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Arcadia               [back to top]

Take a seat across from me

My meditation is skewed this week

I'm sensing separation lately

Like there has never been

The piling papers on my desk

Cause our living lives to disconnect

I believe I'll break the silence

Honey, how was your day?

Say something...

Show me the way to your heart

Arcadia is waiting

While my world is tearing apart

Can't help anticipating

Show me the secret you are

There's no use keeping you here

When I'm down and out, when I'm down and out

Now that you're here, its about time to say

This ring on my finger I hide every day

The promise we had is merely a lie

And I've fallen away, there's no use in trying

The good times we had are but all memories

The things I said so long ago, today I don't mean

As hard as it is, to tell you goodbye

The truth's become something we just can deny

Say anything...

Thanks anyway, for the time we spent in our better days

Thanks anyway...

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Beast / MBL               [back to top]

Who is this intruder, interupting all my thoughts

Slithering in to devour all the flies and all the moths?

Cleaning up my messes, leaving everything thats mine

And now I'm empty of the memories I've been captivated by

Every taste I get of this

Another bottle on the floor

The beast I through back hours ago

Left me worse off than before

Forgetting all my problems

As I overlook my past

Above this throne of porcelain

I'm remembering so fast

The finest piece of me wrestles against the inner beast

But I can't seem to crawl out from the groove that I'm wedged in

The rich and the poor side, the better-than-before life

I battle with my morals and these vices always win

Then I say to myself, "You've gone and spoiled things again"

Every move I try and make brings me right back, right back into sin

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Burning               [back to top]

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Daybreak              [back to top]

Took a drive in the dead of night
Trying to run from the morning light
On the horizon it was burning at my heels
I could feel it hanging there
I took that road west just as far as it would go
'Til I smelled the ocean air

And outside the rain, it poured
As I cast off western shores

Don't you tell me that everything's going to be fine
This time I'm not gonna make it out alive

Sailed the seas for forty days
Hiding from the killing rays
Each passing moment getting stranger than the last
In that night I called my home
Somewhere in the distance was a voice that bid me life
Was a voice that was not my own

And the sea turned into sand
So I crossed the desert land

I will not go quietly, no
I will not go quietly

And beneath the half-dead tree
The daybreak covered me...

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Last Goodbye               [back to top]

Sometimes I feel like I've just got to fade away

Withdraw from a lie that I've lived for a thousand days

Escape the things that are a prison to me

Departing from you, my common company

You oughta know what's gotten into me

Get off my case, just try and let me breathe

Now you keep asking, what's gotten into me

Get out of my life, I'll ask for the last time

This is my last goodbye...

Your wicked manipulation and the smile that you share

After all the things I've done for you, you still don't seem to care

Now I've been there before and its harder to hear

But you keep crawling back and I'm done with you dear

This is the last time...

And I'll be just fine...

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Let it Go               [back to top]

I can't stop looking at your picture

I keep a vigil on the bedroom door

The place you held me close the night before

I watch the minutes passing slowly

Laying naked on the bathroom floor

I can't seem to find my breath

Must have taken it the night before

These memories are just traps you set

What will it take for me to forget?

Just let it go...

There's nothing left to hold onto

You let it slip out beyond your grasp

Like time keeps slipping past you

What's it like to live forever?

All these odd years and you haven't aged a day

I can't remember the sound of your voice

But I always think of what you'd say

When you coming home?

I'm waiting here all alone

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Now or Never               [back to top]

I reach out and touch you with my fingertips

I feel you falling I can see you're on the edge

You're so close now you're within my reach

I'm calling out to you, but you can't hear me speak

Even if you're out of faith, even if you're out of time

Even if you've lost your way, even if I'm losing mine

You don't need to cry

This night won't last forever

If you were born to fly

It might be now or never

The city lights are smeared across the sky

Tightly I close my eyes, and try to feel the night

My hands are shaking as I lift up your wings

And when we find our way, we can do anything

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Release the Lines               [back to top]

I passed a man today, a casualty of circumstance

Said he threw it all away, when he never took the chance

I had to stop and ask him why he never crossed that bridge

He said I'm not afraid to die, but I'm terrified to live

Time and time again he put it off to another day

Running round in circles, like a rat inside a maze

I guess he always knew someday it would cut him down to size

Didn't see it coming though til it hit between his eyes

Better to throw it all away...

