AUTUMN LYRICS

1. Paradise Nox

Twilight settles on the fields
I hear the birds and bells in the same song
What comforts me will be gone within the hour
and I'll be waiting by the lamp-pole

Is it bliss or misery if what you see is what you believe?
Thank the loss of innocence, for things are starting to make sense.
If you find them so unkind, I'll kind my thoughts confined to my own mind
But don't you trigger me... You know you've lost my heart to the paradise night

A message sent to bury dreams
No need to tell you what it means
and it will stir the hornets deep inside.

It's a shame, not a crime
Put the lid on our new time
Leave the room
Things look grim
Amputee... I'm your phantom-limb

The evening primrose blooms...
We used to use its roots for our blue wine
A scented sentiment saturates the night
It's almost nine...
And I strike a match to set the words alight
Such ill news in a cruel disguise
Yes, it's time for me to go

You can close the shutters now...
and go to sleep in 'our' bed
Tomorrow I'll be home

Is it bliss or misery if what you see is what you believe?
Thank the loss of innocence, for things are starting to make sense.
If you find them so unkind, I'll kind my thoughts confined to my own mind
But don't you trigger me... You know you've lost my heart to the paradise night

2. Liquid Under Film Noir (Arsonist's Tale)

So short of hope, hard not to choke on smoking paint
A soul survived an indoor fire
There's soot on everything
alien, adhesive skin
The embers glow in the remains

Can you see that far
when the lens is stained with blackened grease?
Can you swim in tar
and still retrieve the heart?
The liquid under film noir?

Back to the scene before the blaze
Behind the scenes, someone misplaced
Pitch in the rain machine,
spray painting the white screen
sparked my imagination

Can you see that far
when the lens is stained with blackened grease?
Can you swim in tar
and still retrieve the heart?
The liquid under film noir?

Poor, poor blackbirds, wrapped in shadow
strewn like pebbles on dead meadows
Help me please, I've lost my brother
Summer's song so cruelly smothered

Now I live in my camera obscura
A pinhole eye
admitting some light
Replacing mine
I am guilty as sin
And so I ran back to the end,
where it began
with arson and a dream
An image feared
reversed in here,
becoming so clear
and it simply spelled 'The End'

Can you see that far
when the lens is stained with blackened grease?
Can you swim in tar
and still retrieve the heart?
The liquid under film noir?

3. Skydancer

Outside the wind is roaring, beyond control or melody
A frantic composition, void of vision, harmony
Pick a leaf to lead the dance to higher skies.
Perceive perfection. Chain reaction. Trigger Me

Break free from gravity. Soar away to mountains and the sea
I adjust to trust in my ability to dance among the clouds.
(and feel complete)

Imagination needs no eyes. Shut your eyes to look inside.
Carried by the wind to spin within the symphony
Reborn to the sky, over clouds of gold I glide
Just one reflection, the last connection. Symmetry.

Break free from gravity. Soar away to mountains and the sea
I adjust to trust in my ability to dance among the clouds.
(and feel complete)

There is no symmetry, no time for tomorrow
There's just me in my skyscraping dream

Break free from gravity. Soar away to mountains and the sea
I adjust to trust in my ability to dance among the clouds.
(and feel complete)

4. Synchro-Minds

The fabric of a dream dissolved, or so it seemed
in the waking light
Exchangeable goodbye
Go on, catch your flight
It's been a privilege
Did we shake hands?

Well, mine were shaking still with the passing
of the last cars of the train
And then the lesser half remained
I surely hope we forged a lasting chain...

That simple, sober style...
Be careful of that smile cause you might hurt someone
And it can't be made undone
Like snow before the sun, or backspace in a message
if you will
The pain residing still
We are so much alike, you and I

Do you know that you radiate like in real life
when visualised by my third eye?
Or even more so

And though we live in different time zones
There is no doubt we are somehow synchronised
Like synchronised minds
Shall we keep this pure and mutual, and ban amorous
spoilers from the game?
'Cause It'd be such a shame...

