1.No Surrender
On your feet rush rush to the street rush
Face defeat as if no one makes it out alive still try
Flee the scene hush hush be discreet hush
Go unseen unlike every breath you take can be as the clerk said
passing by
Like a dream such nothing's what it seems much
Just deceit as if time could stop your stride now free outside
To the beat pump skipping every speed bump
There's no leaves, but if the walls you left behind could talk
they'd probably only cry
These are the days you can't forget
These are the times you can't regret
This is your time for no surrender, surrender
This is your chance to do or die
This is your path so run or hide
This is your time for no surrender, surrender
Like the breeze rush rush down the street rush
Too fast to freeze, as if no one makes your shadow as a lie
War and peace hush hush still discreet hush
Mentally, like your train of thought implies just one manifest
the signs comply
Like a dream clutch gripping memories such
Vividly, the sun'll settle east, to the park where you'd reside
To the beat touch closing in on me much
You can see, obvious now do or die beneath you're free to catch
a ride
Deeper shade of sound
Now unburied catalyst arriving
She reads eastern bound
Like in movies you're now all aboarding
2.The Everlasting
It's 8am and her blood's still warm
The radio choke's out my favorite song
I hear sirens, they sing along...through the walls
My pulse is pumping to the beat outside
A violent screaming rise and shine
Waves of helplessness reach to the sky...with heartbreak eyes
And as the walls around come crashing down
I ask myself how am i still around
It's easy
It's beautiful
It's simple
The everlasting Sunday glow
I won't let you in
Don't push me away
I turn the music up a little more
Trying to drown out what's in store
There's a battle raging right outside my door...it's all over
Head downstairs
Empty table
The tv glares
A criminal has been declared..beware
And as the walls around come crashing down
I ask myself how am i still around
It's easy
It's beautiful
It's simple
The everlasting Sunday glow
I won't let you in
Time and time and time again
We seem to break before we bend
It's easy
It's beautiful
It's simple
The everlasting Sunday glow
I won't let you in
So don't push me away
3.Good Morning
Scraping film away your eyes awake to quite the sight
a strobing TV static flares the neon motel light
a tray of ash so full
a candle burns at both it's ends
a stack of empty bottles posing in the corner as your friends
this place is a scene and now you believe
this place is obscene, and you gotta leave
'Good Morning' sir the sirens plead as they go laughing by
through the pane they bleed urgency inside
the smell of failed attempts and bad decisions
now only to fill your lungs
the taste of bitter sweet guilt now resides on your tongue
this place is a scene and now you believe
dig your bearings up from beneath the sweaty sheets
to find the scary freezing holy carpet at your feet
rise away from last nights tomb to see more in the view
the resting place of many resonates the morning dew
find yourself now reaching out for what is real
your sense of self belongs in a few belongings you can feel
a broken necklace hugs a lonesome matchbook at the seams
an empty wallet shows a picture that you've never seen
this place is a scene and now you believe
this place is obscene, and you gotta leave
4.Lost Boy
Sitting in motion the notion of pulling away
Setting emotion's erosional ocean to keep you at bay
Time is of the essence a presence to right what's wrong
Knowledge crying lessons unpleasant the method for what you long
Taking over, it's been so long
Moving forward, it's where you belong
Taking over, it's been so long
Moving forward
You look up and a view
Something's missing, something so askew
You take in, interpret
Is this a clue？ Something at all to do with you？
Lost boy, taking over
Where would you go？
Moving forward
Is it where you belong？
Taking over, where would you go？
Moving forward
All eyes all knowing and growing, they turn on you
No smiles are showing or glowing, controlling, so what did you
do？
Judgments now continue as the engine is slowing down
Taking over
Exit woman with a frown
Moving forward
Dressed in black, in her hands an orchid from the ground
Where will she go？
Moving forward
She takes your hand and guides you to where you'll go
Where the sky's alive, and the wind, it blows
5.Memorial Park
Ascending from the depths, again
among the living steps, again
emerge into the day, again
back to where you're safe, again
sensing close now
3 rocks to the 1
underneath the clouds
2 blocks before the sun
it's a place
lost but not forgotten
it's a place
where you once belonged
its's place
where you're loved
arrival time now
one grand sight to see
an innocent symbol
behind the row of trees
it's a place
lost but not forgotten
it's a place
where you once belonged
its's place
where you're loved
Memories of the good ol' Sundays way back when
