1. BACK AND FORTH

Silent lie
Tap me on the shoulder when I
Happen to meet your eye
Pay me your attention and you’ll see
Where to put the line
Trust me, I won’t paint it any
Darker than white
So are you gonna try and spend the night?

Take one down
This bottle is not the only
Thing to pass around
Tell me something that only
Has a certain sound
I will lean in and agree
And you may well think you found
Your next little “pick it up, put it down”

Pick it up, put it down
Fall to the ground
Begging and pleading for something that
Has a certain sound
Gotta find out the password to shut it down

Wanna take it back but I kinda meant it when I said
Wanna take it back but I kinda meant it when I said
I think I can take it if you think that we’re gonna make
I think I can take it if you think that we’re gonna make
Wanna take it back but I kinda meant it when I said
Wanna take it back but I kinda meant it when I said

I wanna see his claws
Can I stay til dawn and wait until
All the lights come on?
Little one, you have no idea
Where the line is drawn
If you awaken the beast
You’ll unleash a different one
Better off with the evil you know and love

Back it up, don’t back down
Stand your ground
Slamming the door takes it’s toll on the
Framework that surrounds

Volcanic avalanche

Haven’t had enough
Wanna stick them up
Back and forth and back and forth again
Until you tell me when

Leave it in the rain
Shouting out the stain
Back and forth and back and forth again
Until you tell me when

No serenity
Take it out on me
Back and forth and back and forth again
Until you tell me when...

...will it end
Take another, spend another
Gonna share it with a friend
Take one down
Pass it over here before
Word gets around
Gotta find out the password to shut it down

When will it end
Take another, spend another
Gonna share it with a friend
Take one down
Pass it over here before
Word gets around
Gotta find out the password to shut your mouth

Say a little more
Say it loud so there’s no chance
Anybody could ignore
If it’s all you’re selling I might just
Find a different store
Begging forgiveness, removing your
Daggers from my core

Volcanic avalanche


2. OPEN YOUR EYES

I know how crazy it is
Thinking it’s love when it’s the opposite
Confusing defenses for abandonment
Purple skin,
You can’t convince that you’re fine
That you’re fine
I know the story as well as you
Flame turned to ash, and then nothing grew
Spreading your seed is a futile activity
Nothing is worth all this

What if I staged an invasion and came galloping in
Turned off the cartoons and I demanded a signature that you would be rid of
This life threatening ass
Much as it hurts like a band-aid, it would sting for a sec
But out in the open you would be double check
You’re light as a feather
Not so frightening

Now you can go where you wanted to
Now you can take what you wanted to
Out of this life before it passes you
And it’s going to, so open your eyes

I know how strong I come on
But stay on this path and soon you will be gone
I’ve already tried to sit idly by and then one day, I wrote this song

Now you can go where you wanted to
Now you can take what you wanted to
Out of this life before it passes you
And it’s going to, so open your eyes

Yours to open and mine to listen
A far cry from how you could be living
It sounds so simple, but surely changes
The will to open your eyes

Now you can go where you wanted to
Now you can take what you wanted to
Out of this life before it passes you
And it’s going to, so open your eyes


3. THE ACTUAL COLOR

Looking through the rose glass
Bracing for the backlash
One day you’ll wake up and never go back
The actual color is quite a bit duller
You’ve been ignoring, just like your mother

Never knowing when to just call it a day
Always say that it’s too late

Cannot disassemble while it still resembles
Something so good for making you tremble
Some lightning and thunder hide under the covers
But when you wake up, you’re only lovers

Never knowing when to just call it a day
Always say that it’s too late
Never showing any signs of any chance
Tuck away til it’s just way too late

You’re getting ahead of what you’re capable of
All that has been done cannot be undone
You’re washing your hands of what you are not made of
Though it’ll be rough, it’s not enough

Never showing any signs of any chance
Tuck away til it’s just way too late

You’re getting ahead of what you’re capable of
All that has been done cannot be undone
You’re washing your hands of what you are not made of
Though it’ll be rough, it’s not enough


4. THE PERFECT YOUNG MAN

He’s just the perfect young man,
He’s so well-to-do
From a good family too
You’ll see
A perfect young man
Never lost for words
And I’m looking forward towards
The day when he makes a bride out of me
I just don’t know what he can see

The perfect young man
Always so at ease
And everyone agrees
He’s the perfect young man
He’s an entrepreneur
What might the future hold in store,
For a man such as he, and his bride to be?
I just don’t know what he can see

I came here all alone, to a city so exciting
A city vast and frightening, not yet home
Imagine my surprise, when he chose me out of millions
And told me he would be my everything

The perfect young man
A doctor no less
And having such success
This perfect young man
With the cast of a glance
Fills me with such romance
He says that he is so happy with me,
I still don’t know what he can see

She came here alone and nobody knows she’s here
She’s so young, innocent, perfect every way
If I keep to plans no one will think twice
No one will bat an eye on the day she’s gone
Ready the vault and make sure I’m prepared
For the time when I can resist no more
I’ve even found ways to make it worth my while
Nobody knows that I’m such a hideous young man

I think the time has arrived to resume my trade
Controlling circumstances that I made
I’ve grown tired of keeping things as they are
She still doesn’t know that I’m such a hideous young man

