1. DRAMA FOR LIFE

I've got this madman in my mind, this prolific designer
and he's working overtime and he gets all wired up
higher and higher as we fly, we're poets of the fall

Perfect, near fatal headlong dive
A blueprint for life, blueprint your life
Aggressively primal cultural high
This mental Versailles, is much grander than the lies
You tell yourself to get through the night
Sentenced to drama for life

He tears a stampede through my head, wild and horny
Just one chance to kill it dead, but I will embrace it
Into the darkness on we ride, to gamble is all

Perfect, near fatal headlong dive
A blueprint for life, blueprint your life
Aggressively primal cultural high
This mental Versailles, is much grander than the lies
You tell yourself to get through the night
Sentenced to drama for life

If all the isms and doctrines of life were a gentle breeze instead of that usual judgmental freeze,
would we all be as easily shanghaied to their cause, as now we seem to object every clause,
and would we have the unerring nerve to go after our deepest desires with a similar verve,
who would it serve

Perfect, near fatal headlong dive
A blueprint for life, blueprint your life
Aggressively primal cultural high
This mental Versailles, is much grander than the lies
You tell yourself to get through the night
Sentenced to drama for life


2. THE GAME

She's plastic, she's speed read, a classic line between the lines
Fantastic and half dead, his tactic, blind to warning signs
Her clashes of colors are flashes of society
In ashes his dollars like posters of a tragic love story

See the puppet master laugh, astride a pale horse
And take another photograph, for selfie intercourse
Reading out the epitaph of our pointless wars
For love we will tear us down

He's shooting at shadows, portraying a proper soldier boy
She's thinking, in logos, still searching for the real mccoy
Broadcasters, they've got this, disasters, a wasp of a satire
Like actors who french kiss right after someone stole their fire

See/Hear the puppet master laugh, astride a pale horse
And take another photograph, for selfie intercourse
Reading out the epitaph of our pointless wars
For love we will tear us

Down that beaten path she treads
Mirage the blushing bride he weds
Yesterday's diamonds and pearls
Now worthless trinkets in their world

The salty tang of blood, sensations running hot
Snow blindness in pitch darkness, mindless rage
And then you see the puppet master laugh
And take another photograph

See/Hear the puppet master laugh, astride a pale horse
And take another photograph, for selfie intercourse
Reading out the epitaph of our pointless wars
When love, love could be our crown


3. THE CHILD IN ME

Some people never settle for the one
One love forever searching for the sun
Heat blasted faces, promises at dawn
A constant flux of stages before they're gone

How do you live so gracefully
Would you show me
How can I save the child in me
A world a child would see
How do you fall so gracefully
Serenity
In a shattered world
The child in me

Harlots by the half-moon, charlatans by wine
Seeking out our pleasure, the sweet concubine
That abrasive acquaintance, it's a wonder how we fawn
Stopping at these stations before they're gone

I been waiting, feel the love rebuilding
off the edge now, falling down

Cause I've been waiting, I been biding my time
On the edge now, falling down

How do you live so gracefully
Would you show me
How can I save the child in me
A world a child would see
How do you fall so gracefully
Serenity
In a shattered world
The child in me


4. ONCE UPON A PLAYGROUND RAINY

Hello old lovers of mine, my little boy wishes of fortune's kisses
Now dreams cast aside
In the fading light your crown of thorns becomes a halo of branching horns
And yet so beautiful

I see you gently swaying in a sea of seesaws
Slumming in the shack Tony built last year
I know you'll be holding court with jackdaws
Crying when nobody ever sees your tears
When no-one sees your tears

What used to fly us from here to the stratosphere
What became of our passion
Is there no-one who cares
Hear the soft minor key of the one time me
Still the acrobat with my heart on my sleeve
And it's so beautiful

I see you gently swaying in a sea of seesaws
Slumming in the shack Tony built last year
I know you'll be holding court with jackdaws
Crying when nobody ever sees your tears
When no-one sees your tears

Out back where the gates are closed
Like a pitiful skeleton pose
We held our first line of defence
Saw our likeness and it made no sense
Like toy soldiers in the muck and dirt
Salvation in your every word
Lost in the fray of everyday

I see you gently swaying in a sea of seesaws
Slumming in the shack Tony built last year
I know you'll be holding court with jackdaws
Crying when nobody ever sees your tears
When no-one sees your tears

You're still fighting, I see, like a modern day Bruce Lee
Standing proud in this parody


5. CHILDREN OF THE SUN

Parallel to life,
there's wisdom that seems out of reach,
like a figure of speech,
in a maze of white lies,
so elusive it's hard to recognise,
with naivety's eyes.
It's like running with a knife,
the thought steals away with your peace
and high on that trapeze,
you hold on to me,
you hold on to me.

And I'll be singing you songs of tomorrow,
And then dawn will follow
And our sorrows all undone

When you're done with all the strife,
when they echo the minds in the streets,
you know your heart beats,
a solitary call,
for a change in the tone of it all,
you'll be scaling that wall.
And the higher you climb,
the more you can see of this life,
and on the edge of that knife,
you hold on to me,
hold on to me.

