Prison Time

I bled this time I shed my shame
I relive hourly each part of the game
I face each minute the price I live with the regret
Each day it gets no easier in this dirty little war

Hard words spoken loudly take the chain and spin it round
Love words are harder it’s a claim but not the same
One to one you face a time a face a place a path to walk
Then the spell is broken the song is never heard

Now I ache each time I leave my life behind
I walked a thin line between the sun and moon
The twist the dance the fear and all that has gone before
My name is only said now in the silent hour

I don’t know right from wrong
I don’t know right from wrong
I don’t know right from wrong

Those that I have touched and things we left unsaid
The water flows now under many bridges
Over the wall I watch the sun set on all of my crimes
I face the judges my penalty I face my sin
I face my prison time

Fires are burning

End of History

I heard the words of The Saints
Those days are never coming back
Held my breath while the velvet revolution
Tore the shirts right up off their backs

One day you are dancing in the streets
Next day you standing in a line
Watching as the clocks are turning backwards
To a future coming up from behind

End of History
End of History
End of History

Now the shelves are full but the cupboard is bare
There are bright lights everywhere but it is hard to see
Faces in the street they tell the stories
Now the fools are fooled and they are hungry

End of History
End of History
End of History
End of History

Day is night

The words are burning
Where there is fire there is smoke
I will run to you honestly
If dreams are paper tigers and the future is all around
The walls will crumble down perfectly

Hush the rest are calling
and time is standing still

Until the sun and moon they will rise together
And face each other in the sky
When day is night and night is day
I will stand together forever at your side

Bring your broken glass to me
And I will melt it down
And make something new and beautiful
Bring your old paper to me all crumbling yellow and brown
And I will write new words carefully

Hush the rest are calling and time is standing still

Until the sun and moon they will rise together
And face each other in the sky
When day is night and night is day
I will stand together forever at your side

All that was old will be new
Those that were first will be last
And the truth will be laid naked painfully
All money will be burnt and all rules the rules will be broken
But order will be maintained lovingly

Until the sun and moon they will rise together
And face each other in the sky
When day is night and night is day
I will stand together forever at your side
Until the sun and moon they will rise together
And face each other in the sky
When day is night and night is day
I will stand together forever at your side

Don’t look back

Ten years is a long time
So many days of sun and rain
The fading slogans on the wall
Their meaning is forgotten
I can look back on a time
When I walked the earth with confidence
The spirit inside me has lost direction

Don’t look back
Don’t look back
Look straight ahead

Last night walking home
An old mad asked me for a dollar
I never thought that it could
But it felt like I helped him
There are things in which you believe
And the hope for changes to come
But there is no easy road to glory

Don’t look back
Don’t look back
Look straight ahead

Well you just left one place
Then you have to leave another
It can get very cold in and endless summer
No words that I could say
Can stop the setting sun
Or hasten the arrival of a new day

Don’t look back
Don’t look back
Look straight ahead

The Future

Well you can play your games with numbers
Shift money from here to there
And there are many words to justify
Those pictures they never lie

Until everything is smaller
But we move so far apart
And in the haze of the faint blue glow
We are in the shadows in the dark

But the future is unwritten
Now is all we have

There are satellites standing by
Send words and pictures all around the world
We can see those people
We can see them cry

Until yesterday is history
And we move so far apart
There is another tragedy more pleasing to the eye

But the future is unwritten
Now is all we have

There is no easy way out
There is no easy way out
There is no easy way out
There is no easy way out
There is no easy way out
Send words
Send pictures
Satellites standing by
No easy way out
No easy way out
No easy way out

Washing over me

It has been a while since my mind was clear
Since I felt sure footed since I had any idea
Since people coming up to me
Could look me in the eye.

I didn’t know when I kept digging
What I would reveal
I didn’t realize when I light the fire
The pain I would feel
Since nothing I ever said
Seemed to make anything better

I felt your sadness
I felt your pain
Washing over me

I could hold on hard I could hold on tight
I keep the hope alive
Through many dark nights
In the end I had to walk away

When you’ve had enough of angry words and angry scenes
And you laugh at the dialogue the movie revealed
In the end I wish they just left it all on the cutting room floor

I felt your sadness and
I felt your pain
Washing over me