“Don’t die growing up,” a dull moan groans,
in a voice lost long ago.
Life is the moment, not likes on a page;
Not social mind games, labels or names;
Not hypnotised by snake eyes,
in disguise.
Tag: Poems and Lyrics
The Scar that Burns
A flame burns its might in a crystal ball –
In your warm gaze;
In your gentle glow;
Simmering over now, above
and below.
We can heal our wounds:
With every caress,
You lay on fire,
Your heart to undress;
In our arms
We find our peace –
A place where we
find our final release.
A spark ignites the night;
It’s in your tender touch
that I find my love,
your comfort and trust;
It’s in this moment’s flame
that we can heal again:
The scar that burns.
Within the Night
I was lost alone in the night
wondering where to hide –
There’s no method to my madness,
I was struggling in my sadness;
But then I heard a voice saying
“love is here for you”,
There’s someone who cares for you;
You were born not waiting to die –
Give in to the love for you.
In the deep hazy mists I could see her:
I melted away in one breath
As our eyes met, within death.
A Hundred Lies
Born in chains, fed to the grave:
A one-way trip that leads to nowhere;
The sound of silence that never rests;
A chest that aches,
An endless quest.
You said you loved me –
A hundred times you lied;
Your words were lies:
I gave you my love for a hundred lies;
Your lips move, the truth has died.
I Wonder Why
Night calls and my mind races through
A queue of faces, all thoughts of you –
They fill my head, breaking the fake heart ache
I used to have;
And now I cannot escape from you:
From your embrace there is nowhere to hide;
Your face lives deep inside.
I race from my mistake,
But every disgrace
I cannot shake away…
I wonder, why?
Every Moment
Every moment I am with you,
I have found some truth;
But are you real or are you me?
I only see the reflection of a changing dream:
A hiding place faraway
that shines in sunlight on a summer hill,
Floating up high as I’m washed away –
Survival’s something I will lose anyway.
Falling Down
I thought you were dead,
But then I saw you were still so small
and I began to slip and fall –
Because I wasn’t over you,
You didn’t leave,
You grew and grew,
Until you pulled me down
and down and down,
I’m still falling down;
You give your smile so heavily,
Tender, deadly, dragging me
Right down, down, down and down,
I am falling down;
I found you there from despair,
Hour after hour in the abyss
For a few more years,
For a few more tears,
As cold as stone,
Sitting in the dark all alone.
Always About You
If you loved, you wouldn’t cause my pain;
But now I see it was all just a game to you:
You wanted me to suffer for you.
And now I see, the truth is in your lies:
You let me in while covering my eyes;
You were just another disguise.
It was always about you;
But that was then and now is now.
I won’t let you bring me down to my knees;
Now I’ll wear the crown –
So hold me as I let you go,
I’m breaking free, taking back control.
With open eyes we’ll find our way,
We’ll leave the past and start some day:
With true love,
I’ll guide us through;
We’ll leave the past and find a new you.
Hidden
You think you know what’s hidden in my heart?
You think you know what’s tearing me apart?
No, you don’t have clue,
I’ll always be a mystery to you:
I’m the desire burning through,
keeping you up, and down, all night.
You think you know what’s on my mind,
But the thoughts I keep are of a different kind:
I’m the longing that you can’t ignore;
I’m the feeling that you can’t deny;
I’m the rhythm that makes you come alive;
I’m the spark that ignites the flame;
I’m the desire that drives you insane.
You think you know what’s floating through my mind?
You think you know what’s rotting deep inside?
You think you know me, but you don’t know a thing:
I’m a mystery, a puzzle, a song without a ring.
You think you own me, but I’m not your possession –
I’m my own, my one and only obsession.
The truth is you’ll never know, and that’s just fine:
It’s my life, my story and I’ll keep it mine;
It’s mine to keep, mine to reveal,
My mystery, my puzzle, my tale to tell.
Fantasy Land
Sometimes I dream of what I read; Sometimes I kiss your sleeping head - But only the pillow is your body, your touch a bed. I breathe with you, but you’re not there at all. In fantasy land, nothing is real except how I feel about you, baby. In fantasy land, dreams are sand and I am talking to the wall. Only love can see me through; Only love from only you is real to me. The only hope I have out here is that one day you'll appear, in my dreams. Sometimes I see you: A face in the street drifting away to a distant melody… Then I see, the ghost in the window is me. I'm not here at all. In fantasy land, nothing is real except how I feel about you, baby. In fantasy land, dreams are sand and I am talking to the wall. Only love can see me through; Only love from only you is real to me. The only hope I have out here is that one day you'll appear, in my dreams.
