HEIR APPARENT LYRICS

1. Just Imagine

[Written by Mike Jackson, Steve Benito]

[Copyright 1987 Richard Cheese Music -ASCAP]

Just imagine things beyond the chains of understanding
Beyond reason, beyond logic, beyond fear
Believe the inconceivable, feel the unbelievable
Don't bother asking "Is this real?"

Just imagine meaning in the things you never dreamed of
Like your leaders, your lovers, and your songs
Natural Order's changing, in effect
Giving everyone a cause

Dreamer dreaming in a seeming sleepless land
Just imagine:

Just imagine something inside nothing
Like a child in emptiness
Or a dreamer in the dark
Creative cryogenics - a mind
A candle yearning for a spark

Dreamer dreaming in a seeming sleepless land
Just imagine:

Just imagine peace where there was none before
Under virgin skies
Just imagine children with hope
Again in their eyes

Just imagine:

Just imagine people really caring
And not just saying they do
Just imagine nations really talking
Like me and you:

2. Crossing The Border

[Written by Terry Gorle and Steve Benito]

[Copyright 1987 Apparently Music-BMI]

[Richard Cheese Music-ASCAP]

Barbed wire and barriers are holding me
Though the barricades are only in my mind
I can't seem to break through the walls
Even though I am made of steel
Like steel to a fire I weaken and bend in the wind
Create the desire for crossing the wire
I'm laying it all on the line

Crossing the border
Leaving the sadness far behind

Surrounded by anger and fear
I'm the eye of the hurricane
Like a leaf on a tree in the wind
I yearn to break free

Create the desire for crossing the wire
I'm laying it all on the line

Crossing the border
Leaving the sadness far behind
I'm crossing the border
Fleeing the echoes of my mind

3. Screaming

[Written by Ronn Chick and Steve Benito]

[Copyright 1986 Richard Cheese Music-ASCAP]

When the light starts to dim in the evening
When the day starts to fade
Your body echoes an uneasy feeling
You know you're feeling afraid

You don't know where you're going
Or where you've been
You try to run- but it's too late
You've stumbled in

-Now you're
Screaming, 'cause you're afraid of the dark
Screaming toward the light
Screaming, 'cause there's a fear in your heart
Screaming into the night

On your face I can see that you're worried
On your face I see fear
Is this the time that you said you'd run lady?
From your darkest fears

You don't know where you're going
Or where you've been
You try to run- but it's too late
You've stumbled in

-Now you're
Screaming, 'cause you're afraid of the dark
Screaming toward the light
Screaming, 'cause there's a fear in your heart
Screaming into the night

It's too late to run now
I'm right behind
You're over now- I see you
Screaming into the night

4. Alone Again

[Written by Ron Chick and Steve Benito]

[Copyright 1986 Richard Cheese Music -ASCAP]

Here I am in a spotlight
Alone: all over again
And you are home by the firelight
With someone else, instead of me:

The words seemed so real
And baby that's why I feel
Alone again
I swore you were my friend
Now I'm all alone
All alone again

The rhymes I could make
If me heart wasn't breaking
In two: over you
Oh I'm the fool
For believing in things
I can't hold in my hands
I don't understand

The words seemed so real
And baby that's why I feel
Alone again
I swore you were my friend
I'm all alone
All alone again

5. Cacophony Of Anger

[Written by Derek Peace and Steve Benito]

[Copyright 1988 Richard Cheese Music-ASCAP]

Somehow, somewhere, someone
Sold me the wrong set of dreams
Like a rag doll in careless hands
I come apart at the seams

Like a willow I'm bending -an actor pretending
The script I've been given is true
Like a child that is force-fed
I'm throwing this shit back at you

Anger and fury my
Anger and fury my
Anger and Fury my
Anger and fury my
Wall of anger -my cacophony

Neon and screens were my feeling machines
No wonder I feel like a fool
I'm a fire of resentment with media methane as fuel

My soul and the soles of my shoes both have holes
Still somehow I get through the sorrow
Two pairs of socks and a shot in the arm 'till tomorrow

6. The Sound Of Silence

[Written by Paul Simon]

[Copyright 1965 Paul Simon Music -BMI]

[Heir Apparent arrangement by Terry Gorle 1987]

Hello darkness my old friend
I've come to talk with you again
Because a vision softly creeping
Left it's seeds while I was sleeping
And a vision that was planted in my brain
Still remains -
Within the sound of silence

In restless dreams I walked alone
Narrow streets of cobblestone
'Neath the halo of a streetlamp
I turned my collar to the cold and damp
When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light
-That split the night
And touched the sound of silence

And in the naked light I saw
Ten thousand people, maybe more
People talking without speaking
People hearing without listening
People writing songs that voices never share
-And no one dared
Disturb the sound of silence

"Fools", said I, "You do not know"
"Silence, like a cancer, grows"
"Hear my words, that I might teach you"
"Take my arms, that I might reach you"
But my words, like silent raindrops fell
And echoed in the wells of silence

And the people bowed and prayed
To the neon god they made
And the sign flashed out its warning
In the words that it was forming
And the sign said, "The words of the prophets are
Written on the subway walls - and tenement halls"
And whispered in the sounds of silence

7. The Haunting

[Written by Mike Jackson, Steve Benito and Terry Gorle]

[Copyright 1987 Apparently Music -BMI]

[Richard Cheese Music -ASCAP]