Better to leave it all behind...? No

You're a fool to deny yourself, its up to you and no one else

Release the lines, release the lines

Whats the use in freedom, if you hold yourself a slave?

And whats the use in secrets if you don't take them to the grave?

Cuz there's nothing you can say

And there's nothing you can do

There's nothing you can prove

To save you from yourself

I've seen the broken fall down on their knees

I've seen my friends become my enemies

I've seen you turn your back again and again

I see the strings that hold you down

I see them dragging you into the crowd

Raise your head and say it loud

I'll rise above it, rise above it

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Run               [back to top]

Sew me up, my self inflicted wounds

Breathe into my lungs, and make me move

Unbind me feet, and watch me run

See what I've become, much less than I was

How could I break?  How could I tear?

Why have things come crashing down?

And all the while the drive just isn't there

How can I mend? I am alone

You caught me right before I hit the ground

Now watch me run

Hands like ice, colder than before

You notice, embracing them in the warmth of yours

Let me go, watch me run

See what I have done, step out on my own

I've never known, never known before

Anything but what it was on my own

I turn my back, turn my back again

And watch you fade away

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Shadows Remain               [back to top]

You stood on the brink

Overlooking your past

All the darkness you saw

Was the shadows you cast

You couldn't let life

Be a reason to live

And what trust was betrayed

You could never forgive

Dusty lungs heave heavy sighs

Through the tombs of your lips, you speak only lies

But your eyes still shine with kindred youth

A captive witness to the beautiful silence of truth

The plans we made from dust and ash

Oh, what did we hope to find on this path?

If we caught the sun, would you change your name?

We're bathed in the light but some shadows will always remain

Come back to me

We’ll fall apart, yeah

Come back to me

With all your hopes and fears

Despite the years, I still feel the same

 Your soaking wet, and porous mind

Dried up long ago but still clings to your spine

A reminder of the songs you left

That still play on repeat and fall on the ears of the deaf

Some shadows will always remain...

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Slave (Fool For Your Love)               [back to top]

Stupid little crush never hurt anybody, but

When its love, I don't take it lightly

Why don't you look me right in the eyes

Tell me are you frightened of what you might find

Did you think I'd come on so sweetly?

Are you out of your mind completely?

I am a fool for your love

You are the fuel for my fire

Can't keep it cool when I want it all, hey

I am a fool for your love

Everywhere I look I see your reflection

Every time you're near I feel the connection

Never again will you leave my side

I'll be in your way till the day we collide

I am a fool for your love...

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Still Alive               [back to top]

This operation table sends shivers down my spine

I try to find another place to store away my mind

I could lock it in a corner, give it recess for a while

Til you stand above me, blade in hand, my screaming builds your smile

Why must it be this way?

I can't take it any longer

Every time I die

I come back a little stronger

Can't you finish what you began?

No you tried, you tried

And I am still alive

The tools you use cut straight into my center

Leaving scars at the surface where they all entered

Spreading like a virus as it courses through my veins

This sickness becomes me, it overruns me with hate, with pain

Resting on this frigid steel you leash me even tighter

I'm paralyzed inside, and yet you thought I was a fighter

Close my eyes let fate decide, and I let my grip release

I'm laced beneath the whitest of sheets and I'm no longer living

My body won't breathe...

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What Are You Waiting For?               [back to top]

Backed into the wall

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Wizards and Dragons               [back to top]

Here at the castle, on a fateful night

East sky burns with portent light

A prophecy reveals an end is near

The air is thick with haste and fear

There in the distance, the coming horde!

Call to arms, a time for war

Deep in the tower, the council sets their plans

To wake an ancient evil and make their stand...tonight

The army crumbles, stone will fall

All and all a battle call

Lightning crashes, thunder breaks

A haunting hex, a king's mistake

The dragon rises from its dungeon cell

Power held by tenuous spell

Takes to flight across a blood red moon

Horde cries out in certain doom

Control is broken when the arrow finds its mark

Cleft into the wizard's heart

The dragon free, no more enslaved

The innocent shall not be saved...tonight

Final regards to all of them now

Slaughtered fathers, dead men fall

Thirst for power, greedy hands

Invading horde now holds command

A king's mistake