I mistook judgment for feeling
I mistook attention for care
I'd suppose there's room here for healing
But I'd need a map to tell you just where
I retreat to the corner to lick my wounds
Your icy fingers on my shoulder blades
I can only take comfort in my escape
There's no coffee in your teacup
No religion in your chapel
Only sneaky operations
Just where did you get the scalpel?
Brilliant decision the first incision
I mistook judgment for feeling
I mistook attention for care
I'd suppose there's room here for healing
But I'd need a map to tell you just where
I retreat to the corner to lick my wounds
Your icy fingers on my shoulder blades
I can only take comfort in my escape
There's no coffee in your teacup
No religion in your chapel
Only sneaky operations
Just where did you get the scalpel?
Brilliant decision the first incision
I can read the traces of your fast slim eyes
They take me back to the island of recall
All the times I swallowed your bitter wind
I can't say that I'm surprised at all
It's suddenly colder
And here you are
Searching for warmth at my door
And wanting my shoulder
Well I've got no sympathy for you
It's just like that
Baby it's just like that
Baby it's just like that
Don't ask me why
LONDON DAYS
london days
here the raindrops carry the heaviness of centuries
dripping tales of kingdoms and of crusades and disease
they color this foreign one
london eyes
the deepest blue was swallowed by the quiet life
you sent your scream across the atlantic
and i heard you sigh
dream of my foreign hands
darling i never said it
but i will carry this feeling
until the time, until the place we meet again
how i wished to be somewhere else
LONDON DAYS
london days
here the raindrops carry the heaviness of centuries
dripping tales of kingdoms and of crusades and disease
they color this foreign one
london eyes
the deepest blue was swallowed by the quiet life
you sent your scream across the atlantic
and i heard you sigh
dream of my foreign hands
darling i never said it
but i will carry this feeling
until the time, until the place we meet again
how i wished to be somewhere else
Neighbor's coming by at ten
And he'll be wearing the disguise
Of your new best friend
To steal your sympathy
Cause you've been down that road
And back again
Keep it all down
Push it all out 'til you don't want to play
Write a few lines
Draw a few circles cause this is your day
Mother's going to call at nine
Just lie and say you're doing fine
Throw the watch away
Cause you'll be playing this game forever
Neighbor's coming by at ten
And he'll be wearing the disguise
Of your new best friend
To steal your sympathy
Cause you've been down that road
And back again
Keep it all down
Push it all out 'til you don't want to play
Write a few lines
Draw a few circles cause this is your day
Hours over hours of stupid white noise
And backhanded bitching
With the barroom boys
I'm feeling like a joker
Cause I gambled and lost again
He wants five easy pieces
So I'm sharpening my knives
That superstar golden boy messiah child
Spends all of his time
Wishing he had a spine to speak of
I'm walking out on this thing
Cause somewhere there's more for me
I'm betting it
BEHIND THE DOOR
Words by LeAnne Broas
Music by Anthony Sepulveda
A man who served his country is homeless from the paperwork
A girl with track marks like freckles still says
Please and thank you.
Children shipped in on promises and given out in tawdry halls
Walk down the street
Think of a movie
Turn on the news flip the channel
It’s too much
No matter you could’ve lunched with their mother
BEHIND THE DOOR
Words by LeAnne Broas
Music by Anthony Sepulveda
A man who served his country is homeless from the paperwork
A girl with track marks like freckles still says
Please and thank you.
Children shipped in on promises and given out in tawdry halls
Walk down the street
Think of a movie
Turn on the news flip the channel
It’s too much
No matter you could’ve lunched with their mother
INTROSPECTION
Words by LeAnne Broas
Music by Anthony Sepulveda
Parallel to emptiness I never seem to get a rest
These spinning dreams are joining in a war which can’t be won
Leaping in a whirlwind spiral
Singing to the ground once more
Trying not to be too serious
Can’t back through an open door
Hold me up and push me higher
Where the sky thins out life’s pain
Neutral air might reap a chorus
INTROSPECTION
Words by LeAnne Broas
Music by Anthony Sepulveda
Parallel to emptiness I never seem to get a rest
These spinning dreams are joining in a war which can’t be won
Leaping in a whirlwind spiral
Singing to the ground once more
Trying not to be too serious
Can’t back through an open door
Hold me up and push me higher
Where the sky thins out life’s pain
Neutral air might reap a chorus
Run Americans run
From lives filled with nothing but what needs to get done
Until you're too scared to sleep cause you've learned not to dream
And apathy splits you like a guillotine
Fly Americans fly
There's a place for you way up in the sky
In the truest land of opportunity
Where money is burned and freedom is free
Run senorita run
Politicians are coming for your daughters and sons
You helped build their homes on what once was your sand
But there's no room for you in the promise land
Fly senorita fly
There's a place for you way up in the sky
In the truest land of opportunity
Where money is burned And freedom is free
Pull me in
To your ring of sin
And certain fate
Tell me how to walk
Tell me how to talk
Tell me how to hate
Give me rules to follow
Everywhere I go
Show me how to be
Someone more like you
So they don't ask me
Who are you?
