Breaking Down The Silence Lyrics

Unaware

You walked in like a lion and left my conscience silent as a lamb,

And with one hurt expression, left me questioning all I am

Now drunken nights and bar room flights are all I’ve heard;

Is that where you are now?

I would crawl right through the structures to see you and hold you one more time

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Maybe that’s just something you read in fairy tales

Books will not dictate to me who succeed and fail

Fire within my heart

Angel in the rubble

A queen among the fools

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You’re playing with my mind, moving through my soul you are

Living as a dream with no idea how thrown I am

Moving through my mind dancing through my soul you are living as a dream

Unaware

I cannot live without living there within

I’ll give you my salvation for one taste of your sin

It’s frightening, enlightening

I’ve nothing, but myself to bring

A sigh breaks as a boy quakes to see how you have grown

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Doctor Thomas

He spends his days staring at the clouds

He’ll shed his tears but never cry out loud

Into a sea of conformity I have drowned

I’ve clung to every plank that I have found

Come find me before you say, “Goodbye”

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Doctor Thomas, can you give me a remedy to save my soul?

My heart’s gone sour, I’ve had to cower once too many times

Come find me before you say, “Goodbye”

I base my life by what is on my arm,

and not by what is in my heart

I waste my time staring at the walls

Chasing all the ghosts that haunt these halls

Please come find me before you say, “Goodbye”

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Knock On Wood

“Quit living in the past,” that’s what other people say

And it’s true, but I don’t know what to do living in the present day

I am the wandering spirit left alone in this old ghost town,

Dreaming in the walls of my high school looking for my life in the lost and found

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My time is almost over, even though my life has just begun

I’ve seen all the stars in my once bright future, now I’m told to reach for one

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Don’t want to be a one trick pony, want to be a jack of many trade

But as life presses on me, all my hopes, well, they just fade

But I know that I won’t stop trying, though sometimes I think I should

So far, so good

Knock on wood

The world was built on chances, so I guess I should chance mine

Life has such a funny way with no reason or no rhyme

Guess I’ll throw salt over my shoulder, every day fear I’m growing older

Find a way to soothe my soul, either way got to take control

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You gotta push on. Push on for a better day

Rob The Bank

When I robbed your bank last night,

Along the interstate, I threw my mask away

‘Cause I wanted you to realize that it was me

It’s ’bout damn time I got myself some pay

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The less that I sleep, is the more I awake

And the more shit you give, is the more I can take

If action is louder than the spoken word,

Then I know what I must do to be heard

The worst villains are made of the best men

Because they know the good from which they’ve turned away

People don’t remember the good I’ve done,

They just remember that I can

It’s never thanks, it’s “What’cha got for me today?”

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Goodbye

Serenade

This heart has had its boundaries, but fate is on my side

It seems like a gift’s come upon me, so I guess I’ll just let myself ride

All of the answers have been here since you came along,

and the worries and fears that were my past, I’ve forgotten. Now they’re gone

Now talking ’bout fights, yeah there will be a few,

but don’t worry baby ’cause we’ll stick in through

And when you are angry, and I’m angry too,

I’ll just remind you how lucky I feel to have found you

Well in time, day turns to night and people will lose their way

I could never lose sight of you, my angel and shining ray

For the walks we’ve walked, talks we’ve talked, for all the plans we’ve made-

The least that I could do for you is to love you this serenade

I can’t stop this feeling, I’ve been given no choice

My heart is addicted to the sound of your voice

Amazing how into this life you just flowed

I guess I’ll keep walking this heavenly road

‘Cause girl, you are driving me crazy

With all of your very fine ways, you amaze me

This song might not be much, but it’s the best I can do

To show you how I’m falling head-over-heels for you

I can’t stop this feeling, there’s not much I can do

Even with closed eyes I’m still seeing you

It feels oh so nice to have something to believe in

Don’t walk away with that heart that you’re stealin’

If you’ve ever felt a heavenly touch,

Or if you’ve ever held something you care for so much

If you’ve had a prayer answered, or had a dream come true,

Then baby you know how it feels to have found you

Fields Of Grey

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Fields of grey

Here we stay

Well you’ve got your plans, and I’ve got mine,

so don’t waste my life and precious time

Sitting on an egg that won’t ever hatch

with a wound that you don’t plan to patch

as my ambitions grow weaker everyday.