Did You Ever Love Me?
We were in love (or so we said) - Our days ahead “would last forever”. But now, you’re not here; The bed is cold, our story's over. Last night, where were you? The dawn is dark and I can't see you. Did you ever love me? Or am I just another fool for you? Did you ever love me? Did you ever love me, at all? There's no love here, in the dark alone - Fear stalks the night, I cannot hide or run; It hunts me down, wears me down, and then, cold and numb, I succumb: Under the dark, I fall in the wilderness, A thousand miles from you. Last night, where were you? The dawn is dark and I can't see you. Did you ever love me? Or am I just another fool for you? Did you ever love me? Did you ever love me, at all? You set me up, you set me down, loved me up and kicked me down - No love here, just fear of the dark. Did you ever love me? Or am I just another fool for you? Did you ever love me? Did you ever love me, at all?
Play Me Again
If you want me, you’ve got me - Try me, taste and buy me. I feel you when you look at me: A wave swelling over me, Lips swirling over my body. Get me where you want me: Play your game, For your satisfaction, Play me again. Any way you want me: Play the game, For satisfaction, Play me again. I come from faraway seeking a place to play - Heard sirens across the sea but they had no music for me. Then in the crimson dark, I heard magic in your laugh; Your smile unfolded, Bathing me down in your gold. Any way you want me: Play your game, For your satisfaction, Play me again. Get me where you want me: Play the game, For satisfaction, Play me again. I can hear you in your touch, Playing with magic, Warm caresses of my skin - You sweat salt on my tongue; You show me land where there was none. Naked rhythm murmuring, Covering me with you - The naked mystique of you. Get me where you want me: Play your game, For your satisfaction, Play me again. Any way you want me: Play the game, For satisfaction, Play me again.
Naughty Is Best
Someone I know is so naughty, Helping me up in all my glory: Bliss stretching up, touched by the sun - Like a sonic flare, the day has begun. In the inferno, she finds her way, Breathing in great aeons of shapes, Up and down in a fierce embrace, Claiming me. Naughty is best - Your naughty is best. Nicely or naughty - Her naughty is best. Seduced and burned, pulling me closer - Animal instinct sliding on the bed. Vulnerable and deadly, soft and powerful: (Darkly, you draw me) Doom and bliss are both as one. Naughty not nasty - Nasty is ugly, nice is nice, But naughty… is fun… Yeah, naughty is best. Nicely or naughty - Naughty is best. Naughty, naughty, Naughty is best. Waking up at midnight: There’s a clawed monster in my bed, Unleashed, going bump in the night. And on the menu: My life in her hands, Doing what she has to do. She bit me hard; She left her mark; And now I’m naughty. I’m so naughty, Because naughty is best. Naughty, naughty, Naughty is best.
