Underneath

Strip away the flesh and bone
Look beyond the lies you've known
Everybody wants to talk about a freak
No one wants to dig that deep
Let me take you underneath

Baby, better watch you step
Never mind what's on the left
You're gonna see things you might not wanna see
It's still not that easy for me underneath

A red river of screams
Underneath
Tears in my eyes
Underneath
Stars in my black and blue sky
And underneath
Under my skin
Underneath the depths of my sin
Look at me
Now do you see?

Welcome to my world of truth
I don't wanna hide any part of me from you
I'm standing here with no apologies
Such a beautiful release
You inside of me

A red river of screams
Underneath
Tears in my eyes
Underneath
Stars in my black and blue sky
And underneath
Under my skin
Underneath the depths of my sin
Look at me
Now do you see?
Underneath...

Welcome to my world of truth

A red river of screams
Underneath
Tears in my eyes
Underneath
Stars in my black and blue sky
And underneath
Under my skin
Underneath the depths of my sin
Look at me
Now do you see?
Underneath, underneath, underneath
Look at me
Do you see?
Yeah yeah yeah yeah!

Look at me
Do you see?

Welcome to my world of truth
I don't wanna hide any part of me from you

Given and Denied

Which way to the fountain of my youth I wonder?

Which way to the years I've let go by?

Let a thirsty one drink in its memories while the water still flows sweet and crystal clear.

For yesteryear
Oh to see the sun's eclipse

On the horizon like ships

Sailing way away from here

Oh just one more time my dear

Before I'll go hear me out 

Cuz of this there ain't no doubt

When it's time for curtain call

Just before the shadows...

Fall like a leaf in the wind on the ocean

Of blue like your eyes, in the twilight theater

Where symphonies play in a world without sound

We're given and denied

Give me back my innocence cuz I wish to dream again 

Like I never outgrew my old playground

Where the sun sets slowly with a golden crown

And the leaves sing lullabies 'round

Vacant swings

Give me those wings

Let me fly once again

Like I did way back when

I would gamble and win

To lift me high above the dim

Of the future we see...

 Does it hold something for me?

 I'm weightless again

Just before the shadows...

Fall like a leaf in the wind on the ocean

Of blue like your eyes, in the twilight theater

Where symphonies play in a world without sound

We're given and denied

Before I'll go hear me out 

Cuz of this there ain't no doubt

When it's time for curtain call

Just before the shadows...

Fall like a leaf in the wind on the ocean

Of blue like your eyes, in the twilight theater

Where symphonies play in a world without sound

We're given and denied

Change

You say you feel a chill in the season
Like something is falling apart
You say you can't hold it together much longer
And I should look after your heart

But I feel a change coming on
Rolling out of the blue like a storm
And it's bending your will like a willow tree twisting
Trying to regain its form

How does it make you feel
When you remember the times the two us lay here
In the arms of the world on the doorstep of heaven shining down

Do you feel a change coming on,
Rolling out of the blue like a storm,
And it's throwing your dollhouse world in disarray
So you can rebuild or conform

How I wish you'd only see
How your own choices make your dream
Come out shining true
before it can leave you
I wish that you could see
How your own choices make your dream
Come out shining true all around you

My worth is the look in your eyes
My prize
The smile playing tricks on your lips and I wonder again
Do you ever dream of the world like I do?

I too fear the change coming on
Rolling out of the blue like a storm
Can you hear it *scream* at the hurt that I knew

How I wish you'd only see
How your own choices make your dream
Come out shining true
before it can leave you
I wish that you could see
How your own choices make your dream
Come out shining true all around you


What is this chill at my heel
That makes the protections I've built around my pseudo world premiere
Tearing my utopian fiction apart as it happens to just pass along

I feel a change coming on
Rolling out of the blue like a storm
Crashing against my delirious thoughts where humanity's waiting alone

How I wish you'd only see
How your own choices make your dream
Come out shining true
before it can leave you
I wish that you could see
How your own choices make your dream
Come out shining true all around you

Tenuous

A single moment
Before the call that drew you to the sea
A single fragment
Of a loss that's buried deep in memory

In stillness, no comfort
In silence, awash in fervent dreams
In stillness, I see you
Returning back to me

A shrouded echo
Resounding waves that fall apon the shore
I feel you moving
To a place where I shall see you nevermore

Are You With Me?

Laughing like we're crazy
Nothing mattered, nothing fazed me
We were younger then
So much younger then

Everything seems rotten
Through the eyes of the forgotten
We were dumber then
So much dumber then

Well have I judged a book by how it's bound?
Am I lost or am I found?
And are you with me?

Are you with me now?
Come back from the dead
You've been inside your head
For too long
Are you with me now?
Find the places that scare you
Come on I dare you
Are you with me?

Are you with me?

The years have took their toll
And all the things I can't contol
Come back to haunt me now
Almost taunt me now
What's left to be afraid of?
I found out what I was made of
And I've come this far
But we both have the scars

Well have I judged a book by how it's bound?
Am I lost or am I found?
And are you with me?

Are you with me now?
Come back from the dead
You've been inside your head
For too long
Are you with me now?
Find the places that scare you
Come on I dare you
Are you with me?

Are you with me?
Are you with me?
Are you with me?

Well have I judged a book by how it's bound?
Am I lost or am I found?
And are you with me?

Are you with me now?
Come back from the dead,
You've been inside your head
For too long
Are you with me now?
Find the places that scare you
Come on I dare you
Are you with me?

Fight For You

You made your bed
So go and lie in it
You got your cake
I hope you choke on it
Is this is what you want?
Cuz this is what you get
You've dug your grave
So go and die in it

If you think I'm gunna fight for you
You're wrong
If you think I'm gunna fight for you
You're wrong
You're wrong

You made you choice
So go live with it
You wealked out that door
So I'm closing it
There's no looking back
And there's no regret
I don't forgive
And I don't forget

If you think I'm gunna fight for you
You're wrong
If you think I'm gunna fight for you
You're wrong
If you think that I would cry for you,
Shed a single tear for you
If you think I'm gunna fight for you
You're wrong

After all these years
Why should I believe you?
When I've seen you lie,
A thousand times before
And after all these years
Why should I forgive you?
When I know that deep inside you're still a whore

If you think I'm gunna fight for you
You're wrong
If you think I'm gunna fight for you
You're wrong
If you think that I would cry for you,
Shed a single tear for you
If you think I'm gunna fight for you
You're wrong
You're wrong

This is Home

They've got some very valid questions
about my songs and my intentions
and the fact I've never settled down;
"isn't anybody wondering where you are?"
Well
 This is home:
the stage, the states,
all I own in one suitcase
all the people that I've loved
left back in places I've called home...

Let's play truth and consequences:
First the truth? I'm not that interested
I've been burned a couple times,
so now I'm the one who starts the fires-
And I probably still believe in love;
the problem is, I just can't trust
So where does that leave us?
Well
How about those consequences?
I've got this moat around my heart
chock full of mud and monsters
and my archers never sleep-
so use your powers of observation
this stage is more than just the lights and all the adulation:
it's the only place where I can be alone... without --- being alone.
This is home:
the stage, the states
all I own in one suitcase
all the people that i've loved left back in places I've called home...

Someday, I'll stop this war
Someday I'll fall in love,
and know what love is for...
but for tonight, I'll sell the box
and keep the contents under lock and key
and by the time you realize you've lost the game,
I'll be another several homes away,
up on some solitary stage
alone again.