Zero Hour
Oh yeah the plane feels small, this is like a dream gone bad
It's such a long way to fall, from all the grace we had, and we're singing:
"Please observe the seat belt sign, for the moment we are all still alive"
I feel the panic begin to rise, and my eyes are a little too excited
And all that it takes is like nothing for some
I might have made my mistakes, but I will never regret them
The money's all gone, the pain it is leaving
She smiles and says, "You're only dreaming"
I've got a crucifix, I've got a bag of tricks, I feel like a wrecking ball
I feel it, I feel it
I like the sound of it, I like the taste of it, I like the feel of it
I like the, I like the deep, deep calm.
Yeah, I like the deep, deep calm
They said, "Please observe the seat belt sign, for the moment we are all still alive"
They say "There's nothing more that we can do" and now the pilot's getting pissed at the crew
All that it takes is like nothing for some
I might have made my mistakes, but I will learn to regret them
The money's all gone and the pain it is leaving
She smiles and says, "You're only dreaming"
I've got a crucifix, I've got a bag of tricks, I feel like a wrecking ball
I feel it, I feel it
I like the sound of it, I like the taste of it, I like the feel of it
I like it, I like when the gravity's gone
And as the engines fail, oh I keep on feeling higher
Yeah I think my future looks bright, now that it's all on fire!
And so the dream begins, and so it ends no arguments help us survive, oh no
Along the way you blush with terror suddenly makes me feel so alive
Come See Everything
Lately he's been drinking alone, dreaming naked by the telephone
Bolting doors and getting stoned, locked and loaded and he's losing hope
And as the sum of all fears, becomes the drum in our ears
And someone unlikely says come and see everything, come out and see the whole world
We'll never make it alone, never make it
If it's too much to contemplate, just start shaking the hands of fate
No one leaves the way they came, what you take is what you gave
And as the sum of all fears, becomes the drum in our ears
And someone unlikely says come and see everything, come out and see the whole world
Come and see it
When you turn your back, let your soul go black
Black as coal soot, black as a crows foot
Lately he's been drinking alone, dreaming naked by the telephone
Bolting doors and getting stoned, locked and loaded and losing hope
And as the sum of all fears, becomes the drum in our ears
And someone unlikely says come and see everything, come out and see the whole world
We'll never make it alone
Crusatyr
Have you felt the weight of your own bones dragging you down as you face the day?
For so many ages you've turned them stones, trying to be a fool instead of a sage
Oh yeah but now you got this feeling, is like all we children are lost, too afraid to pay any cost
Have you read all the words in the unwritten tomes? Scratched into the pages of your reflected face
Can you wash off the dirt from the years on the road? Preaching all the virtues of going insane
Oh yeah well you got this feeling, like all we children are lost, dying like sparrows in frost
Well you wake the world up, and you got their attention well, have you really got something to say about it?
Cat got your tongue now has it? Have you got the drugs to free it? Well have you really got anything to say? I doubt it
Gotta bring it all back somehow
And I believe it
Yeah I'll believe it
We all need it
We all need it
There is a gaping hole inside of me that I just keep pouring whiskey in, but it's not filling
Though the ancient days of wine and song are too far gone to ever come back now
Your hopes have been fading for so long of bringing all the madness back somehow
Oh yeah but now you got this feeling, all we children are lost, dying like sparrows in frost
Alone
Hold me close until my fear subsides, yeah I might be the only one left alive
Oh pull me out of this sullen field, yeah, I might be too close, I might be too close
We're all alone, we are alone, but I don't know your location
So many ghosts have come and gone, they left a ringing in my ear
We are alive, the world is ice, this is a strange vocation
But I might be too close, I might be too close
I can feel you, Mother, oh I'm so near you, Mother
We were all so brave on the outside, oh we painted our very own meaning of love, in our letters of blood
Oh yeah
It goes so fast, like a bomb blast, the conviction of the righteous is gone
Yeah it goes so fast, like a bomb blast, the conviction of the righteous is gone
Yeah we are alone, we're all alone, but I don't know your location
So many ghosts they have come and gone, they left a ringing in my ear
To put the blade to those you love, this is a strange vocation
And I might be to close, I might be to close
I can feel you Mother, oh I'm so near you Mother
We were all so brave on the outside, oh we painted our very own meaning of love, in our letters of blood
Oh yeah, we painted our very own meaning in letters of blood
I saw the frightened faces of the boys coming in for the kill, so many more of them left to cut down before we take that hill
And they said "Any man here with a merciful thought in his head will be shot where he stands"
So we carried out faithfully, down to the letter, all of the Colonel's demands
All the Colonel's commands, yeah all of the Colonel's demands
And in the end we all knew we'd be getting what we got
To the devil by a hangman's rope with the whole wretched lot
Tracks Across The Snow
All we monsters think we are divinely born, our fingers pointed to heaven, we direct our scorn
We're not flying, we're not flying, we're not flying, just naming all the stars
Turning, looking backward as we go, we've been leaving just tracks across the snow
We're all dying, we're all dying, we're all dying, yeah we're dying for the things we left undone
The perfect words we know we've never spoken, never spoken
