

Open the doors that head on into Eden
Don't want to cheap and
I'll follow the signs marked back to the beginning
No more compromise

And into the fire
I'm reunited
Into the fire
I am the spark
Into the fire
I yearn for comfort

Free the water that carries me to the sea
You I see as my insecurity

And into the fire
I'm reunited
Into the fire
I am the spark
Into the fire
I yearn for comfort

I will stare into the sun
until its light doesn't blind me
I will walk into the fire
unitl its heat doesn't burn me
And I will feed the fire

And into the fire
I'm reunited
Into the fire
I am the spark
Into the fire
I yearn for comfort

knew you wanted to tell me
In your voice there was something wrong
But if you would turn your face away from me
You cannot tell me you're so strong....
Just let me ask of you one small thing
As we have shared so many tears
With forever our dreams we planned a whole life long
Now are scattered on the wind....

Chorus:
In the terms of endearment
In the terms of the life that you love
In the terms of the years that pass you by
In the terms of the reasons why

Through the years I've grown to love you
Through your commitment to most would offend
But I stuck by you holding on with my foolish pride
waiting for you to give in....
You never really tried or so it seems
I've had more than myself to blame
I've had enough of trying everything
And this time it is the end....

(Chorus)

There's no more coming back this way
The path is overgrown and strewn with thorns
They've torn the life blood from your naked eyes
Cast aside to be forlorn....

(Chorus)
Funny, how it seems that all I've tried to do
seemed to make no difference to you at all....

I remember the nights I watched as you lay sleeping

Your body gripped by some far away dream

Well I was so scared and so in love then

And so lost in all of you that I had seen

But no one ever talked in the darkness

No voice ever added fuel to the fire

No light ever shone in the doorway

Deep in the hollow of earthly desires

But if in some dream there was brightness

If in some memory some sort of sign

And flesh be revived in the shadows

Blessed our bodies would lay so entwined

CHORUS

And I will oh I will not forget you

Nor will I ever let you go

I will oh I will not forget you

I remember when you left in the morning at daybreak

So silent you stole from my bed

To go back to the one who possesses your soul

And I back to the life that I dread.

So I ran like the wind to the water

Please don't leave me again I cried

And I threw bitter tears at the ocean

But all that came back was the tide...

CHORUS

By the shadows of the night I go

I moved away from the crowded room

That sea of shallow faces masked in warm regret

They don't know how to feel, they don't know what is lost

CHORUS

Lost in the darkness of a land

Where all the hope that's offered is

Memories of being taken by the hand

And we are led into the sun

But I don't have a hold on what is real

Though we can only try

What is there to give or to believe

I want it all to go away I want to be alone

Sympathy's wasted on my hollow shell

I feel there's nothing left to fight for

No reason for a cause

And I can't hear your voice and I can't feel you near

CHORUS

I wanted a change knowing all I could do was try

I was looking for someone...

You open your eyes, look around

You feel the earth it wanders -

Out, from under your feet - the ground

Is not firm but soft and weak - like skin

Under the touch, cannot stop to falter

Now, the damage is done the certainties gone

The spirits altered

CHORUS

And now the angry morning

Gives the early signs of warning

You must face alone the plans you make

Decisions they will try to break

Our hands are tied on the table

Maybe you can try at the back door man

While the helpless line up on the doorsteps

'Cause it's all they can do to try to get through

All of your life you've lived in a world as pure

As Eden's sixth day - now all you've been allowed

Is taken away - they will not let you be so proud

And you have felt the fear growing inside

Protest follows far and wide - they'll see how long

It will take 'till you fall - from so much denied

Your soul - it aches relentless from the fear

That they will never guess - so unfair that

They can make you feel so small

And the fear you know is real

CHORUS

They're crowded into the smallest spaces

While outside all of nature cries

It's known to be cruel and unfair

But there is no place to hide

Oh I've seen a part of people that I never really want to share

Oh I've seen a part of people that I never knew was there

CHORUS

Shelter - give them shelter from the coming storm

Shelter - give them shelter from the coming storm

I can't sleep haunted by their faces

The sadness in their eyes

It hurts so much to see them helpless

It makes me want to cry

But still there is so much left unanswered

For so many innocent lives

They close the doors and are letting nobody in

And only the strong will survive

CHORUS

I've seen the anger and I've seen all the dreams

And I've watched an existence torn apart by the seams

And though I may seem helpless

I will do all that I can do

Oh I've seen a part of people that I never really want to share

Oh I've seen a part of people that I never knew was there

CHORUS

As the walls are closing in
And the colours fade to black
And my eyes are falling fast and deep into me
And I follow the tracks that lead me down
And I never follow what's right
And they wonder sometimes
when they see all the
Sadness and pain the truth begins to light

