Building A Mystery
You come out at night, / that's when the energy comes / And the dark
side's light, and the vampires
roam / You strut your rasta ware, / and your suicide poem/ And a cross
from a faith that died, /
before Jesus came / You're building a mystery / You live in a church,
/ where you sleep with voodoo
dolls / And you won't give up the search, / for the ghosts in the halls
/ You wear sandals in the snow /
and a smile that won't wash away / Can you look out the window / without
your shadow getting in the
way / You're so beautiful, / with an edge and charm/ And so careful,
/ when I'm in your arms /
CHORUS / Because you're working,/ building a mystery / Holding on,
and holding in / Yeah you're
working, / building a mystery / and choosing so carefully / CHORUS/
You wake up screaming aloud,
/ a prayer from your secret god / You feed off our fears, / and hold
back your tears... oh, / You give
us a tantrum, / and a know-it-all grin / Just when we need one, / when
the evening's thin / You're a
beautiful, / a beautiful, fucked up man / You're setting up your /
razor wire shrine / CHORUS (repeat
3 times) / You're building a mystery.
I Love You
I have a smile / stretched from ear to ear / I see you walking down
the road / I meet at the lights / I
stare for a while / The world around us disappears / It's just you
and me / on my island of hope / a
breath between us could be miles/ let me surround you / a sea to your
shore/ let me be the calm you
seek / and every time I'm close to you / there's too much I can't say
/ and you just walk away... / and
I forgot / to tell you I love you / and night's too long / I'm cold
here without you / I grieve in my
condition / for I cannot find the words / to say I need you so /...
oh, everytime I'm close to you /
there's too much I can't say / and you just walk away / and I forgot
/ ,to tell you I love you, / and lines
too long / I'm cold here without you / I greive here in my condition
/ for I cannot find the words / to
say I need you so.
Sweet Surrender
Doesn't mean much, / doesn't mean anything at all / the life I've left
behind me / is a cold room / i've
crossed the last line / from where I can return / where every step
I took in faith / betrayed me / and
led me from my home / sweet surrender/ is all that I have / take me
in / no questions asked / you strip
away the ugliness that surrounds me / are you an angel? / Am I already
that gone? / I only hope that I
won't disappoint you/ I'm down here on my knees/ sweet surrender, /
sweet surrender / is all that I
have / I don't understand how the touch of your hand... / I would be
the one to fall / and it's the little
things, / I miss everything about you. / It doesn't mean much, / it
doesn't mean anything / at all the life
I've left behind me / is a cold room / sweet surrender / is all that
I have / sweet surrender / is all that I
have to give.
Adia
Adia, I do believe I failed you. / Adia, I know I've let you down. /
Don't ya know I tried so hard to
love you/ in my way. / It's easy, let it go / Adia, I'm empty since
you left me / trying to find a way to
carry on... / I've searched myself and everyone / to see where we went
wrong / there's no one left to
finger / there's no one left to blame / there's no one left to talk
to, honey / and there aint no one to buy
our innocence / cause we are born innocent / believe me, Adia / we
still are innocent / it's easy, we all
faulter / it doesn't matter. / Adia, I thought that we could make it
/ I know I can't change the way you
feel / I leave you with your misery, / a friend who won't betray. /
Pull you from your tower / I'll take
away your pain / show you all the beauty you possess / if you'd only
let yourself believe / that we ar
born innocent/ believe me adia, we are still innocent / it's easy ,
we all faulter / does it matter? / 'cause
we are born innocent (repeat 3 times)
Do What You Have To Do
What ravages of spirit / conjured this temptuous rage / created you
a monster / broken by the rule of
love / and fate has led you thought it / you do what you have to do
/ and fate has led you through it /
you do what you do / I had the sense to recognize / that I don't know
how to let you go / every
moment marked / with apparitions of your soul / however swiftly moving
/ I'm trying to escape this
desire / the yearning to be near you / I do what I have to do / the
yearning to be near you / I do what
I have to do / and I had the sense to recognize / that I don't know
how to let you go / I don't know
how to let you go / a glowing ember burning hot, burning slow. / Deep
within I'm shaken / by the
violence of existing / for only you / I know I can't be with you /
I do what I have to do / I know I can't
be with you / I do what I have to do / I know I can't be with you /
I do what I have to do / and I had
the sense to recognize / that I don't know how to let you go / but
I don't know how to let you go / I
don't know how to let you go.
