Worlds Away

"Manic Distortion"
Get a little closer
Let me see your eyes
Didn't stop to notice all warning signs
Can't get any higher
Don't you wanna know
While you were away
They changed your name and code

Hear the sound
That's changing all around
You've gone too far
City lights are spiked
The wolves are out tonight

Manic distortion
Sink or swim
Out of proportion
Gonna crash or mend

Speak a little louder
Can't hear your new voice
It's harder to focus past the inner noise
Something on computer
Another soul to load
New world out of order
The news is so exposed

Are you leaving, will you wake up
It's gone too far
Way too far
Will you stay a million miles away
Manic distortion
Sink or swim
Wheel out of motion
Gonna crash or mend

Are you leaving, will you wake up
It's binding now
Everything has changed
It's all deranged

Manic distortion
Sink or swim
Out of proportion
Gonna crash or mend

Mayday

"Make a Move"
Gotta learn how to fight around here
If you really wanna stay alive
There's a method of survival in the city
'Til you've gone 'til you've done your own time
Walking and talking in circles don't matter
Money never saved the rich or poor
Don't matter it's just if you mean it
They'll scrape at the bones 'til you're cold

Climbing sideways
Through the cracks
Down the aisles
Praying on the new life
And the people on display
I make a move on you
I make a move on you

Sun is on the rise
Time to awaken
Living in the present - past
Avenues and signs all directing
Another round on the beaten path
Gotta learn how to fight around here
If you really wanna stay alive
Don't turn your back you gotta watch it
Gotta learn how to keep your mind

Moving slower
The sun has gone away
Never going out of style
People on display
I make a move on you
I make a move on you
I make a move on you
I make a move on you

"C.Y.R."
Now that you're considering your rights
Ones we've paid government to steal
Would suffocate your breathing
If you realized the facts
You don't even know half of the deal

Now that you have spoken up
Think you've gotten through
How all the hearts are drowned
By the many modes of materialistic nature
Who can see the truth

Why can you force now
To the surface brings a war
May God be on your side
He'll stop the wheels and cars
Maybe save the next world
From the unwritten law
The violence in America

Now that you have woken up
Do you know who you are
You could be digging yourself from a hole in the ground
And never face it
Come up for air and go back down too far

Time is an end
Taking all demand
May God be on your side
Do what they tell you all
No longer in the safety zone
From the unwritten law
Smile for the camera

Here, you took around before
Flies are coming
Out of the seedy street corners of
what used to be a free land
Gratification sensory overland
Chained to a source of misery
That always eludes you

Take these guns
Obey the law
Going for the ride
Just do what they tell you all
Going for the ride
Take these guns, obey the law
Take these guns, obey the law
Going for the ride
Going, time to wake up, wake up

"Where the Grass is Green"
I called to Mary
Didn't answer
No one home that day
Called to Jesus
Don't you know it
Sleeping I guess okay

Where did all the people go
That I used to know
I've been driven by a few wild horses
Trampled under their feet
Just tell me why the children cry
And how we can find relief
Half my life's mistakes I've made
This is for much more than I need
I wanna lead me onward
Where the grass is green

Called the heavens
Still no answer
Must be on holiday
One to Joseph
Twice to Father
Maybe got through anyway

Where did all the people go
That I used to know
I've been driven by a few wild horses
Trampled under their feet
Just tell me why the children cry
And how we can find relief
Half my life's mistakes I've made
This is for much more than I need
I wanna lead me onward
Where the grass is green

I've been driven by a few wild horses
Trampled under their feet
Just tell me why the children cry
And how we can find relief
Goodbye no offense
This is far much more than I need
I wanna lead me onward
Where the grass is green
I wanna lead me onward
Where the grass is green

"Center of Balance"
I've watched the life in the land where
Pharaoh reigned
Known messiahs lead the common man
Watched the ocean turn to sand again
From the beginning and the end
So taste the light it's never bad
Don't try to guide it now it's all arranged
Can't you see your way will never lost
People roam the earth and never gain

There in the parting of the ocean
Center of all that's displayed
Before the creation you'll never know
Patiently waiting your fate

Meet me at the station
Travel in the soul
Tearing out the farm
Held me down for way too long
Counteract the stranglehold
She's still holding on till fall

Been all around the place to find an aim
Driven out, caged and tied
You'll know we all leave the same
Can you know what's real
And lead the way
Slipped off the boat in the ocean
Maybe you'll wash on the shore
Taking a trip to the overload
Run out of space going home

Meet me at the station
Travel in the soul
Gravity on the other side
Held me down for way too long
Counteract the stranglehold
She's still holding on and on

She's weary
She'll rise
She breaks
She cries

"Dogs Are Barking"
Out on the cycle
As fast as it could go
In and out of traffic
Every unexpected road
I was running from the law
Don't recall the violation
Did I tell you about the day
The day I got away

Fall out of reach
Now you can't hear
Who's to say you're not really there
Maybe it's time that someone tried to
Get through

The dogs are barking
Too early to make out
Anything of this
Mess I made now tumblin' over
Tell me what I think I've missed
Why did you wait so long
To find what we've all been missing
Shouldn't have waited all this time
Maybe it's all lost in your mind

Rolling around what's all in place
Trying to find what's been erased
How many times that no one ever
Get through

Why did you wait so long
To find what we've all been missing
Couldn't have waited all this time
Maybe it's all lost in your mind
Why did you wait so long
To find what we've all been finding
Couldn't have waited all this time
It's never too late to start your life