Sweet Salvation
Had some time, had some life, had some fun, and tried to put out some. Love has met me and love has left me - When I’m done, what will come? When I’m done dying, lay my head on the ground; And there’s a simple sign, that I ain’t coming back: I’ll be six feet under ground. Sweet salvation – you know you will be mine; Sweet salvation – you know it’s been a long time. I looked back at those shining eyes - They said: “Listen. Yeah, listen well: Simple things still left to learn, Live your life, Wait your turn.” I asked them, “how, how can I know?” When I’m done dying, lay my head on the ground; And there’s a simple sign, that I ain’t coming back: I’ll be six feet under ground. Sweet salvation – you know you will be mine; Sweet salvation – you know it’s been a long time. “Not yet, go back; see you another time, Soon.” Sweet salvation…
Come Take It All
My bruises glow red hot; My bruises glow red hot; Love me hard or love me not. In time all things come back, Like a spinning wheel - It turns back to where we begin; Read the warning: “Beware!” Do you dare? What do you want from me? Do you want my sin? Do you feel my meaning? It’s where I’ve been; It’s where you’ve been; It’s sweat all over me. I can be what you want to see; I can be big or I can be small - Your choice, come take it all. Come take it all, Come take it all, all, all. Your choice for more poison; I can pretend to be what you hope to see - But what you need is so much more: Be who you are. What do you serve? You receive what you give and get what you deserve; In time, you lose what you steal - Sapped by illusion, dead by exhaustion, Self-gratified, but never satisfied. What do you want from me? Do you want my sin? Do you feel my meaning? It’s where I’ve been; It’s where you’ve been; It’s sweat all over me. I can be what you want to see; I can be big or I can be small - Your choice, come take it all. Come take it all, Come take it all, Come take it all, all, all. What you give comes back to you - Take only when you give your all. Come take it all, Come take it all, Come take it all, all, all, all. What you give comes back to you - So what do you want from me? If you want it all: Come take it all, Come take it all, all, all. Come take it all, come take it all. What do you really need? If you want it all: Come take it all, Come take it all, all, all, all. Come take it all, come take it all…
Out of Your Cage
Late at night in your bed, too tired to sleep, replaying the whole day in my head - Even though you smile, you look at me like you want me dead. Something lingers in the shadows, a distant echo of your voice numbs the air, stirs the nothing; Nothing of nothing: No love, no pain, the numbness again. Out of your cage, Today’s the day I get away; Russian roulette’s not over yet - No risk when I’m already dead. Out of your cage. You hate me now the lock is broken… Time’s up! I’ve had my little hour. But you left me there years ago, as time dripped through the cracks, stuffed and stuck in glue. I escape now to see a sunrise… I want to feel, to feel how I want to feel - To feel my heart beating under a stone. Out of your cage, Today’s the day I get away; Russian roulette’s not over yet - No risk when I’m already dead. Out of your cage - No risk, I’m already dead; I’m already dead. Don’t ask me to plead guilty - Sweat lost in a bottle for cage treats. Not gonna do it no more, Enslaved to a shallow grave. Live or die trying… Live or die trying… Live or die trying. Today’s the day I get away; Today, today I get away - Today! Another day in your bed, Always too tired to sleep, Replaying last night in my head - Even though I smile I feel like I am sleep-talking dead. Something lingers in the shadows: A distant echo of my voice, Numbs the air, stirs the nothing - Nothing of nothing; No love and no pain, The numbness again. Out of your cage, Today’s the day I get away; Russian roulette’s not over yet - No risk when I’m already dead. Out of your cage - No risk, I’m already dead; I’m already dead. Today’s the day I get away… Today.
Do It
All things happen eventually, Slow then slower then fast and suddenly you appear from nowhere - The sparks light up everywhere. You and me, no time like this: One thousand miles starts with a kiss. One thousand miles starts suddenly - Surprise explodes into the air; Into a new day with you; Into one thousand miles for you. The slower the climb, the better the view - For you I’ll start the day (A new first step) With your kiss. One thousand miles starts with your first step, So do it, yeah just do it; Our journey starts right here, right now, So do it, yeah just do it; Start today, start now, start here, right now. One thousand miles - just do it; Yeah, we should do it: One thousand miles starts right now. So do it: A journey of one thousand miles starts with your kiss - So do it, with a kiss. Start each day (A new first step) With your kiss. One thousand miles starts with your first step, So do it, yeah just do it; Our journey starts right here, right now, So do it, yeah just do it; Start today, start now, start here, right now. One thousand miles - just do it; Yeah, we should do it: One thousand miles starts right now. So do it… Yeah, do it… We should Do it.
Growing Young
Everyone is crazy, everyone is sane - Different only by degrees. Anyone is pain, anyone is joy: All things are in all things. We were born, we will cry, we will laugh, And we will die. Our best is yet to come, Everyone is growing young. It takes some time to reach your prime - Don’t turn away, throw your hat in the ring, Just do your thing. Our best is yet to come, Everyone is growing young. Time is the great motivator to live now, not later; Whatever you’re doing, don’t stop, Give it another shot. Everyone is crazy, everyone is sane - Different only by degrees. Anyone is pain, anyone is joy: All things are in all things. Our best is yet to come, Everyone is growing young.
