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REMAIN IN MEMORY (Bondi) You could walk away without a loss Chances are as chances go that you won't need me anymore and measure in your step your vanity But I know you better than that you're not so different from me I could walk away with no regrets where the palest shadows move the ghosts will roam this room and linger at the place where we first met There's no place for me to run underneath this sun While I remain in memory, remember me You could start again without a pause What's the point in looking back when there's no turning back But in your stillest voice you sound assured count the heart that settles fast The iron days are past The place you want The place you love The place you own The place you call your home Then face the fact That facing up Is better than backing down again alone... DOESN'T HAVE TO BE THAT WAY (Richards) My face tears sorrow pain is the picture of your choice Needs wants concerned But you never hear my voice Lives Loves Dissolve It's just submission that you see Bleak Futile Fatal Is there no hope for me? What's that you say? Things are so very bad Maybe I should pray Paint me a picture but it's always old and grey It doesn't have to have to be that way Beat a horse beat it dead Til you've pummelled it to dirt Give me dread So I'll be glad just not to hurt You see tomorrow barren The vultures picked it clean Hope for better smashed it It isn't good to dream What's that you say... You only have my interests in your heart in your soul You only want to help me crawl away and grow old Haunts life announce Like you just found out something new Meanings reasons answers But you just tell me what to do Feed me Clothe me Protect me So I can live with pain Fires turn to embers drowning Beneath your kindly reign What's that you say... WASN'T I RIGHT THIS TIME? (AOF) I thought I had this last one down Either that or it's just something else some regret I thought I'd never say I had And to find out that I eat my words with the same forked tongue that spits them out until I become just what I railed about Wasn't I right Wasn't I right This time? Wasn't I right Wasn't I right this time? The way that I though that it'd turn out Just exactly what I dreamt about some people get too much of sleep to dream and from what remains of memory This is just what I thought it'd be some people get too much of sleep to breathe |
AROUND IN CIRCLES (Bondi) I'm on a treadmill A grinding flash and everything's filled with wind and tilting at windmills that spin everywhere There's nothing real when there's no one there Around in circles I'm back again around in circles Black and White Around in circles Back to where I began the carousel starts tonight I'm on a circuit that never stops I'm on the back of an arc An electric current never goes anywhere There's nothing real when there's no one there and turn around... NOWHERE (Shield) Getting up so softly Rising to my window with no spare change for the light of day The White surrounds me at a point called only never is a mighty long time to stay that way Hide the broken rosary on forgotten way The only paint left here is grey The light is blinding so draw the curtain Where there's a will there's not a way Nowhere No whispered voice No door that opens There's nothing left here that I can call free And I'm just too tired to count Just who has walked over me Nowhere TRAINS (Shield) I've been through so many stations My feet never touch the ground I always leave when I should have waited Now my only comfort is the sound I was blind to life and I left to wander I watched the distant weather vanes The air is just a wall of thunder And my windows tears and rain But right now I ride these rails - a long way to go I'm still very far away from home Somebody call the conductor The heat's travelling through my hands And I can't get a grasp on what I am I'll ride this train to eternity Or at least until I reach L.A. Then I'll turn around and ride again My only comfort is the sound I travel in trains WAIT FOR ME (Bondi/Shield) I will swallow the glass That is stuck in my throat Because I can't find the words to say How I miss you The best that passed I never counted lost Until you left me And everyday begins in a dream In a place Where there are no promises But I know I believe in you If you believe in me - wait for me... For all the promises - wait for me For all we've ever meant - wait for me At a point that is never crossed - wait for me I believe there's a place for us In the frame of a house With the windows that pour The light from you in the afternoon Illuminate some forgotten way Where pariahs speak of Parts without a whole And I become my own worst fear And the guilt is left standing till it melts away Another hope that remained in dark Until the light of day - wait for me... But I wish you could stay in this place No one could ever take your place you know You say you want to stay But you know you've got to go away No one could ever take your place you know Some tomorrow evening When the sheets cling damp to you In the summertime And we will lay in the heat And become as one Falling from this place And you will laugh as we vindicate All the doubts that crossed our path I can hardly wait to see you again And say "gravity is free..." Wait for me... |
YOU NEVER REALLY UNDERSTOOD (Bondi) I will lie here with my head by the cracked frame on the dresser Where you hide behind glass Outside where packs of dogs are running loose Just like we used to Somethings aren't meant to last The night in this house still smacks of lies that I had told you There's cold sweat when I sleep How can I explain the reason My hands tremble in the morning When I realize I'm awake I know you never really understood I will stand here by the fences with my hands cut from the wires where I shored up the lines and you always knew where you stood and every petty little dream you had came true Every dream except mine You knew we were just passing from the grey fields to the landing Broken windows at home How can I explain the feeling What I know when you were leaving What it means to be so alone I know you never really understood I will sit here in this spare room With the notes all written from you I'm glad you got away But this door just won't recover like a box without a number I can't convince you to pay I will lie here with the memory of every phrase that ever filled me tortured and tongue-tied Outside where packs of dogs are running loose just like we used to I still remember your eyes I know you never really understood CAMBRIDGE (AOF) Wired only halfway wired to some uncelebrated dream Wired in the back page listing where dust fills in the seams We are found in no place We are forgotten phrase Wired dancing across the wires like puppets on a string Wired and our hearts in sequence beat around a ring We leave no stone unturned We leave no fire unburned There's no second guessing for things that are out of our hands and no tears of regret for nights that will never heppen here in Cambridge Broken and our vows like split leaves fall to earth apart Broken in the spaces where we never found a spark I remember street signs I remember plans Once as twice and twice as once and once is never enough here in Cambridge Panic that is set in place and cast on every breath Panic with which we erase what will never come to pass In this room I fear We will share it here It fills me got me on the run There's no one here who goes by that name There's no one here who goes by that name Nothing lasts and nothing's new Oh God give me something I know is true Give me something I know is true Give me something I know is true Give me something I know is true IN THIS LIFE (Bondi/Shield) I'll count the things that break you down Hard against the concrete ground and everything that gets you down will finally fade away Backed against a solid wall with the same old options as before No one here gets out alive We'll finally get away Take my hand and take me down where faith replaced me Take my arm and lead me home Sheltered from the storm The shadows that we've worn Someday we'll laugh at how we've grown Macrame a paper face and leave it in its proper place Face the night that stares you back The stares will finally break Hard to see your way Night turns into day for what we never said Tomorrow starts today |