1. ASCENDANT

Dreams are like razors I hold in my hand
Memories bleeding I don't understand
Blood stained prayers are left unanswered
Fading echoes that no one has heard

Every word I have ever written
Falls like rain from the dark heavens
I lost all control of my heart and soul
Now every praise is for whom I toll

These mortal moments will be lost in time
Like every tear I shed from my eyes
Like fallen angels who dream of ascent
My every regret becomes a lament


2. EVADING

Are my dreams a sign?
Are my dreams just you in disguise?
Will this heart find?
Will this heart be denied?
Endlessly I still search,
Endlessly, forever onward?
Are my prayers heard?
Are my prayers meaningless words?
My God! Hear my prayer!!

This young heart is scared,
Scared by a fate that we share.
Visions of you unclear,
Existence of you I should fear.
Are my prayers heard?
Are my prayers empty words?
My God! Hear my prayer!
Oh my lord, can't you hear me?


3. RESIDUAL PRESENCE

There is nothing left of me,
There is nothing that you see,
All I am is memory,
And that is all you will be.
Nothing ever lasts forever.

Everything that I have won,
All the hearts I have shunned,
Like a ghost I leave you stunned,
Alone in bed, wretched, feeling numb.
Nothing ever lasts forever.

Looking at me with mourning eyes,
I know your pain as you cry,
My thirst for love, my need to fly,
My freedom, my soul's desire.
Nothing ever lasts forever.


4. CANON FOR MY BELOVED

You were the first to believe
You were the one, you helped me see
You raised me up and out from my grief
You took my hand and set my soul free
I broke your heart, released your tears
Now I can feel you floating away
From me

Your loneliness, a beckon call
Distance and days that let love fall
Time hangs above your heart
All the betrayal that tears us apart
I never meant to hurt my love this way
I never meant for my heart to stray
I broke your heart, released your tears
Now I can feel you floating away
From me

I love you... I do

I feel you floating away
Love that has fallen away
Sadness takes you now
Disheartened and disavowed
I broke your heart, released your tears
Now I can feel you floating away
From me


5. MOONSHINE

I gaze on the moon as she shines on me,
So bright in my eyes, a heart so clear and blinding.

Shining on my face,
Paled by my disgrace.

Like a star, from heaven you burned and fell,
Mesmerized, I glowed underneath your spell,
Her shadows, they seem to whisper to me,
Devotions that echo the seas,
My shadows, they seem to reveal in me,
My oceans of lies and deceit.

Shining on my face,
Paled by my disgrace,
Eclipsing, she has fallen,
And time has dimmed and darkened,
The moon no longer shines for me.


6. MARS BECOMING

The anger swells like rising tides
Like two lost souls that soon collide
Tonight I witness all the angels throw
All of their stones down on me

The constant thorn that's in my flesh
Was solely placed and laid to rest
All that I am is all that you made
So you blaspheme me in your holy place

Ever so slowly the stranger becomes me
Oh ever so slowly I surrender blindly
Oh why am I forsaken?
My heart was forsaken

This broken man was fueled by rage
Through endless time he suffered pain
As all the stars light up the sky
My love remains dark in my eye

I felt the war, I fought alone
I sought mercy within your home
I was turned away, petition denied
I had no friends for this heart to confide

Ever so slowly the stranger becomes me
Oh ever so slowly I surrender blindly
Oh why am I forsaken?
My heart was forsaken


7. ON THE RIVER

Ever flowing,
Never slowing,
To my true heart you spoke.

Flooding my senses,
Plaintive repentance,
Your voice is calling,
Deep and enlightening,
Feels like I'm walking on water,
Down on the river.
One day, I may find you there.


8. VIOLET MORNING

Violet Morning full of grace
A new dawning on my face
A flower blooming every day
You pierced my soul and touched my faith
You are the light for my love
You are the love for my God

Violet Morning I feel you shine
Enlightening my space and time
In your warmth my heart did find
A pure soul, a love divine
The only light in my eyes
The only love of my life

You are the light for my love
You are the love for my God
The only light in my eyes
The only love of my life
You are my morning sun
You are the light where I begun
full of grace
A new dawning on my face
A flower blooming every day
You pierced my soul and touched my faith
You are the light for my love
You are the love for my God

Violet Morning I feel you shine
Enlightening my space and time
In your warmth my heart did find
A pure soul, a love divine
The only light in my eyes
The only love of my life

You are the light for my love
You are the love for my God
The only light in my eyes
The only love of my life
You are my morning sun
You are the light where I begun


9. LIKE FALLING SNOW

Je vois les yeux de Dieu
(I see the eyes of God)
Dans la neige qui tombe
(In the falling snow)
Comme la neige qui tombe
(Like falling snow)
Les yeux de Dieu m' entourent
(The eyes of God surround me)
Comme la neige qui tombe
(Like falling snow)


10. SOUNDS OF SILENCE (Simon & Garfunkel cover)

Hello, darkness my old friend,
I've come to talk with you again
Because a vision softly creeping
Left its seeds while I was sleeping,
And the vision that was planted in my brain
Still remains
Within the sound of silence.

In restless dreams I walked alone
Narrow streets of cobblestone,
'Neath the halo of a street lamp,
I turned my collar to the cold and damp
When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light
That split the night
And touched the sound of silence.

And in the naked light I saw
Ten thousand people, maybe more.
People talking without speaking,
People hearing without listening,
People writing songs that voices never share
And no one dares
Disturb the sound of silence.

"Fools," said I, "You do not know
Silence like a cancer grows.
Hear my words that I might teach you,
Take my arms that I might reach you."
But my words like silent raindrops fell,
And echoed
In the wells of silence

And the people bowed and prayed
To the neon god they made.
And the sign flashed out its warning,
In the words that it was forming.
And the sign said, "The words of the prophets
are written on the subway walls
And tenement halls."
And whispered in the sounds of silence.


11. QUINTESSENCE

(A slow moving train through my soul...)