Losmi MM
Porcupine Tree - Sleep Together
updated
sometimes I think I'll disappear; betimes I think I have.
There's a line snaking down my mirror,
splintered glass distorts my face
and though the light is strong and strange
it can't illuminate the musty corners of this place.
There is a lofty, lonely, Lohengrenic castle in the clouds;
I draw my murky meanings there
but seven years' dark luck is just around the corner
and in the shadows lurks the spectre of Despair.
A cracked mirror 'mid the drapes of the landing:
split image, labored understanding...
I'm only trying to find a place to hide my home.
I've lived in houses composed of glass
where every movement is charted
but now the monitor screens are dark
and I can't tell if silent eyes are there.
My words are spiders upon the page,
they spin out faith, hope and reason -
but are they meet and just, or only dust
gathering about my chair?
Sometimes I get the feeling
that there's someone else there:
the faceless watcher makes me uneasy;
I can feel him through the floorboards,
and His presence is creepy.
He informs me that I shall be expelled.
What is that but out of and into?
I don't know the nature of the door that I'd go through,
I don't know the nature of the nature
that I am inside ....
I've lived in houses of brick and lead
where all emotion is sacred
and if you want to devour the fruit
you must first sniff at the fragrance
and lay your body before the shrine
with poems and posies and papers
or, if you catch the ruse, you'll have to choose
to stay, a monk, or leave, a vagrant.
What is this place you call home?
Is it a sermon or a confession?
Is it the chalice that you use for protection?
Is it really only somewhere you can stay?
Is it a rule-book or a lecture?
Is it a beating at the hands of your Protector?
Does the idol have feet of clay?
Home is what you make it,
so my friends all say,
but I rarely see their homes in these dark days.
Some of them are snails
and carry houses on their backs;
others live in monuments
which, one day, will be racks.
I keep my home in place
with sellotape and tin-tacks;
but I still feel there's some other Force here....
He who cracks the mirrors and moves the walls
keeps staring through
the eye-slits of the portraits in my hall.
He ravages my library and taps the telephone.
I've never actually seen Him,
but I know He's in my home
and if he goes away,
I can't stay here either.
I believe...er ...I think...
well, I don't know ......
I only live in one room at a time,
but all of the walls are ears and all the windows, eyes.
Everything else is foreign,
'Home' is my wordless chant :
mmmmmaah!
Give it a chance!
I am surrounded by flesh and bone,
I am a temple of living,
I am a hermit, I am a drone,
and I am boring out a place to be.
With secret garlands about my head
unearthly silence is broke,
the room is growing dark, and in the stark light
I see a face I know.
Could this be the guy who never shows
the cracked mirror what he's feeling,
merely mumbles prayers to the ground where
he's kneeling:
"Home is home is home is home is home is home is me!"?
All you people looking for your houses,
don't throw your weight around,
you might break your glasses
and if you do, you know you just can't see,
and then how are you to find
the dawning of the day?
Day is just a word I use
to keep the dark at bay
and people are imaginary, nothing else exists
except the room I'm sitting in,
and, of course, the all-pervading mist -
sometimes I wonder if even that's real.
Maybe I should de-louse this place,
maybe I should de-place this louse,
maybe I'll maybe my life away
in the confines of this silent house.
Sometimes it's very scary here, sometimes it's very sad,
sometimes I think I'll disappear,sometimes I think ..... I....
Album: Brain Salad Surgery
Genre: Progressive Rock
Artwork: Hans Ruedi Giger
Year: 1973
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Man alone, born of stone,
Will stamp the dust of time
His hands strike the flame of his soul;
Ties a rope to a tree and hangs the Universe
Until the winds of laughter blows cold.
Fear that rattles in men's ears
And rears its hideous head
Dread... Death... in the wind...
Man of steel pray and kneel
With fever's blazing torch
Thrust in the face of the night;
Draws a blade of compassion
Kissed by countless Kings
Whose jewelled trumpet words blind his sight.
Walls that no man thought would fall
The altars of the just
Crushed... Dust... in the wind...
No man yields who flies in my ship
Danger!
Let the bridge computer speak
Stranger!
Load your program. I am yourself.
No computer stands in my way
Only blood can cancel my pain
Guardians of a nuclear dawn
Let the maps of war be drawn.
Rejoice! Glory is ours!
Our young men have not died in vain,
Their graves need no flowers
The tapes have recorded their names.
I am all there is
Negative! Primitive! Limited! I let you live!
But I gave you life
What else could you do?
To do what was right
I'm perfect! Are you?
Album: Pawn Hearts
Genre: Progressive Rock
Year: 1971
Album Reviews: http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=1417
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I (Eyewitness) (0:00:00 - 2:33)
Still waiting for my saviour, storms tear me limb from limb;
my fingers feel like seaweed...I'm so far out I'm too far in.
I am a lonely man, my solitude is true,
my eyes have borne stark witness
and now my knights are numbered, too.
I've seen the smiles on dead hands,
the stars shine, but they're not for me.
I prophesy disaster and then I count the cost...
I shine but, shining, dying, I know that I am almost lost.
On the table lies blank paper and my tower is built on stone;
I only have blunt scissors, I only have the bluntest home.
I've been the witness and the seal of death
lingers in the molten wax that is my head.
When you see the skeletons
of sailing-ship spars sinking low
You'll begin to wonder if the points of all the ancients myths
are solemnly directed straight at you...
II Pictures/Lighthouse (2:33 - 5:38)
[Instrumental]
III (Eyewitness) (5:38 - 6:52)
No time now for contrition, the time for that's long past,
the walls are thin as tissue and if I talk I'll crack the glass.
So I only think on how it might have been,
locked in silent monologue, in silent scream.
I am much too tired to speak
and as the waves crash on the bleak
stones of the tower I start to freak
and find that I am overcome....
IV (S.H.M.) (6:52 - 8:34)
"Unreal, unreal" ghost helmsmen scream and fall in through the sky,
not breaking through my seagull shrieks -no breaks until I die.
The spectres scratch on window-slits,
the hollowed faces and mindless grins
are only intent on destroying what they've lost.
I crawl the wall till steepness ends in the vertical fall;
my pail has sailed into the sea -no joking hopes at dawn.
White bone shine in the iron-jaw mask,
lost mastheads pierce the freezing dark
and parallel my isolated tower...
no paraffin for the flame,
no harbour left to gain.
V (Presence of the Night) (8:34 - 10:38)
'Alone, alone' the ghosts all call,
pinpoint me in the light.
The only life I feel at all
is the presence of the night.
VI Kosmos Tours (10:38 - 13:39)
Would you cry if I died?
Would you cry if I died?
Would you catch the final words of mine?
Would you catch my words?
I know that there's no time,
I know that there's no rhyme,
false signs find me!
I don't want to hate, I just want to grow;
why can't I let me live and be free?
...but I die very slowly alone!
