Sleep To Dream

  I tell you how I feel but you don't care
  I say tell me the truth but you don't dare
  You say love is a hell you cannot bear
  And I say gimme mine back and then go there for all I care

  I got my feet on the ground and I don't go to sleep to dream
  You've got your head in the clouds and you're not at all what you seem
  This mind, this body and this voice cannot be stifled by your deviant ways
  So don't forget what I told you, don't come around, I got my own hell to raise

  I have never been so insulted in all my life
  I could swallow the seas to wash down all this pride
  First you run like a fool just to be at my side
  And now you run like a fool but you just run to hide and I can't abide

  I got my feet on the ground and I don't go to sleep to dream
  You've got your head in the clouds and you're not at all what you seem
  This mind, this body and this voice cannot be stifled by your deviant ways
  So don't forget what I told you, don't come around, I got my own hell to raise

  Don't make it a big deal, don't be so sensitive
  We're not playing a game anymore
  You don't have to be so defensive

  Don't you plead me your case, don't bother to explain
  Don't even show me your face, 'cause it's a crying shame
  Just go back to the rock from under which you came
  Take the sorrow you gave and all the stakes you claim
  And don't forget the blame

  I got my feet on the ground and I don't go to sleep to dream
  You've got your head in the clouds and you're not at all what you seem
  This mind, this body and this voice cannot be stifled by your deviant ways
  So don't forget what I told you, don't come around, I got my own hell to raise

  I got my feet on the ground and I don't go to sleep to dream
  You've got your head in the clouds and you're not at all what you seem
  This mind, this body and this voice cannot be stifled by your deviant ways
  So don't forget what I told you, don't come around, I got my own hell to raise
 
 

  Sullen Girl

  Days like this, I don't know what to do with myself
  All day and all night
  I wander the halls along the walls and under my breath
  I say to myself
  I need fuel to take flight

  And there's too much going on
  But it's calm under the waves, in the blue of my oblivion
  Under the waves in the blue of my oblivion

  Is that why they call me a sullen girl, sullen girl
  They don't know I used to sail the deep and tranquil sea
  But he washed me shore and he took my pearl
  And left an empty shell of me

  And there's too much going on
  But it's calm under the waves in the blue of my oblivion
  Under the waves in the blue of my oblivion
  Under the waves in the blue of my oblivion
  It's calm under the waves in the blue of my oblivion
 
 

  Shadowboxer

  Once my lover, now my friend
  What a cruel thing to pretend
  What a cunning way to condescend
  Once my lover, and now my friend

  Oh, you creep up like the clouds
  And you set my soul at ease
  Then you let your love abound
  And you bring me to my knees

  Oh, it's evil babe
  The way you let your grace enrapture me
  When well you know I'd be insane
  To ever let that dirty game recapture me

  You made me a shadowboxer, baby
  I wanna be ready for what you do
  I been swinging all around me
  'Cause I don't know when you're gonna make your move

  Oh, your gaze is dangerous
  And you fill your space so sweet
  If I let you get too close
  You'll set your spell on me

  So darlin' I just wanna say
  Just in case I don't come through
  I was onto every play
  I just wanted you

  Oh it's so evil, my love
  The way you've no reverence to my concern
  So I'll be sure to stay weary of you, love
  To save the pain of once my flame and twice my burn

  You made me a shadowboxer, baby
  I wanna be ready for what you do
  I been swinging all around me
  'Cause I don't know when you're gonna make your move

  Yeah I'm a shadowbower baby,
  I wanna be ready for what you do
  And I been swinging all around me
  'Cause I don't know when you're gonna make your move
 
 

  Criminal

  I've been a bad, bad girl
  I've been careless with a delicate man
  And it's a sad, sad world
  When a girl will break a boy just because she can

  Don't you tell me to deny it
  I've done wrong and I want to suffer for my sins
  I've come to you 'cause I need guidance to be true
  And I just don't know where I can begin

