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1. Vermilion Moons

You and I drifting under shifting tides
Keep holding on to tomorrow, we'll see the sunrise
You and I till the end of all our days
Still here we are alive and well and we're waiting
Under vermilion moons

Twisted roots blind their souls to the heavens
The hands of fate keep one foot in the grave
Blood red skies are bleeding from tired eyes
Fire and brimstone a world set ablaze
High on a hill below the here and the after
Self anointed preaching to the choir
Exultations and armies of rapture
It's heaven or hell, tell me who is your master

And they bow and they pray, they confess
The mortals chasing angels
Fly to the ends of the afterworld
Faithful eyes held to the skies
And still they wait for you

The ghosts of the prophets buried under cathedrals
Vaulted spires erect to Elysium
Gilded are the tongues and the Ark of the Covenant
The Dead Sea Scrolls and for whom the bell tolls
Riding through the night like rolling thunder
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Blind architects foresee Armageddon
It's the end of all days, divinely mandated genocide

And they bow and they pray, they confess
The mortals chasing angels
Fly to the ends of the afterworld
Faithful eyes held to the skies
Still they wait for you

While you and I drifting on the shifting tides
Keep holding to tomorrow, we'll see the sunrise
You and I till the end of all our days
Still here we are alive and well under vermilion moons

Don't look away, don't ever
Imagination's innocence in this world won't last forever
Eyes wander from the cradle of wonder
Awakes from a restless slumber
Through a widow to the heavens
Twilight to a dream

Dreaming dreams before remembrance
Wondering what holds up the sky
Mother she embrace eternal, singing lullabies
Slipping through little hands like painted butterflies
Trying to catch the memories before they fly away
Everything we are, foreshadowed and disguised
Wistfully foreboding winter, innocence slowly dies
Tracing outlines in the sands of yesterday
Weary eyes look to the sky and wonder

Beautiful simplicity dissolved with every written word
Ethereal the sound of silence that we're never heard
The clay feet of the gods immortalized by every mortal hand
Connate flaws send stone and mortar rumbling to the ground
No stone we've left unturned reveals what we could never be
Questions posed reveal more questions in deep seas of mystery
It's raining down illusions, drowning thunderous empty souls
It's raining but we're dying, raining and we're dying

And they bow and they pray, they confess
The mortals chasing angels
Fly to the ends of the afterworld
How long, how long must they wait for you?

While you and I drifting on the shifting tides
Keep holding to tomorrow, we'll see the sunrise
You and I till the end of all our days
Still here we are alive and well under vermilion moons

The ghosts of the prophets buried under cathedrals
Testify, will you testify, testify
Rolling through the night like rolling thunder
Testify, will you testify, testify

2. Wanderlust

So, deep in the forest, wandering
Through the mist of a new day dawning
With diamonds in her eyes
And gold dust in her hair
Oh, so whimsical and she'll be no angel falling
Sad wings of destiny won't carry her away
Twisting, turning her serpentine heart is yearning
To catch a shooting star and kiss the sky

Ever fleeting, chasing her epiphanies
It's a long way home
Spider senses her web of truth unbroken
She turns and looks away

In the deep of the night
When the lightening might strike twice
If you get much closer
She might even let you live to fight another day
You have forced her heart
To change the colors from hunted into huntress
Strange elusive bird,
You will never hold her down

Iridescent glows of turquoise and indigo
Tribal colors show and rhythms guide her home
A silent lioness alive with wanderlust
She bleeds like the blood red sky
Cries like the falling rain
A thousand warriors you will come to know
If you dare betray the heart of the
Ever fleeting will gypsy soul

Ever fleeting, chasing her epiphanies
It's a long way home
Spider senses her web of truth unbroken
She turns and looks away

Tribal rhythms they are calling her home
They are calling her home, wherever she may roam
Mystic visions far beyond the great unknown
Burns a fire in her soul, her wild gypsy soul

