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The trouble with silence - it opens the door
To a wandering mind
The glory of silence - it opens the floor
To what's inside
The pain of silence is holding onto why
The outside won't break through the walls around my pride
But the power of the quiet –
words won't bring me down
But I don't stay down for long
If your voice comes around
Oh, the Silence feels so good
When I'm misunderstood
Get lost in this void of sound
I feel much better when the voices come around
Oh oh, silence is split
Cuts deeper in the end, but I can't get enough of it
Oh oh, it never seems quite right
But love requires pain
And I'm hurting good tonight
Do you hear that ring in your ear
You've gone deaf to all the voices and fear
The void is where you find your anti value
Just embrace that the poison all lives here
It takes you back, pulls you down,
wakes your memories below,
An empty husk, just dead space inside,
Putting on a show
Oh silence is an actor, and will fool you in the end
It knows when to say nothing, til I find darkness again
Oh oh, silence is split
Cuts deeper in the end, but I can't get enough of it
Oh oh, it never seems quite right
But love requires pain
And I'm hurting good tonight
When darkness turns to light,
Your words buried inside,
In silence we trust
Oh you're stuck inside my mind,
With the worry that I hide
I’m losing it,
I’ve lost,
Or so it seems,
Tonight, silence is split
Cuts deeper in the end, but I can't get enough of it
Oh oh, it never seems quite right
But love requires pain
And I'm hurting good tonight
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Photograph
04:05
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Faded photographs, yellow with age
A dusty scrapbook, filled on every page
Sorted through the pictures, some to blurry to see
A special one caught my eye of a girl on her mother’s knee
The girl in the picture of a different time and place
While my time is synthetic, hers was made of lace
Memories locked away in the dust
Seemingly forgotten, but not out of touch
What we’ll share forever is a love of a special kind
Memories locked forever in the depths of my mind
Should’ve been outside, basking in the sunshine
Instead sifting through memories aged like a bottle of wine
The picture out of focus, the gloss had faded away
still I recognized the woman with whom I used to play
Her dreams were unique, different from my own
I was part of her dream, of a family and a home
Memories locked away in the dust
Seemingly forgotten, but not out of touch
What we’ll share forever is a love of a special kind
Memories locked forever in the depths of my mind
What we’ll share forever is a love of a special kind
Memories locked forever in the depths of my mind
For though that woman is gone now
And the picture is fading away
Nothing can tarnish the memories
Of what that woman meant to me
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The Tide
05:50
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And there's three, count 'em three
Children playing on the beach
They were eager to learn
To be taught and to teach
There's Veronica
She's biting her lip
As she watches the waves turn white at the tip
And there's Vada
Radiating with joy
And luckily she still can't stand the sight of a boy
And lastly there's Dade
His hair dances in the wind
And he's wondering what love is
And why it has to end
And he can't understand
How everyone goes on breathing when true love ends
His mother whispers quietly
Heaven's not a place that you go when you die
It's that moment in life when you actually feel alive
So live for the moment
And take this advice, live by every word
Love is just a hoax so forget anything that you have heard
And live for the moment now
And there's three, count 'em three
Children growing on the beach
They were eager to learn
To be taught and to teach
There's Veronica
She's licking her lips
As she waits for her real, first passionate kiss
And there's Vada
She can't admit her jealousy
Of her sister Veronica, and how she's so pretty (and how she's so pretty)
And lastly there's Dade
Still sitting on the dock
Ponders his life, and he skips his rocks
And he wonders when his father will return
But he's not coming back
And he can't understand
How everyone goes on breathing when true love ends
His mother whispers quietly
Heaven's not a place that you go when you die
It's that moment in life when you actually feel alive
So live for the moment
And take this advice, live by every word
Love is just a hoax so forget everything that you have heard
(Forget everything)
And there's three, count 'em three
Children missing from the beach
They were eager to learn
To be taught and to teach
But the sad thing
Is that they never lived passed the age of fifteen
Due to neglect from their mother
Who was bed-ridden by her ex-lover, their father
And she didn't even notice, or pay much attention
As the tide came in and swept her three into the ocean
Now all her advice, it seems useless
No, heaven's not a place that you go when you die
It's that moment in life when you touch her and you feel alive
So live for the moment
And take this advice, live by every word
Love's completely real, so forget anything that you have heard
And live for the moment now
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Forbidden Forever
04:33
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What replaces the feeling, when a lifelong love has died?
What emotion fills the emptiness after all the tears have been cried?
Do you remember the love we shared, or all the star filled nights?
I can still hear the laughter, and see the city lights
I still lie awake some nights, aching for your touch
Remembering how your every word could mean so much
But sometimes I cant remember your eyes, or the moonlight in your hair
I try so hard to remember, I try to remember to care
Its never easy to leave behind something that seemed so right
But that’s the way it has to be, cause you refused to fight
So goodbye is the only word we have left to say
We have no more tomorrows only a bittersweet yesterday
The dreams we built our lives on never quite came true
Leaving me to start over, build a life without you
Was what we had so wrong, making us victims of never
Have all the open scars left us forbidden forever
I wished we could’ve held on to everything we had
My mind just couldn’t understand you were just a passing fad
But now the pain I thought would never end
has begun to subside
Apathy is all that’s left, revealing the truth behind your lies
So goodbye is the only word we have left to say
We have no more tomorrows only a bittersweet yesterday
Pieces of broken promises lay scattered at my feet
Trust, honor, and caring replaced by a web of deceit
A future lies before us changed forever by sorrow
Erasing the love I believed would be part of every tomorrow
The dreams we built our lives on never quite came true
Leaving me to start over, build a life without you
Was what we had so wrong, making us victims of never
Have all the open scars left us forbidden forever
I think when the love has died and the anger fades away
The feeling left behind is more of a sad cliche
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Least Resistance
04:37
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I heard your name again today,
I had to fight those tears
The feelings seem even stronger now,
After so many years
Walking down that Road,
Finding the path of Least Resistance,
As you write these words,
Can you feel me guide you
Knowing that I’m going home
When you stopped your heart,
Mine began to crack,
As the tears roll down my cheek,
I pray to feel the rain Wash the pain away
Walking down that Road,
Finding the path of Least Resistance,
As you write these words,
Can you feel me guide you
Knowing that I’m going home
GOING HOME
Here stands a broken man,
Crumbled and alone,
Unsure how I feel inside
Or where to go from here
Take me instead
Take it all away
Take my voice and
Should I embrace the darkness?
And end it all today?
Walking down that Road,
Finding the path of Least Resistance,
As I write these words
I Can you feel guide me
Knowing that Your going home GOING HOME GOING HOME!
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