Don Dokken

Dokken, Brown, Levin

I walk these streets they built with progress
I search for truth but found no well
And when the sun arises diamonds in the dawn
I look to you but found no one

Back to distant stars where I know you are
I wanna be back home again
To that sacred sun where the sky is warm
I'll be in your arms again

I'll save the last goodbye for you

Under the neon lights in darkness
I found a way to bring you home
I read the words I cannot see why they all follow
It's all just poison for their minds

An as I slip into the madness
The angel spirit cries for me

To that sacred sun where the sky is warm
I'll be in your arms again

I'll save the last goodbye for you

I played the fool it seems a thousand times before
When I got older thought I've learned my lesson well
Then you came into my life and brought me down
Another lesson towards my fate

I feel like I've been standin' on the sun
Your fire burned my soul like no ones ever done

You can say what you want but don't bring me down
If you want me to play in your garden
Then don't bring me down
Baby if you want my love
Then don't bring me down

Your hyperstatic conversation till the dawn
It makes me tired but I see it turns you on
A tense relationship was all you've ever known
I tried to play but now it cuts me to the bone

I look into your eyes a thousand years away
For my compassion all I got was tears
I feel like I've been standing on the sun
Your fire burned my soul like no one's ever done

Dokken, Brown, Levin

Turn the lights down low there's nobody home
I've been watchin' for hours the clock on the wall
Seems the hands are frozen they don't move at all
Then the silence breaks as you walk through the door
On an on an on somewhere I don't belong
I'm all out of reasons to stay so I won't
On an on an onit won't leave me alone
Wish that you could remember the time when I said

I can't wait any longer to love you
Turns my reflection away from the day
I can't stand when you're so indecisive
Make up your mind so I can escape

When I hold you close there's nobody home
I can hear every heartbeat whisper and woe
Turn me on with your eyes as I smile right on cue
You rehearse everything that you say an you do
On an on an on you and I don't belong
There's no reason to stay anymore so I won't
On an on an on something's terribly wrong
Wish that you could remember the time that we said

I waited so long I'm going to the otherside
I'm losing my mind over you
I've been watchin' for hours the clock on the wall
Seems the hands are frozen they don't move at all

Dokken, Brown, Levin

Said you were Sophia
Should have known you by another name
I tried to be a believer babe
But I sank down in your shame
Livin' on the east side I was in the west
I tried to bring my love to you
But you trashed me like the rest

I've been haunted by your love
You gave me heartbreak

Tried to be your lover tried to be your friend
Tried to take your pain away
Would have loved you to the end
But their ain't no use in cryin'
I will get along
Hope you find your happiness
In your misery and woe

And I hope you're cryin' all alone
You left me haunted by your love
Haunted

And when you wake you find you're still alone
Drownin' in your tears
Will you see what you have done
When the love I had for you is gone

Safer today to go outside your window
Go down the stairs
You remember the way
New combinations you found in your letter
Ready to fly and escape

You're off the meds and bad tranquilizers
Keeping it down isn't your style of fun
Taking a walk in the park by the children
All that you want is a smile

Everybody's getting high today
Go on and alter your mind
Fade away
Fade away
Fade away

Let it go, let it go, there's no reason to stay

All that you want is some peace in the sunshine
Far from the freaks who are on
Staring at TV alone with no sunsets
Time for your oranges and blues
You're off the meds and the bad tranquilizers
Keeping you down isn't your style of fun
Taking a walk in the park by the children
All that you want is a smile

Everybody's getting high today
Go on and alter your mind
Fade away
Fade away
Fade away

(Prozac, Lithium, Wellbutren, Clonapin, Xanax, Valium, Crack Cocaine, Heroine, Speed, X's,

Hash, Pot, Effexor, Profexor,
Ellexor, Jack Daniels, Jim Beam…)

