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1. |
this haunted play
04:42
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sipping moon beams
the seeds of desire
it's so far away
not just lost and burning
you've come too far to try
gone so far your bones are still scarred
there's no turning back though
these four walls have seen
when everything is at stake
in this haunted play
and the clockwork turns again
i close my eyes softly
as the shades go red
you're gone from here
take me to somewhere far away
in someone else's dreamless nightmare
where dreams must lead us
there must be something here
just for me to believe in
now i'm as sad as i can be
i want to find the words i've been meaning to say
it's so far away
not just lost and burning
you've come too far to try
in some dark cave
out on the shore line
you saw above the clouds a starry pool
that you thought would make the water flow
not really calm the chill of your pain
as it lifted in the eyes of another world
your silence was silent as it used to be
and you held your breath with both hands against the tide
as i watched your shadow fade beneath the sun
and as the tears that broke from your eyes
to dry the teardrops of yesterday's flowers
i held my breath and i felt the earth
shake me away i'm still alive
and as the tears that broke from your eyes
to dry the teardrops of yesterday's flowers
i held my breath
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2. |
where sadness fell
03:44
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this can't be just anywhere
i need to be here
this can't be just anyone's dream
i need to see this
i could climb over every wall
to be with you
where sadness fell
here i am standing contentless
on my own
i've just had enough
is all that i want for free
it doesn't haunt me at all
i've been walking alone
for all these years and two
in the back on the radio
and my time is gone
show me the sky
i’ll lead the way
with flames as our shadows
i keep a picture
of love in a plastic box
something lying somewhere at the end
a tear like coloured dust
on my face when i'm not ok
the song across the wall
tells a lie and that's ok
something is really wrong
just fall and die
all the lovers say
soon the time will come
when it won't hurt you at all
but i keep falling
it doesn't haunt me at all
i've been walking alone
for all these years and two
in the back on the radio
and my time is gone
show me the sky
i’ll lead the way
with flames as our shadows
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3. |
darkness
06:15
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set all the lights in flight
headstone tells of no comfort
the torch buried deep inside
all is darkness all around
this body is made of stone
though you call this place home
your face upon the pillow
only the clouds in my head
your eyes upon the door
so close me in the dark
your shadow takes every breath
feel me falling
falling from my face
with your haunted voice
i know that i am only a child
but your touch is haunting me
they’re lying here
in front of me all in black
can you hear them
as they watch you fall
i'm not afraid though
the silence is strange
follow me i will stay
cast away these devil leads
in a hell of darkness
shapes and colours
no time to think or taste
no reason or rhyme
sooner or later
all around me nothing seems the same
as they watch you rise
with blood upon the ground
your touch is haunting me
they’re lying here
in front of me all in black
can you hear them
as they watch you fall
i'm not afraid though
the silence is strange
i’ve seen an ever changing light
i have been speaking to the clouds as they disappear
i have courage to walk from here
in my voice i can speak words
to mark the time
but i have to disappear
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4. |
faded light
04:27
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she was nowhere
across the room
i saw her
in the morning
through late afternoon
only had to smile
i’d go out walking
across the restless way
reeling and whispering to myself
like a new born thing
and i'd go out walking
across my mother's home
across the universe
if i only had the time
even less room for thoughts that die
or just a moment of mourning
so right i should go on
along with them
i'm all by myself
and something is missing
the colours run
but in the faded light the silence looms
in my head there's none to blame
we break the dawn
then the sky was new
each breath stuttered out an angry tear
the night we didn’t have anymore
we disappeared out of sight
and i stared for the shades
we became unstuck
in the light shining through the rain
and then the fog split the sky
and i ran like hell
but i’m still the same
though my mind is gone
to touch the edge
with the flame rising
not a silent ray
of desire on the face
to reach the sky beyond the grave
at the crossings of
the ground i have held
in my heart there is nothing
there is nothing
i could make it alone
i have lived here lonely
in spite of all the hurt
and pain
at the fading eye
no one told me
i needed to run away
i would take my heart
i’ll be a step ahead of the storm
with blood in each hit of the sun
i will learn of life
in shades of gray
i will learn of life
in shades of gray
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5. |
on the eye
05:16
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i see an angel
rising through the gloom
with the shadow cast
on the eye of a clock
and her servant words
like a whip through the wind
as she lies there sleeping
and breaks the silence in her wake
it seems the heat is never long
until the angels fall from their wings
they won't have a mortal wound
nothing more in the way
then just as quick as i can feel it
she will rise
when the angels call her
and they'll tell her exactly what she needs to know
when the pain is too real
the silence will disappear
and she answers them in her own way
i'm nowhere around here any more
there's a tear running up my eye
and i cannot find the time to find
the words you've never said before
i keep thinking that it’s so long
but that’s just in my head
and beneath the starry sky
i am no one special
a ray of light
with nowhere left to run
she will rise when the angels call her
and they'll tell her exactly what she needs to know
when the pain is too real
the silence will disappear
and she answers them in her own way
she will rise when the angels call her
and they'll tell her exactly what she needs to know
when the pain is too real
the silence will disappear
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6. |
forgotten dream
06:05
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i have a pocket full of feathers
and flowers beneath my feet
i have a rage inside me
that drives some forgotten dream
in a madness like no other
i'd rather be asleep with my shadow
than anywhere else
and i'm following the line
i'm holding on to something
when all i am is just an empty page
and all i will ever be
moon beams falling around my house
they chase the flowers into town
and if we're falling into the darkness
she will pull me down
in a haunted house
in the wind she will surround me
she will greet me with despair
there are so many people
so all alone
just keep on moving
move on from that chaos
and all the hurt
as we're drifting down
watching every move
keep an eye on the diamond
as we're drifting along
we find it hard to follow
when the world is one big small cell
in front of us on this big globe
i just can't bear to look back
at all the things that took me
here and now
it used to feel like a garden
your eyes are just a crooked smile
they've been seen before
as they're drifting from view
just when you think you’re going home
then she holds you like a crystal ball
and she says is this her reflection?