I know no more ways, I am so afraid,
myself won't let me just be myself
and so I am completely alone!
The maelstrom of my memory
is a vampire and it feeds on me;
now, staggering madly, over the brink I fall.
VII ((Custard's) Last stand) (13:39 - 16:25)
Lighthouses might house the key but can I reach the door?
I want to walk on the sea so that I may better find a shore;
but how can I ever keep my feet dry?
I scan the horizon,
I must keep my eyes on all parts of me.
Looking back on the years it seems that I have lost my way:
Like a dog in the night I have run to a manger,
now I am the stranger I stay in.
Ah, well.
All of the grief I have seen leaves me chasing solitary peace;
But I hold experience in my head.
I'm too close to the light,.
I don't think I see right, for I blind me.
VIII (The Clot Thickens) (16:25 - 19:17)
Where is the God that guides my hand?
How can the hands of others reach me?
When will I find what I grope for?
Who is going to teach me?
I am me / me are we / we can't see
any way out of here.
Crashing sea, a trophied history:
chance has lost my Guinevere...
I don't want to be one wave in the water
but sea will drag me deep:
one more haggard drowned man.
I can see the lemmings coming, but I know I'm just a man.
Do I join or do I founder? Which can is the best I may?
IX (Land's end / We go now) (19:18 - 23:12)
Oceans drifting sideways, I am pulled into the spell,
I feel you around me, I know you well.
Stars slice horizons where the lines stand much too stark;
I feel I am drowning - hands stretch in the dark.
Camps of panoply and majesty, what is Freedom of Choice?
Where do I stand in the pageantry, whose is my voice?
It doesn't feel so very bad now, I think the end is the start,
begin to feel very glad now:
All things are a part
All things are apart
All things are a part.
Album: Pawn Hearts
Genre: Progressive Rock
Year: 1971
Album Reviews: http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=1417
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The killer lives inside me; yes, I can feel him move.
Sometimes he's lightly sleeping in the quiet of his room;
but then his eyes will rise and stare through mine,
he'll speak my words and slice my mind inside.
Yes, the killer lives.
The angels live inside me, I can feel them smile;
their presence strokes and soothes the tempest in my mind
and their love can heal the wounds that I have wrought.
They watch me as I go to fall;
well, I know I shall be caught
while the angels live.
How can I be free?
How can I get help?
Am I really me?
Am I someone else?
But stalking in my cloisters hang the acolytes of gloom
and Death's Head throws his cloak into the corner of my room
and I am doomed.
But laughing in my courtyard play the pranksters of my youth
and solemn, waiting Old Man in the gables of the roof:
he tells me truth.
And I, too, live inside me and very often don't know who I am;
I know I'm not a hero;well, I hope that I'm not damned.
I'm just a man, and killers, angels, all are these,
dictators, saviours, refugees in war and peace
as long as Man lives...
I'm just a man, and killers, angels, all are these:
dictators, saviours, refugees.
Album: Pawn Hearts
Genre: Progressive Rock
Year: 1971
Album Reviews: http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=1417
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I stood alone upon the highest cliff-top,
looked down, around, and all that I could see
were those that I would dearly love to share with
crashing on quite blindly to the sea....
I tried to ask what game this was
but knew I would not play it:
the voice, as one, as no-one, came to me....
"We have looked upon the heroes and they are found wanting;
we have looked hard across the land but we can see no dawn;
we have now dared to sear the sky but we are still bleeding;
we are drawing near to the cliffs,
now we can hear the call.
The clouds are piled in mountain-shapes,
there is no escape except to go forward.
Don't ask us for an answer now,
it's far too late to bow to that convention.
What course is there left but to die?
We have looked upon the High Kings, found them less than mortals:
their names are dust before the just march of our young, new law.
Minds stumbling strong, we hurtle on into the dark portal;
No-one can halt our final vault
into the unknown maw.
And as the Elders beat their brows
they know that it is really far too late now to stop us,
for if the sky is seeded death
what is the point in catching breath? Expel it.
What cause is there left but to die
in searching of something we're really not too sure of?"
What cause is there left but to die?
I really don't know why.
I know our ends may be soon but why do you make them sooner?
Time may finally prove only the living move her and
no life lies in the quicksand.
Yes, I know it's
out of control, out of control:
greasy machinery slides on the rails,
young minds and bodies on steel spokes impaled.
Cogs tearing bones, cogs tearing bones;
iron-throated monsters are forcing the screams,
mind and machinery box-press the dreams.
But there still is time....
Cowards are they who run today, the fight is beginning...
no war with knives, fight with our lives, lemmings can teach nothing;
death offers no hope, we must grope for the unknown answer,
unite our blood, abate the flood,
avert the disaster.
There's other ways than screaming in the mob:
that makes us merely cogs of hatred.
Look to the why and where we are,
look to yourselves and the stars,yes, and in the end
what choice is there left but to live
in the hope of saving
our children's children's little ones?
What choice is there left but to live
to save the little ones?
What choice is there left but to try?
Album: Falling Home
Genre: Progressive Rock
Year: 2014
Lyrics:
(Watching corners and crossings
Watching all the red lights
Watching the stress
Watching beggars and bankers and rushing cars
I'm drowning in this mess)
Help me! Rescue me! Save me! Set me free!
It is strange - among all people I feel alone.
Very strange - despite the sun I'm cold to the bone!
Up on the rooftops I feel alive
Lovely detached from the human hive.
Up on the rooftops I feel so free.
Far from the city that's suffocating me.
Is this what we want?
I believe: beneath the surface we turn to stone.
Can't you see?
We meet our neighbours over the phone
I'm awake - watch me! I'll escape - watch me!
If this is progress help me to regress!
Alone by the ocean I feel alive
Lovely detached from the human hive.
Alone by the ocean I feel so free.
Far from the city that's suffocating me.
You live too shallow, act too deep!
Fail to sow but proudly reap!
Alright
...and you still need more!
Indians show us where we're from
Stress indicates what we've all become!
(Watching corners and crossings
Watching all the red lights
Watching the stress
Watching beggars and bankers and rushing cars
I'm drowning in this mess)
In time you'll awake!
In time you'll escape!
In time you'll awake!
You'll see what's at stake!
Is this what we want?
Is this what we need?
Well
Is it?
Is it?
Is it?
Guess it is
No?
Is it?
(Watching corners and crossings
Watching all the red lights
Watching the stress)
Album: English Electric (Part One)
Genre: Progressive Rock
Year: 2012
Big Big Train official website: http://www.bigbigtrain.com/main/discography/ee1
Lyrics:
In a place where the river banks draw near
Men work a heading to the west.
Where streams like giants' fingers close
From the hills to the emptiness beneath,
To the depths of the mere.
Morning light, midwinter sun
Underneath; the river song.
In a place where the river banks draw close
Men break stone to make new ground.
