1. SO MANY LEAPERS

Violation of trusting hearts comes to you with a price
You scatter around when darkness falls, a pack of frightened mice
Lay your arms down stop that war, an exercise in vain
Use your heads and give a damn, remove the veil of pain

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Words of wisdom crowns of gold
Words of fashion dolls of old
Ages so young so many leapers
Mages, fishermen, throngs of reapers

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Desecration of love lost picks at you with a knife
Raising banners to paeans of old, is it worth a life?
Ring in the new because the elder's taken a bad turn
Alarms through time, you pay the cost, how will you ever learn?

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Putrefaction in the trenches, a lesson in pure hate
A soldier dreams, a girl is crying, signs of a lost fate
Your turn will come, prisoners caught, released in clouds of gray
A monster lies between your ears, this dragon you must slay



2. DROP OF HOPE

CHORUS
Let loose
Going where I want to be
Get juice
Mountains fly for me to see
I deny
I apply
I am (s)he
I am we

Visions past
I fear no one - get out of my face
Visions far
I am the leader of this lonesome race

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Lessons learned
Should help us out of that scary turn
Experience earned
Should save us all from a crash and burn

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Friendly face
The thing you wrought was of silk/rough rope
Win that race
Forever yours is that drop of hope


3. HISTORIES

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A child's voice not alone
Memories
Conversations on the phone
Histories

We were part of a unit from winter to fall
The trees going red through the film of time
We're kissing one another, up against a wall
Sweet breath and fresh scents, just a hint of lime

This feeling had no end, it was true everyday
This was something old and new, close and faraway
It was love at first bite, just a taste of youth
In our own little bubble, waiting for some truth


4. TALE SPIN

The modern bard of news takes a word to task
He pens and quills and stretches, sipping from his flask
His writings prose of quality or so it seems to him
A giant of a legend lies in need of the big trim

Ancient craft
Tale spin magic

A pathetic slave of many, a Homer wannabe
An adjective is amiss, quickly must be found
A publisher awaits for this glory hound
And our spinner is searching hard for the real juicy story

Ancient craft
Tale spin magic

A puppet of the rich boys, our hero is a dud
The truth is nowhere-bound with him at the helm
For his bosses just use him to drag enemies in the mud
The world of deception and lies, his only realm

Ancient craft
Tale spin magic


5. REFLECTIONS

Slow dreams wandering
It's lovelorn torn and surely beckoning
Hailstones are crashing
Cracks in the glass that was protecting me

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And I fly
To other places that were once denied
And I cry
Because to you I told things and I lied

Lazy daylight
I am the breeze that lifts you off the ground
Starry black night
I am the freeze that makes you want to run around

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One reflection
A glint of light a speck of brightness in the sun
No detection
It moves around a ghost unknown a bit of fun

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6. TIME'S HAS-BEEN

Acres, land he had
Had his money set
Lost all on a bet
It sure drove him mad

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Coma sleep
Not a peep
Eyes shut clean
Time's has-been

Rode a horse, he fell
For him tolled the bell
Darkness in his mind
Ages-long, unwind

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He felt a gentle touch
Was it real?
Light hand on his face
Was it real?
The one showed a love such
Was it real?
That he came back to the race
It was real

Ten years had gone by
He'd been out a while
The one gave a smile
Wiser, older, wry

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7. FAST FINGERS

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8. SOLDIER OF FUN

Out of silence, black as night
I remove myself from the fight
Outward joy in sadness I must flee
Leave me, lonely I shall be

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Orchids bright lights surrounding you
Spotlights flaming flowers through
I'm a grieving grinning famous star
I'm much too high to raise the bar
Not too far

Back to the front, soldier of fun
I've walked these forests, thrown my gun
These boots may have holes, but these boots are my own
From my point of view, they are just fine

They built a cage without a key
What a pretty zoo they made for me
I'm the headliner, a one-man show
I'd run away, but where would I go?