Live Stages

God why you want to play with me
Can't you see i'm tumbling down
And like your favorite toy
Boy i'm tired of being thrown around

You lead me through this life of complication and delusion
So you drop it in my lap and slap me back towards confusion
When it's so hard to decide whether to live or to die in this destiny
Tell me what would you say if at the end of the day it was just you and me

Smile away the fears that only seem to run me around
So you open up the door then the floor came crumbling down
I've only one or two dreams there worth losing
But they're unraveling, traveling down the road to ruin

And the harder i try the more i slip and i slide through this fantasy
All by myself i need your help to perservere
But the same conclusions always greet me at my door
Wouldn't it be nice to fade away
And maybe one day you will show me what went wrong
How did i become the unchosen one

So when the rain is just around my corner
Throw some sunshine down my way
And i'll hit you with a smile all the while my worries melt away

So won't you show me a sign as i continue to climb up this reality
All by myself i need your help to perservere
And the same conclusions always greet me at my door
Wouldn't it be nice to fade away
And maybe one day you will show me what went wrong
So how did i become the unchosen one

I saw a young man by a telephone
He was sitting alone in the rain
I said, "hey, young man what you doing here?"
He said, "sir, i'm going insane"

See i love an american beauty
But nobody here understands
So he looked to the sky with resentment in his eyes
And said, "lord, why am i in japan?"
Lord why am i in japan?

He told me a story about yesterday
How he walked in the search of a friend
But nobody came to his rescue
So he came to his bitter end

He pulled me close and said
"they all stopped and stared
As i walked down the street alone
And nobody knew my name
Nobody knew my name"

I said, "young man i know where you're going
And young man i know where you've been
But i've been in this land for a lifetime, it seems,
And i'm never to come back again
No, i'm never to come back again

So i turned and i gave him my blessing
And i left him alone in the rain
But i had to just stop and laugh at myself
Still nobody knows my name
Nobody knows my name

Hold my thoughts i'm at an impasse
Past the place i stopped before
The sweeper's sweeping fragments
Of my head out the door

And the ice it burns upon my forehead
The calmness starts to scream
Must i always hold the upright
When my soul longs to dream

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Is it too much to find an answer
Is it too much to hold you close
Is it too much to find a reason
Is it too much to free my soul
From self control

I can't get it any better
I always end up killing time
Time for love and time for living
Time to find what's really mine

Chorus twice

And i know you're always waiting for me
You take me far away
And i know you're holding me
And it's better now . . .
And it's better now . . .
And it's better now . . .

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And even though i'm right behind you
Shadows haunt and taunt your hand
I cannot be your everything
But i'll be your candyman

You move a sudden grace, a child upon the earth
You wanted love to find you but you found it first

Chorus

We look through antiques on a fuzzy, fuzzy day
But you always know just what you want
Want right away

Chorus

And though you cry at night
It's to be expected
But know you're mine tonight

So when the sun has died you dive into your mind
But your soul is never lost until the deal is signed

Chorus

I am the blood
I am the heartbeat
I am the needle drawing me from me
Separate vials for the vile i see


I am the mind
And i know what i know
Fragments of pictures form my core
All strewn about on this prison floor


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Watched on by secret eyes
Hidden internal lies
It's only me
I get afraid of the dark sometimes
I can't see
When the light shines i find it's only me

I am the flood
And i am the cleansing
Reckless and pure still unsure
I got aimless precision


I am the savior
And i am my brother
Holding me in locking me out
Different room for a different doubt

Chorus

I am the blood
And i am the heartbeat
I am the needle drawing me from me
Seperate vials for the vile i see

Chorus

No fog clear in the moonlight
The stars shine so bright now's the time
I close my eyes - soft wind touch my face
Cool sand upon the place where i once kissed you
And held you close
Now i will reach for the stars
Because oh my love, that's where you are


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Though the storms of black night rage on
I still see your face
I still feel your lips on mine
And though my heart feels all alone without you
I still hear you sing to me
I still hear your voice on the sea

Waves crash break the silence
Gulls cry a song of lament
I walk on through the stormy night
The air cries flash of anger
Dark night enshrouds the stranger all alone without you
Now i will reach for the stars
Because oh my love, that's where you are

Chorus

No fog clear in the moonlight
The stars shine so bright now's the time
I close my eyes - soft wind touching my face
Cool sand upon the place where i once kissed you
And held you close
Now i will reach for the stars
Because oh my love, that's where you are


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