RIPPED AT THE SEAMS

FLY
Don’t you think that your time has come? Don’t you think you should try? Don’t you know that you’re not alone and that you learned that you don’t have to cry? Wish you knew how to fly. Wish you knew how to fly. Wish you knew how to fly, take your wings and your world up to the sky. Wish you knew how to fly. Wish you knew how to fly. Wish you knew how to fly, take your wings and your world up to the sky. Don’t you think that your time is here? Don’t you think you should stay? Don’t you know you should lose your fear and that there’s always some other way. Wish I knew what to say. Wish I knew what to say. Wish I knew what to say, cause Id take all your pain and Id throw it away. Wish I knew what to say. Wish I knew what to say. Wish I knew what to say, cause Id take all your pain and Id throw it away. Wish you knew how to fly. Wish you knew how to fly. Wish you knew how to fly, take your wings and your world up to the sky.

BLACK
Sheets of empty canvas under sheets of clay. His arms held out before me, like his body once did. All five horizons revolve around the sun, the earth and the sun. Now the air I taste and I breathe has taken a turn. Uhmmm and all I taught him was everything.  Uhmmm and all he gave me was all he wore, and now my bitter hands shake beneath the clouds of what was everything and all the pictures have all turned to black, tattooed everything. I take a walk outside and I’m surrounded by some kids playing. I can hear their laughter so why do I stay. Uhmmm and twisted thoughts that spin inside my head, ohhhh I’m spinning. How quick the sun can drive away, and now my bitter hands shake beneath the clouds of what was everything and all the pictures have all turned to black, tattooed everything. All the loves gone bad, turned the world to black, tattooed all I see, all that I am, all I’ll be. I know someday you’ll have a beautiful life, I know you’ll be a star in somebody else’s sky, why oh why can’t it be mine.

TIME
Time, oh time, has etched its lines in places by her eyes, by her smile, in a weave of seams that she sees. Oh she sees the pictures that were taken in her life, of her love and her child and the life that she loved. Oh she was, yes she was, a beauty in her time, with a voice and a mind that would set the world on fire.  She never had to try. She always knew that life could not be what you planned, well it’s an open map. It’s only fair to take the good with mistakes and the joy with the pain so she tries to say. Hey, I think that I’m okay, I think that I’m alright, I think that I’m alright. And I think that I’m okay, I think that I’m okay, I think that I’m alright, I think that I’m alright, for awhile.  Oh the love of her life has left her with the memory of his eyes, of his smile and a friend that she had for awhile. Life oh life is sometimes bitter and it wasn’t right to fight the things that you’ve been given. Oh, but she never learned to dance, denied a dream or two, a poet in the night, a thing they never knew. She forgot to build her life and she simply made her way but she had her share of love so she tends to say. Hey, I think that I’m okay, I think that I’m alright, I think that I’m alright. and I think that I’m okay, I think that I’m okay, I think that I’m alright, I think that I’m alright, and I think that I’m okay, I think that I’m okay, I think that I’m alright, I think that I’m alright,I’m alright, I’m alright for awhile.

FALL
Oh heaven, a place that you can create in your own life. Oh hell now, its waiting, it cuts you deeper than a knife.  Alone now, you seek it, you need to find your way back home. And all my life I never knew that if you dream it might come true, and all my days will turn to night unless I can let in the light.  I see you, I feel you, I wonder will you catch my… I’m falling, I can’t stop, my hands are braced to catch my… I see you, I know you, I wonder will you catch my fall.  And lessons are learned young. It takes some time to play the game, and there you are learning a method to conceal your pain. A chance now, you take it, the hand that leads you may be blind. And all my life I never saw the pits that wait there for your fall, and all this time I kept my stance, I close my eyes and take a chance.   I see you, I feel you, I wonder will you catch my… I’m falling, I can’t stop, my hands are braced to catch my… I see you, I know you, I wonder will you catch my… I’m falling you’re waiting, I wonder will you catch my fall.  

KILLING FOR GOD 
Well there they go now. You think they’ll ever see the light? They make their way now, making up things that they call right. They lose the moment, as quickly as they lose their sight. They won’t use caution. They’re falling deeper into plight.  (Chorus) I know its here, I know it’s gone, I know it leads you all along. I feel its heat, it leaves you dry. It tears you up but it makes you high.  Where is the love they’re looking for, I think its slipping far away. Where are the gods they’re killing for, let’s take a moment now and pray.  Where is the love now, I think it’s easy to forget. Are we all the same now, or will we suffer with regret? (Chorus) I'd light the path up, perhaps they’ll better find their way. Embracing hope is, a road we always need to pave.  I know it’s here, I know it’s gone, I know it leads you all along. I feel its heat, it burns your eye, it tears you up but it makes you high.    

