Closed in, angry
Cold to the touch
But just not ready to give in
Born on these mean-streets
Filled with children and crack freaks
No, not much left worth living.

Should get out
But it's where he lives, knows about.
Can't turn from the youth burned
Where buildings crumble and fall

Where does it end?
Living for a hit and the check, my friend
'Till that comes 'round
He'll be going down again
Going Down
Again

Where does the time go?
Dreams and the heroes
Found on these same streets years ago.
Guess they've all left
Left him chained to this life
That he lacks the strength to stand or to fight in.

Over and out
Close the eyes to shut it out
But you can't fake
Waking up each day
Starting all over again.
CHORUS

Closed in, Angry
Cold to the touch
Without much left worth living
Born on these mean streets
Filled with children and crack freaks
You take and you hate, 'cause nothing's given.

Life is cheap
You can believe it on the street.
When the fires burn
Or the talk turns
To the shots heard while you're asleep
CHORUS

The subway is heavy
Streaking past the lights
Grinding through the darkness that I have no will to fight
I am blind to the next station
Blind to the car behind
As I am blind to the Conductor
Or the reason that he drives

The hour is turning
If we just keep moving
All is fine

I don't hear the feet above me
I don't even know they're there
The wheels squeal 'round some corner
Down deep in this dank air.

I am trying to deliever
Trying to make amends
I am trying to get somewhere but each stop blurs into the next
CHORUS

Dangerous business, the terror in the heart
Racing for connections, running blind until it stops
Always waiting between stations
With the shadows in the corners
Guess toward distance destinations
The only thing that's sure
CHORUS

Used to think it enough, to go halfway
Walk to the middle of the road
Take a step, show an effort
Could be by myself and not alone.
But never home
Always feeling something's broken
Drifting along wondering, "What's changed?"
Space only leaves a backdoor, calling.
And love needs a whole road to take.

I can't hold on to you halfway
If I can stay here, at all
I can't hold onto you halfway
Since you showed me how
To have it all

You used to say there was no halfway
Said we'd walk together or not at all
To take that step, that was the hardest
Believing you'd be here, if I fall
Now you're seeking out the distance
Trying to redraw those old lines
I'm drowning in your indecision
Haunted by the ghosts of better times.
CHORUS

In a dark dream, you are falling
Grasping, clawing, to catch hold.
Open your eyes, you hear me calling
And I will be here through it all.
CHORUS

Went out for the paper
Walking with couples huddled close on the ice
We've slipped a few times on those icy streets
Bruised and cold, have had to make out retreats
Why do we argue?
Why tear at the seams?
Why do we threaten to break off the dream?

If love were like listening
Simple as hearing the words
Well we'd never get hurt
And it would be so easy

And you wouldn't be there wanting more.-2-
Everyone has ears (I can hear)
So you wouldn't be there
And I wouldn't be here
Wanting more (Love comes clear) -3-
(In years gone and on and on and on)
Wanting more (To hold and not let go)

Somebody's waiting for my seat
Get my things and I'm back on the street.
It's easier walking alone, until you fall
And there's no hand to your feet
Why do we argue?
Why break what we've made?
Why do we pull ourselves away?
CHORUS

Soft light off the new snow
Skips through my window
And baths the entrance hall
Comes as a blessing soft caress
In this nuclear test of the heart
Why do we argue?
Is it the only way out?
Back away to save our selves?
CHORUS

You know you tremble when you sleep?
I touch your hair
Your eyes and mine meet
You rest back assured
In a world so full of danger and hope
Which is stranger?
Which is safe?
Where is home?
Well I don't know,

But my arms open wide
In one promise I can keep
Always, Always

I hold your hand
Along the street
And then again
As we drift off to sleep
Making plans
Stealing kisses
Sharing secrets that maybe two could bear to hold
Someone who knows
CHORUS

Enchanted dream
Beacon bright
A light that shows the future and past
Will it last?
I think so.
CHORUS

They say when you go
You know enough to follow the light
Floating up above, the end of your life
Watching all the people in a sprint to change the tide
But there is no point, there is no pain, just peace inside.

He was on TV, remembering the light
Floating with the angels come to lead him to the light
The open arms of Jesus there to hold him tight
Knowing everything and still embracing his whole life

He said when you go, you don't feel alone
Surrounded by the family lost to time
The memories weave, see why you were alive
He ought to know
Because he's seen it
At the passing,
I must believe.

