1. THE WATERS RISING

I'm drowning in your sorrow
In the belly of your cravings
In the darkness of your despair
I float face down

(You) Can you take me to the ocean side?
(You) Can you take me to the water's edge?

See the devil called me here
Says my name like a story
Holds my blood on the tip of her tongue
She pulls me down into her lust

In the dark we're glowing
We're clawing

(You) Can you take me to the ocean side?
(You) Can you take me to the water's edge?
(Can you) Can you make these memories come to life, come to life?
(You) And reveal what's hidden deep inside me?

You gave birth to this longing
Along loins made of stone
The light you have eaten from the sky
Pitch-black, bleak and gnawing

(She sees) She sees everything
(She sees) deep inside me

I called to the ocean side
I came to the water's edge
I'm sinking down to where the light's gone out
I'll purge what's hidden inside

Demented and screaming
I have myself to blame
Demented and screaming
I have myself to blame
I'm dying to get anywhere she might be
I'm dying to get anywhere she might be

I called to the ocean side
I came to the water's edge
We're forever
We're forever
We're forever in your despair

Soaking in the aftermath of what we are
Soaking in the aftermath of what we are

I float
Face down
Waiting
To be found
So I float face down
Waiting


2. HEARTS OF STONE

Thick air
Nose bleeds
You've got rocks in your belly
Dragging you around
Slow gait
Shadows
Stumbling over yourself
Slowly going blind
Dying to crawl back into the womb
Hoping that somewhere could feel like home

You smile when you want to scream
And you lie so hard it cracks your teeth
You try everyday in vain
With thorns for hands and blades for veins

Oh, here comes the storm
You've been standing in for so long
You can try to deny it
You can try to fight it
You'll never shed the mess you're in
The mess you're in

Fractured jaw and bloody linen
We keep trying as long as the sun is grinning
You're just a stranger with vacant eyes and a hollow chest
Going around leaving what you found in a bigger mess
But, it all ends well
It all ends well
Ends well

Oh, here comes the storm
You've been standing in alone
You can try to deny it
You can try to fight it
You'll never shed the mess you're in
No, no, no

Oh, here comes the storm (Here comes the storm)
You've been standing in alone
You can try to deny it
You can try to fight it
You'll never shed the mess you're in
No, no, no


3. THE LIGHTHOUSE

Press your hands together, bow your heads
Upon our knees is how we'll make amends
Our prayers will part the clouds
Weathered by the sea and salty air
Our solitude will never get us there
This place must hold our faith
And when the storm swells come
It will put us to the test
Stone hands will cast away
The monsters in the mist

It will not let us down
It will not cast our hopes
Along the rocky shores
Of our greatest fears

Press your hands together, bow your heads
Upon our knees is how we'll make amends
Our prayers will light the night
The moon behind the clouds of night's embrace
Our beacon is the flame that cuts the haze
This hearth of stone and might
And when the storm swells come
It will put us to the test (it will put us to the test)
Stone hands will cast away the monsters in the mist

It will not let us down
It will not cast our hopes
Along the rocky shores
Of our greatest fears

It will not let us down (It will not let us down)
It will not cast our hopes (It will not cast our hopes)
Along the rocky shores of our greatest fears
It will bring deliverance
Back into our hearts
Angel of voyagers
Can you hear our prayers?

It will not let us down
It will not cast our hopes
Along the rocky shores
Of our greatest fears


4. RED FOREST ROADS

The silence
Spans a thousand miles filling the space between us
Right now
You only exist in my mind

I'm living with the echoes
Of the last words you said
My heart beats like a drum
Full of dread, full of dread

I'm helpless
To figure out a way to get to you
Much less
Find out where you go with your heart of stone when I'm left alone
I'm not sure what it takes to be a man (be a man, be a man)
But I know you can, I know you can

You're failing, I'm falling
I hear the evergreens calling
Take me away
Take me away
You tell me not to worry
But I feel this darkness upon me
Take me away
Take me away
You're failing, I'm falling
I hear the evergreens calling
Take me away
Take me away
You tell me not to worry
But I feel this darkness upon me
Take me away
Take me away

Into the night
(You tell me not to worry, but I feel this darkness upon me)
Into the night
(Take me away, take me away)
Can you hear me?
I am calling
Outrunning this fear that is growing
Take me away
Take me away
Into the night


5. THE HANGING TREE

Living with the pictures in my head
(Sometimes we forget)
This place will hold for me what cannot be said
(Sometimes we regret)
Where only my hallowed footstep dared to tread
(Sometimes we forget)
Now times indifference rushes to bury them
(Sometimes we regret)

So slowly corroding aged with time
This places serenity a time lapsе lie
I'm inching slowly
I'm out my mind
And the peacе within me is a lie by design

Distorted memories and pictures
(Sometimes we forget)
These places they will remember us
(Sometimes we regret)
Infused deep with all our pain
(Sometimes we forget)
Somewhere forever pieces of us remain
(Sometimes we regret)

So slowly corroding aged with time
This places serenity a time lapse lie
I'm inching slowly
I'm out my mind
And the peace within me is a lie by design

And I, I surrender
I take back all I owe
And can you tell me where time goes
As it flies away from me?

