1. RISE

Rise and move close to the door
Heart beats in your chest so hard it shakes the floor
The sun it sets into the west again
You´re hearing words best not repeated

Should have known, should have read the signs
But time and alcohol have slowed this aging mind
My little boy became a bitter man
Do vipers slumber in the hearts of all sweet children

Slither in the room with gleaming eyes
Money in his mouth and sharp goodbyes
His once silver tongue had turned to lead with lies
Slither in the room with gleaming eyes
Money on his breath and sharpened knives
Screaming like a storm in the sky

Go away from my home, you´re not the boy I used to know
Go away from this house, oh no, you´re not my son

Back he ran towards the stairs
Spitting madman curses up into the air
Soiled from boots to tussled hair
No dignity, no grace, only despair

Slither in the room with gleaming eyes
Money in his mouth and sharp goodbyes
His once silver tongue had turned to lead with lies
Slither in the room with gleaming eyes
Money on his breath and sharpened knives
Screaming like a storm in the sky

Go away from my home, you´re not the boy I used to know
Go away from this house, oh no, you´re not my son

Go away from this house, you´re not the boy I knew
Go away from this house, you´re not the boy I knew

All that you know
All of this hate
You must leave behind you now
Rise and be a man
Know that I care though I do not hold your hand

Go away from my home, you´re not the boy I used to know
Go away from this house, oh no, you´re not my son
Go away from my home, you´re not the boy I used to know
Go away from this house, oh no, you´re not my son
Go away from this house, you´re not the boy I knew
Go away from this house, you´re not the boy I knew



2. CARRIED AWAY BY YOUR VOICE

The road was white that night in 95
As the snow came raining down
Your story filled the car with waves of laughter
You turned to me and I could feel the heat
From my face down to my spine
While the winter howled and threw its weight around

Although we had a place we had to be
It was useless now to try
The storm had turned asphalt to ice
I hit the volume on the radio
It hopes to drown away the noise
And when the chorus hit you sang this melody

Whisper softly in the cold
I´ve only you to keep me warm
Speak to me and give me hope
Carry me with your voice
Whisper og the life we´ll know
Together till we´re dust and bone
Speak to me these words of hope
Carry me with your voice

Long after that night I hoped to keep those dreams alive
In all my thoughts in every moment
And when you went away thought I was going to go crazy
Won´t you come home to me again
Has all the distance made your heart grow
Colder by the day
Have your ears become deaf to this melody

Whisper softly in the cold
I´ve only you to keep me warm
Speak to me and give me hope
Carry me with your voice
Whisper of the life we´ll know
Together till we´re dust and bone
Speak to me these words of hope
Carry me with you voice

If there´s some clarity to find
It´s locked up deep inside your mind
While I´m the fool who´s holding on
You say those promises were made
By children simply passing time
Believing words heard in a song

A made up life we´re never know
Together till we´re dust and bone
Speaking always words of hope
Carry me with your voice
Whisper softly in the cold
I´ve nothing now to keep me warm
Cease your speech I have no hope
Carried away by your voice
Carried away by your voice
Carried away by your voice
Carried away by your voice

Whisper softly in the cold
Carried away by your voice



3. A GUIDING LIGHT

As you blew a kiss with your waiting lips
To the boys as they passed by
You were faking then, acting for your friends
How I watched you mesmerized
I wanted you to notice me and take me in your arms
You woke my resting heart

She´s holding me by a thread
And I´m just like a marionette
Her beauty and her bed
Are the life of every breath

Oh, it wasn´t long and we had our turn
Staring at the great unknown
Like a guiding light or warning sign
Turned to dust on some lost road
I knew I´d seen the passing of the best days of our lives
I´m opening my eyes

She´s holding me by a thread
And I´m just like a marionette
Her beauty and her bed
Are the life of every breath
Her beauty and her bed
Are the life of every breath

And now I know that passion isn´t
All that holds two lives together
It´s not enough to feel the lust
And try to build a life around it

It´s not enough, it´s not enough, it´s not enough to feel the lust
It´s not enough, it´s not enough, it´s not enough to feel the lust



4. SNOWY WINGS

Cover me with your snowy wings
Bare yourself under the sky
Cover me with your snowy wings
Follow me into the night

You pulled me from the door
Said darling please don´t go
I´ll never sleep if you walk out this way
I know you aren´t well
I can see you struggle
Even from the weight of just standing

You touched my face, I turned away

Walking alone into the setting sun
I heard you shouting after me
Oh, where will you go
What jind of man would leave you standing there
What kind of person have I become

