~Fading Crosses~
New Roman Twilight
Deep violent rushing
A burning light on hidden fear
Illusions thinning
A shift is nigh
Vibrant
Up and down the spine
Lift your head
Time is taught and reeling in
From the corners
From the corners closing in
(The meek and the mighty, fated - burning -
burning - burning - out of control)
So long the cries, so long
In fires blackening the dawn
Make your peace and be strong
Wake your love and hold on
Hold on
A Narrow Path
All the lights slip away
Off to another room
Another day
Thoughts assume the unseen
Running wild with frightful things
Across the mind
A hunt for fear
Across the heart
To challenge trust
Do you know what can fall?
Do you know what can break?
In just a moment
One weak impulsive moment
It can put lives at stake
Hanging
A year submersed
Of living lost
Crushed beneath the waves
Neither here nor there
Bleeding everywhere
A stranger in the mirror to come undone
By a single thread
Or so I'd come to learn
After burning, spinning in madness
Who was I to know
In careless hellish throes
Of these secret trials of Judgement?
Little self crucifixion
Or so it came to be
With my heart revealed
Oh who was I to know?
I'd only ever been below
These uncertain paths
To Justice
Oh how the waves roll in
On the folly of youth
They crush and drag out
To the sorrow and truth
Oh how the waves roll in
A baptism in loss
Mute and ascending
My own hidden cross
Dawn and Sorrow
Pearl white innocence
Your dawn amid the lost
Now hunger in the arms
Of a love that fears and rots
My grief pulls hell from heaven
At your birth into disgrace
Heralding faith and sorrow
As the tears scar your face
Now all wrapped in flesh
That's made to come undone
You'll ascend the shores
Of my great ocean
And walk down through valleys
Of wilderness and mist
I pray don't lose yourself
Take my silver kiss
There in the stillness
There in the silence
I wait for you
In the deep night sky
The infinite stars
I wait for you
Mercy Killing
The trenches are everywhere
With each burning thought
Brighter years too long ago
There's a bitterness with time
A persuasion and often
A form in itself
Towering in the sky
Do you believe
This old flesh
This pained breath?
It's just a flood anymore
Drowning in memory
A disgrace in the light
The bane of youth...
Of you
Living on - living on - living on hate
Please, come close
Come close to me
Could you believe
In mercy killing?
Ringing
Another year further out
I strain my heart to think of you
Your tired words in the autumn wind
Resigned and bound and broken
In a black light
One last sigh
A frightful sound
Rolling under
Calling down
And ringing
From the shadows
Through the years
Ringing
From the shadows
Through the years
A Judas kiss
A solemn cross
You knew you'd never trust again
Drunk and mute beneath the sky
I'll always wonder
If I'd had the words...
If I'd been brave...
In a black light
One last sigh
A frightful sound
Rolling under
Calling down
And ringing
From the shadows
Through the years
Ringing
From the shadows
Through the years
Another Sigh
I stare in wonder at the storm
And cannot help but try to guess
Where it's going - where it came from
It's like the years - that push my face into the mirror
Another mask shatters on the floor
Oh love i remember
But there is no return
Our ashes lost in the wind
It's just the early spring
Dead winter turning green
My limbs thaw and tremle
And i cannot sleep
I look in through your window
My heart burns into perfection
Or at least i'd like to think
That i could be so strong
Not lose the feeling
Still be connected
But i can't remember
Those special words
That part the clouds
Call out the sun
It's just the early spring
Dead winter turning green
My limbs thaw and tremble
And i'm as weary as hell
Woke Up Lost
Asleep in a cold room
Let flames fall into embers
Went trying all the lights
Shouting, crying, remember?
‘Till all the words disappeared
I’ll never forget that feeling
Went dormant in the cold
Went drifting
Went drifting
A sleepy drifting
Chorus:
We’ve all got our dreams
A perfect way it should be
An uppity white picket fence
Romantic blue torments
And all
To our detriment
Little room
For anything new
My eyes opened lost
Fixed on a torn design
Ceaseless echoing
Unbearable in my mind
With clenching teeth and burning
Tearing all through me, burning
I had to find you
Pushed deep into your eyes
I could not find you
Chorus:
We’ve all got our dreams
A perfect way it should be
An uppity white picket fence
Romantic blue torments
And all
To our detriment
Little room
For anything new
And it reflects
It reflects
Through my broken, useless hands
Left to search through burning sand
It’s filling in my open chest
I gasp for air in dreams of death
Defining meaning, outlining worth
Seems like a thousand years spend stumbling
Across this desert
For rebirth
For rebirth
For rebirth
Undercurrent
Coldly
Reflecting
The light of the sun
Shattered
Across the waves
Across the night sea
Of eternity
She's reaching up
She's reaching in
And I'm torn from the cliff's edge
Again and again
Falling in
And falling out
In turn to weave a tapestry
Life giving rain
A killing drought
Will I sail
To another shore?
Or will I perish in the storm
Crying "should have held on... should have held on"?
Scattered in the fury
It's all gone
Throw it all away
For gain except the loss
On a sign, in a symbol
Undercurrent of my thoughts
Moonlit
Wilderness
Thought I saw, thought I heard
Prompting truthfulness
Is this the way?
Oh is this the way?
Disillusionment numbing
I cannot feel the pain
Will I sail
To another shore?
Or will I perish in the storm
Crying "should have held on... should have held on"?
Scattered in the fury
It's all gone
Lullaby
A morning light
On your sleeping eyes
I will remember
Forever
Pure and soft
The darkness lost
It's only breath
To compliment you
I'm drawn near
In hopes to hear
Your peaceful heart
Speaking for me
Emotion wells
At the tolling bells
Drying quiet tears
I slip away
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