Lyrics
Land of the Living
HANGMAN
Driving through the night
Trying to get my head right
I'm on the way
Rub the sleep out of my eyes
It's another one of those guys
Cat and mouse play
I turn my siren low
They've already taped it off
Flashing lights illuminate the scene from
Blue to red
I'm locked and loaded here
Packed away my fear
But you never get used to it....
Brown blood stains the grass
One slice from right to left
Zip ties and a struggle
You can tell by the broken nails
Front right tooth is chipped
The ends of the hair are clipped
You took a trophy---
The Hangman's calling
A ticking time bomb...stalling
You think you're smarter than the rest of us
You got a lockdown on your story
But my heart is harder than most
And I'm not letting you-- not letting you--
Slip away
INTO THE WILD
Before you knew me I was all of the time
Into the wild
Lean and running forests
Wild- eyed times, sapphire nights
I wound my way then round the city paths
Hunted and trapped
You mind the turns you feel the burn of the gas
Clutching your hands
Everyone knows you don't listen to 3am
But everyone goes down to the bottom now and again
I passed the doorway on the other side of town
Where you shook me down for my heart
Only a slice of moon to light my smile, relive the spark
You were the first flame, my hands round your neck
Never again so complete
Chasing that fire feeling through groves of trees
Alleys and strees
Everyone knows what's gone is over and done
But everyone shows signs of burn from the blows
At the end of the run
One fine day they'll see the last of my line
When I've put in my time
I'll trip the starlit night back where I began
Wildness again
THE RISING
I fall away
High above disaster
My last day
Can't look away
There I lie below me still and grey
Hardly time to say goodbye
Now they crawl around my body
No more use to wonder why
All I do is rise and rise
I drift away
To ascend a peaceful end my way
They drop away
Everyone I loved is lost today
Can't explain this middle ground
Losing space and form
Within the movement of this growing cloud
I rise... I rise.... rise
VOLCANO
Silent sunrise, without you here
I open the curtain on the early light
To see the new dawn appear
You were the one with flowers inside your mind
Just to be near you was an explosion ride
All the colors and the lights
Don't say your love for me is a volcano
Your eyes alight with molten steel glow
Cuz oh tomorrow brings only sorrowful things
And you'll go down, down where I cannot follow
I tried to love you. I tried in vain
Every part of myself thrown down
Before a speeding train
White tiles sprayed crimson, fluorescent lights
Now I carry this moment when all your days
Became forever nights
Don't say your love for me is a volcano
Your eyes alight with molten steel glow
Cuz oh tomorrow brings only sorrowful things
And you'll go down, down where I cannot follow
Don't say your love for me is a volcano
Oh how I long for that wild inferno
But then tomorrow became all we couldn't name
And you went down, down where no one could follow
No one could follow, oh.. no one could follow, oh
SAY HELLO
You may pass me on the street.
You may feel a chill or catch a whiff
But you and I are never going to meet
If I'm doing it right, it's like I don't exist
I'm the invisible one powered by all dark arts under the sun
Say hello to the man
No hard feelings, son
It's just your day of reckoning at hand
Oh I hope you die well
But it doesn't matter now. I'll see you again (in hell)
You never want to come too heavy
Too much to bring to the scene
You travel light in the memory, since some of them can sting
They say I have a cold heart
But I just finish what other people start
Say hello to the man
No hard feelings, boy
It's just your day of reckoning at hand
Oh I hope you die well
But it doesn't matter now. I'll see you again (in hell)
Say hello to the man
No hard feelings, son
It's just your day of reckoning at hand
Oh i hope you die well
But it doesn't matter now
I LOOK UP
I look up.
If I don't, I'll drown
There's a madness all around us
There's madness all around
So maybe through these eyes I can see
Maybe in this heart-
I know it's a fool's errand to believe
But I believe in believing
One drop of understanding can relieve
So maybe through these eyes I can see
Maybe in this heart--
There's no protection from the pain
So we bear witness
Hold it all. Take the fall
And feel the strain
For those who cannot
For those who are gone
To the grave
I look up.