Cover me with your snowy wings
Bare yourself under the sky
Cover me with your snowy wings
Follow me into the night

You followed in the dark
And found me sitting
Underneath a bridge down by the riverside
I saw your mouth and eyes
And I knew for sure
I had no strength to push you away

You touched my face and turned to me

Don´t walk alone into the setting sun
I was shouting in the streets
Oh, where did you go
What kind of man would leave me standing there
What kind of fool have you become

Cover me with your snowy wings
Bare yourself under the sky
Cover me with your snowy wings
Follow me into the night

What kind of man would leave me standing there
What kind of fool have I become

Cover me with your snowy wings
Bare yourself under the sky
Cover me with your snowy wings....



5. HOLD BACK THE FLOOD

Awake again untill the dawn
On the road so many weeks this time, yeah
It´s harder than you know, my love
And harder every day to not lose sight, yeah

You´ve seen the way move in the time
With every beat we play

You couldn´t come along this round
It seems I´ve gone a week without your smile, yeah
The party ever carries on
And once again I go to sleep alone, yeah

I´m always good, I never waver
I sit and dream of you
But now you´re calling on the phone
With tears and painfull truth

I couldn´t hold back the flood, though I love you so
How can you, how can you, how can you
Spent so many nights alone, with you out on the road
I had to, I had to, I had to

It´s morning and I´m calming down
There weeks pass emersed in sweat and sound, yeah
I´d tell you that I´m on the mend
But it makes me sick to speak your name, yeah

You´ve seen the way they move in time
With every beat we play
I´ll save for them my saddest songs
And throw the rest away

Couldn´t hold back the flood, though I loved you so
How can you, how can you, how can you
Spent so many nights alone, with you out on the road
I had to, I had to, I had to

It took time to know
How good my life could be
Realize I have no regrets
But to have known you

Realize I have no regrets
But to have known you
But to have known you

Couldn´t hold back the flood, though I loved you so
How can you, how can you, how can you
Spent so many nights alone, with you out on the road
I had to, I had to, I had to

Couldn´t hold back the flood, though I loved you so
How can you, how can you, how can you
Spent so many nights alone, with you out on the road...


6. FRIENDS AND FAMILY

The city was shaking
As we moved out towards the center
In a pack we were like wolves
Making one enormous sound
All gleaming teeth and cheering
As the summer heat came creeping
Such friends we have, a family

Call us broken, hopeless
But you´re rigid sad and compromised
Prove you have no vision
Of a world that´s moving onward
When we all know what we are

Your thoughts are so careless
Such a shallow observation
You think that we´re a cannon
Wrecking everything you know
So easily you forget
How you lived and breathed the movement
When you were young and life was long

Call us broken, hopeless
But you´re rigid sad and compromised
Prove you have no vision
Of a world that´s moving onward
When we still know what you have left behind

Call us broken, hopeless
Prove you have no vision
Of a world that´s moving onward
When we still know what you have left behind

Call us broken, call us hopeless
But you´re rigid sad and compromised
Prove you have no vision
Of a world that´s moving onward
When we still know what you have left behind



7. GHOST IN THE DARK

Are you sleeping under tables
Out in the park till 4 a.m.
It´s no wonder she has left you
With trembling sad and silver hands

What´s going trough your head

Do you think you´re still a capitain
When you sail a sinking ship
I see you bragging in the corner
To a shrinking audience

The tale that never ends

Ghost in the dark
A shadow cast in a crowded bar room
Cold reckless heart
No music in man
You are ghost in the dark
Slipping trough the cracks
Drowning in the letters never sent

And do you shiver in the morning
When your clothes have been soaked through
Like daggers cut to bone
The wind is carving holes in you

Lost and left behind

I know you wish to bury hatchets
Before they come to bury you
Seeking tender arms of lovers
And the warmth of fire lit rooms

Are you coming home tonight

Ghost in the dark
A shadow cast in a crowded bar room
Cold reckless heart
No music in man
You are ghost in the dark
Slipping trough the cracks
Drowning in the letters never sent
Drowning in the letters never sent
Drowning in the letters

Ghost in the dark
A shadow cast in a crowded bar room
Cold reckless heart
No music in man
You are ghost in the dark
Slipping trough the cracks
Drowning in the letters never sent

Drowning in the letters never sent
Drowning in the letters never sent
Drowning in the letters never sent



8. TIMBERLESS SKIES

Time, a spear that divides
The hollow insides of timberless skies
Place your aging grey hand
Over the land and swallow the countryside

