1. FUTURE HOPES

Let us turn the lights down
It grows darker
Evening shelter us
And you are near

Let us mute the music
I hear you breathing
And the pulse of distant dynamos

When every bond is torn apart
Everything scatters
An endless drift like passing ships
No port in sight

I have no faith in future hopes
Nor salvation
No happy ending in my sight
Turn off the light

If that day, if tomorrow never comes
Let me have this last dance
And when it's over
We'll take a final bow

This ship is set for going under
Going under, going blind
No time for you and I to wonder
Who we are

This city soon is gonna crumble
Glass to sand and steel to dust
As once it rose out of the black soil
Now it falls

This ship is set for going under
Going under, going blind
No time for you and I to wonder
Who we are


2. SILVER AND GOLD

Where are you going,
My blue eyed son?
Out on the streets for
To find some love
It's season's end now
And I won't be alone
When summer's warmth is gone

Where will you search then,
Where will you go?
Out to the sea where the eagles soar
They say that the girls there are
Fairer than gold
And breezes are warm I'm told

Oh, go before the hilltops are
Covered in snow
And shadows grow long and cold
I'll travel by car if it takes me that far
I hope it will
The beaches of silver
The gold of the sun
The waves on the deep blue sea
Oh, soon I will be there
Oh, soon I will see
My true love's eyes

And if the beaches are long washed away
And if the sea is dead and cold
What will you do if the sun's disappeared
Like all the wise men feared?

Oh, go before the hilltops are
Covered in snow
And shadows grow long and cold
Keep hoping my car will go further than far
I know it will
No beaches of silver
No gold of the sun
No waves on the deep blue sea
But I may still see her
Oh, please let me see
My true love's eyes


3. IN DIM DAYS

In dim days
When light is occluded
Through dark poison veils
We move

Endless nights
Ordeals of danger
Evading the eyes
By stealth

Slingblade streets
And dens of seduction
In violence and vice
Enshrined

Nothing matters in these dim days
Hope that shatters
Shipwrecked at sea
Sorrow gathers in these dark years
Still we cling to the mast, you and me

Nothing matters in these dead years
It gets harder to even care
But in dreams I'm still reminded
To remember the world as it was

I remember the sun
I remember the beautiful moon
And the smile on your face
As we ran through the late afternoon

Now the sun is a ghost
And all shattered, the terrible moon
There is fear in your eyes
As we run from the watchers' platoon

In dead lands
Our bravery falters
There's frost in our bones and souls

Hollow lands
Where everything withers
Dry winds grind all life to dust

Nothing matters in these dead years
It gets harder to even care
But in dreams I'm still reminded
To remember the world as it was


4. WHERE THERE WAS SEA THERE IS ABYSS

(Instrumental)


5. A SCARRED VIEW

Birds flutter through the darkness
High above the plain
Clouds come in below them
Promising no rain

And below their cover
On the dried out land
You and I are walking
Kissing through the sand

Far, far away from home, from home
Oh, going where, we do not know

Cities lie behind
Dead beyond repair
Ragdolls roam the highways
Driven by despair

We left for the forest
Then the frozen hills
Braved the burning deserts
And the drought that kills

To find a place where we belong
To find the sea before too long

Somewhere, a life for me, for you
A ragged coast, a scarred view

Yet another dust storm
A hundred hungry nights
Days drowned out by thunder
On our endless flight

But we made our promise
Never to give up
Till we saw the ocean
Glittering with light

We'll find a place where we belong
We'll find the sea before too long

Somewhere, a life for me, for you
A ragged coast, a scarred view


6. ANIMAL MAGNETISM

You get me loose
I want you, that's all I do
You leave me loose
I want you, that's all I do

Make love to me right now
Love me till I'm down

You make me groove
I want you, that's all I do
You let me groove
I want you, that's all I do

Make love to me right now
Love me till I'm down

Who are you?
Your magic is strange and new
Who are you?
I want you, that's all I do

Make love to me right now
Love me till I'm down


7. DAMNATION VALLEY

(Instrumental)