Mike Gionet

This is my rollercoaster
I ride it everyday
It's a mirror of my emotions
I want to wish it all away

News flash of the century
Story of the day
If you wanna see mountains crumble
You can watch it any day

When I come down
It's hard to get it straight
I gotta find me a better way

Whenever the light is gone
You're not the only one
Breaking down
When all your faith is gone
Don't let it pull you under
Change comes around
Sail on to higher ground
Hiding from the thunder
I think we'd all agree
That facing fear don't help us
Escape reality

When I come down
It's hard to get it straight
I gotta live with what I say

(Hess / Lesperance)
You screwed the system
I count the days
I'm watching your words unfolding
A little loser
That's got no place
Don't get your way
And your world stops turning
I'll be prying those words from your mouth
Cause I always think you're lying
Now your motives are always in doubt
So I don't hear you
When you tell me to be
Calm and relaxed
You're just a shooting star
That's destined for falling
Come and be saved
I would be alright
If I could live on empty promises
You're in one big sewer
You're something strange
If nothing I know
I've been learning of your unhuman nature
Cast iron skin
Build the fortress
So no one gets in
I'll be prying those words from your mouth
Cause I always think you're lying
Your motives are always in doubt
So I don't hear you
When you tell me to be
Chorus

Love's a long and twisted road
And I know I've walked it before
It takes me nowhere
Almost every time
And leaves me wondering
When will I find
A true love in perfect harmony
When will I learn
That I've got to believe

On my own now
I've come to learn
The times of heartache
From bridges burned
Now there's still one thing
I want to know
Will I find peace of mind
If I'm alone
And on it goes
I'm going around and around
God only knows
If I'm ever coming down

When I've had enough
The world kicks me around
One more time I've had enough
When I've had enough
I'll let out all the feelings
I can't hide
I've had enough for awhile

I try to talk to the clouds
But they spill out the rain
Now I'm truly convinced
They've got nothing to say

Will I ever learn
Is there something wrong with my brain
Now the weeds are on fire
And they're burning away

Last time I checked I'm at 34 sins
Another won't matter 'cause I'm never gonna win
Hoping now I'm on a road that I can change
Cause I'll change
If there was a time when I needed to pray
That the cold wind blows away
If there was a time when I needed a place
To wipe the guilt free from my face
If there was a time for mercy in my life
It's right now

If I were down on my knees
Would it all be in vain
But for now I'll believe
Until there's some better way
And my pages turn
Til I've got nothing to say
Now the days with no dawn
Are coming of age

Last time I checked I'm at 35 sins
Another won't matter 'cause I'm never gonna win
Holding onto a ghost that I can't save

How could you be so cruel
Is how the conversation starts
You say I'm breaking all the rules
Not to mention your heart

You say I promised you my love
Well, I got no reason to lie
Cause I forsee a change
And there's no mistake
If you wanna know the reason why

It's your jealousy
And I don't understand it at all
You've redefined jealousy
And wear it out on your sleeve not your heart
Now, I've got nothing left to say
You know I don't want no part
Of a mind that's so twisted
And views a million miles apart

You say I promised you my love
Should I give it one more try
I still forsee a change
There's no mistake
If you wanna know the reason why

Walking a dead street all my life
Watching the days slip into the night
And no matter how hard I try
The darkness seems to find me

But your sweet tender eyes
Have always been my guiding light
And you know the world's unkind
But something's resurrected me

And now I'm gonna wait
Til the moment's right
So right
I'm gonna take my time
And be sure I get it right
Too many people now
Can't see wrong from right
I'm gonna take my time
Now I know and understand
That I don't want no part of a world
If I can't live it
Just like I planned

We don't want no part of foolish pride
Try and understand
Before time finds your hourglass
With no sand

Freedom burns forever in the holy sun
It leads us into a battle that's never won

Whatever I take
Or whatever I give
Doesn't seem to matter anymore
When there's no

Justice in the world
No justice in the world
You feed the fire when you say it's all over
No justice in the world
When you realize that the devil's got your number

It's your decision
To walk the mile when the road is long
It's like religion wasting our lives on a
Worthless cause
Whatever I take
Or whatever I give
Doesn't seem to matter anymore
When there's no

When will freedom shine for us
No, it ain't over, no

You say that I'm lost
You got the word that I'm going down
Yeah it may be true
It's like twenty-four tons of hard hitting headache
When you realize that you're coming unglued

I've sown and you've sown the seeds of youth
Time won't and I don't conceal the truth

So get up and fly away
Or forever be in doubt
You know - saviors never cry
You're hot on the heels of hope and love
Dreams can never die
Tear down the walls you hide behind

There's just one thing in your life that you gotta do
You wanna break on through
Don't be kind to the core - easy to ignore
If your lips never move you're bound to lose the war

I know and you know - there's no use
Trying to hold back the years
Making a career out of hiding the truth

So get up and fly away
Or forever be in doubt
You know - saviors never cry
You're hot on the heels of hope and love
Dreams can never die
Tear down the walls you hide behind

