1. Peaches And Cream

Now I stand alone
Confusion spills
From the unknown

Yeah I'm going down
I don't wanna play
I won't be your clown
I ain't made that way

You're killing me
It just won't work
You're killing me
Somebody gets hurt

They say that life is like peaches and cream
I tell you something, that's only a dream
It's monumental, it's right off the scale
No happy ending, it's no fairytale

Yeah, you seem to attract
Yesterday's lies
I'll never ask

Why you're so uncool
Every word you say
I won't be your fool
I ain't made that way

You're born to lose
If justice works
You're born to lose
It can't be rehearsed

I'm just a stranger here
Can't feel the wind upon my face
I know you'll disappear
One of the things I can't replace

2. Show Me Your Hands

When I was younger
And people told me
You're just a number
That's all you will be

Now I see
It sort of stuck in my head
It fooled me
Hard to know
Everything that they had said
A zero

Now I can see right through the pain
No need to explain

Show me your hands
Let's get it on tonight
Show me your hands
Time to shine bright

Show me your hands
How does it feel tonight?
Show me your hands
Turn on your light

It's been a long time
Where did I get to?
Seems like a lifetime
Can overwhelm you

Can you tell
Can you remember a time
A farewell?

On the way
Acting like you were quite blind
To give way

Rain, rain on the game they all played
Don't join their parade
Some just talk of things they'd like to
Tell you they've done but it's untrue

3. Storm Baby

Maybe you're just defenceless
Maybe it's that you don't care
Maybe it knocked you quite senseless
Maybe it's life that's unfair

Now, there's nothing to say
Oh you, you and your foolish pride
Yeah, there's nothing to say
When things don't go your way

Well you were born, into the dark
You were a storm baby
Ragged and torn, broken apart
So uninformed crazy
Nobody's gonna help you if you need it
Nobody's gonna care
Promises made, brighter the spark
Still not afraid? Tell me

Tell me, now how you're feeling?
Are you, are you still hurt?
So bad when there's no healing
That's true – it's one thing you've learned

Now, you had it all
Then, you lost it, everything
Oh, you had it all
Left alone uncalled

You're, you're dressed up like a queen
Sad written in your eyes
These, these pages unforeseen
You, you didn't realise

4. Welcome To The Cosmic Cabaret

When things never happen like you wanted
Dark nights always keep you in the shade
Some words would be better left unspoken
No joke there's a price that must be paid

Oh will you never realise
Rich or poor you can still be left behind
And if you wanna stay alive
Keep your head don't you ever be unkind

Gold rings and your faith in the Madonna
These things you believe them to be true
Maybe if the world should end tomorrow
Just cry with a teardrop-look tattoo

Oh it gets harder to decide
Who are you saying maybe it's our fate?
And when you said you've never lied
Fingers crossed there's no time to celebrate

I gave no thought to wisdom
It all but vanished in the haze
This fragile hand of fortune
Had changed and turned it all to grey

In secret rooms where we conspired
The very streets we walked along
The desert heat became a fire
And no idea where we belonged

Now every day I fall apart
The sky is full of emptiness
I'll take the blame, the burning heart
It brings me down, I must confess

Hard game and the music's going nowhere
This room's getting smaller by the day
Some dog on the street he just keeps howling
Welcome to the cosmic cabaret

And when you've got nowhere to go
Speechless, blind, you won't find your way back home
And when you're sinking far below
Stand your ground like you always have been shown

5. Lost On The Road To Eternity

Whoa just with a smile they spoke
Turning their eyes
And now on their words they choke
No compromise

Yeah power and greed are king
And how many die?
Where, where does it all begin?
There's no reply

Ride, ride on the wings of a storm
With good grace
Hide, hide all your fears within
With your true faith

You know we're lost on the road to eternity
Nobody's looking and nobody cares
You know we're lost on the road to eternity
Well there's no mercy no magical prayer

A-O A-O O Eternity

Life washed up on every shore
Lonely the bell
Rings, closes the open door
Always farewell

6. Without Love

Never in shadows
So you got nothing to lose
Where were the heroes?
No one to call the accused

You can paint the darkness any colours that you need
Cause ya know ya know ya know ya know ya know that
Maybe maybe maybe baby won't succeed
Whoa-oh-oh-oh

I was in blue sky
Couldn't get nothin' at all
Something you can't buy
Maybe to cushion your fall

You can draw the empty feeling any way you need
Whoa-oh-oh-oh
'Cause ya know ya know ya know ya know ya know that
Maybe maybe maybe baby won't succeed

Without love
You've got nothin' at all
Without love
Without love

Without love
You've got no one to call
Without love
Without love

Looking up skyward
Taking in what you can't own
Still it just feels good
When you can work the unknown

