LYRICS

COMFORT OF MY DREAMS (2017)

DUST TO DUST

(Parker)

What's behind the face I see
Lover, friend, or enemy?
We never tried to understand
The dreams I had, the things that you had planned
Crossing the line
A bottle of wine
Just give me a sign
There must be something more
Something in the games we play
Something in the words we trade
We don't mean them anyway
Can we start again?

Don't believe in destiny
Fate as ideology
A nest of ashes, ball of flames
The phoenix dies to rise and live again
The stars are aligned
A bottle of wine
Tell me your sign
Just give me something more
Something to communicate
Something to uncomplicate
Hold me now the hour is late
Can we start again?

The breath of life begins
Refuse the hurt within
I'll follow through
To break away I'll start anew

Fire of life encompass me
Take me forth intrepidly
Release my problems, do not mourn
Absolve my sins so I can be reborn
Crossing the line
A bottle of wine
Just give me a sign
Just give me something more
Something to enlighten me
Something to ignite in me
Nothing else could frighten me
Can we start again?

From dust to dust again
The embers heal my skin
I'll follow through
The things I say, the things I do

The breath of life begins
Refuse the hurt within
I'll follow though
To break away I'll start, I'll start anew

GOODBYE

(Parker)

I see the empty room within my mind
Staring at an empty page the words are hard to find
Vanished in the distance of the night
Roses in an empty vase still take their time to die

And there's no one left to say goodbye
No one left to say goodbye

Withered, weathered, worn by your unease
Tired, tried, and teary-eyed, you've been so hard to please
Nothing I can say the truth unfolds
Winter's never come so fast and never felt so cold

And there's no one there to say goodbye
No one there to say goodbye

Spirits of your cry haunt my sleepless night
Singing helpless midnight chime
Memories of the past, echoes fading fast
No one there to say goodbye

Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye

SCARRED

(Parker)

All these nights alone in silence
I called you on the phone
Now you're nowhere to be found
All my nerves have come unwound

All the times when my friends were close
Well, their words were oh so clear
Now they've left me here alone
Fear that chills me to the bone

Always made to make decisions
Politicians, guns, religions
When the dust has cleared away
I'll still be here to say

That if love is not the reason
That we ended up together
Then I guess it's time to break it
Time to take it away

All these nights in my seclusion
Within the same four walls
Something races through my vein
Scars of love and scars of pain

The shadows walk and the windows talk
But they keep me company
I wish something would intrude
Break the walls of solitude

Always tied to modern fashion
Male egos, no compassion
When the time has ticked away
I'll still be here to say

That if love is not the reason
That we ended up together
Then I guess it's time to break it
Time to take it away

TIME SLIPPED AWAY

(Parker)

I woke up this morning
Time slipped away
Somehow I'm just not the same
Everything's changed

Faces are older and friends disappeared
Somehow I'm still standing here
Better years over I will not concede
All that I want and all that I need

I can't make decisions, I just make mistakes
When I try to fix things they just seem to break
It's hard enough living when everything's going my way

Spring rain is falling
It washes away
Everything I might have been
In my yesterday

Much like myself when I have a good thing
I somehow let it slip away
It's not that I want to or revel in pain
I simply can't cope, I sometimes lose hope

I can't make decisions, I just make mistakes
When I try to fix things they just seem to break
It's hard enough living when everything's going my way

When time takes away everything that I love
I have to move on and I have to be stronger than my sacrifices
I have to keep living each day

COMFORT OF MY DREAMS

(Parker)

Standing alone in the pouring rain
Counting the days
Wiping the tears from my broken face

Dagger of conscience, sweltering shame
Drifting away
Lingering embers of your embrace
Does nothing ever change

I've fallen on my knees
Crawling in the rain
You've taken all I need
There's nothing left to gain
Falling far away from everything that I believe
You've got me on my knees
You scratch me till I bleed

The moment of truth
The tragedy of fear
The innocence of youth
That left me stranded here
The voices that I hear all in the dead of night appear
The comfort of my dreams
Is never as it seems
Never as it seems

Filtering thoughts for the ones I prefer
Passing the time
Praying for remnants of long lost grace

Moment of conflict
Crisis or truth
Barren or sheltered
Burden of proof
Moment of silence
Whisper or fear
A struggle just to breathe

