-------------------------------------------- SHACKLE words and music by S. LANE -------------------------------------------- Nice to meet you How do you do? Why do you hide? Behind your anger And funny ways Ain't it a lie? Natures cadence began its retreat we smile when our eyes meet Oh yeah you're shackled up inside Not enough X and too much Y And its plain to see, its not lost to me You're a sad boy, don't you know? Light dots your path Like fallen leaves You seldom cry You wanted my tears In place of yours So it went awry The stinging words of a heart consumed with jealousy, there isn't room Oh yeah you're shackled up inside Not enough X and too much Y And its plain to see, its not lost to me You're a sad boy, don't you know? -------------------------------------------- DAY ONE music by S. LANE words by J. JAMES -------------------------------------------- The sun when it shines seems to open my mind and it makes me feel good, like I knew that it would And when rain comes along, I will still sing my song Yeah, my life's open wide I'm not empty inside And others artists shouldn't dwell on We're changing mindsets with our verse and song I feel for you, now your moods always blue Yeah its now we should live when love's all we can give Yeah when times on your side, you've got no place to hide When you've seen what I've seen you'll agree I'm not mean And others artists shouldn't dwell on We're changing mindsets with our verse and song We were always in tune, by the light of the moon casting maleness aside, killing ego and pride as our touch grows asured with these motives so pure burning joy in our hearts, no we never could part And others artists shouldn't dwell on We're changing mindsets with our verse and song -------------------------------------------- OUR FUTURE NOW IS PAST music by S. LANE words by J. JAMES -------------------------------------------- As I wake up in the morning with the dreaming in my eyes all the tears that I wasted yeah they laugh as they go by We were special for a moment, though a second can't be bought and the mystery of knowing who you are, it can't be taught Oh we do fall to rise again, and when you call I'll repent That time alone here was so fast, our loving future now is past So much distance in the loving, it was there for all to see you could never let your guard down though I knew who you could be Its a simple case of cutting lose when destiny's fullfilled when you doubt your own ability then baby you'll be killed -------------------------------------------- AT THE ALTAR OF TOMORROW music by S. LANE words by J. JAMES -------------------------------------------- At the altar of tomorrow, our mediocrity does shine And those days, of death or glory Well they were not yours or mine To believe in one or other was a hostile act to self While no heroes vacant wisdom makes you play the cards your dealt Now its me and you together, as the line is cut for good And love would be our guiding force if yes we understood -------------------------------------------- THE CRAZY THINGS YOU KNEW music by S. LANE words by J. JAMES -------------------------------------------- Simple things and stolen rings Time destroyed by truth We were young, having fun I never was that cute Songs in black surprise attack enchanting minds green and brown, natures sounds salvation in the signs Walk over there Never scared Its wary of you now Your silky smile and pretty style the crazy things you knew Your silky smile and pretty style the crazy things you knew -------------------------------------------- NOTHING HERE IS FAIR music by S. LANE words by J. JAMES -------------------------------------------- The Half truths and the whispers cement my own belief that sorrow is ubiquitous and love is cloaked by grief I'm not afraid of dying Or life's incessant trill My fears are stoic masters That summon me at will Yes she is gripped by forces unknown and so alive they wreck creative carnage on those who fear her drive intensively she wanders all pallettes of dispair the muse is free and costly nothing here is fair -------------------------------------------- FRAGILE / FORESIGHT music by S. LANE words by J. JAMES -------------------------------------------- I was born under a steel post with a silver can in hand listening to sad songs, sung by a lonely man I'm dropping a line in a race against time only hearing the sounds in my mind Its us who believe, the fakers decieve I don't think I'm meant for this world Well he has gone away now, now I'm all grown up whistling winds still linger, so from the can I sup I'm dropping a line in a race against time only hearing the sounds in my mind Its us who believe, the fakers decieve I don't think I'm meant for this world Old grey and tattered, lifes been hard on me At least thats what they tell me, the drink, it stole my memory I'm dropping a line in a race against time only hearing the sounds in my mind Its us who believe, the fakers decieve I don't think I'm meant for this world -------------------------------------------- WHO WINS DARES music by S. LANE words by J. JAMES -------------------------------------------- What, what is there to say? Boy you take my blues away I got nothing the money's spent I dont' know how we'll pay the rent She stares, who wins dares? Stop, stop this march of tears It's been this way for years We're in love and it feels so right Hold me baby, here comes the night They're wrong. Sing your song. Kiss, kiss my face so slow Where do