Orpheus:
The East conveys a separate side from the West
A wall between each breast
It feels heavy on my chest
And I lay to sleep
And I meet my dreams
How that serpent's bite exiled me from a field of greens
Now my world is dim
Hanging upside down
I have drawn out their sounds
I am neither lost nor found
He calls to me "Eurydice"
And sings the words that coax all man and beast
Hands paired with the lyre tamed
Made all the gods weep
And they cried while he played
And he played till they gave him her name
Now in the new moon he sings
And calls to me.
Night and day how I wait
Wondering will he ever find me?
How long must I wait?
Will he waltz in, wake me?
Resurrecting my fate?
Under my skin his distance grows in.
Round, round the river goes
Death dips her hand and stirs his journey
Down through the mirror he goes
Reflection breaking, time is turning.
Now as he looks in her eyes
With a mourning reprise
And he begs till she buys
But on one single term
To which he has agreed
That this walk we endure
He must not look at me
So I step behind
And ascend from this land
I follow in line towards the place we began
Will I rise?
Will I rise?
Will I rise?
Now as we near to the top he turns
And looks to me
Lone Highway:
Oh we're driving in your car
Watching all the lights go by
Sit in silence we drive far
Outer limits on the brink
If you want pull off the road
On the rooftop we can stare
All these highway lights distracting me
Won't you turn them off....
Now we're driving in your car
Watching all the lights go by
Sit in silence we drive far
Outer limits on the brink
Well if you want pull off the road
On the rooftop we can stare
All of these highway lights distracting me
Won't you turn them off see if I care
Oh we've got to find our will
Oh there's got to be a way
Tell me if you've had your fill
And we'll call it a day
Oh but we could drive all night
Watch the stars degrade
Let me take the wheel
Let me drive my way
Lone highway
Now we're driving in your car
Watching all the lights go by
Sit in silence we drive far
Outer limits on the brink
Well if you want pull off the road
On the rooftop we can stare
All of these highway lights distracting me
Won't you turn them off see if I care
Sit in steam with red fading
Oh pass it please it's comforting
Disregard:
I'm shooting at dark skies
Pillow tops of bland white
Settling on a picture to set above you
Setting sparks to watch them fall
A glorious story or two
Oh it's lovers lane
These unhealthy pangs
Deep intertwined that ravish my brain
Call me a doctor to title this tragedy
Over pleasures made inside my anatomy
Calling you out but nobody cares
You answer the phone just to hear that I'm there
I whisper "hello" as you breath on your end
It's the hardest mistake that I'll ever begin
I wanted it more than I could afford
I'll leave it for you just beneath the front door
Mess it all up like we never had history
Say to your friends you're the best thing there is for me
Look me in my eyes and tell me it matters
When no one else can hear cause I'm just a disaster
Take all that's good for me and wipe it away cause it's humbling
Bury me just like you did the last time
Oh and place me just beneath the floor
You complain to walk over cause it's just such a chore
Oh leave me there like you did before
I'm calling you out but nobody cares
You answer the phone just to hear that I'm there
I whisper "hello" as you breath on your end
It's the hardest mistake that I'll ever begin
I wanted it more than I could afford
I'll leave it for you just beneath the front door
Mess it all up like we never had history
Say to your friends you're the best thing there is for me
Look me in my eyes and tell me it matters
No one else can hear cause I'm just a disaster
It's when we're alone
I can't wait till you're home
You can walk over me
Dust me off when you go
Look me in my eyes and tell me you care
And then leave me there...
Mess it all up like we never had history
Say to your friends you're the best thing there is for me
Look me in my eyes and tell me it matters
No one else can hear cause I'm just a disaster
Let's Play:
Is it ok to call you?
Were you the only one I saw?
It must have been your name I whispered
There's no other reason for this, doll.
