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SONGS All the words to this songs been taken from Dream Theater and Kevin Moore "Unofficial" Song Book

Songs From Majesty Demoes(1986)

Songs from Dream Theater/When Dream And Day Unite(1989)

Light Fuse And Get Away
Only A Matter Of Time

Songs From Dream Theater/Images And Words(1992)

Songs From Dream Theater/Awake(1994)

6.00 (With the quotes and where they been taken from)
Lie
Space Dye Vest (with the quotes and where they been taken from and what Moore says about the song)

Songs From Kevin Moore's Demoes/Music Meant To Be Heard(1994)

Song For Eric
Space Die Vest (demo)
Bkanket
Hollow
Roll Away The Stone
Shallow
Normal Words
Nora
Even The Waves
Sun Ornage,Small
Song For Eric (Tori's Verion>

Chroma Key (Demo Tape)

On The Page (from the new album)
Sounds Like Watercolor (Where is it from???)
Chroma Key (The same as above...where is it from??)

Chroma Key - Dead Air For Radios (1998)

Colorblind
Even The Waves
Undertow
America The Video
S.O.S.
Camera 4
on The Page
Mouse
Hell Mary

Other Stuff

Don't Look Past Me (A Dream Thater Demo)..

Songs from Majesty Demoes

3. "A Vision" (11:13)
- Kevin Moore

Heaven
A place within your eyes
Forever I wear
this second hand disguise
In time to find your world
this lifetime disappears
yes we understand
In space but not in time
my guardian is here
I can't understand
Imagine wanting nothing more
The angel you've been sending for
Now just don't turn away...
Dreamer
Reaching in and finding out
A Vision
I must capture it somehow
The first light
that cast a spell to later cry
Will always remain
This force of life
It's power in a look of fire
Was calling your name
Don't you feel it?
Yes, Believe it
It's time to set emotions straight
this space is wasting a dream
And it can't wait

[Chorus:]
Here I am
Cross this bridge and come my way
The answer to a prayer
A light for us to share
In all our Glory
Someday
We will hold our lives as one
And I will carry you
Until our Kingdom Come
Can't you hear me?

Disbelief
Is why the spirit falls below
One to One
is all the faith one needs to grow
This tension I feel
Is it really fair?
One of you will have to leave here
these words will break the line
that ties our worlds together
And I will never go
Remember having dreams to share?
We've been taught to hide our fear
But now you can't turn away...

[Chorus]

4. "Two Far" (05:15)
- Kevin Moore

Reaching
Too far away
Distance control
No contact today
Waiting
Empty again
Leaving me here
Is there no end?

Transcend!
Wait for me
Can't you see it's only time?
Here for you
Hearts combined can only climb

Distance
Emotions on trial
We close our eyes
transcending miles...

Wait for me
Can't you see it's only time?
Here for you
Hearts combined can only climb
Wait for me
Pour your heart inside of mine
Here for you
Love must stand this test of time.

5. "Vital Star" (05:34)
- Kevin Moore

Leaving the lives that have made us
A wish in our eyes as we go
tomorrow will speak for us
wanting today
Finding strength as we take hold

When time comes to reach for a star
How seemingly endless
and dark space can be
Look straight ahead through the blackness
So brilliant the light you will see!

We've already chosen our direction
Standing our ground
while the clouds take us high
Some not as fortunate
hearts still asleep
Can we stir their blood?
Can we teach them to fly?

Our elders have seen us grow strong
A wish of the past
has proven to be
Us, Vital,
We keep them alive
As we remain loyal
to our destiny

[Chorus:]
Vital Star
A sanctum deep within our souls
lights the way
Reach within
You're not alone
This lifeblood flows inside us all
Infant dreams need full attention
half a heart beats half as fast
half as fast

[Chorus]

Songs From Dream Theater/When Dream And Day Untie

5. "Light Fuse and Get Away" (07:23)
- Kevin Moore

Would you like to sit and talk to me
about the way things change so
suddenly
when your senses come and the feeling goes?
can you remember feeling much too close?

Stop your hands from shaking
Look at me
Are your senses racing endlessly
tracing
past impressions? So were mine
Have you ever been used
or will this be the first time?

It's come so clear to me
Light fuse and get away
No gain, no pain
It's a fatal game
and the true lose everything

I can see
what trust and loyalty have done for me
falling miles from the mark
with a thirst for revenge
and a dangerous heart

I've tried to wash from memory
feelings of betrayal and the incidents
that plague me since I lost my sense
of innocence

A history of changes now I'm loving
now I'm losing keeps me constantly
in fear of hearing "I can't see where
this is going"

You lie alone with the memory
feeling the ceiling and walls closing
in on
Your Conscience -- my ally
the guilt -- your affliction
from preying on praise as you fed
an attention addiction

Someone told me
Light fuse and get away
No gain, no pain
and when it's lust to dust you can
crawl from the wreckage

I can see
what trust and loyalty have done for me
lying bleeding in the dark
with a thirst for revenge
and a dangerous heart

It's come so clear to me
Light fuse and get away
No gain, no pain
It's a fatal game
and the true lose everything
I can see
what trust and loyalty have done for me
falling miles from the mark
with a thirst for revenge
and a dangerous heart

8. "Only A Matter Of Time" (06:39)
- Kevin Moore

A suited man smiled said:
'It's just a matter of time
You can have the world at your feet by tomorrow
just sign on this line.'
Hold tight... limelight!
Approaching the paramount
with the sun in our eyes
fearing family ties, legalies, compromise

In a dimly lit room with a stool as his stage
a dream-stricken prince of a pauper's descent
haunts the eavesdropping silence
that presses his window
as he sweats a performance
to an audience that ticks on the walls

To the practical observer
It's just a matter of time
'You can deviate from the commonplace
only to fall back in line.'
I understand mine's a risky plan
and your system can't miss
But is security after all a cause
or symptom of happiness?

