9. Live Young, Die Free

The distant sound of mercy ringing in my eyes.
Far from the masses fades away.
Closed my eyes and waited for the pain to pass,
Recalled a little story heard today...

Yeah, I'm feeling trapped,
So locked away,
Caught in a downward spiral...
In, into the black,
I won't be back,
Yeah I'll be here a while...

Don't need to see, your face.
Don't need to hear a word you say,
Don't need to know, your name,
Or why you're here...

Shadows of the past appear in front of me.
Into the masses disappear.
The sound of silence ringing for a greater good,
To this point I can't beleive my ears...

Yeah, coming unwrapped,
Starting to fray.
Walking the final mile...
In, into the black,
I won't back,
Choose to be here a while...

Then I saw your face,
And I heard the words you said.
Then I recalled your name,
And why I'm here...

When I look into your eyes an' saw how much you cried,
An' I had a revelation.
The pain wouldn't pass, the scars they would last,
Into God's creation.
Blessed secrets holding me...
Then we all closed our eyes, an' laid down and sighed:

Live young die free!

A distant chime of mercy ringing one last time.
Into the masses turns to clay...
Molded into what is now, the greater good
To close the story yesterday...

Don't need to see your face,
Don't need to hear a word you say.
Don't need to know your name,
Or why you're here...

Then a child of a liar put his hands into the fire,
Called it discontention.
And a man with the word repeated what he heard,
Led to mass confusion.
Blessed secrets, agony...
Then the child closed his eyes and laid down and died.

Live young die free.

10. Nice Day... For A Funeral

Black suits. eyes closed.
Nothing left to hear.
One mistake. blame the youth,
Crossed the line of fear.
Burn the bridges that we crossed in time,
Seemed the... only way.
Not for nothing was his only crime,
A final price to pay.

Black days, loss for words.
When there's so much left to say.
Time's mine, have so much time,
Since I went away.
Back across the bridges burned,
Now you walk alone.
The lights are on the doors unlocked,
No one is home.

I saw the last of sunshine.
I'm going back to Mother Earth.
A cry of independance,
Ends in death...

Yeah, the last of sunshine,
Oh, ya know, for what it's worth
Nice day for a funeral.

One last time to turn your back.
Don't kiss me when I go.
Don't wonder why it came to this,
You didn't want to know.
A bastard child and his misspent youth,
Yeah, he's yours and mine.
We're digging graves, not the buried truth
If only we had the time.

Yeah, the last of sunshine
Oh ya know, for what it's worth.
Nice day for a funeral
Yeah, the last of sunshine.
I'm going back to Mother Earth.
A cry of independance,
Ends in death...

11. Soulitude

Life we talk of death
Each breath come closer to out.
Of this I'm not afraid
Though I don't know what it's all about
I don't know!

Decisions that we make,
The chances that we take,
The blindness we can't take.
Thought I knew but now I know what it's like,
To be alone...!
I know...!

I remember here!
Thought it was a dream!
I never thought I'd come to this.
Living with the fear,
Now I know what it means
Never thought it'd, end like this!

Falling with no end...
Into what I've only done to me.
With messages to send..,
Out of what I've only done to me.

Falling with no
Calling with no
Crawling to the end.

I remember here!

I Hear Black (1993)



1. Dreaming In Columbian
2. I Hear Black
3. World Of Hurt
4. Feed My Head
5. Shades Of Grey
6. Spiritual Void
7. Ghost Dance
8. Weight Of The World
9. Ignorance & Innocence
10. Undying
11. Just Like You

1. Dreaming In Columbian

Worlds apart, separation from my mind.
Just close my eyes to bring me there.
I fall apart, the peices are so hard to find.
A puzzle peice is torn in half.

The absence, of colour. surrounds a broken dream.
Call my eyes to take me there...
One by one I watch, as the peices disappear,
My friends become the ones I hate.
This house of cards it, won't withstand the wind.
I shut my eyes to escape.

All my whites have turned to black.
Everytime I close my eyes, dream in columbian.
All my bugs are comin' back.
Crawlin' on my face, they speak in!
Columbian.

Worlds apart, a separation from my soul.
Worlds apart, the separation is now whole.
I watch the peices fall apart.
I try to make a brand new start.
I'm fallin' in, I'm fallin' out,
I'm fallin' up, I'm fallin' back,
I'm fallin' down, an' fallin' round, an' askin' why?

2. I Hear Black

Bad or a wet dream,
Feelin' so inbetween,
Gun in my pocket an' a target on my head.
Right on the wrong road,
He talks to me through dogs,
Not sure who it is but I know it ain't God.