The tragedy of synchro-minds
may amplify a thousand times
I want to see this through
You know as I do that the unity of synchro-minds
stretches over a thousand miles
don't you feel blue?
I'll be joining you so soon

5. The Heart Demands

A stroll down memory lane revealed gaps as large as years
Ambition had the same properties as a butchers blade
the solstice in their eyes betrayed a change of seasons in their minds
Reversed the hourglass impatiently for more wasted time to pass

Fusion and confusion hand in hand, numb to what the heart demands
Seize what little time we have... What we have left

Here comes (the) wintertime, with snow to cover our crimes
and supervise our swift demise, as we urge it to pass us by
Killing time was a grave mistake
Sleeping through the years..
Now I can't awake!

Fusion and confusion hand in hand, numb to what the heart demands
Seize what little time we have... What we have left

Or can't you see that gold is closer to lead then we care for?
And that marble is merely stone?
Precious moments pass to fast
Faint, new memories kill the last
On the run
Come undone?
I may never

Weren't those the days, my friends?
Live life without tomorrow
Now it seems that I'm the subject of a tragedy
All my goals achieved, but can't recall the roads I travelled
Count the memories on my hands
my empty, aging hands

Slow it down
Look around in this bitter deception

Fusion and confusion hand in hand, numb to what the heart demands
Seize what little time we have... What we have left

6. A Minor Dance

It starts with distant thunder born under skies
dressed in ochre
Pressure rising up and over the anticipating land

Under layers of white noise
and through the static, sounds a voice
I want to hear the song it sings again

I remained outside, with every nerve alive
Lightning struck without remorse
and gave a cue to move indoors
The TV died, as did the lights
In the dark the radio came to life

Under layers of white noise
and through the static, sounds a voice
I want to hear the song it sings again
The secret station of my choice...
Forgotten music in the noise
inviting me to dance a minor dance

Faded and ethereal music that is dying to be heard
Desperate to mesmerise and capture our hearts

Wander in beauty, and wonder where I've been...

Faded and ethereal music that is dying to be heard
Desperate to mesmerise and capture our hearts (again)
Aided by a thunderstorm
I came upon this station from old days
I intended to seek it out again when I need shelter from the rain

I wander in beauty, and wander where I've been

7. Cascade (For A Day)

You pave the way through thick, stale air
shower a maiden rain
and in this cascade of memories
you wonder
what is the day?

Like this feels, nothing ever will
Life reveals, kicks in and heals me for a day

So I guess I paved my way
never questioning means nor meaning
and in this cascade
aching for significance
what is the day?

When doubt creeps to the surface, with
sunlight brushed away
then, in these lonely moments, tell me,
What is a day?

Like this feels. nothing ever will
Life reveals, kicks me and heals me for a day

Like this feels (without a word or whisper)
nothing ever will
Life reveals (without a what or why)
He walks in and heals me for a day

8. Horizon Line

Unreal, unravelled
we travelled light
Our minds a vacuum
as time went blank and moved aside
We stepped out of line and changed our bearings
all and everything by the wayside
and all the while chasing our dreams into a new unknown

Sky and limit intertwined
Let's lie with Pan tonight
to rise on phoenix' ashes
we'll cloud a new horizon line

Unreal, unravelled
We've shown ourselves out and take to the back roads
with pillars of dust in our fiery trail
Four eyes fixed on a new horizon
a common dream, or so it would seem
Yet all the while chasing our tails into a new unknown

Sky and limit intertwined
Let's lie with Pan tonight
to rise on phoenix' ashes
we'll cloud a new horizon line

I expected no less, yet so much more
You expected the same, I'm sure
Let's hope tomorrow proves both of us wrong

Sky and limit intertwined
Let's lie with Pan tonight
to rise on phoenix' ashes
we'll cloud a new horizon line

Through clouded covered judgement
into denial of cause
and effect takes a turn
for better or for worse

Sky and limit intertwined
Let's lie with Pan tonight
Sky and limit intertwined

9. Sulphur Rodents

Trembling, tried and terrified
spell cast with open eyes
to greet and feed me
with a smile you mean and a poison you surely don't
Rushing like rats through my wretched veins
ever faster, promise racing
to bring some foul salvation
to my weakening carnal cage

Skinned by a sulphurous jealousy
spit into wounds that would burn, had I know

Burns of misplaced ill affection
such a sweet addiction
Disintergrating grace
Eating through my weakening carnal cage

Skinned by a sulphurous jealousy
spit into wounds that would burn, had I know

If I could pinpoint a place where I can still feel you
Would you cut it out of me?
Would you please just cut it out of me?

