Close the door and drift away Into a sea of uncertainty Where all your hopes and dreams Have faded out of reach. Remember all the bad dreams Are not far from reality Would you write again for me?
(let me whisper something in your ear)
And you awake and there you are Not far off from the line before And just how long did it take for you to understand Where your feelings stopped and writing began Convince yourself to take control Play to the hilt this unlikely role.
Remember all the bad dreams Are not far from reality Will you write again for me? And who bade you stop this living art? Have you forgotten just what you are? If you don't want to then you could at least pretend That the paper's your soul and your blood's in the pen And maybe then you'd see the light And read the truth that you had to write.
If heaven sent you downstream Where banished eyes haven't been Would you smile again for me? You misread your fate line Had long run out of time Would you write again for me?
And you awake and there you are Not far off from the line before And just how long did it take for you to understand Where your feelings stopped and writing began Convince yourself to take control Play to the hilt this unlikely role.
If heaven sent you downstream Where banished eyes haven't been Would you smile again for me?
Random lost souls have asked me "What's the future of rock'n'roll?" I say "I don't know does it matter?" This and that scene, They sound all the same to me Neither much worse nor much better
We're so fucked these days We don't know who to hate or who to praise Yet we consider this our suffering and pain When we're so privileged, a fact We all forget about as We go whinging all over the place.
How we've laughed as they shoveled the ashes Wrath hath soured Blood and death, we will pay back the debt For this candy store of ours.
Look at those cunts on MTV With their cars, and cribs, and rings and shit Is that what being a celebrity means? Look, boys and girls, here's BBC See corpses, rapes, and amputees What do you think now of the American dream?
And our soccer moms and dads Who raised us brats on these TV ads I know that they sleep at night Their conscience is intact They've convinced themselves of that Giving money to Jesus Fucking H Christ
How they laughed as we shoveled the ashes Of the twin towers Blood and death, we will pay back the debt For this candy store of ours.
Lying on the shady grass Afternoon, there's always something happening Friends go floating gently by I'm listening to a song inside my head Although the summer's past Those mythic dreams would never last Do I care anymore And if it makes you sad Remember all the things you have That can't be bought
Recollection brings me back Sad to think that it was just a fantasy We'd already accepted that Which many others struggled to believe And though it makes no sense I know there are no accidents I've no fear anymore And if it makes you sad To give up dreams you've always had That can't be bought It just can't be fought
Looking back at '91 Reflecting on those things we could have Said and done The dancing lights across a crowd Remind us of another town That's dead and gone It's just dead and gone
Take me to that summer past And tell me is it really worth remembering? I realize that music then Was really just a song inside my head And though the fun has past Those mythic dreams are mend to last Have no fear anymore And if it makes you cry To look ahead, well dry your eyes It can be done Yes it can be done
How can anyone be so unkind As to want to take another's peace of mind? Is acceptance so implausible? Well I know how the best will fall And the rest will follow
It's important to recognize In this world we live there is nothing worth dying It's enough to say "hello," we're all human But I know how the best will fall And the rest will follow
Is it so easy to resign To ruin this world for everyone? I guess when it's all said and done It's just something in our design
Eyes at night never see the day Because it's not in my nature Golden wings rise from the plane They burn above the red earth Scale these walls in front of me Have you ever stopped to wonder Why they forced your voice to turn From silence to a caterwaul?
Never knew I could feel this way So old and and unremembered Never thought it would slip away And fall like September Scale these walls in front of me Have you ever stopped to wonder Why they forced my voice To turn from silence to a caterwaul? Heard your caterwaul...
And what has tried to bound me I've severed every tie Place your arms around me And we'll leave the rest behind
What was I to say? How was I to know? Was it your soft voice that said so?
White glow of the TV set Lights dancing on the screen Voice-overs rise like minarets Then fall diatonically. Should I answer a friend's distress call Or should I go to sleep? Would I, like the voices rise and fall, What's it to me?
All those hours of wasted time Have never passed my mind.
Here I am comfortable In arm's reach of the black remote. Here I am comfortable Surrounded by stings and bows. Let everyone else go.
Nights on Kirkwood so serene Far from the sirens and the screams I could write or I could read Go next door and smoke some weed As long as I don't have to think About who the hell's running this mess Or what shit they're writing up the Stone or NME Go out and make last call Or sit here and do nothing at all What's it to me?
All those hours of wasted time Have never passed my mind.
Here I am comfortable In arm's reach of the black remote. Here I am comfortable All those clowns, what can they know? Let everyone else go.
Now that our ties are served As we say goodbye Let us not wonder whether We are ready to take the dive
Let it dive, let it die, let it fade out of sight Let it drag us down, let it fade
Grieve, but not grieve together Mourn with nothing to say Gone are those times forever Lost as those sweet warm other days
Let it dive, let it die, let it fade out of sight Let it drag us down, let it come between you and I Let it dive, let it die, let it fade
Where we born to despair Deeds done but not forgiven? There will always be something there As long as one of us goes on living
Let it dive, let it die Let it fade out of sight Let it drag us down, let it come between you and I What's done is done, no reason to apologize Let it dive, let it die, let it fade
The curtain thins Violins announce the score is over The symphony dears the folded chairs And walk towards the snack bar And I forget what the libretto was all about At eight o'clock you drop me off And not a word was spared for us Drinks at ten, we're off again The crowds and bouncers stare at us And the last one out of the car fills the meter up Don't say your name, just dance with me Oh no, my ride is gone it's time to leave Then racing for the sink I shove my head in And the world looks like heaven It's all white
With history, your bluest grace Falls apart, cascading down Speak to me of beautiful hate Of island chains swept with the tide The coral leis of a conquering king
They're swept away Oh, but not lost.
Beneath the waves of trembling stars The roads wind towards The windward side My soul is saved by these city lights My face is framed by the blanket of night
They're swept away Oh, but not lost. Was I too proud to say, or to wish for Words that I knew were forbidden? Because I don't want to know I didn't want to see what I saw When I looked in the distance
They're swept away Oh, but not lost
And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead [25/01/2005], Lyrics by lyricsdownload.com/
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