1. PARK BENCH

I was burning through a life on fire
And when you breathe you feed the flame
Only ashes will remain

On a park bench in a city
Sat a faceless winter coat
Told me "Blood is water
You'll deny me later
Hanging Chinese lantern riddles from your trees
When you have no answers
Careful that you don't wake up
Keep dreaming of me
Knowing you'll never understand"

On either side of the river lies
In fields of barley and rye
A clover world that drinks the sky
In the ivory heat of morning, through the mercy of the sun

"You were searching for me
Worshipped stone on hillsides
Saw the shape in the clothesline that could not be the wind
There is something watching?"

And I heard a whispered curse that was on me
As it left or chose to stay

As a child I saw the glory of...
Every tower raised in stone
Built for soul and not for bone
To conceal the dark from sunlight
They could never build too high

And I never solved it...
It was lost in the ether
And I know you've seen my candle in the night
"I will come to call you
And I'll call out the bloodhounds if and when you escape
And try to run from me"


2. THE MASTER'S VOICE

A piece of bread
That's how they sold it to you
That's what you tried to reach

Dominus domino

A taste of death
That's how they gave it to you
That wine was laced with lead

The master's voice is dead
You're chasing rainbows
With nothing there instead
Silent night

My simple life
Itself a mystery
Submits on bended knee

We were wasting all those years
End of the rainbow
Broken promises
With sour wine

The silent sky
Made you free
What now your majesty?

The master's voice is dead
The flock has scattered
Nothing there instead
There never was

We wasted all those years
Books in dark rooms
Friar's lantern
Losing time


3. BELA KISS

It was many years ago
Made them love me
You don't want to know...

Standing, in a row, virgins knee deep in snow
And to let them be I would always
Strike at their hearts, let their lives fall apart
And their needs for a dream would return them
Home

All things must end
I read it in the stars
Left them as spent hours pickled onions in their jars
In their letters home they would love to go
But they'll never find peace of mind
Nor me in New York
"Did I die in the war?"
But before I left shore I sure Bela Kissed them
Home

"Overexposure"
Down at the crossroads
Question is posed "Were you hiding in the
Brave Foreign Legion
In the crowd at the station?"
I'll be here where you need me to be you'll find me
Home


4. KNOW YOUR TIME

Bedding down in bridal love
Blinding wet and silver cloaked
But the pills are not enough
To unfeel it

Swim the water livid blue
See the spotlight follow you
Just like you wanted

A shadow world appears
The surgeon's hand is pale
The mirror covered widow black
To protect the past

By the water lily pool
Where the stars have never moved
And the treasure buried you
Breath frozen

In the aftermath of love
What there is is what we've got
To gift the boatman

So who will know my life
And who will bear my time
And who will find the light, such light
And who will know my time

Your memoirs
You always starred
The pages turned
You loved to serve

They're better now
You left the wheel
You lost your nerve
You lost your nerve

It is complete
The ink is dry
You writer


5. CHOIR OF ANCESTORS

In the long line behind us of the fallen dominos
Are the faceless men and women
All the lives you will never know
In the darkest nights I live through
Hear them whisper in my dreams
"We are the oak of a thousand branches
And the roots have dug so deep"

Hold on through your desert
Oh hold on to the reins
Oh hold on to wonder
Our story in your veins

Once we were children
Above us burned the stars
And now we come to you in your darkest hour
As you are who we are

We would stare into our fires
As you have done tonight
Let the ashes know what's right
Then you can decide

"Hold on you know what we know
Your dreams are our own
You'll find out in time"

Oh hold on to memory
Hold on to the edge
Hold on to stories
The decision that you made

Oh find your direction
Oh hang on for your life
With yesterday just a blur or grey
Spinning in the wheels of time

The Great Wall of China
Is going to crumble in the end
And the graves that still surround it
Echo countless wasted men

In the brotherhood of factories
Where the bonds are forged in steel
By the hammer of redemption
In the fires of gasoline

So hold on to your brother
Hold on to your team
Oh fight your every hour 'cause
When it hurts you start to win

Oh hold on to something
You can do it if you try
There's a wedge between the will and when
But the walls are closing in

We were thrown out of our lives
And across a great divide
But as long as you hold on
You keep us alive


6. ABC

The rays of light from outer space
Are the curved red lines of ancient caves
I hear William Herschel as he walks with me
"In the blue, you're in the blue from under you, I've seen it too"

Zeno of Elea's path
Sometimes good, sometimes bad
Will the hare beat the fox

So I'll build my idea, design it to wait
I'll raise it in Newgrange on solstice day
The big eye knowing every dog has its day

It's ABC, astronomy, it's poetry, Infinity
The beating mind will calculate
The numbers spin in starry haze
Engine churns and blinds the light


7. ALGORITHM

(Instrumental)


8. ALARM

It's too late for all panic
It's too late for alarm
No one's sleeping
It's much deeper now
All are safe in the zeroes arms

All the world, in its marathon
Second childhood, mere oblivion
So now come home
But I'm afraid you won't
Make it back
And I'd trade all for...

All the world, in its marathon
Second childhood, mere oblivion

Now come home
I'm afraid you won't
Make it back
And I'd trade all for...


9. MOLOK RISING

Trust no future
You belong here
Fear no new shore
You will stay here
Stay here

Steal the blueprints of the sun god
Sailing over the solemn bay
Truly airborne we will suffer
With the numbers upon the screen

We are orphaned
Hollow seers
Selling art from a magazine

The end of ends in view
Moved by gentle tide it broke too soon
The shallow waters nearly brought you
Out to sea
With the key of dreams they would buy you too
Sheltered fool that gentle clay
Animal
That gentle clay

Trust no future
You belong here
You belong here
Here to labour and to wail with the damned
Heed not my hundred reasons at midnight
You belong here