FOREVER 
Your face haunts me now. Erase the when and the how.  Lose sight of what should be. Ignite the things that you need. Without, your eyes, your smile, my dreams worthwhile, you know, you know when you were mine.  (Chorus) I tried to get you off my mind. You know I’ve tried so many times. This feeling that I might find….is forever.  Should I pick up the phone, tell you how I’m so alone? Lost you in my dreams. Torn life, ripped at the seams.  Without, you eyes, you face, my words, disgrace, you know, you know I need you now.  I tried to get you off my mind. You know I’ve tried so many times. This feeling that I might find….is forever.    

SLIP AWAY 
The road is old and it is long. It feels wide open to you. It’s something that you’ve always found, it’s some other kind of rule I’m alone, I’m not found and I have lost myself in you. I am broken I am gone, I can’t believe that this is true.  (Chorus) and when the night has fallen and you need to feel the pain, you can let it slip away. When it comes down to it and you need to feel your pain, baby you can let it slip away.  So you set out to find love, you look in all these places. You feel the way you do right now, lost in a world of faces, And you raise your hopes again and feel the way you do right now. I reach out for you with my hands and I try to pull you out.  And when the night has fallen and you need to feel the pain, you can let it slip away. When it comes down to it and you need to feel your pain, baby you can let it slip away. And when the night has fallen and you need to feel the pain, you can let it slip away. When it comes down to it and you need to feel your pain, baby you can let it slip away.

CHAIN 
Listen to the wind blow, watch the sun rise. Run in the shadows, damn your love, damn your lies. Break the silence, down the dark, down with the light. Run a little faster, maybe you can beat the light.  And if you don’t love me now, you will never love me again, I can still hear you saying you can never break the chain. And if you don’t love me now, you will never love me again, I can still hear you saying you can never break the chain.  Listen to the wind blow, watch the sun rise. Run in the shadows, damn your love, damn your lies. Break the silence, down the dark, down with the light. Run a little faster, maybe you can beat the light.  And if you don’t love me now, you will never love me again, I can still hear you saying you can never break the chain. And if you don’t love me now, you will never love me again, I can still hear you saying you can never break the chain. And if you don’t love me now, you will never love me again, I can still hear you saying you can never break the chain.

I CANNOT HIDE
And I see you, through the darkness in the night. And I feel you, before I can even stop and wonder why. And the moment, that you came into the field of my sight, lost me deeply in the memories that hold me to a lie.  Oh and I cannot hide. Oh no and I oh I cannot hide, even though I try. Oh I cannot hide, the way that I feel.  So I step out on the plank that leads to all that I deny, and I fall back to see the distant movement in your eye, and I reach you before I can even stop and wonder why. The leash that pulls me back seems studded, barbed and maybe far too tight.  Oh and I cannot hide. Oh no and I oh I cannot hide, even though I try. Oh I cannot hide, the way that I feel.  Oh so leave me baby before I let down the shields inside of my mind. Oh so feel me baby as my body breezes quickly by my side. And you know me lately before I empty the contents of my pride. It’s the price I pay as I fall into the darkness of the night.  Oh and I cannot hide. Oh no and I oh I cannot hide, even though I try. Oh I cannot hide, oh no and I, oh I cannot hide….. the way that I feel.

KING CHAOS 
When the world is falling hard into the dark, I hear them call your name. Your words ignite an ignorant spark and I wonder if you’re sane.  And all the world comes crashing down, you must be aware, that all the worlds come crashing down, king chaos doesn’t care.  We try to make peace with all that you’ve done. We try to feel okay. You hide behind a father and a son and claim you know the way.  It’s lost, it’s found, it’s rotting to the ground. It’s cold and its pale. It loses meaning while it loses hope, its bitter and its stale.  And all the world comes crashing down, you must be aware, that all the worlds come crashing down, king chaos doesn’t care.  And all of the world that you have found crumbles to dust under your crown, and all that you say, and all that you do is dripping in oil and none of its true.  And all the world comes crashing down, you must be aware, that all the worlds come crashing down, king chaos doesn’t care. And all the world is crashing down, you must be aware, that all the worlds is crashing down, king chaos doesn’t care.   

