Hand Of Truth
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Daddy
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It was a cold night in December
The snow lay on the ground
She was coming home from school one night
From the other side of town
It was getting late, there was something wrong
Then I heard the news
A TV Flash and by 9 o'clock
They'd found her socks and shoes
Daddy come and bring me home
I didn't know which way to turn
I was shaking like a leaf
I got into my car and drove
Searching every street
Has anybody seen her
Have you found my little girl
She's all I have, all I possess
And to me, she means the world
I can hear her calling
Daddy come and bring me home
Daddy, Daddy come and bring me home
Daddy, when are you gonna bring me home
As time went by each silent night
We knew all hope was gone
We knew the light had flickered
From the eyes that once had shone
They caught a man in a bar one night
He confessed to what he'd done
He'd laid her body out in some dark wood
Just didn't know which one,
Daddy, Daddy come and bring me home
Daddy, Daddy come and bring me home
I just couldn't leave her out there
Lying on her own
'Cause she belongs to me
And I belong to her
I know she rests in Heaven
With the angels on a throne
But now I hear her calling
Daddy, Daddy come and bring me home
Daddy come and bring me home
Daddy, Daddy come and bring me home
Daddy, Daddy come and bring me home
One By One
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Heart On Ice
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Just take my heart put it on ice
'Cause I don't think I could stand another blow
Just one more tumble of the dice
Though it's slipping through my hands
I can't let go
And when the hard rain falls
Whatever you may say
There's no hiding in this jungle
You just can't run away
And I'm sorry when I fell from grace
Unable to conceal
Only passion is a fool to chase
The loneliness I fell
Just take my heart into the night
It no longer needs to see the light of day
Heaven knows I cannot fight
As the edges of my soul get chipped away
Walking down this street
The gutter runs with tears
I would sell my heart
To cross the bridge of compromise
But you cannot walk on broken glass
'Cause every step you take
Is just one cut deeper than the last
Just one more heart you break
Just take my heart put it on ice
Your love is a fire, a burning hurricane
We can never cross the river of good-byes
While desire hides in the darkness
Searching for the flame
There were so many days
And still I wonder why
I will never mend these broken wings
No matter how I try
I thought we had it all, but now it seems
We just flickered like a candle
In the cathedral of our dreams
Just take my heart put it on ice
Your love is a fire, a burning hurricane
We can never cross the river of good- byes
While desire hides in the darkness
Searching for the flame
Just take my heart put it on ice
Your love is a fire, a burning hurricane
We can never cross the river of good-byes
While desire hides in the darkness
Searching for the flame
Thin Line
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Man With The Long Black Coat
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Change
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A missed step by the river's edge
A chosen word, but it took too long
Your last chance is all he said
You won't miss it, till it's gone
A ghost in the distance
Where the ocean meets the land
A fallen angel in a trance
A conversation you don't understand
Change - everybody wants it
Just a little hope and honesty
Change - everybody needs it
Open up our hearts so that we can see
A young man with a blue beard
Counting days that seem too long
Can't wait, wait another minute
For my fifteen minutes in the sun
Gotta sweep this act I follow
Dust off this passion play
Believe in fate cast off this sorrow
It's just a stone's throw away
Change - everybody wants it
Just a little hope and honesty
Change - everybody needs it
Open up our hearts so that we can see
Some will think I'm crazy
Some will think I'm strange
I'm trying to satisfy this hunger
Somebody stop this pain
No signs of redemption
Can't take the guilt they live
Gonna live and die in this world
Pushin' and pullin' 'till somethin' gives
Change - everybody wants it
Just a little hope and honesty
Change - everybody needs it
Open up our hearts so that we can see
Change - everybody wants it
Just a little hope and honesty
Change - everybody needs it
Open up our hearts so that we can see
Visions of such temptation
We can never take it to far
That's the price of the true sensation
To find out who we really are
Keep digging, digging for answers
Keep searchin' you can't give in
Will we ever understand
A truth we cannot comprehend
Change - everybody wants it
Just a little hope and honesty
Change - everybody needs it
Open up our hearts so that we can see
A missed step by the rivers edge
A chosen word but it took too long
Your last chance is all he said
You won't miss it 'till it's gone
Change - everybody wants it
Just a little hope and honesty
Change - everybody needs it
Open up our hearts so that we can see
Change - everybody wants it
Just a little hope and honesty
Change - everybody needs it
Open up our hearts so that we can see
Give Me A Reason To Stay
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Gone Too Soon
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Street War
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Pictures At An Exhibition: Promenade
(Mussorgsky)
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Pictures At An Exhibition: The Gnome
(Mussorgsky, Palmer)
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Pictures At An Exhibition: Promenade
(Mussorgsky, Lake)
Lead me from tortured dreams
Childhood themes of nights alone.
Wipe away endless years,
childhood tears as dry as stone.
From seeds of confusion,
illusions dark blossoms have grown.
Even now in furrows of sorrow
the dance still is sung.
My life's course is guided
decided by limits drawn
on charts of my past ways
and pathways since I was born.
Pictures At An Exhibition: The Sage
(Lake)
I carry the dust of a journey
that cannot be shaken away
It lives deep within me
for I breathed it every day
You and I are yesterday's answers
the earth of the past come to flesh
Eroded by time's rivers
to the shapes we now possess
Come share of my breath and my substance
and mingle our streams and our times
In bright infinite moments
our reasons are lost in our eyes
Pictures At An Exhibition: The Hut Of Baba Yaga
(Mussorgsky)
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Pictures At An Exhibition: The Great Gates Of Kiev
(Mussorgsky, Lake)
Come forth, from love's spire
Born in life's fire,
Born in life's fire.
Come forth, from love's spire
In the burning, all are [of our] yearning,
for life to be.
And in pain there will [must] be gain,
New Life!
Stirring in, salty streams
And dark hidden seams
Where the fossil sun gleams.
They were, sent from [to] the gates
Ride the tides of fate
Ride the tides of fate.
They were, sent from [to] the gates,
In the burning all are [of our] yearning,
For life to be.
There's no end to my life,
No beginning to my death:
Death is life.