Brave, yet afraid, his eyes on horizon
in a steady-set gaze
a mariner soon from an open cocoon
takes a moment to summon his courage
to stifle his grave apprehension and
trembling, approaches the surf
A father's benediction as his hopeful son departs
to brave the sea of rage and conquer at all costs

lingers in his memory
and visions still surviving in a logic-proof shell
that should have been held sacred, safe and hidden well
are compromised in usury
with every rising sun that yields no sight of land
the hesitation cultivates within the tired man
and rumors spread of mutiny
and though the time will come when dream and day unite
tonight the only consolation causing him to fight
is fearless faith in destiny

Even when plan fall to pieces
I can still find the courage
with promise I've found in my faith

Likely or not, it's a dream that we keep
and at odds with our senses we'll climb
But if faith is the answer, we've already reached it
And if spirit's a sign
then it's only a matter of time
only a matter of time

Songs From Dream Theater/Images and Words

1. "Pull Me Under" (08:11)
- Kevin Moore

Lost in the sky
Clouds roll by and I roll with them
Arrows fly
Seas increase and then fall again

This world is spinning around me
This world is spinning without me
Every day sends future to past
Every breath leaves one less to my last

Watch the sparrow falling
Gives new meaning to it all
If not today nor yet tomorrow then some other day

I'll take seven lives for one
And then my only father's son
As sure as I ever did love him
I am not afraid

This world is spinning around me
The whole world keeps spinning around me
All life is future to past
Every breath leaves me one less to my last

Pull me under Pull me under
Pull me under I'm not afraid
All that I feel is honor and spite
All I can do is to set it right

Dust fills my eyes
Clouds roll by and I roll with them
Centuries cry
Orders fly and I fall again

This world is spinning inside me
The whole world is spinning inside of me
Every day sends future to past
Every step brings me closer to my last

Pull me under Pull me under
Pull me under I'm not afraid
Living my life too much in the sun
Only until your will is done

'Oh that this too
too solid flesh would melt.' [Quote from Shakespeare's Hamlet.]

4. "Surrounded" (05:28)
- Kevin Moore

Morning comes too early and nighttime falls too late
And sometimes all I want to do is wait
The shadow I've been hiding in has fled from me today

I know it's easier to walk away than look it in the eye
But I will raise a shelter to the sky
and here beneath this
star tonight I'll lie
She will slowly yield the light
As I awaken from the longest night

Dreams are shaking
Set sirens waking up tired eyes
With the light the memories all rush into his head

By a candle stands a mirror
Of his heart and soul she dances
She was dancing through the night above his bed

And walking to the window
he throws the shutters out
against the wall
And from an ivory tower hears her call
'Let light surround you'

It's been a long, long time
He's had awhile to think it over
In the end he only sees the change
Light to dark
Dark to light
Light to dark
Dark to light

Heaven must be more than this
When angels waken with a kiss
Sacred hearts won't take the pain
But mine will never be the same

He stands before the window
His shadow slowly fading from the wall
And from an ivory tower hears her call
'Let the light surround you'

Once lost but I was found
When I heard the stained glass shatter all around me
I sent the spirits tumbling down the hill
But I will hold this one on high above me still
She whispers words to clear my mind
I once could see but now at last I'm blind

I know it's easier to walk away than look it in the eye
But I had given all than I could take
And now I've only habits left to break
Tonight I'll still be lying here
Surrounded in all the light

7. "Wait For Sleep" (02:31)
- Kevin Moore

Standing by the window
Eyes upon the moon
Hoping that the memory will leave her spirit soon
She shuts the doors and lights
And lays her body on the bed
Where images and words are running deep
She has too much pride to pull the sheets above her head
So quietly she lays and waits for sleep

She stares at the ceiling
And tries not to think
And pictures the chain
She's been trying to link again
But the feeling is gone

And water can't cover her memory
And ashes can't answer her pain
God give me the power to take breath from a breeze
And call life from a cold metal frame

In with the ashes
Or up with the smoke from the fire
With wings up in heaven
Or here, lying in bed
Palm of her hand to my head
Now and forever curled in my heart
And the heart of the world

Songs from Dream Theater/Awake

1. "6:00" (05:31)
- Kevin Moore

"Six o'clock on a Christmas morning..." [4 times]
"And for what?"
"Well, isn't it for the honor of God, [Samples from the film "The Dead",]
Aunt Kate?" [an adaptation of James Joyce's ]
"I know all about the honor of God, [short story from his book ]
Mary Jane." ["Dubliners". ]

Six o'clock the siren kicks him from a dream
Tries to shake it off but it just won't stop
Can't find the strength but he's got promises to keep
And wood to chop before he sleeps

I may never get over
but never's better than now
I've got bases to cover

He's in the parking lot and he's just sitting in his car
It's nine o'clock but he can't get out
He lights a cigarette
and turns the music down
but just can't seem to shake that sound

Once I thought I'd get over
but it's too late for me now
I've got bases to cover

Melody walks through the door
and memory flies out the window
and nobody knows what they want
'til they finally let it all go

The pain inside
coming outside

So many ways to drown a man
So many ways to drag him down
Some are fast and some take years and years
Can't hear what he's saying when he's talking in his sleep
He finally found the sound but he's in too deep

I could never get over
Is it too late for me now?
Feel like blowing my cover

Melody walks through the door
and memory flies out the window
and nobody knows what they want
'til they finally let it all go

But don't cut your losses too soon
'cause you'll only be cutting your throat
And answer a call while you still hear at all
'cause nobody will if you won't

"Six o'clock on a Christmas morning..." [4 times]
"I know all about the honor of God,
Mary..." [3 times]
"I know all about the honor of God, [Samples from the film "The Dead",]
Mary Jane." [an adaptation of James Joyce's ]
[short story from his book ]
["Dubliners". ]

8. "Lie" (06:34)
- Kevin Moore

Daybreak
at the bottom of lake
it's a hundred degrees I can't breathe
And I won't get out
'til I figure it out
Though I'm weak like I can't believe
So you tell me 'trust me' l can trust you
Just let me show you
But I gotta work it out in a shadow of doubt
'cause I don't know if I know you

Doing fine but don't waste my time
Tell me what it is you want to say
You sin, you win, just let me in - hurry
I've been out in the rain all day
So you tell me 'trust me' I can trust you
as far as I can throw you
And I'm trying to get out of a shadow of doubt
'cause I don't know if I know you

[Chorus:]
Don't tell me you wanted me
Don't tell me you thought of me
I won't, I swear I won't
(Did)
I'll try, I swear I'll try
(Lie)