I've fallen on my knees
Crawling in the rain
You've taken all I need
There's nothing left to gain
Falling far away from everything that I believe
You've got me on my knees
You scratch me till I bleed

THE ANSWER

(Parker)

I don't claim to know how you feel, or what you've been through
I won't try to solve all your problems, or give mine to you
Your castles were built in the air, the ruins remain
You're certain that life is unfair, but never complain

A light always shines through the window, it shines upon you
Who fights when the world tears you down, it has to be you

You carefully choose all your words, sufficient disguise
The struggle your spirit retains appears in your eyes
You go through the motions, you feel the walls closing in
You search for the answer outside that comes from within

A light always shines through the window, it shines upon you
Who fights when the world tears you down, it has to be you

There's so much to do
Understand me, I'll understand you

A light always shines through the window, it shines upon you
Who fights when the world tears you down, it has to be you

CRASH AND BURN

(Parker)

I'm locked within these self-made bars
I'll throw away the key
The perfect way to pass the time
The perfect place to be
A prisoner of fate could never measure up to me
A fragile coexistence flattened sensibilities

A pitch black night to scale the wall
You try to set me free
A minute's haste, an hour's waste
A sense of urgency
A bridge to your discomfort being human caused to learn
A minor complication such a major crash and burn

A pain so sharp and endless
Shame rejection makes it worse
A longing for perfection
Puts your heart into reverse
A note to cry deception masquerading in your fold
The consequence of apathy could leave you in the cold

WATER'S EDGE

(Parker)

Tell me things that make you laugh or cry
The rivers running wide, the storms swell in the tide
Tell me what you want to see in me
Who I really am, or who I'm supposed to be

It wasn't my intention to stand in misdirection
The edge of the water seemed so deep
Our lives still lay before us
Alone we sing the chorus that once defined a promise yet to keep

Some will only do as they are told
With nothing new to say, their voices swept away
Safe within the need to compromise
Convention is your norm, you promise to conform

It wasn't my intention to stand in misdirection
The edge of the water seemed so deep
Our lives still lay before us
Our promises implore us to offer the forgiveness that we seek

The best of times can say just how you feel
Words can be like silence
Hollow till they're backed with something real
The worst of times conceal

It wasn't my intention to stand in misdirection
The edge of the water seemed so deep
Our lives still lay before us
Together sing the chorus that once defined a promise yet to keep

AUTUMN DAY

(Parker)

Fall is in your rearview mirror changing with each turn
Painted trees defend the morning pass
Rest her head, she'd rather sleep than face the day ahead
Nothing she would keep was made to last

We used to be, we used to dream
We used to laugh and dance and sing
We never thought that anything would change

We hurt each other, hurt ourselves
We tried to find what makes us well
The hurting that we never could explain

Locked behind a light façade, the day defies her mask
Pisces in a sea of broken glass
Today is yesterday again, tomorrow just the same
Look forward to the future feel the past
This pain will pass

We used to be, we used to dream
We used to laugh and dance and sing
We never thought that anything would change

We hurt each other, hurt ourselves
We tried to find what makes us well
The hurting that we never could explain

We speak in words of anger
Don't we think in words of love?
If we try to speak forgiveness
Will it ever be enough?

We hurt each other, hurt ourselves
We tried to find what makes us well
The hurting that we never could explain

THE LENS

(Parker)

Gaze into your privacy
The camera-eye observes
The sense of guilty pleasure you define

Lost in trust and honesty
A silent voice unnerves
To tell a different story now
To tell your truth, to tell your fears

You're raise by fire, raised by rage
And taught to disengage
They can keep you in that cage

There's no one here
He never said why he was leaving home alone
The thoughts that travelled with him
The fuel that would not burn

Lost in the torment of your mind
In the world that you design
In the struggle for your soul

Caught in the lens of cold deceit
In the secrets that you keep
In the way they treat you
Cruel, unfair, you fight despair

Summer's past, the hourglass will drop the sands of time
They can make you toe the line

There's no one here
She never said why she was leaving home alone
The thoughts that travelled with her
The lessons left unlearned

BLOOD MOON

(Parker)

Instrumental

FADED LINES

(Parker)

The simplest things I remember
Impressions considered before
Thin fragments veiled in white
A bleached out still I couldn't ignore