CHORUS
'Cause I can't see no reason
What is blind cannot see
'Cause I want what is pleasin'
All I take should be free
What I rob from the innocent ones
What I'd steal from the womb

If I cried me a river of all my confessions
Would I drown in my shallow regret
As the walls are closing in
And the colours fade to black
And the night is falling fast and deep
into the sea
And in the darkness all that I can see
The frightened and the weak
Are forced to cling to mistakes
they know nothing of
At mercy are the meek

Child walks down to the river's edge

And looks out as far as she can see

And draws each breath as if it were the last

And wipes away the tears across her sleeve

She can see where the river crawls to the sea

Like a baby into mother's care

Somehow the longing is so far away

The innocence so wasted and aware

And look at the child with the dream in her eyes

Holding it deep inside her

Thinking about Home... Home...

So much anger so deeply ingrained

Seemed a burden that was hers alone

She didn't think that there was anything wrong

With wanting a life that she could call her own

How could I explain? You would not want to hear

You wouldn't listen if I talked anyway

For you were too weighed down by your own fears

And look at the child with the dream in her eyes

Holding it deep inside her

Home... home... home... home...

Mercy - pure and simple

Longing - cold and hollow

With sweet breath you'd come to warm me

But I held on too hard to only a memory

You lie there on the swollen ground

Deserted in your heart

Still longing for what yesterdays lost

And for all that tomorrow might bring

The passion lost - taken, stolen

The dreams we had and we shared - shattered, broken

With kind words you'd come to soothe me

But I go blind and filled with fear

Would send you away from me

There is no hope in regretting now

All the pain that we could not see

We both knew what we wanted

And we took it believing it free

And we took it believing it free.

Color in sky prussian blue

Scarlet fleece changes hue

Crimson ball sinks from view

CHORUS

Wear your love like heaven

Wear your love like heaven

Wear your love like heaven

Lord kiss me once more

Fill me with song

Allah kiss me once more

That I may, that I may

Wear my love like heaven

Wear my love like heaven

Color sky havana lake

Color sky rose carmethene

Alizarian crimson

CHORUS

Lord kiss me once more

Fill me with song

Allah kiss me once more

That I may, that I may

Wear my love like heaven

Wear my love like heaven

Lord kiss me once more

Fill me with song

Allah kiss me once more

That I may, that I may

Wear my love like heaven

Wear my love like heaven

Cannot believe what I see

All I have wished for will be

All of our race proud and free

CHORUS

Lord kiss me once more

Fill me with song

Allah kiss me once more

That I may, that I may

Wear my love like heaven

Wear my love like heaven

You come out at night
that's when the energy comes
and the dark side's light
and the vampires roam
you strut your astor wear
and your suicide poem
and a cross from a faith
that died before Jesus came
you're building a mystery

You live in a church
where you sleep with voodoo dolls
and you won't give up the search
for the ghosts in the halls
you wear sandals in the snow
and a smile that won't wash away
can you look out the window
without your shadow getting in the way
oh you're so beautiful
with an edge and a charm
but so careful
when I'm in your arms

CHORUS
'Cause you're working
building a mystery
holding on and holding it in
yeah you're working
building a mystery
and choosing so carefully

You woke up screaming aloud
a prayer from your secret god
you feed off our fears
and hold back your tears

Give us a tantrum
and a know it all grin
just when we need one
when the evening's thin

Oh you're a beautiful
a beautiful fucked up man
you're setting up your
razor wire shrine

CHORUS

REPEAT CHORUS

I have a smile, stretched from ear to ear
To see you walking down the road
We meet at the lights, I stare for a while
The world around disappears

Just you and me on my island of hope
A breath between us could be miles
Let me surround you, my sea to your shore
Let me be the calm you seek