Mother Mary quite contrary
Kiss the boys and make them wary
Things are getting just a little bit scary
It's a wonder I can still breathe

Never been much of a doubting Thomas
but nothing breaks like a broken promise
You tell me 'bout your two more coming
but once is just enough for me

[Chorus]

I had gotten used to being a soul destroyed
She comes in apparently to fill the void
All dogs need a leash and
at least I'll forget it
And she would never hurt me though
she's never said it
But I'm not gonna ask her today
I don't wanna scare her away
Your town, I'm all alone
and I just can't stare at the phone
I wanna talk about lifelong mistakes
and you can tell your stepfather I said so

[Chorus]

11. "Space-Dye Vest" (07:29)
- Kevin Moore

Falling through pages of Martens on angels
Feeling my heart pull west
I saw the future dressed as a stranger
love in a space-dye vest

Love is an act of blood and I'm bleeding
a pool in the shape of a heart
Beauty projection in the reflection
Always the worst way to start

"But he's the sort who can't know [Sample is Julian Sands from the ]
anyone intimately, least of all a [film "A Room With A View". ]
woman. He doesn't know what a woman
is. He wants you for a possession,
something to look at like a painting or an ivory box.
Something to own and to display. He doesn't want you to be real,
or to think or to live. He doesn't love you, but I love you.
I want you to have your own thoughts and ideas and feelings, even when
I hold you in my arms. It's our last chance... It's our last chance..."

Now that you're gone I'm trying to take it
Learning to swallow the rage
Found a new girl I think we can make it
as long as she stays on the page

This is not how I want it to end
And I'll never be open again

"...I was gonna move out...ummm...get, [Sample from "The Trouble With ]
get a job, get my own place, ummm, [Evan", from the Canadian series ]
but... I go into the mall where I ["The Fifth Estate". ]
want to work and they tell me, I'm,
I was too young..."

"Some people, gave advice before, [Sample is Jim Hill from a news ]
about facing the facts, about [commentary about the OJ Simpson ]
facing reality. And this is, this [freeway chase. ]
without a doubt, is his biggest
challenge ever. He's going to have to face it.
You're gonna have to try, he's gonna to have to try and,
uh, and, and, and get some help here. I mean no one can
say they know how he feels."

"That, so they say that, in ya know [Sample from the Conan O'Brien ]
like, Houston or something, you'd [show. ]
say it's a hundred and eighty degrees,
but it's a dry heat.
In Houston they say that?
Oh, maybe not. I'm all mixed up.
Dry until they hit the swimming pool."

"...I get up with the sun... Listen. [Sample from "The Trouble With ]
You have your own room to sleep in, [Evan", from the Canadian series ]
I don't care what you do. I don't ["The Fifth Estate". ]
care when. That door gets locked,
that door gets locked at night by nine o'clock.
If you're not in this house by nine o'clock, then you'd better find some
place to sleep. Because you're not going to be a bum in this house.
Supper is ready..."

There's no one to take my blame
if they wanted to
There's nothing to keep me sane
and it's all the same to you
There's nowhere to set my aim
so I'm everywhere
Never come near me again
do you really think I need you

I'll never be open again, I could never be open again.
I'll never be open again, I could never be open again.

And I'll smile and I'll learn to pretend
And I'll never be open again
And I'll have no more dreams to defend
And I'll never be open again

What is "Space-Dye Vest" about? How did Kevin come up with this stuff?

In Kevin Moore's words from a Japanese Interview:

"It was inspired by... I was looking through a clothing catalog & saw a picture of a girl
modeling this piece of clothing called a space-dye vest. And, so, I fell in love with her
[laughs] for some strange reason & so the minute I did that, the minute I was just like
obsessed w/this person, I was like, 'why am I doing that?' & I noticed that I was doing it a
lot lately. And I think the prime reason that I was doing that, and this is what I figured out
at the time, was that I had just come out of a relationship where I'd gotten dumped,
basically, and so I think the situation was that I wasn't finished giving all that I was ready
to give, so I was just, like, throwing it around, you know, just aiming it in different
directions. It was a total case of projection. And this song is just trying to sort it out &
just kind of admitting that I'm just kind of lost. So it's kind of a dark song.
It was very cathartic though."

Songs from Kevin Moore's Demos/Music Meant To Be Heard(1994)

1. "Song For Eric (For Tori)" (04:46) - (From "Kev's Stuff")
- Tori Amos (from the "Silent All These Years" Limited Edition
digi-pak UK CD Single)

I wait all day for my sailor and sometimes he comes

"...what it was was, uh, there were these, this girlfriend who I lived with
and I hitched to Franconia Notch from Cambridge..."

See you over hill and dale
Riding on the wind I see

"...and there were just adventures along the way..."

You know me, you know me like the nightingale
'Oh fair maiden I see you standing there'

"...there were just, like, visions I had of her, uh, dirty-blonde hair
everywhere..."

Will you hold me for just a fair time
The tune is playing in the fair night
I see you in my dreams
Fair boy your eyes haunt me

"...and there were just adventures along the way, and we didn't have any
money or anything..."

You know me

"...I don't know if we stayed in a motel or what, but we were just like,
madly in love with each other, and it was just, a wonderful experience..."

You know me, you know me like the nightingale
'Oh fair maiden I see you standing there'

"...you know, just sex and... and, uh, hitchhiking, and no money, and I was
young, I was only 21 or 22..."

Will you hold me for just a fair time
The tune is playing in the fair night

"...but there were just like visions I had of her...uh..."

I see you in my dreams
Fair boy your eyes haunt me

"...it's hard to believe that I've lived another lifetime since then..."

[Female vocal sample: Tori Amos, "Song For Eric". ]
[Male vocal sample: an anonymous friend of Kevin's reminiscing ]
[about a past love. ]

2. "Space-Dye Vest (Demo)" (07:02) - (From "Kev's Stuff")
- Kevin Moore

Falling through pages of Martens on angels feeling my heart pull West I saw
the future dressed as a stranger love in a space-dye vest. Love is an act of
blood, I'm bleeding, pool in the shape of a heart. Beauty projection in the
reflection always the worst way to start.

