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i come to you with strange fire, i make an offering of love, the incense of my soil is burned by the fire in my blood. i come with a softer answer to the questions that lie in your path. i want to harbor you from the anger, find a refuge from the wrath.
this is a message of love. love that moves from the inside out, love that never grows tired. i come to you with strange fire.
mercenaries of the shrine, who are you to speak for god? with haughty eyes and lying tongues and hands that shed innocent blood. who delivered you the power to interpret calvary? you gamble away our freedom to gain your own authority.
find another state of mind. grab hold. strange fire burns with the motion of love.
when you learn to love yourself, you will dissolve all the stones that are cast, you will learn to burn the icing sky and to melt the waxen mask. yes, to have the gift of true release, this is a peace that will take you higher. i come to you with my offering., i bring you strange fire.
this is a message of love. love that moves from the inside out, love that never grows tired. i come to you with strange fire.
crazy game, i never should have started to play, but now you couldn't tear me away cause love is sweet, sweet baby. so good to you and so bad and i fear, the situation's clear before my eyes. confusion wants to break me and it tries but i've been a little bit stronger from the start listen to my heart:
cause if you're ever believing i'm thinking of leaving look to the moon, cause it's a fact she may go wandering about but she always comes shining back and it's true, i'll wait for you.
you dry your tears, don't be thinking grey is here to stay. sometimes everything is in the way you're wanting to look at it, turn your view around, dry your eyes. eyes like yours should carry a smile, i haven't seen them sparkle in a while, give it one more try, dry your eyes.
cause if you're ever believing i'm thinking of leaving look to the moon, cause it's a fact she may go wandering about but she always comes shining back and it's true, i'll wait for you.
everybody loves you, and they want to know your story, you go riding out a mystery, concealed in all your glory, but when it comes to flesh and bones, you remind me of shallot, only made of shadows, even though your not. i remember how i spend all my energy and time with affected conversation, trying to pry inside your mind, you are as beautiful as truth, and as empty as a shell, and i came to you one night, and it make me feel like hell.
oh, to reach through all your surface, just to find an empty pool, and to suffer all your pride, as i lay down by your side, and you swallowed up my heart and left me a fool, left me a fool.
everybody loves a hero, an image to create, antithesis of everything inside ourselves we hate, but you'd better close your eyes when it's time for them to die, because you'd hate to think the life you'd build upon them was a lie.
oh, to reach through all your surface, just to find an empty pool, and to suffer all your pride, as i lay down by your side, and you swallowed up my heart and left me a fool, left me a fool.
i resign myself to silence. i will never blow your cover, no one ever has to know who the hero too for lover, but it comes to mind as you blaze on as brilliant as a star, how many you've left behind, how many casualties there are.
oh, to reach through all your surface, just to find an empty pool, and to suffer all your pride, as i lay down by your side, and you swallowed up my heart and left me a fool, left me a fool.
you followed me this far, did you find out what's inside? can you tell me what I'm doing? is it something i should hid? cause i don't know for sure, i don't wanna find out what i left there for.
i'm not scared and i'm not lonely. i'm not saving all my money of my breath. i'm not looking for an answer, i'm not asking anyone to second guess.
you told me all your secrets, so i filled you up with lies. now i'm living honestly, because i said goodbye. i can't go home anymore, i don't wanna find out what i left there for.
i'm not scared and i'm not lonely. i'm not saving all my money of my breath. i'm not looking for an answer, i'm not asking anyone to second guess.
i was losing all my senses, i was losing all control, it was getting so offensive, now you want me back for more, i just won't go.
if you think you know the answers, then you've got a lot of gall, cause it gives you satisfaction, knowing nothing at all. i don't care anymore, i don't wanna find out what i left there for.
i'm not scared and i'm not lonely. i'm not saving all my money of my breath. i'm not looking for an answer, i'm not asking anyone to second guess.
hey, jesus, it's me. i don't usually talk to you but my baby's gonna leave me, and there's something you must do. i am not your faithful servant, i hang around sometimes with a bunch of your black sheep, but if you make my baby stay, i'll make it up to you and that's a promise i will keep, hey, jesus, it's me. i'm the one who talked to you yesterday and i asked you please, please for a favor but my baby's gone away, went away anyway and i don't really think it's fair, you've got the power to make us all believe in you and then we call you in our despair, and you don't come through. hey, jesus, it's me, i'm sorry. i don't remember all i said, i had a few, no, too many and they went straight to my head, made me feel like i could argue with god but you know, it's easy for you, you got friends all over the world, you had the whole world waiting for your birth but now i ain't got nobody, i don't know what my life's worth. i'm not gonna call on you any more. i'm sure you've got a million things to do, all i was trying to do was to get through to you, get through to you because when i die and i get up to your doors i don't even know if you're gonna let me in the place, how come i gotta die to get a change to talk to you face to face?
