I don't want to start any blasphemous rumours
But I think that God has a sick sense of humour
And when I die I expect to find him laughing

When she cries at night
And she doesn't think that I can hear her
She tries to hide
All the fear she feels inside
So I pray this time
I can be the man that she deserves
'Cause I die a little each time when she cries

Do what you want and then die when you want to
We're gonna walk on the blood of the meek
We're gonna sail through the oceans of wonder
We're gonna live in the dream that we seek

I thought I could live in your world
As years all went by
With all the voices I've heard
Something has died
And when you're in need of someone
My heart won't deny you
So many seem so lonely
With no one left to cry to baby

Feel the breeze?
Time's so near you can almost taste the freedom
There's a warm wind from the south
Hoist the sail and we'll be gone
By morning this will all seem like a dream
And if I don't return to sing the song
Maybe just as well
I've seen the news and there's
Not much I can't do. . . alone

Oh it won't rain all the time
The sky won't fall forever
And though the night seems long
Your tears won't fall forever

Morning has come, another day
I must pack my bags and say goodbye. . .

Don't be alarmed, no don't be concerned
I don't want to change things
Leave them just as they were
I mean, nothing's really different
It's me who feels strange
I'm always lost for words
When someone mentions your name
I know that I'll get over this for sure
I'm not the type who dreams there could be more

I know what it's like to be forgotten
Left alone with your simple dreams
But even dreams are fading fast
No one to turn to when you can't sleep at night
Waking up to another day that will soon be over
And if you think that time has forgotten you
Well just look into my eyes
And know the times will change

You must take away the pain
Before you can begin to live again

Have you ever needed someone so bad?
Have you ever wanted someone you just couldn't have?
Did you ever try so hard
But your world just falls apart
Have you ever needed someone so bad?

Don't let the sun go down on me
Although I search myself, it's always someone else I see
I'd just allow a fragment of your life to wander free
But losing everything is like the sun going down on me

Strange how laughter looks like crying with no sound
Raindrops taste like tears, without the pain

I never made promises lightly
There may have been some that I've broken
But I swear in the days still left
We will walk in fields of gold

With every waking breath I breathe
I see what life has dealt to me
With every sadness I deny
I feel a chance inside me die
Give me a taste of something new
To touch, to hold, to pull me through
Send me a guiding light that shines
Across this darkened life of mine

And I raise my head and stare. . .
into the eyes of a stranger. . .
I've always known that the mirror never lies. . .

She closed her eyes
as she threw her penny
in the still, clear water.
She made her wish
and she walked away,
whistling and smiling.
What she wished for
no one can say.
Does it matter?

Cracked tile
had never before been so entrancing, inviting
As the awkward moment of silence
Pressed upon me
until the cracked tile
became teeth
crimson and vicious
Rising up
from the very ground
on which I stood
to gorge
on my embarassment
Now mutated into self-loathing
and as I stared
into the giant maw of humiliation
I asked
Is there no peace in this world
for a poet?

The one time power
-the strange embrace-
Is now and forever lost.
What once was true
Now turned a coalblackened shade
Of misguided reality.
Tempered steel is a rubber dream
While I sit alone and stifle myself.
Self-contained and self-denied
The thoughts they dance on windy spires,
A testament to a dead dream.
Painfully I start to stand, but not for long.
The dizzy feeling that is vertigo takes hold,
There is a fall.
From the bottom of the Abyss, I stare
Up and Out
Trying desperately to see what has happened.
My fall from Grace
Sanctified by Fire
Leaves no trace of its origin.
I am Lost without it,
Just a wanderer in a night
That lasts Forever.

How can I ever trust you
to a brown-eyed girl who will tell you lies
There are griefs worse than gravity