"...but he's the sort who can't know anyone intimately, least of all a woman.
He doesn't know what a woman is. He wants you for a possession, something to
look at like a painting or an ivory box. Something to own and to display. He
doesn't want you to be real, or to think, or to live. He doesn't love you.
But I love you. I want you to have your own thoughts, and ideas, and
feelings, even when I hold you in my arms. It's our last chance... It's our
last chance..."
[Male vocal sample: actor Julian Sands from the film "A Room With A View"]

Now we're apart I'm trying to take it learning to swallow the rage. Found a
new girl I think we can make it as long as she stays on a page. This is not
how I want it to end. And I'll never be open again.

"...when we come back, America's widely..."
"...attacks, and a maniac..."
"...all this pressure here..."
"...that we often have when we celebrate when, uh, when someone has been away
from us and is now coming back. But that doesn't mean that... [static] ...our
arms around them, and that everything is now fine..."
"...fast-paced wholesome gridiron action..."
[Random vocal samples: channel surfing]

"...look, uh, you're 21 and I'm 33...
Are you trying to say you don't want to see me again?
No... no, not at all, absolutely not... Yes.
Age doesn't matter..."
[Male and female vocal samples: an episode of the TV show "Full House"]

"[unintelligible]...a lot of, uh, women out there...[unintelligible]...
because they don't feel that they have rejected the church... the church has
rejected them... and [unintelligible]... people wander in and out of these...
[unintelligible]"
[Male vocal sample: unknown (sounds like a talk show about women & the ]
[Catholic church). ]

There's no one to take my blame if they wanted to there's nothing to keep me
sane and it's all the same to you. There's nowhere to set my aim so I'm
everywhere. Never come near me again. Do you really think I need you? I'll
never be open, I could never be open again. I'll never be open, I could never
be open again. And I smile and I learn to pretend, but I'll never be open
again. And I'll have no more dreams to defend. And I'll never be open again.

3. "Blanket (I Buried Me Wife And I Dance On Top Of Her)" (06:30)
- (From "Kev's Stuff")
- Kevin Moore

Memory save me I'm fuckin up. Constantly laid on the ground. Looking for
signs on the ceiling

"...I just have to keep breathing..."

(she wants me to know she wants me around). Think I was moving to something.
Thought I was sailing along. Had to be sailing for someplace (thought I was
right, but I must have been wrong). You do make a beautiful blinder, you
hide things I don't want to see. Your arms cover me like a blanket and
maybe it's all that I need.

"...I just have to keep breathing, I just have to keep breathing that's all
it is, that's all it is that's keeping us going, that's all it is, is just me
breathing, is just me breathing I inhale, and I exhale, and then, and then,
then, then, I keep it going for nothing but, but you know,
I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't mind doing it for
people, I just have to keep breathing, I just have to keep breathing..."
[Male vocal sample: performance artist Todd Alcott or Abbott (?).]

Memory save me I'm trippin up. Picking up bones from the ground. Throw me a
chain and I'll climb it up (thought I was up, but I guess I was down). You
look like a dream I was dreaming, a dream of a boy by the sea. You must have
eyes just like mirrors, 'cause I thought I was looking at me. Close your
eyes, think of the Best Thing To Say. iampathetically lost and maybe you
made me this way. Memory save me I'm fuckin up. The sun's just a spot on
the sea. I know I was reaching for something (thought it was you, but I
guess it was me). And the world is a wonderful target, she was a wonderful
world, but God is a girl who won't listen. She was an insolent girl. Close
your eyes and see what you're doing to me? She catches my eye with a cynical
smile and says, "I Cannot Solve All I See". I had a dream (dreams would fill
my head, but I let 'em all slide, american-style, for the blanket that lays
on my

bediwaitalldayformysailorandsometimeshecomeswereyousurprisedthathediedtryingto
lookforotherpeoplenohewashewasthetypeofpersonwhowoulddefinitelygolookingforthe
people)

"...I wait all day for my sailor and sometimes he comes..."

"...were you surprised that he died trying to look for other people?...
...no, he was the type of person, he was, he was... he was the type of person
who would definitely go looking for people..."
[Female vocal sample: Tori Amos' "Song For Eric", overlayed with... ]
[Male and female vocal samples: anonymous reporter/interviewee from ]
[a tv news broadcast. ]

I wanted to find An Innocent Mind, but only found myself waiting. I laid on
the floor, You walked through the door and now I feel myself fading. I
wanted to find An Innocent Mind, but only found myself waiting. I laid on
the floor, You walked through the door and now I feel myself fading. Now I
feel myself fading. I jumped on a meaningful wave that carried me right to
the shoreline. I laughed when my face hit the sand and swam out again for
the joyride. I told you the things that I want and you gave me just what I
needed. It's just like my father would want, but I couldn't smile when he
did. I boarded the windows and doors and took the clock down from the
ceiling. But I kept my head to the floor, 'cause I had a confident feeling.
Somebody called me today, I answered the door kind of hazy. He told me to
leave all my clothes, he told me to tell you you're crazy. I followed him
out to the street, he pointed and quickly departed. And left me to travel
for weeks, till I get to the place where I started. And I just want to be
where I started, I just want to get back where I started, and I just want to
be where I started, and I just want to get back where I started.

"...the other version of that's called, 'I buried me wife and I dance on top
of her.'
What a cruel thing to do, go dance on top of her, you know that was a, that
wasn't a nice thing to do.
Well, but she didn't know the difference anyway..."
[Male vocal samples: source unknown.]

4. "Hollow" (04:58) - (From "Found Drowned")
- Kevin Moore

For the last time give me ten cents or a dime and I'll kick the resurrection
off today. In the first place get that book out of my face, man, he never
tried to call me anyway. Now hanging out with prophets ain't no crime, but I
never search for nothing I can't find. Jesus had his own life, I got mine.
Just call me hollow. You can call me hollow. I was no place when I saw a
pretty face and she nearly saved my soul before she died. It's a damn shame
'cause I almost got her name, but I'm glad to say I made it home alive. Now
holding hands with Mary ain't no crime, but dressing up like Santa's not far
behind. Tell me about your body, fuck your mind. Just call me hollow. You
can call me hollow. (If you crash and you fall you can call on Me. I'm the
one you can trust, but you'll never be. It's a choice like this song and
it's all on you, if you're right then I'm wrong, what you gonna do?) I've
been thinking take up drinking throw a few bad years away, keep redialing and
wake up smiling maybe he'll be in today. Gimme that ol' time religion.
Yeah. Gimme that ol' time religion. Yeah. For the last time give me ten
cents or a dime and I'll kick the crucifixion off today. In the first place
get that shit out of my face, it'll only make me happy anyway. Acid always
gets me so deranged. Puts all but one station out of range and I never watch
a channel I can't change. Just call me hollow. You can call me hollow.
Gimme that ol' time religion. Gimme that ol' time religion.

