IVY
You're climbing down fast
Down where no one can see
Your eyes in the moonlight turn white to blue
Don't think I really wanna know where you been
Just want you gripped tight around my skin
I said Ivy on the wall
I know the way that you creep and crawl
There's a dark haired girl on the mattress and there's
A room suspended in the air
Echos screamin' through my empty soul
And when it melts in your mouth
Well then I just don't know
Ivy on the wall
I know the way that you creep and crawl
I said Ivy on the wall
And in your eyes I can see it all, all
Wake up in the morning
It's another time
Blood red rain on the window pane
Oh I know I gotta let you go
But you know I don't believe it
They tell me it's all over
I said Ivy on the wall
I know by the way that you creep and crawl
Ivy on the wall
And in your eyes I can see it all, all
WALK
THROUGHT TO THIS SIDE
Walk through to this side
I'm sinking on the pale light
Drawing breath in from thin air
When I think about a place I'm there
Walk through to this side (repeat)
You stand on a tightrope
You take it where you're no one known
The evening sun is dripping fire
Your tears are burning to your side
Walk through to this side
Walk through to this side
Walk through to this side
Yeah, the music's comin' down
No one is around
Got the doors open wide
Come on inside
Walk through to this side
Been waiting such a long time
I'm gone travelin' everywhere
I turn around but you're not there
Walk through to this side....
LINES
AND CIRCLES
Crystal faces on a window sill
I can hear them whisper slowly like the chill wind
That moves around the sun I'm in
They're going places I've never been
Saying words I've never said
Thoughts and logic at once are dead
Moving up and around my head
Lines are forming, circling around my eyes
Turning around a voice would never die
Hey Mr. sun outside my door
Wears a revelation, a revolution
I know I would, I've seen it's real
I know I could set your mind free
There's a wide open tap to your flower
Every hour growing dead
Lines are forming, circling around my eyes
Turning around a voice would never die
Crystal evenings crack
Just like the smile I knew
We'll go nowhere so much faster
I can't try to make it stop, yeah
I know there's truth that lies beyond
This world that you perceive
Lines are forming, circling around my eyes
Turning around a voice would never die
It's forming
In a shapeless world I've formed a change
SHE
KNOWS
She senses the presence of the smallest notion
Wasting like a sad devotion
Turns her glance to where I stand
She knows, that the time is this
It's the invader that can never miss
She knows, she knows
Waves of doubt cascading clear
They make believe they have no fear
Or her eyes will find me here
She knows, that the time is this
It's the invader that can never miss
She knows, she knows
Don't hesitate, it's my fate
To freeze my mind so messed up
She lie, in the sky
And burn one more into my mind
Today, she's gone away
And leave me hung up in a way
(repeat first verse, and chorus)
SHADOW
SONG
Can't get back, can't remind you
We're closer now where I want to be
You think it's easy if you just imagine
Before the dust can choke you up again
She's aware that you wanna go now
I'll meet you there, meet you there somehow
We leave behind all this worried puzzle
We're from a dream that'll be there still
But don't you step into the shadows
Into a place where nobody goes
Through a gate where everything flows with the fallen shadow
Down the street lined with dirt and plastic
When you appeared I just happened to be
There in the midst of another nightmare
Takin' me back just like I knew it would
But don't you step into the shadows
And there's a place where nobody goes
Through a gate where everything flows
With the fallen shadow
In the dark there's no one with me
There's no stars to warm my skin
Could not imagine I could hold on
It's coming over me again (2x's)
Let this feeling go on past us
Let this cage turn into blood
So many pieces and so many people
You'll never figure out just who I was then
But don't you step into the shadows
Into a place where nobody goes
Through a gate where everything flows
With the fallen shadow
GREY
DIAMOND DESERT
Windshield frames a picture of the night
Cold driving desert highway line
Road keeps twistin' slow so I know
Recognize the diamonds flashing by
Nothin' I fear, could touch me here
Oh Lord, it won't change
I seen the way they turn the talk around
And all the children goin' down
Ya gotta move along until you're gone
Ya gotta leave this ugly town
But the words they said, don't leave my head
Oh Lord, it won't change
Oh Lord, it won't change
It won't change
I never thought the night would find me here
Black raindrops washed away with drunken tears
I live another lie in every mile
One wasted day, one million wasted years
Better keep on goin', it's the only thing I know
Oh Lord, it won't change
Oh Lord, it won't change
It won't change (4x's)
SMOKERINGS
Smokerings drift in the wind
Looks like they're never comin' back again