I built up towers to live on through the stone, I was leaving just tracks across the snow
I've been dying, I'm dying, I'm dying, oh I'm dying for the things I left undone
For everything a time will come, and all that I thought went on and on, fades until even the echo's gone
And down comes that snow, obscuring all of my hope
Covering everything I know, covering all of my hope
Just to be loved, just to be loved
Just to be loved, just to be loved
Just to be loved not covered over by snow, yeah
Creeping down it softly comes, leaves no trace of what once was at all
Covers all that I've done, filling in all of the holes
Oh, and the glass is breaking, and all the beliefs are shaking
Even the future that you're making, in time will leave you forsaken
Oh now this vertigo you feel is brought on, by this dizzy, spinning sun
It's not long 'till our time is done, and we embrace the dreamless oblivion
All we monsters think we are divinely born, our fingers pointing to heaven we direct our scorn
We're not flying, we're not flying, we're not flying, just naming all the stars
Rocking Horse
Johnny rocks on his rocking horse, dreaming of the day of the big divorce
Hoping somehow that everything will get better
Johnny turns up the music loud, sings himself hoarse just to drown them out
She wants to leave, but they both know he won't let her
She's not gonna be brave, she's not gonna be too slow
To make her attack when he starts showing his back like a fool yeah
Been made to take, all that she could, mother and child, oh make their escape
Yeah, they left him lying there in a dark pool of his own hate, there was no time to contemplate
In a house by the door there's a rifle with a rusted sight
Taking aim making sure, going to end it all tonight
He's the lamb with a loaded gun, quietly begging her to get it done
She looks like a ghost but at least she's not weeping
Well she's not gonna be brave, but she's not gonna be to slow
To make her attack when he starts showing his back like a fool yeah
Been made to take all that she could, mother and child, oh make their escape, oh yeah
They left him lying there in a dark pool of his own hate, there was no time to contemplate
Red, black, faces that come undone
Beg, plead, and then drop like setting suns
Compassion please, not until she's been broken, been broken
Oh now day after day learn to swallow down, bite after bite of all the pride you can
Yeah she said, "Keep your head when he comes, bleed and suffering, find freedom"
Compassion please not until she's been broken
It's ok, It's ok, It's ok
Everything is okay, everything is okay
Safety
By now I have learned, there's only hope for me if she says so
And when all my bridges burn, she'll finally be the only road I know
Oh she understands, the little ways I twist and cough
That's the way she learned the price, of living with the safety off
By now the whole of her life, has been traded like a pawn
That's why she knows the price of living with the safety on
So we tumble through the night, we know we just might make it to the day
Make it through the day in safety, in safety, in safety, in safety
Don't cry, no don't cry, there's always something new for us to try
Come the night, by firelight, we'll tear away the cobwebs from our eyes
By now I have learned, there's only hope for me if she says so
When all my bridges burn, she'll finally be the only road I know
Oh and she understands the little ways I twist and cough
Now she knows the price of living with the safety off
Luddite
Wind up the ancient machine, yeah until you break it
Hold on for the time of your life, yeah you'll learn to fake it
You got your brand new disease, yeah you've got your shiny car
Oh, you live your life on your knees, yeah they tell you who you are
That's why you know it's true, you know it's true
I've been holding on for a reaction, it's the same thing every day
All of my tiny distractions, they come and take my life away, oh yeah
And the whispering of the wise never entertains the fools
And the art of compromise is now the only one they teach in schools
How quickly all our seasons go, how slowly we learn who we are
We trade our lives for baggage, until the weight of it all buries you under
Wind up the ancient machine, yeah until you break it
Know the fruit must come from the seed, yeah but try to fake it
They sell you a brand new disease, yeah they sell you a shiny car
Oh, you live your life on your knees, yeah they tell you who you are
That's why you know it's true, yeah you know it's true
Oh I've been holding on for a reaction, but it's the same thing everyday
All of my million distractions, they come and take my life away, oh yeah
The whispering of the wise never entertains the fools
And the art of compromise, pays for all their swimming pools
How quickly all our seasons go, how slowly we learn who we are
We trade our lives for baggage, until the weight of it all just breaks your fucking balls
They say that to the grave the soul is all you take
So don't make this mistake of trading it in for a trinket
Oh I guess you just gave it up, oh this fucking modern life
Nowadays there's something to be said, for a quitter
Hollywood
I don't want to be mean, I don't want to be cruel, but sometimes I feel I've got to drink 'til I drool
And take all the weight of the world from my shoulders and put it on you
I don't want to break free, I don't want to head south but I hear destiny calling and it's using my mouth
To shake off the weight of the world from my shoulders and lay it on you
Oh so I'm packing my bags, and I'm heading down to Hollywood
Yeah I'm taking my things and I'm leaving today for Hollywood
Yeah I've deepened my tan, and I've shallowed my wit and I thank you for listening to my latest hit
And I kneel and I pray everyday to my TV to tell me what's true
Oh I'm nauseated by nice I'd like to be kind, oh but I'm starting to feel like I'm losing my mind
I'm surrounded by plastic and sunshine and it's just to good to be true.