I stop and stare in reflection
Each image, the struggle it cost
The priceless memories clearly framed in my mind
An element lost

Come in and stay a while
The drinks are cold, our lives on trial
The pictures, faded lines
The conversation keeps them so alive, alive

The sounds of youth I remember
The songs that yesterday bore
Contagious fragments all engraved with a style
Emotions explored

I feel the mercury rise
Detains indefinitely
I play them on repeat
I couldn't explain, the spirit remains

Come in and stay a while
The drinks are cold, our lives on trial
The lyrics, faded lines
The conversation keeps them so alive, alive

THROUGH THE MIRROR (2005)

THE FINEST THREAD

(Parker)

I'm walking on
The finest thread
It's in my blood
It's in my head
A pulse too strong
To overcome
A wound to heal
A feel too real to be outrun

And when my heart begins to ache
And my hands begin to shake
All the world begins to crumble in my arms

I'm drifting on
An endless sea
Too scared to stay
Too scared to flee
The time has come
The tide has turned
A feeling heart can never part
With what it's learned

Like a tick-tick-ticking time bomb
Always ready to explode
Who would let their circuits fail and corrode?

I'm living on
An inborn rush
It stains my hands
It makes me blush
The feeling grows
It comes and goes
You cannot hide to save your pride
You know it shows

There's a stranger in my conscience
And I don't know what to say
Maybe somehow he can help me find my way

BOMBSHELL

(Parker)

No more sun the smoke screen sky
Cold rain on a hallowed night
Bombshell words that were not said
Otherwise conveyed instead

A young girl's emotions can run deeper than the oceans

Red dress on and starlet eyes
Painted lips to glamorize
She offered vows for false renew
It was clear, yet hard to see right through

A young girl's emotions can run deeper than the oceans
A young girl's promotion doesn't mean she wants devotion

I think of all the time I've wasted wishing you were here
What a foolish way to spend another day
Another month, another year

I SAID TO HER

(Parker)

I want to say I'll always love you
And at night I'll lie awake, I'll be thinking of you
Please don't hesitate to call if you need anything at all
All these things and more she said to me

I'm so confused, I don't want to hurt you
But times have changed, and so have we, I need to assure you
I said give it to me straight, it won't help to make me wait
And please don't lay that friendship line on me

You can pierce my heart but you can't break it
You can tear my soul in two, but you can't take it
I'll be happy on my own, and I'll be leaving you alone
All these things and more I said to her

THROUGH THE MIRROR

(Parker)

I heard you call
Smelled your fear
Watched you fall

You tied your lies
Wove your web
Sold your cries

You think it's all in my head
But you would have left me for dead
You waited for someone, someone to call
Now you're alone and I've no sympathy at all

You played it cool
Lived your sin
Made your rules

Fate fell apart
Stemmed the flood
Broke his heart

Feelings can often deceive
The thoughts that you ought to believe
You see through the mirror, not who you are
But such a mystery makes me want you more

Your poisoned kiss
Set the mood
Touched my lips

Your soft green eyes
Won your game
Claimed your prize

Light from those heavenly eyes
Shelters the devil inside
I should've known better than go back to you
But you looked at me and there was nothing I could do

HOMEFRONT

(Parker)

So lonely, one single tear on your cheek
So helpless, a cold world has left you so weak
I've told you, if love ever hurts you again
Come hold me, the night will be ours now instead

You've been so understanding, you're always there for me
You see things in me that the others don't see
Your soft, holy eyes, can see through the blue side of me
Come hold me, set your heart free

So broken, betrayed by the trust in your mind
So hollow, a heart so confused and confined
I've told you, let go of the bruises inside
Come hold me, and heal in the wholeness of mine

I saw you by the doorway on one December night
You closed all the blinds and you turned off the light
Your soft, gentle hands, can warm up the cold heart in me
Come warm me, set my heart free

Come love me, set your heart free

STRANGE

(Parker)

You never take the blame
What happened to responsibility?
The guilt that's on your hands
Is blamed upon this cold machinery

It seems so strange, how our world will never change
And we all face the consequence above

A law to be abused
You say that anger made you light the fuse
Forever walking free
What reason did your politician use?

Somebody's knockin' at the door
Carry me home
To the place where I belong
To a place where angels roam