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Peaceful ease in the storm
Find release from the form we knew
All we have is the moment we feel
All we need is our love and will

Come to me where it’s warm
Come to me when there’s no one around
All we have is the moment we touch
All desire is salvation
Calm the state of your reason
Call the sunlight from the recess below
We’re only half until we are one
We are one

GOTTA BE STRONG

We see trouble on our doorstep
But you gotta be strong, well you gotta be strong
For no reason, going nowhere
Well you gotta move on, yeah you gotta move on

You gotta move on, you gotta move on
You gotta be strong, you gotta strong

For to no one, we will bow
We’re gonna stand tall, yeah we’re gonna stand tall
Will not beg nor steal nor borrow
We’ll do it alone, yeah we’ll do it alone

You gotta be strong, you gotta be strong
You gotta move on, you gotta move on

And though it seems so hard for you to overcome
You gotta hold on
And though it seems too far to reach the other side
You gotta keep on, you gotta be strong
Never give up

You gotta be strong, you gotta be strong…

STRANGE BEDFELLOWS

No need for introductions
I’ve been through this a million times before
And every time it’s a new deception
It starts off with a handshake
And ends up with an awkward back and forth
If you forgive me my indiscretion
I’ll credit you for all that you’ve withheld

Strange bedfellows make every night so exciting and electric
But I can’t reconcile differences or find a common denominator

An eye for an eye then
I’ve seen it all a million times before
And every time it’s a new temptation
It starts out on the level
but soon we’re going round and round again
If you forgive me my indiscretions
I’ll credit you for all that you’ve withheld
If you forgive my indecisions
I’ll credit you for being out in front

Strange bedfellows make every night so exciting and electric
But I can’t reconcile differences or find a common denominator
Strange bedfellows make everyone one so exciting and attractive
But I can’t muster a clean connection or keep a running configuration

NEON DISARRAY

We could be happy we could be free today
We could be picking up the pieces of the former day
We could holding out devotion to another way
We could be gone we could be giving it all away

Oh yeah, but you’re so far away…

We could be haunted we could be out on a new foray
We could be fading in the neon of another day
We could be holding up the banner to disarray
We could be happy we could be free today

Oh yeah, but you’re so far away…

THE WITNESS

They all believe in moral fiber
They all believe there’s an absolute way
They all believe in a perfect circle
They all believe in a judgment day
But oh no, no, I don’t want to be a witness
Oh no, no, I don’t want to lend a hand
Oh no, no, I don’t want to be faithful
Oh my, my, well I know where I stand

Why do we keep on coming back to this
Over and over again…

They all agree that it’s better unsaid
They all agree to just brush it all away
They all agree that it never happened
They all agree to just look the other way

Why do we keep on coming back to this
Over and over again…

They all believe in sacred voices
They all believe in a perfect world
They all believe every word they say
They all believe that there’s only one way
But oh no, no, I don’t want to be a victim
But oh no, no, I don’t want to see the show
Oh my, my, I don’t want an invitation
Oh my, my, well I know where I’m going

Why do we keep on coming back to this
Over and over again…

ILLUSIONS

Did I ever know you, did I make it up
Does it matter if what we believe is true
Was it all a dream, was it all just fate
Would it even work to separate the two

No illusion could hold me back
No diversion could hold me back
No persuasion could hold me back
From you

Don’t leave so early, don’t wake me up
Don’t make it all seem like it never happened
Don’t pass me by, don’t lead me on
Don’t take me for a fool to be misled

No illusion could hold me back
No diversion could hold me back
No persuasion could hold me back
From you

No more delay, no more deceit
Could we find a way to make this all anew
Let’s break this down, let’s tear it up
Let’s find another way to make this happen

No illusion could hold me back
No diversion could hold me back
No persuasion could hold me back
From you

NO MATHEMATICS

Before the wheel and the roles were reversed
Before the world and the tables were turned
We were together to face the unknown
A sleeping hill with a city below

Oh I wish that you were with me right now
Cuz it’s so hard to raise when it’s all coming down
Oh I’m wishing that the summer would last
But I know there’s a reason for all that will pass

A darkened wave and a pull at the throat
A half raised glass and the letter you wrote
The words you kept and the cues that we missed
There’s no mathematics to calculate this

Oh I wish that you were with me right now
Cuz it’s so hard to raise when it’s all coming down
Oh I’m wishing that the summer would last
But I know there’s a reason for all that will pass