5. "Roll Away The Stone" (03:48) - (From "Found Drowned")
- Kevin Moore

Wake up, darling, don't you hear the phone? No one's gonna make you go
alone. She don't know what's happening, she don't know what's happening.
Everything you dreamt about tonight is gonna help you get through this
alright. She don't know what's happening, she don't know what's happening.
The angels in your head went kind of cold on you last night. How are you
supposed to make it right? Roll away the stone. Life calling, night
falling, I'm already gone. Wake up, darling, and roll away the stone. Watch
me float out from the sea. Moon is you and you are me. This is all you need
to know. Something passes let it go. Life calling, night falling I'm
already gone. Wake up, darling, and roll away the stone. Life calling,
night falling, I'm already gone. Just wake up, darling, and roll away the
stone.

6. "Shallow" (03:10) - (From "Found Drowned")
- Kevin Moore

"...does it seem cold in here to you?"
"y'alright?"
"yeah..."
[Male vocal samples: Kevin and Rich Kern (?)]

Well I won't hold my breath, been in too long I guess. Only time will tell.
I can't stand here waiting. Give me a simple dream, once across a shallow
stream. All in the name of change. But I can't stand here waiting. Innocent
descent at last, represent my hollow past, underneath and falling fast. I
can't stand here waiting. It's all in our own souls. I'm way off mark I
know. Release, it leads to fall. 'Cause I can't stand here waiting. All my
dreams were lost and found. Set them up and knock 'em down. She's gone two
thousand years. I can't stand here waiting. Innocent descent at last (I
won't save my breath), represent my hollow past (I won't hold my breath),
underneath and falling fast (I won't hold my....). I can't stand here
waiting.

[Female vocal sample: Bjork - "Crying" from her _Debut_ album.]

7. "Normal Words (aka Hay Day. May Day. Help.)" (04:22)
- (From "Really Wet Songs")
- Kevin Moore

Come in take your shoes off lock the door I just can't ignore.
You anymore you look @ me so strange somethings gonna change.
Heaven is empty you'll find out it's a wonderful story staring.
Through a wall that caught my eye I was in the house i thought.
I'd just say HI! but the lamp seemed so distraught and I lost.
My train of thought everything watches you'll find out it's a.
Wonderful story come on won't you hear my story if you listen.
I will stay normal words are getting boring I am not sane when.
They come back I'll be gone and I'll bring my machine along I'll.
Be floating on a cloud whispering warnings to my friends and th.
Ey'll all know I was right when they see the state I'm in and.
I'll never go back again I could never go back there again, etc.

8. "Nora" (05:05) - (From "Really Wet Songs")
- Kevin Moore

DEAR NORA: could this be the one I followed? could this be the one I've
given faith? I know I know I know you care (I know I know I know you care).
All at once a star is frozen, all at once my memory fades away but. . . I
know I know I know you care (I know I know I know you care). But peace
falling into my life, why won't you follow? Words falling into my way, what
do I say? Gave you all a man could borrow and all the time you've hidden
this away. I know I know I know you care (I know I know I know you care).
Faith falling out of my life, faith, did you fuck him? Love moving out of
my way, why should I stay? Words from the mouth of my friend and I had to
believe him. When we talked about the things you used to say every second
day. Words take ahold of my memory and history changes. And if I could just
forget it all tonight, that would be alright. Years falling out of my life,
why don't you follow? Love falling out of the way, why should I stay? Words
falling into my life, what should I write? JIM P.S. I know I know I know
you care.

"...I confess, I confess... I confess and I apologize in advance too. I
apologize in advance for unforseen sins forthcoming. I apologize for
unforseen sins of the forces of the foreskin. I couldn't have forseen they
were forthcoming and, and since it was the fourth time and since him being
the only one on the scene for a sin, forsooth, so lowly, on second sight on
my part, Lord, just call me Forsythia! Forsythia, forlorn, forsaken.
Forgive me Lord, for I have fucked and not loved..."
[Female vocal sample: Jane Siberry/"It Ain't A Concert Concert" ]
[tour - date: 3/10/94, venue: The Birchmere/Alexandria, VA, ]
[source: analog bootleg tape. ]

9. "Even The Waves" (05:55) - (From "Really Wet Songs")
- Kevin Moore

Me & Judas lost at sea Under electric twilight fading
I look at him, he sees through me 40 days and we're still waiting

I'm not tired but I think I'll lay back anyway.
I'm not welcome but I think I'll stay.

Me & Jonas lost at sea Deep inside a dream we're trailing
Heard him whisper 'wait for me' Sun goes down and we're still
sailing

I'm not nervous, but I think I'll look back anyway.
I'm not helpless but I think I'll stay.
And even the waves can't carry me away.

"...Nirvana is a psychological state of mind. It's not a place like heaven
and it's not something that's not here, it IS here, in the middle of the
turmoil. It is the condition that comes when you are not compelled by
desire, or by fear, or by your social, uh... commitments... when you hold
your centers(?) and act out of there..."
[Male vocal sample: Joseph Campbell from the PBS video series ]
["The Power Of Myth". ]

Keep heading west that's the best
may be lost but I'm not crazy
Stay where you are not too far
keep it up, you're doing fine
well I thought I was fine

Me & Joseph lost at sea Under rain and slowly waking
He looks around and smiles at me 41 and we're still waiting

I'm not tired but I think I'll lay back anyway.
I'm not hopeless, but I think I'll stay.
And even the waves can't carry me away.

