IQ LYRICS

1. The Darkest Hour

If I won't live a lie it's in my self defence
That I remember hiding then
If I'm eroding all the innocence
Am I running rigid once again?

And he won't hear me now in the darkest hour
I'll never see him now
Oh I can take the mystery in the darkest hour
And he won't hurt me now

If we are lost in paradise
Our recollection all but gone
We will make the only sacrifice
For the strength to carry on

In spite of everything I recognise the end
And feel the scars that never heal
I keep the purity, buried as I am
In an effort to conceal

Don't underestimate what I've retained
All my souvenirs, forget-me-nots,
I'll pretend all you want me to
I won't believe it if you don't

Burn it up again, it's here and I've
Let it live through other stolen lives
Save your hollow breath
Feast your tired eyes
You need protection as well as I

Nothing any good ever came from me
Thought I could run you in the ground

What do I do, what kind of fool
Covers you like an animal?
Out of the way,
I'm anyone wilder than you are
Anyone who ever had a heart
Wouldn't deny me

Woe betide the one, not to be outdone,
Who will remember all that stuff,
Didn't I say it then enough?
If I could let it be, I would
Start it again, when does it end?
I'm in there somewhere
Nobody can carry me over

Now the dead winds have blown
With the cold rains
If I should fall from your side
Keep it in your mind
How I tried to keep him here
How I promised he'd be safe
And he never said a word
And he never cried

Another day leads me on
And I will follow
Whatever it takes now, I'll do
If it's over
And he won't hurt me now, I know
When I'm losing all the power
And he won't hurt me now
In this darkest hour

2. Fading Senses

[I. After All]

Following everything I've known
I was wandering all alone
Waiting for a time that might have been
My own way down

Suddenly everything is wrong
Have I really been gone so long?
Hanging by the nails across my
Idle eyes so wide

And after all the days of fading senses
This has taken more
Than I had to give
If we face the one we've been avoiding
And I'm out of all control again
Let me go

Gathering comforting remains
I was unprepared, running scared
Faltering, and why do I hold on?
It's gone, I know

And after all the days of fading senses
I don't feel the same
And I want to live
The insecurity of never knowing
Has the race been run, and is
The long day done?

[II. Fading Senses]

[Instrumental]

3. Out Of Nowhere

Out of a time from way back when
Disregarding discipline
Should have never given in
And I really should have known

Some are born into their lives
With a need to be destroyed
It's the wrong thing on my mind
The only thing we can't survive

Standing in the line of fire
Innocently dumb
They're in my head and still they come
Out of nowhere

Is there something
Something more than this?
Inner tension
Settled with a kiss

What a time to bump and grind
What a daydream, looking back
Never a worry in the world
For the cutter in the pack

I don't understand this pain
And I never will
The scene is gone and here they are
Out of nowhere

Is there something
Something that I've missed?
It's going to happen
And I can't resist

If I believed a single word
I would hesitate as well
Making Heaven out of Hell--
All it takes is everything
I want to raise you up and see
There's something in your eyes
But every time I try, they come
Out of nowhere

Is there something
Something more than this?
Inner tension
Settled with a kiss
Is there something
Something that I've missed?
It's going to happen
And I can't resist

4. Further Away

Time takes my time
I, here to myself, hold the silence in
Torn from my hand
So heavy now you're a world away
Though they rage
These little lies
I've grown so cold
And will I see you
When I turn around?

Here I'll remain
Bound, ever bound, I am left to drown
In this space
I raise myself
And move somehow
To rearrange the brittle bones of you

Now it's done
And I resolve to make no sound
So they're come
Are they the ones
Who'll take me down?
Don't you cry precious tears for me

Passion killers and stocking fillers abound
When someone takes a dive
Surface breakers and undertakers surround
All but the fairest faces alive

Tension seekers and public speakers defend
These they have come to judge
Seasoned liars and false messiahs descend
To lay on the feeling touch

And I've seen too much
Day by day and I don't know why
After all, don't we matter the same?

Reach for the sky, don't break my heart
Are there no angels, only us?
Look how they've changed me, see what they've done
It has begun

Now as I lay me down to sleep
If I should die before I wake
Don't let me fail
Don't ever break

Roll me out where I am
Let me in 'cause I've seen too much
Day by day and I don't know why
After all
Maybe no-one's to blame

And it's not the same
I get this feeling from no-one else
Show me now
Are you out of my head?

Breaking the borders, the chaos of lies
Caught in the terrible rain from the skies
Shaken as I am, her faith is as thin
She can remember the moment of madness so well
How many died right where they fell?

I was the first in that sinister bed
Closing the shutters and cutting the thread
Shackled and fettered, I know who you are
Bleeding the heart and the mind as the rivers run red
Somebody said, "Here is Hell"

Go wherever you can be
And live for the day
It's only wear and tear
Doesn't matter anymore
If I'm losing you
You're always everywhere

It's no wonder I'm afraid
Of making amends
And shattering the fear
Now it's happening I know
It's going to come
So dark inside of here

What have they done?
Stay with me
Can you say where you are?
I'll be there, I'll do it,
Just tell me I'll never let go
Never let go

5. Leap Of Faith

Though you may be now
A long way from home
All your hand-me-downs
Live on in their dreams

I can see something in that smile
In the way they play
They're passing down the line
Opening the tears and the emptiness
No danger signs
Features unrecognised
Until now

So soon winter brings
The first fall of snow
There are secret things
In all the whitest worlds

I can see something in that smile
In the way they play
They're passing down the line
Opening the tears and the emptiness
No danger signs
Features unrecognised
Until now

Time enough when old sensations
Won't remind anymore
Unaware of all the children
Running rings without a care
Joining in their games
When I hear pale horses riding
See them fly as they go
Then I know to free the reins
Of unquiet thoughts

6. Came Down

All the memories that lead to isolation
All the time we didn't share
When we set adrift half-forgotten lies
Will the madness still be there?

Who of all you now will ride the lows and highs?
Whose hands are these that come to pray?
When you turn away, the distance in your eyes
Speaks the words that you won't say

Far away, we say goodbye
Too many unremembered arms that won't let go
How can I be on your side
If the line divides
And if anyone should listen?
Though starry-eyed, I know
This is still the garden where I came down

Holding faster than before, for what it's worth now
Those days that none will see replaced
What became of us, mysterious and ageless?
We left without a trace

Far away, we wave goodbye
Too many unremembered arms that won't let go
How can I be on your side
If the line divides
And if anyone should listen?
Though starry-eyed, I know
This is still the garden where I came down





IQ LYRICS