If I don't, I'm done
There's violence that needs soothing
'There's violence in my soul too
GONE
If I were to want you gone- there'd be no mistakes
If I were to want you gone-
No errant prints or telephone trails
No loose lipped confessions in an overnight jail
If I were to want you gone
If I set to snuff out your lights- the weapons would be lost
If I set to snuff out your lights-
No ballistic links to sink my ship
No organic matter left in their grip
If I set to snuff out your lights
The crime scene clean, the trail dead cold, no camera shots, no ransom note
No pretend robbery left behind, no Hurdy Gurdy man to find
No witness list or perp lineup, not one accomplice to give it up
No lone cop working wall to wall, the investigation stalls and stalls...
If I were to want you gone
MARIGOLD
Tonight's the night
She finally breaks free
Been down so long, way underground
The sound of her own voice screaming no
Don't seem real
But there was the knife
And down went his body
Fresh blood on old carpet stains
Where he broke your nose and pleaded
Begging you, "I'm sorry"- then he cut your face
"I swear it'll never happen again"
Calling on all your angels- swiftly they ride
Marigold you saved your own life tonight
Now come the sirens
And hiding in the alleyways
She pulls her hood up, bolts through the night
She's looking out for cameras
Left and right, no one can see this ghostly sight
Duck away, cloaked in the night
Calling on all your angels- silent they ride
Marigold you saved you own life tonight
Calling on all your angels- fiercely they ride
Marigld you saved, oh, Marigold you saved
Your own life tonight...tonight... tonight..
And eye for an eye, life for a life, fight for a fight, eye for an eye, life for a life, fight for a fight, eye for an eye...
SPEEDOMETER
I'm an ordinary boy
I live in a small town
I hide with all my toys so you can't track me down
I swallow all my tears
So that you can't see
The weakness on my face in these wonder years
I am the sun, it's in my heart- Speedometer
Just watch how fast I'll light this spark- Speedometer
You want to follow me, I'll just run too fast for you
I'm screaming at the edge of the earth
Screaming at the edge of the earth
Screaming at the edge of the earth
I watch my daddy shoot the deer
They jump up in surprise
From where I sit right here, I cannot see their eyes
I am the sun, it's in my heart- Speedometer
Just watch how fast I'll light this spark- Speedometer
You want to follow me, I'll just run too fast for you
I'm screaming at the edge of the earth
Screaming at the edge of the earth
Screaming at the edge of the earth
There's nothing for me here
No one knows my name
But that's about to change
In a wondrous fiery blaze
I
JIMMY
Jimmy don't go down there, the lights are low
And the air is so full of sound
And I cannot protect you if I am not around
I've been aboard this vessel two hundred years
And four months to the day
I am confined below. I never will get away
Oh from the moment you stepped on this ship
I knew we would be entwined
Most of the others don't see me or ignore my signs
You are the different kind, a purebred soul
A man who will make his mark
Oh but tonight I fear you're in danger from the start
I could lay my hands on you and make you understand
If you were in my gentle arms, I'd land
I know you see my eyes on you, feel my presence near
Listen to me tell you now- stay here, stay here
Jimmy the fight is lost
I hear the wounded moaning not to be tossed into
The sea is a terror path to a lonely end too oft
Jimmy if anyone should know the cold
And locked-breath death that awaits
It would be me who long ago, suffered this fate
I could lay my hands on you and make you understand
If you were in my gentle arms, I'd land
I know you see my eyes on you, feel my presence near
Listen to me tell you now- stay here, stay here
BETTER IN THE DARK
There were younger days when I would laugh with the light on
They found me anyway
Stole my smile, took the sun away
Now the ghosts are here and they want to speak to their sorrows
In the corner of my eye
The swelling moon frightens the trembling sparrow
(AHHHH OOOOOHH --AHHHH OOOOOHH
AHHHH OOOOOHH --AHHHH OOOOOHH)
Your seeking minds want to latch right on
To the answers, the reasons
It's a passing phase- this spring of knowing dies
Like all the other seasons
(AHHHH OOOOOHH --AHHHH OOOOOHH
AHHHH OOOOOHH --AHHHH OOOOOHH)
Oh, but I'll ask for you. Into the deep of the cavern
I'll throw my heart. For this is their price for the knowing
And they'll tell me again- darlin'
It's better in the dark
(AHHHH OOOOOHH --AHHHH OOOOOHH
AHHHH OOOOOHH --AHHHH OOOOOHH)