In the deep of the night
When the lightening might strike twice
If you get much closer
She might even let you live
She won't give herself away
You have forced her heart
Two change the colors from hunted into huntress
Strange elusive bird,
You could never hold her down

Iridescent glows of turquoise and indigo
Tribal colors show and rhythms guide her home
A silent lioness alive with wanderlust
If you dare betray the heart of the
Ever fleeting will gypsy soul

Into the wind dream catcher
Take imagination's flight
As you love, as you cry
As you live, as you die
Always beware of those who see in black and white
And I pray you find your way home

3. Solitary Man

Searching for some truth within your lies
I see imminent betrayal in their eyes
Where insidious delusions spread like wild fire
The hunger so insatiable, intentions undeniable
The unbridled mind dying to define you

The assassin and his mercenary
Have you in their aim
Your strength to disengage
Only justifies their rage to the bottom

Coiled behind the charm and strangeness
How well I know your poison
Arsonist in this tinderbox, they live to play with fire
Conspiratus, eye to eye, mind to mind
Intuition knows in a fraction
Ends of forever, the beginning of never again

I don't want to bear your cross of affliction
Or carry this dying flame through relentless rain

Cross my heart and I hope to die
A vow of silence and forever close my eyes
Heart string symphony resonate to decay
The winds of change tears the pages away
So into the night I take to flight just like a night bird
Far away from the gilded tongues
The rumors, the chatter, and of all that has ever mattered
Let the sun go down on me
Now all I want to be is a solitary man
For the rest of my life I'll be a solitary man

And how I long for those dog days of summer
Mesmerizing tangerine skies far as the eyes can see
Lying in the tall grass sheltered away from the word, you and I
Curious dragonflies illusive as was love
The horizon kissed the sun goodbye
As the tides of broken dream pulled me beyond the shallows
Anomalies I've seen cannot dissolve from my memory

In a momentary lapse or reason
Where there's nothing to believe in no one came
I'm drowning in the mire of the uninspired killing words
And ill-fated desires

Welcome home my son, welcome home
We're waiting for you far too long, welcome home
So gather all your scattered lives
And never give yourself away again, welcome home

Cross my heart and I hope to die
A vow of silence and forever close my eyes
Heart string symphony resonate to decay
The winds of change tears the pages away
So into the night I take to flight just like a night bird
Far away from the gilded tongues
The rumors, the chatter, and of all that has ever mattered
Let the sun go down on me
'Cause all I want to be is a solitary man

Torn, I'm torn, torn between the truth and lies

4. Wrath Of The Universe

The singularity, the day of awakening breaking
the pantheons aware inside you in a parallel universe
A black hole anomaly devouring all left its wake
For heaven's sake all shall feel the wrath of the universe

Children of the sun, now what have you done
Seems your mother's crying, you've bitten the hand that feeds you
Bleeds for you, he's on her knees for
Every beat of your heart for you
Once upon a time again, they all die climbing
Over the broken bones of those who tried before them
Visionary, eyes sewn closed, blindly search for he who knows
Insidious seeds of greed breed evil
Serpentine their rods, strangling life from itself
Avaricia, Acedia
It's high noon with the noonday devil

Wrath of the universe, feel her surround you
Wrath of the universe, she will devour you

Equilibrium of the pendulum swing
Set in perfect balance and synchronicity
Light to black and back again
Spinning into oblivion
Terminators with supercolliders
Like mischievous children
Always tinkering things of killer
Contradicter, equalizer
Macrocosm deep inside her

Wrath of the universe, feel her surround you
Wrath of the universe, she will devour you

So you want to be your own God
Who you going to pray to then when it all goes down?
(When the sky comes falling down on you)
Strange voices, speaking tongues
When lies became the truth and it all dies down
(When it all comes raining down on you)
Parallel words colliding, she'll eradicate to balance
The cancer, the poison, they will all be washed away
The passion for revenge goes beyond the sense of reason
Your narcissistic ghosts are coming back to haunt you