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I’ve grown tired of waiting, hesitating,

Tired of waiting, walking through

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One time you drove us ’round the bend

‘Til I found that we’d turned circles again

I don’t mess around, I don’t play games

I rather be alone than have you hold the reins

with no one but myself left to blame

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Fields of Grey

Here we stay

I will not lay in fields of grey for you

After all I’ve done for you

After all that we’ve been through

No

Lindsey’s Song

Isn’t it crazy how things we never try

turn out to be the gifts that always pass us by?

Hey, we never notice these blessings in disguise,

but sometimes in a slip of fate, we open our eyes

Lately I’ve been noticing the brightness of the stars

Been breezing through differences whether near or far

And though the world is treacherous with problems running wide

my mind is still more comfortable with you inside

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Isn’t it wonderful how night turns to day?

Comfortable at sunset, noon, dusk, and dawn, and midnight moon

The body is working, but the mind is at play

knowing that you have no doubt, you call my smile and coax it out

The rays of your smile brightly tan my heart

Don’t know how you found it, but I’m glad we made the start

What we’re working with here is simple as pie

You put the best things into it and don’t ask why

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Silence Of The Spirit

Kelly’s got the power

she knows how to use it

she won’t walk away

Seven years of hard luck

living in the basement

she won’t walk away

Don’t be another story about how we make plans, but then we throw them all away

For something that seems easier, a little more convenient

Throw it all away

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Kelly won’t walk away

She sins throughout the night time, prays throughout the day

Kelly won’t walk away,

but there’s another price to

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Pay for all the wrongs you’ve wrought

While your breaking down the silence of your spirit

Destiny is calling (you can hear it)

Away

There’s something deep inside you,

you want to let it out,

but you’re afraid what they might say

What good are those paintings

thrown into the dark where they don’t see the light of day?

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A Wishing Well

The sound “kerplink” is wishing dreams

when young we all cast coins

But years bring fears to how life seems

Where dream and doing joins

The man who thinks, but does not do,

but wishes all the same:

his is one of pensive rue

a bitter man became

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It’s another wishing well

with a thousand untold stories to tell

It’s another lonely, lonely wishing well

Think not your life in heads and tales

be up and doing now

Before the wind leaves from your sails

a wish to live allow

For when your wishing days are through

you’ll cast a sober glance

at things that you had wished to do,

but never wished to chance

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Join not the ranks of those who dwell

in lands where dreams are sieved

How long they wait by wishing well

to see they never truly have lived

Brandy

Out of the cars and straight into the bars

The boys, well, they all flock to you

With thirsting lips, you’re at their fingertips,

but not many can deal with a high-class bitch like you

There’s a pounding in my head going “Hey now!”

What’s this? It’s gone to my brain now

and I just don’t know what to do

In the morning hour when you call me,

your words straight-up appall me

Say Brandy, what’s the deal with you?

You’re over-rated

I’m through with you

I’ll stick to brew

I am quitting all of this shit

cut and dry

No asking “Why?” ’bout

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Brandy on the weekend

Brandy on my mind

Brandy after hours

Brandy all the time

When it comes time tomorrow,

Brandy will be fine,

But I have drawn the line

Wake up in the morning feeling like a truck hit ya

Hating every hair of the dog that bit ya

Tasting bitter and feeling bad

The worst hangover I’ve ever had.

What a sobering situation

every night as a recreation

Take it straight up, while you’re going down

my head is spinning ’round and ’round

One taste of Brandy put me out

To scream and shout

It was all for nothing

My addiction to control

I lost it all to

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 I look upon those wasted nights

The endless fights

just left me drunken

with the pleasure of the pain

I went insane for

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You found a way to turn your back on me

It took the best in me to find the worst in you,

It took the best in me, but now it’s through

Don’t know what to say, don’t know what to do

Brandy, I’m through with you

 

Often I’m Permitted To Return To A Meadow

Often I am permitted to return to a meadow

as if it were a scene made-up by the mind,

that is not mine, but is a made place,

that is mine, it is so near to the heart,

an eternal pasture folded in all thought

so that there is a hall therein

Often I am permitted to return to a meadow

that is a made place, created by light

wherefrom the shadows that are forms fall

Wherefrom fall all architectures I am

I say are likenesses of the First Beloved

whose flowers are flames lit to the Lady.

She it is Queen Under The Hill

whose hosts are a disturbance of words within words

that is a field folded.

It is only a dream of the grass blowing

westward toward the source of the sun

in an hour before the sun’s going down

whose secret we see in a children’s game

of ring a round of roses told.

Often I am permitted to return to a meadow

as if it were a given property of the mind

that certain bounds hold against chaos,

that is a place of first permission,

everlasting omen of what is.