A new day is born
You need to wake the dying
The hand that it's in is yours

I was fooled by your devil's disguise
I've been rained on enough
Now the sun won't rise
It seems I've been wasting my time
Carrying the weight of the world
And there's no end in sight

Now there's nothing for you
And nothing for me
I'm like a worn-out soldier
Running around incomplete
What used to keep it together
Comes apart at the seams
Now I know
You can never run away too far
Cause people get lost
On Sentimental Blvd.
It's better not to wait too long
Cause feelings get lost
On Sentimental Blvd.
We get older
And wonder where the time has gone

Put your dreams and your faith on the line
They're just reflections of us
In the mirror of life
Then it feels like it's passing you by
When fear is stronger than love
It can break all the ties

If I could read your mind I'd know
(Why you keep praying resolution will come)
If you lay your heart on a million lines
You'll be wondering where the time has gone
It goes on and on

Any night that you're lonely
Can be the night
Your conscience
Gets a little too much
You're torn by your freedom
You're safe in chains
Is you life made of diamonds or dust

Would you surrender it all
I gotta know

Do you want my touch
Would it hurt too much
There's nothing stranger than love
Do you want (Do you want my touch)
Do you feel (Would it hurt too much)
There's nothing stranger than love
Do you want my love
In times of confusion
We never know
If the emotions we feel are enough
And then out of nowhere we remember
That there's nothing stranger than love

Would you surrender it all
I gotta know

Between the two of us
You know it's more than enough

Well, it was something that took me by surprise
Just when I tried to re-arrange my life
Well then I find out the things that I didn't really want to know
(No, it's not easy, you know it ain't easy)
Trying to get ahead in the world
All of a sudden it came over me and now I finally know

Even the hard times are good times
But I'd do it all over again
Even when I can't see what I've left behind me
I'd do it all over, do it all over again

Noticing now, there's some new things in my life
I try to turn them around, but it's too late to change my mind
(No, it's not easy, you know it ain't easy)
Trying to get ahead in the world
All of sudden it came over me and now I finally know

As I walk into the dawn of another day
As I turn to face the light, shadows run away
After everything we've shared, how can we both turn and walk away
Through every single day, I want you to know, yeah I want you to know
That our love could be more than a distant memory
It's not enough to be only a distant memory

All these changes in my life, it's hard to handle it
Without a trace of where you've been, I can't get over it
I find it strange to say, time was on our side only yesterday
We've got to find a way, baby what went wrong, are we too far gone

Living without you is getting the best of me
Days come and nights go, I don't want to live with the memory

Don't be a distant memory
As I walk into the dark of another day...

You and I had a dream to hold forever
Now it seems those days are gone
So if you think that we can pull our hearts together
Then please tell me before I go
You say you heard a voice in the night
And you swear it was your calling
Your words rang true over mine, I want you to know

Wherever you run to now, just remember don't give your heart away
Whoever you run to now, just remember don't give your heart away

Now I see, we have a need to be together
If you disagree, then I guess you're moving on
You say you heard a voice in the night
And you swear it was your calling
Your words rang true over mine, I want you to know

I stand before you accused of many crimes
But I want to believe that love can still survive
You don't have to say it, I don't have to read your mind
To know that emptiness has finally arrived
How was I to know right from wrong
Words were hardly spoken, so where did I go wrong
Tell me honestly, if you're still loving me
Looking into my eyes honestly
Words have more meaning, if they're said at certain times
I need you now so I can feel alive
How would you know if you won't give me some time
To see if everything could work you'll be mine
I'll be lost forever or someday I may find
The words that I've been searching for or just some peace of mind
Chorus
All the nights I sit and wonder there must be more life
I'm sure that days and years go by while
I am living with, living with a lonely feeling
Chorus

I stand before you accused of many crimes
But I want to believe that love can still survive
You don't have to say it, I don't have to read your mind
To know that emptiness has finally arrived
How was I to know right from wrong
Words were hardly spoken, so where did I go wrong

Tell me honestly, if you're still loving me
Looking into my eyes honestly
Words have more meaning, if they're said at certain times
I need you now so I can feel alive
How would you know if you won't give me some time
To see if everything could work you'll be mine
I'll be lost forever or someday I may find
The words that I've been searching for or just some peace of mind

All the nights I sit and wonder there must be more life
I'm sure that days and years go by while
I am living with, living with a lonely feeling

It's gonna take some time 'til I'm over you
I'd gave you it all, there wasn't nothing that I wouldn't do
Now that it hurts so bad, when I found out the truth
That you'd been running around, Oh I was such a fool

I know I can't keep holding on, cause it's hard for me
Now that you're gone, I'm haunted by your memory

How long, 'til my heart can love again
I've tried and I've tried, I don't know what else to do
How long 'til this broken heart mends
Will I ever be over you

So many sleepless nights since we've been apart
They say time will ease the pain, tell this broken heart
I know I can't keep holding on, cause it's hard for me
Now that you're gone, I'm haunted by your memory