Feel like they're watchin' me,
Know that they're watchin' me,
C'mon lets go got two tickets to the moon.
Now what are you supposed to do?
When they got their hooks in you?

Do you beleive me?
I was there.
And didja hear it!?
Yeah...

Not my fault, wasn't even there.
Rest of the world, all gone insane.
Can ya hear the dogs barkin' can ya hear the dogs speak?
Seen it on the TV, something gonna break.
Now how am I supposed to breathe,
When there is no air?
And how am I supposed to be!?
When those hooks are pullin' me...
Down.

If you release me,
Won't be there.
If you leave me!!!
I won't care.

I hear black it has no mercy!
Repeating in my head.

In my head....
In my...

From the inside out... talk to me, in, tounges.
The worst... of this... I understand,
That the flies are breeding,
The wounds are bleeding,
There'll be no healing in my house.

From the inside out.
You know I'm not the same!

Repeating in my head
In my head.

3. World Of Hurt

Aggravation, fuelin' me,
Money powered, hypocracy.
I have no feelings, you're much the same.
We have no feelings, we feel no pain!

I am numb to all I see,
This the way it has to be,
Gone is hope, gone is need,
I know! stone don't bleed.

What's it worth? if I die.
What's the reason? they all cry.
I have no feelings, too much the same,
Not my problem, I feel no blame.

We are blind and we are cold,
We're afraid of growing old.
We are numb to all we see,
Nothing sacred.

Backs turned to madness,
Backs to misery and I put the,
Brush to the canvas!
An' paint a world!
Paint my world of:

Hurt!
World of hurt. Of hurt.

We are blind and we are cold,
Still afraid of growing old.
We are numb to all we see,
Nothing sacred.

Hurt!!!
Paints my world of hurt.
Paints my world, in my world of!
In my world of hurt!!!

4. Feed My Head

Talk is cheep,
I can't afford the, price of wasted time...
Who will reap the profit of the lie?

Fantasy,
Illusion fusion impressions of a high...
Sacred is the being of the lie.

Drawn is a picture of myself,
It's all that I see, leaving!
Gone are the cries I heard for help,
The mirror spits,
Reflections of a lie.

Are you waiting for a chance?
Won't happen standing in the rain.

Damage done,
The truth is drowning in a sea of hate...
Wet, they wear the fiction like a badge over their hearts.

Drawn is a picture of myself,
It's all that I feel bleeding!
Gone are the cries I made for help,
The mirror spits,
Reflections of a lie.

Feed my head! I'm hungry for a lie.

Be sure and teach your children well,
To use it pure and slow.
Be sure they teach their children,
Be sure the children's children.

Slight of hand, slight of word.
Slight to beleive, the absurd.
Feed my head I'm hungry.
I'm hungry for a lie.

Drawn is a picture of myself,
It's all that I see greiving!
Gone are the cries I made for help,
The mirror spits,
Reflections of a lie.

Feed my head of a lie!
Feed my head reflections of a lie.
Feed my head. Feed my

5. Shades Of Grey

I watch the smoke drift, from my cigarette.
I hear the roaches cross the floor.
Slam dance around me, in my chair I sit.
The grey's leakin' through the door.
There's a shade of grey! I've never seen before...

My gaze fixed on, the space beneath the door.
My life flash. before my eyes...
All this sweat grew from one solitary drop
Grey's movin' cross the floor.

We walk alone, no one beside us!
It's never simple as black or white.
We should have known, no one would find us!
That we would all wind up in
Shades of grey...

"It seems like everytime I get a chance... is quite naked.
And as I turn around, as I turn around... and
inside there's no doubt its gonna happen again"

Nobody listenin', so I talk to myself.
Sometimes I pay me no... mind...
I lost this argument, so very long ago...
The right words were so hard to find...
I can't breathe in the grey!
An' I can't find the key to the door...

6. Spiritual Void

Bless me with that special pain,
That makes a man feel right as rain.
My soul-a-fire, feelin' so alive in your own way.

If you need a reason,
To get some healin'.
If your spirit's bleedin'
Then get some healin'!!!

I need a new religeon!!!

Laughin' like a true beleiver,
Laughin' hard the true deceiver.
Without a worry in this world no friend of time.

Do we get higher?
Ha ha ha higher...
Are we all higher?!
In a spiritual void.

One for neglecting me,
And two on the way to three.
No I never felt so low I never, felt so low as in this void!

Bless us all with what we need!
Self indulgent constant greed.
What's mine is mine is mine you get your own leave me alone.

Spiritual void.