And I'll be singing you songs of tomorrow,
And then dawn will follow
And our sorrows all undone
Yeah, I'll be singing you songs of tomorrow,
And then dawn will follow
We are children of the sun

And you know you can take this story, take your glory, make your own way
Yeah, I want you to shake this story, take your glory, find your way
Make your own way

And I'll be singing you songs of tomorrow,
And then dawn will follow
And our sorrows all undone
Yeah, I'll be singing you songs of tomorrow,
And then dawn will follow
We are children of the sun


6. SHADOW PLAY

I can feel it in the air, I can feel it young and strong
Like an intoxicating dare

For some residue of joy, Simple pleasures and delights
Would you buy that ruthless ploy, Would you buy that ploy

Mark my words it's not quite what you thought

Shadow play
Directed by you
Love portrays Ms. Take
The oscar goes to Hate
Dragons slain
The princess rescued
It's all what you create
Your shadows will be played

And here now comes the sweet caress, unreality to guide us
With a forceful righteousness

And you can taste the kiss of death, More divine than breath I know
Always just the right address, Just the right caress

Mark my words it's not quite what you thought

Shadow play
Directed by you
Love portrays Ms. Take
The oscar goes to Hate
Dragons slain
The princess rescued
It's all what you create
Your shadows will be played

So this is what you think you need to play the game
A pretty royal flush of second hand fame
For proof of excellence, for critical acclaim
Aloof preeminence preceding your pen name
Cliches of violence and off mark blame
Some character flaws to masticate the shame
Sex in a dress in a wide array
Sex in a suit, hello, happy birthday

Mark my words it's never what you thought

Shadow play
Directed by you
Love portrays Ms. Take
The oscar goes to Hate
Dragons slain
The princess rescued
It's all what you create
Your shadows will be played


7. CENTER STAGE

When you leave the world behind
Lock the doors and turn the lights down
Whispers, schemes, resigned
N' you haven't got the will to try and fight

Do you see how it's your thoughts come conjuring
Emotions show the world you keep within

So weave the world a play
Such turns of fate to let you have your way
Lest the only one betrayed
Will be standing center stage

A dream's a deed unsigned
A nameless ghost of yesterday defied
So the answers aren't streamlined
To open up before you pay to try

And it's all seen through these lenses colouring
The images you call to give you wings

So weave the world a play
Such turns of fate to let you have your way
Lest the only one betrayed
Will be standing center stage

Like a thread from a seam
Drawn away to reveal
That we all make this dream
And sometimes it feels so real

Do you see how it's your thoughts come conjuring
Emotions show the world you keep within

So weave the world a play
Such turns of fate to let you have your way
Lest the only one betrayed
Will be standing center stage
So weave the world a play
Such turns of fate to let you have your way
Lest the only one betrayed
Will be standing center stage


8. THE LABYRINTH

Down on your knees to find your way
Through this labyrinth of whys
Time and again, rig and replay
When nothing justifies
Or leaves a trace to tell
A way out of your shell
To sample life

Time is a wraith at the point of no return
A memory of the light of day
Time is ablaze and so we burn
Until the ashes of our lives are blown away
Wish I had the power to make you stay

Out through the frozen haze of grey
If constellations align
More brutally sliced by lie than blade
Three acts of cruel design
Disconnect the dots
And against all odds
Still survive

Time is a wraith at the point of no return
A memory of the light of day
Time is ablaze and so we burn
Until the ashes of our lives are blown away
Wish I had the power to make you stay

For the sake of thrill would you own the kill
Would you impose your will on another still

Time is a wraith at the point of no return
A memory of the light of day
Time is ablaze and so we burn
Until the ashes of our lives are blown away
Wish I had the power to make you stay


9. CRYSTALLINE

I ain't so pure of heart myself that I can go and say how you should be
But I know the temptation
The meaning you will give your life is up to you no safety guaranteed
But it will be amazing

Spectres of suspicion hone in on your love
Hungry inquisition always wanting more

Here I am, look at me now, you're living in a world of wonder
Come to me now, we will make it somehow
Here I am, singing your song, believing, though the world's asunder
This is our time and our love is crystalline

Place your hand against the wall and follow every contour till you're free
Yourself forgiven
So what are you a slave to now when every winding maze will disappear
What makes your prison

Spectres of suspicion hone in on your love
Hungry inquisition always wanting more

Here I am, look at me now, you're living in a world of wonder
Come to me now, we will make it somehow
Here I am, singing your song, believing, though the world's asunder
This is our time and our love is crystalline

When it seems like there ain't no way out
And you feel like going underground
What's the choice where everybody wins

Past the point of no return
This labyrinth will up and burn
As bright as the puppet master grins

You will stand a vision of your world of wonder
And play your hand, magician, like there's no tomorrow

Here I am, look at me now, you're living in a world of wonder
Come to me now, we will make it somehow
Here I am, singing your song, believing, though the world's asunder
This is our time and our love is crystalline


10. MOONLIGHT KISSED

I see shadow and light stroking the mist
and I hear voices take flight and send out our wish
of peaceful dreams on a night moonlight kissed

tendrils of smoke lash the street and shamelessly court
disguised honey sweet to cater all sorts
and hushed tones all agree and the world distorts.

Wishing on a speck of dust in this crazy ocean of fate,
an echo of a memory and maybe just a little too late.

Fingers of blue on the snow reaching to touch
the warm light still aglow across the porch.
We watch the scene die untold outside our window.

For my words are the salt of lust on that ivory skin,
difficult to hear at all through the everyday din.
What is this if not some witchcraft
wrapped up widdershins to lead us all astray,
hook in mouth, on through such webs of lies
truth's a distant star in our eyes moonlight kissed.

New day comes again and it laughs in our face
whispering secrets of pain by all its names,
what flame could burn out the stain of a life misplaced.

But summer's scents still lingers in your hair,
despite the ache there's magic everywhere.
Out the window run rebellion
rapt with all you find for seeking something new.
Play in the ponds like summer's wind.
Dance with trees melding with mist
beyond the flower field like you're moonlight kissed.