A physical attraction I could feel across the room
Inspiration, do I owe it all to you
Got no explanation why I feel the way I do
Ain't no need for complaining, cause I know that I've found heaven in you

I got a love, got a love reaction
You and me are fire meets ice
Got a love, got a love reaction
Burning in, burning in my heart

Did somebody sell you that smile upon your face
It's picture perfect, could it ever fall from grace
You got no hesitation for the way your body moves
Ain't no need for complaining, cause I know that I've found heaven in you

I tried running away, but it always ends up leading me back

There's a burning question in my heart
But I see the answer in your eyes
An uneasy feeling without you
There's only peace by your side

Our hearts survived the cold world outside
Somehow this love keeps us alive
I feel it in the morning
I feel it all through the day
I feel the heartache, slowly slipping away, slowly slipping away

We've had our share of confusion
We've been let down so many times before
But what I've found is a real love
No need to search anymore, no

Somehow we've weathered the storms in our lives
This love has never been a lie
We will survive the cold world outside
Somehow this love keeps us alive

Yesterday I had it all worked out to a 'T'
But now something's wrong between you and me
I was wrong, so wrong
To think that I would stay
Seasons come and seasons go
And today is another day

I wanna say now's the time
To go our separate ways
I don't know I might be wrong
Could we find the strength to say
That our love, our love's seen some better days
And who's to say if I had the chance

That I'd make the choice to say
If you ever had something that you wanted to say
You better start talking before I go away
I wish that I could say I've been feeling okay
That I'll be bringing on the better days
But I wouldn't feel right
Knowing I was lying to you

Am I wasting all my time, will we try to make a mends
I try to read between the lines
But all I see is the end

I lie awake all through the night
And think of you to break the morning light
Thoughts in my head, gotta make you understand
That love is what you need, won't let you slip through my hands

You said you'd never leave, and I guess you could be wrong
I won't have anyone to blame,I won't have anyone at all

With a little love, I keep holding onto you forever
With a little love, we can see it through together
I try to wait and just hold on
There's so many things I believe could go wrong

So I close my eyes, and pray for the day
That we can take all the lies and just throw them away

You said you'd never leave, and I guess you could be wrong
I won't have anyone to blame, I won't have anyone at all

Sometimes in your life
You'll pay for mistakes that you've made
And I don't wanna lie
Here in this bed that we've made

Now I wanna know
Could it be
Time has made strangers
Out of you and me

And I feel
Nothing is real
And that it's all a lie not where I wanna be
And I'm done feeling
This can't go on
And I know everyday
That these dark clouds are gonna blow away
When you're gone

I've come to decide
I'm tired of being your slave
And this is goodbye
There's nothing here we can save

I wanna know
Could it be
Time has made strangers
Out of you and me

Oh now I feel
Nothing is real
And that it's all a lie not where I wanna be
And I'm done feeling
This can't go on
And I know everyday
That these dark clouds are gonna blow away
When you're gone

I can feel the bombs are blowing up behind me
Got my head above the water on the rise
And I feel alone although you walk beside me

Still I fear what I'll find
If I hear you say the word goodbye

When all is said and done
You're still the one
Taking me higher
When all is said and done
I still need your love
You're taking me higher

Yeah I'm shedding all the skin that has disguised me
And I'm taking all the wrongs to make them right
Said my prayers and now I put it all behind me

Still I fear what I'll find
If I hear you say the word goodbye

When all is said and done
You're still the one
Taking me higher
When all is said and done
I still need your love
You're taking me higher

Into the light
Giving me energy
Into the light
You're there for me

When all is said and done
You're still the one
Taking me higher
When all is said and done
I still need your love
You're taking me higher

Time will abuse you
It's gotten so bad so bad
Won't do what you wanna
And keeps you searching

For the midnight sun
That's been long dead and gone
So you throw away the noose
That's been holding you down
Watching your back

Maybe we're caught up in the lies
But we're holding on
Yeah we're holding on
We're so far across the line
Even we don't know why we're holding on

You're never moving
Cause you're on it and off it
You're going nowhere
Cause you're searching

For the midnight sun
That's been long dead and gone
So you throw away the noose
That's been holding you down
Watching your back

They come and go
It's easier I find
When you've found the one

Maybe we're caught up in the lies
But we're holding on
Yeah we're holding on
We're so far across the line
Even we don't know why we're holding on

No time to lose
Holding back the years
You're turn to choose
Happiness or tears
Can't find the truth
Burning down the day
All that we do
Somehow slips away

On the line
Far to blind to see

If you get lost on your own road
Wait and you'll find me
If you get lost and you don't know where to go
Just wait and you'll find me

It's all up to you
No matter what they say
Now I believe in you
That will never go away

On the line
Far to blind to see

If you get lost on your own road
Wait and you'll find me
If you get lost and you don't know where to go
Just wait and you'll find me

All the love
More than enough
So don't give up
On you and me

On the line
Far to blind to see

If you get lost on your own road
Wait and you'll find me
If you get lost and you don't know where to go
Just wait and you'll find me