He gave me this ring
The biggest I have seen
This perfect young man
Now he’s mine forever
But somehow I’m not sure
There seem to be
Things he won’t share with me
I just don’t know what they can be

There seems to be another side to him
Rumors swirling ‘round that he’s not what he seems
I know it may seem silly of me
When I should be as happy as can be
But when I get this feeling then it’s clear that I just don’t know him at all

It seems there’s always something on his mind
Something swirling ‘round that simply shouldn’t be
And then there was that girl who disappeared
Her parents have been asking for a year
But then at last I catch myself I know he wouldn’t do these things at all
At all

He asks if I will go with him downstairs
He says that he could use some help down there
He leads me to the vault and then he’s gone and I can see nothing at all
At all

I pound and kick and scream with all my might
Trapped in this chamber, dark as any night
And after many hours I accept he isn’t coming back at all

It’s getting very hard to breathe in here
Nothing left to do but let things fade to black


5. WHO CARES?

Who knows who gives us all the things we love?
I'm through with all these thoughts hanging above my head
I'm sick and tired of leaving things alone
Start terrifying all the folks you know

Not you

Who cares who tells us all the things we know?
It's far too complicated to control
I'm sick and tired of always being led
Negation is a bullet to the head

Not you

Pull the pin and let the people into your life
Making things look bright
If I could I'd like just one more minute of your time to
Brighten up your life

You think that you can tell, think that you can tell
Well, you can go to hell, you can go to hell
I'm doing pretty well, doing pretty well
I think that you can tell, think that you can tell

You think that you can tell, think that you can tell
Well, you can go to hell, you can go to hell
I'm doing pretty well, doing pretty well
I think that you can tell

Start by saying it, take the bait and it won't
Take you very long
To follow through with an act or two until things
Land where they belong

You think that you can tell, think that you can tell
Well, you can go to hell, you can go to hell
I'm doing pretty well, doing pretty well
I think that you can tell, think that you can tell

You think that you can tell, think that you can tell
Well, you can go to hell, you can go to hell
I'm doing pretty well, doing pretty well

Who knows who gives us all the things we love?
I'm through with all these thoughts hanging above my head
I'm sick and tired of leaving things alone
Start terrifying all the folks you know

Not you


6. READ YOUR MIND

Tattooed in only black and white
Across your face and down the side
This needle ink gives you away
Since you have got nothing to say
Your eyes fall, avoiding mine
Tearing your motives open wide
I’m picking you out of the crowd
Your thoughts are incredibly loud

You don’t realize that I can read you mind

Throwing open all the doors
This mental spy requires more
Than what you can put into words
Thoughts that you thought that no one heard
‘cause I can see right through your skin
Secrets that you are hiding in
Let all your darkness start to show
Nobody else has gotta know

You are realizing I
Can read your mind
Can read your mind
Clear as day, you’ll find that I
Can read your mind
Can read your mind

You must realize that I
Can read your mind
Can read your mind
Clear as day, you’ll find that I
Can read your mind
Can read your mind

Don’t mean to startle you, my dear
It’s just that it suddenly came clear
I gotta pull you out of here
Before you disappear

You’ve got a lot of things to say
Too bad you always get in your way
I hear the best it
Show them the rest of it
Don’t make me beg you for
What you know
You’re ready for

I hear a lot of useless noise
Trying to be one of the boys
But you’re the best of it
Making me restless
And I will not stop until you feel it

I hear the best of it
Show them the rest of it
Don’t make me beg for it

When I have had my psychic way
With all the things you wanna say
I’ll leave as if I never came
You should feel free to do the same

You must realize that I
Can read your mind
Can read your mind
Clear as day, you’ll find that I
Can read your mind
Can read your mind


7. THE THIEF

Wide awake, no time for sleep
She cries out for me, I answer
Empty streets, no one around
I cry out for her, she’s silent

In my quiet moments, thoughts run wild
Dancing shadows taunt my fragile mind
Live my lonely, loveless, losing life
Wanting just to once more hold the child
Fate had other plans

Through the door, one lazy guard
Asleep on the job from now on
Find my way, she’s kept in the dark
Her eyes begging me to save her

Know this path so clearly, light or dark
To my child trapped inside a work of art

She had her mother’s features
Life had so much to teach her
Fate had other plans
The doctors called it fatal
And I believed it until
She came back to me
Begging to be free
They nailed her to a wall
Not dead at all

I could not let her stay trapped
Promised her I’d get her back
Promised her that she’d be mine once more
Once more

I could not let her stay trapped
Promised her I’d get her back
Promised her that she’d be mine

I burst into the room
She’s smiling through the gloom
She’ll be back with me soon
Why won’t you look at me
I’m here to set you free
You won’t get off the wall
There’s voices in the hall

They run in with guns drawn
Don’t care where they came from
They’ll never take me child
I’d rather that they fired
Why won’t you look at me
I’m here to set you free
You won’t get off the wall
There’s voices in the hall

Tune them out, they’re nothing, I won’t stop
Lights flash, big noise, they scream, I won’t stop

Fate had other plans, now I make the demands
Together again, how it should have been

Things start moving slow
Senses start to go
My life spills from my chest
Not ready to rest

So dark, so much pain
I let go and abandon this world

Not the end, finally free
Through death, I found peace
No sadness
Now we’re both gone
I know this life’s just
One of a thousand with you