Leaving behind this realm of ghostsTheir pale grey echoes, their well of foesNo persecution by things I did wrongI’ll be gone Live life from a whisper to a sighYou might as well end itIf you keep a close watch on your timeYou might not ever spend it This rose of glass for the tender blindA … Lees verder
Put on a suit for the eveningYou’re not too sure that it’s rightClosing the door as you’re leavingTurning the key to the night The smile on the moon seems to mock youYou feel you’re caught in the lightPeople walking behind youYou want to run from their eyes There’s always someone in the crowdThat loves you, … Lees verder
There’s no master of the inward flowYou have to learn the art of letting goA surrender to the motion You cling to things designed to weigh you downFight the river just to keep your groundAnd you wonder why you’re tired There’s a whisper, a ghost that sings your nameA siren’s promise that drives you half … Lees verder
.You are just a childSo much for you to conquerSo much to endure while you’re still so pureWith a mind of your ownTo search the unknown (you do) Chorus:I watch myself in youStill undamaged, you’re a mirrorAn undistorted viewOf my being without armour You’re my sunshine girlA crimson leaf in autumnMy mood indigoIs lifted by … Lees verder
Step up on this stone hereAnd you’ll tumble downDeep inside your mem’ryTo the lost and found of infant sounds Where did all the pain startWhere does it waitDeaf to all these questions‘cause you’re so afraid Of shadows in darknessThe hands of the heartlessAnd your veilHides your features so frail Closets full of worriesWhisper secrets you … Lees verder
Night became morningClouds of inkAbove the motorwayAnd behind usThe commencing day Layers of coloursSilent screenImages ariseAnd behind usWas a hidden sunrise In the sparse light of morningSo near to youLove’s whispered warningWe might get bruised I was enjoying the lightsThe lights on my dashboardFading out with the nightThose dashboard lights The miles we droveThe distance … Lees verder
I follow my whimsI’m capricious at heartI can’t help myselfWhen I go too far I follow my moodsThrough the state I am inI can’t deal with allThese minor sins Chorus:I’m driftingOut of touch with the shore lineAnd I’m climbing all the waves stillHoping I’ll do fineI’m driftingLetting the rules slideAnd I’m hoping that I’ll do … Lees verder
Here’s a little song that I wrote for youThat I wrote for youOn a Sunday morn’ Here’s a little tune I’d like you to hearI’d like you to hearWhen I’m gone Chorus:(I’ve) got a chocolate guitarMelting right where you areGot a chocolate guitarMelting right where you are There are things that I have to doAnd … Lees verder
You came into my life just nowBut then I’ve lived all these years beforeYou try to place me within your wallsYou try to make me what I am not Chorus You make the bars to your own cageNo rules for happiness in lifeYou draw maps for the futureYour lines are leading to our strife It … Lees verder
You’re far away but somehow I feelYou’re too close nowYour voice in my ear’s very realAfraid you’ll call now I’ve been rehearsing all the things that I should saySome verbal morphine for the pain Chorus: We’re worlds apart and you’re too close nowBridging the gap just made the distance stand out moreI need to rest … Lees verder
There’s a placeIn my mindIt’s where I goFrom time to time It’s where I walkWhen winter screamsAnd I’m in need ofSomething clean Sometimes when I dreamI’m going downGoing down there Chorus: Dolphin BayWhere the dolphins playDolphin BayAnd I can always stay When this is all overI’m going to build a homeIt’s going to be on … Lees verder
Sometimes I knowSometimes I careMoments I lostMoments so rare Chorus:Oh the passing yearsOh the passing years From a childhood balconyLooking belowInto the gardenOf too long ago Chorus So warm your facePressed against mineFrom close by I seeYour eyelids, your lines Chorus Bridge:Time is an innocent thiefTime is an innocent thief So here in this roomWith … Lees verder
On this naked bed we lieMy mind still taking tripsIn and out of sleep while IHear whispers from no lips They tempt me with immortal linesAnd wait for my replyI let the silence build a whileThen gracefully decline Chorus:I’m here with youAnd it’s more than enoughSleeping with youYou’re the one that I loveYou make it … Lees verder
Cold war, what’s it for You didn’t have to goI only tried to suggest a changeIn the streams that we followArrange the flowers of tomorrowWas it asking too much to alter your touch For the sake of JuneOr the lonely moonThese skies will leaveLooking for clouds to believeLooking for clouds when the rains won’t fallTo … Lees verder
And if you come or goIt will no longer hurt me soTenderness or hateIt will be the easy stateFor a while, since nothing seems to lastMay there be the illusionOf our dances in the past And if you give awayWhat was ours some dayAnd you drown whatever there was leftDon’t tell meLet it go, let … Lees verder
