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Book of Dreams
03:48
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There’s nothing you can do or say to change my mind
There’s nothing you can do or say to change my mind
If you stay right where you are you won’t be left behind
There’s nothing you can do or say to change my mind
Oh keep me hidden in your book of dreams for awhile
Said for awhile
Listen to the words are scratching at your door
Keep a record of the words a scratching at your door
Déjà vu’s a word that I have heard before
Bear in mind the words are scratching at your door
Oh keep me hidden in your book of dreams for awhile
Said for awhile
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2. |
Return
03:32
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She folds her hands and sits there
with a blank expression
It seems like years have passed
without a second guess reflection
She closes her eyes and wishes
she lived in a dream
She pretends she doesn’t notice
she is fast asleep
And she will return
She starts a conversation
but there’s nothing to be said
She believes that life is easy
when it’s planned out in her head
But dreams are mistaken for worries
and she isn’t a child anymore
She likes to think she’s independent
but she doesn’t know what for
And she will return
She seems so familiar
but I believe we haven’t met
She lives her life in the moment
and embraces her regrets
I wouldn’t dare approach her now
she is dreaming again
There’s a smile upon her face
because the moment has to end
And she will return
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3. |
Sepia Tone
03:00
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[instrumental]
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4. |
Unidentifiable
03:42
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Set the world on fire
now there’s nothing to call home
Skip the second guesses
they just leave you all alone
Takes a little time to catch
your breath and hold it in
Before you know you let it out
the whole thing starts again
Time is running out
you can’t keep up
The hands are moving
but you think you’re stuck
Between the things you say
and things you mean
The revolution’s coming
in your dreams
Unidentifiable
The window’s just a plate of glass
there’s nothing to reveal
You can’t even prove the things
you see through it are real
Close your eyes and try to find
the space where all this starts
You can take dictation
by the beating of your heart
And the sound you try to make
is less than peace
You’re only holding on
to your release
Don’t wait around
for darkness until the dawn
But enlightenment
is always on
Unidentifiable
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5. |
Grace
04:33
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I call out your name in my sleep
It keeps me from having dreams
I won’t let you drown me
When you’re not around me
Please don’t walk away
just hold me still
If you don’t let me go
I will
Why should I try to see
You in my memory
You’ll never be as close as skin
This love never will begin
If this is not for real
then show your face
Everything I feel
turns to grace
Grace
You are so young
The world is so old
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6. |
Ride
07:43
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[instrumental]
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7. |
Coming Closer
03:52
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Well I bite and I stumble
over the dried leaves of the past
Well I might be so humble
as to wait awhile to let the moment last
If I may consecrate
the sacrilegious voices I hear
I’ll delay but never wait
for my life and blood to disappear
But I want to be hypnotized
By the silhouette of your eyes
I want to be misled
Come get these thoughts out of my head
Well I’m tired, never sleeping
holding onto what I want to burn
But I’m inspired, and I’m keeping
all the secrets that I have yet to learn
And I want to find a different place in time
Where I can tell the truth and live a lie
I want to be misunderstood
Justify myself by saying that I could
be oh so creative and sincere
Drive the nails into my hands of fear
If I could touch you then all would be fine
And these images would leave my mind
I will lie by your side
it’s a comfort to know you’re not alone
But if I die on the outside
will you find me a place to rest my bones
I want to be mesmerized
by the silhouette of your eyes
By the words I cannot say aloud
Everything is coming closer to me now
I want to be half-disguised
By the night vision within your swollen eyes
I want to live somehow
Tell me can you touch me now?
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8. |
Smile
04:15
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I’m hiding for the moment in my shadow
But you can still see me quite clear
I’m mirroring the colors of the rainbow
They’ll all blend into one one day I fear
I’m not to be mistaken or misspoken
You just appeared that way out of the blue
And when you said you loved me you were joking
Can’t say you knew the joke was on you
In all my memories you stand alone
Because I never could stand at your side
My soul from its windy cage has up and flown
It doesn’t like what it’s seen of the outside
These images are nothing like a photograph
They never wish to stay in just one place
I kept telling you I would have the last laugh
But you won’t wipe that smile off of your face
I may have been too vague or just too distant
In all our past elusive conversation
Don’t blame me if I’m getting reminiscent
It’s only born of unkempt resignation
There’s nothing left to talk about I guess
I’m walking headfirst into unhinged doors
You meanwhile are taking off your dress
Throwing it in my face and on the floor
I guess now I’m alone I’m better off
If only I could say that I was free
You’re naked and you can’t admit you’re lost
Just what are you doing in my memory?
These images are nothing like a photograph
They never wish to stay in just one place
I kept telling you I would have the last laugh
But you won’t wipe that smile off of your face
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9. |
Shedding Light
04:45
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[instrumental]
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10. |
Hide and Seek
03:51
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No need to whisper
no need to shout
I’ve seen the scars you’ve weathered
and I know what they’re about
Time needs a number
Time needs an end
There’s no time left together
no time left for us friend
You’ve escaped the past
you blinked your eyes so fast
Now they’re catching up with you
you have to slow them down
Your bitter memories
put you down upon your knees
But you don’t need no rosaries
you don’t want god around
Find yourself angry
find yourself pleased
You found out your hide and seek
left you counting behind the trees
Forgive me for this worry
forgive but don’t forget
You knew it was me all along
but you hadn’t met me yet
But I can’t cure you now
I just wouldn’t know how
Only you know how to shatter
the memories that haunt you still
But if you count up to ten
I’ll come running for you friend
If you want me to hide you
if you want me to seek you, I will
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11. |
Matter Made
03:36
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I’ve seen the tears turn into years
and more and more besides
I’ve watched the past become a mask
I’ve used to shade my eyes
And when the summer turned to fall
my life began to fade
I loosed the reins, the slow refrains,
the matter that I made
My world is sheltered by the swelter
of feelings lost in the tide
Of shipwrecked seas, the slow disease,
the meeting of the minds
But I’ll escape these withered traits
and shed another skin
No matter when I’ll survive again
another life will begin
This shattered lifeline, coarse and refined
threads a miracle mile
Beyond the grave, I risk a wave
the window breaks a smile
And who will meet me, who will greet me?
Who will I walk beside?
Will the course I’ve left divorce
the mask from my eyes?
I’ll leave it all, I’ve seen the fall,
the order has been paid
You’ll know me when I no longer spend
the matter that I made
And when I take the real from fake
no need to be dismayed
I’ll wait until I empty my fill
of the matter I have made
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12. |
Shadow into Bone
04:46
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[instrumental]
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