I know I gotta leave the comfort of inside my head
Before I'm gonna be so far down that I can't find it
The only way to be when your down is up I guess
I'm in between the walls that I built and it's closing in

Til I can't breathe
I can't see
I can't feel
If I'm real

Reach for the sun
Yeah I'll break free and run
And all my fears are gone
Reach for the sun
Yeah our road will be long
And all my fears are gone

I'm never gonna leave the ground with tired wings of lead
And I'm always gonna be a prisoner to all the things I've said
I know I gotta bleed the endless wounds and the cuts I have
Cause they're taking over me and it makes me feel like I'm living dead

Til I can't breathe
I can't see
I can't feel
If I'm real

Reach for the sun
Yeah I'll break free and run
And all my fears are gone
Reach for the sun
Yeah our road will be long
And all my fears are gone

Reach for the sun
Yeah our road will be long
And all our fears are gone

Did you leave looking for places to hide
Big mistake setting the bar to high

If I knew that the sun would rise on the other side
Yeah you're the only thing I know

Oh no you can't escape me for ever
Oh no you can't escape your whole life
I never get a chance cause you only run and hide

Everyday is a rollercoaster ride
You're gonna break keeping it all inside

If I knew that the sun would rise on the other side
Yeah you're the only thing I know

Oh no you can't escape me for ever
Oh no you can't escape your whole life
I never get a chance cause you only run and hide

Should I play to my strength or your weakness
Or should I pray for intervention yeah
I'm seeing this picture
With someone else

Do you hate it
Do you hate it
Do you hate that a piece of your heart was

Torn right out
There is no doubt
I can live without you everyday

Separate ways
Are never easy
I don't claim to understand it

I'm seeing this picture
With someone else

Do you hate it
Do you hate it
Do you hate that a piece of your heart was

Torn right out
There is no doubt
I can live without you everyday

Everybody that you pull me under
I don't know what to believe
Never saying a word to each other
I know that I'm waiting

On a love that's like dying flowers
And these are your final hours

Cause I've waited for as long as I can
And I don't wanna lose again
Yeah waiting and I can't understand
Why you don't try at all
Damn

Carried away like the sweet emotion
All the love inside of me
Better days may be gone forever
So you give til you bleed

On a love that's like dying flowers
And these are your final hours

Cause I've waited for as long as I can
And I don't wanna lose again
Yeah waiting and I can't understand
Why you don't try at all

I taste words that fell
Out of your mouth
Believing heart and head that I'd be the on

Wishing for so long
On wells run dry and burned out stars
We may be over
Love is gone
I will live on

Shades of discontent
Eye of the storm
Killing all what's left
Right has gone wrong

Wishing for so long
On wells run dry and burned out stars
We may be over
Love is gone
I will live on

All I Want
(Hess/Lesperance)

Opened the door
To an ever changing time
Losing control
With no warning
No warning

So now you've come
To finally realize
This won't be done by morning
By morning

It's the end of the love
You're giving it up
The heartache won't let
You walk away
And the day's gonna come
You throw down your guns
You're saving it up
For another day
All I want is everything
I'll never get enough
What I want could never bring
All that I dream of
That day will come
When we are one

It's hard to ignore
What we've done to our lives
I'm keeping score
Now you own me
You own me

You are the one
That I crave
Since you're gone
I count the days

'Till I'm warmer from your kiss
'cause I'm cold without your grace
I'm not falling on those blades
Like it's the first time

You came and wore me down
Leaving me in no doubt
Now we're up in the clouds
Living a charmed life

Since I've fallen
For your ways
I'm in
More than I can say

You're the light shining on me
You've taken the darkness away
Now sun never leaves
And time marches on
To some other place
And left a hole in my heart
That'll never be replaced

It seems like everything I do
Will be reminding me of you

'Til the end of time
There was only you and me
You changed my life
Hold on to what we belive
That our love was meant to be
'Til the end of time
Every moment alone
I find it hard to breathe
Now time is the thorn inside of me
That won't ever leave

Now no matter what I do
Everything will remind me of you

Don't hear a word you say
It's not because my hearing's gone
You're a fly that won't go away
I must bee doing something wrong

I switched your pills
I cut your brakes
Loosened the wheels
On your rollerblades
All and all it's a miracle
That you're here
If you never go away
How can I miss you

You burn everything you make
Don't think my stomach's
Strong enough
So I'm gonna give you away
Now get my favorite sweater off

I even tried to forge and fake
A first class prize
In the "gone" sweepstakes
That won you a ticket to
Nowheresville overseas

Welcome to the real world
Nobody's gonna show you around
I put up my defenses
To only have you knock 'em down

So the only one I trusted
Chewed me up and spit me out

Was it the moon or the tides
Changing your ways and now your mind

Say you don't, then you do
Say you love me, oh girl, you're killing me
Say you don't, then you do
Say you love me, although you're killing me

Life is pain and pleasure
Now I've had my share of everything
Gotta keep a better state of mind
And hope for what tomorrow brings