Memories carving initials in the sand
Memories the countless time that you have spent
Memories a cherished gift given by a friend
Out of your pocket now
a necklace made of gold
see the picture in your hand
the story now unfolds
the son is now behind you
his likeness leaves no doubt
place a hand upon your shoulder
with a whisper ringing out
'You don't belong here'
6.Around the Bend
Inside I'm free
no need to breathe
the knife cuts a careful arch
intent to leave it's mark
and through it, I see
Around and around the bend
this circle remains an end
Around and around the bend
this circle remains a friend
Around and around the bend
this cycle remains a test
in the garden she's scene
captured imagery
buried beneath the ground
still life all around
and through it, I see
Around and around the bend
this circle remains an end
Around and around the bend
this circle remains a friend
Around and around the bend
this cycle remains a test
Around and around the bend
this circle remains an end
with a step she closes in on me
like broken glass
a drop of jewelry
with a click she takes my breath away
and holds it for another day
Around and around the bend
this circle remains an end
Around and around the bend
this circle remains a friend
Around and around the bend
this cycle remains a test
Around and around the bend
this circle remains an end
below the place I carve and rest
a matchbook sparks a lone address
the fire burns and walks with me
down to Contemplation Street
7.A Kiss from the Sky
Beyond the back row off the beat and path
step into a field of dying blades of grass
so thick I have to use my hands
and slowly sinking in quicksand
I'll pull away till I can see again
Staring down with a kiss from the sky
unsure what feeds the flame
I know a secret way
unclear the reason why
I'll go in hopes to find
between the field now and the river bed
inching closer to the waters edge
3 rocks separate the flow
each stride I chip away the stone
every breath I pray a miracle
raining down like a kiss from the sky
unsure what feeds the flame
I know a secret way
unclear the reason why
I'll go in hopes to find
setting foot on solid ground again
at the hillside's steepest climb
nearing the top I seem among the clouds
staring down like a kiss from the sky
unsure what feeds the flame
I know a secret way
unclear the reason why
I'll go in hopes to find
8.Strange ＆ Fascinating
walking past a waiting grave
burial today
shadows cast a golden grey
preparations made
so calm
yet violent winds they play
such a darkness on a bright Sunday
Am I awake？
it feels strange
yet fascinating
like everything is gonna be okay
I feel so alive
but in this place I can't
help but thinking
that I'll end up here someday
onto Contemplations Way
ever long across the street unscathed
Am I awake？
it feels strange
yet fascinating
like everything is gonna be okay
I feel so alive
but in this place I can't
help but thinking
that I'll end up here someday
elevator take me high
14 stories
2nd door he lies
I found his body breathless
I found the place obscene
I tried to look away
as I tried to fee the scene
a picture staring back at me
left me wondering
Am I awake？
it feels strange
yet fascinating
like everything is gonna be okay
I feel so alive
but in this place I can't
help but thinking
that I'll end up here someday
9.A Golden Grey
She walks with a sadness like she's never known
exiting from the back in black from head to toe
a swallow of stale station air
leaving behind the taste of despair
almost running into someone she used to know
as fragile as a flower
she wonders if she can go on
it's been a long morning
another cold back Sunday
it's like shes been awake for hours
another dying Sunday
she hopes to hide these things behind a darkened veil
she dies inside thinking of every time she failed
it seems like only yesterday
a memory of golden grey
foreshadowing a pale tomorrow
if she could hold on one more hour
maybe she can go on
it's been a long morning
another cold back Sunday
it's like shes been awake for hours
another dying Sunday
she knows she tried
stuck in the middle
she blames herself, a little
she knows she tried
suck in the middle
she hates this sound
it's been a long morning
another cold back Sunday
it's like shes been awake for hours
another dying Sunday
10.We don't Belong Here
She's standing by her lonesome
in this dead end empty space
the heavens cry upon her
and wash our sins away
we are gathered together
to say that we remember
if she could only know that
right now she's not alone
with you on her left
and me on her right
she guides us into the light
we are gathered together (her, you and I today)
to say that we remember
we don't belong here
we are gathered together (her, you and I today)
to say that we remember (last goodbye we say)
bury the sunset deep horizon
6 feet separate
but I wanna go and you wanna stay
just as a voice
we hear her say
'You don't belong here.'
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