1. VULTURE

I leave the gate and close the door
And when it rains it really pours

I left her a memory
And a boatman's song
Of how it ended before it had begun
Took a bite from the apple
Glistening red lips
Moonlight was golden shining off her hip
She said don't look back
Just come on in
You've got to hold on never give in

We're all here
Trying to be
Someone we know that
We'll never see.
We are all lost
We're down on our knees
Making believe
These are our dreams

The shadows lean on the old town square
There's nothing left to keep me here
Where promises are made of air

When did you drink
Your freedom like wine
It's not as bitter
On the other side
We are all lost
We're down on our knees
Making believe
These are our dreams

How we really are
How we've always been
We're giving it all
But we're still caving in
So how do you dream
How do you think
Still giving it all
You'll give anything
There's nothing left to keep me here.

You left her memory
and both men sung
of how it ended before it had begun.
Took a bite from the apple,
glistening red lips.
The moonlight was golden
shining off her hips.
(We're all here trying to be)

We're all here trying to be
someone we know we'll never see.
We're all lost
down on our knees.
Making believe
these our are dreams.
Are we really how we've always been?
We're giving it all but we're still caving in.
How do you dream?
How do you think?
So you're giving it all
You'll give anything.


2. SYMBOLS

No need to look
No one knows where we are
Don't be afraid you'll be fine here
The light's are out

We always take it with us where we go
Forever yours
Don't ever think that it will die with you
On that longest day

And though preconceived
They're forever yours
Your hopes and ideas
When you're all alone

But we all fall down
To anything that's bright
We all fall down
Kings and pawns alike
Believe with all our might
In whatever lightning strikes

There is a man buying souls at the crossroads
He picks them up and puts them in his dreamcoat
The music's playing through the man-made airwaves
The traffic jam's playing drums on the wheel

In flesh and bone you are stood down begging
And all the while you are wearing your crown

We all fall down
Starstruck teenage girls
We all fall down
Dictator spins the world
And your head feels light
Racing down the track
It's everywhere
Waiting to attack

And we all fall down
Confetti covered road
We all fall down
You're ready to explode

We all fall down
Chain leads to a gun
We all fall down, fall down fall down


3. SWALLOW

Solemn and scared
Held it in the rain
To wake it up again
With frozen eyes
Of scarlet ink
Silent in sleep
First day of spring

Footprints and lines
Painted in the sand
A feather in his hand
Turn into glass
And fold it's wings
Damp as it bleeds
Dark into deep

Violent as glamour
Sweetest vermouth
As long as the winter
That burned through your youth
If you can stomach
The stone again
You'll taste the comeback
Before it begins

Silent and vast
An abandoned train
Never run again
Lord of the flies
Of violent deed
The stone disappears
Your conscience is clear

Soft as the water
Hard as the truth
As weak as the memory
Of the future of your youth
If you can stomach
The stone again
you'll taste the comeback
Before it begins

So if you cheated
And stole and bruised
And twisted the life from
Someone that you used
If you can stomach
The stone again
You'll taste the end
Before it begins


4. ORION I

instrumental


5. ORION II

We're on our way
Almost surreal
I feel my hands
Numb on the wheel

You smile at me
I love you so
The mountain rests
In winter snow

The night is cold
I smile at you
The dark's not dark
But midnight blue
We are at peace
Under gentle stars
And the shadows will be drawn in the invisible dawn
It's fading

You know you've seen him in your sleep
His eyes are pebbles in the deep
Orion's glowing fire
Burning in your deepest dreams
I stop the car and kill the lights
There's someone in the winter night
He's watching you and me
And I wonder what he sees

The radio's on
Your breath is warm
We can not hear
The coming storm
That talks about
All the glory days
It's all about the one that got away that day
It's fading

You know you've seen him in your sleep
His eyes are pebbles in the deep
Orion's glowing fire
Burning in your deepest dreams
I stop the car and kill the lights
There's someone in the winter night
He's smiling can't you see
Looking down at you and me


6. PRISONER

So I've been feeling kind of dizzy
With an aching in my head
I've only come to realise that everything they ever said
Made me feel like I was tied to every little whim or need

Of their obscurity

I fell asleep
Down on my knees
Staring at lives
Lived on my TV
Time was speeding up
Spinning round and round
It never matters more
Than when you're running out

I say members of the jury
Don't you think I am being fair
When all those late nights seem to run in orbit around me
Turning into a career
Even talking to you feels like wasting time I could have used
Under a lucky star I stand accused

Cause I fell asleep......