Everybody's getting high today
Go on and alter your mind

So when they lock you again
In a white room
Holding you down
Antiseptic your fate
You don't belong in a place
Where they talk to themselves
It's just hell

Let it go, let it go, let it
Fade away

All you want is a smile

Let it go, let it go, let it
Fade away

Fade away

Fade away

As I walked along the beach last night
Tried to find myself and get it right
If you saw the changes in my eyes
Riding on the wind you know it cries
When you need some one
It's hard to let them go
When you know that their the one
When you feel your hope is gone
Know that I still care for you
Even thoe your gone
I taste your tears
You think it would have passed
After all these years
Thoe you find away
Every night I think of you
I hope your sleeping well
When you need some one
When your hearts alone
When you feel your hope si gone
Know that I still care for you
When I feel you close to me
Even thoe it's just a dream
Please forgive that I still care
When your lonliness is there
I still think of you
Care for you
Waiting for
After all this time has gone
I still feel you in my arms
And when you need some one
Know that I still care for you
As I walked along the beach last night
Tried to find my self and get it right
If you saw the changes in my eyes
Would you come back

But can I find my way to you?
We've got this everywhere
It's hard to see it through
Time wither like my fingers
I've given everything and more

I can't go on with it in mind
But now we're wrong and out of time
Into your mind
Yes, you'll find
That we were better off before

The sands of time have closed the door
We were better off before
No chance to find a way down
Yes, we were better off before

Time crushing all my soul
A faded picture left of me
Upon the wall
Pain now my only friend
When shadows fall I will remember

The sands of time have closed the door
And left us broken evermore
No chance to find a way down
Yes, we were better off before

(Guitar Solo)

I can't go on with it in mind
But now we're wrong and out of time
Into your mind
Yes, you'll find
That we were better off before

The sands of time have closed the door
We were better off before
No chance to find a way down
Yes, we were better off before

The sands of time have closed the door
And left us broken evermore
No chance to find a way down
Yes, we were better off before

You were the one on the trigger
Deciding the fate of us all
Testing my fate in religion
Tryin to make sense of it all
All hope was lost, I found reason
To look in your eyes and find something

The promise you gave was that you'd remain,
Not leave me here and go missin
I've been the one in the shadows
Watching your life through a window
When you open your eyes and feel me inside you
why would you leave me for others

Wait for me, I'll come for you
Wait for me, can't you see I'm still sad
I'm still I'm sad
All hope was lost, I found reason
To look in your eyes and find something
It's was like two days apart
From the truth
Was my soul the piece you been missin

You've got the gun pull the trigger
Strait to the heart of the matter
If it's all been in vain why do I remain
Watchin you leave me for others

Wait for me, I'll come for you
Wait for me, this day is not through
Wait for me, it's about time were through
Wait for me, can't you see I'm still sad
Still I'm sad

Wait for me, I'll come for you
Wait for me, this day is not through
Wait for me, it's about time we through
Wait for me, can't you see I'm still sad
Still I'm sad

Still I'm sad

Still I'm sad

Still I'm sad

Watch your life through your window
Shadows fall
As the darkness falls to gray

Leave me here alone.
Lying in the burning sun.
This world has bleached my bones.
I should have taken your advice.

Lying all alone.
Lost to all my memories.
Feeling like a stone.
As the sky above me starts to weep.

The desert falls.
In my mind an endless sea.
I will never know.
What was and that will never be.

Deep within this hole.
Flowers lying on my bed.
Softly as you speak.
Telling me that you've been sad.

Leave me here alone.
Cause I won't be coming back again.
The moments that we own.
Lie scattered in the sand.

I surrender. Surrender
All my love for you.
Please remember. Remember babe.
I'll be there for you.

Leave me here alone.
Cause I won't be coming back again.
The moments that we own.
Lie broken in the hands of time.

I surrender. I Surrender.
All my love for you.
Please remember.Remember.
I'll be there for you.