And so you think that you're an angel
Well then the devil must be growing wings

Was it the moon or the tides
Changing your ways and now your mind

Say you don't, then you do
Say you love me, oh girl, you're killing me
Say you don't, then you do
Say you love me, although you're killing me

Say you don't, then you do
Say you love me, oh girl, you're killing me
Say you don't, then you do
Say you love me, although you're killing me

Say you don't, then you do
Say you love me, oh girl, you're killing me
Say you don't, then you do
Say you love me, although you're killing me

Say you don't, then you do
Say you love me, oh girl, you're killing me
Say you don't, then you do
Say you love me, although you're killing me

Got your hands tied, yet you're free
To take chances and to dream
Never sold out, never preached
Are you God's Child? Are you greed?

Wherever you go time follows
Heartache still reigning over you
Life's a snake, all full of teeth
That has swallowed me, yeah all of me

Ain't it funny how the highs and all the lows
Just outside your window?
Ain't never gonna change, so you better fly
Or you'll fade away?

Poisoned your mind to believe
That you won't find inner peace
On the dark side under siege
There's no view unless you lead

Wherever you go time follows
Heartache still reigning over you
Life's a snake, all full of teeth
That has swallowed me, yeah all of me

Ain't it funny how the highs and all the lows
Just outside your window?
Ain't never gonna change, so you better fly...?

Ain't it funny how the highs and all the lows
Just outside your window?
Ain't never gonna change, so you better fly
Or you'll fade away?

Wherever you go time follows
Heartache still reigning over you
Life's a snake, all full of teeth
That has swallowed me, yeah all of me

Ain't it funny how the highs and all the lows
Just outside your window?
Ain't never gonna change, so you better fly...?

Ain't it funny how the highs and all the lows
Just outside your window?
Ain't never gonna change, so you better fly
Or you'll fade away?

Just outside your window
Just outside your window
Just outside your window
Just outside your window

You've been in love
For your whole life
You don't look back or pretend
Never think about the end
It's gonna be a long ride
Then you think of better days
And they're coming
Coming around your way

I'm holding on
To all I can
A falling star
Wondering where to land
I don't wanna leave it alone
I'll tell you this ain't over
And although I fear the unknown
I tell you this ain't over
It ain't over at all
Only one thing on my mind
Is to keep us from the edge
Maybe come down from the ledge
Let the sun
Shine as your guide
It will light you through the grays
And be sure you find your way

When the full moon's
On the horizon
Under dark cover of the night
Is when the voice inside
Overloads

Well it feeds on your
Inner vices
When your God won't
Show you the light

And the voice inside
Haunts your mind
No running away
No hope yet you pray
To end your sorrow
You're lying there safe
Then voices awake
You're destined to overload

With your heart and mind
Still colliding
There's a torture
You keep inside

Embrace the love you find
Cuz today is only time
That slips through your hands
And forever leaves you behind
And forever leaves you behind...

Yesterday life was alright
But now a memory
Cuz today I only find
Hell surrounding me

Caught on a thinner wire
Looking down in the fire

Hanging on another day
You fall to pieces with heaven at your feet
You're gonna find another way
The only reason, anything should be
Everything is on the line and the Weight of the world's on you

Everyday I'm gonna try
Until I find the key
And my faith will never die
Remembering what's real

Caught on a thinner wire
Looking down in the fire

Hanging on another day
You fall to pieces with heaven at your feet
You're gonna find another way
The only reason, anything should be
Everything is on the line and the Weight of the world's on you

Hanging on another day
You fall to pieces with heaven at your feet
You're gonna find another way
The only reason, anything should be

Hanging on another day
You fall to pieces with heaven at your feet
You're gonna find another way
The only reason, anything should be
Everything is on the line and the Weight of the world's on you

Embrace the love you find
Cuz today is only time...

Everything is getting clearer
Than ever before
Paid for your fake tits
And your facelifts
Now you're giving me the door

As long as we're together
Well the least that you
Can do is pretend
You think that I would learn
Because you do it to me
Time and again
Now you
You ruined everyting
When I thought we had it all
You
You ruined everything
Leaving me to take the fall

Your lack of vision
Is my prison
Now it's time to take the wheel
Maybe unlikely and untimely
That I'm losing my appeal

Now that I've swam into waters I never wanted to
I'm in hook, line and sinker
I want another life that comes with a guarantee
And batteries so I have strength for you
Since you came undone
A despondent fool
Swimming with chains in the river
A drowning soul
The queen of lies turns blue
Now I've figured out your conscience has never been awakened
Asleep your days of a holy child
Alive are your venomous teeth biting in me
So I've paved the road to ruin
Since you came undone
A despondent fool
Swimming in chains in the river
A drowning whore
The queen of lies turns blue

As I walk into the dawn of another day
As I turn to face the light, shadows run away
After everything we've shared, how can we both turn and walk away
Through every single day, I want you to know, yeah I want you to know
That our love could be more than a distant memory
It's not enough to be only a distant memory
All these changes in my life, it's hard to handle it
Without a trace of where you've been, I can't get over it
I find it strange to say, time was on our side only yesterday
We've got to find a way, baby what went wrong, are we too far gone
Chorus
Living without you is getting the best of me
Days come and nights go, I don't want to live with the memory
Chorus
Don't be a distant memory
As I walk into the dark of another day....