Fake Truth
Fake truth: The gift for you. Paint it gold; put it on your finger and make you sold - The yellow glare for the change of some new clothes. It’s just a natural lie for you, for some big faker, fake-faking you; Faking you, making news with lines to control you. Breaking everything we know is exhausting - Fake truth is same old news, Same old lies spun round for you: Lies, lies, same old lies. So boring, so give me truth; Give me truth, give me truth; Give me The truth, the truth… The Truth. There’s a better view: It’s called “truth”, baby, not aimed to confuse; Not the same old news sunk under mess and confusion, mistrust of the other - Obscuring, misdirecting the mayhem in Dystopian pandemonium. (The great sweaty fakery feeding the crazy-crazy fake-fake fakery.) Breaking everything we know is exhausting - Fake truth is same old news, Same old lies spun round for you: Lies, lies, same old lies. So boring, so give me truth; Give me truth, give me truth; Give me The truth, the truth… The Truth. The same old news is boring banal; Right now, now, now is the real thing - Not some fake sloganised lies, unknown unknowns, dull, impure (fake, fake, fake, fake, fake) fakery - Fake, fake, fake, fake, fake, fake, fake… Fake truth is same old news - Same old lies spun round for you; Spun round for you, for you to die in the lie caught faking you; Fake, faking you: Puny lies, same old lies, faking you.
What I’m Told
The gamble’s the same; The outcome’s a game - Ratios rigged high up to blame. Forever growth; Debt to debt; Interest in interest to forget. Ratios are always the same, but now thousands are billions - Yeah, it all adds up again… In the slime, In the time, It takes to count away… The swamp sucks me back in again. I am so masturbating, Pleasing me daily - It’s all about me, baby: Look at me, me, me, me, me… Yeah, it’s what I’m told. Look at my body; Look at my face - Look at what I’m doing all over the place. Look at me: Fun little me; Dirty little me; Oh, poor little me! I love me; I hate me - “Crazy little me” on my bleeding knees, In the struggle of my troubles, Thoughts bought, Locked in shiny little knots; Written to order for my disorders, Pretending how to live. I am so masturbating, Pleasing me daily - It’s all about me, baby: Look at me, me, me, me, me… Yeah, it’s what I’m told. Another goal, Win or lose, is never as supposed - In the whirlpool of your mind, A palace is a hut, A hut a palace depending on you. I know the games; I know the rules; I know the script you think controls you - Completing what you’ve been told to do, Speaking lines, Being made the fool. Straight in line! The routine of a cold counting machine - What you thought you were supposed to do (Put there years ago), Feeding on you… Feed now on the life for you! I am so masturbating, Pleasing me daily - It’s all about me, baby: Look at me, me, me, me, me… Yeah, it’s what I’m told. It’s what I’m told - Yeah, oh yeah, it’s what I’m told. Let me please you daily - It’s not all about me, baby. Let me help you… I’ll help you with that… Let me please you, maybe.
Melt My Name
Now you’ve got me on the line; Now you’ve got me in the midnight: I hold on like I was in my stride, I was on my ride, And I lie thigh to thigh, And I, I, I comply. You know I saw you in a whole new light - I feel I’m holding onto something after midnight; Outside I lie, strumming back and forth In a shimmering light. Melt my name into the fire; Colour me in desire - Something deadly in your lips Closes in with poison tips… Secret echoes sound in the night; Blue smoke rising at half past midnight; Games of old on repeat In the eye of your red pure heat. Now I lie within your fire, You feel me whole and you hold me light - Closing up, in for the kill, I’ve no chance, come take your fill. Melt my name into the fire; Colour me in desire - Something deadly in your lips Closes in with poison tips… Melt my name… Melt my name… Melt my name in your lips: Melt my name in your lips; Melt my name.
Not Enough
Sometimes a little is a lot; Sometimes cold is hot - You turn me off and turn me on And leave me here, now, Wanting more… I want you. No more! I bark, you bite, It’s too much. Not enough is too much; Not enough is where we begin. Old excuses of the past Rise and fade too fast. One night alone, with you, Is the end starting anew - Chasing you, out of breath, the last time, until the next time… Five thousand miles a day is: Not enough, Not enough - Too much of not enough. “You and me” will never be, And will always be, Not enough.