Oh, and every time I'm close to you
There's too much I can't say
And you just walk away

And I forgot to tell you, I love you
And the night's too long
And cold here without you

I grieve in my condition
For I cannot find the words to say,
I need you so

- interlude -

Oh, and every time I'm close to you
There's too much I can't say
And you just walk away

And I forgot to tell you, I love you
And the night's too long
And cold here without you

I grieve in my condition
For I cannot find the words to say,
I need you so

it doesn't mean much
it doesn't mean anything at all
the life I've left behind me
is a cold room
I've crossed the last line
from where I can't return
where every step I took in faith
betrayed me
and led me from my home

and sweet
sweet surrender
is all that I have to give

you take me in
no questions asked
you strip away the ugliness
that surrounds me
are you an angel
am I already that gone
I only hope
that I won't disappoint you
when I'm down here
on my knees

and sweet
sweet
sweet surrender
is all that I have to give

sweet
sweet
sweet surrender
is all that I have to give

and I don't understand
by the touch of your hand
I would be the one to fall

I miss the little things
oh I miss everything

it doesn't mean much
it doesn't mean anything at all
the life I left behind me
is a cold room

Adia I do believe I failed you
Adia I know I let you down
don't you know I tried so hard
to love you in my way
it's easy let it go...

Adia I'm empty since you left me
trying to find a way to carry on
I search myself and everyone
to see where we went wrong

'cause there's no one left to finger
there's no one here to blame
there's no one left to talk to honey
and there ain't no one to buy our innocence
'cause we are born innocent
believe me Adia, we are still innocent
it's easy, we all falter
does it matter?

Adia I thought that we could make it
but I know I can't change the way you feel
I leave you with your misery
a friend who won't betray
I pull you from your tower
I take away your pain
and show you all the beauty you possess
if you'd only let yourself believe that
we are born innocent
believe me Adia, we are still innocent
it's easy, we all falter, does it matter?
believe me Adia, we are still innocent
'cause we are born innocent
Adia we are still
it's easy, we all falter ... but does it matter?

What ravages of spirit
Conjured this tempestuous rage
Created you a monster
Broken by the rule of love

And fate has led you through it
You do what you have to do
And fate has led you through it
You do what you have to do

And I have the sense to recognize
That I don't know how to let you go

Every moment marked
With apparitions of your soul
I'm ever swiftly moving
Trying to escape this desire

The yearning to be near you
I do what I have to do
The yearning to be near you
I do what I have to do

And I have the sense to recognize
That I don't know how to let you go
I don't know how to let you go

A glowing ember
Burning hot
Burning slow
Deep within I'm shaken
By the violence of existing for only you

I know I can't be with you
I do what I have to do
I know I can't be with you
I do what I have to do

And I have the sense to recognize
But I don't know how to let you go
I don't know how to let you go
I don't know how to let you go
I don't know how to let you go

Make me a witness
take me out
out of darkness
out of doubt

I won't weigh you down
with good intention
won't make fire out of clay
or other inventions

will we burn in heaven
like we do down here
will the change come
while we're waiting

everyone is waiting

and when we're done
soul searching
as we carried the weight
and died for the cause
is misery
made beautiful
right before our eyes
will mercy be revealed
or blind us where we stand

will we burn in heaven
like we do down here
will the change come while we're waiting
everyone is waiting

chorus

Spend all your time waiting
for that second chance
for a break that would make it okay
there's always one reason
to feel not good enough
and it's hard at the end of the day
I need some distraction
oh beautiful release
memory seeps from my veins
let me be empty or weightless
and maybe I'll find
some peace tonight
In the arms of the angel
fly away from here
from this dark, cold hotel room
and the endlessness that you fear
you are pulled from the wreckage
of your silent reverie
you're in the arms of the angel
may you find some comfort here
So tired of the straight line
and everywhere you turn
there's vultures and thieves
at your back
and the storm keeps on twisting
you keep on building the lies
that you make up for all
that you lack
it don't make no difference
escape one last time
it's easier to believe
oh in this sweet madness
this glorious sadness
that brings me to my knees
In the arms of the angel
fly away from here
from this dark, cold hotel room
and the endlessness that you fear
you are pulled from the wreckage
of your silent reverie
you're in the arms of the angel
may you find some comfort there
you're in the arms of the angel
may you find some comfort here
some comfort here

