IQ LYRICS

1. The Wrong Side Of Weird

A sudden unpredictable sky contains the dawn
Seconds in an hour
Counting down before the day is born
Long enough in the grave to be sustained
Science or belief
Reminders of a time we can't regain

Have all the idle dreamers awoken from their dreams
To find they're not alone?
Nothing now is really as it seems
This would always arrive somehow
Problem left unsolved
Radiating in the here and now

And in my memory
Only just begun to understand the reasons why
A one in ten degree
Alternate between the faithful and the fearless

If all the riches and ransoms coalesced
As one were intertwined
You would be the brightest I possess
If all the gold and the silver came combined
You would still define
The colours I imagine in my mind

And in my memory
Under the same moon, lighted on a lunar sea
A one in ten degree
Alternate between the faithful and the fearless

I can't remember
Can't even be him
And chances are slim
That I'm found
No finer substance
No final demand
I'm tired and know
No bounds

Thought that I was pulling through
Though I never had a chance of winning at all
Caught between the heard and the seen
Something out of quarantine beginning to call

In silence I'm drowning
I'm spinning around and round

Oblivion lies unrevealed
More than flesh and bone can bear together to feel
In silence I'm sinking
I don't think I'll make it down

Riding the meltdown, right in the fallout
And I turn to the fire when I'm spurned
Send out the thing that is driving me crazy
I can douse it and leave it to burn

Daylight dissolving, crawling miasma
On a spellbound and desolate prayer
Somebody somewhere stop me before
I rip away all the soul they've repaired

Time already grows heavy, gravity won't hold steady
Pole people cry for their lives passing by darkly
This belongs to you for he would have loved you as I do
Life as we feared on the wrong side of weird
binds us two

And in my memory
Only just begun to understand the reasons why
A one in ten degree
Alternate between the faithful and the fearless
Where are you now? Who are you now?
I can't go there

Thought that I was pulling through
Though I never had a chance of winning at all
Caught between the heard and the seen
Something out of quarantine beginning to call
Riding the meltdown, right in the fallout
And I turn to the fire when I'm spurned
Send out the thing that is driving me crazy
I can douse it and leave it to burn
Once every lifetime shadows are lifted
And the daylight disperses the dark
Want to be sure that all I've endured is put away
But where do I start?

2. Erosion

Where do I start?
This thing's tearing us apart
Nothing is clear
Where do we go from here?
No wonder in sight
Not even the blackest night
So where do I start?
It only remains to empty this heart
Everything that I came to trust slipped away
I resisted the call to arms, feet of clay

Now when I sleep,
I reach for the book I keep
In my hour of need
I turn to the pages no-one will read
Everything that I came to trust slipped away
I live through this a thousand times every day

All the time that I'm held in suspension
And unable to make myself heard
I can't hold back the tide of erosion
And the vision that haunts me is blurred

Been as cold as I can
Since who knows when
Would that I could feel now
As I did then
Get in out of the light
Avoid the glare
Lost and out on a limb
Miles from anywhere

All the time that I'm held in suspension
And unable to make myself heard
I can't hold back the tide of erosion
And the vision that haunts me is blurred

Everything that I came to trust slipped away
I resisted the call to arms, feet of clay
Everything that I came to trust slipped away

3. The Seventh House

On a bleak and solitary road
They return
To be where once they met
One who comes to lay the past to rest
Inside
One who can't forget

Yesterday the heroes of the hour
Who survived
Those who fought and lost
Standing at the moment of release
They pause
To count the dreadful cost

My life is out of condition
I've held it together myself the best I can
I'll never feel this way again

After all this time we've been apart
Still now
I wonder where you are
No one understands how close you came
To us
No one knows how far

This time it's harder than ever
I've weathered the storm
And I've kept you safe and warm
I'll never feel this way again

Oh my angel
In black water
All your heartache
Will soon be over

Oh my baby
Rest you well

Cathedral that man created
You're weighted down by a jealous sound
Bewildered and dislocated
Your soul deflated and gone to ground

Nobody, no final direction
No way to connect in this heavier state
The lives that we never remember
Are heading us out to another mistake

It's with me, it's waiting for me
As Heaven is calling us to our knees
And there in the seventh house
Lie the seventy-five figures such as these

I'm all out of random
Sentenced by madmen
Who have abandoned me
What chance of survival?
I've had an eyeful
More than I cared to see

And if I forget you
Or if I let you
Fall under someone's spell
Nobody can blame you
Put out the flame
You kept it alive so well

What web are we weaving
Nothing achieving?
Are you receiving me?
So far out in the ocean
Stuck in emotion
On an unending sea

And if you forget me
Don't ever let me
Under your broken wing
Nobody can know
You kept it below you
I never felt a thing
What a way to go

How did all the dreaming in my life
Arrive at such a bitter end?
On the rooftops draped in black
Denial stopped me in my tracks
By the fearful light of dusk
This position I defend
All around the sky is cracked
Won't somebody send me back?

