Night falls
Crowds surrounding saviours
To judge what yet remains
The procession walks away

My fear and trepidation
Amidst a transformation
The cries below unceasing
Until grace will let them rest

Find me in the space between us
Where I'm lost and drifting
Will you tell me why?
Here, ever waiting
Spirits come to whisper
Where I am lost and dreaming
Will you ask my name?

The beginning and the end
In the space between
When you are there to greet me
Will you tell me why?
Here I rest now
Devoted, I remain
Where I am lost and dreaming
Alone in reverie

Imparted
In the guise of blessed vision
That lead me from perdition
When I needed you, you came

Rended, yet unworthy
Oh, perfidy and shame
In alms of recognition
The consorts look away

The bitwar raged and some survived
Offered a hand and promised life
Until atomic rays made cinders of the past
Engaging autolock we'd rise
Through cataclysmic coloured skies
Skyward through the atmosphere
Of a world that was

Kinetic motion, speed and stealth
Like liquid steel that won't relent
Scanning cities in the darkness far below
Freezeframe, track, cut and print
Riding blades of light and pitch
Crash and burn till stardust scatters all around

This is station 21 — are you receiving me?
Have I lost you, can I hear your voice again?
Are you as happy as I remember?
Electric lights and synthetic thunder
Or are you busy firing rockets at the sun?
Hello from station 21 — are you hearing me?
I hope you know we'll never see your likes again
Locked us in electronic dreams
The lure of silicon machines
And if I go back now, would I ever leave again?

Through the lense of magazines
New sounds, new styles, successive scenes
Watch it twenty-four seven on wall to wall TV's
Empires crumbled on command
Replaced by never-never lands
Repelling waves from other realms sent to destroy

We lived, we danced, we raced
We'd run from the oblivion to come
Dressed for the last dance
Of a hundred thousand suns
Electro heroes ignite the spark
New dimensions to light the dark
The torch was passed at the coming of our age

Tensions race, emotions tamed
A kiss, a promise, all to gain
Tears or joy? Endurance tests
Guilt and shame as recompense
Pressure mounts — shatter!! Break!!
Penance made for our mistakes
Knives are out till blood will flow
The deepest cut, the mortal blow
Returning stares in mirrors trained
Swapping places, hearts exchanged
Insults careless though implied
Doubts that linger paid in kind
If you were I — if it could be so easy

Heart is racing! Synaptic flow!
The moments pass and the glass explodes
Who protects us if it hurts too much?
Can we turn away when we fear to touch?

Assess, reply! Retract, comply!
Stave attacks when challenge mounts
Love is warm
Love's for those who wield a dagger or a rose
The endless trade in compliments
Illusions of our lesser selves
An elemental force of will
Demanding heed at beck and call
Set us up in case we fall
Notions set and binding
Unrestricted to wishes tied
Halls of riches fantasised
If you were I — if it could be so easy

And I'll be by your side
I'll be by your side

Fire alighting a cold embrace
Should we go too far and into splinters break
Connection forms and it screams so much
The seconds slow when we fear to touch

I hope I'm not imposing but, I feel I have to say
That I can see that you are burdened
Foundations giving way
The day is waning losing sun
The light is dimming in your eyes
Hard to find or see your purpose
But if I can I'd change your mind

Many stood where you now stand
Thought their duty was to bleed
That to live was to be punished
Wounds that only they can feel
It takes strength to walk away
And clearly see it from outside
The shadow's growing ever longer
You can change it you have time
You're not the problem and not the cause
It doesn't matter what you were told
A good intent, taken for granted
Is better served where it can grow
Life offers lessongs and hopes you learn
To rise above and overcome
To show the measure of your person
And prove to you that you weren't wrong

If you feel there's nothing more
That life has little else to give
Nothing to dream or wish or hope for
Then I ask you think again
So much you've never known
That gives as much as you can give
A life that you were meant for
One I hope you'll proudly live

If you feel that there's no chance
That life has little for you still
That there's nothing left to hope for
Then I hope you'll find the will
So much you've never known
That gives as much as you would give
A life that you were meant for
One I hope you'll proudly live

The book of your life is a story still unread
Never leave the words you want to say un…

