One of us will be alive by the breaking of the dawn I'm resolved that person will be me With his blood I pay the tithe so that I may be reborn Unabsolved, the waves will receive me Blow, wind, blow! Fill my lungs with shouting Burn, sky, burn! Stoke my heart with fire Flow, rain, flow! Wash away my doubting Turn, earth, turn! With you I'll conspire He said: "I had never seen the sky 'til I gazed into your eyes From tonight our lives start in earnest Never will I leave your side, for when two worlds collide There's a spark that kindles a furnace Blow, wind, blow! Fly us to the heavens Burn, sky, burn! Fill our days with sun Flow, rain, flow Quench our thirst forever Turn, earth, turn! With you we will run" I'm the reason he's alive so his life I shall reclaim One more stab of pain won't undo me I made every sacrifice but her beauty stole my light She's so bright, he's looking right through me Blow, wind, blow! Fill my lungs with shouting Burn, sky, burn! Stoke my heart with fire Flow, rain, flow! Wash away my doubting Turn, earth, turn! With you I'll conspire One of us will be alive by the breaking of the dawn I'm resolved that person will be me

We stopped to take on water on a long laconic shore Broken and defeated by the searing scars of war When through the dusty darkness we glimpsed a glowing flame And soon the mild-eyed melancholy Lotus Eaters came And they said: "Why the struggle? Watch the trees They don't have to toil to drop their fruit or shed their leaves What's to fight for? All will fall Mountains will crumble, time will claim the strongest city walls After all... You're with the Lotus Eaters now No need to worry how the world spins round No need to keep your head out of the clouds Why cling to hope of homeward bound? 'Cause here we've all you need, the Lotus leaves Will send you on a slumber sweet and sound So stick around..." Stop! Wake up! You're dead behind the eyes We haven't reached our home and there are battles still to fight What happened to the spark that fear and fury would ignite? I've lost you to the Lotus and its languid little lies "Let us stay here! What will last? Nothing but fractured fragments of the dark and dreadful past What's to fight for? All will fall." Well, I say better to make a stand than stranded with no hope at all As they call... "You're with the Lotus Eaters now No need to worry how the world spins round No need to keep your head out of the clouds Why cling to hope of homeward bound? 'Cause here we've all you need, the Lotus leaves Will send you on a slumber sweet and sound So stick around..." World forgive me, I'm so tired I searched inside me but the spark of fury had expired It transpired... I'm with the Lotus Eaters now No need to worry now, though I'm not proud Let others make the world keep spinning round Forget the life you left behind Before the Lotus drives it from my mind I'll leave these words for followers to find Don't get entwined You'll lose your mind...

I recall your face Features I have seen somewhere before When I leave my place A shadow of you follows through the door In the puddle mirrored pavements Glistening in street lights You're staring back at me through my own eyes And I can't help thinking you're the kind of chap I'd like to know So it's time to change, I'm letting myself go 'Cause I've never met a chap like you You're so exciting From now on I'm plotting schemes for two And I know I could change my aims and stay the same But I'd never get that far So I wonder who the real me and you are Oh, I wonder who the real me and you are Love's a potent drug I can feel you coursing through my veins We are so in touch Sometimes it's as if we share a brain Oh, and I can never shake you However far I stray I may rove and roam but you remain And they'll try to hate us, separate us But we're closer than they think And I sure get nasty when I've had a drink... 'Cause I've never met a chap like you You're so exciting From now on I'm plotting schemes for two And I know I could change my aims and stay the same But I'd never get that far So I wonder who the real me and you are Oh, I wonder who the real me and you are I don't want to change I'm feeling strange Have I take it too far? Oh, I wonder who the real me and you are Oh, I wonder who the real me and you are...

My mind was ringing with echoes When I told you to let go When I sent you from me Now sitting here at my mirror With the light getting dimmer I can see myself clearly And I'll never reconcile Those bright eyes and flashing smile With the mind that whirs and winds And finds fault in all I see But I think I'll stay awhile Sit and stare and sulk in style And I never said that everything would be the same And I never promised I would be OK with change And I never meant to hurt you But if you feel no pain, then That's enough for me That's enough for me Looking is all I am doing I would face my own ruin If these looks didn't stay I can't decide if I miss you There are more pressing issues Like remaining this way And I'll never sympathise With that place behind my eyes Cells that order me to lie And buy time with money But I'm kind of mesmerised By the face they hide behind And I know I need someone who feels and thinks the same And I know that person isn't real and can't be named And I never meant to spurn you But if you feel no blame, then That's enough for me That's enough for me I know they'll soon come and get me You would never have let me Reach the state I'm in now Counting the cracks in the pavement One more day of enslavement To the lines on my brow Just another little tweak Rolls the clock back one more week If I could I would rewind the time I was with you All those years I can't reclaim But my youth I shall retain And I'll never have that natural glow or natural grace And I'll always have to cast my spell in other ways And these dotted lines are painful But that's the price I pay, and That's enough for me

Jimmy Steer the fisherman Was walking by the shore Where he beheld his kinsfolk dear And watched them weep and mourn There they clutched a covered corpse In tears they cradled him “By the lake his soul was claimed, Alas, he could not swim. He should not have sailed on Dagon Lake For strange things happen there Voices from other worlds arrive on the air.” Down Jim ran and asked of them: “What poor dead soul lies here?” No sooner had they noticed him Than they recoiled in fear “What hateful apparition are you? What strange hound of hell?” “I am no ghost, here, take my hand You'll see I'm safe and well.” “If you are my husband.” proclaimed his wife “Then what is this dead wraith? For under this sheet you'll see your very own face. I know you have no brother And I know you have no twin Yet here are your same shaving scars That mark this changeling's chin.” “It's true I sailed on Dagon Lake Though I saw nothing strange My hand was cut and drops of blood Did mingle with the waves. I fear that the lake made this mirror of me I'm glad that drowned he be If I'd have known how to swim then so might he Madeleine, she craved a friend And strongly she could swim Willingly she cut her hand And let the blood fall in Later on that night she heard A knock upon her door And how the wraith recoiled in fear When Madeleine it saw “Why do you sit in my chair?” it cried “Why do you weave my loom? Devil, be gone, or I am forced to slay you.”

I toed the line Was calm and kind Still they betrayed me So I must teach them to hate me The price I pay To get my way Wish you'd have known me When only kindness controlled me Needles that sting They tell you a thing You have to be cruel to be kind Well, I have to be cruel to be cruel And I'm cruel all the time The dark descends The present tense Draws in to meet me Soon sightless silence will greet me The wind protests That he knows best He can't deceive me Soon all my troubles will leave me Needles that sting They tell you a thing You have to be cruel to be kind Well, I have to be cruel to be cruel And I'm cruel all the time