WAIT FOR YOU 
I’m thinking about you every day of my life. That might seem extreme, but I like it just fine. Hey don’t let me get carried away with your smile. I’ll be dancing with shadows, pretend it’s you all night.  And I’ll wait for you, I’ll wait for you for just awhile. And I’ll wait for you, I’ll wait for you for just awhile. Yes I’ll wait for you, I’ll wait for you for just awhile, because you will, you will return.  I think about the things you taught me in just one day, And I remember how you should work but you must play. We danced in the rain, I felt the water on my face, And I never wanted to ever leave that place.  And I’ll wait for you, I’ll wait for you for just awhile. And I’ll wait for you, I’ll wait for you for just awhile. Yes I’ll wait for you, I’ll wait for you for just awhile because you will, you will return. 

RAIN 
When the sun goes down, we try hard to forget, Things done in our name, we might live to regret, And the laughter of children is drowned out by their pain. Will we forget them when we wash away their blood with rain?  Our leaders tell us that we all need to be the same. They say no please, so we force them to play our game. And the world condemns us for acting in poor taste. Yet we crush them and leave their world in waste.  Can we listen and will we see, that the hate they harbor, could bring us to our knees, Do you think that they might try to bring us down, and if they do, will we finally come around?  So we get up each morning and try to make it through our day. And we look for reasons to justify our ways. Will we forget them and all their pain when we finally realize that we can’t wash away their blood with rain.

COMING UNDONE

ALL IN MY HEAD
So much of this, so much of that, oh I've hidden my hands. Behind my back, behind my love, oh I can't comprehend. Where does it go from here, I know they have their way, to make you understand. (Chorus) "It's all in my head, lost and found, in the things that you said, it's all in my mind, slipped through the cracks, lost in the dark, tangled in threads, it's all in my head". Don't tell me more, don't tell me less, or I'll lose my dismay, for my own hope for my own life, oh I can't look away. I tried to find myself, alone and unafraid, but I can't find the way (Chorus) I wonder how, I wonder why, I must have misread. I wonder why you even bother to say the things you said I fooled myself, time and time again till IÕm dead. All in my mind, all in my head. (Chorus)

JUSTIN'S EYES
Imagine time, without space, a room without a place, a smile without a face a dream that never fades. Well, these thing cannot be, they'll never set you free. You must recognize whatÕs real, if you learn to heal. (Chorus) "And oh your eyes, have seen the things a child should never have to see, and oh, your ears have heard the cries of anger and insanity." So I listen, for your voice, and I hear it, it makes a choice. Imagine space without time, rhythm without rhyme, a, mood you'll always find, a decision that is mine. I'll hold you right there by my side, if you need a place to hide I'll shelter you from fright, even in the dark of night. (Chorus) And I listen, and I and I hear you. Can I listen, will I hear you?

NICKI'S SONG
when I look back, on my life, I'd like to think it was alright, but there is one thing I regret. I try, but can't forget, and that is, since you were born, I wish, I could have given you more. (Chorus) "Despite of what, you might say, you've always blown me away. You have your way of being strong. You've always learned to carry on. I hope that now you can see, all the things you mean to me." There were choices i made, that I can't deny, I know that they sometimes made you cry, but didn't we laugh once in awhile. You'll never know how I would feel, when I would see you smile. (Chorus) There's something I need to say, that I can't sleep at night until I know you'll be alright, and You no longer think in a fight, and you learn to simply live your life. (Chorus)

ELUSIVE RAYS
Woke up this morning and stumbled out of bed. I wondered where you went to play. I heard the warning, it was screaming in my head. It had to do with what you say. I checked the time, I checked the place, I checked the room. I guess you didn't want to stay. I kissed myself goodbye, and I walked out onto the day. No hesitation in my face. (chorus)"and I throw my hands into the sun, in hopes to catch an elusive ray, and put my thumb out to catch a ride, in hopes that, it might carry me away." I turned myself into this thing that i don't know, my reason left me in a daze. I can't control the things that fall into my path, their bitter, sweet or maybe stale. I turned around, I lost my grip I must confess, I guess there must be hell to pay. I really don't care what the rest of them might think. I am content in my own place. (Chorus)