Fourteen hundred hours
Won't forget that day
Coal-black sky, the earth
A hundred shades of grey
In the aftermath
As silent as the grave
I alone remained
No other soul was saved

Faces turning over
Limbs that shake without
A conscious kind of movement now
For all their tomorrows
We gave our last day today

In a future all their own
Documents reveal patriotic zeal
Singing to remember
Drinking to forget the lie
All the names beyond recall
Empty politics in houses one to six
Locked and barred against the memory

My life is out of condition
I've held it together myself the best I can
I'll never feel this way again
Again

These are the lives we are measured by
Heaven help us to answer why
Every minute of every day they die
Waiting and wondering all alone
Silent voices across the land
Speak in tongues they could never understand
Nameless and wandering far from home
Always held in the seventh house
Everything we inherit now's the same

4. Zero Hour

Yesterday is up for auction
Souvenirs are in demand
In the rooms where rocking horses
Carried us on moonlit strands
Thunder crash and flash of lightning
Storms of metal raining down
Little hands that cradle ashes
Little eyelids heavy, head run aground

Will the cross and all its stations
Lead you where you want to go?
You say you want a revelation
Well, tell me something I don't know

Zero hour, times are changing
Count the seconds one by one
Found a girl whose laughter turned me round
To face a brighter sun

Was it just hallucination
Sent the artist off the rails?
Searching for communication
In the knife when all else failed

Zero hour, tide is turning
Calmer waters from now on
Found a girl whose laughter turned me round
To face a brighter sun

5. Shooting Angels

Something's up on the northern skyline
Angels descending from their gallery on high
Rally around me slowly
Angels with dirty faces
Leaving their lipstick trace across the human race
Heavenly host unholy

Walking the wire, I jump the gun
Some of us fly too close to the sun
Gone are the days when Heaven could wait
Thought there was time but now it's too late
So when you hear the angels sing
Get ready to spread your wings

How the hell am I going to do this?
Heavenly bodies multiplying through the mist
Steadily swell their numbers
Under celestial orders
Ascending the clouds right up into the stratosphere
Marching us down to Slumbertown

Walking the wire, I'm taking aim
Keeping my tail ahead of the game
Gone are the days of Heaven's Lament
Satellite plays the whole event
So when you want to take them higher
Get ready to open fire

In Arcadia
All they've made of light is shade
A halcyon retreat, now frayed
Stay together
In a Hell-for-leather world
Torn apart by angels and their battlecries

Walking the wire, I jump the gun
Some of us fly too close to the sun
Gone are the days when Heaven could wait
Thought there was time but now it's too late
So when you hear the angels sing
Get ready to spread their wings

6. Guiding Light

Came from the west
Only to fly again
The eyes that see
The lips that tell no tales
Nobody's guest
Dressed like a mannequin
Put out to sea
Before the ship had sails

I have always dreamed that somewhere in your heart
There's a guiding light still shines
For our lives and times we should have spent together
But we passed each other by
Like seasons out of time

Easter you left
Changed more than anyone
I asked you why
You told me "Just because"
Nobody guessed
Under your influence
The man I am
Is not the man I was

We have lived our lives across this great divide
I couldn't make you change your mind
And we almost glimpsed a promise of forever
But we passed along the way
Like seasons out of time

Sometimes everything is hard to bear
Let go, following without a care
Still now, though it's hard to understand
We built on shifting sand

Somehow memories are more than this
Set free only with a deathly kiss
And now, when the restless hour is high
A million stars go by

We never can remember
All the lives we've lived before
The days decline in number
Slip the ropes away from shore
Whenever Heaven calls us
There's regret and compromise
And in another distance
Lies a past unrealised

Where are you now?
Who are you now?
Is anyone really gone?

In all the world
In all this space
The race is run

I have always dreamed that somewhere in your heart
There's a guiding light still shines
For our lives and times we should have spent together
But we passed each other by
Like seasons out of time





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