Lyrics
Pieces
I fly so high I can’t get enough.
The further up the further down.
I’m coming home, or maybe not.
Time will surly tell.
So much for picking up pieces of a decent memory.
Leave it behind you, it will remind you of the days.
And years you spent and tears you wept, that kept you locked away.
Behind close doors the more you fear, the more you stay the same.
So much for picking up a decent memory,
leave it behind you, let it be and let it breathe.
Don’t wake the demons if they lay sleeping.
You dig your well so passionately it deepens.
So wide that darkness penetrates and steals the light away.
So much for picking up pieces of a decent memory.
Leave it behind you, it reminds you of the grains.
Of hour-glass sand, you counted as it slipped right through your hands.
Leave it be, let it sleep gently in peace.
Don’t wake the demons if they lay sleeping.
You dig your well so passionately it deepens.
So wide that darkness penetrates and steals the light away.
So much for picking up pieces of a decent memory.
Leave it behind you, it remind you of the pain…
Oh it falls like rain, down on the dust that remains.
I seen lightning crawl across the heavenly blade.
Still i can’t find a decent memory.
Oh I’ve seen season without reasons.
I’ve seen the lone divide that separates us all.
On angel wings I come burning through this dream.
What my nature was I can’t recall
(1 2 3 4)
I fly so high, that I, just can’t get enough.
The further up, the further down.
I’m coming home, or maybe not.
Time will surly tell, this hell from the well.
You dig so passionately it deepens.
So wide that darkness penetrates and then weakens.
Don’t wake your demons inside, if they lay sleeping.
So much for picking up pieces, of a decent memory.
Leave it behind you, it reminds you of the pain…
Wishing Well
She never laughs at jokes I tell.
She looks me in the eyes, and says she sees the oceans wide.
Her love is like a precious shell.
But she lives so deep in the well.
On the road to Bethany, on a journey to see the king.
As I hear her faintly through the breeze, but
She’s too deep inside to see her eyes, so
I have to judge by her cries.
She whispered sweet necessities.
Her heart is broken.
She’s down upon on her knees.
God has forgotten this child. All alone out in the wild.
She never laughs at jokes I tell.
She looks me in the eyes, and says she sees the open skies.
Her love is like a wind swept halo.
But shes too deep inside to see her eyes.
So I have to judge by her cries.
She acts just like a little girl.
There’s little to this world, when your thoughts are of it all unfurled.
Her ecstasy is unknown and she lives so far from a home.
She never laughs at the jokes I tell.
She wishes in the well.
Instead of wishing well.
Top of the World
She rocked the cradle from the day I let her in.
She walks the tightrope with hope in both hands.
The crystal meanings, are all but bleeding.
I see the needle and thread.
My mother told me once in a dream, all angels have two wings.
And they’re more beautiful than anything, you’ve ever seen.
She never really thinks too much about it, about it.
My life’s an open book, but no one took a look,
no one took the time to read between the lines.
And the silence grows within the temple throes.
Well the pillars stand apart, as the oak tree and cypress grow,
not in each others shadow.
I say its whispering in the wind, she thinks I’ve lost it again.
She never really thinks too about it.
So I’m gonna shout it…
Top of the world.
Genus and insanity are as close as a fit of rage is to shedding a tear
Gandhi cried an eye for an an eye,
Makes the whole world blind.
She never really thinks to much about it.
So I’m gonna shout it… on
Top of the World.
Way up in the blue sky, up above the clouds white.
We’re All High.
On top of the world.
She never really thinks too much about it.
So I’m gonna shout it.
On top of the world.
Raged to Ruin
Baby, if i tried to buy the cow, you’d spill the beans, Josephine.
Mary, quiet to the contrary, my garden varies from dream to dream.
Baby, I ask you what you want, and you tell me you haven’t got a clue.
Well maybe, if I had the world to give. You’d ask me too for the moon.
Lord you don’t know what a woman done to me.
She’s like a light thats so bright it blinding to see.
I sing to bring some meaning, but my feeling are left reeling.
Lady, I ask if your heart is true.
And she laughs the fool, shes made of you.
Fading, I ask her if she’s knows shes alive.
She only cries, and says maybe when shes died.
My woman made me stupid.
She’d make a blind man thirst for sight.
I ask her what shes doing here, she don’t even care.
She can’t even tell if its day-time or her nightmare.
Just because, life’s a dream.
Don’t forget your awakening.
Don’t sleep, endlessly in the deep ocean of mind.
Don’t reap or weep for seed you’ve sown.
You’re not alone we all must surrender to her.
My woman made me stupid.
