I can feel the panic on each TV station The madness and the conflagration As they all compete to get heard But do you hear the bird Diamond cheep with the air Beneath its wings as it flies in there And it’s everywhere that is sky I don’t think they mean to lie But it’s like an endless repetition Trying to get the first edition Of tomorrow before the dawn Where has the present moment gone? If it’s like a competition And you’re fighting but you’re a Christian Do you think the love of God means that? And I see my own war as I balk at what they’re at Am I any different in truth? Have I lived the promise of my youth Or do I just see an enemy Trying to get the best of me Where did brotherhood go Or being a sister in the know I think the silence will tell All of the secrets they keep so well But I see it in myself It starts with you now the cards have been dealt And it’s up to the sunlight to show the dawn I know it might be hidden but it isn’t gone The peace beneath the waves The ground under what is paved Do you know who you are? Or do you just make a black hole out of a star? As the constellations show their age Light years away from the war we wage Do you think it means aught to the sky We’re born, we live and then we die What is permanent Could you say the Truth is an event? Or is it more like a scene That wakes as we live the dream Thinking it’s our own creation The defeat and the elation Just polarities And does it matter who disagrees If we’ve invested thought With the rhythm of the schism we’ve bought But are you caught Let go and become all that you’ve sought And when the night arrives Be content with what survives Each and every dusk I let go the weight and I just trust
Stray I follow
And her words are hollow
Like the rings round her eyes
Everything lives and dies
And she can't shake the spectre
That hides in the window
So she finds love
But it isn't in him though
And the monsters don't drag
Her out of the bed
In the morning
Do I wreck your head
Or can you contain what I say
I like you, is that okay
But I don't agree with all you do
Or how you justify it to you too
And I'm down with all of the vibes
You emulate
And you call my bluff on fate
But something weaves
Its way in and out of thread
I choose myself instead
Of the same damn old fight
Burning in the firelight
And it's something serene
Do I really crack the dream
Open like an egg on the pan
Does anyone know who I am
Coz I think he did
But then I hid
And he bought the lie
But I had to try
To tell the truth
But I'm just selling my youth
And auctioning it to the highest bidder
And the thoughts in my own head make me shiver
With the terror of movement going
And now the wind is snowing
In the middle of spring
Did I really give up everything
Just to get to New York
The road bends just beyond the fork
And I can't choose
Based on what I've left to lose
I must be pulled though
And it's the sight of you
That's driving me on
True Love isn't gone
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