7. JEZEBEL

Hold her steady
Dancing in snow
I'll give her everything I own
And more, I know…

She's so shy, it's starting to show
The morning's early light
It grows in silence
Her hair is turning white with snowy diamonds
I feel like every second counts as hours
As we roll into emotion

The ribbon's red and the bride is white
But Jezebel knows it's not all right
A carriage ride on a moonlit road
She's hiding him in the name of love

Jezebel is waiting only I know
Through the stain glass window
Her face is colder
She's been down to see the ocean liners
Feels that silence sleeps in the horizon

Watch your step as you run away
To Hollywood on your wedding day
Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire
Jezebel thought she'd make it there


8. BLACK WINDOW

Stay with me when I try
To tell you how it is
Become the one that knows it all
And you will never miss

Too early for leaving
And too late to make friends
You checked in to Astoria
And ran up quite a bill and then

At Betty Ford, you saw his will
You fixed him up with sweeter pills
You stood in line, you took his hand
And swore to stay forever

Black widow with sparkling eyes
Blows a poisoned kiss
Set them up and you suck them dry
That's your only wish

Too early for leaving
And too late to make friends
Your touch was unforgiving
And you can not make amends

You were sublime
The perfect crime
You slipped a pill into his wine
And every day, you had your way
But swore to stay forever

Now your life is easy
When you're back out on the street
Musicals on Broadway and you're buying front row seats
Meet him at the station
Whoever's next in line
Pockets full of money
And an ocean full of wine

Couldn't have been more discreet
Could have been me

You were sublime
The perfect crime
You slipped a pill into his wine
And every day, you had your way
But swore to stay forever


9. FIREBIRD

Kubrick in maroon
Needle and a spoon

Swearing hands on fire
Burning with sweet desire

Hallelujah

Broken down by the side of the road
Firebird away from home

Hallelujah

Now you ask what I am feeling
As my memories are seething
And I'm waking up screaming
But it's what I believe in

Hallelujah

Hoppers waiting room
Painted in perfume

Endings in a book
Chances that I took

Hallelujah
Hallelujah

Now you ask what I am feeling
As my memories are seething
And I'm waking up screaming
But its what I believe in

Soma

Don't know how long it's been
I was born in an hourglass
Running fast at the end of time
Right around where the roses grow
Streets I've known from the early morn
Built a wall so high I was torn climbing for this moment that I need
Now to make it start we must fall together and not apart
And if it stops now that spring is close we will never know

When you tell me you're leaving
Take the air that I'm breathing
And I'm waking up screaming
But it's what I believe in

Hallelujah


10. DO YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ARE SAYING?

The moment came and left me bare
Someone with something to declare

Now the waves have started raging
As the storm is moving in
And I thought that I'd be safe here
But the danger’s from within

There's no pain just like desire
Open up, let it in
There's a place where we can hide
One to have, one to Hold

Do you know just what you're facing?
Know what you will win?
Can it take away the anger?
Or is it harder giving in?

Faith is offered and declined
Burning earth in her kiss
Hopes are made and redefined
There ain't no way it's gonna play

I know what you're facing
I know what you will win
But will it it take away the anger?
Make it harder giving in?

Do you know what you are saying?

And I tought that I'd be safe here
Golden heart and silver spoon
But it's dangerous to keep swinging
From the moon

The code is cracked
I can't bring you back
And it's dangerous to keep swinging
From the moon


11. ONCE IN A LIFE TIME

Here's a girl that came back
Though her memories are cold
Barefoot summers a long time ago
Believed in things she never could own
She's been waiting to come home

Where the windows are cracked
Faith is peeled off the world
Eyes are open but vision is blurred
While the reeds have grown
As high as before
You can't see them anymore

Once in a lifetime
Gold in the rye
Is found in the moment
You're waving goodbye

Once in a lifetime
Exploding in light
If you ever find it
Don't throw it away

At the edge of the night
You can't go to sleep
Though I know that you're weary
Every second you're afraid
You're in too deep
With your dream

Your dream of a lifetime
One single day
If you ever find it
Don't throw it away

Once in a lifetime
Delight of the blood
Reminds you of somewhere
That you want to go

If you ever find it
Don't throw it away
Don't throw it away