Better Late Than Never

The restless souls are out tonight
Their dance is forever
With silent feet and heavy eyes
And love too long to sever
And closer now the distant sound
From now and together
As we rejoin all that we were
We’re better late than never

 

The Garden

Did you think it’s only you?
Lost within your dreaming
The walls to keep the chaos out
Are to keep your fire in
Control and underhand
You our hope and disappointment
Learn to live to serve your needs
Never understanding why at least

You know who you are

Wake up
Your world is just an illusion
Wake up
The contract cannot last forever

Remember
And suffer
For all you shall discover
Around you
Your mirror
Shall be your only guide

Did it seem like you had time
Locked within your garden
The price of peace is all in the mind
Can I tempt you out some time?
To take deception’s hand
Walk upon your own adventure
Learn trust the serpent’s words
Or your perfect eyes deceive you now

I hate to tell you

And where we build our walls
Belief and fear collide
The empires start to fall
The masks begin to slide
Let me tear you from yourself
Let me give you back your time
I'll believe you nothing else
I'll see the cracks
I'll see the highest walls are mine

Surrender
And suffer
For all you shall discover
Without a
Deceiver
Your choices are no clearer

 

Witchhouse

Into the crowded halls
Bid welcome stranger
From may I read your scars
To were we sisters
Trapped between the crumbling walls
And poisoned answers
Wished upon the stars I wore
But still they whisper

Search and we still find
Dreams in the Witch-house
Seen for the last time
Seemed like you called out
Search and we still find
Dreams in the Witch-house
Raised in the half-light
It seemed like you're calling out to them

We take the hand
And take the fall
We dance and dance
And dance again
We take the hand
And take the fall
We dance and
Still won’t understand

This will be the last time

On to the turning paths
where once we falter
Still sipping turns the glass
As all we wished for
Lost behind a painted mask
A mind to wander
Wreckage round our waking past
We're still to ask her

 

Malina

Your willing victim
But the crime we cannot know
You are the hope that ever turned to flight
I raise the cry that drifts across the burning fields
And rake the embers of your fading light

As I cry arise
I turn the dead to claim your prize

And though
I stare through
Come closer
I knew you
And though
I burn through
You know we were fragile after all

You kept no promise
With no safeguards ever asked
What summer’s madness drew you back to us
I rock the cradle when the thought of you is gone
And warmest answers leave us cold enough

One for remembrance
And one for safe return
Their colours wilted in your blaze of light
One for forgiveness
And the spoils we cannot keep
We'll live again before you leave my side

 

The Haunting

She turns to face
One more
It might be the locked door
She wants to stay
No more the words of yesterday
Too much time to kill
All reason gone
But the haunting
Sense that we might see
All that is left is the will that she wants to be

Without a home to hide
Within the walls remember
The stories you can't read
Meet the monsters that we might have been
The safest words unsaid
Behind the guarded anger
Sees a future lying dead
All that I wanted

Two eyes cut glass and wide
Three is the other
Forgone my future lies
One on another

It’s time to go
Ignore the voice from the corner
She cannot move
She cannot look without burning
Drive them all away
Don’t make us see what we can't touch
What she whispers now
All that I want in the world is to work out how

Two eyes cut glass and wide
Three is the other
Forgone my future lies
One to another

Count the victories gone before
Speak your mind
And I am with you
Count your blessings
Turn to go
Count the times
Any you'll remember
It is past and we are old
You are young
But ever distant
You are nothing
I am sold
Count the ways
And you'll remember

 

Faith and Reason Part Company

Swathed in the tatters of when and if only I knew
Open mind clutching a paper and pen
One life
Scratched into history
And broken the line
Clutching a valentine

Eye for an eye
Is all that I ask
When the scenes flashing past
Are all that we need
Don’t cry
Don’t even think of it
Ask when
Not why
Try not to notice
I’ll try not to breathe

Buried so fragile
Reflections of all that was true
One glass
Tied up in ribbons and bows
That bite
Backed in a corner avoiding the light
Feigning sincerity

One self
Fulfilling prophecy
This detachment a gaping surprise
One sound
All of it echoes from you
Emotional parasite

You believe me
Nor do I

 

Chase Is On

What sighing wakes me
Or is it just the wind outside
What’s huddled at the door now
The wild and broken and decide
A hand
I can
But help myself

Didn’t know where to start
To heal the scratches
Hiding mine
You’re hanging on the breath of winter
And every single touch
Is closing in but given time
And trust
You're fair, bright and new tomorrow

Who did we deceive
Taken in
But never believe me
All I said is still true
Still you cannot take me with you

Would you wonder why they were so kind

You would show me how
Running nameless in the freezing light
You would leave me now
Sitting empty

So still as safe but growing strong
And wilder so who’s dependent
I never wanted you here
I never want you to be gone
I fear
We're hanging on the breath of winter

Not that I believe we were so kind
The safety and deceit forever
Tame now or captive to this life
Could you guess you might do better

You might have died

Looking out and it seemed so long
Cruel enough but you were so injured
Hear the wind any you long to run
More than I believe to turn this tide

Once again the embers flicker
Once again my ward is gone
Once again the branches wither
Once again the trust undone
Again
The doors thrown open
Once again the lights are on
Once again the hunter hunted
And the chase is on
Once again you live by murder
Once again you die too young
Can you still deny your nature
Can you learn to be loved

 

Sense in Segments

Time is my disguise
An amulet I’d rather
Bleach it from our minds
Than cherish like no other
Leave the storm outside
The ancient ice is melting
Crackles on the wire
But still the air grows chilling

Perish with the thought
And yet the storm is rising
Never could have thought
How pleasant a surprise