10. "Sun Orange, Small" (07:27) - (From "Really Wet Songs")
- Kevin Moore

"...few people..."
"...always a few people..."
"...these are the stars and here are the people, look..."
"...so I tried to hitchhike from this exit, there was nothing... that's, uhh,
what's the worst is, like, like standing time I ever had here in the States
with hitchhiking... I'm standing there, and standing there, and standing
there... and after awhile a, a guy stopped like... I had no money or nothing
I have nothing to eat and stuff like that... a guy stopped like with a Jeep
and picked me up and said... 'well, I have nothing to do, I drive you to
[unintelligible]'..."

Fly, blackbird, fly Frozen the sea I see you Old cover clouds
New snow There they go
Silent but wings Sun orange, small, I see you Nowhere is home
Go alone So alone

"...I was tired, I was... bored, I was... I didn't know where to go, where to
find a job. I felt... pretty helpless..."

Fly, angel, fly Older than me, I feel you Coalcovered clouds
White snow There you go
Heard myself call Far from them all, I feel you Left them behind
Or ahead And he said:

Something's gonna change I can feel it. Last night I had dreams that I was
you. I was tearing out the pages of my diary when a bird flew past my head.
So I put them back again, 'cause I knew
(Itsallrighttolikethewayifeel)

Cry, blackbird, cry Over the waves I hear you Coalcovered clouds
White snow There they go
Ice on your wings Songless he sings, I hear you Nowhere is home
All alone There's a phone

"...I tried to call home because of... I don't know... I wanted to call
home... if I ever call home it's... I, I made the re-call, but of course, I
didn't have the money to pay the telephone... and nobody picked up the
phone... that was depressing me more than, than everything before..."

Something's gonna change I can feel it. Last night I just stayed at home
alone. I was tearing out the pages from my diary, when a bird flew past my
head. So I put them back again, 'cause I know
(Itsallrighttofeelthewayifeel)

(Sometimestheanswerjustcomes)

"...and after about two months, I had the money together to rent a place...
with the guy together and gave me the first job... umm... it's a pretty,
little world for me, in a way..."
"...few people..."
"...always a few people..."
[Male vocal sample: a German friend of Kevin's talking about his ]
[first experiences after immigrating to the US. ]

11. "Song For Eric (Tori's Version)" (01:50)
- Tori Amos (from the "Silent All These Years" Limited Edition
digi-pak UK CD Single)

I wait all day for my sailor and sometimes he comes

See you over hill and dale
Riding on the wind I see
You know me, you know me like the nightingale
'Oh fair maiden I see you standing there'
Will you hold me for just a fair time
The tune is playing in the fair night
I see you in my dreams
Fair boy your eyes haunt me

Chroma Key (Demo Tape)

1. "On The Page" (04:19)
- Kevin Moore

(andhesortofusedmeasawayoutofitinsayingiminlovewithanastajahicantbewithyouanymoresarahimsos
orrybutjustrealizingthiseventhoughnothingsgonnacomeoutofitijustknowthatitwouldntbetruetoyou
andofcoursewewereonacidinahiltonatasciencefictionconvention)tell me something stupid
auction off my diary
life is getting esoteric
let me in your movie
ea. time i walk out the door
someone mixes metaphors
life is so much cleaner on the page
it's like the morning when i'm dreaming
and everything is so pristine
it's just a seven hour movie
and i'm in every scene

(idonteverwanttobewithmaxyouknowwhatever)let me in my TV
get this tape to tori
got to have a subplot
when i sell them my life story
maybe i should write it first
and do the living later
life is so much cleaner on the page
it's like the time i lost my body
and then i saw it on TV
somehow it shed a whole dimension
but it still looked like me
hey
that looks like me

ea. time i write the lines for it
someone improvises it
life is so much cleaner on the page
life is so much cleaner on the page

[Female vocal sample: ??? ]

2. "Sounds Like Watercolor" (04:02)
- Kevin Moore

laying in my bed i got this feeling
only silent pictures talk to me this way
in my head
by my head
sits the soundtrack to the movie
and the voices fade the moment i hit play

sounds like watercolor
anything to drown me
i will sleep until i sing myself awake
and i always liked it better
when the morning rises sooner
and i cant recall a single word i said

it's not like i can't stop
pull back the playback in my head
i could lie here
i could lie you know
maybe i can find a place where them old movies never go
i could try it [doesn't matter]
i could try it though [it doesn't matter]

sounds like watercolor
anything to drown me
i will hide until i find myself awake
and it sounds a little better
when it gets a little louder
by the morning if i make it i'm o.k.

(pack your bags it's time to panic, fifteen tears in automatic, cellar door leads to the attic,
what was jesus thinking?
get there faster if we drive, twelve short steps to the sunny side, got a backstage pass and a
bitchin ride, and everything comes easy. that was easy.
lasttimeyoufeltlikethisitwasinamovielasttimeyoufeltlikethiseverythingwasperfect)

sounds like watercolor
anything to drown me
i will sleep until i sing myself awake
and i always liked it better
when the morning rises sooner
and i cant remember anything
well it sounds like watercolor
it sounds like anything
it sounds like watercolor

[Male vocal sample: ??? ]

3. "Chroma Key" (05:18)
- Kevin Moore

So i'm dreaming in the mirror trying to stare my spirit clean, as
the world comes in from hollywood. Red, blue, and green.
Catch sight of myself in the color as a memory catches a wave. And
it splashes down in front of me all in chroma key.
wow
what a night
just like
3D vision

man
what a show
damn though
2D memory

There was sunlight in my eyesight when the words began to fade so i
shifted into satellite and i pulled the shade.
Got caught up in a radio current and my energy locked on the beam.
When i hit the ground i was two feet down, do you dream like i do?
wow
what a night
just like
3D vision

man
what a show
damn though
2D memory
(settlebackfireupthesimultinesthankyouallforwatchingandcatchthepicturesastheyflythroughtheair)

Remember when you told me that you'd never let me go? Now was that
three years from yesterday, or a video?
Kept scanning for clues in the colors in a room with a wonderful view,
till i found myself in front of me sitting next to you.

wow.
what a night
just like
3D vision

man
what a show
damn though
2D memory

wow.
what a night
just like
3D vision

man
what a show
damn though
2D memory
2D memory

[Male vocal sample: ??? ]

Chroma Key - Dead Air For Radios (1998)