Light and air are hard down deep to find
Engines work to hold the water back
To the edge of the mere.
'Run boys run toward the light;
The river's in, the tunnel's in';
Here she comes
The sleeper wakes,
Ten thousand years
She lay in wait for this.
Every night their dreams were filled
With the fear of the river breaking in.
But this was not a river god,
This was something rising from the deep,
From the depths of the mere.
'Run boys run make for the light,
Save yourselves, the tunnel's in.'
Here he comes
The first rebreather,
Like a mummer,
Like a souler
(Come to save them.)
Rising up to the height of the river
At flood tide.
Engines fail, lost to the water
As silence falls.
This man will walk into darkness,
One foot in front of the other,
Into the unsounded depths
Of the heading;
Into the fifth circle of hell,
With no light to lead him home,
Man is all alone at the end.
This man will walk into darkness
Without fear of what lurks in the shadows.
Watching the surface grow quite still,
Waiting for hope at the ninth hour,
Man all alone in the darkness.
Here he comes: the first rebreather.
Album: English Electric (Part One)
Genre: Progressive Rock
Year: 2012
Big Big Train official website: http://www.bigbigtrain.com/main/discography/ee1
Lyrics:
Uncle Jack knows
A song of the hedgerows
The tilt of the earth
Makes the sun high
In the bright summer sky
Intensity of light
The earth turns around the sun
Spinning around the sun
Uncle Jack knows
A song of the hedgerows
Yes he does
Uncle Jackdaw
You see he's heard it all before
Ancient and reborn
The flowers and the leaves
The birds and the seeds
The flowers draw the bees
And just after three
Evergreen and a mug of tea
Dog and master sound asleep
Uncle Jack knows
A song of the hedgerows
Don't you know
The hawthorn, blackthorn, hazel
Hedgerow
Oh Oh
Rose Hips,
Haw Berries
Hedgerow
Dry Stone
Dog Rose
Honeysuckle
Blackbirds
Red Wing
Song Thrush
Yellowhammer
Lacewings
Ladybirds
Fox Earths
Rabbit Warrens
Badger's Sets
Partridge Nests
Rose Hips
Haw Berries
Hedgerow
Dry Stone
Dog Rose
Honeysuckle
Blackbirds
Red Wing
Song Thrush
Yellowhammer
Lacewings
Ladybirds
Uncle Jack knows
A song of the hedgerows
Album: English Electric (Part One)
Genre: Progressive Rock
Year: 2012
Big Big Train official website: http://www.bigbigtrain.com/main/discography/ee1
Lyrics:
Take the path to the top of the hill
follow the trail, look to the west.
Alfred had me made (or made me again).
Others came before, to Oram’s Arbour
A river flowing from the chalkhills
through the water meadows and the open fields.
Walls were made and streets were laid down,
halls and houses, schools and churches.
The East Prospect of Winchester from the hill,
go high enough see further;
the making of England; the long song.
the story in the stones and the lie of the land.
A river flowing from the chalkhills
through the water meadows and the open fields.
Walls were made and streets were laid down
halls and houses, schools and churches.
A river flowing from the chalkhills
through the water meadows and the open fields.
All you see is set out before you
all you need is walking beside you.
Walls were made and streets were laid down
halls and houses, tunnels and bridges.
A river flowing from the chalkhills
through the water meadows and the open fields.
Album: English Electric (Part One)
Genre: Progressive Rock
Year: 2012
Big Big Train official website: http://www.bigbigtrain.com/main/discography/ee1
Lyrics:
Venetian expertise
Inspired by Titian
Which he modified
Fine tuned along dutch lines
He’s painting revenge
Embittered by lack of success
With signature techniques
Attention to details
And fine tell tale brushstrokes
of badger and sable
Expressing contempt
For greedy dealers
Getting rich
At the artist’s expense
Infamous forger and restorer
Judas Unrepentant
branded a charming old lovable rogue
Judas Unrepentant
Hey
Judas Unrepentant
Hey
Judas!
His time bombs are in place
And anachronisms
Clues pointing to the truth
If ever they are X-rayed
Wrote legends in lead white
to trick the experts
And hoodwink
Hoodwink the trained eye
Infamous forger and restorer
Judas Unrepentant
branded a charming old lovable rogue
Judas Unrepentant
Hey
Judas Unrepentant
Hey
Judas Unrepentant
Establishing provenance
Acquiring old frames with Christies numbers
Then paints a picture in the same style
Specialising in minor works by major artists
All rise
Thirteen watercolours by Samuel Palmer
Have proven to be his undoing
And so he confesses then he is arrested
Charged him with conspiracy to defraud
Years of chain smoking and breathing in fumes from restorations
The stress of the court case had taken its toll
His trial was halted due to ill health
So now we can all buy
Real genuine fakes
That’s posthumous fame
It’s always the same
Infamous forger and restorer
Judas Unrepentant
branded a charming old lovable rogue
Judas Unrepentant
Feeling like Robin Hood
Just as good
As Rembrandt or Titian
Hey
Judas Unrepentant
Hey
Judas Unrepentant
Hey
Judas Unrepentant
Album: English Electric (Part One)
Genre: Progressive Rock
Year: 2012
Big Big Train official website: http://www.bigbigtrain.com/main/discography/ee1
Lyrics:
Took a little time
to find the past
to walk the roads
we used to know
that lead us home.
Houses in terraced rows
that crowd around
the railway yard,
just sidings now,
all overgrown.
Above the high fields
clouds are grey and gold;
it’s as good a place as anywhere.
War came
and fires were seen
from 30 miles away;
a city burned,
they wait in line,
out in the high fields,
summoned by bells,
church; school; factory; home.
Along the London Road
across the park at Spinney Hill,
sledging in the snow,
we had our scrapes and our fights,
it was part of the deal.
Time moved quickly then
things were changing all around,
the world came
to this small world,
over the hillsides and rooftops,
different stories were heard.
We moved on
found a new place,
we remembered the days
of our younger lives,
we moved on.
Long years pass
we walk the roads
we used to know,
carried with the
rain that falls.
A stone’s throw from the line
some of the old places survive,
a golden thread in time,
a stream running down from the hills
into the heart of the high fields.
So come on now,
you know it’s alright,
those were the days of our younger lives.
Early evening, midweek
in a market town,
walking down those
same old roads
we know.