Come On
Too much for me to know - My heart says yes, but my head says no. Come on, come on, you live inside a screen, not where you belong. Come on, we can try to lose our wires - Know me, hold me. Come on, we’re too slow, staring down at the little blue glow. So you think you know you now, yeah? Tied in pics and shiny chains, yeah? Got to get faraway; Got to get away; From the script, we are taught: We are bought, from year naught. You can do it all, round the long haul, just to crawl around in circles; Or take the chance: A first-class boarding pass. Take the chance, take the big chance; Come on, yeah; Come on, yeah. Got to get faraway; Got to get away; From the script, we are taught: We are bought, from year naught. Yeah, come on, come on - It’s all in the air; It’s all in the air; It’s all in the air; On and on and on and on… Come on now; Come on now; Come on now; Now, now, now, now. Come on, come on yeah; You’ve found me alright - It’s time, hold me, you’ve got me alright. Come on, yeah!
No More Lies
Grinding away another day, But never enough of the same old stuff - Nothing to share in the routine stare. All this time, but time for nothing - Fair play, you'll get your way: A fashion victim, chained to the system, High-rise hypnotised, High-rise metabolised. Time to change for something new - Nothing more, I am through. No more, “not quite here.” No more, I am clear: Not saving for another time - This is now, take my bow. Now, now, I am now. No more lies and no more tries. Same old, “same old”, wants to fool you - More and more trying to control you. Take the last laugh. No more! Close the door. Something in me… Something in me… Something in me… Something in me tells me... Time to change for something new - Nothing more, I am through. No more, “not quite here.” No more, I am clear. Not saving for another time - This is now, take my bow. Now, now, I am now. No more lies and no more tries.
Visiting Time Is Over
Do you know something that I don’t? You want to live but you won’t. Don’t judge who you think I am - Only time with me can bring me back to life. Cure me in the night-time - Only you can help us find the feeling one more time. Nothing lasts too long with the countdown going wrong. Five minutes are up, move on - Nothing to see here. Five minutes are gone, move on, down the line; Visiting time is over. Time is over where you left me - Sent by the bell, back to the cell. Number’s up! Borrowed time returned in silence to the ground; Now I’m just another name, Another face in another place where there’s nothing between us except borrowed time. The alibi of silence: “Another time”. Five minutes are up, move on - Nothing to see here. Five minutes are gone, move on, down the line; Visiting time is over. Time is over where you left me - Sent by the bell, back to the cell. What do I know about me? I’m always hiding; I cannot be seen. It wasn’t over then; I will not falter now - We can climb higher than time. Five minutes are up… Visiting time is over.
Don’t Give Up
Don’t give up, make your luck - Fortune favours those who dare, So don’t give up. Turn up the volume, love what you do, And don’t give up. You are who you are when you Don’t give up. You’re heavy in the darkest day, Weighted down and lost your way - Lighten up your dreams today, And let it all out. All great things just take their time - It’s tough out here up on the climb; Life’s too short for what you’re taught. Don’t give up, make your luck - Fortune favours those who dare, So don’t give up. Turn up the volume, love what you do, And don’t give up. You are who you are when you Don’t give up. Anything can happen, more than you imagine, So live with passion, Let fortune play with you. The future movie of your mind is new and undefined… Life happens when you let it bring… ten thousand things. Don’t give up, make your luck - Fortune favours those who dare, So don’t give up. Turn up the volume, love what you do, And don’t give up. You are who you are when you Don’t give up. Good things are here for you - Don’t give up on you; Keep on going, see it through. Don’t give up Don’t give up Don’t give up on you; Don’t give up Don’t give up Don’t give up on you.
Just Out Of Reach
If you want me let me know, there is more of me to show: In shadows of reflections, lost excuses of deceptions - In sight I hide, Just out of reach… I can’t get away, the past repeats - I can not see in the dark. Through dusk I grind on shattered glass; I try to hide in pride… My mind is: Just out of reach. Mesmerised by the dark, tantalised by fantasies - We don’t have time to wear these clothes: The anxious story urgency, carried memories we live today, (dropped for another way). Just out of reach… I can’t get away, the past repeats - I can not see in the dark. Through dusk I grind on shattered glass; I try to hide in pride… My mind is: Just out of reach. Just out of reach… I can’t get away, the past repeats: Just out of reach… Just out of reach… Just out of reach… Just out of reach… Just out of reach… Just out of reach…
Never Again
Look me in the eye and tell me your lie - Insanity needs feeding. The mirror is cracked - The neon lights are so misleading. Make my crown; Make my frown; Make me cry; Make me sigh; In love; In pain: Nothing to gain but shame. Chase your tail, Reach and fail - Never again, Never again. You bring the storm; You bring thunder - But never again. The meaning of life is to live: Love in the moment, with every breath; Holding on for dear life, to each other - Words silenced with a kiss. Chase your tail, Reach and fail - Never again, Never again. You bring the storm; You bring thunder - But never again. Never again.