Yeah so I'm packing my bags and I'm leaving today for Hollywood
Yeah, I'm taking my things and I'm heading down south to Hollywood
I can hear my destiny calling me to Hollywood, oh ready or not 'cause we're all going to Hollywood
Yeah you're gonna love all the looks that you'll be getting in Hollywood
Go ahead and leave all your books you won't need any in Hollywood
Long Gone
Feel the light upon me looking in the window, feel the warmth of our innocence fade away
As the pleasures we seek run so go our virtues
Don't call it love, don't call it hate, it's just this moment between you and I
Long gone, long gone
While we were looking for comfort we let everything fall to pieces
And in my naiveté I threw your childhood away
And we look for the thrill that's perfect until the taste of the act has a lasting impact
Yeah I'm watching through the window but I never know why
Somebody gave you something that just can't be denied and it's
Long gone, those days
Long gone, those days
Well, now that we've played with the blade, yeah
Oh, we've learned that it cuts going both ways
So we raise the flag of bitter surrender, we're not alone
And I know that I will always remember the other voice on the phone
Feel the light upon me looking in the window
No don't call it love, don't call it hate It's just a moment between you and I
Oh No
Diamond
He pulls open his eyes as he rides into town, oh the blood on his hands is washed down by the rain
Those bloodthirsty hangmen of Pilate are waiting no more now that their crimson stories are told to the drain, to the drain
And by this time he knows that it's too late, and the other cheek is far too tired
And he knows that the end of it all is the only diamond that keeps him inspired
Oh yeah, that he keeps him inspired
He sleeps in a payphone and dreams of the sea, yeah when he wakes he's still aching and cold and alone
Yeah he looks back to the childhood he had before all the children went mad he loves that revolver like it was a precious stone
And by this time he knows that it's too late, and the other cheek is far too tired
And he knows that the end of it all is the only diamond that keeps him inspired
A new lethal freedom keeps him warm, it is the light and the way
Cabaret actor now proselyte, keen scrutinizer and new parasite
And he looks for the Nazarene in every dirty magazine, looks for the Nazarene in every dirty magazine
Oh he sees again just what the world is made of, oh keeps firing repeating "God is love"
Yeah ees again just what the world is made of, oh keeps firing repeating "God is love, God is love"
Now he sees again just what the world is made of, sees what the world is made of
Keeps firing repeating "God is love, God is love, Oh God is love"
Repeating "God is love, God is love"
4 Down (A Toast)
Raise a glass and have a toast for our lives oh, but just don't stop at one
Dressed in our finest with our rosy cheeks aglow, we face the dying sun
All as one we breathe
So the days were long and the nights were bad, time erased the dreams we had, and still we played on 'til the curtain call
There is a thief who's in the yard and he's stealing from the dogs
There is a dog that's fast asleep upon my feathered bed
There is a girl that finds it hard to stop laying down and giving
There are some rules but no one knows just where we left them
The world is in my head, the world is in my heart, oh my head and my heart are in the world
Don't ask us to wait no we don't have time for that, we can't be held below the speed of light
Oh no don't ask us to wait our time is running fast, not one second wasted will come back
And the days were long and the nights were bad, time erased the dreams we had, and still we played on 'til the curtain call
And the days were long and the nights were bad, time erased the dreams we had, still we played on 'til the curtain call
And the days were long and the nights were bad, time erased the dreams we had, still we played on 'til the curtain call
And the days were long and the nights were bad, time erased the dreams we had, still we played on 'til the curtain call