ONE MORE TIME

Hey now draw yourself more near to me
Rest your weary mind
Bend your will to the night
Lay down all those things you fear to be
What you may become
Truth for everyone

I won't wait for you to run
Down that hall with anyone
Rest yourself easy
Begging hey now please...

I know things you left and said undone
Are heavy on your heart
True for everyone

I won't wait for you to go
Down that narrow corridor
Rest yourself easy
hey now begging please...

So now, draw yourself more near to me
Rest your weary mind
Bend your will just one more time...

just one more time...

OCTOBER

Keep in mind the last time
You go away at night
Keep in mind the last time
But don't ignore the first
Raise your eyes just go again
There will be a next time

So you go go go if you want to go
If you stay stay stay well you never know
Day day day will come rise again
You know it will come again
It will come again

Keep in mind the the past times
Don't ignore the worst
Raise you eyes just know again
There will be a next time

So you go go go if you want to go
If you stay stay stay well you never know
Day day day will come rise again
You know it will come again
It will come again

In a perfect world
There would be no divide
In a perfect world
We could both open up
And see the other side

So you go where you want to be
You say that they'll set you free
You know that it's never so
You go your own way

DOWNWARD SPIRAL

It's so hard to watch you see
Waning now for the n-teenth time
Like a slow motion train wreck
Happening now in double-time
Raising up and then we see
It's never so bad no it's never no
And then we see it's never so bad

Hard these downward spirals
Oh such a never ending downward spiral

I hope you can get some rest
There's nothing that could lead me there
I swear that I mean the best

Hard these downward spirals
Oh such a never ending downward spiral

And you always second guess
Oh you always second guess

It's so hard to watch you see
Like a train wreck in slow motion
It's so hard to watch you fall
Like a crime without a notion

Oh and believe me now
You always second guess
Oh and believe me now
You always second guess

THE MEASURE

So you want to know the difference
Between the broken and the lost
Between the voiceless and the muted
Between the payback and the cost
So you want to know the distance
Between the incomplete and maimed
Between the drowning and the drifting
Between the drowning and the saved

But oh I don't want to be your insight
Or your door or your key
I don't want to be the measure
Of your heart or you needs

And you want to know the distance
Between the boundless and the chained
And you want to know the difference
Between the taken and the gained

But oh I don't want to be your insight
Or your door or your key
I don't want to be the measure
Of your heart or you needs

Years go by
Aake at night
Goodbye

I don't want to be the measure
No, I don't want to be the measure

HALL OF MIRRORS

Walking now in a hall of mirrors
Going round in the aether
Reaching out across the years
For an answer or an insight
Where now will you go?

Shape your time
Shed your illusions

Fill your dreams with desire
Fill your dreams with the riches
What more do you know?

Shape your time
Shed your illusions

Walking now in a hall of mirrors
Going round in the aether
Reaching out across the years
For and answer or an insight

HARVESTER OF SOULS

Played me for the fool
Restful ways of plenty there
Knowing what you knew
Arrested in the night

But I guess that's what you get for being
For the harvester of souls
And I guess that's what you get for knowing
That you played

No more then you go
Breaking with the past
Flower now of passion there
Ringing through this land

But I guess that's how we come to know
The harvester of souls
And I guess that's what you get for knowing
When you should

One more time
Breathing with the rhythm of life
Waving in the crashing towns
The precious with the lost

Showing the way in darker times
To the harvester of souls
And the wreck on shores
And rocks you've seen
It will show

Played me for the fool
Knowing what you knew
Played me for the fool
Knowing what you knew

OPEN LETTER

How could I not know
You were waiting for an answer from me
How could I believe
You were honest in what you said where
Will you go now
There is nothing that is further reaching
Draw the line between
What you want and what you need

Where is your sense
Where is your sense of wrong

Gather your wits from the maze
Bury the rest in the past
Cover the tracks that remain
Carry the weight to the last

Where is your sense
Where is your sense of wrong

WHEN THE SHADOW FALLS

On your shoulders is the weight you bear
On the roadside you are waiting there
Cash in your insurance claims
The one night stands and sad refrains
Of all the stories you have blamed
Making trouble

We won't be there when the shadow falls
We won't be there when the shadow falls

In the shallow where you thought you'd run
When you see there you're the only one
Cast off your withholding chains
Your one-time plans and sad remains
Of all the the things you left behind

We won't be there when the shadow falls
We won't be there when the shadow falls
No we won't be there
We won't be there when the shadow falls

Before the blinding light of day
Before the morning light you slip away
You can hold yourself to promises so far betrayed
You could take yourself to somewhere so far away

We won't be there when the shadow falls
We won't be there when the shadow falls

SILENCE ON SILENCE

I'm not back on the other side with you

Dreaming in the night of the faces that crowd in your solitude
Wading in the typing pool drowning the things that you thought you knew
Making your concessions accepting that sometimes you can not choose
And you realize there's nothing left to say

I'm not back on the other side with you

Waiting for replies in the mail and beyond to be sent to you
Fate is in the cards so you bet all your chances on solitude
Waging of the silence on silence and reaching for substitutes
And the words and plans fell through your hands too soon

I'm not back on the other side with you

DECEMBER

Words we never said , calls we never made
Corners left untaken, shoulders shrugged instead
Now it's been so long, how could we recall
What we never saw, for the first time

No more dreams in the corner of your mind
No more ways to make it all come out alright
No more faith in the world we knew before
No more peace until you open up the door
Bring yourself home

Shadows of the past, thoughts of disarray
Shelters that were falling, all is washed away
Now it's all so clear how it all could be
When the steps are taken for the first time

No more dreams in the corner of your mind
No more ways to make it all come out alright
No more faith in the world we knew before
No more peace until you open up the door

Bring yourself back home

NEGOTIATIONS

Heartache, one more chance for you
All those things in the days before
Memory, leaving what you knew
Former times how they follow you
Streetlights fall on hollow night
You see up ahead what could be
No more mysteries, no more penalties
Shake my hand look right through me

No more false promises, make your stand again
Take these rings, these subtle things
All those things we planned
Go once more down that road
Take the easy way
Just one more time say those words
Wake me oh so softly