She’d make a blind man thirst for sight.
I ask her what shes doing here, she don’t even care.
She can’t even tell heaven from hell.
Hey hey, woman where is cupid.
I’m gonna shoot that stupid cherub down to the ground.
My woman raged to ruins the love there I had found.
My woman made me stupid.
She’d make a blind man thirst for sight.
I ask her what shes doing here, she don’t even care.
She can’t even tell heaven from hell.
My woman made me stupid.
She’d make a blind man thirst for sight.
Until it Walks Away
You never know just what you got until it walks away.
I can tell just by the look in your eyes as they fade away.
Now life’s got to passing me by and taking away.
On the porch swing I’ll spend my time in a pouring rain.
Well I ain’t got much timing, but I’ve got a melody.
I call my-self a man, but I’m just a travesty.
It’s something I have known.
And something I have grown to love.
Something that I’ve held.
Something I know all too well.
You never know just what you got until it walks away.
I can tell just by the look in your eyes as they fade to grey.
Now I’ve got to having my time being take away.
You say that its all on me babe,
then why is it you’re crying every day.
Well there’s two paths to walk down in this life I’ve found.
Well there’s snakes in the grass, and its always greener where you stand.
As shadows fade upon the hills through the weeping willows.
Darkness consumes then swallows you under a crescent moon.
It’s something I have known.
And something I have grown to love.
Something that I’ve held.
Something I know all too well.
You never know just what you got until it walks away.
And if you don’t like the way I talk I’ll start singing.
If you know whats good for you you’ll start praying.
Well there’s two paths to walk down in this life I’ve found.
Well there’s snakes in the grass, and its always greener where you stand.
As shadows fade upon the hills through the weeping willows.
Darkness consumes then swallows you under a crescent moon.
It’s something I have known.
And something I have grown to love.
Something that I’ve held.
Something I know all too well.
All too well.
Sometime A Friend
(Mostly an Enemy)
Sometime a friend will change his mind.
Sometime a friend won’t find the time.
Sometime a friend will turn away.
Leave you hanging from the gallows pole to swing.
Sometime a friend wont be there at all.
Sometimes you’ll wonder why you even called.
Sometime a friend is more an enemy of soul.
Bury the hatchet break the mold.
Sometime a friend wont be there at all.
Sometime a friend will bury you alive.
So try to survive by what lies inside.
Sometime a friend will see you at the finish line.
Then ask you where is your lost time.
Sometime a friend will bury you alive.
Sometimes you find a friend less an angel with wings.
And more another passer by, or just a fading memory.
Sometime a friend will knock you out on the floor.
just before you can get a foot in through the door.
Sometime a friend becomes an enemy of soul.
How did we fall so far from days of old.
Sometime a friend mostly an enemy of soul.
I guess the best in man is still yet to unfold.
Sometimes a friend, mostly an enemy.
Sometime a friend will take away what you cradle, in your arms.
In your arms.
Sometimes a friend, mostly an enemy of soul.
Sometime a friend will take away what you cradle in your arms.
Byzantine Guillotine
I keep my demons on a leash right in front of me.
They lead the way like a pack of wolves.
Bold and alive. No shoulder to cry on.
I survive by believing I’m strong.
I might find a means to an end, to mend the wound.
I may indulge the demons needs but believe you me.
I’ve got a tight grip on the beasts, least they cease to obey.
I spend each day awakening to my heartbeat.
Echoing dreams of a byzantine guillotine.
Off with their heads, painting the roses red.
Scenes of rape in the arroyo is what Morrison said.
He played us all for a fool thats the golden rule.
Do unto others as they do unto you.
John Lennon once said Paul was dead,
Just to feel alive, just to get a rise.
We all cover over open graves before the day of rest.
Vesting our spirits with our fears and so.
Our crowns have begun to wane on our hearts.
Find a friend with bread and wine and a kind story to tell.
But here is wisdom if his well runs dry.
Don’t let anyone take your life, or its.
Off with their heads, painting the roses red.
Strawberry fields forever, is how Lennon saw it
He played us all for a fool that’s the golden rule.
Do unto others as they do unto you.
So who needs friends? In the end. Fuck freedom to be,
If no one even bothers to see or try to believe.
They all just use me and tease my soul with thoughts of a better mold.
And cold rivers that flow with their love but above all its.
Off with their heads, painting the roses red.
Scenes of rape in the arroyo is what Morrison said.
Off with their heads, painting the roses red.
Strawberry fields forever, is how Lennon saw it.
They played us all for a fool thats the golden rule.
Do unto others as they, do unto you.