I surrender. Surrender.
All my love for you.
Please remember.Remember babe.
I'll be there for you.
For you.

Dokken, Levin, Keeling

Mother dear I've got to go
Find my way out in the world
Somethin's callin' me and I can't stay
As the leaves are fallin' down
Soon the snow upon the ground
Hope you'll understand why I can't stay

Waiting for the sun
When I start to run
Waiting for.......

Though I'm young not quite a man
I'll try and do the best I can
Duty calls my friends are all aboard
Feel the wind across my face
Standing ready all in place
On the trigger I'll become a man

Waiting for the sun

See the people falling down
Crimson colors all around
Tryin' to make it to the higher ground

Mother dear I had to go
Find my way out in the world
Sorry but I won't be coming home

Waiting for the sun

It's not hard to believe
That the world isn't real
When the sun doesn't shine in your eyes
All the time
It's not hard to concede
As we cry and we bleed everyday
We just won't leave
Feel your heart stop
Still alive but you're not
So you scream that you've had enough,
Done enough, said enough

See the reflections of lives that you've changed
As you look in the mirror and try to believe
It's been hard that I know
But I could have told you so
You reap what you sow

Can you see
In my face
All these tears I saved for you
Can you see
It's not right
That our love was never real

Is it right to hold on to the words that we spoke
Even though now that feeling is gone in your eyes
It's been hard to let you go
Even though you found someone new
Everyday
It's been hard to find
With no peace of mind

Can you see......

As I walked along the beach last night
Tried to find myself and get it right
If you saw the changes in my eyes
Riding on the wind you know it cries
When you need some one
It's hard to let them go
When you know that their the one
When you feel your hope is gone
Know that I still care for you
Even thoe your gone
I taste your tears
You think it would have passed
After all these years
Thoe you find away
Every night I think of you
I hope your sleeping well
When you need some one
When your hearts alone
When you feel your hope si gone
Know that I still care for you
When I feel you close to me
Even thoe it's just a dream
Please forgive that I still care
When your lonliness is there
I still think of you
Care for you
Waiting for
After all this time has gone
I still feel you in my arms
And when you need some one
Know that I still care for you
As I walked along the beach last night
Tried to find my self and get it right
If you saw the changes in my eyes
Would you come back

Why do you -- Invade me
I beg you -- don't leave me
Don't trust you -- don't trust me
I stand here -- benignly

What is inside that's pushing me
We're all a puppet on a string
This wooden world is just like me
We're all puppets on a string -- on a string

I hurt you -- you killed me
I love you -- you hated me
You gave in -- it thrilled me
You sex was -- fulfilling

What is inside that's pushing me
Like a puppet on a string
This wooden world is just like me
We're all puppets on a string -- on a string

I hurt you -- you tortured me
I love you -- you hated me
You gave in -- it thrilled me
Your sex was fulfilling
I hurt you -- you cut me
Your painful emission of how you felt
How you felt -- how you felt
My ego -- could not take

What is inside that's pushing me
Like a puppet on a string
This wooden world is just like me
We're all puppets on a string -- on a string

We're all puppets on a string
You buried me
You buried me on a string

wait for me behind
the walls behind the sky
revolution finds
the road to ease our minds

can we walk outside and
leave our fragile pride
within the holes forever
deeper we must hide
shattered pictures of
a moment lost in time

between the cracks in the ground
between the cracks in the ground

I see a painted face
through a colored haze
an enchanted place
its time to sail away

In my eyes I've lived a life
that's so surreal
my imagination questions what is real
shadows spinning in my mind
just like a wheel

between the cracks in the ground
between the cracks in the ground

passing through the doors
I stop to close them one by one
looking through the keyholes far behind

So -- so incomplete
we look into the world -- find no peace
once -- it seemed serene
we'd be forever young and so it seemed
what does it mean -- I find no answers
kept in a dream -- soft colored layers

I see myself through the looking glass
a shade of gray
a shade of black
no ups or downs
just in betweens

