Euthanasia - "Unspoken."

Take me away, sir, from the mirror of the past
The tears are dripping into the eternal well
And ripples on the surface create impenetrable cells
Surrounding the seconds of our lives.

All unspoken, there is no one left I can confess to.
All unspoken, I can swallow up the letters of those sentences.
All unspoken, a tongue, as carved from a throat
All unspoken, writing alone on the wall of tears.

The present has been scattered into the dust
Why do I wake up in the past?
I can see through blind eyes
Into the kingdom of the fallen.

The words I haven't spoken
Are disappearing in the depths of buried hopes.
In the echoes of unlived tomorrows
I learn to listen to the steps of solitude.

Dancing shadows create a silhouette
Of celestial freedom and connection.
I'm waiting by the wall of tears
Outside the borders of time, inside the temple of light.

Cyndi Lauper - "True Colours."

You with the sad eyes
Don't be discouraged
Oh, I realise
It's hard to take courage
In a world full of people
you can lose sight of it all
And the darkness inside you
can make you feel so small

But I see your true colours
shining through
I see your true colours
and that's why I love you
So don't be afraid to let them show
Your true colours
Your true colours are beautiful
Like a rainbow

Show me a smile then
Don't be unhappy, can't remember
when I last saw you laughing
If this world makes you crazy
and you've taken all you can bear
You call me up
Because you know I'll be there

And I'll see your true colours
shining through
I see your true colours
and that's why I love you
So don't be afraid to let them show
Your true colours
Your true colours are beautiful
Like a rainbow

Alice Cooper - "Might As Well Be On Mars."

The city streets are wet with rain tonight
Taxi drivers swerve from lane to lane
A lonely guitar man playin' down the hall
Midnight blues comin' through the walls

I tried to call you on the telephone
I left it off the hook
Just to hear it ring
You told me you were better off alone
I never knew that tears could stain

I'm on the roof and I'm starin' at the stars
Lookin' down at all the cars
I can see you
In the window of your favourite corner bar
But to reach you is just too far
And I might as well be on Mars

The city seems so old and grey and beat
It closes in and makes me want to suffocate
And you just live across the street
But that's a billion miles away

You've turned my world into a dark and lonely place
Like a planet lost in space, my light is fadin'
I'd cross the universe to be right where you are
But I'm right in your back yard
And I might as well be on Mars

I might as well be on Mars
You can't see me
I might as well be the man in the Moon
You can't hear me
Oh, can you feel me so close
And yet so far
Baby, I might as well be on Mars

Baby, I can't fly
If I could I'd come down to you
Maybe I should try

I'm on the roof and I'm starin' at the stars
Lookin' down at all the cars
I can see you
In the window of your favourite corner bar
But to reach you is just too far
And I might as well be on Mars

I might as well be on Mars
You can't see me
I might as well be the man in the Moon
You can't hear me
Oh, can you feel me so close
And yet so far
Baby, I might as well be on Mars

The Mavericks - "From Hell To Paradise."

For thirty years they sang the
song of promised victory
But who they've fought and who has won
Didn't matter much to me

I see them driving down the streets
In their fancy shiny cars
Crowds of people to their feet
Their faces full of scars

No pleasantries, no luxuries
No little children's milk
While minister's wives spent all their lives
In China's finest silk

My back's been broken many times
But my spirit lingers on
The day it comes my way on freedom's ship
I will be gone

From hell to paradise
I'll always pay the price
From hell to paradise
I'll always pay the price

This ninety mile trip
has taken thirty years to make
They tried to keep for ever
what was never theirs to take

I cursed and scratched the devil's hand
As he stood in front of me
One last drag from his big cigar
And he finally set me free

From hell to paradise
I'll always pay the price
From hell to paradise
I'll always pay the price
From hell to paradise
I'll always pay the price
From hell to paradise
I'll always pay the price

Con ojos tiernos algun dia te mirare
Con brases abiertos algun dia abrasare
Hay mi Havana cuando pueda regresare

(Translation:
With tender eyes someday I'll look at you
With open arms someday I'll embrace you
My old Havana someday I will return)

Fish - "Plague Of Ghosts."

1 (i) Old Haunts

I found a home in the darkness,
Found a home in the darkness, found a home in the darkness,
Empty stomach, empty head, a body fills a vacant bed,
And the thunder rolls by, and the rains come,
And the day is gone and I wonder where I am.

Found a place in the darkness, found a home in the darkness,
In the darkness, home, in the darkness.

A crowded room of passers by, and in the shadows strangers cry,
And the ghosts try to hide,
When the rains come, when the storms form,
When I wonder who I am in the darkness,
Home.

(ii) Digging Deep.

Digging deep in the darkness, digging it deep down
Deep down deep down digging it
Deep in the darkness, digging it deep, down deep,
Down, deep down digging it
Deep in the darkness, digging it deep, down,
Down, down, down, digging it
Deep in the darkness, digging it down, deep down,
Deep, down deep digging it

We watched an insect stray to the edge of its world,
A lily pad stretched over a green mirror
In which the ghost carp swirl like clouds before a storm.
This is the season of the rains,
This is incoming.

And when it came there was no cover, no place to hide,
Vision blurred, hard to breathe,
Trying hard to hold onto something that's real.
Nothing left, nowhere to go, no open road;
It's washed away by swollen streams,
Carried off downriver with all my broken dreams.