Unravel me
A distant cord
On the outside is forgotten
A constant need
To get along
And the animal awakens
And all I feel is black and white

The road is long
The memory slides
To the whole of my undoing
Put aside
I put away
I push it back to get through each day

And all I feel is black and white
And I'm wound up small and tight
And I don't know who I am

Everybody loves you when you're easy
Everybody hates when you're a bore
Everyone is waiting for your entrance
So don't disappoint them

Unravel me
Untie this chord
The very centre of our union
Is caving in
I can't endure
I am the archive of our failure

And all I feel is black and white
And I'm wound up small and tight
And I don't know who I am

Everybody loves you when you're easy
Everybody hates when you're a bore
Everyone is waiting for your entrance
So don't disappoint them

Everybody loves you when you're easy
So don't disappoint them

Don't disappoint them
Don't disappoint them
Don't disappoint them

the winter here's cold
and bitter
it's chilled us to the bone
we haven't seen
the sun for weeks
to long too far from home
I feel just like I'm sinking
and I claw for solid ground
I'm pulled down
by the undertow
I never thought
I could feel so low
oh darkness
I feel like letting go
if all of the strength
and all of the courage
come and lift me
from this place
I know I could love you much
better than this
full of grace
full of grace my love

better this way
I said
having seen this place before
where everything
we said and did
hurts us all the more
its just that we stayed
too long
in the same old sickly skin
I'm pulled down by the undertow
I never thought
I could feel so low
oh darkness
I feel like letting go
if all of the strength
and all of the courage
come and lift me from this place
I know I could love you much
better than this
full of grace

and know I could love you much
better than this

Hearts are worn in these dark ages
You're not alone in this story's pages
The night has fallen amongst the living and the dying
And I'll try to hold it in
Yeah I'll try to hold it in

[Chorus:]
The world's on fire
It's more than I can handle
Tap into the water, try to bring my share
Try to bring more, more than I can handle
Bring it to the table
Bring what I am able

I watch the heavens but I find no calling
Something I can do to change what's coming
Stay close to me while the sky is falling
Don't wanna be left alone
Don't wanna be alone

[Chorus]

Hearts break
Hearts mend
Love still hurts

Visions clash
Planes crash
Still there's talk of

Saving souls
Still the cold's
Closing in on us

We part the veil on our killing sun
Stray from the straight line on this short run
The more we take, the less we become
The fortune of one man means less for some

[Chorus 2x]

Spend all your time waiting
for that second chance
for a break that would make it okay
there's always one reason
to feel not good enough
and it's hard at the end of the day
I need some distraction
oh beautiful release
memory seeps from my veins
let me be empty or weightless
and maybe I'll find
some peace tonight
In the arms of the angel
fly away from here
from this dark, cold hotel room
and the endlessness that you fear
you are pulled from the wreckage
of your silent reverie
you're in the arms of the angel
may you find some comfort here
So tired of the straight line
and everywhere you turn
there's vultures and thieves
at your back
and the storm keeps on twisting
you keep on building the lies
that you make up for all
that you lack
it don't make no difference
escape one last time
it's easier to believe
oh in this sweet madness
this glorious sadness
that brings me to my knees
In the arms of the angel
fly away from here
from this dark, cold hotel room
and the endlessness that you fear
you are pulled from the wreckage
of your silent reverie
you're in the arms of the angel
may you find some comfort there
you're in the arms of the angel
may you find some comfort here
some comfort here

I will remember you
Will you remember me?
Don't let your life pass you by
Weep not for the memories

Remember the good times that we had?
I let them slip away from us when things got bad
How clearly I first saw you smilin' in the sun
Wanna feel your warmth upon me, I wanna be the one

I will remember you
Will you remember me?
Don't let your life pass you by
Weep not for the memories

I'm so tired but I can't sleep
Standin' on the edge of something much too deep
It's funny how we feel so much but we cannot say a word
We are screaming inside, but we can't be heard

But I will remember you
Will you remember me?
Don't let your life pass you by
Weep not for the memories

I'm so afraid to love you, but more afraid to loose
Clinging to a past that doesn't let me choose
Once there was a darkness, deep and endless night
You gave me everything you had, oh you gave me light

