VERSE

The floodlights drown the venue
Spectators hush and stare
I'm here to entertain them
Suspended in midair

All of my doubts disappear

I bow and wait for music
Releasing inhibitions
Crescendo cuts through silence
Like blades through intuition

False sense of freedom lifts me up
Just as the theater erupts

CHORUS

Hush, this could only be a fleeting dream
My soul is weightless but I can't
Escape this world unless I cut my strings
I wonder if my puppeteer
Will find it in his heart to let me go
The curtain parts - on with the show

VERSE

I tiptoe across the
Ovation-littered stage
He's carrying my cross but
Mirage will never change

The stage will always be my cage

I look up just to see him
My motley fool or king
I have a choice to love him
We're bound by a sting

False sense of freedom lifts me up
Just as the theater erupts

VERSE

The floodlights drown the venue
Spectators hush and stare
I'm here to entertain them
Suspended in midair

False sense of freedom lifts me up
Just as the theater erupts

All of my doubts disappear

VERSE

Cobwebs on my fingertips
Cryptic words are flying off my lips
I regress back into the womb
And inhale life through exit wounds

CHORUS

I pray, pray for rain
I'm draped in shades
The night falls on my eyes
But my life turns clockwise
I pray, pray in vain

VERSE

I would ask for a little faith
Just enough to ensure a place
In your heart. So I say a prayer
Or a curse that I chose to bear

CHORUS

Je prie, je prie
Je prie la pluie
Drapé drapée aux nuances de gris
L'ombre sur mes yeux
L'horloge en mon sein
Je prie, je prie
Je prie en vain

VERSE

Cobwebs on my fingertips
Cryptic words are flying off my lips
I regress back into the womb
And exhale life through exit wounds

VERSE

My world is first impressions and vintage cars
I reinvent my soul for men with fat cigars

PRE-CHORUS

I think I need a lift,
I think I need a tuck,
I think I need a stroke
Of my sagging ego

VERSE

Bad dreams of imperfection are chewing at my heart
I wake up feeling gray - alone and in the dark

CHORUS

Make me whole
Fix my flaws
I'm your little,
Plastic doll

VERSE

I fight my nagging fear of ending up alone
Residual value of my body maintained with silicone

Take a placebo as a spiritual label
A seemingly harmless joke, disfigured by fate

Dehydrate your mind to find
That stigmas are flying blind
Unarmed by their grace,
Your thoughts interlace

Take a placebo as a spiritual label
A seemingly harmless joke, disfigured by fate

So what if your om is wrong
Would you challenge it alone?
Or splinter away
Thus breaking the chain

Take a placebo as a spiritual label
A seemingly harmless joke, disfigured by fate

You let me fantasize about old fairytales
The comfort of believing makes reality sublime
Flying blind - I am flying blind

VERSE

I awaken with a shiver
Floating down forgotten river

May be I should try and paddle
But why should I rock my cradle

CHORUS

My mind is my island
Deserted and silent
And I don't mind

VERSE

Days are dripping through my fingers
While my vengeful migraine lingers

Why swim upstream fighting currents
When gliding down seems more apparent

VERSE

I drew the line. I bought some time
To find a place where to rest my bones

And in my mind I've predefined
All roads that lead to Rome

CHORUS

Proximity to my sanity
Is measured by the tide

My epitaph would be the love
That poetry can't hide

And I am searching, searching
For the fourth dimension

VERSE

Not enough hours in a day
So I stay awake just to get things done

I live inside an ugly lie
That I justified with a loaded gun

BRIDGE

I don't want to live forever
All I want is a piece of heaven
But heaven I can not attain
The clock is broken. Time remains

VERSE

She paints in the nude
Dips her brush in reds and blues
Early Sunday mornings
When her muse is calling
He lets go - it's understood

VERSE

Outside
Daylight that was once denied
Peeking through the curtains
Guilty and uncertain
Mimicking his worried mind

CHORUS

He saw the sky in her eyes
Big enough to leave his world behind
Open sky
Open sky

VERSE

She ascends
Back into his anxious hands
Drinks his red wine
Walks his lifeline
Promising a fighting chance

VERSE

Nothing's lost
In the sea of settled dust
Was she only kidding?
Love can be misleading
Love can be coerced

BRIDGE

Every choice is eternal
Underlined in her journal
So she paints her sky in shades of red

If her words lose their meaning
He will not stop believing
In the grace he found in shades of red

VERSE

I keep your letters in a shoebox underneath my bed -
The vessel of my dreams connected by a silver thread
To every little bit of pain I haven't lived through yet

CHORUS

I hide my scars in a shoebox now
They will not heal till I come around
I push my heart further then my mind allows

VERSE

I dove headfirst into utopia and marveled in denial
Dismissing phobias with ease and an elusive smile
Yet I could welcome them to sit down and just stay awhile

BREAK

I trusted my eyes
And saw the sky through my open door
I'm clinging back to life

VERSE

I would charm fate to realize that I am only dreaming
Sleepwalk in circles as I'm chased by my own sinking feeling
But as the time went by its image shrunk in size and meaning

VERSE

There're times when I remember your eyes
And pain returns
You appear to me
As a candle burns

Shadows from the flames dancing peacefully
On the walls
And the mirror hides reflections
Of our souls

CHORUS

All memories turn to dust
And winds carry them back, back to my past
All that I've known and loved is gone
Faded away with the sun

VERSE

In my dreams I kiss your lips
And awake in tears
Brightest star is yours
When you are near

You're a dancer in the moonlight
Shining on
Will I see you in the morning
With the sun?