Drawn to the Rhythm

When we wore a heart of stone we wandered to the sea

Hoping to find some comfort there yearning to feel free

And we were mesmerized by the lull of the night and the smells that filled the air

And we layed us down on sandy ground it was cold but we didn't care

CHORUS

And we were drawn to the rhythm

Drawn to the rhythm of the sea

And we were drawn to the rhythm

Drawn to the rhythm of the sea

We fell asleep and began to dream when something broke the night

Memories stirred inside of us the struggle and the fight

And we could feel the heat of a thousand voices telling us which way to go

And we cried out is there no escape from the words that plague us so

CHORUS

In the still and silent dawn another day is born

Washed up by the tireless waves the body bent and torn

When you wake in the face of the blinding sun and you search only to find

That heaven is a stranger place than what you've left behind

CHORUS

Into the Fire

Mother teach me to walk again

Milk and honey so intoxicating

CHORUS

And into the fire

I'm reunited

Into the fire

I am the spark

Into the fire

I yearn for comfort

Open the doors that lead on in to Eden

Don't want no cheap disguise

I follow the signs marked back to the beginning

No more compromise

CHORUS

Free the water that carries me to the sea

You I see as my security

CHORUS

I will stare into the sun until its light doesn't blind me

I will walk into the fire until its heat doesn't burn me

And I will feed the fire

CHORUS

The Path of Thorns

I knew you wanted to tell me

In your voice there was something wrong

But if you would turn your face away from me

You cannot tell me you're so strong

Just let me ask of you one small thing

As we have shared so many tears

With fervor our dreams we planned a whole life long

Now are scattered on the wind...

CHORUS

In the terms of endearment

In the terms of the life that you love

In the terms of the years that pass you by

In the terms of the reasons why

Through the years I've grown to love you

Though your commitment to most would offend

But I stuck by you holding on with my foolish pride

Waiting for you to give in...

You never really tried or so it seems

I've had more than myself to blame

I've had enough of trying everything

And this time it is the end...

CHORUS

There's no more coming back this way

The path is overgrown and strewn with thorns

They've torn the life-blood from your naked eyes

Cast aside to be forlorn...

CHORUS

Funny, how it seems that all I've tried to do

Seemed to make no difference to you at all...

I Will Not Forget You

I remember the nights I watched as you lay sleeping

Your body gripped by some far away dream

Well I was so scared and so in love then

And so lost in all of you that I had seen

But no one ever talked in the darkness

No voice ever added fuel to the fire

No light ever shone in the doorway

Deep in the hollow of earthly desires

But if in some dream there was brightness

If in some memory some sort of sign

And flesh be revived in the shadows

Blessed our bodies would lay so entwined

CHORUS

And I will oh I will not forget you

Nor will I ever let you go

I will oh I will not forget you

I remember when you left in the morning at daybreak

So silent you stole from my bed

To go back to the one who possesses your soul

And I back to the life that I dread.

So I ran like the wind to the water

Please don't leave me again I cried

And I threw bitter tears at the ocean

But all that came back was the tide...

CHORUS

Lost

By the shadows of the night I go

I moved away from the crowded room

That sea of shallow faces masked in warm regret

They don't know how to feel, they don't know what is lost

CHORUS

Lost in the darkness of a land

Where all the hope that's offered is

Memories of being taken by the hand

And we are led into the sun

But I don't have a hold on what is real

Though we can only try

What is there to give or to believe

I want it all to go away I want to be alone

Sympathy's wasted on my hollow shell

I feel there's nothing left to fight for

No reason for a cause

And I can't hear your voice and I can't feel you near

CHORUS

I wanted a change knowing all I could do was try

I was looking for someone...