(Hess)
Haunted by your slide
You thought you were on your climb
The open door shut tight
Braving our misfortunes day and night
Falling down from faulty spines
All dry rivers in my dying thirst for you
And you clearly can't decide dark from light
As we Hail, Hail to the new bastille
The albatross that needed to fly
As the future sails
To collision's trail
We'll find a voice that leads us to right
Hail, Hail
With all your sins on trial
Can't get it off of your mind
The choking sands of time
Out of sync with your like and mine
Falling down from faulty spines
All dry rivers in my dying thirst for you
And you clearly can't decide dark from light
As we Hail, Hail to the new bastille
The albatross that needed to fly
As the future sails
To collision's trail
We'll find a voice that leads us to right
I was sentenced for the kill
I'm the eye inside the storm
After what I had to live
I've got nothing left to give
Or to keep me hanging on...
As we Hail, Hail to the new bastille
The albatross that needed to fly
As the future sails
To collision's trail
We'll find a voice that leads us to right
Hail, Hail to the new bastille
The albatross that needed to fly
As the future sails
To collision's trail
We'll find a voice that leads us to right
Hail, Hail

Gone incomplete
These tides of a river don't flow into the sea
And lungs that won't breathe
I've got one last little glitter of hope - a chance for air
You know, I'm gonna take five
As life passes in front of me
No guide, an eternal search for you
Finds mimes, they can but don't wanna speak
I'd cry, but being bitter would take to long
So I'll be brief
Calm and so sweet
Yet trying to deliver a jolt to knock me off my feet
When guns and bombs speak
It's time to surrender the hope
To get me on the next slow boat to Shanghai
And we'll find one good reason

Temporary love can fill the hole
You can fool your body, but in your mind you really know
False comfort in denial, building fortresses too high
Passing trains that we both ride with nowhere to go
So the tortured lives will soon divide
The trapped fear will explode
If you keep it to yourself
You gotta let it go
Around the corner lies some begging eyes
Watching for your love
Don't hold on to your hell, you gotta let it go
Every second you abide the soul
Is a giant piece of mind that you'll never know
Still the water's on the rise sinking dreams before your eyes
And pretending you don't mind, it's a hard heavy load

Another glass of rain in the hurricane of you
Another pretty little promise fallen through
From your pride and joy to your whipping boy again
I'm just another link who's hanging from your chain
I was hoping to tie you down
But forgive my confusion
You know what you're leading me to
Why do you want to see me crawl
Over these borderlines I can't read through the rhymes
You're pushing me over lines til my gun goes off
But it's a necessary evil
It's a twisted line that winds through right and wrong
You tear down my resistance and then you're gone
You got me on a string
I'll do anything you please
But you always seem to want me on my knees

I feared the notion
I'd fall at your feet
And pour out my heart
And you'll leave forever
Severe emotions and dark memories
They all end the same
A nosedive endeavor
But angels did fly
And flooded boats sailed
To rescue my heart
and pull out every nail
Things don't seem right
Since I've fallen
I'm falling like rain
For everything about you
I find myself chained
Thinking I'm coming loose
It's everything about you
A deep devotion
has washed on our sands
Took hold of our hands
And guides us forever
Holy water that some of us brave
They're poetic slaves
Drowned by their conscience
Angels did fly
The loneliness fails
To capture my heart
and push in every nail
Things to now right
Since I've fallen
I'm falling like rain
For everything about you
I find myself chained
Thinking I'm coming loose
It's everything about you

I'm falling like rain
For everything about you
I find myself chained
Thinking I'm coming loose
I'm falling like rain
For everything about you
I find myself chained
everything about you
to everything about you
to everything about you
It's everything

Any night that you're lonely
Can be the night
Your conscience
Gets a little too much
You're torn by your freedom
You're safe in chains
Is you life made of diamonds or dust
Would you surrender it all
I gotta know
Do you want my touch
Would it hurt too much
There's nothing stranger than love
Do you want (Do you want my touch)
Do you feel (Would it hurt too much)
There's nothing stranger than love
Do you want my love
In times of confusion
We never know
If the emotions we feel are enough
And then out of nowhere we remember
That there's nothing stranger than love
Would you surrender it all
I gotta know
Between the two of us
You know it's more than enough

I've been irreverent to the power controlling me
It's like a force coming down hard on me
When in a war with fate you learn to lose
Give me the sun the clouds are on the way
In on a guilt trip for a holiday
Coming apart the pieces all need glue
It's a shame the voice of reason faintly falls astray
Insane with all the seasons seeing shades of fall in May
Now all I can do is lay on the bed I've made
If I'm reborn or given another way
I would resolve and take what I'm given
Or I'll never find the forest for the trees
I'd only reach out for the burning leaves
Without a cause or the faith to pull me through
It was heaven that filled the grave
You swallow the pill and pray
It's coming around today
Seeing shades of fall in May