Everything’s Bigger in Texas
Driving down highway eighty, There was something hard to miss: Just one star in the sky, shining down on me. At the end of the line, I saw a big old sign, politely reminding me: In the land of the free, from sea to shining sea, Everything's bigger in Texas. Everything's bigger in Texas. Everything's bigger in Texas... From the sound of my guitar, to the smiles that I meet, to the stomp of the feet, to the rhythm for company, to the hospitality… Yeah, I stayed around 'til breakfast, and in my dreams I made that day, I had my independence day. Because everything's bigger in Texas. Everything's bigger in Texas. Everything's bigger in Texas. Although I was just passing through, I roamed on by the country; The sky was turquoise blue, A warm haze rose to the heavens; And I saw the sunset on the prairie; And it was something real tremendous, Because everything's bigger in Texas. Yeah, everything's bigger in Texas. Everything's bigger in Texas. Everything's bigger in Texas. Everything's bigger in Texas.
Here Without You
Feeling the way the river flows, the way the wind blows - It goes right through me… Am I here, in someone else's dream? Do I exist at all, here without you? It came to me like a thunder cloud in blue to be told we are through - It crashed right into me. But still I hope for you; I'll always feel for you; I'll long for you, over and over… Here without you. Why do I hunger and need you so? Because I'm me, Because of you (of you!) Why do I hunger and need you so? Because I've always loved you… I love you. Why do I hunger here all alone? Because I've always loved you… I love you.
Somehow
The touch of rain kisses the pain of you. To the bitter end, I will always be your friend. There's nothing I can do, Nowhere to be with you. On a hope and a prayer, On the edge of nowhere, I see you here in everything I do. I know I lost somehow - Before you took your vow, I knew that time would carry you away. Winter draws on but still I hold on, To thoughts of you - Somehow, Somewhere, My heart is lost in time… I felt you here somehow; I knew you knew somehow; I feel for you in everything I do. I must leave you now, somehow. I need you to know: Somehow, Somehow, I felt you here - Somehow, I knew you knew; Somehow, I must leave you now… Somehow. Somehow.
I Just Miss You
Your train had vanished down the track, left me there, not looking back. All I see ahead of me are seasons of mists numbing me, to the core - because you're not here anymore. I just miss you; I really miss you; Love finds a way, through summer and winter… Over mountains faraway, Is the song of you. I'll find the way; I'll find you some day… In a warm calm sea, Kissed by the dance of the sun, Is the lost dream of you. I just miss you; I really miss you; Love finds a way, through summer and winter… Over mountains faraway, Is the song of you. I have long missed you; I have fallen short of you. Every day is the same, looking through the rows of faces, in the old familiar places. I just miss you; I really miss you; Love finds a way, through summer and winter… Over mountains faraway, Is the song of you.
April Fool
I'm just a little soul, part of a bigger goal; Just give me somebody to hold. Said the fool: I've a world to rule - Poisoned flower's scent turned sour; Beauty within me bloomed and faded so fast. April fool, another broken rule; The sky is on the floor for this poor April fool. Even if the sun were bright, the day for us has faded to night; But the light now turns round and round… I'm falling in time with you again and again, once more. Put my body in your hands - Please don't try to understand (I'm twisted round and round.) I was always the April fool - April fooled, always the April fool. April fool, another broken rule; The sky is on the floor for this poor April fool. April fool, another broken rule; The sky is on the floor for this poor April fool. Another April fool; Another April fool; Fool, fool, April fool.
Night Eyes
I am absent without leave in ways you can’t perceive. Bail me out, show me what I am about: All hard and cold, of fool’s gold, in fool's paradise. Show me what you are about. Show me what I must do: What we must do; What you can do… You are the night eyes when I escape behind closed eyes. Tonight, with love, we know I am here with you. You are Night Eyes; I see tonight, Night Eyes, With you. You've been waiting, anticipating, what I have to say. You told me: More fool me; There was always, always more to see. But I misunderstood, “A little bit of what you fancy does you good.” Ok, I'll be as good as gold - Forever waiting’s over, over, over. You are the night eyes when I escape behind closed eyes. Tonight, with love, we know I am here with you. You are Night Eyes; I see tonight, Night Eyes, With you.
