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War & Peace - The Walls Have Eyes

YOU HAUNT ME

You haunt me
You own me with your eyes
Bewitch me to decide
What you want- what you want

You hold me
You keep my heart at hand
To say that’s all we had
Is that all- is that all

True memory
I’d lift you up forever
You disagree
And that’s why so endlessly

You haunt me
Your vision draws the flame
That can’t be burned away
Never gone- never gone

Why make-believe
All the broken words are borrowed
I’ll never breathe
In this stranglehold you keep

You haunt me
You touch me there inside
Emotion never hides
Where you’ve gone- where you’ve gone

True memory
I’d lift you up forever
You disagree
And that’s why so endlessly

You haunt me
You haunt me
You haunt me
You haunt me

THE WALLS HAVE EYES

A bolted door lets in no light
The subtle chains encroaching every night

There you are
Asleep
Alone you hide and
Tried so hard
To keep it
Held inside, but you know

You know that
THE WALLS HAVE EYES
You know that
THE WALLS HAVE EYES

A trusted child so coiled in shame
An open gaze into the eyes of pain

There you were
Asleep
To what went on
Before it’s done
Revealing
All you fear and you know

You know that
THE WALLS HAVE EYES
You know that
THE WALLS HAVE EYES
You know that
THE WALLS HAVE EYES

As long as you keep awake
A stone reply
And looking to hide away
THE WALLS HAVE EYES

THE SHELL

I’m not crawling
Not falling in
A soul escape

Trying for something
Cuz no one wins
Alone afraid

You’ve had too much rope
To pull you down
I can’t leave you there too long

Back in THE SHELL

You’ve been hiding
Confiding in
A place of gray

No concealing
All the feeling
From far away

Closed this window to your world before
And I can’t tell you what’s gone wrong

Back in THE SHELL
Back in THE SHELL

THE LINE IN THE SAND

What lies beneath
The fringes of a dark perception
Caught in the stream
A cold and reckless wave

That’s washin, that’s washin
That’s washin away

THE LINE IN THE SAND

Frayed at the seams
A borderline of devastation
Thrown to extremes
Of decadence and pain

THE LINE IN THE SAND
I’m drawn to
THE LINE IN THE SAND

The crash pollution atmosphere
Like walking back in time
State of fear
Drawing near
To the line

THE LINE IN THE SAND
I’m drawn to
THE LINE IN THE SAND

STRANGER IN MY OWN LAND

So cold the tension
So dark the blinded eye
Paid no attention
Til the price it got too high

The hand of fate
Struck you down
Security buried away
A tragic place
How can you move
On and on and on and on

I don’t wanna be
A STRANGER IN MY OWN LAND
I don’t wanna hear
The silence all around
I don’t wanna be
A STRANGER IN MY OWN LAND
Like the angels watching over me

Like castles falling
No quarter’s left undrawn
Those spirits calling
Will be laid to rest too long

Return to dust
An early grave
Insanity carried away
A fatal end
How can you go
On and on and on and on

I don’t wanna be
A STRANGER IN MY OWN LAND
I don’t wanna hear
The silence all around
I don’t wanna be
A STRANGER IN MY OWN LAND
Like the angels watching over me

Fear of dreaming lying in my sleep
Roaring vision coming over me
I only understand
Half empty glass in hand
What is left of my own land

I don’t wanna be
A STRANGER IN MY OWN LAND
I don’t wanna hear
The silence all around
I don’t wanna be
A STRANGER IN MY OWN LAND
I don’t wanna hear
The silence all around
Like the angels watching over me
I don’t wanna be
A STRANGER IN MY OWN LAND
Like the angels watching over me

Over me
I’m a stranger
A STRANGER IN MY OWN LAND
A STRANGER IN MY OWN LAND

ROCK AND ROLL BREAKDOWN

Standing on the stage
Lying in a rage
Vacant in the eyes
Caught up in the lies
Gotta realize

Looks like another
ROCK AND ROLL BREAKDOWN
Looks like another
ROCK AND ROLL BREAKDOWN
Breakdown

Downin’ with the ship
Ego on a trip
Out of body place
Mind in outer space
What you gotta face

Looks like another
ROCK AND ROLL BREAKDOWN
Looks like another
ROCK AND ROLL BREAKDOWN
Breakdown breakdown, why you gotta
Breakdown

Don’t wanna know that part of you
That aint gonna let any light come through
All I know is it don’t look good to me
What you see

REFLECTIONS

A voice is telling me with
Everything you’re feeling now you’re not alone
Been standing face to face, an image cast Mirrors made of stone