Back Door Man

You open your eyes, look around

You feel the earth it wanders -

Out, from under your feet - the ground

Is not firm but soft and weak - like skin

Under the touch, cannot stop to falter

Now, the damage is done the certainties gone

The spirits altered

CHORUS

And now the angry morning

Gives the early signs of warning

You must face alone the plans you make

Decisions they will try to break

Our hands are tied on the table

Maybe you can try at the back door man

While the helpless line up on the doorsteps

'Cause it's all they can do to try to get through

All of your life you've lived in a world as pure

As Eden's sixth day - now all you've been allowed

Is taken away - they will not let you be so proud

And you have felt the fear growing inside

Protest follows far and wide - they'll see how long

It will take 'till you fall - from so much denied

Your soul - it aches relentless from the fear

That they will never guess - so unfair that

They can make you feel so small

And the fear you know is real

CHORUS

Shelter

They're crowded into the smallest spaces

While outside all of nature cries

It's known to be cruel and unfair

But there is no place to hide

Oh I've seen a part of people that I never really want to share

Oh I've seen a part of people that I never knew was there

CHORUS

Shelter - give them shelter from the coming storm

Shelter - give them shelter from the coming storm

I can't sleep haunted by their faces

The sadness in their eyes

It hurts so much to see them helpless

It makes me want to cry

But still there is so much left unanswered

For so many innocent lives

They close the doors and are letting nobody in

And only the strong will survive

CHORUS

I've seen the anger and I've seen all the dreams

And I've watched an existence torn apart by the seams

And though I may seem helpless

I will do all that I can do

Oh I've seen a part of people that I never really want to share

Oh I've seen a part of people that I never knew was there

CHORUS

Black

As the walls are closing in

And the colors fade to black

And my eyes are falling fast and deep into me

And I follow the tracks that lead me down

And I never follow what's right

And they wonder sometimes when they see all the

Sadness and pain the truth begins to light

CHORUS

'Cause I can't see no reason

What is blind cannot see

'Cause I want what is pleasin'

All I take should be free

What I rob from the innocent ones

What I'd steal from the womb

If I cried me a river of all my confessions

Would I drown in my shallow regret

As the walls are closing in

And the colors fade to black

And the night is falling fast and deep into the sea

And in the darkness all that I can see

The frightened and the weak

Are forced to cling to mistakes they know nothing of

At mercy are the meek

CHORUS

Home

Child walks down to the river's edge

And looks out as far as she can see

And draws each breath as if it were the last

And wipes away the tears across her sleeve

She can see where the river crawls to the sea

Like a baby into mother's care

Somehow the longing is so far away

The innocence so wasted and aware

And look at the child with the dream in her eyes

Holding it deep inside her

Thinking about Home... Home...

So much anger so deeply ingrained

Seemed a burden that was hers alone

She didn't think that there was anything wrong

With wanting a life that she could call her own

How could I explain? You would not want to hear

You wouldn't listen if I talked anyway

For you were too weighed down by your own fears

And look at the child with the dream in her eyes

Holding it deep inside her

Home... home... home... home...

Mercy

Mercy - pure and simple

Longing - cold and hollow

With sweet breath you'd come to warm me

But I held on too hard to only a memory

You lie there on the swollen ground

Deserted in your heart

Still longing for what yesterdays lost

And for all that tomorrow might bring

The passion lost - taken, stolen

The dreams we had and we shared - shattered, broken

With kind words you'd come to soothe me

But I go blind and filled with fear

Would send you away from me

There is no hope in regretting now

All the pain that we could not see

We both knew what we wanted

And we took it believing it free

And we took it believing it free.

Wear Your Love Like Heaven

Color in sky prussian blue

Scarlet fleece changes hue

Crimson ball sinks from view

CHORUS

Wear your love like heaven

Wear your love like heaven

Wear your love like heaven

Lord kiss me once more

Fill me with song

Allah kiss me once more

That I may, that I may

Wear my love like heaven

Wear my love like heaven

Color sky havana lake

Color sky rose carmethene

Alizarian crimson

CHORUS

Lord kiss me once more

Fill me with song

Allah kiss me once more

That I may, that I may

Wear my love like heaven

Wear my love like heaven

Lord kiss me once more

Fill me with song

Allah kiss me once more

That I may, that I may

Wear my love like heaven

Wear my love like heaven

Cannot believe what I see

All I have wished for will be

All of our race proud and free

CHORUS

Lord kiss me once more

Fill me with song

Allah kiss me once more

That I may, that I may

Wear my love like heaven

Wear my love like heaven