  What I need is a good defense
  'Cause I'm feeling like a criminal
  And I need to be redeemed
  To the one I've sinned against
  Because he's all I ever knew of love

  Heaven help me for the way I am
  Save me from these evil deeds before I get them done
  I know tomorrow brings the consequence at hand
  But I keep living this day like the next will never come

  Oh help me but don't tell me to deny it
  I've got to cleanse myself of all these lies 'till I'm good enough for him
  I've got a lot to lose and I'm bettin' high so I'm begging you
  Before it ends just tell me where to begin

  What I need is a good defense
  'Cause I'm feeling like a criminal
  And I need to be redeemed
  To the one I've sinned against
  Because he's all I ever knew of love

  Let me know the way
  Before there's hell to pay
  Give me room to lay the law and let me go
  I've got to make a play
  To make my lover stay
  So what would an angel say the devil wants to know

  What I need is a good defense
  'Cause I'm feeling like a criminal
  And I need to be redeemed
  To the one I've sinned against
  Because he's all I ever knew of love

  What I need is a good defense
  'Cause I'm feeling like a criminal
  And I need to be redeemed
  To the one I've sinned against
  Because he's all I ever knew of love
 
 

  Slow Like Honey

  You moved like honey in my dream last night
  Yeah, some old fires were burning
  You came near to me and you endeared to me
  But you couldn't quite discern me

  Does that scare you ? I'll let you run away
  But your heart will not oblige you
  You'll remember me like a melody
  Yeah, I'll haunt the world inside you

  And my big secret, gonna win you over
  Slow like honey, heavy with mood

  I'll let you see me, I'll covet your regard
  I'll invade your demeanor
  And you'll yield to me like a scent in the breeze
  And you'll wonder what it is about me

  It's my big secret, keeping you coming
  Slow like honey, heavy with mood

  Though dreams can be deceiving
  Like faces are to hearts
  They serve for sweet relieving
  When fantasy and reality lie too far apart

  So I stretch myself across like a bridge
  And I pull you to the edge

  And stand there waiting
  Trying to attain
  The end to satisfy the story
  Shall I release you?
  Must I release you?
  As I rise to meet my glory

  But my big secret
  Gonna hover over your life
  Gonna keep you reaching
  When I'm gone like yesterday
  When I'm high like heaven
  When I'm strong like music
  'Cause I'm slow like honey, and heavy with mood
 
 

  The First Taste

  I lie in an early bed thinking late thoughts
  Waiting for the black to replace my blue
  I do not struggle in your web because it was my aim to get caught
  But daddy longlegs, I feel that I'm finally growing weary
  Of waiting to be consumed by you

  Give me the first taste
  Let it begin, heaven cannot wait forever
  Darling just start the chase
  I'll let you win, but you must make the endeavor

  Oh, your love give me a heart contusion
  Adagio breezes fill my skin with sudden red
  Your hungry flirt borders intrusion
  And I'm building memories on things we have not said

  Full is not heavy as empty, not nearly my love
  Not nearly my love, not nearly

  Give me the first taste
  Let it begin, heaven cannot wait forever
  Darling, just start the chase
  I'll let you win, but you must make the endeavor

  The first taste
  Let it begin, heaven cannot wait forever
  Start the chase, I'll let you win
  But you must make the endeavor
 
 

  Never Is A Promise

  You'll never see the courage I know
  Its colors' richness won't appear within your view
  I'll never glow the way that you glow
  Your presence dominates the judgements made on you

  But as the scenery grows I see in different lights
  The shades and shadows undulate in my perception
  My feelings swell and stretch I see from greater heights
  I understand what I am still to proud to mention, to you

  You'll say you understand
  But you don't understand
  You'll say you'll never give up seeing eye to eye
  But never is a promise and you can't afford to lie

  You'll never touch these things that I hold
  The skin of my emotions lies beneath my own
  You'll never feel the heat of this soul
  My fever burns me deeper than I've ever shown to you