A sideways street til we reach the end
Wishin' all the while that I never been
Feelin' like the leaves that'll blow by fast
Makin' me think nothin' ever lasts
Reflection in a shade of grey
Now I don't remember why I ever stayed
Dark clouds are movin' in
Dogs howl out in the wind
Smokerings drift over me
Smokerings they're dreams
Ice cold kiss on a cold steel rail
Like all of the signs that I watch fail
You told me that you never wanna change your place
Just another story that you can't erase
Dark clouds are movin' in
Dogs howl out in the wind
Smoke rings drift over me
Smokerings they're a dream
Smoke rings drift in the wind
Looks like they're never comin' back again
A sideways street when the fall steps in
Wishin' all the while that I never been
Dark clouds are movin' in
Dogs howl out in the wind
Smokerings drift over me
Smokerings they're dreams
THE
SECOND I AWAKE
Well your eyes are outta my soul, cold and tired
Open like a door to a winter's night
A silver sky becomes a background
That begins to grey
Won't find me fallin', the second I awake
I thought I was goin' backwards
Walkin' down the lane
Found a foggy street, now I'm not the same
Through a maze of walls and fences
Nothing can be heard
Where a million images are spun
With just one word
My memories are twisted, here as I stand
They hold no meaning for me now without a sound
I can hear the bells are ringin', lonely in my ears
Cross the fields that stretch forever
It won't disappear
INVISIBLE
LANTERN
Locked in this darkened room
A timeless view
Showin' up under everything in sight
Can't escape my mind, I just let the shadow
Right through my soul
But I got illumination on the street
Just a flash of confusion when we meet
My invisible lantern
It's my invisible lantern
An anxious echos throught the door
Shoes on the floor kickin' in my eye
To all my friends I'm crazy and I'm shut away
They don't care abut anything I say so
I take my illumination to the street
Just a flash of confusion when we meet
My invisible lantern
It's my invisible lantern
Heavy warm lights shade me from the thoughts that try to
creep into my c-c-c-consciousness
Transparent wheels always make me feel
Like I've never been in the right dimension
The girl I feed you through these dreams dissolves with
a touch
Cuz nothin's life is seen
I imagine myself outside with you
And everyone's whisperin' oh it's true
That I got illumination on the street
Just a flash of confusion when we meet
My invisible lantern
It's my invisible lantern
My invisible lantern
EVEN
IF
Come walk down a long hall
In the dim light of morning
Step inside my room
I'm waiting alone
It's so weird that you're finally here
In the place where you're going to see all the sights and
the sound
Many animals come out of the jungle
Curious to see us wading here
On the shore of a crystal blue sea
And the waves meet the ship and
We're going to be on
On a flight from this day
To the place where we can stay
And never ever be alone
You know that I'm never gonna go back home
I stand at the window
The dim light is fading
It's cold inside my room
And it's getting late
When the animals come out of the jungle
Curious to see me stare
At the waves as they roll out to sea
And the waves meet the ship and we're going to be on
On a flight from this day
To the place where we can stay
And never ever be alone
You know that I'm never gonna go
You know that I'm never gonna go back home
(repeat first verse, and second chorus)...
Again
DIRECTION
OF THE SUN
Fade into the picture and you're always there
Your longing liquid fingers and a bloodshot stare
Screamin' like the way I hear an angel sing
Call you once I fall away from everything
Oh I know
We've already gone
In the direction of the sun
In the direction of the sun
I hid behind the curtain where the serpent wailed
Watch a million miles go by around your head
Close enough to feel all the cold inside
I've seen you shake and now I know why
Oh I know it's already gone
In the direction of the sun
In the direction of the sun
(repeat first verse)
In the direction of the sun (4x's)
NIGHT
COMES CREEPING
Yeah
Day breaks and I don't care
The kiss of light upon the stairs
Comin' to the doorway but there's nothin out there
Time stopped within my mind
Same as all the rest behind
Everything has changed while I was sleeping
(chorus)
One day you'll find
She's of another mind
And it won't be long
Until the night comes creeping
Loud voices fill the sky
Strange faces in her eyes
And I'm the stranger now, but I just don't know it
The circle closes up too slow
Shinin' in translucent glow
It's darker now cuz that's the way she sees it
(chorus)
Next train to outerspace
But of her love there is no trace
The world just turns to silver when you're alone
A different way to bring you down
Falls apart and hits the ground
Take it from me you said
So you take it with a trembling hand
(chorus)
Ten million directions comin' off and comin' on strong
These roads run together in my mind's eye
All I'm leaving behind is a river run dry
I'm not stealing your vision, you're just blind