"Homeland (Piece of Mind)"
On my way to the homeland
In a few more miles we're through
It's been a long, long ride and a good time there
But I'll soon be back to you
Never thought I'd miss the rain
On those summer nights we cherished then
All those memories I love will never leave me
It's not the same everywhere

But I know that the day will come
All the fighting will be done
Why does it take so long to understand
How we can find peace of mind
I hope you'll find love
I hope you'll find you

We are breathing so many warnings
While they're killing the seas
All the children know is violence now
Tell me how can we be freed
Still feeding the hate
Trouble breading ignorance, of well
They can never take away your faith

I know that the day will come
All the fighting will be done
Why does it take so long to understand
It's all in our hands
Gotta decide, where you belong
Gotta believe in something
Time to move along and understand
Now you can find peace of mind
I hope you'll find it

Give a little love and you'll feel better
A little of your time
I'll come back to you
Give a little hope and there'll be hope for you
Coming down like rain

I know that the day will come
All the fighting will be done
Why does it take so long to understand
It's all in our hands
Gotta decide, where you belong
Gotta believe in something
Time to move along and understand
Now we can find peace of mind
I hope you'll find you

"Wasted Labor"
All that I know
All that I fear
All of my wasted labor
Reaching too far
Tearing out my heart
All to save your love from the hate
Elegant lure
Sneakingly vague
Feeds upon the pained and the sore

Driving me down
Watching the wheels blow out
Stealing your lives
Children you walk the line
Taking you out
Inviting the breaking down
Gotta get back in the trace
Your faith

For all that I live
Through all the extremes
Prisons of our own making
Fighting the weight of malignant moods
That hold on to the faith of the drowned
Into the lens
Taping your life
The nothing your submission allows

Takin' you under
Takin' you under
Takin' you under
Takin' you under
Takin' you under

Driving me down
Cruising the underground
Backwards again
This time it's making sense
Taking me out
Dawn through the dead end round
Back in the race
All isn't out of place

For all I can reach
All that can hear
All isn't wasted labor

Fields of your life

Fields of your life
Don't let it get you down
Fields of your life
How many times around
Have taken you so far down
Don't let it get you down
Fields of your life
How many times around
Have taken you so far down
Let it go, let go
Let it all go
Go

"Worlds Away"
Everyone is listening
To half of what is said
Tried to share the meaning
No one wanted to be led
Gotta find all the life
On your own
Gotta find all the life
On your own

Going along
Ordinary day
'Till you find our boat is sinking
Is it too much
Hard to breathe
When your world is closing in

Reading between the lines
Like there is no tomorrow
Climbing the walls again
And now the days go by
They're closing in
Some day it will be over
There's not enough for all that's left to save
Our love - our life - we are materialized
Everyone knows
Just what they've been told
Many have lost all faith everything
Matter is lost
It's not who you are
Let it all go
Maybe you'll see beyond

Reading between the lines
There's nothing left tomorrow
Climbing the walls again
But now we're waiting goodbye
For all our life
They're bound and still will follow
Connected still
There are not enough for all that's left to save
Our love - our life - we are materialized

Pulling the reigns
They've got you on display
Holdin' you back
You're waiting for the raid
Fallen down stairs
And now I'm back again
To follow the road is not the easy way
Oh Lord
Won't you come back to me
Oh Lord
To see you again
She is sublime


"Endica (Revisited)"
Been a long way to focus in overdrive
Sometimes you never wanna stop
Running down the tight rope
Trying to hold down to the sides
We were blessed as though in heaven
But not an eye would look to see
We're loved or rays of sunlight
No one cared to feel
Given all the right to live
But no one would receive

From beginning to end
Starting from the finish line
May we all feel love still
Down in your soul and mine

From a far beyond the curtain
We've all seen
The fake
And we've looked upon odd traces
Many souls unawake
To know is sometimes a burden
To feel is a chance
Blessed as though in heaven
We wanted to be lost
Shown the right direction and turned
The other way
Givin' all the rights to live
But no one would receive

I did know forever
Such a long time
I did know what I'm sayin'
It's clear on our minds
Clear on our minds

I did know forever
Was such a long time
I did know what I'm sayin'
It's clear on our minds
It's clear, yeah

"From Outside In"
What's left of the world you brought and sold
Keep your face and remember all the lies you were told
Replaced all the clocks that found you
Running late 
Leave a note if you're falling way behind

Leave us something we all can understand
For the short attention spans
Who only wanted the world
And all that binds you here
Don't be a slave to what always eludes you
Shining the cage to forget
All about the life
You've gotta save it
What about the inside

You can never rely on all that you can see
Out of touch with what you can feel
Only half of what you believe is real
Time to heal, to heal, to heal

So you're laughing in the dark again
Looking from the outside in
For all the want of the world
And all its pleasure escapes
You got them
Oh and lose them
Shining the cage to forget
All about the life
You've gotta save it
What about the inside

Sometimes I feel I'm holding only by a thread
Just about to break
But keep on moving
Passed the overload
Heading down that old bad road
Making old mistakes
The wheels are burning

Ooh, to find the lead
To find the place, place
Place on wheels
To be found the place
To be found the place on the wheels
I only want the world
The world
Eluded me
I got burning of
That eluded me
Shining the cage
Forget all about your life
You've gotta save it
What about the inside

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