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The Motive Of Hope (2014)


The World At Play

Everyone’s a lens witnessing
The world through different frames
Of unique meaning

As the aperture expands
The simplest mistake is to chase what’s missing
And never see the world at play
Only one truth waits when we end this journey
We’ll never have that chance again

The silence escapes, it’s deafening
Information haze
All consuming haste
The world in every frame

The simplest mistake is to chase what’s missing
And never see the world at play
Only one truth waits when we end this journey
We’ll never have a chance again

I long to find simplicity I need
I long to find simple things




The Motive Of Hope

Hear her frozen thoughts
Thawing on the inside
Addicted reasoning
Season dark holes lurking
Enchanted riddles chance
Breaking through her security

But wordless poetry
Fills her hearts of prisoners

Hope, is here by my side
She’ll make this journey an easier one

She’s always too kind
But nobody questions the motive of Hope.

She’s there when I call
But what is the real cost?
When her conscience lies
I’ll see where her purpose hides

Hope, is here by my side
She’ll make this journey an easier one, or does she?
She’s always too kind

But nobody questions the motives of Hope.



Leave It Buried

Warning like clouds to an empty sky
Turn a blind eye to the storm
Alarms ring on silent and hide the time
Nothing will ever unwind
Deceitful denial distorts the truth
Like poison to water supplies

The writing on the wall is fading

We steer our own course
Beyond circumstance
But who’ll make the choice with no second chance?
We cannot delay the burdens of change
To prosper today 

Till it’s too late

Warning as clouds fill an empty sky
Turn a blind eye

The writing on the wall has faded

We steer our own course
And live with the dance
But who’ll make the choice with no second chance?
We cannot delay in sparing our world
Cause our will today can save the earth

 Our will to change
No more delay
Our will to change
No more delay

Leave it buried forever



Generosity

You belong in me
A piece of you I keep
I am yours and who I am is what you’ve made me
With your gift of life
Comes a constant prize
Every time I see myself inside your eyes

There’s no way for you to show more generosity

Forced deliverance
Given every chance
Forming perfect shadows for our fearing
Void coincidence
Shaped experience
Journeying through cycles disappearing

There’s no way for you to show more generosity
In nature’s way we’re paying forward generosity

Lives run parallel
In time the roles reverse
Reciprocating all we’ve been given

There’s no way for you to show more generosity
It’s nature’s way of paying forward generosity



The Portrait Of Your Life

Stop filling up your life with chores for frozen reward
When mind possessing objects call that you’ve no need for

My father taught me
“A job worth doing’s worth doing well
The portrait of your life is what you make it"

Hunting unpredictable fuel to feel good
But monotonous addictive drones soon consume you

But my mother taught me
“A life worth living’s worth living well
The portrait of your life is what you make it"

 My father taught me
“There’s no point waiting for time to tell
The portrait of your life is what you make it"
The portrait of your life
Go now create it



Don’t Let The Ego Carry Your Soul

He said, “leave it all behind”
We’re all just made of new beginnings
You don’t have to pretend you’re something else
Living like a soldier fighting against yourself

Don’t let the ego carry your soul
Blindly through the motions in full control

He said, “free it all today”
Judgement of yourself and others
Cause we’re all part of the same tidal wave
Rushing for that shoreline playing the greatest game

 Don’t let the ego carry your soul
Blindly through the motions in full control

  


Connect With Me

 Show me reality
Connect me
Share my reality
Connect with me

Sharing secrets
Posting visions
Lives on show
Long to reach you
And connect to your real world

Show me reality
Connect with me
Share your reality
With me
Noiseless voices

Endless choices
Seek control
All points taken
In cyber wastelands
Lonely hearts grow

 There’s a way out
Connect with me
There’s a way back
Just talk to me
There’s a way out
Connect with me
There’s a way back

 Share my reality
Connect with me
Be my reality
Connect with me



Depths Unknown

I wish I had a ticket
I’d send you on a first class ride
Through the hills to believing
Your faith’s only fleeting
If you claim to know the truth
Your fate has got to leave the past
Alone in potential here and now

If you had a ticket
Would you even take that chance?
Standing on the edge when solid ground beckons
I’d rather have a motive of passionate disbelief
Than go through the motions
With a lie in focus

We’re all at depths unknown
Watching the shadows grow
Why fight to free yourself to wonder?
We cling to what we know
Old faith and lies on show
Reopen up your mind to wonder

How will you find your feet?
When you’re running through the dark in line
Emotionless and vacant
Passing by each moment
The chance of really seeing
Can only come with new questions asked
With newborn courage
Uncertainty in focus




Sunday Singer

 Put a mask on
Pretty colours
Fight the real you
Put up posters
Give them what they want
Take an apple
Plant it in you
Fertilize within
Sunday Singer
Right beginner
You think you’re getting through

“We’ll have a party
Come to our party”
You just want to make your own rules with God
You fool yourself to think your view comes from above

Strong opinion based religion
That’s just what you are
Just another point debated with morals from afar
Sunday Singer, pick your fools to play your tricks on
But someday Karma wins you’ll never reach the good ones

“We’ll have a party
Come join our party”
You just want to make your own rules with God
You fool yourself to think a view comes from above




Won’t Let Go

I’m climbing a ladder to the top of a heart
And it beating along the way still keeps me hanging on
The air’s getting thinner but it heightens the rush
Like an addict who won’t give up
I’ll reach her from above

