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The Words of a Song


When people sing
I will dance
Into the earth
In a trance

I travel far
And emerge
In the words of a song

When you arrive
At this place
And stare god
In the face

You will find
Who you are
In the words of a Song

I have loved
And I’ve lost
In my pain
Born the cross

I have seen
No greater cure
Than the words of a song

As above
So below
In the depths
Of my soul

I return
To the earth
In the words of a song

When you are alone
And the world is your stage
What will you sing
In your song

The one who would be master
Is the servant of us all
You will find your answer
In a Song

Burn Up
Stand
Allure
Love Rules
Let it Echo
Eve
Tuesday
Iblis
Listen
There is No End

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Burn Up

When you live your life
Seek your desire
Don’t hold back
Burn like a fire

There’s a world
Out there
And it’s yours
Won’t you take a peek?

Make your story
Worth telling
Start a rebellion

Don’t buy the Myth
That they are selling

Let your job go to hell
So the fire can set you free

Don’t let the life your living
Just pass you by
It’ll pass you by, baby
Don’t let the world outside
Make you wonder why
Wonder why, baby
Don’t let the life your living
Just pass you by
It’ll pass you by, baby

Just strike a match
You got one chance
Just take a stand
Do all you can

Hope never reigns
In the land of kings

Pretend you’re God
Make your own law
Quit your job
Fire your Boss

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Stand

How do we protect ourselves
From those not yet awake
Who would bind your soul
And judge your fate

With force and violence
They defend their roles
Reciting Lines
We’ve all heard before

And their lies become
The only way they know
As they dance on
Heads of lost souls

Religion becomes their defense
Against true experience

Caught up in the Icons
The ritual never ends
The institutions rise
As a grand defense

When the best defense
Is no defense at all
In a kingdom where
There are no walls

Stand, Stand-alone
Beyond judgments, beyond form
Stand, Stand-alone
Beyond Right, beyond wrong

In the underground
There lies a greater love
With those wise as serpents
And gentle as doves

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Allure

Heart of the lion
Wakes me from the sleep
I am in

Eyes light the heart
And the beat of the words
That I sing

Drunk with Intention
You fall and my heart
Pulls you in.

When I come inside
Of your walls you will
Know what I mean

Tell me how
Does it feel
Close your eyes
This is real
This is real

A spell mmm so magic
Spun by the sound
That I bring

Come bring your thirst
From a rainfall of love
We will drink

The heart lights the eyes
And the words of the beat
That I sing

When I come inside
Of your walls you will
Know what I mean

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Love Rules

The mind never listens
For what is true
The mind is the only
Danger for you

And the mind that is searching
It never will see
The mind that is changing
Will keep changing me
Changing me

The mind that is greedy
Eternally needs
The mind that is broken
Always will bleed

And the mind that is jealous
It soon falls apart
The mind that is sleeping
Will soon wake my heart
Wake my heart.

Whatever they say to you
The opposite is true
Whatever the say to you
The opposite is true

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Let it Echo

There is nothing more hypnotic
Than the beat of a song
Nothing more erotic
Than the words

Like an open book
We reveal our thoughts
And expose them
To the world

There is one challenge
With the songs of today
I wonder if the singers
Believe what they say

They all sound so needy
What does this convey
Love is never greedy
Not in any way

Someone said my life is
Nothing without you
What a sad day
If it’s true

If my life is nothing
What do I
Bring to you
But a love insecure

If you believe in love
And I hope you do
I have a cure
That takes us to the truth

There is only strength
In my love you see
Only in this moment
Need we ever be

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Eve

There’s a song
I’d like to sing
About a Girl
Let’s call her Eve

In the morning
When she wakes
To the rhythm
Of the saints

Rite of Spring
The leaves will Fall
Its her tears
That kiss the dawn

Like a siren
Oh hear her call
When she sings
All Kingdoms’ fall

There are those
Who don’t believe
And they all
Fall Down

All the sinners
And the saints
And the wars
That they wage

All the fear
And the hate
Fall like Rome
In a day

Oh the seasons
They will change
All her tears
Will turn to rain

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Tuesday

Blood flows through the Streets
Of the world
The blindfold tips the scale to the sword
On and on violence tells me
Eye for and eye
And were all so blind

Another soul lost this morning
By the laws of this Land
In a fate sealed by jury
We take revenge and wash our hands

Blood flows through the Streets
Of the world
The blindfold tips the scale to the sword
On and on violence tells me
Eye for and eye
And were all so blind

Inside my heart lies a temple
It’s walls stained with blood
The blood of my people
Slain and judged by fellow man

Blood flows through the Streets
Of the world
The blindfold tips the scale to the sword
On and on violence tells me
Eye for and eye
And were all so blind

And were all so blind
And were all so blind
And were all so blind
And were all so blind

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Iblis

Who am I?
You would deny it
Never heard a lie
I didn’t write

Who am I?
The speck in your eye
Remove the beam
It makes you blind

Who am I?
The fear you deny
Soon to arrive
As your ugly side

Who am I?
The devil inside
You resist the role
And bring me to life

All the while that you deny
All the words that you will fear
All The while that you deny
Whisper words in your ear

Who am I?
That you cast aside
The best part of you
Has yet to arrive

Who am I?
The devil inside
You resist the role
And bring me to life

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Listen

When I young
I went to School
My teacher said
Follow the rules

I sat still
Inside my head
The world outside
Kept pulling me

I tried my best
To calm the fire
To play the role
And live the lie

I wrote a novel
With my own rules
To mock a system
Run by fools

I found a voice
Within my pen
I waged a war
Behind the fence

Headmaster
Pulled me in
To repent for
All my sins

In a dash
I split the scene
Without a thought
I felt so free

When I look back
I ran so hard
Jumped the fence
Into my yard

Do you recall
Ages ago
Schools were not these
Prisons we know

Paper airplanes
Turn to guns
And the battle
Has begun

No one can hear
These young ones speak
Can’t hear their fears
Can’t hear their screams

Read the writing
On the wall
Their graffiti
Says it all

Rather than heal
Them of their pain
Marilyn Manson’s
Who you blame

In the words
That you fear
Lay the cries
You need to hear

Look at yourself
Look in your soul
Demons that you
Cannot control

It’s the blindness
Finally
That convicts
The Memphis three

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There is No End

When were alone
And I see your eyes
I’m in Heaven

Oh, it’s desire
And it burns

Like a Child
My eyes open wide
To the world

I feel your heart
And it beats
Like a drum

When you’re here
In my arms
There’s no end

Time and the
Lines on our face
Getting clearer

Everything I know
I simply let it go
When you’re near

In the mind of
The heart
There’s no fear

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