Did a reckless call decide that you were leaving
Traded all you'd left behind for other skies
To where the rain offers mercy
Grants the faithful a disguise
If ever tears should wash away a paper smile
When the battle was through and done
Decreed by judgement of the sun
Had you lost more than all that you can say you'd won

Did you ask or ever wonder if I'd been on your side
Or followed every step you took along the way?
Guarded your secrets and never told
Wove the tales to which we'd hold
Myths we tell ourselves in order to survive
When to your eyes the world's a stranger
Without courage and full of anger
Like castles on the sand beforethe tide

Was it fortune holding sway when you walked away?
Laid the king down on his side when you resigned
A ring of metal for a crown
Adorned with stones to weigh it down
Rags for robes to cover up your foolish side
For chance exchanged your pain and loss
And wagered all on love and trust
Because fate alone's not written in the stars

Save me
You always save me
When you're strong enough to heal a fragile heart
And when you save me and even pray for me
You fill my heart and mind to remind me who I am
We've yet so many worlds to conquer
So many roads for us to wander
And I will write our names in a heaven full of stars

Your attention please
We're about to start the show
You're back by demand for a single night
In the starring role
So enter the ring and find some space
Let yourself go
It's second nature, open up
Don't even try to take it slow

We bring the light and sound
You just improvise
Move as we celebrate this precious taste of life
Open your inner-self
Let happiness abound
No time to be shy
The countdown's on
And the number's going down

There is a place I know where all would want to be
There is a song I know — a timeless melody
From the beginning to the end
It's a rhapsody
So, when I sing this song it rhymes in harmony

Raising the frequency
The pulse is getting loud
Dance with the universe
To the interstellar sound
No time to wait for life to take you by the hand
I want you to feel it in your soul

You can't move forward when you can't let go
Some would call it madness but it's much more
I want to get back to a place I know
Keep it moving
Keep it going
There's still so far to go
Move myself forward
I can't stand still
I can't go back
I won't go back

When it's all we have, I know
It's the best of times so please show
The world how you let go
We're getting close to heaven

It's far as we can go
I hope you feel it in your soul
Baby, open up and show
It's as close to heaven as you'll know
I can feel it in my soul
It's as close to heaven as I know
Show the world how you let go
It's as close to heaven as you'll know

Dance until dawn has bid the stars
A grand farewell when they part
For a moment, I hope you see
How close to heaven you'll be

We're getting close to heaven

Silence speaks but no one listens
Communicates without a voice
Without science or religion
Silence offers you a choice

Silence speaks of a solution
Forcing movement, it calls to act
Shapes the world of its invention
Silence offers us a path

Silence speaks with deepest wisdom
To purge the doubts and clear the mind
Pure of thought, free of confusion
Bright, it shines in darker times

Beneath the chaos and the rhythm
Hidden deep within the void
Among the patterns, if you listen
Silence hides within the noise

Freeze the image
Take a photograph
A keepsake of a time gone by
Technicolor films play over
The sights and sounds of other lives
Faces come and faces go
Like leaves that sail upon the air
Fragments of half lost recollections
A lost lament for who we were

It isn't goodbye
It isn't the end
If we should part
Impressions and traces remain inside
Like shining stars
One day I'll find you
Out on the waves of other oceans
Looking for land
Safe from the tempests of the seas
Singing the song
Of the expansive cloak of heaven
Singing laments
To the precession of the stars

Sentiment is not my nature
No good from what we might have been
It's time we've locked within a moment
The sights and sounds of other lives
At the mercy of poseidon
Who sets the currents on which we ride
Carried up into the maelstrom
The ebb and flow of precious time

Across the years
Through the changing of the seasons
Looking for land
Safe from the tempests of the seas
Singing the songs
To break the still on other oceans
Looking for land
Under a watchful cloak of stars

In a place of our creation
Beneath undying eternal sun
A domain as yet unfounded
To be uncovered, claimed and won

So gather all the people
Raised from ruin, from despair
Unite our spirit and machines
In visions built of dust and air

Oh, guardians, do not worry
Your work will yet be done
Navigate the endless oceans
Not to flounder nor to drown

Oh, vanguards, won't you awake
Vanquish night and tame the dark
Waiting out beyond the frontier
Far from a dying star