WALL
You hang your clothes out to dry when there are rain clouds in the sky. You find your place to stand, in the sun, when it's cold outside, there's only the one. I stand alone in this world, after so long, and I feel good, I feel strong. I choose to spend my nights, all alone, I ignore the door, and the phone. (Chorus) "Where is my wall, that I built so high? It's fallen, and I see you now" You always seem to laugh, when I think you should cry, and I have to, wonder why. I can share my dreams with you for awhile, and you don't laugh, in fact you smile. I lose my desire, to be alone, when you make me so at home. (Chorus)

NAME
I walked out into the night. It was dark, there was no light. I only went because I saw you walk on by, but it was just the snow in my eye. (Chorus) "And I, I close my eyes, And I, I sympathize, and I don't know your name" I thought that maybe, you had some sight. You always seem to know when you were right, but now I see your gone. Could I consider maybe I was wrong. (Chorus) I face my life through jaded hands and I come undone, like no one can. I walked out into the night and somehow I lost my sight. You never thought I'd come undone, and never one anyone. (Chorus) I close my eyes, I sympathize

TILL TOMORROW
I see truly, my thoughts are not my own, they flow right through me until I'm gone, and so I'll wait here all alone, until you find me and make me all your own. (Chorus) " And I wait here, till tomorrow, when I throw my thoughts into the wind, and I might lie here in your arms forever until I cannot feel the pain." My substance fades, because I'm all alone, and if you find me and tell me to be strong, and that you've loved me all along, and make me wonder, how I got it wrong; (chorus). I imagine, that you might feel the same, lost and afraid now, no one is to blame, so lets not waste time and throw it all away. The price is not worth, what we'll have to pay. We'll have to (chorus)

BLACK
Mirror, Mirror on the wall, is there anyone at all? She raises dust when, she says where she has been. She rolls up her sleeve in a fashion, she's sick of living without a friend. She's sick of isolation, yet she chooses to be alone. If you want you can call her, but she won't pick up the phone. (Chorus) "She looks at her reflection, to see and she looks at her reflection, just to see." She dresses herself in black every morning, just to keep the world at bay. She won't tell you any stories, because she has nothing to say. She has no inhibitions, so she's sure to keep you away and she wants some retribution, because she thinks that you should pay. (chorus) Mirror, mirror on the wall, is there anyone at all. She wears black every morning.

NOTHING
Snow falls in the wintertime, turns to water in the spring. Everything goes back to where it came from, I don't know where to begin. Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, where does it all end? Write letters back home, to where you came from, looking for a lost friend. (Chorus) and I waste all my time, on little things, and I remember nothing. Water falls on my windowpane, I guess I think it might be rain, \ reminds me of a sound I heard, something akin to pain. Lost dreams from yesterday, they paint the canvas of my mind, and the things you do everyday, they take up all your time. (Chorus) Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, I guess this is how it ends. Faceless voices inside my head, they meet me around the bend. (Chorus) (Chorus)

FADES AWAY
The sun rises on a world that we can't see. The times have changed, they've rearranged, and now their lost to me. No matter how hard I try, I fail to find the words I seem to need. I try to pretend the worlds the same, I try to play the stupid game, that defines my reality and feel so trite and half surreal. Is it love, is it hope, is it something that fades away? (Chorus) And so I make my way through everyday life I hear the cries of pain, I think the worlds gone insane. We send our children to school, wondering if we were fools, for I feel the need to say that guns and knives are games they play! We lives our lives with a lack of sympathy for the suffering we hide, we close our eyes so we can't see.Our hopes rise when, we think were strong and free. We call for war without a though, as blind as we could be. A moment of silence then, prevent a tragedy, all our hopes and dreams survive through broken dignity. I cried and cried me tears, they failed to wash away the pain. Is it love, is it hope, is it something that fades away? It fades away(Chorus) Is it love, is it hope, is it something that fades away, it fades away.

MERGE
When you played your song for me, I couldn't believe it completed mine. I couldn't begin to guess when I met you, all the things that I would find. I'll tell you. I've walked a mile or two; I've traveled down this road before. I've been a little unforgiving; I've always hoped that there was more. (Chorus) But if you play your song for me, I'll play you mine too. The way they merge so naturally, makes me believe things I never knewÓ I hesitate to offer you all the things that I have learned. It's better not to play with fire, as you know you might get burned.Ó I've gone through life, without a chance, to believe in any of my dreams. Now I've seen, that all my doubts have never been what they seem. (Chorus) I guess it's time to offer you, all the things that I might know. What's the use in holding on, if you can't even let go! And as I look into your gentle eyes, I see thing I never knew could be. You give me a chance to do, what I've never done, a license to be me.