ZAO LYRICS

1. Skin Like Winter

Ashes to ashes
Dust to dust
Beautiful child
Turning into stone with your eyes so dim
I shudder bitterness runs through your soul
Like small children confusion dances in the dusk
Of your mind
Exchange your blessings for deceptions
Good night
Kiss skin like winter cherished one
Fading away I can see your breath begging to resurrect into death
Hiding scars back
Laced with splinters audience of a congregation
Make your way to the front
Close your eyes and grieve you played
Your part so well.

2. Five Year Winter

Dear Tiffany,
You've mad me nauseous for the last time
Everything I've said to you.... I will form a spike (to drive through my throat)
In order to stop my words
This time I'll put them in the ground along with my memories and my feelings
I'll burn it down and walk away
Let the fire warm my back
I wish you would say you hate me
It would make it so much easier
Burn it down and walk away................
Love Daniel

3. A Fall Farewell

In a time of quietness I reflect on childhood memories
Caught wisping through my mind
Falling leaves create the stage
Words spoken were not cherished

On the last day of our friendship
And those words were possibly the last
What were your thoughts

As a dreaming child I awaken to a nightmare
After a gentle nudge I find out you're gone

The machines that kept you alive were careless
Did you ask Him to forgive you
Before, before you passed on you slipped
You slipped, you passed on
The machines that kept you alive were careless
Did you ask Him to forgive you
Before you passed on

You slipped on away into the ground
You broke the vanity
You brought the silence

4. Suspend / Suspension

Suspension / Suspend.
Wires from the ceiling extend.
Suspend / Suspension.
Your teeth grind from the tension.

When the door breaks you are found suspended high.
Above the ground.

Suspension / Suspend.
Death took my old best friend.
Suspend / Suspension.
Your life is at attention.
Suspension
Suspension
You grind your teeth from the tension.
From the tension.

You are found suspended high above the ground.
Above the ground enclosed in wires.

What's this?
Death came you.
He does not respect the virtues.
Suspension
Suspend
Wires from the ceiling extend.
Your teeth grind from the tension.
As wires extend from the ceiling, extend.
Watching page's rotting.
I see Jesus rotting.

When the door breaks
And you are found suspended high.
Above the ground
Encased in wires
When the door breaks
And you are found suspended high.
Above the ground
Encased in wires
When the door breaks
When the door breaks
And they find you
Suspended by wires
By wires

Suspended by the Suspension lies

5. Walk On By, Walk On Me

Your tongue pierced my fragile heart
Careless words are daggers thrown unaware
Unapproachable unwilling silence from a sounding voice
You entwine
Praise with curses
Your words burn like hell itself
Silence from a sounding voice
All this by the tongue created
Your words become hell itself
I lay bleeding in the flames
The tongue creates it
Tongue...

6. Ravage Ritual

I remember the first war, the way the sky burned
The faces of angels destroyed
I saw a third of Heaven's legion banished
And the creation fell
I stood with my brothers and watched and listened to the revolt
But now, my brothers aren't my brothers

Turned away by a misrepresentation
Stained glass and white washed tombs
The hearts of those who spoke to you
Were never homes the God they tried to show you
They spoke out of prejudice and ritualism
They themselves were lost angels fold their wings
And they fold their wings
And weep along with us watching you shun Christ's sacrifice
Shunning sacrifice
And they fold their wings
And weep along with us watching you shun

Shun

7. Times Of Separation

Once again to strive, to beat it out
Over and over again.
So worn, worked over
With the intention to kill.
To watch him die and smile
At his dismay,
His pain,
My deliverance.
My cleanliness a gift of freedom.
My walk purified.
My peace given by God.

What else is there
After slipping away,
When every thing is silent
And nothing else is around?
Alone.
Looking deep inside.
Hearing the echo of my soul,
No one can know.

In these times of silence,
These times of separation,
I find there is a void that rises up,
A peace that brings my tears,
A comfort that no one else can offer.

So why do people run away?
Why do they look elsewhere
An base their self on opinions
When the truth is so evident that this God of
Love is so constant?
Destruction and storms.
My Jesus stands to help.

8. Savannah

A day not to forget
The machine has collapsed under the program it's been given
Look inside the broken shell
Look inside the broken shell
To see the broken heart
They can't believe the machine was alive but we saw it bleed
We saw it bleed [8x]
The machine it falls apart and when it's cut it bleed
The machine bleeds [6x]
She was alive

9. The Race Of Standing Still

I'm racing racing towards it
Like when I was a small boy
Cutting through a waving field
Decorated by summer sunlight
Unable to remember
Unable to forget
Unable yet at peace
Unable yet scared
I'm racing racing towards it with fear and excitement
They seem inseparable
They seem so far apart
They are my close friends
They are my very ghosts
I'm racing towards it
Holding perfectly still
In the race of standing still

10. Free The Three

You failed to do your job.
Superstitious cover up.
They'll pay you because of your mistakes.
You lie, you lie, you lie and they pay.
You fail, you fail, you fail and they pay.
Superstition. Unholy children. '
Blinded vision. False ambition.
Can you show me how they're guilty?
You liars, you killers.
Blame the (so-called) unholy children.
With your blinded vision.
And your false ambition.

11. Angel Without Wings

Hold her in your right hand.
And guide her safely home.
Brush away all the thorns.
Find all the stones.
You're my angel without wings.
When I was crying you never left my side.
When I was dying you never left my side.
You're always there for me.
You're my angel without wings.
You were always without wings.
Without wings.

12. Ember

My sight finally returns
Only to see my hands covered with the innocent blood
Of those I stand before as an example
And I hold this ember in my heart
It reminds me of who I once was
It's the only warmth that I know

Ember of Your faithfulness
Ember of Your still small voice
Ember of embracing arms
Ember of rebirth to You my King

To You my King I offer up this ember
For the wind of Your Spirit to consume
Consumed by fire, consumed [2x]
Consumed to purge their blood from my hands

13. The Ghost Psalm

Realization comes through reaping
Reality contained in quite
My companions are walking corpses
I am buried with your words
Turned their backs to me
Scared to see the ghost
Turned and walked away
Scared to see the ghost
Time to go one last look, one last touch. A ghost to those I love
Time to go one last look, one last touch. Goodbye to those I love
So close
So close to separation
A ghost without a grave
A ghost without a name
So close

14. Trash Can Hands

You think because you bought this record,
You read a list of thanks you can judge our lives (you've identified)
You think because you bought the record,
You read a list of thanks you've identified (you can judge out lives)
A favor we provide
Little forum boys with your polished cyber toys
I read your bucket comment
Your three piece bulletin
POUT POUT BOOO HOOO TALK TALK POUT BOO HOOO HOOO
How is out identity working out for you?
It's funny how you can justify me (us) on opinion
An idea that I do this for you
DXCBOY FIREKID
You know who you are (and what you do)
We wrote this song for you

15. The Icarus Complex

16. One Last Time

17. All Dressed Up (With No Place To Go)

ZAO LYRICS