Better Late Than Never
I know I should have been here long ago, but I lost my way; I lost my mind in circles around you; I'm sorry, so sorry. Maybe it was just another story about us, with words that swirl around you and me - Better late than never. You don't know I've been sinking in the moments of fear that hurt us; Fear stopped us, I lost us; I'm sorry, so sorry. I was out of sight, out of mind, miles behind, without a trace, fallen from grace - Better late than never together. Better late than never; In the end, we are together - Through time we find love is forever. Better late than never; Better together; Out of time we find love is forever; Together forever - Better late than never.
Be Now
Everything can come to those who live and won't wait: Something good, something great - Yeah, I’m not in control. Rise and shine, everything's fine; You're all good, be as it should - Be now: The rub of the green, with no routine… Be now. Less is so much more; It hits home here, to the core - A bolt from the blue. Now I know, I know how to be, you free me; Only now I am me - You free me, I am me. Rise and shine, everything's fine; You're all good, be as it should - Be now: The rub of the green, with no routine… Be now. Love lives inside me, never asleep, alive and forever, you’re more than skin deep; I will never ever get lost; I am here and now forever… Now I know, I know how to be: You free me… Be now.
Only Love Is Real
I need to find some peace of mind - I watch the ride: A thousand eyes shining in space, In the beauty of you. Only love is real… I am now awake With where my heart is now - Now in life: Only you, Only you are real… Only love is real to me. Life is what you make - Drop the story; The past is what you make, Right now. Be something new Beyond yourself; In the moment, Only love is real. Only love is real to me - Only you. Only you are real to me: Only love is real. Intimate together, Love lasts forever - One heart never apart. Only love, Only you, Only you are real to me. Only love is real.
This Too Will Pass
Slipping and sliding, Commanding the tides - Bitter struggling against my mind. But nothing can last, This too will pass. Minds crashing and colliding - Anxiety, when dreaming away, Ignoring the lights. Night turns to day, day turns to night… The future's the past. Nothing ever lasts. (This too will pass.) In the stillness and the storm, Victory’s glowing so strong; It sinks down in the dark, Rising up to start again, To rust away again - To dust. In the end, Through pain and beauty, beauty and pain: Only love remains. No thing ever lasts; The past’s the past. Stories end, new dreams begin - Only love remains, Only love remains. Love moves the wind; Nothing stays the same - Floating away, away… With the end of the day: Only love remains, Only love remains.
Our Way Back
Our way back is to where we were before, before we started - Where it's taken a lifetime for us to be together… Where we departed. I’ve been a dark horse running from the source to the back of beyond, on an uneven course - Where every lost cloud was a memory of my way back to you. Our way back is there forever in our soul - Where I breathe with you; Where dreams are always true. Tell me now, What do you want me to do? I know that we can be together, Where forever is our soul; Our way back is forever in our soul. Our love is our way back.
Between The Lines
I am here now for your pleasure, Light me up, I'm at your leisure - You don't know what I am thinking; You don't know that I am winking. The illusion: An old delusion, found again and lost again. I just missed you, How I missed you! I'm the secret hiding from you. See between the lines: See the signs, all around you. Today is our time: Sleepy sunshine, Above and beyond, Between the lines. Know that I see you like no other - I am more than just your lover. I am not just going somewhere - I am here through time and back again… I am not a number, I live in wonder now - You know I found it out somehow, Shining in the faces, Turning over all my pages. See between the lines: See the signs, all around you. Feel between the lines: Feel the signs, all around you. See between the lines: See the signs, all around you; Feel the signs, all around you. Today is our time: Sleepy sunshine, Above and beyond, Between the lines.
It Can’t Be You
You entered, in my mind, so long ago, so long ago - Even though you were a passing shadow unlikely for me to see again. Sometimes I’d see you in my mind: I’d think of what you were doing, what you were seeing, what you were imagining - You were an unnamed figure floating through my mind. I saw you again the other day In an unexpected place. You answered all my questions, But how can I feel like this? It can’t be you… It can’t be you… It can’t be you. How can this happen, here and now? Before I’ve even started, I know how far I’ve got to go… And each day is harder than the one before because I can’t reach you. I saw you again the other day In an unexpected place. You answered all my questions, But how can I feel like this? It can’t be you… It can’t be you… It can’t be you.
