Streets I knew were raining, changing Addresses were rearranging The cold boy from the suburbs, he left there He'd read the book of no return And me,
I thought you knew me by now Let the lights go on roaring Someone's hand on my shoulder Then whip past the turning point There's time for the taking
Give us this day all that you showed me The power and the glory till my kingdom comes Give us this day all that you showed me The power and the glory
I found the perfect picture of a perfect stranger It looked as if it were taken in the forties sometime Judging by the style He could be a killer or
Standing on my own It didn't mean that much to me I thought I had it all I didn't see the mystery I stood the test of time And took the step to find
Sometimes I find I drift away Behind a distant smile Light years ago I think someone spoke Quizzical glances behind cigarette smoke She drew the curtains
Your picture of yourself is a media myth Underneath this floor, we're on the edge of a cliff Someone told me Jesus was the Devil's lover While we masturbated
I was young and not deceived then I believed in the heart of the country How the words sound, how the truth lies I was moved by the heart of the country
I can feel the turning of the tides Pulling away the night Like a sheet from over me In summer time, I dissolve to a beach And everywhere seems to be
We came to dance Making moves from a passion play The ties that bind us just slip away We came to dance The piper calls out a different rhyme He cracks
We turned the dial, we heard the news and laughed We don't know why We drank the wine and spoke of times we knew Of days gone by We flicked through photographs
And just as my eyes start seeing After all the pain The twist in my life starts healing Just to twist again In stillness, in sorrow Returns that softly
Talking in the window as the light fades I heard my voice break just for a moment Talking by the window as the light fades I felt the floor change into
I found the bones of all your ghosts Locked in the wishing well While birdsong gourmets dragged empty nets I slumbered in my shell Mitternacht, die mensch
The sound is on the visions move The image dance starts once again They shuffle with a bovine grace And glide in syncopation Just living lines from books
We walked in the cold air Freezing breath on a window pane Lying and waiting A man in the dark in a picture frame So mystic and soulful A voice reaching
I, I'm moving through time Being human by design Life Unfulfilled but divine Never ending How could I be so blind? What is this world Doing to me? Notwithstanding
Try to understand As I take you by the hand Side by side We'll begin again Find a future in this land If we try And as we come together We're guided