Why does it touch me,this quiver in your voicewhen you are unsure ?And why do the corals movewhen a bouquet is thrown by a bride in veil? Bridge I: It’s the build up that I feelof things gone wrong,of indifference displayedto brave and honest words They sing their little songsOutside my door and I manage … Lees verder
Why does it touch me,This quiver in your voice when you are unsureAnd why do the corals moveWhen a bouquet is thrown by a bride in veilIt’s the build up that I feelOf things gone wrongOf indifference displayedTo brave and honest words They sing their little songsOutside my door and I manage a smileYour childhood … Lees verder
You hide down insideDeny the passing warmthYou cry out your eyesAnd you blame everyoneYou blame everyone In the dead of nightYou’re left without hopeBut continue to fightAt the end of your ropeAt the end of your rope Bridge: Why don’t you come to my doorTo see if I’m stillStill in love with you
Sea weed in your hair at the sea pavilionjust sit and stare at the sea pavilionAt the sea pavilion everyone was drownedHad a certain charm, all those washed up clownsThat sat so still, so still Chorus: Such a peaceful place to beThe pavilion by the seaYou don’t have to talk to meThe pavilion by the … Lees verder
The king bows downTo the girl on the groundAs he watches the sun move westHis empire lost to the lords he crossedOn his cold and ceaseless quests He wants to love herShe must be his queenTo cover his lossesTo soften his spleen Chorus (in melody, not words) He’s a king with no crownBut his mind … Lees verder
(“Das Glück ist dort wo ich nicht bin” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) You grow up in films and pagesWait for your heart to bloomBut most love is kept in cagesAnd most hopes are led to ruin Your beauty’s begrudged yet fadingThe child that you were won’t sleepThe thieves of your years are raidingThe prizes you … Lees verder
(Duet) Broken guitars on Lullaby BeachIn tune with the sea, its sad symphonyThe bluest of sounds rests here in the deepNow sing me a song that puts me to sleep Just look at how the sunrays placeTheir gold upon the wavesThen tell me you are blind to beautyPain, like happiness will passA piece of broken … Lees verder
(Thank you John Irving for your beautiful line: ‘Keep passing the open windows’ which I borrowed furtively from your novel ‘The Hotel New Hampshire’) You take the world upon your shouldersAnd you find as you grow older it collapsesIt collapses on you And for all your golden wordsStifled cries will not be heard so you … Lees verder
Rain comes down and changes windowsThat we looked through once as solid heroesWhen my thoughts were swift in peaceful silenceIn the house I lived unstained by violenceWhen the rain, lovely rain soothed my brain Times have changed and things I longed forAre now strange and old not what I cried forWhen my mind was young … Lees verder
More barren still my blood runs onMy listless heart that beatsIts course around my dying sun I come to you and speak my linesYou break them with a sighToo weak and small to cry Chorus: Rites of passage show no goal to meSo relentlessNo place of rest nor thrones to sit uponI’m so defenseless I’m … Lees verder
I held your face for so longFor so longA fragile embrace for so longFor so long And I watched youWith your eyes closedIn the silence about to break Chorus:Those days are gone nowWe live with strangersThey talk and sleep in the rooms we sharedBut for a while then, there was a promiseLeft untouched in the … Lees verder
Is this new found life enough for youIs it worth the pain you’ve put me throughThey say I’ll be alrightIt’s just a matter of timeOnly time Victory might seem yoursBut at what costThe smallest battle’s wonThe big one lostWill you be alrightWhen I am over youLittle boy blue Things once held and loved now gone … Lees verder
Here in this roomOn a Spanish afternoonLove gone to ruinOn a Spanish afternoon The sun beating downOn this slumbering townLove without soundOn a Spanish afternoon A country so recluseClosed its blinds when I cried for you Falling from graceEverything out of placeLove lost its faceOn a Spanish afternoon A country so recluseClosed its blinds when … Lees verder
Your smile has grown wearyRestless your heartVows have been brokenTo make a new start Summer has passed nowInto autumn so stillThreats of the winterThe breath of its chill Please be sincerePlease Will you think of meWhen the storm quiets downCome to your sensesWhen I’m not around Please be sincerePlease… Will you think of meWhen your … Lees verder
If this is all there isAnd heaven sleeps on earthThen I can’t stand the weightOf every hopeless birth A word destroys a worldI carry scales aroundThe balance is disturbedBy every foreign sound Chorus:So if I do you wrongRemember my weaknessRemorse will come alongCovered in sweetness My boat sails up and downWith every changing tideI look … Lees verder