So unexpected, the rain then the black ice.
Never felt a thing
Just let go, closed her eyes
The rest came in flashes
The police, the doctor's face
Watching from a distance from some safe other place

She said when you go
You embrace it.
No loss no regret or grief
Soft with the tide, drifting out to sea
She ought to know
Because she's seen it
At the passing,
I must believe

Tell me any other story
Wouldn't be so set to disagree
Sometimes the truth is how you say it
Sometimes the truth is not to be.
I don't know
I've never seen it
At the passing,
I must believe

Turn a corner
Just for what there's to see.
Taking the long road
New places to be
The asphalt, black and deep
Marred with the scars of defeat
Or walking the rail line
Silver shoestrings of our grandfathers' dreams
With a light ahead and a heart with wings
We go.

Say a prayer
For the candle in the window
Say a prayer
For the star bright at sea
When the storms roll and the winds blow
Keep them safe for me

Out across the heartland
It's flat
As far as you can see
And when the farms aren't growing
It's an ocean of brown waves, frozen
Season's change
But here you can feel time stand still
Some say it's heaven
But not for those who yearn to set those waves free.
With a light ahead and a heart with wings, we go.
CHORUS

Ramble and wander
Fortunes squandered along the way
But there's no delay
No rest from the pace
It is our hope, first evening star
There to lead us through the night
A single flame even the blind can see
To lead us to the light
Every generation has to make its own flight.
CHORUS

Day after day I wake up in the morning
Get ready for my job, climbing back into this boring
Life that I lead
My mind free to think this is all I'll ever enjoy

I think I had enough
Long term living
Making me feel dead and gone
From now on, I'm living my life
The way I want

Tired of the efforts
Tired of the giving
And punching the clock with a new day beginning
It takes up a lot
Just to come to know winning
As overtime spent on Saturday night

Fighting so hard to make a beginning
Finding a job, making a living
Trying to free myself from the unknowns
When that's the one thing I really enjoyed
CHORUS

We all know how work comes to be so important
But everyday I come home so exhausted
And hardly any wiser for putting in my time
Find it a waste of body and mind

I see I have more than I need just for living
I don't think it's worth all that I'm giving
Spending my time on assembly lines
Dreaming of things, I'll never enjoy.
CHORUS

I remember summer
Crickets singing in my ear
Sitting on the curb after dinner
Hoping that you'd appear

I remember summer
Warm breeze across my face
Like the hands I longed to touch me
When there were no words to say

I remember summer
Halter top, cotton dress
Lighting my imagination
And burning all across the rest

I can see it now
Like I'm almost there
Young arms reach out to hold me.-1-
Young voices calling out -2-
But you can't go back again
Heart pounds, I feel the wind
Maybe you can go back again -3-

I remember summer
Laughing in the dark sweet air
Running 'cross the golf course
Barely in our underwear

I remember summer
Hoping Gino didn't know
The guy we sent in for the six-pack
Waiting 'cross the street in the shadows

I remember summer
Road like a river under my bicycle light
Flying past the neighbors' doorways
Bursting into the night
CHORUS

I remember summer
Stealing corn from Dermott's farm
Dropping to our hands and knees
When this dogs start barking

I remember summer
Cold stream in the woods past Bowers Lane
Taking off our clothes go swimming
Lying on the rock buck naked

I remember summer
Like it was never going to end
Blue skies, bright lights, soft nights and suntans
CHORUS

In the Misty Morning
Snakes are singing
Dogs barking
In the Misty Morning
The Ancients are at work
Hypothesizing 'bout the increments

High up in the mountains
Scattered stones and ruins
Tall and broken.
High up in the mountains
Where the trees kneel to show the whole earth
Windy and open

A man steps from a forest lush
Eyes so deep with night
Strangers just get lost
Hands full of food found in the underbrush
There are no words
The fire warms him up.

In the Misty Morning
Signs of the invaders
In the Misty Morning
Rusted cannons, rotting wood
Rising from the shifting sands

High up on the cliffs
Where the water crashes into land
Are the tokens.
High up on the cliffs
The Intruders left their God,
Hopes, and plans.

A woman and her daughter
Hair jet-black and thick
Walk among the bricks and broken mortar
They do not notice what has gone before
They do not care
Carrying their gourds of water

BRIDGE

Deep in the velvet star-dust night
The planets roll
Past changing time and light.
Their steady rhythm doesn't notice us
These people have that now
It's deep within their hearts

In the Misty Morning
I am another stranger
In the Misty Morning
Strange clothes, strange hair
And I am welcome.
There are no weapons
No pieces of gold I want from them
There is no flag
No plans
I have come to learn
In the Misty Morning
I have come, to learn.

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