Wildflower Seedlings
So we fell, a pair of angel wings.
Some of the finer thing to behold in your eyes.
And before the tide rises we’ll swallow our disguises.
So we hit the ground like a thunder bolt of lightning.
Sudden jolt, mind numbing horizons lay, before.
We all the more implore what was it all for?
And so we reap, and so we sow un-forgivness.
And so we preach so fundamentally.
So we found, this world as it turns a strange place.
To have come and gone around.
I guess thats the minarets calling to prayer again.
So we lay, in the sands of this new place,
and waste away with the years and the same old fears.
That took our breath away and gave us everything.
So we wait on broke and bended knee.
Bated like a fish, in a stream of consciousness.
As the bird builds its nest in a circle like the sunset.
We’ll lay down the same, way.
Drowning in each others dreams.
Wildflower seedlings.
Steel The Real
I race to pace with the reasons, face to face with the past.
Can’t replace the place of the feeling that nothings left.
I saw her face as its bleeding, only lonely regrets.
Taste the taste of freedom but it never lasts.
Laced the waste with the seasons, breezes blowing back.
Take the rest of the moon’s beams and watch it wax.
Take away the sun, fade to black.
Soon you’ll find the darkness creeping back.
Though I told you, that I needed you, though I breathe through you.
I sold you, as I needed food, now I bleed for you.
I case the same old fields as when I was five.
I steel the real uncertainties in my mind.
If you hadn’t walked out yesterday I might have stayed.
I might feel the need for one last embrace.
I steel the real in certain dreams unafraid.
I steel the real uncertainties one in the same.
So back the meaning with the feeling of dust in the wind.
Don’t ever trust what rust here and don’t give in.
Your right to choice or lose as much, then what do you lust for.
One foot in the grave and out of touch its all to much lord.
Though I told you, that I needed you, though I breathe through you.
I sold you, as I needed food, now I bleed for you.
If you’ve got no reason, if you’ve got no rhyme, then you got no line.
If you’ve got no timing, thats a crime not freedom, but you can have mine.
Swallow My Smile
Just like the way I pray, I drink today into yesterday.
Swallowed my smile, building a better form.
As the temple goes, so does the rose’s thorn.
So the bluebirds sang, and all the while, stole your laugher from me.
Swallow my smile, all the while, I’m kept tight with thorns to the tree.
I hear a blackbird singing from a withering branch as I dance so lonely.
I need the warmth of the sea.
Swallow my smile, I face the jaguar in a while.
Whispers are stolen like sweet kisses from your daughters baby blue eyes.
Outside the swollen starlight fills the air (night comes calling)
Gotta keep running, gotta keep gunning to reach the other side.
I feel that we were born, stronger than the enemy.
And if he survives I believe, we can be friends.
But what wing can coupe what wing can bend,
In silence and still keep its head steadily read toward the nest.
And bring you home, home, home.
I feel that we were born here, stronger than the enemy.
Bury the meanings deep in the ceilings and watch them all evening.
As I swallow my smile, the silence is bleeding.
Its more than a feeling so sing to me and bring me home.
Goliath Weight
There’s no easy words to say.
There’s no easy way to see the pain in your eyes.
There’s no easy tears to cry, there’s no easy way to die.
There’s no easy words to say.
Your minds disposed and exposed in your revelry.
You’ll never be to me what you once were inside this dream.
And I don’t know why, your hearts strings lie.
By and by on the wind.
There’s no easy words to say.
When your heart is broken and unspoken is the misery.
I’m in the middle of the road, as the cold wind is blowing on my face.
It’s a Goliath weight, like crackling thunder.
Tears of an ocean wide dreams never-ending.
Though we talk back its a laugh track.
Its the same old trap that ruins the masquerade.
There’s no easy words to say,
When your heart is heavy and laden.
There’s no easy words to say.
My wills imposed but its a rose by any name.
The warrior in me is dying from a bleeding heart.
Its a Goliath weight, like crackling thunder.
Tears of an ocean wide dreams never-ending.
So the nightmare grow as an unfolding fable.
Stable minds only rock the cradle to the grave.
Happiness is warm gun, yes it is.
I prefer live and let live.
There’s no easy words to say,
Thats how it goes when your chosen become your enemy.
You’ll never be to me what you once were inside this dream.
I don’t know why, your hearts strings lie.
By and by on the wind.
Its a Goliath weight.
Dreams never-ending.
Days of Thunder
Burning flame turn away from the willows.
Turn around and your folding nature.
I dream in lilac oceans, I stream in motion pictures.
Learning shame and you’ll fall away now.