Album: English Electric (Part One)
Genre: Progressive Rock
Year: 2012
Big Big Train official website: http://www.bigbigtrain.com/main/discography/ee1
Lyrics:
Many times I’ve walked alone here
Carried with the breeze
And many more have walked beside me
Carried with the breeze
All that we are
And all we shall be
Walk with me
Up on Upton Heath
So many times I’ve walked alone here
Carried with the breeze
And many more have walked beside me
Carried with the breeze
And all that we are
And all we shall be
Walk with me
Up on Upton Heath
Early distant warning finds us lost along the way
The echoes of a perfect summer
Lost along the way
Through the years
So many times I’ve walked alone here
Carried with the breeze
Many more have walked beside me
Carried with the breeze
All that we are
All we shall be
Walk with me
Up on Upton Heath
So many times I’ve walked alone
So many times along the road
Many times I’ve walked alone here
Many times I’ve walked alone here
Carried with the breeze
Album: English Electric (Part One)
Genre: Progressive Rock
Year: 2012
Big Big Train official website: http://www.bigbigtrain.com/main/discography/ee1
Lyrics:
Part 1: Brookbottom Colliery, Heanor, Derbyshire, 1842
Extract from Sub Commissioner’s report, 1842 on the conditions of children and young people employed in the collieries.
“His name is Godfrey Fletcher
Eleven years old
Worked these pits for nearly three years
Does not know the alphabet
Cannot read in the least”
The pit shall keep him body and soul
But better that than going to school
Or ploughing the field
Hot as any fire and brimstone Methodist’s sermon down here
In the awesome stillness
of the deep black
A Boy in Darkness
The seam they work is more than a yard
The headway here is nearly four feet
He hears the eerie sound of the whistling wind
Deep down here in the dry and the heat
A Boy in Darkness
Part 2: The March of Progress, Enlightenment and the Passing of Time
Part 3: Present Times
Once upon a time
A secret shared
Threatened not to breathe a word
To a living soul
Especially mother...
He was just a boy
But even though
It wasn’t the way it’s supposed to go
Needed a father
Not this hunter
To speak of the unspeakable
Takes guts and nerve
It’s going to disturb
He can’t bring himself to say the words
Misplaced blind faith
In church and state
Tied up in too much red tape
If help comes, pray not too late
We face ourselves
Look long and hard
Make the difference
A safer place
But most of all
Don’t be afraid
To shine
Light
Into the dark
A Boy in Darkness
Album: English Electric (Part One)
Genre: Progressive Rock
Year: 2012
Big Big Train official website: http://www.bigbigtrain.com/main/discography/ee1
Lyrics:
Tell me do you know
The song of the hedgerow?
Coal for the winter
Ashes and cinders
Hey
Come on and see what I’ve found
Too many hours spent under the ground
Hey
Come on and see what I know
Get out in the fields
And out of the town o
Hedgerow do you know
Which way the wind blows?
Stoking the fire
Bramble and briar
(Springtime)
Come on and see what I’ve found
(Summer)
Too many hours spent under the ground
(Autumn)
Come on and see what I know
(Winter)
Get out in the fields
And out of the town
That is where you will find me
Out there
Waiting o
Hedgerow
Dog Rose
Honeysuckle
Blackbirds
Red Wing
Song Thrush
Yellowhammer
Lacewings
Ladybirds
Fox Earths
Rabbit Warrens
Badger’s Sets
Partridge Nests
Dog Rose
Honeysuckle
Blackbirds
Red Wing
Song Thrush
Yellowhammer
Lacewings
Ladybirds
Fox Earths
Rabbit Warrens
Badger’s Sets
Partridge Nests
Album: Love, Fear And The Time Machine
Genre: Progressive Rock
Year: 2015
Riverside official website : http://www.riversideband.pl/en/
Lyrics:
Cut off from the dream
Where the sky meets water
Beneath forgotten stars
Feeling like a child
I embrace what I came for
And what I’ve overcome
Oooh, it’s a lovely life
You have gone so far
Don’t give it up
Oooh, it’s a lovely life
You gotta go with
What you think is right
Delve into myself
With my truth and devotion
I start another flow
Gliding up and down
In my yearning for daylight
I find you in my soul
Oooh, it’s a lovely life
Sun emerges from behind the clouds
Oooh, it’s a lovely life
You gotta go with
What you think is right
Cut off from the dream
Where the sky meets water
Beneath forgotten stars
I feel like a child
Found in waking life
Album: Love, Fear And The Time Machine
Genre: Progressive Rock
Year: 2015
Riverside official website : http://www.riversideband.pl/en/
Lyrics:
One day we'll find our way
Straying from the road
We thought we could go
Until we would fade.
Traveling across the fallen earth
And the foreign lands
We survived
To believe that this is not the end
This is not the time
Moving unseen beyond
The shadows
Waiting for
The birth of a star we can follow
One day we'll find our time
Come to realize
That our history
Came full circle
Traveling across all the dried up seas
And the foreign lands
We survived
To believe that this is not the end
This is not the time
We crane our necks for youth
We know we’ll make it through
And we can go back to the forest
Let’s go back to the world
That was 30 years ago
And let’s believe this is our time
Album: Love, Fear And The Time Machine
Genre: Progressive Rock
Year: 2015
Riverside official website : http://www.riversideband.pl/en/
Lyrics:
Let me tell you a story
About you and me in those days
How much passion and joy
We shared
How often we turned back time
Let me tell you a story
About you and me in those days
When we felt as if we
could change
The whole world with just one wave
As we ran through the silence
At the speed of sound
Towards the blue horizon
We could open minds
Let me tell you a story
About you and me in those days
We just lived our lives
Swam out
To the middle of the lake
As we ran through the silence
At the speed of sound
Towards the blue horizon
We could open skies
***
Where are you now my friend?