this is her hands shaking
like a tear drop on her cheek
in her arms she holds the world's hand
but it just doesn't have much to say
as she ties his shadow
disappears as she swirls through the crowd
sighs like butterflies inside
this beautiful little scene
that nobody else could capture
there's nothing left for us to say
it had to be this way
it had to be this way
and if we're falling into the darkness
she will pull me down
in a haunted house
in the wind she will surround me
she will greet me with despair
there are so many people
so all alone
just keep on moving
on from that chaos
and all the hurt
as we're drifting down
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7. |
shattered
04:28
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your silence in a crowded room
the softness of your skin
as the tear that falls
slow into the shattered night
it rolls from my face
frozen in the river way light
on the edge
the edge of day
the garden gates have closed
and all the broken glass
all the voices lead me to despair
in the hush of the past
we fell beneath the stars
and into the sunset
the fallen shadows on your face
all the nightmares seem to fade
at the edge of the sea
an ocean of angel wings
darkness beyond the rain
an open desperate cry
in a sky on fire
i see the river
and taste the yearning
it swims through my veins
with an ache in my heart
the feeling is strong
as the heavens pull me down
in flames of fire i rise
above the clouds forever gone
no light of day i fall
and i look for you in the wind
in our own starry night
baptized in burning black
blazing as the sun
that fades from the sky
one of the falling stars
lace our face with the flames
we're afraid to touch the night
baptized in all firelight and love
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8. |
until the moon returns
04:16
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i will not rest here just yet
i will keep on dreaming
though what's real will be an illusion
the confusion is not a reflection
so now i'll just watch the flames
watch them fall along the way
as if everything was all right
this place seems so unreal
what i find in the sound of falling stars
drop the night the moon sinks beneath
we've got to hold on til the spirit rises
it's hard to fight the fading of the things
as we push it all away
the demons pour out of dark
and the rage of the night
becomes my light
my light
i will not rest until the moon returns
i will never let it rain on a new born heart
a heart ready for what the future holds
i’ve made mistakes but they are mine
i could be just like the other
without wings to break the silence
the black shadow on my face
the burning track below the soul
i am seeing the strength of the flame
rising every day
i need the sun as my shield
and the angels with other faces
shoot down the night
the flame that is you
as we push it all away
the demons pouring out of the dark
and the rage of the night
becomes my light
the rage of the night
becomes my light
the rage of the night
becomes my light
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9. |
renascent
04:55
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i saw four thousand holes in the moon
and every house on the hill
an image on its face
in every leaf of every breeze
the smell of fear hangs in every grain of sand
i look down upon my body
at all the friends buried in the ground
but if we would listen
they would tell us things we do not know
so hold me close and hold me tight
tell me love isn't going away
if your hand is on my heart
i saw myself in a dream
and i put on another face
she smiled at me and looked back
with a tear in her eye
time to slip into the restless light
shining through the clouds
down here in the black
the night has just begun
i thought i saw a house
i thought i had been inside
who would listen to my heart song
so much to ask of anyone
i was scared i was bare
my arms around her like a shroud
but i could not touch her face
she's in all directions
with eyes that can see
moving now drifting out
on a darkened street
in and out of these machines
in comes this serenade
beats me senseless with silent words
i saw myself in a dream
and i put on another face
she smiled at me and looked back
with a tear in her eye
time to slip into the restless light
shining through the clouds
down here in the black
the night has just begun
i've been here all along
in my own little house
when nights were few
and my dreams were not real
then i woke up grey eyes with tears
in the back of my mind
at the back of my time
we sat in the moon's bath
in our rendezvous
i saw myself in a dream
where i put on another face
she smiled at me and looked back
with a tear in her eye
time to slip into the restless light
shining through the clouds
down here in the black
the night has just begun
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10. |
chased from the sky
05:52
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a star upon your face
the moon is at my side
and i'm going nowhere
i’m going anywhere
my love is like a restless leaf
it moves right in and on
and it leaves me wild
there it goes there it goes
i know i’ve got something to say
walk and run walk and run
but not with joy inside
to answer your call
no way to know it all
to answer your call
your heart beneath the sun
when i feel my breath on the wind
the heavens laughed in my face