Turn away and you’ll find them cages.
I see the time is wasted, I see the light unbroken.
Saw her face in a photograph sometime in the past.
But nothing ever last here.
I see the lightning crashing, I see the days of thunder.
Live and die in unfortunate fables.
Stable minds only rock the cradle.
I feel the creeping lions, I feel like a wounded tiger.
But nothing ever last here.
Paper trails left by the midnight sages.
I can relate their wisdom to natives.
I fear no conscious rising, I fear no new horizons.
You can’t turn back time or reason with fate.
Cause all the while the seasons they blow.
The winds of change and everywhere the song remains.
The same old same whats in a name.
A rose as sweet still has its thorns of pain.
I feel no need for labeling, I feel no need for weighing.
Saw her face in a photograph sometime in the past.
But nothing ever last here.
I see the lightning crashing, I see the days of thunder.
But nothing ever last here.
Breathe the Wave
I know, I’ll await, to see you, breathing.
I know there’s no time to hesitate.
Dawn has, broken, the words are, unspoken.
I know my head is laden.
I know there’s nothing in the air.
The weeping, willows, I’ve know, the soft parade.
I keep my demons in a cage.
Take it away, so far today, nothing I say, nothing has ended.
Nothing but waste, why allocate, I can’t relate, get out of town.
I’ve got to get out of this place.
I know, I’ll state, that life here, is bleeding.
The wounds are part of the game.
Don’t cry, don’t die, like soldier who’s enemies.
Have all but seen the whites of their eyes.
Take it away, so far today, nothing I say, nothing has ended.
You masquerade, and say I hold the blade away, I’ve got to say, I’m a little offended.
Why wont you just fade away?
How can I love the ones I hate?
(Why have you got to) Dragging me down.
(Why have you got to) Taking my crown.
(Why have you got to) Bringing me down.
(Why have you got to) Drowning me out.
Breathe the wave
Take it away, so far today, nothing I say, nothing has ended.
Nothing but waste, why allocate, I can’t relate, get out of town.
Why wont you just fade away?
How can I love the ones I hate?
No Day Like Yesterday
Do you like what you see when you open up the door.
Is there more behind your eyes then the dreams I’ve seen before.
When you close your eyes do you feel real, really real.
When you close your mind is it everything you need.
To make you believe.
Would you come around if I got on my knees.
Would you take my crown if I brake the leash.
If I sang out loud would you throw away the key.
Are you listening?
I’ll be waiting, I’ll be praying to the gods.
Take this book of souls and rewrite the whole.
Take your book of life and give me the knife.
Take your sacred rites and leave me to I’ll fight.
With all my might.
Take your enemies away and you’ll find life the same game.
Take your close friends in a room, too soon they’ll fade away.
Tune the guitar down and you’ll find it sounds, out of place.
Take away the pain and you’ll find life’s the same way.
Take away the love, and above all shove everyone out of your way.
Thats the nature of the game you play.
But this is the rub, between push and shove,
there’s got to be love.
Lock yourself in a cage and soon you will change.
Lock yourself in a room, and soon you’ll bloom.
Lock yourself away,
and you’ll find that skies are blue even while you’re so far away.
I’ll be waiting, I’ll be praying to the gods.
What have you found, staring back in the mirror?
Don’t back down and don’t be afraid of fear.
Don’t increase the dying on another day.
Don’t leash the lion when its out of its cage.
There’ no day like yesterday, then again we have today.
When the World Ends
I don’t want to know, all that you know.
I don’t want to be, what you think of me.
I don’t want to know, speak to me only with your eyes.
I don’t want to be, the one to see your disguise.
I don’t want to know, where you’re going, or where you’ve been.
I just want to know, where you’ll be when the world ends.
I don’t want to see you crying, for trying to lie to me.
I don’t want to see you waiting, on the perfect dream, the whole night wasted.
Don’t want to see you drowning, in mystery.
I don’t want to know, where your going, or where you’ve been.
I don’t want to follow, swallow up my pride,
Alive she cried, and cried inside.
Don’t want to see you dying, for giving your love to me.
I don’t want to see you waiting, hung to that tree’ a whole life wasted.
I don’t want to see to drowning, in the misery.
I don’t want to know, where your going, or where you’ve been.
I spent the whole night chasing, trying to prove my love for you.
All the while the starlight fading,
On the new horizon the dawn comes shining through.
I don’t want to know, all that you know.
I don’t want to be, what you think of me.
I don’t want to know, where your going, or where you’ve been.
I just want to know, where you’re gonna be.
When the world ends.
All lyrics written by Travis Jay Christofil