I miss those days
I hope they take good care
Of you there
And you can still play the guitar
And sing your songs
I just miss those days
And miss you so
Wish I could be strong
When darkness comes
Album: Love, Fear And The Time Machine
Genre: Progressive Rock
Year: 2015
Riverside official website : http://www.riversideband.pl/en/
Lyrics:
once
in the darkness
of bad memories
you stepped into a trap
but the spring-loaded bar
Didn’t break your neck
and you remained there
waiting for the better time
Life
With your passivity
in the face of choices
forced you to turn back
settle with your lies
but the stubborn glass
Doesn’t want to talk to you
Waiting for the better time
chair bound and bedridden heart
discard your fear of the unknown
be here and now
Just find yourself in peace
try to free your mind
wake up
get unstuck
let it go
send your shame to nevermore
your past
your distorted thoughts
closed you in the box
and cluttered up your head
hewn from happiness
in your fable town
you're still afraid of
Starting something new this life
discard your fear of the unknown
be here and now
Just find yourself in peace
try to free your mind
wake up
get unstuck
let it go
Send your shame to nevermore
discard your fear of the unknown
be here and now
just find yourself in peace
try to free your mind
Wake up
Get unstuck
let it go
send your shame to nevermore
let it go
Scare away your fear
No more
Fear of new life
Fear of days of the unknown
Fear of new life
Fear of days of the unknown
Fear of new life
Fear of days of the unknown
fear of new life
no more fear of love
Album: Love, Fear And The Time Machine
Genre: Progressive Rock
Year: 2015
Riverside official website : http://www.riversideband.pl/en/
Lyrics:
Dream on, my pain
My scar
My blame
You’ve been a part of me
Unless and until
Dreamt by the night
Under your skin
I run through the wind
Unless and until
Dream on, my pain
My scar
My thorn
You’ve been a part of me
Let me stay afloat
Album: Love, Fear And The Time Machine
Genre: Progressive Rock
Year: 2015
Riverside official website : http://www.riversideband.pl/en/
Lyrics:
Crowd patterns
Beliefs
Guided trips
Search for hints
Copy/paste
Brain turned off
In my invisible ”oh” life
I don’t want to feel
Like I’m no one anymore
Lack of self confidence
Trapped inside sweet wrappers cage
Sky is blue - so I’ve been told
In my invisible ”oh” life
I don’t want to feel
Like I’m no one anymore
Album: Love, Fear And The Time Machine
Genre: Progressive Rock
Year: 2015
Riverside official website : http://www.riversideband.pl/en/
I want to fly
I want to feel my life
Still belongs to me
No matter what
I want to fly
I want to flap my wings
And cause a hurricane in your heart
Butterflies
Better lies than hate
But I can’t pretend anymore
I’m tired of suppressing all of my needs
I want to belong to the cloudless sky
Not to the shaded ground
But it’s so hard to admit
That I lived without your light
Trying not to believe that I need it more
Now the bleeding won’t stop
For I struggled through the barbed wire
Trying not to believe that I need your love
Trying not to believe in love
I wanted to turn into a butterfly
But I couldn’t trust you enough
I was tired of suppressing all of my needs I wanted to belong to the cloudless sky
Not to the shaded ground
But it’s so hard to admit
That I lived without your light
Trying not to believe that I need it more
Now the bleeding won’t stop
For I struggled through the barbed wire
Trying not to believe that I need your love
Trying not to believe in love
But it got me now
Album: Love, Fear And The Time Machine
Genre: Progressive Rock
Year: 2015
Riverside official website : http://www.riversideband.pl/en/
Lyrics:
I feel I have to share
What I do
Or where I am
There’s an urge within
I can’t ignore
Hashtag me and go
I’m addicted to your love
I’m addicted to my aimless drive
There’s a mask upon my face
I can’t live without
So you won’t recognize me
When I am in the crowd
I lost my calmness in the world
Where everything is searchable
Dreaming inside out
Feeling inside out
I don’t have my place
I’m in here and everywhere
Just another day in hd frame
So hashtag me and go
Cause I’m addicted to your love
I’m afraid
You’re the only friend I’ve got
There’s a mask upon my face
I can’t live without
So you won’t recognize me
When I am in the crowd
I lost my calmness in the world
Where everything is searchable
Dreaming inside out
Feeling inside out
Dreaming inside out
Feeling inside out
Hashtag me and go
Cause I’m addicted to your love
I lost my calmness in the world
Where everything is searchable
Dreaming inside out
Feeling inside out
Dreaming inside out
Feeling inside out
Album: Love, Fear And The Time Machine
Genre: Progressive Rock
Year: 2015
Riverside official website : http://www.riversideband.pl/en/
Lyrics:
Hey you,
Somewhere in the mirror
What happened today with your face
Your eyes
Sank in their hollows
And the ocean of your disgrace
It’s no shame
You haven’t done what you were supposed to
And did what you didn’t want to
1-UP!
The amount of self-deception
Slowly starts killing you
Inside
You’re faced
With a new decision
Between the dawn and the day
Melting
Between the life you got used to
And something you don’t understand
I know
It demands an effort
And the pills to get rid of this pain
Not a chance
I’m sorry, Birdy
I’m your favourite voice inside your head
Hey you,
Rise and shine!
You must learn to stand your ground
How long can you hold your breath under the pillow?
You kept yourself to yourself
Day by day
Growing delusions in the blue flowerpots
Your filter bubble
On the touchscreen display
Has recommended to you
What you should want
While you’ve been watching too much daytime TV
Dreaming on demand
Your ”from tomorrow” just became ”yesterday”
Made you crawl again
Under the bed covers
Hey you,
Rise and shine!
You must learn to stand your ground
How long can you hold your breath under the pillow?
How long can you hold your breath under the pillow?
How long can you hold your breath under the pillow?
Album: Love, Fear And The Time Machine
Genre: Progressive Rock
Year: 2015
Riverside official website : http://www.riversideband.pl/en/
Lyrics:
I dropped down again
From a star
On a desert island
Full of skies
And I saw a boy
Looking up
Dreaming of his future
From my past
Soon I drew an ocean
Tamed the sun
And I plunged my feet
Into the sand
Bit by bit I came
To understand
How I miss this freedom
And the swoosh of waves
Come
Follow me
We’ll go down where the river flows
One day
Just you and I
We’ll find the bridge to the neverland
I was frightened of
A thousand hats
Bouncing off the answers
Losing pride
Had a fear of failure
And true love
But I don’t regret that
I am what I lost
Come
Follow me
We’ll go down where the river flows
One day
Just you and I
We’ll find the bridge to the neverland
Album: The Visitor
Genre: Progressive Rock
Year: 1998
Lyrics:
Did it really make a difference?
Was there strength enough to set me free?
Am I even sure I'm living now?
Or is this some kind of dream?
Is it really that important?
Did I really need to find this way?
Have I never looked inside before?
Have I always been afraid?
The vampire waits on the corner of the street
Past the clown and the words of the preacher
Try to run, but you'll never beat the thief
Are these the faces of The Visitor?
It was there in a desperate breath
It was born from a moment of death
It was held in the weakest of faith
But it seemed to last forever
It was over in a moment of sight
It was gone in a flash of a light
It was lost in the heart of the night
But it seemed to last forever
You're never alone
Take it from me
You're never alone
Just take it from me
Take it from me
Did it really make a difference?
Am I really what I seem to be?
Did I ever truly breathe again?
Or is this some kind of dream?
Album: The Visitor
Genre: Progressive Rock
Year: 1998
Lyrics:
There's a light behind the veil
And it's calling to me
There's a force behind the veil
And it's waiting for me
There's a hand
Reaching out
Holding on
Won't let go!
I defy you to stand
On the crack in the ice
With the power of your hand
On the crack in the ice
Rising, rising
I can feel your hands upon me
I can feel your arms around me
Rising, rising
I can feel a breath inside me
I can feel a warmth inside me
Rising, rising
I can feel your hands upon me
I can feel your arms around me
Rising, rising
I can feel a breath inside me
I can feel my heart begin to burn
"Open your eyes"
I can hear the Visitor!
Shaking me
Rousing me
Waking me
"Open your eyes"
I can hear the Visitor
Warning me
Rousing me
Calling my name
"Open your eyes
Open your eyes now!"
