1. INTO THE ETHER

(Instrumental)


2. CASSANDRA

Watching backwards as life like pictures
Stinging thoughts, born with phantoms
We danced above a world forgotten
Moments cherished... even now
A train-wrecked heart loves fairy tales

Singing from a gaping wound
However time has left unsettled
My memories play out of tune

You can't unmake
A cold mistake
You can't undo

the hearts you break
You can't erase
The poet's fate
Not even if you try

And she had Audrey Hepburn's smile
With deeper sadder eyes

The only thing she said
No one hears Cassandra cry
Because the earth is standing still
And the truth becomes a lie
A choice profound is bittersweet
No one hears Cassandra cry


A heartfelt sorrow I believe
Offered this for passion's crime
A crippled satellite trapped in orbit
My memories play out of time

You can't unmake

a cold mistake
You can't undo
the hearts you break
You can't erase
the poet's fate
Not even if you try...

The listless price of my descension
Where emptiness has pulled me down
Cascading from my divagation
Below the frozen winter skies
Pythonic sadness unreleased
As serpents rigid in cold

Waiting for the warmth of Sunday
Before the cruelty of growing old

Are you listening?
Are you listening?
Are you listening now?
Like Orpheus with hope entangled

Your path was mapped about your feet
Leading backwards into forgiveness
Or forward to a fools retreat


3. LOVE AND HATRED

Can you hear the breath of the observer
Can you hear the quanta calling back?
The arguments of motivation
Implore my distant muse to act
Sentiment spent on emotions
Derived from our eternal spark

All beyond our comprehension
Watching protons in the dark

All the love and all the hatred
Split from our desire to be
All the love and all the hatred
Leading to hostilities

All the saints and all the prophets
All the secrets that you keep
Exist with one intriguing question
Tell me dearest - who are we?

Can you hear the gears of evolution
Grinding for divinity

Can you hear the voices of creation
And the science sprawling from the seas
Sentiment spent on emotions
Derived from our eternal spark
All beyond our comprehension
Watching protons in the dark

All the love and all the hatred
Lovers searching for the seed
That piece of existential knowing
That gives tomorrow wings to dream
All the broken hearted angels
Living in the ether seams

All the love and all the hatred
Tell me dearest - who are we?

Can you hear the cat within the box
Can you hear electrons moving free
Watching something, watching nothing
In stasis somewhere in-between


4. FLAME

Sleeping moments giving birth
To a world of my own invention
Doubt is cast, and what's real
Mixes with imagination

My imagination
Each vision, each word
Like a message in a bottle
The unreal has given birth
To the titans of my inner battles
Angel, burning away

Cutting against the heartless unforgiven
Anger, blacken my dream
A phoenix in flame, returning in redemption
Angel, burning away
Cutting against the heartless unforgiven
Anger, blacken my dream

I can see this angel is me
And I am in flames
The wind is breaking hard
Flowing with the void of fire
The light it burns
Eyes glow, holding my soul

The fallen horde is hunting seraph
Wisdom, Prometheus knows
A torch is but a tool for heroes
We stand to face the hatred
Amassing on our borders


5. THE SENTIMENT INSIAE

Rewind - I only want to listen to you sleep

Do you dream of places close to me?
I don't know how to make this right
I never thought I'd ever breathe so tight
Confusing, the issues underneath
I don't know how to find this place
locked in a box inside a cage far away,

Singing songs for rainy days
And I want to tell you
But words so clumsy are not my friends
They starve these thoughts when they begin
And I still need you to know
But my lips are tightly holding back

The sentiment inside is lying trapped
Higher, higher than the skies above
And deeper than the cells within
I love you more than these
And I love you more than they
Three splinters hide below this shell

Where yesterday provided me this hell
And left me, lifeless, empty
And you're asking for more than I can give
But it takes so much air for us to live
Completely, I understate my haunted dreams
I really don't want to sleep just yet -

I think about this... as I lie in bed
Let me forget, the color of my death
I know it's not fair to live this way
Still I've said about as much as I can say
And I would, take it all back if I could...


6. WINTER BORN (THIS SACRIFICE)

Dry your eyes and quietly bear this pain with pride
For heaven shall remember the silent and the brave
And promise me, they will never see, the fear within our Eyes

We will give strength to those who still remain

So bury fear for fate draws near and hide the signs of pain
With noble acts, the bravest souls endure the heart's Remains
Discard regret, that in this debt a better world is made
That children of a newer day might remember, and avoid our Fate.

And in the fury of this darkest hour we will be your light
You've asked me for my sacrifice and I am Winter born
Without denying, a faith is come that I have never known
I hear the angels call my name and I am Winter born

Hold your head up high-for there is no greater love
Think of the faces of the people you defend

And promise me, they will never see the tears within our Eyes
Although we are men with mortal sins, angels never cry

So bury fear for fate draws near and hide the signs of pain
With noble acts, the bravest souls endure the heart's Remains
Discard regret, that in this debt a better world is made
That children of a newer day might remember, and avoid our Fate.