Mother, she has given all and yet they take what is forbidden
And give nothing in return
Mother, your children have betrayed you
As they drain the lifeblood from your still beating heart
Mother, from womb to tomb the self anointed demagogues
Believe they create where they stand
Madmen, they fridge across the dust and stones
Of remnant thrones gone so long before them

Sunrise, a gift to grace our tired eyes
Twilight preludes, the songbirds
Another day of following shadows
In fields of thorns and seasons of wither
A mystery a parallel uni-mind
A black hole singularity that breathes
Tellurian, a dark soul anomaly

That swallows everything in its wake
Children of the sun, what have you done?
Seems your mother's dying, you've bitten the hand that feeds you
Bleeds for you she's on her knees for
Every beat of your heart for you
Ghost ships sail so precariously
In nefarious waters of dark iniquities
Still she'll spin around long beyond
The traces of them never found

So you want to be your own God
Who you going to pray to then when it all goes down?
(When the sky comes falling down on you)
Strange voices, speaking tongues
When lies became the truth and it all dies down
(When it all comes raining down on you)
Parallel words colliding, she'll eradicate to balance
The cancer, the poison, they will all be washed away
The passion for revenge goes beyond the sense of reason
Your narcissistic ghosts are coming back to haunt you

5. Tethered

Indelibly into my heart
Inscribed your love a lifetime ago
Still all so near and so far away
Seems like forever and a day
And one by one I will climb the stars
Up to the heavens where you are
To hear you whisper again
Till then our love remains ethereal

And I don't want to sleep
I can't bear another awakening, dawn breaking my heart
You said what's meant to be will always find away
But it wasn't meant to be this way

We touched the flames of infatuation
Till incantations of the sirens brought the rains
Our entangled flaws tethered us together
The warm glow of the embers still remain

You and i lying under the evergreens
Sunbeams breaking through to kiss your face
Snow laden boughs, mare's tails and silhouette clouds
The cirrus canvas disappears before our eyes
Such is life

What the universe unveiled
In the same breath it rescinded and too it all away
I'm afraid that in trying to forget
It's really letting go and I could never

I pray for truth, for light, and for the way
There's nothing to behold since you want away
There once was a fool that said time heals all wounds
But I believe forever is too soon

The horizon kissed the sun goodbye
As the tides of a dream
Pulled me back to the shallows
Mesmerizing tangerine skies fade away

And I don't want to sleep
I can't bear another awakening, dawn breaking my heart
You said what's meant to be will always find away
But it wasn't meant to be this way

To this hallowed ground
Your tears of stardust rain ethereal
Till I find my way to you
Our love remains ethereal

We touched the flames of infatuation
Till incantations of the sirens brought the rains
Our entangled flaws tethered us together
The warm glow of the embers will always remain

Till then our love remains ethereal

6. Straight And Narrow

I’ve got a death wish and the throttle down
Dragon’s tail I’m coming ‘round
Blind curves of my life
Lined with roadside crosses
A mirage coming off the road
She’s dangerous I’m told
She’ll catch your eye and it’s a long way down

Catch her if you dare
Oh she is everywhere
She left me in a slow burn
When will I ever learn?

Chasing vermilion moons over lost horizons
Almost dawn, running hot with white line fever
On a wing and a prayer, and a dare we’ll make it there
Dead or alive we will never surrender

Catch her if you dare
Oh she is everywhere
She left me in a slow burn
When will I ever learn?