(words and music: c. powers)
we used to walk in each other arm, "one on one," that's what you said. now the moon is a sliver in our eye, we stumble bleeding on this broken glass.
there's too much repetition, you know you're past the point of sane. all this broken glass you left behind, won't let you make a clean, clean walk away.
now we're crossing from the sacred ground, where we once held each other, each other's names. when the words are sparse, we feel we're so profound, but babe you know all i feel, i feel so ashamed.
there's too much repetition, you know you're past the point of sane. all this broken glass you left behind, won't let you make a clean, clean walk away.
there was a time when we gave everything, and it was true, true enough to bleed. but now you feel that you've got nothing left. if there's nothing to lose, then there's nothing to gain. walk away.
there's too much repetition, you know you're past the point of sane. all this broken glass you left behind, won't let you make a clean, clean walk away.
you know i'd still hold you, if i could, it's hard not to try and change try to change your mind. i'm a pillar of salt, i want you to understand. this is the last time, the last time i ever look behind. walk away.there's too much repetition, you know you're past the point of sane. all this broken glass you left behind, won't let you make a clean, clean walk away.
i'm in search of greener pastures, don't like my gar- den's what i said, although i'm working harder than last year, i'm still deep in the red, i am rowing as hard as i can, and they're selling me up a stream, i'm always one more step away from the american dream. i got a chip on my shoulder about the size of a mental block, i've got someone on the telephone trying to sell me a future in stock, maybe i work too hard to be happy, and i should practice letting go, but it's hard not to rock the boat when you're sailing against the undertow.
i want to slide into the black and wear the black mask, i might not get what i lack, but it doesn't hurt to ask if i want to sail, i need my life to be breezier i said, please, god, or someone, make it easier.
i went to sunday school every sunday swallowed the bait and i got the hook and when i needed something someday i would read the good book. tell me, what does it take to get ahead? sometimes i know i'd sell my soul when it looks like everybody else is flying, and i'm crawling in the hole, maybe if i open my own business, maybe if i buy the lottery ticket, someone tell me what is the secret to getting out of the thicket? give me more than just a sample, i need a whole lot of glory then my life become an example of the american success story.
i want to slide into the black and wear the black mask, i might not get what i lack, but it doesn't hurt to ask if i want to sail, i need my life to be breezier i said, please, god, or someone, make it easier.
when i let you go, i cursed myself with empty hands. strong enough to watch you walk, but not enough to understand. with spiteful eyes you burn for my grace. i was trying to stand outside of this, you were trying to save face.
you can say that i don't care, i don't care. you can hope that we still have something left to share. just between you, baby and me there's nothing there.
i finally found someone that i can hold. you ask me to defend myself, as if i shouldn't be so bold. get that look off of your face. i don't have the time, you don't have the place.
you can say that i don't care, i don't care. you can hope that we still have something left to share. just between you, baby and me there's nothing there.
what are you gonna do? I can't salvage any truth for you. Everybody else already knows and it hurts you to realize so leave well enough, enough alone…
you don't need my hands to help you understand, you don't need to hear my voice (you have no choice). so don't being throwing stones, the closer we get, the harder they come. even if your feeling alone, don't come home. when it ways up to you, you left it up to me.
you can go to the east to find your inner hemisphere. you say we're under the same sky; don't you realize, it's not that clear? i'm not your promised land, i'm not your promised one, i'm not the land of canaan, sweetheart, waiting for you under the sun.
i'm lonely tonight, i'm missing you now, i'm wanting your love, you're giving it out, i'm lonely tonight…
well, the meaning's changed, for what it's worth, it's just a senseless game. well i should think love, but it's fear, every time i hear your heartbeat strain. it's not the fallen man, it's not the call of time, it's just the london skyline, sweetheart, telling me you're not mine.
i'm lonely tonight, i'm missing you now, i'm wanting your love, you're giving it out, i'm lonely tonight…
my blood is running dry, my skin is, my skin is grow- ing thin, for every time you find yourself, you loose a little of me from within, it's just a raging cycle, why don't you bring it to the end of the line? from inside this existence, sweetheart, time is not on my side.
i'm lonely tonight, i'm missing you now, i'm wanting your love, you're giving it out, i'm lonely tonight…
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