Surfacing
Building A Mystery
you come out at night / that's when the energy comes / and the dark
side's light / and the vampires roam / you strut your rasta wear / and
your suicide poem / and a cross from a faith / that died before Jesus came
/ you're building a mystery / you live in a church / where you sleep with
voodoo dolls / and you won't give up the search / for the ghosts in the
halls / you wear sandals in the snow / and a smile that won't wash away
/ can you look out the window / without your shadow getting in the way
/ oh you're so beautiful / with an edge and a charm / but so careful /
when I'm in your arms /
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'cause you're working / building a mystery / holding on and holding
it in / yeah you're working / building a mystery / and choosing so carefully
you woke up screaming aloud / a prayer from your secret god / you feed
off our fears / and hold back your tears / give us a tantrum / and a know
it all grin / just when we need one / when the evening's thin / oh you're
a beautiful / a beautiful fucked up man / you're setting up your / razor
wire shrine /
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I Love You
I have a smile / stretched from ear to ear / to see you walking down the
road / we meet at the lights / I stare for a while / the world around disappears
/ just you and me / on this island of hope / a breath between us could
be miles / let me surround you / my sea to your shore / let me be the calm
you seek / oh and every time I'm close to you / there's too much I can't
say / and you just walk away / and I forgot / to tell you / I love you
/ and the night's / too long / and cold here / without you / I grieve in
my condition / for I cannot find the strength to say I need you so / oh
and every time I'm close to you / there's too much I can't say / and you
just walk away / and I forgot / to tell you / I love you / and the night's
/ too long / and cold here / without you
Sweet Surrender
Doesn't mean much / doesn't mean anything at all / the life I've left
behind me / is a cold room / I've crossed the last line / from where I
can return / where every step I took in faith betrayed me / and led me
from my home / and sweet / sweet surrender / is all that I have to give
/ you take me in / no questions asked / you strip away the ugliness / that
surrounds me / are you an angel / am I already that gone / I only hope
/ that I won't disappoint you / when I'm down here / on my knees / and
sweet / sweet / sweet / surrender / is all that I have to give / sweet
/ sweet / sweet surrender / is all that I have to give / and I don't understand
/ by the touch of your hand / I would be the one to fall / I miss the little
things / oh I miss everything / it doesn't mean much / it doesn't mean
anything at all / the life I left behind me / is a cold room / sweet /
sweet surrender / is all that I have to give
Adia
Adia I do believe I failed you / Adia I know I let you down
don't you know I tried so hard / to love you in my way / it's easy
let it go... / Adia I'm empty since you left me / trying to find a way
to carry on / I search myself and everyone / to see where we went wrong
/ 'cause there's no one left to finger / there's no one here to blame /
there's no one left to talk to honey / and there ain't no one to buy our
innocence / 'cause we are born innocent / believe me Adia, we are still innocent / it's easy, we all falter /
does it matter? / Adia I thought we could make it / but I know I can't
change the way you feel / I leave you with your misery / a friend who won't
betray / I pull you from your tower / I take away your pain / and show
you all the beauty you possess / if you'd only let yourself believe that
/ we are born innocent / believe me Adia, we are still innocent / it's
easy, we all falter, does it matter? / believe me Adia, we are still innocent
/ 'cause we are born innocent / Adia we are still innocent / it's easy,
we all falter ... but does it matter?
Do
What You Have To Do
What ravages of spirit / conjured this temptuous rage / created you a monster
/ broken by the rules of love / and fate has lead you through it / you
do what you have to do / and fate has led you through it / you do what
you have to do ... / and I have the sense to recognize that / I don't know
how to let you go / every moment marked / with apparitions of your soul
/ I'm ever swiftly moving / trying to escape this desire / the yearning
to be near you / I do what I have to do / the yearning to be near you /
I do what I have to do / but I have the sense to recognize / that I don't
know how to let you go / I don't know how to let you go / a glowing ember
/ burning hot / burning slow / deep within I'm shaken by the violence /
of existing for only you / I know I can't be with you / I do what I have
to do / I know I can't be with you / I do what I have to do / and I have
sense to recognize but / I don't know how to let you go / I don't know
how to let you go / I don't know how to let you go
Witness
Make me a witness / take me out / out of darkness / out of doubt / I won't
weigh you down / with good intention / won't make fire out of clay / or
other inventions / will we burn in heaven / like we do down here / will
the change come / while we're waiting / everyone is waiting / and when
we're done / soul searching / as we carried the weight / and died for the
cause / is misery / made beautiful / right before our eyes / will mercy
be revealed / or blind us where we stand / will we burn in heaven / like
we do down here / will the change come while we're waiting / everyone is
waiting / will we burn in heaven / like we do down here / will the change
come while we're waiting / everyone is waiting
Angel
Spend all your time waiting / for that second chance / for a break that
would make it okay / there's always one reason / to feel not good enough
/ and it's hard at the end of the day / I need some distraction / oh beautiful
release / memory seeps from my veins / let me be empty / and weightless
and maybe / I'll find some peace tonight / in the arms of an angel / fly
away from here / from this dark cold hotel room / and the endlessness that
you fear / you are pulled from the wreckage / of your silent reverie /
you're in the arms of the angel / may you find some comfort there / so
tired of the straight line / and everywhere you turn / there's vultures
and thieves at your back / and the storm keeps on twisting / you keep on
building the lie / that you make up for all that you lack / it don't make
no difference / escaping one last time / it's easier to believe in this
sweet madness oh / this glorious sadness that brings me to my knees / in
the arms of an angel / fly away from here / from this dark cold hotel room
/ and the endlessness that you fear / you are pulled from the wreckage
/ of your silent reverie / you're in the arms of the angel / may you find
some comfort there / you're in the arms of the angel / may you find some
comfort here
Black &
White
unravel me / a distant cord / on the outside is forgotten / a constant
need / to get along / and the animal awakens / and all I feel is black
and white / the road is long / the memory slides / to the whole of my undoing
/ put aside / I put away / I push it back to get through each day / and
all I feel is black and white / and I'm wound up small and tight / and
I don't know who I am / everybody loves you when you're easy / everybody
hates when you're a bore / everyone is waiting for your entrance so / don't
disappoint them / unravel me / untie this chord / the very centre of our
union / is caving in / I can't endure / I am the archive of our failure
/ and all I feel is black and white / and I'm wound up small and tight
/ and I don't know who I am / everybody loves you when you're easy / everybody
hates when you're a bore / everyone is waiting for your entrance so / don't
disappoint them / everybody loves you when you're easy so / don't disappoint
them / don't disappoint them ...
Full of Grace
the winter here's cold, and bitter / it's chilled us to the bone / we haven't
seen the sun for weeks / to long too far from home / I feel just like I'm
sinking / and I claw for solid ground / I'm pulled down by the undertow
/ I never thought I could feel so low / oh darkness I feel like letting
go / if all of the strength and all of the courage / come and lift me from
this place / I know I could love you much better than this / full of grace
/ full of grace / my love / so it's better this way, I said / having seen
this place before / where everything we said and did / hurts us all the more / its just
that we stayed, too long / in the same old sickly skin / I'm pulled down
by the undertow / I never thought I could feel so low / oh darkness I feel
like letting go / if all of the strength / and all of the courage / come
and lift me from this place / I know I could love you much better than
this / full of grace / full of grace / my love
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