And I will remember you
Will you remember me?
Don't let your life pass you by
Weep not for the memories

And I will remember you
Will you remember me?
Don't let your life pass you by
Weep not for the memories
Weep not for the memories

Hearts are worn in these dark ages
You're not alone in this story's pages
The night has fallen amongst the living and the dying
And I'll try to hold it in
Yeah I'll try to hold it in

[Chorus:]
The world's on fire
It's more than I can handle
Tap into the water, try to bring my share
Try to bring more, more than I can handle
Bring it to the table
Bring what I am able

I watch the heavens but I find no calling
Something I can do to change what's coming
Stay close to me while the sky is falling
Don't wanna be left alone
Don't wanna be alone

[Chorus]

Hearts break
Hearts mend
Love still hurts

Visions clash
Planes crash
Still there's talk of

Saving souls
Still the cold's
Closing in on us

We part the veil on our killing sun
Stray from the straight line on this short run
The more we take, the less we become
The fortune of one man means less for some

[Chorus 2x]

The ice is thin come on dive in
underneath my lucid skin.
The cold is lost, forgotten.

Hours pass days pass time stands still
light gets dark and darkness fills
my secret heart forbidden...

I think you worried for me then
the subtler ways that I'd give in
but I know you liked the show.

Tied down to this bed of shame
you tried to move around the pain
but oh your soul is anchored.

The only comfort is
the moving of the river.
You enter into me
a lie upon your lips.
Offer what you can
I'll take all that I can get
only a fool's here...

I dont like your tragic sighs
as if your god has passed you by
well hey fool that's your deception.

Your angels speak with jilted tongue
the serpent's tale has come undone
you have no strength to squander.

The only comfort is
the moving of the river.
You enter into me
a lie upon your lips.
Offer what you can
I'll take all that I can get
only a fool's here to stay.

Only a fool's here to stay.

Only a fool's here...

In the desert of my dreams I saw you there
And I'm walking towards the water steaming body cold and bare
but your words cut loose the fire and you left my soul to bleed
And the pain that's in your eyes decieving me has go me scared
Oh Why?

Through your eyes the stairs of battle like a brooding storm
Your up and down these pristing velvet walls like focus never forms
My walls are getting wider and my eyes are drawn astray
I see you now a wauge deception of a dying day
Oh Why?

I fall into the water and once more I turn to you
And the crowds were standing staring faceless cutting off my view to you
They start to limply flail their bodies in a twisted mime
And I'm lost inside this tangled web in which I'm lain entwined
Your gone and I'm lost inside this tangled web in which I'm lain entwined
Oh Why?

If I had the chance love
I would not hesitate
To tell you all things I never said before
Don't tell me it's too late

[Chorus:]
Cause I've relied on my illusion
To keep me warm at night
And I've denied in my capacity to love
But I am willing to give up this fight

Been up all night drinking
To drown my sorrow down
But nothing seems to help me since you've gone away
I'm so tired of this town
Where every tongue is wagging
When every back is turned
They're telling secrets that should never be revealed
There's nothing to be gained from this
But disaster

Here's a good one
Did you hear about my friend
He's embarrassed to be seen now
Cause we all know his sins

If I had the chance love
I would not hesitate
To tell you all the things I never said before
Don't tell me it's too late

[Chorus:]
Cause I've relied on my illusion
To keep me warm at night
And I've denied in my capacity to love
But I am willing to give up this fight
Oh, I am willing to give up this fight

Night lift up the shades
Let in the brilliant light of morning
But steady me now
For I am weak
And starving for mercy
Sleep has left me alone
To carry the weight of unraveling where we went wrong
It's all I can do to hang on,
To keep me from falling into old familiar shoes

[Chorus:]
How stupid could I be
A simpleton could see
That you're no good for me
But you're the only one I see

Love has made me a fool
Set me on fire and watched as I floundered
Unable to speak
Except to cry out and wait for your answer
But you come around in your time
Speaking of fabulous places
Create an oasis
That dries up as soon as you're gone
You leave me here burning in this desert without you

[Chorus]

Everything changes everything falls apart
I can't stand to feel myself losing control
But deep in my senses I know

[Chorus 2x]