For the life of me
For the life of me, please tell me
Why I run from love, I run from sorrow
Run from yesterday and from tomorrow
For the life of me
This winding road turns like a broken arrow
You and I like the raptor chase the sparrow
We could never fly the straight and narrow

And she said I’ll be your light and I’ll be the rain
I’ll be the one to make you feel love again
And I’m gonna make you bleed
I’ll give you all you need to heal again
While you contemplate the cosmos
I will surround you, I’ll hold you down
To the here and the now
I will tear down your facades, I’ll silence your gods
If you come to me I will love you forever

For the life of me
For the life of me, please tell me
Why I run from love, I run from sorrow
Run from yesterday and from tomorrow
For the life of me
This winding road turns like a broken arrow
My old man, bless his soul, always said
If you want to live son you better fly the straight and narrow

I could never fly the straight and narrow
No matter how I try I could never fly the straight and narrow

7. Pitch Black Prism

A forbidden road to nowhere
The strays and shadows often wander alone
Through an un-enchanted forest
The abandoned ruins on the hill there
Still she waits for you, painted eyes ashen blue
Tiny dancer all her dreams were tainted
By a poison invisible, still she danced a perfect tragedy
Fall from grace, her fractured porcelain face
She was the immolation sent away
To raise the spirits of the dying

Did you feel betrayed, were you dreaming
Of a wheel in the sky where you touched the clouds
Laughed and cried?
Did you feel alone, were you drifting
Though those dead doll eyes, fading away
Through a pitch black prism?

Her iridescent silken hair spirals through the air
Like cattails swirling in the autumn winds
Falling gently to the mine
Children in the fields they gather flowers wilting away
As an empathetic requiem
And the music falls silent

She did not cry, she didn't dare
A the musing turned fantasia
Unraveling all her fears
Did you feel alone, were you drifting
Through those dead doll eyes, fading away
Through a pitch black prism?
Through those dead doll eyes, fading away
Through a pitch black prism
Through those dead doll eyes, fading away
Fading away

Shine on Chernobyl doll, dance your last dance
The children they mustn't know they are never going home
Radiant child bow in quiet repose
A dying swan lying in a bed of primrose

Irradiated flames they burn a cold, cold hellfire
Beyond the Iron Curtain falling empire
Takes secrets to the grave
What did they know before the afterglow?
A conspiracy to save their own
They know all roads lead to Moscow

Perilous flight of song-less bird
That could see over the horizon
Was blinded by the northern lights
And flew into the sun

Dying Chernobyl doll, dance your last dance
Soon they all will know they are never going home
Radiant child standing in the poison rain
All too well she knows this will never be her home again

Did you feel betrayed, were you dreaming
Of a wheel in the sky where you touched the clouds
Laughed and cried?
Did you feel alone, were you drifting
Though those dead doll eyes, fading away?
Through a pitch black prism
Though those dead doll eyes, fading away
Through a pitch black prism
Through those dead doll eyes, fading away
Fading away

8. Never In Your Hands

Dancing in the still fo winter
The May Queen prays for sun
Writes upon her dead horse carousel
A diary of sorrows
And it seems a stranglehold on her yesterday
Is slipping away
The allure of all that shimmers on
Sparks a tinder's dying flames

Her bated breath obscures the view
Through windows to a garden
Being tended to by sparrows
Perched upon the wither

Pleading with rain gods
To come wash her sins away
She thought she'd never make it back again
This storm is dying
And if you find that songbird in your heart
Seems strangely silent
The sun of all you'll ever
Means all was never in your hands

There's a tattered man with a guitar in his hand
That gently weeps from his dying soul
Drifters pay no mind and pass by
Like shadows of the crows
Missionary, sanctuary
Testifies with borrows words
Singing haunting melodies
But no one's listening anymore

This crow knows when to fly away
From places nothing ever grows
In his dreams awaits a lady
Of the sparrows

Losing your way home
The quicksand it pulls you under
You thought you'd never make it back again
Here you stand to wonder

And if you find that songbird in your heart
Seems strangely silent
The sum of all you'll ever be
Was never in your hands

Tell me why must you bring what I can't bear
What I can't hold, what I can't carry?
Why should I bow before a man
With his blood on my hands?
We are what we are, what we always were
What we will always be
Beyond what we hold in our hands
Is just endless surrender