Colorblind (04:52)
- Kevin Moore

on a beach twenty yards from the roadside
back again 6 AM far from sleep
must be 290 blue on the water
it's gray to me 3 CV is all I see

green can only hold you in the garden
too much red will go right to your head
but if it's all the same to you
give me back my blue
other colors fade anyway

i'm colorblind three way tragedy
pantone memory grayscale eyes
maybe i'm paranoid yeah that's my problem
you almost have to be when you look like me

stopped in the shade of a road sign
when the sun rose like a bomb
tried to read the simple writing
but the letters came out wrong
it's all white lines to me
but things are getting clearer
i can almost read the writing in the mirror

i'm colorblind three way tragedy
pantone memory grayscale eyes
maybe i'm paranoid yeah that's my problem
you almost have to be when you look like me

green can only hold you in the garden
too much red will go right to your head
but if it's all the same to you
give me back my blue
other colors fade anyway

i'm colorblind freeway tragedy
pantone memory x-ray eyes
where'd all the color go on my radio?
you almost have to be a satellite to see

Even The Waves (06:33)
- Kevin Moore

me & judas lost at sea
under electric twilight fading
i look at him he sees through me
40 days and we're still waiting

i'm not tired but i think i'll lay back anyway
i'm not welcome but i think i'll stay

me & jonas lost at sea
deep inside a dream we're trailing
heard him whisper wait for me
sun goes down and we're still sailing

i'm not nervous but i think i'll lay back anyway
i'm not helpless but i think i'll stay
and even the waves won't carry me away

"...Nirvana is a psychological state of mind. It's not a place like Heaven
and it's not something that's not here, it IS here, in the middle of the
turmoil. It is the condition that comes when you are not compelled by
desire, or by fear, or by your social, uh... commitments... when you hold
your centers and act out of there..."
[Male vocal sample: Joseph Campbell from the PBS video series ]
["The Power Of Myth". ]

keep heading west that's the best
may be lost but i'm not crazy
stay where you are not too far
keep it up you're doing fine
well i thought i was fine

me & joseph lost at sea
under rain and slowly waking
he looks around and smiles at me
41 and we're still waiting

i'm not tired but i think i'll lay back anyway
i'm not hopeless but i think i'll stay
and even the waves won't carry me away

[Female vocal sample throughout: ??? ]

Undertow (04:49)
- Kevin Moore

last night hit the net
woke up in a sweat
same scene different dream sudden ending

grabbed a pillow and covered my head
kicked the phone off the side of the bed
tried to sing but the damn thing kept on ringing

i know
i'll go to mexico
someplace nothing changes
maybe i'll call on the phone
maybe i'll write you a letter
that's what i meant when i said goodbye

backed the shovelhead out of the shed
hit the interstate hard heading left
the street below is water flowing undertow

there's a song that i'd rather forget
but i don't think i've shaken it yet
as soon as i do
i'm gonna write us another one

i know
i'll go to mexico
someplace nothing changes
maybe i'll call on the phone
maybe i'll write you a letter
that's what i meant when i said goodbye

i know
i'll go to mexico
someplace nothing changes
maybe i'll call on the phone
maybe i'll write you a letter
maybe i'll die maybe i'll learn how to fly
that's what i meant when i said

America The Video (04:32)
- Kevin Moore

i was half outside and half inside a dream
when i thought i heard your voice on my machine
sang along had the song almost memorized
liked the track so i laid back and let it fossilize

(i've got all of this on video
it just gets better every episode)

america i was blind but now i see
america right there in front of me

lost my head in my hotel room when the ground shook
had to choose between the bible and the phone book

you're never home but that's okay
it's so much easier that way
'cause i can't tell it to your face in real time anyway

america i was blind but now i see
america right there in front of me

and it makes no sense to me
unless i see it on t.v.
so just launch that satellite
and get it right

america i was blind but now i see
america right there in front of me

and it makes no sense to me
unless i see it on t.v.
so just launch that satellite
and get it right

(sometimes the answer just comes)
(sometimes the answer just comes)

S.O.S. (05:25)
- Kevin Moore

"...so I tried to hitchhike from this exit, there was nothing... that's all
it was or worse is, like, like standing time I ever had here in the States
with hitchhiking... I'm standing there, and I'm standing there, and I'm
standing there... and after a while a, a guy stopped like... I had no money
or nothing I had nothing to eat and stuff like that... a guy stopped like
with a Jeep and picked me up and... 'well, I have nothing to do, I'll
drive you to [unintelligible]'..."

fly blackbird fly
frozen the sea i see you
old cover clouds new snow there they go

silent but wings
sun orange small i see you
nowhere is home go alone and alone

"...I was tired, I was... bored, I was... I didn't know where to go, where to
find a job. I felt... pretty helpless..."

fly angel fly
older than me i feel you
coalcovered clouds white snow there you go

heard myself call
far from them all i feel you
left them behind or ahead and he said

sooner or later you get up off the floor
when no one wants to hear it anymore
someday soon you're gonna get up off the floor
'cause no one wants to hear that shit

cry blackbird cry over the waves i hear you
coalcovered clouds white snow there they go
ice on your wings songless he sings i hear you
nowhere is home go alone there's a phone

"...and after about two months, I had the money together to rent a place...
with the guy together who gave me the first job... it's a pretty, little
world for me, in a way... few people... always a few people..."

[Male vocal sample: Gert, a German friend of Kevin's talking about ]
[his first experiences after immigrating to the US. ]

Camera 4 (03:49)
- Kevin Moore

"Hello"
"There is no such thing as black..."
"Yes, there has to be black."
"We have black?"
"We got black."
"Thank you, can I see camera 4 now? OK."
"Um"
"Hello"
"Do we have to catch the..."
"I'm sorry, no, can I..."
"Yes you can."
"Can I have black again please. And then, and now camera 4, and now black."

"It doesn't have to be perfect, it's just for a demonstration."
"Try that."
"Black, it's almost there. Do you want to adjust sub-carrier now? It's almost
there, it's beautiful. I'm gonna cry."
"Let's check out a sub-carrier."
"There you go. Add black and camera 4. It doesn't have to be perfect, it's
just for a demonstration. It doesn't have to be perfect, it's just for a
demonstration."