when love came
and brought me to my knees
i wouldn't ask for forgiveness
like any man of darkness
i have wings but even i
couldn't face the sun
i have the eye of a raven
chased from the sky
hear the thunder break the dawn
to a light that will lead me clear
to a light that will lead me
lead me clear
soon you'll be smiling
alone beside me
but my heart is aching
asleep without the love
i'm longing
we sailed on together
you and i
in this house of fear
we are clinging
to each star that brings me here
each star that brings me here
your heart beneath the sun
when i feel my breath on the wind
the heavens laughed in my face
when love came
and brought me to my knees
i wouldn't ask for forgiveness
like any man of darkness
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11. |
unspoken
05:50
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drift away my love
meet me where it never ends
a reflection in the dark
faded words unspoken
in your own way
you were never here
in your own home in the dark
sad words and lonely tears
are all they’ll ever hear
but when i look in your eyes
there you are barely a smile
and inside you're gone
so lonesome and alone
in the lost light of night
there lies a rose
a beautiful flower there
there was something inside
the darkest shadows
are everywhere you look
that's where we are
but i still believe in someday
you found the world was wrong
just one spark from above the clouds
all the eyes of sorrow saw us coming
after all these years there is
nothing that was left
and when you get there
it’s closed forever
silent cries of mourning
the tears i've held for you
the one i could trust to walk away
sometimes these words
i have held too long
i feel this love that has no end
these feelings of the moment are still here
you are the first thing that i need
and i want more
i can hardly find the words to say
but there's so much more
in the lost light of night
there lies a rose
a beautiful flower there
there was something
inside
the darkest shadows
are everywhere you look
that's where we are
but i still believe in someday
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12. |
from the flames
04:30
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on wings of a darkened shroud
in the soft light of an angel's dream
darkness comes from the flames
and spirits no longer answer
and so it was that some words were taken
in from a knock on the door
in the face of a silent tear
and the voice it would speak from the heart
a face under the shadow’s surface
the world of our dreams has fallen through
and glory descends on us all
in the violence of its ending
we have come undone
danger lies in wait the silent souls cry
in the bitter kiss the last tear comes down
for anyone still sleeping knows
heard the distant cry of an angel
here in my own emptiness
there where i long to be
in a deep hole within me
all around me no one could know
but something felt so wrong
and now a shadow's there
with no one else in sight
i am falling
no longer thinking of anything
i'm thinking of you
rescuing these wounds that can't heal
the wounds i have found in me
the memory of your face
a face under the shadow’s surface
the world of our dreams has fallen
and it descends on us all
in the violence of its ending
we have come undone
danger lies in wait the silent souls cry
in the bitter kiss the last tear comes down
for anyone still sleeping knows
heard the distant cry of an angel
telling us love is just lying there
i watch the sky suffer another morning
and a queen on her back
the haunted star must fall
blazing into the gloom of her eyes
all my days i've been running around
lonely rivers flowing under my wings
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13. |
your silence
05:29
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my eyes of the future are new
my senses have been scarred
this face underneath the moon
there's new beauty
and it's more than i can take
my spirit is calling you
in your arms i hold your hand
in your eyes i know your name
just like it always was before
you are here and never there
all this time my body was longing
my body is saying no
i won't feel anymore
this silence in my head
and it's more than i can take
my spirit is calling you
i’ve lived inside your life
in glorious darkness
your silence is ringing
because you're not here
from the sadness there's no flying
the sky has stretched a thousand miles
in the universe you face you'll always be
the only thing holding me here
as you slowly lead me down
all i need is you
in your embrace softly calling out
across your night sky
i call out your name
as we break the dawn and the light
as we rise above the rain
saying come to me
stay with us tonight
in a world gone mad
on clouds they rise to the sky
they fly over the tears here
on a moon too beautiful for words
how will i learn
too much in a lifetime
treated like a ghost
in a world gone mad
your silence is ringing
because you're not here
from the sadness there's no flying
the sky has stretched a thousand miles
in the universe you face you'll always be
the only thing holding me here
as you slowly lead me down
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tone drop Los Angeles, California
tone drop is textural electronics, electro-acoustic composition, and song forms by g.e. stinson.
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