You can talk forever saying nothing's what you need
Whoa
Cause ya know ya know ya know ya know ya know that
Maybe maybe maybe baby won't succeed

7. Tell Me What You've Got To Say

So it's here
Now it's judgement day
All those tears
For those who've lost their way
Bring out the martyrs the kings and the queens
All those who think they've been blessed
So it's here
Tell me what you've got to say

So it's done
Now it's gone astray
Your loved one's
Lost or ran away
Sing out forever you sisters of death
Wailing that no one can hear
So it's done
Tell me what you've got to say

It's another rainy day
Talk of freedom got away
Time to get the message right
It's never black or white
So I'm walking in the rain
Found a reason to explain
No excuses no regret
We all deserve respect

It's for real
Watch the children play
They conceal
All in disarray
Cities and kingdoms are turned into dust
Thousands of years shot to hell
How's it feel?
Tell me what you've got to say

Show me where we
Get some truth
Left in silence
Hanging loose
Lost in hatred
Lost in fear
Standing naked
It's a reality watching it all disappear

8. Ya Wanna Be Someone

Said you'd been born, somebody rich
A royal flush, you're one
While counting every stitch
I bet, that's just no fun
An empty mind, an empty heart
It's crystal clear that you
Would never play a part
You know, you know it's true

Yeah, people were laughing behind your back
Oh, one step away don't know where you're at

Ya wanna be someone
Ya think that you've got it made
You're like an empty gun
You're not the thing you portrayed
Walking through paradise out of your head

Ya wanna be someone
Ya know it's all in your mind
You're not the seventh son
Although you crossed every line
Writing the stories that no one has read

We're all just men that have to face
We're not above, don't act
Don't give that false embrace
You smiled just to distract
Well you believe there's just one way
So take it to the end
'Cause that's what fools would say
You know, you just pretend

Yeah, are you still preaching is that a fact
You, Gideon's bible and zodiac

A selfish man making plans to screw the never never
Always obsessed trying to get what he can
A selfish man thinking he's the one to be so clever
Might be well dressed but he don't understand

9. Forbidden Masquerade

You were the joker that gave away dreams
You were the actor that stole every scene
What would you promise and what would you pay?
Could you be honest and never betray?
With every message and each glass of wine
Pockets of silver you never decline

Wasted, and you're still reeling
Black cloud, forbidden masquerade
Sacred, the air you're breathing
Too loud, terminal serenade
Hey hey, just give me some relief
Yeah
Hey hey, so cry yourself to sleep
Whoa

Could be a beggar or could be a King
Fool everybody then wipe clean your wings
Blood on your fingers and fire in your eye
Make no exception it's yours to deny
Stand in the rain and with tears like a flood
Tell everybody you're misunderstood

Lost forever
Won't get better
Under pressure
Not so clever
Woke up screaming
You were falling
Woke up dreaming
Every morning

10. Glory To Ashes

No ransom will pay
For their last sacrifice
This grotesque ballet
Performed most every night

They shout liberty
Walk pathways through the dust
And captivity
Would never be discussed

Not a sound
When they all fall down

Oh glory to ashes
No they won't survive
When the whole thing crashes
No one can describe

Someone made the crosses
Then, when the silence broke
They just held up their glasses
Not a word was spoke

Someone's mother wept
As she turned back the sheets
A time to reflect
Where her son used to sleep

The whirlwind has come
And years have passed away
What have we become?
Why did it end this way?

Not a sound
Or we all fall down

11. King Of The World

You don't have to fear
Temptation's nowhere
As ten thousand eyes
Look with despair

No one's on your side
That's just how you feel
Spinning down the road
Just like a wheel

Whoa
The human race is stained
Yeah
Down to the floor they're chained

Yeah
Oh yeah
There was a man
No betrayer
Poets wrote
That he might be a King
Scarlet robe
'Cross his shoulder
Had no price
Didn't wear golden rings

Every day
People followed
They all said
He's the King of the world
Every day
No more sorrow
They all said
He's the King of the world

There's good in every heart
Yeah we all know that
But for just one kiss
The sky turned black

Some confess their sins
That won't wash them clean
Some sit on the fence
Stuck in between

Whoa
You can just dance and sing
Yeah
It doesn't mean a thing

Careful as you go
Make sure you can see
Lessons you have learned
They don't come free

Many stories told
Some hard to believe
But they last for years
That's guaranteed

Whoa
All through the years that passed
Yeah
All of the things you asked

He walked the line
And many people said
Life must be cheap
Or he's just going blind

He walked the line
And somehow took the blame
He breathed in deep
Just waiting for a sign

He walked the line
And lifted up his head
Some had to weep
But some just said it's time

He walked the line
No more would he exclaim
His own mystique
The purpose or design