Pull me in
To your ring of sin
And certain fate
Tell me how to walk
Tell me how to talk
Tell me how to hate
Give me rules to follow
Everywhere I go
Show me how to be
Someone more like you
So they don't ask me
Who are you?
Pull the curtains open
So I can finally breathe
When their room's lit
And mine is dark
So they can't see
So I light a match inside my brain
My head explodes blood covers the train
She stares in awe
People keep on walking by
They crush my nose and poke my eye
She wards them off
She says "Money makes me sad
But I'm too sad to cry
So he took the whole world
And he swallowed it down
And it burned in his stomach
Til there was no-one around
Except him all alone
In the vacant white crying
"Jesus, where is my life?"
I hope to never again
Have to cope
with this darkness my friend
War is a-ragin'
Don't you understand
Cause a rich man's son
took the world in his hand
He said this here is mine
To do with as I please
Get out of my way
Or fall to your knees
So he took the whole world
And he swallowed it down
And it burned in his stomach
Til there was no-one around
Except him all alone
In the vacant white crying
"Jesus, where is my life?"
As I walked through your hallways naked
With signs taped all across your back
You promised that I would feel equal
With rings of gold wrapped 'round my neck
My attention's now given to these characters
Who remind me of all that I lack
I can't lay in your blanket of protection
I've grown I feel old and I know
We begin right here
Always at the same place with you
As I walked through your hallways naked
With signs taped all across your back
You promised that I would feel equal
With rings of gold wrapped 'round my neck
My attention's now given to these characters
Who remind me of all that I lack
I can't lay in your blanket of protection
I've grown I feel old and I know
We begin right here
Always at the same place with you
When I turn into dust
I won't know where I'm going
When I turn into dust
I won't know where I am
When I turn into dust
I won't know why I started
I'll just be mad that I made any plans
The sun is shining dark
Dark days are dying
Right around the bend
Why do I always seem to forget
Where I'm going
Why do I always seem to forget
Where I am
Why do I always seem to forget
Why I started
And why can't I make any plans
When I turn into dust
I won't know where I'm going
When I turn into dust
I won't know where I am
When I turn into dust
I won't know why I started
I'll just be mad that I made any plans
I know I told you once
That I thought I could fly
But life's the rotten joke
That made my laughter die
And now I'm caught in concrete
Playing fucking games
Cause we're all in the business
Of becoming the same
I know I told you once
That I thought I could fly
But life's the rotten joke
That made my laughter die
And now I'm caught in concrete
Playing fucking games
Cause we're all in the business
Of becoming the same
I'd like
To know
How I
Should cope
With the lie
If you don't hate me
I suggest you do
Cause I'm the rotten bastard
That ruined you
And you're the rotten bastard
I don't mind going down
Into the dirt underground
As long as I can hear the song
You've been singing all along
Hey hey look at you
Speaking your mind
Singing the truth
Oh my where've I been
Lord it's good to be back again
I don't mind going down
Into the dirt underground
As long as I can hear the song
You've been singing all along
Hey hey look at you
Speaking your mind
Singing the truth
Oh my where've I been
Lord it's good to be back again
Where do I go when I did
Why am I here
Who am I
Who are you to say to me
Will I know you when we disappear
Will we exist on a parallel sphere
Will we be able to think twice
Before we enter this paradise
Where nothing is cherished
Cause nothing is feared
There are no heroes and nothing with change
We've taken the world and we made it deranged
It's the end of our lifetimes a legacy of war crimes
God is a woman dressed in black
Dead is the world she colored blue
Stuck in the middle are me and you
What'll we do what'll we do
Time is the falsehood though which we judge
Our universe is broken just give it a nudge
And we'll all fall to back where we came through
Into the darkness up above
It’s in the way she holds it off
I kind of like it quite a lot
I always wanted someone just like you