Witness
Make me a witness. / Take me up out of the darkness, / out of doubt
/ I won't weigh you down / with
good intensions / won't make fire out of clay / or other inventions.
/ Will we burn in heaven, / like we
do down here? / will a change come while we're waiting / everyone is
waiting / and when we're done /
soul-searching / and we carry the weight / and died for a cause / is
misery made beautiful / right
before our eyes / mercy be revealed / or blind us where we stand /
will we burn in heaven / like we
do down here?... / will change come while we're waiting / everyone
is waiting (repeat 2)
Angel
You spend all your time waiting / for that second chance / for a break
that will make it okay. / There's
always some reason / to feel not good enough / and it's hard at the
end of the day / I need some
distraction / oh, beautiful release. / memory seeps from my veins /
let me be empty. / well,
weightlessness and maybe / i'll find some peace tonight / In the arms
of the angel / far away from here
/ from this dark, cold hotel room / and the endlessness that you fear
/ you are pulled from the
wreckage / of your silent reverie / in the arms of the angel / may
you find some comfort here / so tired
of the straight line / and everwhere you turn / are vultures and thieves
at your back / and the storm
keeps on twisting / you keep on building the lies / that you make up
for all that you lack / it don't
make no difference / escape one last time / it's easier to believe
/ in this sweet madness / all this
glorious sadness / it brings me / to my knees / in the arms of the
angel / fly away from here / from this
dark, cold hotel room / and the endlessness that you fear / you are
pulled from the wreckage / of your
silent reverie / in the arms of the angel / may you find some comfort
here / you're in the arms of the
angel / may you find some comfort here.
Black And White
Unravel me, / distant cord. / on the outside is forgotten / constant
need to get along / and the animal
awakens / and our love feels black and white / the road is long / and
memory slides / to the whole of
my undoing / I put aside / I put away, / I push it back / to get it
through / and all I feel is black and
white / and I'm wound up / small and tight / and I don't know who I
am / CHORUS: Everybody loves
you when you're easy, Everybody hates when you're a bore, Everybody
is waiting for your entrance /
don't disappoint them / unravel me / untie this cord / the very center
of our union / It's caving in / I can
endure / I am the archive of our failures / and all I feel is black
and white / and I'm wound up / small
and tight / and I don't know who I am /CHORUS/ Don't disappoint them/
CHORUS (repeat 2)/
Don't disappoint them (repeat 2)
Full Of Grace
The winter here's cold and bitter,/ it's chilled us to the bone.//We
haven't seen the sun for weeks,/ too
long, too far from home./ I feel just like I'm sinking,/ and I claw
for solid ground./ I'm pulled down by
the undertow,/ I never thought I could feel so low,/ and, oh, darkness,
I feel like letting go./ If all of
the strength and all of the courage/ come and lift me from this place./
I know I can love you much
better than this:/ Full of grace, Full of grace, my love./ It's better
this way,/ I said,/ Haven't seen this
place before./ Where everything we say and do,/ hurts us all the more./
It's just that we stayed too
long/in the same old sickly scheme,/ and I'm pulled down by the undertow,/
I never thought I could
feel so low,/ and, oh, darkness, I feel like letting go./ If all of
the strength and all of the courage/ come
and lift me from this place/ I know I can love you much better than
this:/ Full of grace, full of grace./ I
know I can love you much better than this./ It's better this way./
Last Dance
(Instrumental)