Born so we could lay
In a burning bed of rusted nails
Now it's my cause to stay awake

Will human kind prevail
Over prophecies of godless rages
For a world that's gone astray

Save preaching better times
They're bitter lies
Hey I could always climb the gate

It's heaven I hold this time

The comet's on the way
On holy ground we'll walk with angels
I just hope it's not today

I find it hard to pray
With one foot in my mouth
And one in the grave
Well so much for staying sane

I'm the king of all pretenders
The end all be all of fakes
I prey on the mindless
And I like it

Your defenses all surrender
My senses all awake
I kill 'em with kindness
And they buy it

Now I'm not one to seek redemption
The truth will set you free
Is all a mild deception
And you better believe
That I'm lying
Lying
Lie to everyone everyday

The bitter pill of ages
You swallow everyday
If feels so timeless
Don't fight it

Now I give you inhibitions
Take your innocence away
Without even trying
'Cause I can

Apologize for stupid old mistakes
Your only vice disappears without a trace

Your mystified
You can't relate
Your on your knees to follow the new faith

I'm starting my own religion
Demi Gods
They'll be none
After all demons fall we'll be done

Sink your teeth into the golden prey
You won't believe the souls we saved today

You won the prize
It's no debate
Your on your knees to follow the new faith

Headlines detach us from the world
Throwing all compassion overboard
Like big flies circling the corpse
It's getting more disgraceful than before

What will we ride
When this horse dies
Will eat the shit and jump in

With both feet in the fire
Rubbing ignorance into our eyes
We're blind, so blind
To all the world's injustice
We're so blind

In their sick minds
They justify it all
Emotionally straying from the course
For the big prize
A hundred million whores
Raping all humanity and more

Like Jesus nailed to the cross
We're all hanging prey
To the demons that we face
'Til our dying day

Now how long can I suffer defeat
Like a dog that's been tied up and chained
In a world that needs someone to hate

Sometimes I wish I wasn't born
Sometimes I wish I were everything
That I thought I could be in my demented dreams
Sometimes I wish I wasn't born
Sometimes I wish I were everything
The perfect holy poster boy for vanity

How dignified we first fall into this maze
And it dulls the mind thinking of ways that I will sustain

They devour your piece of the dream
Like a cancer that's eating away
While the vultures fly in for the feast

I should apologize
For my new compromise
A temporary disease

Another dumb mistake
To think that you would change
Now I'm admitting defeat

Well I knew what this would mean
But still I let myself get back into it
It's time to turn around

If your not careful
She'll rip your heart out
And shove it in your mouth

Now I took all the blame
Off my little brain
And said 'the devil made me'
Put the turpentine
In her carafe of wine
And I got a reprieve

You hold tight onto the razor blade
It cut you down from grace
Now the model of disgrace

You've rolled dice
Consumed to hide your age
You're old meat at the plate
Now avoided like the plague

A swan dive into reality
A cold bite
You feel inside
The path you left behind

Never dies
In my heart it's all been wasted time
So I'll never mind
In my heart it's all been wasted time

You won't find a pool of sympathy
Jump in as you please
And be rid of your disease

Your whole life
Burning at the stake
And old pretending fake
I'm enjoying your mistake

It's only life
I remind myself each day
If only I could remember what I'm doing in a room
The walls are padded down with foam
Because it takes away the sound
And alters the voices that tell me to do
What I do
They're worried that I'll wanna kill
Without my pills
And they knew that I'd do
What I do
One more try
To step inside my brain
A constant fight
But I won't sleep till I can fool them
For hours they make me stare at blotches
I failed the grade
When I told them I was Jesus and I hear voices
That tell me to do what I do

Climbed these walls
For hours that feel like days
From highs I fall
To watching the pain drying
The walls that I walked through
And the truth bent
To get to you
'Cause I need you
Where do I belong?
Won't get through all my bleak moods
Without you

My resolve
Is a tower that fails to break
Life's a bomb
That can blow you eight ways from Sunday
Blue surrounds me
Blue all around me
Only you can change the tides
Hoping you can decide our fate

Well, it was something that took me by surprise
Just when I tried to re-arrange my life
Well then I find out the things that I didn't really want to know
(No, it's not easy, you know it ain't easy)
Trying to get ahead in the world
All of a sudden it came over me and now I finally know

Even the hard times are good times
But I'd do it all over again
Even when I can't see what I've left behind me
I'd do it all over, do it all over again

Noticing now, there's some new things in my life
I try to turn them around, but it's too late to change my mind
(No, it's not easy, you know it ain't easy)
Trying to get ahead in the world
All of sudden it came over me and now I finally know

As I walk into the dawn of another day
As I turn to face the light, shadows run away
After everything we've shared, how can we both turn and walk away
Through every single day, I want you to know, yeah I want you to know
That our love could be more than a distant memory
It's not enough to be only a distant memory

All these changes in my life, it's hard to handle it
Without a trace of where you've been, I can't get over it
I find it strange to say, time was on our side only yesterday
We've got to find a way, baby what went wrong, are we too far gone

Living without you is getting the best of me
Days come and nights go, I don't want to live with the memory

Don't be a distant memory
As I walk into the dark of another day...

