1. LIFE OF GOLD

Once more sitting at the end of the bar
Gazing at the various angels from afar
He’s been dreaming again.
Fair beauties laughing from out of his golden fears
Swimming in his yellow pool of tears
Yellow, white foam again.

Daily round rolls from nine to five
Rolling in his only road of life
Time is the path to the unknown
Destiny like the final curtain falling,
Seduction calling.

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The dark side of single life
Reflecting silence into inner strife
Rejecting desperate shining
From his face with scarred linings.

Alcoholic lights spread their twilight rays
Pushing the black back into dark days
Entering the vivid scene of enlightened bays
Tries to talk but drowning shadows away.

Standing in the lonely middle of doubt
Always noticed but then ignored again
Vast and empty the ice cold desert reaches out
Providing the same water from the same well.

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2. DROPS OF REIGN

On the winds of unsteadiness
Flying through a blue illusion
The overcast sky seems so cloudless
The horizon, an unclear vision

Floating into unknown twilight
Counting out blank days
Destination calls in the night
From somewhere in a misty maze.

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Clouds yet smaller than a man’s hand
Hope is shrinking to fit this size.
What’s the forecast, where does it end?
No-one knows where the future lies.

The calm before the storm
Boredom awaits a drizzly death
Blind greed covers the unseen form
That hides the coming of the last breath

The thunder roars from beyond existence
Lightning strikes… Anyone who cares?
Showers of reign far in the distance
The pooring reign so hard to bear.

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Must escape this falling reign
No-one knows where the future lies.
No-one knows when the future lies.
No-one knows when the future lies.


3. HEARTS OF QUEEN

At dawn silent rivers flow
Come together merge very slow.
Sunrise, cool water’s dream
Day turned it to destructive stream.
Slowly she tightens the puppet strings
Draws him towards her protecting wings

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Protection means possession
Affection means obsession
Playing his life she holds the cards
Subject of the queen of hearts

Her shower of possessive power
Tears waiting to flow every hour
The fear of losing her
Is fear of losing life.
Two bodies controlled by one mind
Together one of two kinds

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Her words a psychic vacuum
Masochism of the reason
The mistress dances his life away
Turns being to a dark season
Four times autumn every year
Social leaves whirl down with fear.

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4. ECHOES FROM BEYOND

Walking the road to a parallel day
An intimate image in an intimate dream
Losing my world, the world loses me
A flight through clouds of sleep and gleam.

Open eyes vanish in a haze
Beyond the realms of insanity
Lifting me up from this crazy place
Am I lost from reality?

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A sea of peace
Swallows me
Waves of warmth is all I feel
Not drowning me
They let me free
In believing my dream is real.

A female spectre between the stars
Shining like a vivid constellation
Her golden skin painted in the sky
Naked stars twinkle in her fascination.

The hidden recesses of my mind
Still know the coming of fate
The clouds in my head keep me blind
When I try to touch the shade

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5. DUALITY

Truth is what’s left
Turn to the truth you hold
Do you like what you see
It wasn’t actually for free.

Once there was this little girl
Grown to be a woman
Turn around and go back
Look what you did to yourself.

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Skindeep the scars that won’t make you sane
Greater than the personality you are
Bigger than the wounds that won’t heal
Stronger a person that it never makes you.

Feel the grip you’ve lost on your life
Never ending the empty feeling
Look in the mirror and try to find out
Who you really want to be.

It’s not how it is
But what you make of it
Look up
Go back
Find it
Feel it
Be real

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6. LEAVING THE STRANGER IN THE MIRROR

Something here is just not right
Staying grows into a useless fight
What’s left for us? Just distrust
Friendship fading, ashes to dust

Look at your people, are they your enemy?
Still you’re calling you’re one fine family
Waiting for a dark unknown tomorrow
Tell me, how can I believe your sorrow?

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Look at you, face yourself
Laughing away the stranger that you see
This is you, denying yourself
What’s left for them is all the same to me
I’m leaving the stranger
I’m leaving the stranger
I’m leaving you, stranger in the mirror

Faith in yesterday, a dream, a fascination
Fate for another day, Assassinating termination
Systematic ignorance of the unsolved yet to come
You want to face the truth though nothing will be done

(Is your truth just visiting this planet?)

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You’re so full of fast words
The fool holding with the last bird
While others keep on flying away
You’re focussed to your only road
While we see your sinking boat
What reason can you give me to stay?
Just let me fly away…