It's all these silent, minor details
Provoking us to blame
Such a river of emotions
And we're soaking, desolate and drained
Let's play dead
Can we make this into a game
I've been playing detached for so long
And it's lonely in the rain
Let's play
You may have thought you knew me
I told you I wear this mess so well
It took me aback when you finally spoke
You wear this mask as well
I'm not expecting anything
I'm not afraid of what destruction you may cause
I just want to play dead with you boy
And if you can't well it's only my loss
Let's play dead
Can we make this into a game
I've been playing detached for so long
And it's lonely in the rain
Let's play dead
I won't ask you for anything more
Just lift your lifeless eyes towards mine
Let's feel nothing but secure
Let's play
I just want to play with you
It's been so long so far and few
When you open up to me
And join me in my misery
See I just want to be your gal
The kind you'd like to keep around
When you turn away from me
This game we played is now history
Crime:
How could you let it slip through your hands
Just like the words that like to fall from your tongue
It's not the first time that you made this mistake
Get to work, wrap this up when you're done
It's such a shame it had to come to this
I'd like to leave you but we might as well go
I know your thoughts, I can read you too well
Get to work cause the answer's no
Take this city and you leave a trace
Well it's all gonna fall on you
And if you turn on me like all the rest
Well there's really nothing for me to do
So die my darling
Goodbye my darling
So die my darling
Goodbye
All the answers collected, evidence inspected
Lead me to conclude that you are wrong
And if you cry to me in any other key
I'll be digging ditches by the end of this song
It's such a crime it had to come to this
I don't enjoy it but I'm glad that I know
Cause I've known your type
And I've known your kind before
You change every show
Take this city and you leave a trace
Well it's all gonna fall on you
And if you turn on me like all the rest
Well there's really nothing for me to do
So die my darling
Goodbye my darling
So die my darling
Goodbye
Hush darling
Don't you say a word
It's not coincidence you heard
Hush darling
Don't you cry to me
There was never anything for you to see
Take this city and you leave a trace
Well it's all gonna fall on you
And if you turn on me like all the rest
Well there's really nothing for me to do
So die my darling
Goodbye my darling
So die my darling
Goodbye
Shovel:
Friday night with the taste of rum
It's a cold one, it gets old, son.
Empty shells in a loaded gun
And I'm numb
Selfless deeds
They say that it pays
But the jokes on those who believe, anyways
Counting scarlet beads, not just for fun
Saw a man one day
Gotta get me one
Better take notes, boy
I'm counting on you
Cause lovers don't last long unless you follow this through
I swear she's ok
They say she's normally blue... but you?
Run along now, my sweet lil pawn
Just bury the rope and the clothes in the lawn
If anyone asks just say you were gone for a few
Bag O Bones:
I followed the drone, the moan of his tone
The reflection of light off the white of his bones
The contrast it gleamed through the smoke and the steam
While the city grew small and the road stretched ahead of me
I followed till dawn till all traces were gone
And I hoped I was right but I feared I was wrong
The choices I've made for an outcome unknown
But to stay where I was made a grave
Not a home
Comfort digs an early grave
We've made this bed in which we lay
It's cold and it's tattered
Set in it's way
So what do we really have to lose?
I followed the hum off that skeleton's drum
It resonates deep and then leaves where it's from
He's dancing again, bag-o-bones vagabond
To deny your own dance and he'll tell you you're wrong
Comfort digs an early grave
We've made this bed in which we lay
It's cold and it's tattered
Set in it's way
So what do we really have to lose?
Waves and Ruin:
He was simplified to pieces refined
Eyes with vines the color of wine
Rumbling words of solitude
Beneath these scales of splintered wood
Stolen glances from the weathered window
These shapes will twist with fevers burning
Lay watching all days go by
To wait their return, slowly
And there were once wide eyes and bright ideals
Of what it was agreed, believed to be
We sit and wait sound
But what's here and what's now
Is nothing we will ever live to see
So why do wise men all run about
Making waves and ruin
And I've known those all holier than thou
So tell me where are they?
Lines defined and pages signed
Aged more in days than the years combined
Stolen glances from the gaps collected
Made the plans to change what's expected
Whose to know it's certainty
Where troubled hands they fight
Or they flee
Lay watching all days go by
To wait their return, slowly
And there were once wide eyes and bright ideals
Of what it was agreed, believed to be
We sit and wait sound
But what's here and what's now
Is nothing we will ever live to see
So why do wise men all run about
Making waves and ruin
And I've known those all holier than thou
So tell me where are they?
It's here
Now these wise men run about making waves and ruin
Here
Now these wise men run about making waves and ruin
Here
Eyes followed down towards the waste
All memories of past days, cleared
That made the mark that wrote them out of history here
So why do wise men all run about
Making waves and ruin
And I've known those all holier than thou
So tell me where are they?
The Ghost in Between Part I:
There's a ghost at my window
And he's whispering to me
"Lady, won't you let me in please."
And I answer softly to him
"Don't you see you are already inside?
There's a ghost in my eyes and he's lying beside me."
Turn over, compare
Your eyes and your stare
Maybe then you will see that you're really not there
And this place where you keep me
Where you want me to be
While the distance isn't much, it's a lot more to me
There's a ghost now between us and he shares your same name
And the longer that he's here
The less I'll remain...
Now I'm looking out of my window
And the only ghost I see
Holds no disguise
Her reflection is me
The Ghost in Between Part II:
You move through me
When you speak
You silence my story
Now at my window these faces that I know
Take me to places where they lead, I follow
Wander inside
Won't you stay tonight?
Your words wake me
I feel the bough break from my hands as they take me
Lead me to waters of past sons and daughters
Vines intertwine round the ghost of your father
Wandering minds
And the thoughts they find
You say the ghost's inside
You say she has my eyes
Have you seen her in the past?
When did you see her last?
Oh, wait.
The ghost inside of me?
Wait, inside me
The ghost inside
Won't you wait
Won't you wait inside
The ghost inside