You and I had a dream to hold forever
Now it seems those days are gone
So if you think that we can pull our hearts together
Then please tell me before I go
You say you heard a voice in the night
And you swear it was your calling
Your words rang true over mine, I want you to know

Wherever you run to now, just remember don't give your heart away
Whoever you run to now, just remember don't give your heart away

Now I see, we have a need to be together
If you disagree, then I guess you're moving on
You say you heard a voice in the night
And you swear it was your calling
Your words rang true over mine, I want you to know

(Ward/Hess/Lesperance)
You come on like a sweet child here drive me wild when I want you
You giving me a rough time then you change your mind then you want me
You come so close, but you never stay
You take my heart, and then you walk away
You're hard to love, but it's hard to let you go
I need you now, but I'm afraid of letting you know
It's hard to love, and never understand
How it slips right through your hands
I wanna say you're mine but acting like you don't know me
All I need is one night just to make it right when you're lonely
I got to know if we can make it last
Can't pretend I don't want you to know
Every touch leaves your mark on me
Little things seem to haunt me now
I can't believe you've become a part of me

I stand before you accused of many crimes
But I want to believe that love can still survive
You don't have to say it, I don't have to read your mind
To know that emptiness has finally arrived
How was I to know right from wrong
Words were hardly spoken, so where did I go wrong

Tell me honestly, if you're still loving me
Looking into my eyes honestly
Words have more meaning, if they're said at certain times
I need you now so I can feel alive
How would you know if you won't give me some time
To see if everything could work you'll be mine
I'll be lost forever or someday I may find
The words that I've been searching for or just some peace of mind

All the nights I sit and wonder there must be more life
I'm sure that days and years go by while
I am living with, living with a lonely feeling

It's gonna take some time 'til I'm over you
I'd gave you it all, there wasn't nothing that I wouldn't do
Now that it hurts so bad, when I found out the truth
That you'd been running around, Oh I was such a fool

I know I can't keep holding on, cause it's hard for me
Now that you're gone, I'm haunted by your memory

How long, 'til my heart can love again
I've tried and I've tried, I don't know what else to do
How long 'til this broken heart mends
Will I ever be over you

So many sleepless nights since we've been apart
They say time will ease the pain, tell this broken heart
I know I can't keep holding on, cause it's hard for me
Now that you're gone, I'm haunted by your memory

A physical attraction I could feel across the room
Inspiration, do I owe it all to you
Got no explanation why I feel the way I do
Ain't no need for complaining, cause I know that I've found heaven in you

I got a love, got a love reaction
You and me are fire meets ice
Got a love, got a love reaction
Burning in, burning in my heart

Did somebody sell you that smile upon your face
It's picture perfect, could it ever fall from grace
You got no hesitation for the way your body moves
Ain't no need for complaining, cause I know that I've found heaven in you

I tried running away, but it always ends up leading me back

There's a burning question in my heart
But I see the answer in your eyes
An uneasy feeling without you
There's only peace by your side

Our hearts survived the cold world outside
Somehow this love keeps us alive
I feel it in the morning
I feel it all through the day
I feel the heartache, slowly slipping away, slowly slipping away

We've had our share of confusion
We've been let down so many times before
But what I've found is a real love
No need to search anymore, no

Somehow we've weathered the storms in our lives
This love has never been a lie
We will survive the cold world outside
Somehow this love keeps us alive

Yesterday I had it all worked out to a 'T'
But now something's wrong between you and me
I was wrong, so wrong
To think that I would stay
Seasons come and seasons go
And today is another day

I wanna say now's the time
To go our separate ways
I don't know I might be wrong
Could we find the strength to say
That our love, our love's seen some better days
And who's to say if I had the chance

That I'd make the choice to say
If you ever had something that you wanted to say
You better start talking before I go away
I wish that I could say I've been feeling okay
That I'll be bringing on the better days
But I wouldn't feel right
Knowing I was lying to you

Am I wasting all my time, will we try to make a mends
I try to read between the lines
But all I see is the end

I lie awake all through the night
And think of you to break the morning light
Thoughts in my head, gotta make you understand
That love is what you need, won't let you slip through my hands

You said you'd never leave, and I guess you could be wrong
I won't have anyone to blame,I won't have anyone at all

With a little love, I keep holding onto you forever
With a little love, we can see it through together
I try to wait and just hold on
There's so many things I believe could go wrong

So I close my eyes, and pray for the day
That we can take all the lies and just throw them away

You said you'd never leave, and I guess you could be wrong
I won't have anyone to blame, I won't have anyone at all