As I close my eyes I fade away
I hear voices say, remnants of yesterday, all fades away
When the darkness comes, in the light of day
And it's always near, wish I could wish it away, I fade away
As I lay me down, I fade away
How we learn to trust, how we learn trust betrays, I fade away
As I pone my eyes I look away
How we learn in love sometimes our love can stray, blue turns to gray
As I close my eyes I can hear the rain
All the things they say, heavy your words can weigh, I fade away

And how soon we forget the blessed lives we're given
And how late we regret the lies we're living

The sins of those before you
Winds of change, the wrath of another
Waves of you in still waters
In your hand, sometimes never
And if you find that songbird in your heart
Alive with rapture
The sum of all of your years
All was never in your hands
Never in your hands my friend
It was never ever in your hands

9. Kindred Spirits

Please open your eyes little one
By whose hand has this been done?
What sort of evil reveals
This darkness to a child?
Through windows of your soul
You saw wounds all too cold
Would you trust in me to hold you
If only, if only for a little while?

I still remember you so vividly
Speaking with sad eyes
Both of us knowing
Through the door lie the end of your days
My heart was breaking
Abandoned, cold and shaking
There's no mistaking
My shadow will follow me home
Follow me home, you're not alone
Tomorrow is unknown for all who roam
From the dark to the light
Once again let hope take flight
Believe in me, trust in me
Follow me home

Wherever the wind blows, take me
Where I may go
She stands beside me, my shadow
She's a reflection of me now
In a world without perfection
Resurrection of living in the moment
A solitary moment
And it's soon to be a dream

You say animals, only animals
They are more than that to me
You say animals, only animals
But they are more than that to me

Once shattered and sadly broken
The world denied you
Yet still deep inside you
The fire rages on to be just what you are
Fearless warrior
And eyes of the blind
Guardian and protector
In fields of war you leave no man behind

You say animals, only animals
They are more than that to me
You say animals, only animals
But they are more than that to me
More than that to me

Bright eyes, tired eyes
Unpretentious heart of gold
The innocence, so vulnerable
If they wander into the darkness
Bright eyes, precious life
Living in the moment
Soon to be a dream
Blue skies, spirits high
In that moment we believed
Forever would never die, never say die
Man has deemed them lesser than
And they can't understand or love
But I know they can, I know they can
Me and my shadow

Innocence, you opened your eyes to be crucified
By the dark souls who wander here
No trust, no love, no promise
Just the cold fear of being the hunted
I know you still dream about it
'Cause deep in the night you're running away
From the misery, the insatiable hunger
When you're unwanted

Sad eyes, tired eyes, come to life

The awakening
Breaking the chains that bound you
The light surrounds you
Acquiesce the insidious wild inside
To your watchful master

Wherever this broken road divides from here
We run together
The seeds of abandonment lead to lasting pain
But we won't live in vain
We won't look away from the face of evil
Don't turn away void of empathy
Don't walk away always denying
We can't turn away, innocence is dying

Sunrise, high tides
Always forever by my side
Precious life, guiding light
How we lived and how we cried
Faithful heart, I was
The universe gleaming in your eyes
Right eyes, tired eyes
Kindred spirits intertwined

Precious life, heart of gold
Vulnerable to the darkest souls
Blue skies, days gone by
It was a good, good ride
Your love took away
The darkness from my humankind
Running through the wind rye
Memories 'til the day I die, 'til the day I die

Bright eyes, tired eyes
Unpretentious heart of gold
The innocence, so vulnerable
If they wander into the darkness
Bright eyes, precious life
Living in the moment
Soon to be a dream
Blue skies, spirits high
In that moment we believed
Forever would never die
Man has deemed them lesser than
And they can't understand or love
But I know they can

In the palm of my hand
Melting into my heart
You changed my life
Took my darkness away
And all that you were
Is now all that I am
You kindred spirit
Alone again
Blue sky, spirits high
In that moment we believed
Forever would never die
Sad eyes, tired eyes
It's never easy to say goodbye







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