Living with the pictures in my head
(Sometimes we forget)
This place will hold for me what cannot be said
(Sometimes we regret)
Distorted memories and pictures
(Sometimes we forget)
These places they will remember us
(Sometimes we regret)

Hidden in plain view secrecy
(Sometimes we forget)
This place is haunted if you want it to be


6. SALVATION

This land where I was born
Near this old river
Nothing there to keep my heart from wondering
But there I'm tethered

Those ole stories haunt me
Those ole stories are me

Everything I've ever loved
Is at the bottom of the river
Where we go to be reborn
A baptism in forever
I'm a 1,000 miles from home
I'm a 1,000 miles from nowhere
But tonight I'll close my еyes
And when I wake up I will bе there

Take me south
Take me home
Where the sunsets glow
Where the trees bend down
And lay me below
Send me south
On the old Trinity
I'll meet the Shepherd's call
On that ole boat ride just going home

And she'll say, raise him up
Raise him up (raise him up)
Bring him south
To where the ole bells call

The trees have bended branches
The harsh winds have shaped them so
They embrace this hanging man that I am
Take me south, take me home

Where the Shepherd makes his home each evening
And the Trinity River flows
Beast of the southern river
Beast of the southern wild

Take me south
Take me home
Where the sunsets glow
Where the trees bend down
And lay me below
Send me south
On the old Trinity
I'll meet the Shepherd's call
On that ole boat ride just going home

And she'll say raise him up
Raise him up (raise him up)
Bring him south to where the ole bells call

(Bring him home, yes bring him home)
(Bring him home to where the ole bell call)
Home to where the ole bell call
(He's coming home, he's coming home)
Where's the sunset glows, lay him below
(He's coming home, he's coming)
He's coming home, lay, lay him below
(He's coming home, he's coming home)
Ohhhh, ohhh, yes take him home
(He's coming home, he's coming home)


7. STAR ALTAR

Snakes of Eden
The scent of a rabid man
As he grabs her hips and hands
Oh there's no excuse
We're taught to be abuse
Snakes of Eden
Writhing in glass and sand
Grasping at what you can
Oh to keep control
You just can't let us go

The days ahead
Our fear behind
Our hope ahead
And yet we struggle to climb
The days ahead (the days ahead)
Our fear behind (our fear behind)
Our hope ahead as darkness surrounds us

Snakes of Eden
The scent of rabid man
As he grabs hеr hips and hands
Oh there's no excusе
They're taught to give abuse
Snakes of Eden
Writhing in glass and sand
Grasping at what you can
Oh to keep control
They just can't let us go

The days ahead
Our fear behind
Our hope ahead
And yet we struggle to climb
The days ahead (the days ahead)
Our fear behind (our fear behind)
Our hope ahead
As darkness surrounds us

A bitter life
A flickering life
Filled with starlight
A bitter life
A flickering life
Filled with starlight... and ash
Let the stars be your light
Let the stars be your light
Let the stars be your light
Let the stars be your light

The days ahead
Our fear behind
Our hope ahead
And yet we struggle to climb
The days ahead (the days ahead)
Our fear behind (our fear behind)
Our hope ahead
As darkness surrounds us

A bitter life
A flickering life
Filled with starlight
A bitter life
A flickering life
Filled with starlight
Filled with starlight... and
Snakes of Eden
Snakes of Eden
Snakes of Eden
Grasping at what you can
Snakes of Eden
The scent of a rabid man


8. THE SPRING OF '21

(Instrumental)


9. JUST A DAY

You could see it in my eyes
The moment I walked through the door
I had had another hard day
And I was barely holding on
In your arms I
I'm defenseless
In your eyes I'm
Everything I want to be

When I was a little girl
I dreamed of all I would become
And broken wasn't one I ever
Ever thought I'd linger on
I dreamed of a man
Who would love me
For everything
I always wanted to be

And now it only feels, feels like I am failing
And I can't stand a moment with myself
And if I can't find a reason, then how could anyone?
And I don't wanna bе the reason
The rеason that we fail
And now it only feels, feels like I am falling
And I can't stand to look myself in the eyes
And if I can't find the meaning, then how could anyone?
And I don't wanna be the reason
The reason that we fail

I fight, I yell, I fall
Back into your open arms
I bend, I break, I crawl
Back into your open arms
I fight, I yell, I fall
Back into your open arms
I bend, I break, I crawl
Back into your open arms

I need you
My darling
Without you
I'm falling


10. HOUSE OF THE RISING SUN

There is a house in New Orleans
They call the Rising Sun
And it's been the ruin of many a poor girl
And God, I know, I'm one

My mother was a tailor
She sewed my new blue jeans
My father was a gamblin' man
Down in New Orleans

Oh mother, tell your children
Not to do what I have done
Spend your lives in sin and misery
In the House of the Rising Sun

I got one foot on the platform
The other foot on the train
I'm goin' back to New Orleans
To wear that ball and chain

Well, there is a house in Nеw Orleans
They call the Rising Sun
And it's been thе ruin of many a poor girl
And God, I know, I'm one


11. THE SHIPBUILDER'S SON

Servants to the wind and the sea
Builders of great sea monsters
Yet they've never sailed away
To see where the dark clouds go

Yet off in the horizon
Where the sunset meets the shore
That’s where their souls are longing to go
In hopes of so much more
Their faith now long forgotten
In the toil of this harsh land
Their dreams lay lost and buried
Under the rocks and sand
(Their fathers, their fathеrs, their fathers)

The cool breezе mocks the men below
Singing of places they'll never know
A harsh wind carries away their tears
As the salty air wears away the years

Yet off into the horizon
Where the sunset meets the shore
That's where their souls are longing to go
In hopes of so much more
Their faith now long forgotten
In the toil of this harsh land
Their dreams lay lost and buried
Under the rocks and sand

Yet off into the horizon
Where the sunset meets the shore
That’s where their souls are longing to go
In hopes of so much more (so much more)
Their faith now long forgotten
In the toil of this harsh land
Their dreams lay lost and buried
Under the rocks and sand