Running On Ice

Open the window
Let the sunset in
If only for the last time
Let me see you smile again

I'll take my records
You can have your books
I'm sorry i never read them
But it says so much about us

Always trying
To make love out of care
The perfect recipe
But something wasn't there

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Sunrays and saturdays
Perfect starry nights
Sweet dreams and moonbeams
And a love that's warm and bright
Sunrays and saturdays
Friendship strong and true
Oceans of blue and a room with a view
To live the life you choose

You'll write me letters
I'll call you on the phone
A wire away from touching
And never quite alone

We'll get to know ourselves again
And we'll heal our hearts
It's not that we're bad together
We're just better off apart

Always trying
To have one and one make two
And even though it never worked
I still feel love for you

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Goodnight my sun
Goodnight my friend
Rest your soul at this
Long day's end

The fire inside
Will warm our night
And daddy's arms will
Hold you tight

Dream of summer skies
Sunset is bound to each sunrise
Rest is your first right
My friend goodnight

This world spinning
Time always winning
The silver chains keep thinning and
This is just your beginning

Sleep my friend
At last be free
No we won't forget
Our merriest melody

Gone to another place
Of carousel rides round an angel's face
I'm sure we'd both laugh at the sight

My friend goodnight

An old man lying by the road
Black is night
He's got his finger on the trigger
An easy target in sight
He's got no future, no family tree
He's got a three dollar bottle
And he drinks 'till he can't see
All night, all night.....

A young girl waiting on a line
Eight a.m., she's got a six month old burden
Willpower's withering thin
An unwed mother beaten by her trade
Each week her welfare reminds her
Of mistakes she never made
Oh no.....

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Now what has that to say about tomorrow
What has that to show for today
Noah thought to build an ark
Before the heavens washed it all away
Away...

A baby crying through a dream
An afterthought
Mother is seething for pleasure
After the poison is bought
His eyes are tainted, staggered is his breath
Oh god, he's addicted
Addicted to death
Oh, no...

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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

And the man who would be santa slips into the room
And the hour of daylight's yet to come but he hopes they don't wake too soon
All the presents wrapped in paper and tied with a bow
The children sleep upstairs and santa works below
And he can hear the children dreaming

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And he says
All i want is for you to have
A life you love and live
Take from me all i have to give
Because you are in my heart

And the man who would be santa tells his son to write
And to call him if he needs him in the middle of the night
Don't you worry don't you cry now you'll do just fine
Your mother and i love you
We think about you all the time
And he can see the train is leaving

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Now the old man sits and tells of days when time stood still
The hours always seem to fade but the memory never will
All the love that you gave me
All the dreams in the night
And i just want to thank you while the day's still light
But i can see the sun is setting

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I saw an open door and i looked inside it
But i'd no idea
What you were hiding

So now i'm holding the bag
And it's heavy
And the conversation stopped
So much for friendly

And if i told you i was not very good
At making small talk when i should
But you have one advantage over me
At times like this i'm lost at sea

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Why can't i see it for what it really is
And know it like i know my name
And if it's all the same i don't like this game
So let's pack it up
And call it even

Well i'm not the type to speak
Just to hear my voice
And i'm sure you'd hear me out
If you had the choice
But your words keep coming out
Neverending
And i wonder if i'd have to shout and if i told you i was dying of thirst
And the sky was falling just to make it worse
Would you just smile and continue on
As if your mouth had a race to run

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Well i'm glad we had this talk
I feel better
And if i've something else to say
I'll write a letter

And if i told you you were not very good
At hearing others when you really should
Would you just smile and push me away
You can't be bothered there's still words to say

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Where does the time go
Spinning my wheels
Standing still
It's like running on ice
I only gain a little distance when i fall
How did i become a molecule
In the concrete of this city
Indifferent to my endless motion
In a space too small to see
Nonetheless expected to be
I only get a little attention when i fall


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And i'm falling
Falling down
Falling
Falling down

Cursed with reason
In a world so defiant
Without conclusion
This is the story
The story we live out
And it is the moral too
Look at me i'm falling for you
Shaking, crying
Hating lying to myself
I'm tired of telling myself it's ok
To be this tired
This sick and tired of the turns the world takes
And the people that it makes us be
And lately it appears to me that

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I'm falling down...