Another Thing Coming
Through the window I could see a glimmering gaze waiting for me - A choice, in the noise: Light from afar or delight at the bar. One more day mind glazed; One more day in the shade; One more day of empty glasses; One more day for second chances - Fear stained memories in a cage, forgotten feelings in a haze, cold and shrill and numbing: Another thing coming… So time for home, time for bed, too many words have been said; Cold relief, short and brief, turning tables, writing labels, making time to switch (which is which?) One more day mind glazed; One more day in the shade; One more day of empty glasses; One more day for second chances - Fear stained memories in a cage, forgotten feelings in a haze, cold and shrill and numbing: Another thing coming… Now you’ve set me up in the middle of some good luck, with the myth: The iron gate of an altered state - Myself withheld from all my sins, falling down on the sharpened ground. The night-time cure, the magic mixture, the mystery - Your special power shimmers in a night-shine, a potion of lost emotion reflecting a fantasy in my head. One more day mind glazed; One more day in the shade; One more day of empty glasses; One more day for second chances - Fear stained memories in a cage, forgotten feelings in a haze, cold and shrill and numbing: Another thing coming…
Words and (some) Music by Robert Walker
A Song Within
Battles closing minds at war; Fights the same, just as before. Raging struggles in your way, surviving another day of artificial, unsubstantial Fears full of the end. A song within is for display - Play it now, play it loud, play it soft; But most of all: Love it all. “Them and us, us and them” makes it easy to condemn - Red in tooth and claw does not have to be the law; Anger bathed in fear only makes another tear. Take another step, the next step, for all. A song within is for display - Play it now, play it loud, play it soft; But most of all: Love it all. Listen to the whisper, quiet and small: Light belongs to all - But most of all: Love it all.
Blah De Blah
Tedium… Tedious conversation… Boring repeats, heard it all before: Blah de blah, boring blah blah, “How dare you, what about me?” Blah blah, blah de blah blah, boring, blah blah blah. The same look in the eyes, the same scripted replies: “I’m better than, I’m more than” – comparison of facades. Seeking, needing the outrage; fanning the flames, finding someone to blame. Taught behaviour, taught script: “Look at me! Aren’t I special. Give me a biscuit!” “My happy versus your happy;” “Aren’t I special because I conform.” (Spoon fed some rules.) Blah de blah, boring blah blah, “How dare you, what about me?” Blah blah blah, blah de blah blah, boring, blah blah blah. “Everybody must have the same opinion” - Nobody knows everything, even about one thing: The more I see the less I know; the more I see the more I feel. Explanations unfold, change colour and disappear into space - The enormity and hugeness of limitless space… Blah de blah, boring blah blah, “How dare you, what about me?” Blah blah, blah de blah blah, boring, blah blah blah. No need to be imprisoned by a side, by a tribe - Each day is different, rules are for machines. Exceptions are for you. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
A Lie
I spy with my little eye
Something beginning with a lie:
Thick bliss with a twist,
Jealously deceiving,
Judging and sneering;
Another sadistic statistic
bleeding fear on the journey
from womb to tomb,
dreaming of decay.
Under the Door
Darkly you draw me,
The skulls smile and welcome me,
leaving marks in the light
hiding under the door.
Beauty (lyrics version)
Found by a gentle breeze,
deep smiles of shining beauty
bathed in slowly swirling
Shimmering infinity:
The warm gaze of a gentle glow,
The tender beauty in your eyes,
with chemicals fuming tentacles
across the astral skies.
Hiding under the door,
The tender beauty in your eyes;
Darkly as you draw me
across the astral skies.
Beauty
Found by a gentle breeze,
deep smiles of shining beauty
bathed in slowly swirling
Shimmering infinity –
The tender beauty in your eyes,
The warm gaze of a gentle glow,
while face down in questions
talking to the wall;
chemicals fuming tentacles
across an empty sky.
Be
Words can trick and tease,
tantalise and please…
The meaning of life is:
to live
words silenced
with a kiss
Faces
Faces, faces everywhere
But not you
Not you, anywhere.
No touch of you
No beautiful you;
Only me and the dark,
Haunted by echoes
Of a once beating heart;
Condemned to yearn
But dead to you –
A figure in the corners,
Behind shadows,
Floating out of reach.
Robert Walker 