Picture yourself on a throne carving kingdoms
Shaper of wood, air and bone, steel and fire
Look at the festering wound you´ve created
Wave to the future you mold, say goodbye

Raise your torch, hold it high
First study the light and then set a fire
Now the time has arrived
For sinister minds to pay for their crimes

Picture yourself on a throne carving kingdoms
Shaper of wood, air and bone, steel and fire
Look at the festering wound you´ve created
Wave to the future you mold, say goodbye

Picture yourself on a throne carving kingdoms
Shaper of wood, air and bone, steel and fire
Look at the festering wound you´ve created
Wave to the future you mold, say goodbye


9. SILVER FALLING STAR

It was sheer brilliance the way you pulled
A crowd in every room
Playing ten and black to fall on fixed roullette
The weight shifted slight that night and changed
Crooked games to nearly fair
Lucky ten fell sending cheers through smoke filled air

Grinning wide she touched her southern mouth
At a loss for what to say
With the whole world spinning in her lap
She just couldn´t walk away

Place your bet on a memory, a silver falling star
Roll the dice on a killing field
Face a set of starving eyes
Place a bet on a memory, a silver falling star
Certain death in a giant´s mouth
A smiling beast with open arms

One hour and you were breathing dust and shame
The ashes of a fleeting dream
How the crowd had fled your poison losing streak
You stood facing towards the door and gazed
Upon a maze of slot machines
Oh, the ringing bells and lights were heavenly

Hang your head and make the long drive home
Feeling thinly stretched and weak
It was seven years she´d spent alone
On this merry christmas eve

Place your bet on a memory, a silver falling star
Roll the dice on a killing field
Face a set of starving eyes
Place a bet on a memory, a silver falling star
Certain death in a giant´s mouth
A smiling beast with open arms

A grey and chilly air came down
And you were talking in your sleep
Shouting numbers to the dark and waiting deep

Reaching out her fingers touched the flesh
Of a former lover´s face

Place your bet on a memory, a silver falling star
Roll the dice on a killing field
Face a set of starving eyes
Place a bet on a memory, a silver falling star
Certain death in a giant´s mouth
A smiling beast with open arms

Place your bet on a memory, a silver falling star
Roll the dice on a killing field
Face a set of starving eyes
Place a bet on a memory, a silver falling star
Certain death in a giant´s mouth
A smiling beast with open arms


10. WHERE HAS IT GONE

A photograph of your silhouette
Black shadow framed in perfec light
A final fragment of memory
The parting gift I claimed as mine
When trumpets called the cavalry
You started to draw battle lines
Who knew why

Where has the fever gone
You were once soft and warm
Skin should not be like stone
Tell me where I went wrong

It´s always something I never knew
A question I had carried long
The radio transmitted frequency
To tell the world of what went wrong
I didn´t know, I stood in the room
And tried to be strong under fire
I felt like a bird on a wire

I must confess I do not know what happenned
I must confess I do not know
Where we went wrong

Where has the fever gone
You were once soft and warm
Skin should not be like stone
Tell me where I went wrong

Where has the fever gone
You were once soft and warm
Skin should not be like stone


11. BRIDGES

Think of the price when building a bridge
Or the tower now crumbling
Electrical lights shine from the ceiling
Into shimmering wedding rings
Remember when we would look ahead
And marvel at all we could see
Oh, how the awe and wonder we felt
Had hidden what it would all mean

Will the tight of the rising sea
Cool the fires of the desert heat
We have less now then when we had nothing

Men lost their lives building the bridges
The tower and dams that bring
Electrical lives and modern convenience
Even gold for those wedding rings
Oh, how we used to look ahead
And marvel at all we would see
How did the awe and wonder of it
Hide a truth that was plain to be seen

Will the tight of the risin sea
Cool the fires of the desert heat
We have less than we had, after all has been said
Now we have less than nothing


12. GOOD NIGHT AND GOODBYE

Seven days and all that remains
Are posters and tapes - you packed them away
In a place with locked iron gates
You pushed me away, you pushed me away

Good night, goodbye
When the morning comes you´ll speak to me of paradise
Speed through the night, don´t cry
When the morning comes I´ll see you off to paradise

You would take my life in your hands
Place each grain of sand under a lens
Smother me with new arguments
You pushed me away with every demand

Good night, goodbye
When the morning comes you´ll speak to me of paradise
Speed through the night, don´t cry
When the morning comes I´ll see you off to paradise

I know you wanted all of the best for me
All of the things you never had
It took me so long and now you´re gone
Oh, mother, now I´ve come to understand