Album: The Visitor
Genre: Progressive Rock
Year: 1998
Lyrics:
Something on the edge of this place
Something on the edge of my mind
Getting closer to me
Growing stronger in me all the time
The young foretell a life ahead
The old look back on a life that's been led
But I - I see nothing
Got too much sand across my head
Sit there waiting for the phone to ring
Hopes in the attic, tied up with string
On a top shelf, bottom drawer
Any place I could ignore
The falling of this hero
No! Don't let the child die here
Don't let the child die here
Don't let his life just fade away
Don't let the child die....
I made a promise - my soul laid bare
Signed and sealed on a wing, on a prayer
But thrown to the darkness
It lies beyond repair
This solemn oath I swore to you
Has been neglected and unused
In a back room, not on show
Anywhere just not to know
The falling of this hero
No! Don't let the child die here
Don't let the child die here
Don't let his life just fade away
Don't let the child die....
I let the orphan fall, tears remained unseen
I let the child die on signal fifteen
I missed the vital signs and all of the meanings
You cannot judge me
That's not your place
There's a jury for the crime's of my disgrace
You hide behind those vacant words
Have you seen what I've seen?
Have you heard what I've heard?
You cannot judge me
That's not your right
This is my room, no key, no light
You stand behind those faithless words
Have you seen what I've seen?
Have you heard what I've heard?
No! Don't let the child die here
Don't let the child die here
Don't let his life just fade away
Don't let the child die here
Don't let the child die here
Don't let the child die here
Don't let his life just fade away
Don't let the child die here
Don't let the child die here
Don't let the child die here
Don't let his life just fade away
Don't let the child die
Album: The Visitor
Genre: Progressive Rock
Year: 1998
Album: The Visitor
Genre: Progressive Rock
Year: 1998
Lyrics:
This is a clown's tale
Falling over
Again and again
He paints his face
With colours from the sun
But he is living in the rain
This is a clown's tale
Jumping up
Spinning round and around
He kicks his heels
To the laughter of the crowd
But from inside there is no sound
Why do we all fail to see
The darkness in another's heart
Why do we all turn our backs
On open wounds
And failed attractions
Painted on the canvas there
Written in the books we share
This is a fool's tale
Rolling over
Again and again
Telling jokes
To cool the anger of a king
But he can never be the same
This is a fool's tale
Tripping up
Spinning round and around
Try to walk
Beyond words of the wise
Then reach a place too high
Show them you can fly
And dream until you hit the ground....
Don't offer sympathy
When you've just walked away
Don't play apologies
And sentimental games
I stood before the world
And gave you my heart
And it may never beat again!
Don't give me hollow tears
Or empty cries of shame
Don't try to turn away
By throwing me the blame
I stood before the world
And gave you my soul
And now I'm living in the rain!
This is a clown's tale
Falling over
Again and again
He paints his face
With colours from the sun
But he is lying in....
He is dying in....
He is crying in the rain
Album: The Visitor
Genre: Progressive Rock
Year: 1998
Lyrics:
Half heard cries in the night
Bolt the door, put out the light
The clock just stopped, time goes slow
Listen to my voice on the telephone
Fine prayers, sweet dreams
Don't forget to breathe, my friend
You're not the only one
To look me in the eyes again
Half heard screams in the night
The man's down deep 'cos he died of fright
There's a dog bite - Flash light
Throw him in the room with the clues and the dynamite
Fine prayers sweet dreams
Don't forget to breathe, my friend
You're not the only one
To look me in the eyes again
You saw! You saw!
A figure in the fog with razor claws
You saw! You saw!
A devil in the dark, we've met before
Fine prayers, sweet dreams
Don't forget to breathe, my friend
You're not the only one
To look me in the eyes again
Half seen shadows in the night
Burning hands and tortured sight
All the children of the storm are waiting
Half seen shadows in the night
Blood red rooms and fire light
All the children of the storm are waiting
And as you stand glued to the line
Your heart just stopped
And now you're mine!
Don't run away
Album: The Visitor
Genre: Progressive Rock
Year: 1998
Lyrics:
Why should all the wise survive
When nothing is what it may seem?
Why do all the living die
When only the dying remain?
Helpless are the broken wishes
Dashed upon the window pane
So close! But I'm one step ahead
My shadow is all you will touch
Too late! You waited too long
I stole the freedom
You needed so much
Do you hide away from me?
There's nothing here you should ignore
Do you close your eyes on me?
You've made that mistake once before
Helpless are the shattered wishes
Dashed upon the window pane
So close! But I'm one step ahead
My shadow is all you will touch
Too late! You waited too long
I stole the freedom
You needed so much
Search far, search wide
Lying down is not a matter of pride
Look hard, look deep
Never try to take this line of retreat
Don't let the bastards grind you down
So close! But I'm one step ahead
My shadow is all you will touch
Too late! You waited too long
I stole the freedom you needed so much
So close! But I'm one step ahead
My shadow is all you will touch
Too late! You waited too long
I stole the freedom
I know that you needed so much
Album: The Visitor
Genre: Progressive Rock
Year: 1998
Lyrics:
Thinly veiled, a cruel disguise
Vengeance lies behind these eyes
Glaring from the pulpit
As the Fallen Angels follow me
Plageristic sermons
Hiding voyeuristic undertones
Foolishly they will embrace
And ignorant they follow me
You've never truly known
The kind of place that I come from
You turned your back on all the signs
That bore the words of warning
Come to me my simple child
Tear apart your innocence
Pray with me beloved son
And I will help you find a way
Think before you throw yourself
Upon the tables and the merchant s
Are you sure this temple
Isn't just another cruel perversion?
You've never truly known
The kind of place that I come from
You turned your back on all the signs
That bore the words of warning
Don't look for comfort in this house of mine
Don't ask for mercy at my image or my shrine
Don't seek forgiveness at this house of mine
Don't build a temple here
And wait for me to walk into the fire
I will make this promise now
A simple thing, a sacred vow
Come with me my pretty Angel
I will show you how to fly
We will fall together
Into unforgiving night we plunge!
Chained by sin and clothed by guilt
We will be as one forever
Don't look for comfort in this house of mine
Don't ask for mercy at my image or my shrine
Don't look for comfort in this house of mine
Don't break the Holy bread or drink the Holy wine
Don't seek forgiveness at this house of mine
Don't build a temple here
And wait for me to walk into the fire
Album: The Visitor
Genre: Progressive Rock
Year: 1998
Lyrics:
Walk along the waterfall
Watching as the world turns red
Wonder where the river flows
And the blood on the river bed
Poison lies too close to us
Reach across the salt and sand
Moving deeper into the land
Following the waterfall
Watching as the world turns green
Wonder where the river flows
The copper face remains unseen
Ignorance has failed to cleanse
Reach across the salt and sand
Moving deeper into the land
Crying as the earth cries out
Weeping as the land decays
Wonder if I could have helped
Maybe I'd have found a way
Poison lies too close to us
Reach across the salt and sand
Moving deeper into the land
Cling to the branch of a tree
That was waiting for
Something to preach
Someone to teach
The Word was the first
And the last to be heard
From the branch of the tree
It was praying for me to fall down
Climb to the top of a tree
That was waiting for
Someone to warn
A life to be torn into
Pieces of gold
For a soul to be sold
And the heart of the tree
Was crying for me to come back
Take me to the hanging tree
There's a man in the light
And he's pointing at me
Guide me to the hanging tree
It's the place that I come from
Walk along the waterline
Reach across the salt and the sand
Moving deeper into the land
Take me to the hanging tree
There's a boy in the light
And he's staring at me
Take me to the hanging tree
It's the place that I come from
Walk along the waterline
Reach across the salt and the sand
Moving deeper into the land
I'm falling.....Falling down again!