Would your love in all its finery
tear at the darkness all around me
until I can feel again
until I can breathe again

Cause Im a train wreck waiting to happen
waiting for someone to come pick me up off the tracks
a wild fire born of frustration
born of the one love that gets me so high
Ive no fear at all

Would your eyes like midnight fireflies
light up the trenches where my heart lies
until I can see again
to find my way back again

Chorus

To fall so deep into you
lose myself completely
in your sweet embrace
all my pains erased

From your mouth its all that I wish
the mercy of your lips just one kiss
until I can breathe again
so that I can sing again

[DMC]
As I walk through the corners of Cooley High
I gotta be thankful that I'm still alive
I have a lot of thoughts like who the hell am I
What is the truth and what is a lie?
But I think about my life and everything is okay
I gotta pave the way to a brighter day
Cause it's really plain and simple when it came to me
There's a lot of people just like me (like me)
There's a whole lot just like me (like me)

[Chorus: Sarah Mclachlan]
And the cat's in the cradle and the silver spoon
Little boy blue and the man in the moon
When you comin home, I don't know when
We'll get together then, you know we'll have a good time then

[DMC]
1964, uhh! Here we go, aiyyo
The child was born it was a beautiful day
It was 1964, the 31st of May
The girl gave birth to a baby boy
He's not a burden, he's a bundle of joy
She was just a young girl in her youth
And her parents tried real hard to hide the truth
Is there a chance for the baby to live?
That is a chance that you gotta give [2X]

[Chorus]

[DMC]
It was 9 whole months inside of the womb
Another long month in the hospital room

Facin doom in a tomb cause the kid is alone
But somebody came along and they took the kid home
He came into the world like we all do
But he never ever knew how he came through
Do the best you can do if this happen to you
And understand all the words that I'm rappin to you [2X]

[Chorus]

[DMC]
Father is, the mother and the father is..
Yo, the mother and the father is all that he knows
They give him lots of love and you know that it shows
He's livin really well he has all that he needs
He came into the world and he's gonna succeed
It is a blessing to live in the light
If nothing is wrong then something is right
They say that life is a mystery
And I just wanna know my history
Understand that life is good to me
That's the way it is so (let it be)
My life is complete, everything is alright
Life is good to me, I'm in paradise
Understand when I'm rappin, no pain and sorrow
I just want you to know, yo yo [2X]
I'm alright ma
I'm alright pa.. na na na

[Chorus - 4X to fade]

I will be the answer
At the end of the line
I will there for you
While you take the time
In the burning of uncertainty
I will be your solid ground
I will hold the balance
If you can't look down

If it takes my whole life
I won't break, I won't bend
It will all be worth it
Worth it in the end
‘Cause I can only tell you what I know
That I need you in my life
And when the stars have all gone out
You'll still be burning so bright

Cast me gently
Into morning
For the night has been unkind
Take me to a
A place so holy
That I can wash this from my mind
The memory of choosing not to fight

If it takes my whole life
I won't break, I won't bend
It will all be worth it
Worth it in the end
‘Cause I can only tell you what I know
That I need you in my life
And when the stars have all burned out
You'll still be burning so bright

Cast me gently
Into morning
For the night has been unkind

Heaven bend to take my hand
And lead me through the fire
Be the long awaited answer
To a long and painful fight
Truth be told I tried my best
But somewhere along the way
I got caught up in all there was to offer
And the cost was so much more than I could bear

Though I've tried I've fallen
I have sunk so low
I've messed up
Better I should know
So don't come round here and
Tell me I told you so

We all begin with good intent
When love was raw and young
We believe that we can change ourselves
The past can be undone
But we carry on our back the burden time always reveals
In the lonely light of morning
In the wound that would not heal
It's the bitter taste of losing everything
I've held so dear

I've fallen
I have sunk so low
I've messed up
Better I should know
So don't come round here and
Tell me I told you so

Heaven bend to take my hand
With no where left to turn
I'm lost to those I thought were friends
To everyone I know
Oh they turn their heads embarrassed
Pretend that they don't see
That it's one missed step, one slip before you know it
And there doesn't seem a way to be redeemed

Though I've tried I've fallen
I have sunk so low
I've messed up
Better I should know
So don't come round here and
Tell me I told you so

I've messed up
Better I should know
Don't come round here and
Tell me I told you so

All the fear has left me now
I'm not frightened anymore.
It's my heart that pounds beneath my flesh.
it's my mouth that pushes out this breath

and if I shed a tear I won't cage it.
I won't fear love
and if I feel a rage I won't deny it.
I won't fear love.