The gentle rain begins to fall
come with me and see it all

Rise above the world upon my wings
I was sleeping with the
sky beneath my feet

Now I drift endless and free
with the wind that carries me
what does it mean -- what does it matter
kept in a dream with soft colored layers

The gentle rain begins to fall
come with me and see it all

Rise above the world
upon my wings
I was sleeping with the
sky beneath my feet

Overtake me -- seize
the vision through my eyes
and reinstate me --
bathe me in your sunlight
until I know -- until I know

constant motion -- kept me standing still
howling silence -- penetrate
and break my will

so re-embrace me -- the release
me one more time
until I know -- until I know
so re-embrace me -- the release
me one more time
until I know -- until I know

Liquid fused around my body
swimming in the night's black water
justifies a child's exsistance
innocence abounds within us
but what does it matter

Watch my hand turn shades of gray
feel my life's breath fade away
soon I'll walk through gates of steel
to a place not yet revealed
but what does it matter

Hello death, hello death
hello death -- how do you do?
I don't remember calling you

All I need is just a drink of water
help me Jesus -- try to ease my pain
all I need is just to drink your water
hello Mr. Death please go away

Here I go into the earth
and here I'll wait until my birth
I will rise again someday
tranquility will find a way
but what does it matter

Hello death, hello death
hello death -- how do you do?
I don't remember calling you

All I need is just a drink of water
help me Jesus -- try to ease my pain
all I need is just to drink your water
hello Mr. Death please go away

I'm walkin' down these dark streets - all alone
a light ahead free coffee if you have no home
a parking lot full of people - same as me
waiting for the Messiah - his shift will start at three

He's a real convenience store messiah
idol worship for an idle mind
he's a real convenience store messiah
turning bottled water into win

waiting for the papers to come outside
they make such nice warm blankets - get in line
sometimes he might let us - stay inside
the only one who will listen
he can be so kind

He's a real convenience store messiah
idol worship for an idle mind
he's a real convenience store messiah
turning bottled water into wine

(They see through eyes)
looking through his window
(a glowing light)
staring at his vision late at night
(they idolize, they realize)
reaching out their hands

He's a real convenience store messiah
idol worship for an idle mind
he's a real convenience store messiah
turning bottled water into wine

Seeing no one
touching something
fingers reaching out
Senses burning
all from learning
no ones sees
the colors in my mind

Silent darkness speaks my name -
everything changes yet stays the same
like darkness into day
I know what is to come
long days without sun

*I feel
I feel

Slowly moving
endless motion
floating forward now
soaring higher
drifting nowhere
I felt that I was somewhere else

Total blindness still remains
everyone changes - I stay the same
the hours slip away
I'll feel this pain no more
my future waits outside the door

I feel - I feel (crystallized - piece of time)
I feel
The sun is shining over me
warming my senses

I make a plea
I'm guilty of feeling
so why is it so hard to see

I feel - I feel (crystallized - piece of time)
I feel - I feel
(blood stained eyes - open wide)
I feel

I will rise up - over this
'till I come to a higher place
I will find strength - let go
of all the ties to my disgrace

I'm no more - and no less
than anyone else
looking for a new horizon
I can find in myself

(It's all right) the shadow's gone
(shine your light) with the risin' sun
(It's all right) take me as I am
(yeah yeah yeah) cuz here I stand

No hesitation - holdin' back
I'll take each step one by one
but I might fall - I could stray
If I loose my eye's today

I'm only one in a crowd
I'm just one voice on the line
looking for a new horizon
another place another time

(It's all right) the shadow's gone
(shine your light) with the risin' sun
(It's all right) take me as I am
(yeah yeah yeah) cuz here I stand

In our hands a light shines
we still wonder
change our world into sand
we will hunger
like a child -fears the night-
draws near its mother
like a son -fears no one-
will cast our shadow forever
'cause here I stand