Cause I’m still winning in this game
While I know I’m in her race I won’t let go

Monopolize
She’s naming her price till she’s traded in sunlight
There’ll be no more dark skies

But I’m still winning in this game
While I know I’m in her race
So I play a wicked game of chase
While I know I’m in her race I won’t let go

 Yeah I’m still winning in this game
While I know I’m in her race
So I play a wicked game of chase
Hoping for that single taste so I won’t let go

 

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In An Ocean Of Sacrifice (2012)


Prologue

Art is like a person if it’s good it never lies
Weeping colour faceless laughter waning without time
In an ocean of sacrifice
You rebel and avoid the night
For the fear of a build up of sleep in your eyes
In a playing field of warm delight
You’re a fool letting days go by
For the fear of a build up of light in your life

Pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty please
Love is an easy option when you’re gone

 

 The Woman Next Door

 She only wears black if she’s wearing that
She arrested my soul when they made their home
I watch their telly from reflection in glass
And it feels like family working at last

Oh would I love to know her more?
That woman next door
Oh I’d love her even more
Than that boy she has…

Running her chores through the working week
He’s got a list on their fridge that he has to keep
When he does his best to protect her health
She closes her legs to seduce herself

Not strange at all
In fact it’s all so ordinary
Not strange at all in fact

 


A New Way

 Oh Mary what am I to become?
It’s been three and a half years and no sight of home
The further I walk the more I know
I’m heading to a place I’ve been before

‘Cause now is the time for a new way
Cleanse myself in new waters
Where everything is clear

Oh Mary how will I ever know?
To trust in another soul the way I only trust my own?
The further I walk the more I know I’ve only got to let it go
‘Cause now is the time for a new way

All this open water
Where everything seems clear
I don’t know where to turn
But I know I’m not alone in this suffering
And it’s beautiful
‘Cause there’s a smile on everyone

 

You’ll Never Be Alone

 Waiting for your lines to come and direction
You’ve been waiting so long

When there’s nowhere to run
You’ll never ever be alone
Look around

There’s no prize for sacrifice
The lie you sav for love today
I’d lie over again

No regrets the conscience hides
The choice is made to start this life

 

 Crazy About The End

 I’m going crazy worrying about the end
I worry about an end before it all begins
‘Cause there’s a dark place deep in everyone
Patiently on hold waiting to be known

And even the giants fall
The mud sticks desire fuels us all
Even the giants crawl
This life is a fight for us all

I’m going crazy losing all control
I steal a hand to hold steal a hand to hold
I’m going crazy worrying about the end
I worry about the end before it all begins

And the yearning grows lust controls
Till it finds a place to hide in your soul
To use you
Use you.

 

 1000 Hearts

 Can’t you see that he bites the hand that feeds you?
Flesh and bone
A love is bought and taken home

What’s left are 1000 hearts grieving and more
‘Cause he’s taken the soul for keeping
It’s so hard

Hard to see
They arrive at plentiful moments
Tired prey
They hunt the victims’ most needing love

What’s left are 1000 hearts broken and more
‘Cause he’s taken the soul he destroyed

It’s so hard so hard
Watching her go
Watching it all
Watching a loved one go





Happy, Happy, Joy, Joy

 I had a dream I saw your dress
Colourless white the picture a mess
When did we stop singing our song?
Hopelessly right bound to be wrong
Sometimes we’d fight to get along
Perfectly us floating away

Be strong believe in what’s meant to be
It will set you free in the end
People go by they look and they smile
But you caught me eye and stopped for a while
I couldn’t have known what’d happen from there
And if by chance it comes to an end?
I’d build it back up and start it again
Two singing hearts beating again

Be strong believe in what’s meant to be
It will set us free in the end

 

Somewhere, Somehow, Someday

 Somewhere I know we’ll meet again
Somehow I know we’ll meet again
Someday this can’t be the end

I hope you’re happy I hope that you found a way home
Far from the place where you felt you were so alone
I hope you’re happy I hope that you found a way home
Home

There’s no end to anything

 I hope you’re happy I hope that you found a way home
I hope you found some beauty to call your own
I hope you’re happy I hope that you found a way home
Home




Paths

I waited for you on a highway out of town
You took the long way so I never waited ‘round
But where would I be if our paths crossed?
I wonder…

I wanted to grow fast
Took the first chance only to lose
You watched the green pass
Let the best chance find you

How will I know which path to take?
I wonder…



London Town

Let’s pack up and leave it all behind
Follow our dreams and fly to London town
‘Cause the weight of our fear is all we have holding back our soul
Let’s pack up and leave it all behind

We’ve got the rest of our life the rest of our life

I wanna be
I wanna be
I wanna be on the same trip as you
I don’t wanna face this world without you

 

Live Your Fantasy

You wait holding your breath for a reason to climb
There at the bottom it’s safe with places to hide
Every chance you delay the risk you won’t take
Till the moments expire reason escapes

Live your fantasies as long as you can
The eyes of reality are watching your back
Hold a dream in the palm of your hands
The grip of reality has its own plan
(The grip of reality is chasing you down)

When you give it away hold nothing back
Down on your knees stick to the plan
Don’t fall on the past it won’t hold you up
Resting on what you had

I believe in you
I believe in you and you should