Oh I wish that I could see you right now
Cuz it’s so hard to raise when it’s all coming down
Oh I’m wishing that the summer would last
But I know there’s a reason for all that will pass

BETTER THINK AGAIN

I’m moving on without you everyday
It doesn’t matter that you went away
And even if you found out what you lack
I wouldn’t ever want to take you back
And when I see you walking down the street
I’m keeping clear so we never meet
Cuz when it ended with a web of lies
Well it’s best to forget and just leave it all behind

Oh, all around me is the world I see
Oh and within my reach is the way I want to be
Without a weight to hold me
Nothing to hold me back

And if you think that we can still be friends
You better stop yourself and think again
There’s nothing now that you could do or say
That could make it all easy
Or wash all that happened away

Oh, all around me is the world I see
Oh and within my reach is the way I want to be
Without a weight to hold me
Nothing to hold me back
Nothing to hold me back

TIME WON’T BE TURNED AROUND

It never ended it just kind of fell apart
I always knew that it was falling from the start
But when we find our way to shelter from the rain
We all remain unless the roof is coming down

Wise words won’t change this
Time won’t be turned around

Your scattered claim to fame would warm a frozen heart
And I would listen on for hours in the dark
It never mattered at all if it was true
In the moment it was all that could be found

Hindsight can’t change this
Time won’t be turned around

If I could see you now I don’t know what I’d say
It doesn’t bother me that there’s no other way
Some things we plant but they never get to grow
But waiting’s half the life to hear the budding sound

Nothing can change this
Time won’t be turned around

BROKEN PIECES

Please don’t throw away what you don’t understand
Cuz there’s a world that you don’t see beyond the one at hand

Please don’t throw away what you don’t know could be
Cuz there’s a way for things to work if you would stick around with me

No more alibis or wasted time
No more fits or feuds or wasted pride
Don’t let it enter your mind that this could be a reset
Just keep on trying to look past those backward thoughts that you get

Please don’t throw away what you don’t know could be
Cuz there’s a way for things to work if you would stick around with me

A THOUSAND CITIES

What would I do if I could not fail
Fashioned crudely from an outside force
Chandeliers and a gauzy post
Moving forms of a passing ghost
Through the window of a month war
Summer breathing at my open door
Empty bottles and a rising stair
Spiral up into the endless air

I have painted exactly as I wanted
I have my cardboard dagger ready
I have walked on sidewalks cast with wings
Carry mirrors in my pockets

What would I dream if I could not sleep
Giving birth to a thousand cities
Beyond the gate in a garden path
Breathing fluid in the afternoon
What suffers now can never be put down
What never feels can never show concern
The predetermined are the unrestored
The overburdened and the underscored

I have painted exactly as I wanted
I have my cardboard dagger ready
I have walked on sidewalks cast with wings
Carry mirrors in my pockets

What would I do if I could not fail
Fashioned crudely from an outside force
What would I dream if I could not sleep
Giving birth to a thousand cities

STAY HERE FOREVER

There were times before I knew when home was found
We hold these truths to be for self evidence
In your arms, I wish I can hold it back
Yeah in your arm I wish I could be just home again
And that's for later we see
The way that you see, the way that you see out of bounds
And that's for later we see

No more there you cause
You cause it out of forward motion
We've unleashed
Be forced to relive the only void

I wish that I could stay here forever
I wish that I could stay here forever and ever and ever
I won't go, order to me
I won't go order to be

Please, please, don't ever let your heart out or fall in a void
Please, please, don't ever let you fall in the forever void
Please, please, please, please I won't wait for you here
Please, please, I don't mean, please please I don't mean no more
And I went forward again
And I move forward again

REVERSE SENTIMENTS

Lonely roamer keep rolling on
Lonely roamer keep rolling on
Keep rolling on
Keep on

And if you have no one to love
Don’t fret
If you have nowhere to turn
Don’t fear
If you have nowhere to go
Don’t weep
You know that road keeps rolling on

Lonely roamer keep rolling on
Lonely roamer keep rolling on
Lonely roamer keep rolling on

And if you have no one to hold
Don’t cry
If you have no one to love
You’ll get by
If you have nowhere to hide
You’ll see
You know that road keeps rolling

Lonely roamer keep rolling on
Lonely roamer keep rolling on
Keep rolling on
Keep on
Keep holding on…