BATTLE LINES

Before a wall, before a window
Before an image of a fallen tree
Without a pause, without a pain
I cut the tethers that were holding me

I’m looking for a new direction
I’m looking for another way
I’m looking for a new direction
All the battle lines are so far away

Before the fall, before the meadow
Before the vision of a broken seam
Without a doubt or hesitation
I’m heading off into another dream

I’m looking for a new direction
I’m looking for another way
I’m looking for a new direction
All the battle lines are so far away

Beyond a word, beyond a figure
Beyond the shadow of another day
Without a sound or reservations
I’m leaving now to find a better way

I’m looking for a new direction
I’m looking for another way
I’m looking for a new direction
I’m hoping I can find a way
I’m looking for a new direction
All the battle lines are so far away

STOIC RESEMBLANCE

When I see you walk you got me weak in the knees
Grabbing for some words I don’t know what I mean
Walking in a fog in a forest of trees
You got a stoic resemblance to something I need

Oh na na na, I hope I find my way out of this one

You got an ice-cold gaze and a steely smart look

And you can read my apprehension like an open book
I’m caught in the corner but I’m sticking around
Because I gotta see what happens and how it all goes down

Oh na na na, I hope I find my way out of this one

Attractions of the body are a breakable bind
But you better watch out when it comes round to your mind
And when it grabs hold of your soul you know you never can win
And we don’t know where it ends and where it all begins

Oh na na na, I hope we find a way out of this one

Nothing you could tell me now could put me at ease
Nothing you could show me now could shake my belief
You could strip it all down and give me only the facts
But nothing now can take the clock and turn it back
I’ve got my redemption and I’ve got my disease
And now I can’t be bothered with reality
I’ve got my redemption and I’ve got my disease
And now I can’t be bothered with reality

Oh na na na, I hope we find a way out of this one

RED SHIFTING

Red lines leading everywhere I see
Got my mind in a real bad way
I will follow, I will follow
Red lines leading everywhere I see
I will follow

Let it bleed, Let it bleed
Let it all come out

Red lines leading everywhere I see
Got my mind in a real bad way
I feel hollow, I feel hollow
Red lines leading everywhere
I will follow, I will follow

Let it bleed, Let it bleed,
Let it all come out

UPWARD MOBILITY

Where have you been since the morning
And where did you go and who did you call
Had your release but you know that
Your heart is with me there’s no other way then

Dragged me along with your stories but I always knew
Maybe I’m wrong to believe you but I always do
Yeah I always do

What did you see there did you witness
No more would you say no more would you share then

Dragged me along with your stories but I always knew
Maybe I’m wrong to believe you but I always do
Yeah I always do

Have your fun when you go there
Who will you see who will you call
Have your release but you know that
Your heart isn’t free your hands aren’t clean

Drag me along with your stories well you always do
Maybe I’m wrong to believe you when I always lose
Tried for so long to trust you but I always lose
Tried for so long to believe you but I always knew
Yeah I always knew

LEAVE OR BE YOURS

All the times when you walked with me
When you talked me
And you laughed with me
All those things that you promised me
That you saved for me
Will it ever be the same?

Do you want me to leave
Or do you want me to be yours?

All those things that you said to me
That you kept from me
That I could not see
All those words coming back to me
In a flashing scene
Will it ever be the same?

Do you want me to leave
Or do you want me to be yours?

DEUCES

I don’t wanna be cruel I don’t wanna be distant
Or harbor grief for you and I don’t mean to be cool
I don’t wanna seem ever like I’m holding off on you

Please, please don’t think that I’m walkin away from this
with a heart that’s full of ease
No, no ever way I could be happily over this
Or have remorse for you

Now I’m gone, you’ve lost your hold on me
It doesn’t matter how you want it all to be
And there is nothing more that you could say to me

I don’t wanna be cruel I don’t wanna be distant
Or harbor grief for you, no I don’t wanna be cool
No I don’t wanna seem ever like I’m holding back

Now I’m gone, you’ve lost your hold on me
And if you’re looking for a reason
Just give me one good reason

Now I’m gone, you’ve lost your hold on me
It doesn’t matter how you want it all to be
And there is nothing more that you could say to me
Could bring me back into your arms again you see
It doesn’t matter how you want it all to be

INCONSEQUENTIAL TIES

You better watch yourself or maybe you’ll
Wake up and be working for minimum wage
Slaving away on a deck with your hands
Just to grab yourself a dollar a day
Cross-eyed bruised well how could you go and
Lose what you held in your hand like a jewel
Just keep on talking I can see your mouth moving
But I know you don’t know what you’re doing

You are no master of the inconsequential lie
You better shape up if you think you’re gonna get by

You ought to stop and take a breath and have
A smoke and just ease into the other side
Courses that you’re setting well you best be
Soon forgetting cuz it’s never up to you to decide

You are no keeper of the inconsequential ties
You better stop and think and open up your eyes
You are no master of the inconsequential lie
You better shape up if you think you’re gonna get by
You are no keeper of the inconsequential ties
You better stop and think and realize

SEVEN HOURS

Seven Hours til the morning light
Seven hours left to make this right
And I wish that I could hold your hand
And I wish that you would understand
It all comes out in the wash

And the wavy lines of yesterday
Bend around you but they’ll fall away
And leave an open space for you to rest
Without the weight of being dispossessed
Oh I wish that I could tell you

And I wish that I could hold your hand
Oh I know that you would understand
It all comes out in the wash
Oh I wish that I could tell you

Seven hours til the morning light
Seven hours left to make this right
Nothing after this will be the same
No we’re never going back again
Oh, I wish that I could tell you

PHANTOM SHORE

If you could trade it for a night life maybe
You’d learn a new trick or two to help you get by
But if you think that it’s as easy as that
You got me scratching my head now and wondering why
Cuz I don’t need be a follower of a ship
That is sailing for a phantom shore
And I won’t wait around for nothing to happen
That is out of my reach or beyond my control

What remains to be seen is a dream
That we have to take hold of

And if there ever was a need for a friend
To just tell you the truth well the time it is now
Cuz if you’re feeling so unfortunate then
Just count all your blessings and turn it round

What remains to be seen is a dream
That we have to take hold of

If there was a need for a fire well
It’s obvious now that it needs to be lit
If there ever was a need to move on well
It’s obvious now that it’s too late to quit
And you knew all along

What remains to be seen is a dream
That we have to take hold of

NEVER GOING BACK

And left to page right through the open stacks
It’s one step forward and one step back
In restless dreams and awkward forays
I took the step out of the former day
And I’m never going back again
I swear I will never return

I fed the force into the pathway ahead
I locked and shut the door on the unspoken dead
I resurrected only what I could believe
I took the shuttered heart and I made it free
And I’m never going back again
I swear I will never return

Into what never was and what never could be
Beyond what could be felt and what could be seen
Away from shackles and away from restraint
Away from all the eyes that held me at bay
And I’m never going back again
I swear I will never return

The chips may fall let them fall where they may
The dice will roll but I’ll roll them away
I took a knife and cut off all of the lines
I took the road less taken wrinkled in time
And I’m never going back again
I swear I will never return