Deny me, get it over with
Do us all a favor, see if I care
Misplace me and I'll grow a shadow
in someone else's life, for all I care

Skinned by a sulphurous jealousy
spit into wounds that would burn, had I know

I fall back in line
pushed, pulled
and await my time

10. Answers Never Questioned

The streets are silent
A spokesman of the devil waves a hand written letter
Another twist of fate
Shadow by the lamp post
a trench coat in the corner of the eye
Confessions far too late

When the shoulder you cried on collapsed
under weight
did you walk away indifferent?
Hearts and spades know the diamond
cannot be replaced
by the clovers insignificance

My song is silent
The letter shed a new light upon the answers
never questioned
your absences of late
I left the room as the fires rages
erasing words in the fireplace
The streets provide more shelter
when a sacrifice is made

When the shoulder you cried on collapsed
under weight
did you walk away indifferent?
Hearts and spades know the diamond
cannot be replaced
by the clovers insignificance

11. Altitude

When we lifted off the ground
we lifted up a veil of hesitation
and stared down on souls that crossed our line
of sight, of sound, of intuition.

Give me wings, my careless friend
Help me climb the cloudless skies and kill the lights
Sweet flower bed, lift me up and pass me round
for altitude's irrelevant

We sheered to left and broke to right
knew not what lay there worth avoiding
We made our marks, yet left no trace
and were revered for what we were to them

Give me wings, my careless friend
Help me climb the cloudless skies and kill the lights
Sweet flower bed, lift me up and pass me round
for altitude's irrelevant

Kill the lights, sweet flower bed
Kill the taste of my sunset

Give me wings, my careless friend
Help me climb the cloudless skies and kill the lights
Sweet flower bed, lay me down and pass me round
for altitude's bitterly irrelevant

Live it intensely
Drag me down with you
Experience profoundly
drag me down with you

12. One Word Reminder

[Bonus track]

It's on my lips, right there,
on the tip of my tongue
Struck deaf to wiser words
but one word from you
one word will do

Just fine
Just fine
Just speak and I will be just fine
Just fine
One word and I will be just fine

Your words move and mend
make me mind myself
a little more, maybe
We're as right as we are wrong
and I understand

Just fine
Just fine
Just speak and I will be just fine
Just fine
One word and I will be just fine

Focus on your pause between words for a change
Shed light on breaths taken between phrases
before the changes take effect

Watched pity from our balcony
Washed envy down with wine
Talkative, so far from sober
-bless the wine-
I, we feel fine

Just fine
Just speak and we will be just fine
Just fine
One word and we will be just fine

This is all you mean to me
This is all you matter
Remind me to mind myself
just that little more

13. Closure

[Bonus track]

[In loving memory of KG and AvdV]

The book was closed so suddenly
and I still don't get the end
A blank page is all that remains
... There should have been much more to come

... Hollow words, too late to share
Looking back, now you're not here
... I will remember you
Guiding me throughout my life
while sacrificing precious time
... I will remember you

While reading back, page by page,
I feel you lived it all
It makes me sad, but deep inside
... It fills me up with endless pride

... Hollow words, too late to share
Looking back, now you're not here
... I will remember you
Guiding me throughout my life
while sacrificing precious time
... I will remember you

I turn the page and start to write
to pick up where you left
And while I write I hope the end
... will fill you up with endless pride

I close the book and turn away
for life's too short, or so you taught me
I know that you will find your way
and closure overcomes the pain

... Hollow words, too late to share
Looking back, now you're not here
... I will remember you
Guiding me throughout my life
while sacrificing precious time
... I will remember you

Closure overtakes the pain
... I will remember you







AUTUMN LYRICS