you wanna go? Stay with me and we'll laugh at the stars falling out of their nowhere bars right here. No more fear. -------------------------------------------- IT'S OVER music by S. LANE words by S. LANE and J. JAMES -------------------------------------------- Why did you leave me here today How could you break my heart this way? To know you was to love you, but its over When will this pain of mine be gone? Can true love in my world belong? Or am I destined to be old and lonely? Give it up now, give it on up now. How could I see? You weren't meant for me. When will this pain of mine be gone? Can true love in my world belong? or am I destined to be old and lonely? Give it up now, give it on up now. How could I see? You weren't meant for me. -------------------------------------------- I WAS SUZANNE words and music by S. LANE -------------------------------------------- He was a sailor, and I was Suzanne We made love in the harbor of his best laid plans He gave me verses, I taught him to sing We do what we want, we don't hurt a thing ooo We dont' hurt a thing I listened to heartbeats alone in the night He blinked, and he wandered through dreams until light I said I'm here when he asked me to stay Though I knew we were destined to live far away Oooo Live far away -------------------------------------------- MIRROR FOR ANGUISH music by S. LANE words by J. JAMES -------------------------------------------- With a sterile agenda, you laughed at my love As we swore at the nothing that guides from above theres a shallow equation predestined to lose In the paper, the tv, the idiots news I am a mirror for anguish, confront you mortality, dance with your death And when it comes to the end, bid farewell and then make love to your final breath Our industrial foresight does sacrifice joy for the man and the woman, the girl and the boy if they lived out their passions, all maya would die Return to the essence, no what where or why -------------------------------------------- I DON'T BELIEVE IN THE SUN words and music by STEPHEN MERRIT -------------------------------------------- They say there's a sun in the sky But me, I can't imagine why There might have been one before you were gone But now all I see is the night So I don't believe in the sun How could it shine down on everyone? And never shine on me? How could there be, such cruelty? The only sun I ever knew Was the beautiful one that was you Since you went away, its night time all day And its usually raining too So I don't believe in the sun How could it shine down on everyone? And never shine on me? How could there be, such cruelty? The only stars there really are were shining in your eyes There is no sun, except the one that never shone on other guys The moon to whom the poets croon, has given up and died Astronomy will have to be revised -------------------------------------------- YOUR DESIRES FALTER music by S. LANE words by J. JAMES -------------------------------------------- Your desires falter, even when you kiss her So disguise your sorrow, and kiss her like you miss her! I never know why you're always so scared Its such an easy thing to tell em you don't care. Whaddya say? I dispair we're only walking into sadness So take away my temper and leave me in the madness Beyond their machine is a passion so rare they have been tied up like the pale lace in your hair In tomorrows desperate cadence Lies your imagined difference and a place you'll never find through an altered state of mind -------------------------------------------- IN TIME WE'LL RETURN music by S. LANE words by J. JAMES -------------------------------------------- In time we'll return to the earth An eternal rebirth, what joy In tune with the good and the bad Your happy, my sad. Oh boy. And you have it locked in your soul A mysterious role to play Life plays a joke on us all Rise up to fall, and say - what should we say? -------------------------------------------- I CHASE THE RAIN music by S. LANE words by S. LANE and J. JAMES -------------------------------------------- The melody's free, it fell from the sky The words kid, the words how they all made you cry If you tell me its easy, your hearts made of stone like the leaf on the branch there dancing alone I chase the rain Addiction and hurt and pain and deciet the drinking the lying, the people you cheat The wondering if I will ever be free From the horrors inside that keep me from me I chase the rain -------------------------------------------- PALE LIQUID SHOUT music by S. LANE words by J. JAMES -------------------------------------------- Excentuate feelings of dislocation at the most inappropriate times Then I flee to seek sanctuary And fill my sad pages with rhymes When I am lost and I can't touch the ground The sounds get me through just about The rhythms, the textures, the verses, the chords The anguish, the pale liquid shout -------------------------------------------- MODALITY words and music by S. LANE -------------------------------------------- I think I need more than I could ever give and love's no game, but I've lost too much to live on this way But if you see the sparrow flying 'round, you will know I am sound You were it all, you'll always be my loving wish I know I need more than I could ever give and love's a game, but I've lost too much to live on this way So if you see the sparrow flying 'round, you will know I am sound You were it all, you'll always be my loving wish If I could just be fair, we'd be alright