"Hello"
"Hello"
"You know they're flying?"
"Hello. OK"

"So that's camera 4, and then um, three king is here. See, and I don't want
much."
"John? Hold, hold on a...eh, the camera was down. OK, camera 4."
"OK, let me have, let me have black, now 4."
"Gordon can we ??? incorrectly because the t-bar was down."
"No, I just changed that when, when I went out there before."
"OK, sorry."
"So, camera 4."

"It doesn't have to be perfect, it's just for a demonstration. It doesn't
have to be perfect, it's just for a demonstration."
"Try that."
"Black, it's almost there. Do you want to adjust sub-carrier now? It's almost
there, it's beautiful. I'm gonna cry."

[Female vocal sample: Mariella ]
[Male vocal sample: Gordon ]
[Unintelligible vocal samples in between dialogs: ??? ]

On The Page (04:21)
- Kevin Moore

"...and he sort of used me as a way out of it in saying, I'm in love with
Anastajah, I can't be with you anymore Sarah, I'm so sorry but just realizing
this, even though nothing's gonna come out of it, I just know that it wouldn't
be true to you. And of course we were on acid in a Hilton at a um, science
fiction convention."

tell me something stupid
auction off my diary
life is getting esoteric
let me in your movie
each time i walk out the door
someone mixes metaphors
life is so much cleaner on the page

it's like the morning when i'm dreaming
and everything is so pristine
it's just a seven hour movie
and i'm in every scene

"I don't even want to be with Max you know, whatever."

let me in my t.v.
get this tape to tori
got to have a subplot
when i sell them my life story
maybe i should write it first
and do the living later
'cause life is so much cleaner on the page

it's like the time i lost my body
and then i saw it on t.v.
somehow it shed a whole dimension
but it still looked like me
(hey! that looks like me!)

each time i write lines for it
someone improvises it
life is so much cleaner on the page
life is so much cleaner on the page

"I guess if you really want to know ???... I guess you won't ???... you want
them to come back. They've had the ???... tolerance that's gone by..."

[Female vocal sample: Anastajah ]

Mouse (Now watch what happens) (05:41)
- Todd Farrington

"Tuesday, three ten a.m."

(now, now I know I'm not crazy. the fucking mouse, the
mouse is back again. and I got him here, mother fff - he's in
the fucking radiator. this prick, and he's lay - he's eating a
fucking Dorito. and I can't get him. and he's looking at me,
and he'll still eat the Dorito. he's behind the fucking - i'm
gonna fucking kill him. this is war. now this is war. now
watch what happens.) [This sample repeats throughout ]
[the rest of the song. ]
took the flower back
his wayward love had been mislead
the sun is dying
apologies she can't accept
check the window quick
the sun is dying
blue and red of day to purple night
and absent light to disarray
took the flower back
his wayward love had been mislead
the sun is dying
apologies she won't accept
check the window quick
the sun is dying
a candle marks her tears
the flame will fade
she'll greet the dawn in disarray
she steps into the stream the level rising
she steps into the stream the level rising
"Friday, four a.m."
took the flower back
his wayward love had been misled
the level's rising
steps into the stream
we're so misled
the level's rising
steps into the stream
we're so misled
she'll watch the pain the level's rising
blue and reds of day to purple night
and absent light to disarray
she steps into the stream the level rising
she steps into the stream the level rising
she steps into the stream the level rising
she steps into the stream the level rising

"Friday, four a.m."
"Friday"

[Male vocal sample: Mark Snyder ]

Hell Mary (04:02)
- Kevin Moore

"Oh... Oh... I see the sky, it's becoming a very very bright red almost an
aurent(?), a red aurent(?). And it's like I'm suspended and the light is so
bright it hurts my eyes. And I see this huge ball. Now in the center it's,
it's a grey colored ball almost. Oh... I don't know what it's made of with a
rock like formation. But as it's turning now, it's beginning to change color,
becoming a purplish, hazy, aurent(?) looking ball. And now it's beginning to
gather great speed. And as it's going faster across the sky, part of it has
broken off now and it's going up in like the sun. I see the huge ball in the
sun. It's a ball of fire, and this is another ball of fire. And a piece now
is broken off and it's heading into the sun. And there, oh... Oh... It's an
explosion. Oh... I can't look. Oh... Oh..."

[Vocal sample: ??? ]

Other Stuff

Don't Look Past Me (06:21) - (Studio - "Subconscious" CD)
[Demo from 1989/90, with John Hendricks on vocals. Also available ]
[with James LaBrie on vocals on the "Antiquities" CD. ]
- Kevin Moore

"I don't know, I feel a lot of [Sample is Robert DeNiro from the ]
distance and I feel far away. [film "The Deer Hunter". ]
I'll see you later..."

I have seen you born before me
I have watched you die
I have heard every word you said to me

Leave no question in your mind
There is no brighter star to guide you
Don't look past me to the sun, the sun is I
I am the sun...

So close the door behind him
He wanders slowly to the car
Trying to lift his heavy heart
He says...

"I feel bad about this. [Sample is Timothy Hutton from the]
I feel really bad about this. [film "Ordinary People". ]
Just, just let me feel bad about this."

I'm through just getting by
Countless times a friend has told me
Watch out for the wave
Now it seems the sea will be my grave
And still you swim to save me
Even though the water is much colder now
Even though the water is much colder now

Sometimes you can act on intuition
Sometimes you can use a different point of view
I've found that in such a position
I could always come to you
(Sun) I've seen you weep
I have seen you tired and lonely (without you)
But it only takes one heart (one heart)
To lift you up and send you on
Can you understand the life I've shown you
Understand it's me, I'm giving you

I have seen you born before me
I have watched you die
I have heard every word you said to me

I have no question in my mind
There's been no brighter star to guide me
I don't look past you to the sun,
so don't look past me to the sun,
The sun is...

And so love is broken
They're asking me how can you help
When you don't even know how that feels
I don't need one thousand reasons
When someone starts to cry
When someone says my heart needs lifting
Don't ask how come, ask how high

I have seen you born before me
I have watched you die
I have heard every word you said to me

Leave no question in your mind
There is no brighter star to guide you
Don't look past me to the sun, the sun is I

Leave no question in your mind
There is no brighter star to guide you
Don't look past me to the sun, (it knows where you are)

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