So why, oh why

REFLECTIONS haunting me
Another cold familiar place
Unending history
The more things change
The more they stay the same
REFLECTIONS haunting me
So many choices that I made
That I don’t have, I don’t have at all

I can’t ignore the things that keep repeating
Every time I look away
I’m so unsure and not just of myself
But every word I say

So why, oh why

REFLECTIONS haunting me
Another cold familiar place
Unending history
The more things change
The more they stay the same
REFLECTIONS haunting me
So many choices that I made
REFLECTIONS haunting me
REFLECTIONS haunting me
That I don’t have, No I don’t have
No I don’t have at all
Not at all

NO ONE IS LISTENING

The undrawn line
It don’t explain
The perfect sign
You won’t regain

It’s too far, too far, too far away

When children of the world cry out and
NO ONE IS LISTENING
When children of the world cry out and
NO ONE IS LISTENING

The path you roam
You still deny
The walls you’ve known
You can’t get by

They’re too hard, too hard, too hard to break

When children of the world cry out and
NO ONE IS LISTENING
When children of the world cry out and
NO ONE IS LISTENING
You sit there just watching and knowing
It won’t go away

There’s only so much time
Before it all runs out
The child of passion’s born
Above the fallen cloud

DESPERATE HEARTS

Desperate Hearts- are calling out my name
Wandering souls- they hide their heads in shame
So tonight- I’ll cry myself to sleep
In my mind- emotions running deep

Desperate lives- they close their eyes in fear
Losing touch- with everything so clear
Only hope- that loneliness will fade
Find the sun- and ride the winds of change

Desperate Hearts- they hide
Running away in need
They’re too lost- to find
That broken hearts will bleed
They’ll find a time
To turn around, everything and save
Those Desperate Hearts

Empty arms- reaching out to feel
Broken ties- with anyone that’s real
So before- it slips out of your hands
Look away- but try and understand

Desperate Hearts- they hide
Running away in need
They’re too lost- to find
That broken hearts will bleed
They’ll find a time
To turn around, everything and save
Those Desperate Hearts

CITY IN FLAMES

One for all and all for one
Just as we see what justice has done
Where some are gonna wallow in luxury
It’s everybody else they refuse to see

No it’s never gonna last
Cuz they’re tearing it down
And you better learn fast
Or you’re just gonna find

A CITY IN FLAMES

Life and liberty for all
Some are gonna stand, but most will fall
The only hope we got for the human race
Is if we put the pieces back, in their place

Will it ever change fast
How the way things are run
It’s a question you should ask
Or you’re just gonna find

A CITY IN FLAMES
A CITY IN FLAMES

BLACK IN THE MIRROR

Somewhere in the darkness
Held a knife, but not the blade
Shadow’s getting longer
Of a ghost I’ve been afraid

I’d see no reflection
See no reflection

Only BLACK IN THE MIRROR
Alive but not so well
The day was getting nearer
That I never would find out what time would tell
The BLACK IN THE MIRROR
Made it so much clearer
That I deserve, I deserve much more

The chain of misfortune
You’ll carry to the grave
Signs all around you
But you’ve buried them all away

You got no reaction
Got no reaction

Ride out- unshaken
Inside insecure
Cried out- in silence
No hiding

Your enemy agony
Misery fantasy

FINALE

Here we are
In all the discontent
Couldn’t rise up
To slow a long descent

Talk about something
Right in front of you, all along
Now so many miles from home

Here we are
This unspoken- shell is broken
Gone this far
To only turn away
This could be
Evolution- no solution
In the dark
Blind man leads the way

WALK AWAY

A faded picture from your heart
Was all you left for me
I’m still waiting, standing here
To see what I could see

Your love I borrowed just like time
It wasn’t mine to keep
But the love we shared
I thought was there
And now you have to leave

Just walk away
There’ll be no more tomorrows
Just walk away
You won’t be there for me
From far away
I tried to say I’m sorry
But I can’t find a way
(to) just walk away

Couldn’t see for I was blind
The hurt you hide inside
I didn’t mean to break your heart
I wish it had been mine

And as another day unfolds
Don’t know what it means
Was it love we had
Or love gone bad
Still the love we need

Just walk away
There’ll be no more tomorrows
Just walk away
You won’t be there for me
From far away
I tried to say I’m sorry
But I can’t find a way
(to) just walk away

I’m still standing, waiting here
Waiting for a sign
I didn’t mean to break your heart
I wish it had been mine

Just walk away
There’ll be no more tomorrows
Just walk away
You won’t be there for me
From far away
I tried to say I’m sorry
But I can’t find a way
(to) just walk away

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