Memory- go away
I grow weary from my running
Hiding for so long
I've lost my way

Morning light's reminders
Painting colors in my prison
Daylight brightens every shade of grey
The pain never ending, and now its so cliche

Yesterdays are creaking doors
And noises in the nighttime
Feelings, only chains across the floor
Voices on the wind, softly moan
I hear them whisper
Mirrors mock the man I was before

My mind slowly fading
Like paper in the rain

The haunting, it still remains
The haunting, it still remains

Turning and burning in my bed
A never-ending ghost
That lives inside my head

Memory- go away
I grow weary from my running
Hiding for so long
I've lost my way

Yesterdays are creaking doors
And noises in the nighttime
Feelings, only chains across the floor
My mind keeps decaying
Like paper in the rain

The haunting, it still remains
The haunting, it still remains

Turning and burning in my bed
A never-ending ghost
That lives inside my head

Memories remain of the haunting
Can't stop the pain of the haunting:

8. Two Hearts

[Written by Ron Chick and Steve Benito]

[Copyright 1986 Richard Cheese Music -BMI]

All the pieces seemed to fit today
The sky blue matched the city grey
The roads all led to somewhere
The words I heard were true
Everything seemed to fit but me and you

All the pieces seemed to fit today
Laughter came from children's play
Something came from nothing
One and one made two
Everything seemed to fit but me and you

We are two lost pieces to the puzzle
We are two forgotten words that used to rhyme
We will never fit together
We are two hearts beating out of time:

9. We, The People

[Written by Terry Gorle and Mike Jackson]

[Copyright 1987 Apparently Music -BMI]

[Richard Cheese Music -ASCAP]

We, the people
Face the challenge of our lives
Apparent heirs of this domain
The time is short for us
To set a new priority
Or we will surely pay the price - of the world
- Your world
- My world
- Our world

In the name of progress
We take more than we need
Respect for life exchanged
For corporate greed
Chemical waste destroys
Our land and sea
With no regard for the future
Of our world

We, the people
Face the challenge of our lives
Apparent heirs of this domain
We, the people shape our destiny
And the time is now to take care - of the world
- Your world
- My world
- Our world

We must unite -to survive!

10. Young Forever

[Written by Terry Gorle and Steve Benito]

[Copyright 1987 Apparently Music -BMI]

[Richard Cheese Music -ASCAP]

Watching the setting sun
You feel the days gone by
Autumn is ending- with winter impending
Was summer just a lie?

But just like the seasons
You know you spring will come

You're young forever
Just like the setting sun
You'll rise again
You're young forever
Taking on time in a race
That you can't win

Down but not out it's clear you're wise
Beyond your years
Time is a ship that keeps on sailing
Despite our hailing tears
But just like the ship
The wind will fill your sails

You're young forever
Just like the setting sun
You'll rise again

11. One Small Voice

[Written by Terry Gorle and Steve Benito]

[Copyright 1987 Apparently Music -BMI]

[Richard Cheese Music -ASCAP]

One small voice had a dream
Now he's seen the other side
One small heart ached for his people
His children, and his pride

Just one man
With one hope for the world
Just one man
And one small voice was heard

One small voice had a cause
So he lived in a cage
One small love that endured
Through his pain and his rage

Just one man
With one hope for the world
Just one man
And one small voice that was heard

One small voice
Just one small voice

12. Decorated

[Written by Mike Jackson and Steve Benito]

[Copyright 1988 Richard Cheese Music-ASCAP]

Hero, Warrior
Sit behind the lines and make the call
Leader, Believer
A vestal three-piece high above it all

But until you've walked the miles
With the people that you lead
You can't understand their pain
When the common people bleed

Fuhrer, Big Brother
Victimize the weak and make us strong
Teacher, Savior
Sanctify your answers, right or wrong

But until you've walked the miles
With the people that you lead
You can't understand their pain
When the common people bleed

--You should be decorated
Adorned by scarlet bars
A celebrated General
To brandish blackened stars

--You should be decorated
Your ribbons frayed and torn
Upon your paper pedestal
For the children to adorn

--You should be decorated

Leader, Believer
Victimize the weak and make us strong
Teacher, Savior
Sanctify your answers, right or wrong

But until you've walked the miles
With the people that you lead
You can't understand their pain
When the common people bleed

--You should be decorated

13. The Fifth Season

[Written by Terry Gorle, Mike Jackson and Steve Benito]

[Copyright 1987 Apparently Music -BMI]

[Richard Cheese Music -ASCAP]

I looked unto the Old One, in the Sacred Halls
I found him there amidst his grief, and crumbling walls
The tears that lined his face
Told the tale he tried to hide
Of castles made of sand, and of the tide

A whisper through his sobs
I heard him softly say
"My kingdom for a wise man: yesterday"
"No one can save us, no one can stop the end"
Not all the king's horses, or all your amen's:

There's no disarming, no forewarning
Morning is over - forever burns the night
Time's forever fused with the night
The passions of men -in a flash
Put an end to the light

No one can save us now
Nothing can stop the end
Not all the king's horses, or all your amen's

No disarming, no forewarning
Morning is over- forever burns the night
Time's forever fused with the night
The passions of men -in a flash
Put an end to the light

Shadows seething - darkness fills the sky
Ashes wreathing - fire burning on high
Suffocation - the light all gone away
In the end - no final words to say





HEIR APPARENT LYRICS