Album: The Visitor
Genre: Progressive Rock
Year: 1998
Album: The Visitor
Genre: Progressive Rock
Year: 1998
Lyrics:
I've seen that face before
Demon eyes watch what an Angel once saw
I've seen that face before
Lying in shadows but hard to ignore
No where to run
No where to hide
I've seen this place before
A wilderness born from the torment of souls
(Yes!) I've seen this place before
A memory lost as the story unfolds
No where to run
No where to hide
No where to run
No where to hide
...."I will always find you!"
We played this game before
Counting no cost but keeping the score
(Yes!) We played this game before
Eyes to the front and backs to the wall
I've stood right here before
Album: The Visitor
Genre: Progressive Rock
Year: 1998
Lyrics:
Lying here
Can't even feel the cold
Just a tingle in my spine
A bitter line of hope
Lying here
Can't even see the sky
Just a tingle in my fingers
A shiver in my soul
Don't walk towards the light
Still got those pins and needles
Turn back, embrace the night
Am I ready to be judged like this?
Lying here
Can't even turn my head
Just a tingle in my feet
A shimmering before my eyes
Lying here
Can't even touch my face
Just a tingle in my throat
A living moment, isolated
Don't walk towards the light
Still got those pins and needles
Turn back, embrace the night
I'm not ready to be taken yet
Don't walk towards the light
Still got those pins and needles
Turn back and hold the night
I'm not ready to be taken yet
This is not my time
I'm not ready yet
I'm not ready........after all
Album: The Visitor
Genre: Progressive Rock
Year: 1998
Lyrics:
Dead calm
Raining all over me
Too late
Sense of mortality
Dark skies
Threaten to swallow me
Down to the flame
While my flesh and my bone melt away
I defy you to stand on the crack in the ice
With the power of your hand
On the crack in the ice
Men
Raped and discarded
Are left dead
The vultures will feed on them
Lost cause
Tearing this life apart
Thrown to the flame
While my flesh and my bone melt away
I defy you to stand on the crack in the ice
With the power of your hand
On the crack in the ice
Take this moment so close to my heart
You held the white rose out
Just before we parted
Take this moment so far away in dreams
I can feel the thorns bite
But the flower died, it seems
Hold this feeling so close to my heart
You brought the passion out
Just before we parted
Hold this feeling so far away in dreams
I can feel the thorns bite
But the flower starts to bleed
I defy you to stand on the crack in the ice
With the power of your hand
On the crack in the ice
Album: Shrine Of New Generation Slaves
Genre: Progressive Rock
Year: 2013
Riverside official website : http://www.riversideband.pl/en/discography/shrine-of-new-generation-slaves
Lyrics:
Night outside grows white
I lie faceup in my shell
Open my eyes
Don’t feel like falling into blank space
Had allowed that life to drift
For I’ve chosen a different trail
When darkness fades
Don’t feel like falling into blank space
Want to be your light
Illuminate your smiles
Want to be your cure
Bridge between self and us
Want to be your prayer
Wipe the tears from your eyes
When the night returns
I won't collapse
I'm set to rise
Album: Shrine Of New Generation Slaves
Genre: Progressive Rock
Year: 2013
Riverside official website : http://www.riversideband.pl/en/discography/shrine-of-new-generation-slaves
Lyrics:
When I scroll back through our recent days
I try to understand
How we could forget
We made a promise to one another
That nothing would ever break what we had
Now we never talk when we fall apart
We never talk when we fall apart
We pretend we’re ok
Surrounding ourselves with one-way friendships
And so-called friends
I know we got used to new us
And I don’t want to be there
I don’t want to be there
Where we are
I know we got used to new life
And I don’t want to be there
No, I don’t want to be there
Where we are
Silence fallen between
All the doors are locked
All the words unsaid
And we’re still afraid of time
Started to keep ourselves
At a distance that we could control
Not too close
Not too far
Now we never talk when we fall apart
We just never talk when we fall apart
We pretend we’re ok
By filling up our inner space
With little hates
And so-called love
I know we got used to new us
And I don’t want to be there
I don’t want to be there
Where we are
I know we got used to new life
And I don’t want to be there
No, I don’t want to be there
Where we are
So walk away with me
Album: Shrine Of New Generation Slaves
Genre: Progressive Rock
Year: 2013
Riverside official website : http://www.riversideband.pl/en/discography/shrine-of-new-generation-slaves
Lyrics:
Into this world
I came
Filled with fear
Crying all the time
I guess my birth
Left a great scar
On my heart and mind
Now I hand-pick cotton
And struggle to sing
"I am happy and I do what I like"
But my voice breaks
And I start to hate
My singing
And simply everyone
Mama told me
Be good
Work hard
And love Mr. God
Every Sunday
I lie
Trying to realize why
Ain't nothing more to say
Your Honor
Don't look at me like that
The truth is
I am a free man
But I can't enjoy my life
I came to a stand still
With lies and hopes inside my head
Always seemed too late to turn
And too soon to understand
No, I don’t have a stomach ache
It's just my face...
I got stuck
I ran aground
I got used to spewing bile
I wonder whether all those years
Hadn't been a waste of time
So how am I doing?
Oh, I CAN complain
Smoke too many cigarettes
But I don't care...