Companion to our demons
they will dance and we will play.
With chairs candles and clothes
making darkness in the day.
It will be easy to look in or out
upstream or down
without a thought

and if I shed a tear I won't cage it.
I won't fear love
and if I feel a rage I won't deny it.
I won't fear love.

Peace in the struggle to find peace.
Comfort on the way to comfort

and if I shed a tear I won't cage it.
I won't fear love
and if I feel a rage I won't deny it
I won't fear love.
I won't fear love.
I won't fear love...

I have a smile stretched from ear to ear
I see you walking down the road
We meet at the lights, I stare for a while
The world around us disappears
It's just you and me on my island of hope
A breath between us could be miles
Let me surround you, a sea to your shore
Let me be the calm you seek

But everytime I'm close to you
There's too much I can't say
And you just walk away

And I forgot to tell you
I love you
And night's too long
And cold here
Without you
I grieve in my condition
For I cannot find the words to say
I need you so

And everytime I'm close to you
There's too much I can't say
And you just walk away

And I forgot to tell you
I love you
And night's too long
And cold here
Without you
I grieve in my condition
For I cannot find the words to say
I need you so

*When somebody loved me
everything was beautiful
every hour we spent together
lives within my heart

And when she was sad
I was there to dry her tears
and when she was happy so was I
when she loved me

Through the summer and the fall
we had each other that was all
just she and I together
like it was meant to be
and when she was lonely
I was there to comfort her
and I knew that she loved me

So the years went by
I stayed the same
but she began to drift away
I was left alone
still I waited for the day
when she'd say
I will always love you

Lonely and forgotten
never thought she'd look my way
and she smiled at me
and held me
just like she used to do
like she loved me
when she loved me

*Repeat

When she loved me

So this is Christmas
And what have you done
Another year over
And a new one just begun
Ans so this is Christmas
I hope you have fun
The near and the dear one
The old and the young
A very merry Christmas
And a happy New Year
Let's hope it's a good one
Without any fear
And so this is Christmas
For weak and for strong
For rich and the poor ones
The world is so wrong
And so happy Christmas
For black and for white
For yellow and red ones
Let's stop all the fight
And so this is Christmas
And what have we done
Another year over
And a new one just begun
Ans so this is Christmas
I hope you have fun
The near and the dear one
The old and the young
War is over over
If you want it
War is over
Now...

What child is this, who, laid to rest
On Mary's lap, is sleeping?
Whom angels greet with anthems sweet,
While shepherds watch are keeping?
This, this is Christ the King,
Whom shepherds guard and angels sing:
Haste, haste to bring him laud,
The Babe, the Son of Mary!

So bring Him incense, gold, and myrrh,
Come peasant king to own Him,
The King of kings, salvation brings,
Let loving hearts enthrone Him.
Raise, raise the song on high,
The Virgin sings her lullaby:
Joy, joy, for Christ is born,
The Babe, the Son of Mary!

It’s coming on Christmas
They’re cutting down trees
They’re putting up reindeer singing songs of joy and peace

Oh I wish I had a river
I could skate away on

But it don’t snow here
It stays pretty green
I’m going to make a lot of money
And then I’m going to quit this crazy scene

Oh I wish I had a river
I could skate away on
I wish I had a river so long
Teach my feet to fly high

Oh I wish I had a river
I could skate away on

I made my baby cry
I tried hard to help me
No it wouldn’t be at ease
But it left me so naughty made me weak in the knees

Oh I wish I had a river
I could skate away on

But I’m so hard to handle
I’m selfish and I’m sad
Now I gone and lost the best baby that I’ve ever had

Oh I wish I had a river
I could skate away on

Oh I wish I had a river so long
I would teach my feet to fly highhh
Oh I wish I had a river
That I could skate away on

I made my baby say goodbye
It’s coming on Christmas
They’re cutting down trees
They’re putting up reindeer singing songs of joy and peace
Oh I wish I had a river
I could skate away on