Digging deep in the darkness, digging it deep,
Down deep, down deep, deep, digging it
Deep in the darkness, digging it deep down,
Down, down, down, digging it
Deep in the darkness, digging it deep,
Digging it digging it, digging it,
Deep in the darkness, digging it deep down,
Deep down, deep down, digging it.

A tethered goat bleats from the corner of the graveyard
Where the lizards hang motionless as the angels of stone above them,
Their broken wings throwing long shadows into the grass
Where the scorpions hide.
The tigers are running out of jungle.

In the end I was tired of being asked
If I could say that I was happy now,
As if you need me to convince you that everything's okay.
Would you take me back?

Digging deep in the darkness, digging it deep,
Down deep, down deep, deep digging it
Deep in the darkness, digging it deep, down,
Down, down, down, down, digging it,
Deep in the darkness, digging it deep,
Deep down, deep, deep, digging it,
Deep in the darkness, down, down, down,
Down, down, down digging it.

Are you happy now? you keep asking,
Asking am I happy now?
Why can't you tell me that I'm happy now?
Are you happy now?
Happy now? Happy now?

2. Chocolate Frogs

The bloated corpses of unsolved murders and old revolutions
Pirouette and dance amongst the swirls and eddies
In their final procession down the muddy river
To the delta where they're thrown up by the surf
Onto sterile beaches or are trapped in the roots of mangrove cathedrals
Of the islands that gather in the bay.

These are the first arrivals on this new horizon
That will be coveted by strangers
Who will deposit themselves on these shores
To build towers to the heavens.
The storm will come and the rains will fall
And remove their dreams and hopes once again
To the waters that surround them.
And while they pray the frogs will chant in the darkness

A heid full of chocolate frogs, a body full of rush,
A pocketful of shrapnel and a skinfull of bush,
An eyefull of the future and a belly full of the past,
How beautiful the present when you know it cannae last.

A tumblerful of voddie, two fingers in a glass,
A handful of promises, a heart full of remorse,
Mindful of your manners when you're brought down to your knees,
A heid full of chocolate frogs is all you gave to me,
That's all you gave to me, that's all you gave to me,

A spoonful of miracles, a nostril full of dust
A lung full of virginia, the needs we have we must,
A pill to put your heart right, a nose out for a deal
For a heid full of chocolate frogs, what can you give to me?
What did you give to me?
What did you give to me?
What did you give to me?

3. Waving At Stars.

You cracked up too soon before the punchline hit home
And at the end of the joke did you notice that no-one was laughing with you.
You were out on your own,
Waving at trains, waving at cars, waving from bars, waving from aeroplanes,
Might as well be waving at stars

You called out her name as the darkness hit home,
Raised up your Zippo and opened the skies till the crowd melts away,
At the end of the day, you ran out of light,
Praying for rain, praying for signs,
Praying for time, praying for endless night,
Might as well be wishing on stars

4. Rain Gods Dancing

Empty churches, empty pews, in the subway nothing moves
And the static on the radio is drowning out the sound of rain gods dancing,
Empty playgrounds, empty bars, I can't remember how it was before the flood
When all I had to do was recognise the love that's trapped inside.

I gave it all, I took it back and in the end there's nothing left
Except a shell surrounding emptiness and loneliness, a core of pain,
I see my pathway shining.

Rain gods with Zippos, a tin man hides a broken heart,
Rain gods with Zippos, he knows the flame has gone, that soon he'll fall apart.

So I lay me down to lie, and with the rain my lullaby
I drift away to dreamless sleep, leave behind a life that died,
A victim of a plague of ghosts
I was wrapped up in my guilt, buried deep within my memories,
A shelter of self-pity that I know the rain will wash away,
I sense the storm arriving.

Rain gods with Zippos, a tin man rusts away and slowly falls apart,
Rain gods with Zippos and all he leaves behind is a bleeding, broken heart.

(Part ii) The Wake-up Call (Make It Happen)

In the end I found beginnings, not a vision, a wake up call,
Raised from the dead by a beating heart and at last I can see it all
And my eyes were opened to the darkness, in my hand a burning flame,
A spark of life to touch the fuse and blow these clouds away,
I can make it happen, if I want to,
Make it happen, if I try,
Forgive, forget, forever never means as much as it does today,
Make it happen, we can make it happen, we can make it happen.

When I wake up, will you be there? it can never be the same.
If we can take our lives slowly, step by step,
We can be dancing in the rain,
We can make it happen, we can make it happen, make it happen,
Forgive, forget, forever means today, make it happen, we can make it happen,
We can make it happen, forgive, forget, forever means today,
Make it happen.

Led Zeppelin - "The Rain Song."

This is the springtime of my loving - the second season I am to know
You are the sunlight in my growing - so little warmth I've felt before.
It isn't hard to feel me glowing - I watched the fire that grew so low.

It is the summer of my smiles - flee from me Keepers of the Gloom.
Speak to me only with your eyes. It is to you I give this tune.
Ain't so hard to recognize - These things are clear to all from
Time to time.

Talk Talk - I've felt the coldness of my winter
I never thought it would ever go. I cursed the gloom that set upon us...
But I know that I love you so

These are the seasons of emotion and like the winds they rise and fall
This is the wonder of devotion - I see the torch we all must hold.
This is the mystery of the quotient - Upon us all a little rain must fall.