I always wanted someone just like you
Child if you want me to
I will wait awhile
We can stay so warm
They will never know
Guess a little bit
I’m afraid of it
Guess a little bit
I will never be
It’s in the way she holds it off
I kind of like it quite a lot
I always wanted someone just like you
I always wanted someone just like you
Child if you want me to
I will wait awhile
We can stay so warm
They will never know
Guess a little bit
I’m afraid of it
Guess a little bit
I will never be
It’s in the places that she goes
I’ve got some things I gotta know
At ten till one/and I’ve lost track of everyone
My friends are gone/there’s no one here to rely on
All that we share/we breathe the same air
You take my hand and there’s no turning back now
And when I wake up/you’re wearing make up
You are leaving everything that we had behind
It doesn’t make sense/but it makes no difference
At ten past nine/a feeling that’s hard to define
I pass you by/and wonder what you have to hide
So I get drunk/enough to care
I stare and I’m waiting to find her
At ten till one/and I’ve lost track of everyone
My friends are gone/there’s no one here to rely on
All that we share/we breathe the same air
The last dance on the last night of the year
Last chance before my world disappeared
Will I learn to walk again? Back when/I fell on my two feet
Now I’m shattered/but I’m not incomplete
I slowly see/the reality
Don’t leave / don’t leave me / I know you won’t
I’m broken in pieces / on the ground
I’ll scream for help / for one more chance
The last dance on the last night of the year
Last chance before my world disappeared
Will I learn to walk again? Back when/I fell on my two feet
Now I’m shattered/but I’m not incomplete
I slowly see/the reality
Don’t leave / don’t leave me / I know you won’t
I’m broken in pieces / on the ground
I’ll scream for help / for one more chance
Don’t stop do it again / and this time give it some feeling
If its just pretend / then go on with believing
I can leave behind/I can’t sleep at night
It won’t let me crash till dawn
Fall apart / as the day begins
It’s so hard to stop / to start over and over again
But you can’t quit / as you give in
Don’t stop do it again / and this time give it some feeling
If its just pretend / then go on with believing
I can leave behind/I can’t sleep at night
It won’t let me crash till dawn
Fall apart / as the day begins
It’s so hard to stop / to start over and over again
But you can’t quit / as you give in
I can’t sit still/I can’t relax
And there’s no appeal/in stealing anything they don’t want
Back ever again/like a rubber band
That’s stretched too thin/around your neck
And now you’re turning
Blue/eyes that asked me to
So I did what I had to do
I can’t sit still/I can’t relax
And there’s no appeal/in stealing anything they don’t want
Back ever again/like a rubber band
That’s stretched too thin/around your neck
And now you’re turning
Blue/eyes that asked me to
So I did what I had to do
I search for you as you hide from me
oh every time I get close you disappear / like a ghost
A part of me wants badly to believe
You know that you’ve got to prove to all
the skeptics who don’t see
cause you’re real to me
Illusively he likes to hideaway
I search for you as you hide from me
oh every time I get close you disappear / like a ghost
A part of me wants badly to believe
You know that you’ve got to prove to all
the skeptics who don’t see
cause you’re real to me
Illusively he likes to hideaway
I’m looking for a trace of evidence
But all I find, what’s left behind,
are image blurs and large foot prints!
Oh it’s a waiting game / It’s too much for me to take.
The clouds are still full of rain / It seems like they’ll never break.
So c’mon move along it’s like a catchy song that stuck in my head.
Here it again and again from beginning to end,
I won’t forget what you said…
(You said)
Maybe someday (Maybe Someday)
Wait and you’ll see if we’re ever meant to be.
Oh it’s a waiting game / It’s too much for me to take.
The clouds are still full of rain / It seems like they’ll never break.
So c’mon move along it’s like a catchy song that stuck in my head.
Here it again and again from beginning to end,
I won’t forget what you said…
(You said)
Maybe someday (Maybe Someday)
Wait and you’ll see if we’re ever meant to be.