Album: Shrine Of New Generation Slaves
Genre: Progressive Rock
Year: 2013
Riverside official website : http://www.riversideband.pl/en/discography/shrine-of-new-generation-slaves
Lyrics:
Day outside grows black
I lie faceup in my shell
Squeeze my eyes shut
And feel like falling into blank space
Had allowed that life to drift
For I’ve chosen a different trail
When light fades
I feel like falling into blank space
So you realized
Ingested real life
Grew up in the time of
Pushing through the crowds
So you realized
Chose unreal life
Settled in the mobile
Handy pocket size
Wanted to be your light
Illuminate your smiles
Wanted to be your cure
Bridge between self and us
Wanted to be your prayer
Wipe the tears from your eyes
But I turned my back
Could have been a tree of dawn
Rooted deeply in the ground
Bearing fruits
Far away from falling into blank space
But I took refuge from myself
In the crowded solitude
Now I dash
And feel like falling into blank space
Wanted to be your light
Illuminate your smiles
Wanted to be your cure
Bridge between self and us
Wanted to be your prayer
Wipe the tears from your eyes
But I turned my back
Got lost inside
Album: Shrine Of New Generation Slaves
Genre: Progressive Rock
Year: 2013
Riverside official website : http://www.riversideband.pl/en/discography/shrine-of-new-generation-slaves
Lyrics:
I can’t afford to be silent
I can’t afford to lose my stand
What matters is to be in view
I am seen therefore I am
I can satisfy my hunger
I can satisfy my thirst
What about the feeling of importance
Now I’ve got my chance
This is just what I need
To be in everyone’s eyes
To be hard-wired to all brains
And control all their minds
In the center of attention
TV
Glossy magazines
My private life is public
I sell everything
Days are getting shorter
They’ll forget about me soon
So I jump on the bandwagon
With no taboos
This is just what I need
To be in everyone’s eyes
To be hard-wired to all brains
And control all their minds
But what if we start to talk
Not only say out loud
What if we sift the babble
From what really counts
What if we disappear
Go deeply underground
What if we hide away
From being stupefied
You and I
Thousand eyes
Album: Shrine Of New Generation Slaves
Genre: Progressive Rock
Year: 2013
Riverside official website : http://www.riversideband.pl/en/discography/shrine-of-new-generation-slaves
Lyrics:
I could be foreign forever
To your otherland
I could be foreign forevermore
To your promiseland
One life was great
But another…
No, I don’t want to live on the edge
I won’t follow you
I found my own
I will stay
I could be foreign forever
To your hastenland
I could be foreign forevermore
To your neverland
One little brick then another
And I will build that wall anyway
You can find me there
Rested and calm
Without mask
This is where I will stay
Look around where we are
Who we are
What we always want
Twenty four
Seven
Three sixty five
Sometimes little more
I was chasing your shadow
Not knowing
I’d become your slave
I could be foreign forever
To your otherland
I could be foreign forevermore
To your promiseland
One life was great
But another…
No, I don’t want to live on the edge
I won’t follow you
I found my own
I will stay
I could stay forevermore
I've said a farewell
To never-ending smiles
I did not look good in red
From my place I can finally see
How much of this shade I called myself
Was me
And what was left behind
Album: Shrine Of New Generation Slaves
Genre: Progressive Rock
Year: 2013
Riverside official website : http://www.riversideband.pl/en/discography/shrine-of-new-generation-slaves
Lyrics:
I live surrounded by cherished memories
I have a weakness for collecting them
Alphabetize
As far as I recall my childish rituals
Icons of that world
Always filled my shelves and heart
Now I shelter from the rain
Hole up in my cage
You don’t have to think too much today
They filled in for your brain
Curled up
Deprived
Curled up
Deprived
I shut away
In a world of synonyms
And handwritten notes
My own puppet performances
Endless bedtime stories
I could touch the moon
And switch off the sun
I could have my dreams
And dream about better times
Now I shelter from the rain
Hole up in my cage
You don’t have to think too much today
They filled in for your brain
Curled up
Deprived
Curled up
Deprived
I shut away
Please don’t call my name
Album: Shrine Of New Generation Slaves
Genre: Progressive Rock
Year: 2013
Riverside official website : http://www.riversideband.pl/en/discography/shrine-of-new-generation-slaves
Lyrics:
We are escalator walkers
In the brand new temple
Came to reshape identities
Shed our skins
Be reborn
And feel the same
That no one here is real
We are moving standees
In the shrine of choices
Incarcerated between floors of
Hope and disappointment
We feel the same
That no one here is real
We feel the same
That nothing here is still
We are stairway drifters
Made of cyber paper
Google boys and wiki girls
Children of the self care
We come to pray every single training day
Looking for a chance to survive
Buying reduced price illusions
Floating into another light
Melting into another lonely crowd
We feel the same
That no one here is real
We feel the same
That nothing here is still
***
Used to have our love
And now
Disposable needs
Used to have our souls
And now
Refined new skins
Take
Use
Throw Away
Forget
***
Dragging our feet
Tired and deceived
Slowly moving on
Bracing shaky legs
Against all those wasted years
We roll the boulders of sins
Up a hill of new days
In the arms of the setting sun
Our burdens cast shadows over fiery ground
Catching final rays
We try to reach the journey’s end
Before the sun will die
We sense we’re almost there
But the night comes too soon
And we crawl in the dark
Not ready to face up
To unknowing lies
We ache to go back
But we can’t stop
So we walk ahead
Dr. Blair, Dr. Blair, Dr. J. Hamilton, Dr. J Hamilton
All alone now
Except for the memories
Of what we had and what we knew
Everytime I try to leave it behind me
I see something that reminds me of you
Every night the dreams return to haunt me
Your rosary wrapped around your throat
I lie awake and sweat, afraid to fall asleep
I see your face looking back at me
And I raise my head and stare
Into the eyes of a stranger
I've always known that the mirror never lies
People always turn away
From the eyes of a stranger
Afraid to know what
Lies behind the stare
Is this all that's left
Of my life before me
Straight jacket memories, sedative highs
No happy ending like they've always promised
There's got to be something left for me
And I raise my head and stare
Into the eyes of a stranger
I've always known that the mirror never lies
People always turn away
From the eyes of a stranger
Afraid to know what
Lies behind the stare [Lies behind my stare]
How many times must I live this tragedy
How many more lies will they tell me
All I want is the same as everyone
Why am I here, and for how long
And I raise my head and stare
Into the eyes of a stranger
I've always known that the mirror never lies
People always turn away
From the eyes of a stranger
Afraid to know what
Lies behind the stare
Eyes of a Stranger
Under surveillance from the camera eye
Searching high and low
The criminal mind found at the scene of the crime
Handcuffed and blind, I didn't do it
She said she loved me
I guess I never knew
But do we ever, ever really know?
She said she'd meet me on the other side
But I knew right then, I'd never find her
I don't believe in love
I never have, I never will
I don't believe in love
It's never worth the pain that you feel
No more nightmares, I've seen them all
From the day I was born, they've haunted my every move
Every open hand's there to push and shove
No time for love it doesn't matter
She made a difference
I guess she had a way
Of making every night seem bright as day
Now I walk in shadows, never see the light
She must have lied 'cause she never said goodbye
I don't believe in love
I never have, I never will
I don't believe in love
I'll just pretend she never was real
I don't believe in lovev I need to forget her face, I see
it still
I don't believe in love
It's never worth the pain that you feel
No chance for contact
There's no raison d'etre
My only hope is one day I'll forget
The pain of knowing what can never be
With or without love it's all the same to me
I don't believe in love
I never have, I never will
I don't believe in love
I'll just pretend she never was real
I don't believe in love
I need to forget her face, I see it still
I don't believe in love
It's never worth the pain that you feel