  You'll say "don't fear your dreams"
  It's easier than it seems
  You'll say you'd never let me fall from hopes so high
  But never is a promise and you can't afford to lie

  You'll never live this life that I live
  I'll never live the life that wakes me in the night
  You'll never hear the message I give
  You'll say it looks as though I might give up this fight

  But as the scenery grows I see in different lights
  The shades and shadows undulate in my perception
  My feelings swell and stretch I see from greater heights
  I realize what I am now too smart to mention, to you

  You'll say you understand
  You'll never understand
  I'll say I'll never wake up knowing how or why
  I don't know what to believe in
  You don't know who I am
  You'll say I need appeasing when I start to cry
  But never is a promise and I'll never need a lie
 
 

  The Child Is Gone

  Darling, give me your absence tonight
  Take the shade from the canvas and leave me the white
  Let me sink in the silence that echoes inside
  And don't bother leaving the light on

  'Cause I suddenly feel like a different person
  From the roots of my soul come a gentle coercion
  And I ran my hand o'er a strange inversion
  A vacancy that just did not belong
  The child is gone

  Honey, help me out of this mess
  I'm a stranger to myself
  But don't reach for me, I'm too far away
  I don't wanna talk 'cause there's nothing left to say

  So my darling, give me your absence tonight
  Take all of your sympathy and leave it outside
  'Cause there's no kind of loving that can make this alright
  I'm trying to find a place I belong

  And I suddenly feel like a different person
  From the roots of my soul come a gentle coercion
  And I ran my hand o'er a strange inversion
  As the darkness turns into the dawn
  The child is gone
  The child is gone
 
 

  Pale September

  Pale September, I wore the time like a dress that year
  The autumn days swung soft around me, like cotton on my skin
  But as the embers of the summer lost their breath and disappeared
  My heart went cold and only hollow rhythms resounded from within
  But then he rose, brilliant as the moon in full
  And sank in the burrows of my keep

  And all my armour falling down, in a pile at my feet
  And my winter giving way to warm, as I'm singing him to sleep

  He goes along just as a water lily
  Gentle on the surface of his thoughts his body floats
  Unweighed down by passion or intensity
  Yet unaware of the depth upon which he coasts
  And he finds a home in me
  For what misfortune sows, he knows my touch will reap

  And all my armour falling down, in a pile at my feet
  And my winter giving way to warm, as I'm singing him to sleep

  All my armour falling down, in a pile at my feet
  And my winter giving way to warm, as I'm singing him to sleep

  All my armour falling down, in a pile at my feet
  And my winter giving way to warm, as I'm singing him to sleep
 
 

  Carrion

  Won't do no good to hold no seance
  What's gone is gone, and you can't bring it back around
  Won't do no good to hold no searchlight
  You can't illuminate what time has anchored down

  Oh, honey I've gone away
  Honey I've gone away
  I've gone away

  Won't do no good to sing no love song
  No sound could simulate the presence of a man
  Won't do no good asking no questions
  Your divination should acquaint you with the plan

  Oh Honey I've gone away
  Honey I've gone away
  Honey, I've gone away

  My feel for you, boy, is decaying in front of me
  Like the carrion of a murdered prey
  And all I want is to save you, honey
  Or the strength to walk away

  Won't do no good to go no distance
  The space between us is as boundless as the dark
  Won't do no good to throw no fist, babe
  You can't intimidate me back into your arms

  Because honey, I've gone away
  I've gone away
  I've gone away

  I've gone away
  I've gone away
  I've gone away

  My feel for you, boy, is decaying in front of me
  Like the carrion of a murdered prey
  And all I want is to save you, honey
  Or the strength to walk away

  My feel for you boy, is decaying in front of me
  Like the carrion of a murdered prey
  And all I want is to save you, honey
  Or the strength to walk away

  Oh my feel for you boy, is decaying right in front of me
  Like the carrion of a, a murdered prey
  And all I want is to save you, honey
  Or the strength to walk away