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Opening Prayer
00:14
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2. |
A Ghost Staring
04:54
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ghost staring from behind the door
I've seen you in so many ways before
time had its way with our friends
roughed up turned upside down and left for dead
lucky you and me, we got off easy
with just obsessive haunting imagery
turn out the lights
I wanna go to those days one more time
tonight I'm free, tonight I feel
the passion, and blood, the pain and the love tonight
hard days, long nights ahead
when the haze cleared it left me here instead
confusion settles into breed
will this turn I took cause my soul to bleed
who are we now
defeated by that which we love
s ghost staring from behind the door
turn out the lights
and come with me to those days one more time
tonight I'm free
tonight I feel
the passion and blood, the pain and the love tonight
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3. |
Wings of Gold
02:15
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wings of gold worn about for hiding
there's misfortune on my mind
with a soul, with a love for heartache
what a passionate crime
side by side, alone, in love
that ain't right, it's the song that leads your
head into that world
micro beats on stone, this room's too dark
this room's too cold
closing in, closing in
oh man it's really happening
now all the walls are closing in
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4. |
Be Still the Blackness
04:36
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be still the blackness
moves into the fold
I've stolen everything
a broken man can hold
stay light, stay the night
take me to the edge
don't fear this night
just hold on tight
I can beat back the daylight
held frozen in your stare
I'd willingly die here
I'd stand in line to feel
your lips next to mine
I'm lonely, I surrender
to everything I thought I could own
control me
please take hold of me
and I'll take hold of you
there's a riot on the rise
violence is on the rise
madness is in our eyes
hell is on our mind
( I heard a piece of a long forgotten song
it's pulling me back, pulling me back home
I am beautiful and light )
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5. |
Sable Sky
04:24
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oh vacant sigh you hold nothing not a stone
I close my eyes and it took me to a home
that once was filled with emotion and even love
I wanna cry but I'm already gone
love me late at night
it was our only choice
love me late at night
and I still hear your voice
love me late at night
I believe in love, I believe in life
I believe in light
I want to fly
is it so wrong to try
as they prepare for flight
so long see you around someone always knows
so long see you around sing about leaving home
( a sable sky is hanging still above me now
nowhere to turn and no offerings left to burn )
walking and walking through the ghosts
of this town
in a graveyard of songs where their hearts
all sank down
I'd bet another day wouldn't go by
cuz the smell of these streets
I don't recognize
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6. |
Vacancy
06:08
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a lazy Saturday slowly melts away
to find the night's vacancy is upon us baby
floating off the high of a summer sky
I catch a spark in your eye
and it haunts me baby
I've been feeling uptight
I wanna know who you are tonight
I've been feeling not real
like I could never feel
the baby is sound asleep
the world within her reach
but for you and me the days
they grow softer lady
it's nothing like I planned
never in demand
I never thought it would feel
this amazing baby
and you're not alone
I've been watching you grow
and I took the wrong approach
I've been fighting myself too long
can I take you to bed
with this beautiful day still fresh in my head
the world it grows tense
the writing is on the wall
let's hold tonight before it's
dead and gone
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7. |
About the Angel
05:46
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the angel crashed into the river
but could not survive the rising tide
it washed up dead upon a village shoreline
a crowd of people rushed the scene
enter the priest, with a churchly decree
"it's a miracle of faith, and for those
who still need faith"
up stood the cynic to kill all excitement
"it's nothing more than a man
with wings fused to his hands"
the military were the last to arrive
but quickly worked to rope off the scene
police took control of the growing crowd
and said "there's nothing more to see"
the town businessman, already had a plan
he said "supply and demand"
and quickly ran ahead
the pick pocket thief
made a killing at the scene
a heaven sent diversion
he was gone before he was noticed
news crews in helicopters
took to the sky the ratings never were so high
officials scrambled to make official announcement
an explanation the people would believe
the frenzy of the fall lasted for weeks on end
the town was now alive again with a new identity
the angel crashed into the river
like a gift from God himself high above
to a once dying city forgotten by the sea
rediscovered in the tourist industry
and about the angel, he was never seen again
he was taken by the man
never seen again
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Fruit Trees
05:41
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six o'clock came again
it never asks me for permission
it just comes and takes my dreams away
I'm not the only one looks like we made it
through the night
we meet under the dawning sun
to give life to you I'm so humbled
to share the stars with you
all the moonlit wonder
I'll be there in your love
nothing can separate us little dove
sunlight, twilight, darkness
through it all remain in control
love life, all the wonder of this world
dream now and I'll see you in the morning
back to the soil another to grow
taking our traits and letting us know
can you believe something so pure
from you and me
two flowering fruit trees
what will their boughs bring
stories and songs of love and pain
to feel your life in me I'm so humbled
to share it all with you
all the moonlit wonder
to give it all to you, the moon the stars
and all the rain
to give it all for you
the moonlit wonder
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9. |
Wings (Reprise)
02:08
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10. |
The Witch
08:37
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there was this witch
who knocked at my front door
with an offer I could not refuse
she said she would do for me
what I could not do for myself
unfold a world upon my doorstep
I knew she was trouble
but my eyes were blind
a poor man's battle raged inside of my mind
she stood there watching with those
glowing eyes of stone
waiting patiently for my answer
She said she would need something in return
"for no choices made are free of recompense
or left unquestioned by the one's whom you love
for once it's seen it cannot be unseen"
I said "change can only mean for something good
I can't take any more of this poor man's sorrow"
I said "please take what you want from me"
she replied "I want nothing from you
only something of you"
she turned and pointed beyond the frozen fields
beyond which she said lies a river
"the flow of a coming tide will lead the way to me
with the billow of that tide in will rest my fee"
so I sealed the deal and I went on my way
into an open world of fame and fortune
everything close to me was now far away
but I would numb the pain with the gold and silver
but all those things in time seemed to lose their shine
and I'd find myself alone again in sorrow
and drifting to a time when the only gold I knew was love
and the smile from my children's eyes
was all I'd needed
well I went back there to the frozen fields
in search of the witch by the river
winter was ending with spring about to bloom
the river was awake and it was flowing
I followed the flow of the tide for some time
until I came upon the witch she was waiting
as I approached she smiled and spoke no words
she just stood there pointing into the water
"before we met I had watched you for some time
I watched your children play in those old days
I've never had children of my own
and fragile is the love which lies deserted"
what she said to me nearly stopped my heart
for now I knew that which she was after
"your children will return to me, to these woods
in search of the feeling of those pure days"
well I got on my knees and began to beg
she just stared back at me with those cold eyes
I cried for here to take me instead
the deal is done she said
it cannot be undone
"before we met I had watched you for some time
I watched your children play in my envy"
I cried for here to take me instead
"what once is done cannot be undone"
there was this witch who knocked at my front door
with an offer I could not refuse
she said she would do for me what I could not
do for myself
unfold a world upon my doorstep
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11. |
Stairs to Freedom
04:19
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this lonely time of fear
is floating down the stairs
I still hear footsteps in the hall
it's waiting for me there inside it all
one day we will climb the stair to freedom
nothing is moving we're against the wheel
hanging lightly by a thread tonight
shadows forming in the black night
in silence she hides here light
in a hidden voice of love
we let go of failures in the past
who could know what's next
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Farewood Meriden, Connecticut
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