And how dare you look so well
When I cast so many curses
And how dare you look so proud
In a trail of petty corpses
Given time enough to tell
How the winter froze upon us
In a travesty of turning points
A fragile trust was shattered

Ritual into wrong
And heresy to harbour
Search for so long gone
And carry this no further
Leaving still anon
Behind the restless ardour
Fear of words undone
And safest left to wither

 

Now and Again

So many times I’ve asked you hear me out again
And if it makes no sense then see me out and let's forget
They were different times but we were different then
Calling all that’s left our cause
Back with the underground

Lying where we fell
Back with the underground
Under watchful eyes
Breaking down

Remember me if you could turn again
Believe me when you trust the words
Remember me if you could turn again
Forgive me when you learn
The truth

You were all of us and all I’d struggled for
I forgot your name but you'd forgotten years before
One creative spark to turn and light the fuse
Mattered more than even I knew
Mattered more than you

Lying where we fell
Back with the underground
Under watchful eyes
Who could tell

Can’t picture
But try
No words to mark our passing by
Was once
And then
And still we'd face it all again
No reason
Then why
We're swept upon a rising cry
Just once
And then
But still we face it all again

Remember me if you could turn again
And if you can you will
Believe me if you trust the words
That I will tell you now
Remember me if you could turn again
And if you can you will
Forgive me when you learn the truth
And I can show you how

And if you can you will

 

Astrid

Never laughed until the end
All the self important reasons
Lift us up to watch the sky
Miss the turning of the seasons
So unfair and so am I
Turn the glass and try another
Wait and watch them passing by
Move and pass the chances over

The moments that we knew
Those subtle revolutions
Catch the falling sand
To find I’m holding fragments in my hand
Of the last regrets of romance
Flowers fall and all is fair
Did you fall for what you wanted here

All the memories second hand
Took to heart and so recited
Accidental wisdom rules
Well informed but uninvited
Holding on to what we see
Short the fuse and shorter sighted
Led astray by all we do
Aspirations unrequited still

The moments that we knew
Those subtle revolutions
Yearn to understand                                                                       
To find I’m holding fragments in my hand
Of the last regrets of romance
Colours burn for all I care
Falling leaves and blowing ashes here

An answer born of reason
No question
Still waiting here
A calculated treason
For all time
Forever near
And I can count upon one hand the times we check what we see
Found and lost before us
So where have you been lately

The moments that we knew
Those subtle revolutions
Crack the frozen land
And find I'm holding fragments in my hand
Of the last regrets of romance
All is buried nothings dead
'Neath the falling veil of winter here

The moments that we knew
The vows and resolutions
Lift you up to stand
To find I’m holding fragments in my hand
Of the last regrets of romance
Will you fall or walk my dear
Are we back to this beginning
With so little time to spend
We are everything and nothing
Turn the glass and watch again
Are we timeless or impatient here

 

Overdoom

So bright we burn
I'll wait for darkness
I'll watch the stars all turn
And wait for you
I fear the tide
Like I fear everything
As the waters rise
I’ll drown with you

And if we gave up so many times
Then what do we give now
From the smallest actions all our lives
Are tied as if we vow

In all the tears I trusted
I'll drown with you
That all were mine for taking now
I wished were true
As every tie is breaking
I’ll cling to you
If all your hopes are sinking here
I’ll drown too
With a feeling that you knew

So much to learn
But time is wasting
And we'll be nothing more
Than what we do
My choice is made
So far behind me
If I have to stay
I'll stay for you
And no goodbye
There is no good to see here
And the last I’ll see of beauty here is you
I'll drown with you

In all the tears I trusted
I'll drown with you
That all were mine for taking now
I wished were true
You're standing on my shoulders
I never knew
If all the world is turning round
I turn to you
And there’s nothing I can do

 

Living Dead and Undecided

I listened late and long
She said I’d understand
I've been captive of my choice
Or suffering by my own hand
I'll be the storm that breaks
Upon a world uncaring
My purpose is their fate
There'll be no hiding

There will be no warning
They're not heeded
Had I wanted
I had all I ever needed
Held the future
Saw the past
And I know all that we conceded
No opinion
Undivided
Living
Dead
Or undecided
Throwing caution to the wind
So learn to hope
That I will fail

My name is chaos now
And I am ruled by nothing
My place is where I choose
With only patience left to lose
My age is never again
I have no time for grieving
My purpose is their fate
There'll be no hiding

I’ve seen enough she said
They went to war we went to bed
I’ve seen the future
Let tomorrow be a day to die for
When today is playing dead

There can be no warning
They're not heeded
Had I wanted
I had all I ever needed
Held the future
Saw the past
And I know all that I conceded
No opinion
Undivided
Living
Dead
Or undecided
Throwing caution to the wind
So learn to hope
That I will fail

 

One Last Wish

So do we burn as bright as this
As moths that greet the flame
We all amount to nothing much
And still it feels like fame
Their names that had no picture
Our pictures have no name
It’s all a game
As wings are turned to embers
We leave you this

Far flung our different ways
Every choice we know her face the
Love and the violence
We shine and we die
Smile for the moment saved
Any path to learn the same
We're drawn back to you now
We fade into memory once again

The ages that we miss
The breath we never feel
The gifts that we were all born with
The others that we steal
The ones we never open
The ones we only give
Its only real
As moments cast in amber
As one last wish

Feeling the warmth of every breath

We fan the flames and say goodbye

Far flung our different ways
Every choice we know our fate the
Love and the  violence
We shine and we die
Smile for the moment saved
Treading softly on our graves
We're all that we leave
So we live for memory once again

Cold in the light of day
We're feeling the warmth of every breath