And in the fury of this darkest hour we will be your light
You've asked me for my sacrifice and I am Winter born
Without denying, a faith in God that I have never known
I hear the angels call my name and I am Winter born

And in the fury of this darkest hour

I will be your light
A lifetime for this destiny
For I am Winter born
And in this moment...
I will not run, it is my place to stand
We few shall carry hope

Within our bloodied hands

And in our Dying
We're more alive-than we have ever been
I've lived for these few seconds
For I am Winter born

And in the fury of this darkest hour
We will be the light
You've asked me for my sacrifice
And I am Winter born
Without denying, a faith in man
That I have never known

I hear the angels call my name
And I am Winter born

Within this moment now
I am for you, though better men have failed
I will give my life for love
For I am Winter born

And in my dying I'm more alive, than I have ever been
I will make this sacrifice for I am Winter born


7. UNTRUE

My eyes resign dissolving vision
To vividness of sense and sequence
Betrayed by certain circumstances

Outside the world I've known
How cold and cut bewildered silence
Left me for a newer face
While sadness dances gracefully
In this forgotten place

Regardless of the introspection

I found myself in your reflection
I guess it's all too easy now
To look the other way

Saving graces, trading places
Asking for a sense of hope
But the line to heaven's ringing busy

And I walk this path alone
What kind of sick games were we playing?
No rules, no constitution
No sympathy for one another
And nowhere left to go

Regardless of the introspection

I see myself in your reflection
I guess it makes it easier
To turn your eyes away

And I'm not asking you to lie and tell me
That you love me still
I know that it's untrue

So I'm not asking you to lie and tell me that
You want me too
I know that it's untrue

Saving secrets unembellished
Left without revision
Sacrosanct and underground

Why do I need you so?
And sentiment was none-too-careful
Delivering the means
To break the balance of perfection
And eliminate these dreams

Regardless of the introspection

I see myself in your reflection
I guess it makes it easier
To turn your eyes away

So what do I do?
I still love you..
Life is such a tangled mess

With cruel lines dividing us
I don't want to be
On the other side from you


8. A STRANGER MOMENT

The wind has wrenched all hands away
And ripped and torn the sail
ut the sea grows somewhat calmer
As storms ply against the hull

Still I hope that time has something left

To show that I was here
Before sinking into oceans
Of blurred forgotten years

For my intention is a stranger moment
Apart from the world we share
And all of our enchanted musings
Fell lost between the here
And the there

The lights upon the farthest plain
Ascending with the storms
Where children and dreamers separate
And a gulf within us forms

And I hope when they replay the verse
Our tongues fell deep to speak
The words are less confusing
And the rhythm not so weak

But intention is a stranger moment
Apart from the world we share
And all our hopes of happiness
Survive between the here
And the there


9. WAITING TO LEAVE

With watching eyes
You see dreams dissolving
Distant voices slipping away
I have to go - I hear
The call of something deeper

A voice inside of me

And tears return
Beneath the happy ending
Promised words that scattered
In the cold
I have to leave, I hear

The call of something higher
Something young becoming old

I'm waiting for the last train
Out of nowhere
I'm waiting for the last train
On the line

Some people say that I will
Never leave here
But I have to go this time
I'm waiting for the last train
Bound for somewhere
I'm playing with my last chance

On the line
I think it's really now or never
You know I have to try...

My sympathies,
Are wasted on regretting
Why not come with me?

I have to go - I hear
The call of something stronger
And it's pulling me away

I can't stay here any longer
Trapped here by the rain
I can't stay here any longer

Waiting for this train

I've been running around in circles
Without any direction
I've been searching hard to find
Who I really am..

I've been running around in circles
Without any direction
I've been lost here for so long
I've forgotten who I am..


10. EAST

Go go east
Go go east
Go
Too many the questions
Where answers are few
The path driving tangled

Loves destiny's truth
With hunger unwilling
A passage to choose--
The trees growing ripe
With forbidden fruit?
Dance in the garden?

Sing with the snakes?
Inviting free will,
To repeat his mistakes?
With hunger unwilling
What will you do??? -
The trees are ripe

With forbidden fruit?
Go go east of Eden
Rising in the eastern sky
The sun god dances light divine
Rising in the eastern sky
The western banks below his eye

Stop
With hunger unwilling
A passage to choose??? -
The trees are ripe
With forbidden fruit?


11. CITADEL

Languid waves of desperation
Fall before the rains
A vanguard to approaching war

Is borne upon the sea
The icy breath of cyclones bent
On waging our destruction
Drills hard against the hearts of heroes
Called here to defend

I see storms on the horizon

I see the tempest at the gates
I see storms on the horizon,
And a citadel alone
Clinging brave, defying fate

And I will stand here at the gates to face the onslaught Fighting
Without surrender or defeat

With Troy besieged by tyrants' greed - (tyranny)
In Hector's memory, God willing
We shall save this victory
Without surrender or defeat

Sudden silence - I realize
Breaking teardrops in the rain

With every breathing moment
The pillars are sustained
And waking hands attached to nothing
Tightly clutching close
Each sleeping vision speaks unheard
And heaven only knows (exactly why)

Paris' arrow landed true
Paris' arrow landed true
Paris' arrow landed true
Down upon your heel...

This Troy...

She will not fall again
This Troy...
She will not fall!


12. AFTER ALL

Hear the voice of the unremembered heart
Hear the silence between each word
Black and white divided grays that cut between us
Filled with broken shards of promised days

I'm standing far ahead

Always looking backwards
I'm standing far behind
With eyes fixed on tomorrow

Breathe in deep, and open your heart again
The fire burns where the embers fall
So love, in spite of the pain you feel
For the lives we live - follow after all

Where are the artists and the prophets?

Lost below the wheels of this machine...
Because money drives the vanity of human culture
But emotion fuels our hope and feeds our dreams

They dance upon the water
They dance upon the fire
They dance upon the stoney ground
With palms turned to the sky