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As you look around this room tonightSettle in your seat and dim the lightsDo you want my blood, do you want my tearsWhat do you wantWhat do you want from meShould I sing until I can't sing any morePlay these strings until my fingers are rawYou're so hard to pleaseWhat do you want from me Do you think that I know something you don't knowWhat do you want from meIf I don't promise you the answers would you goWhat do you want from meShould I stand out in the rainDo you want me to make a daisy chain for youI'm not the one you needWhat do you want from me You can have anything you wantYou can drift, you can dream, even walk on waterAnything you want You can own everything you seeSell your soul for complete controlIs that really what you need You can lose yourself this nightSee inside there is nothing to hideTurn and face the light What do you want from me

Did you know... it was all going to go so wrong for youAnd did you see it was all going to be so right for meWhy did we tell you thenYou were always the golden boy thenAnd that you'd never lose that light in your eyes Hey you... did you ever realize what you'd becomeAnd did you see that it wasn't only me you were running fromDid you know all the time but it never bothered you anywayLeading the blind while I stared out the steel in your eyes The rain fell slow, down on all the roofs of uncertaintyI thought of you and the years and all the sadness fell away from meAnd did you know... I never thought that you'd lose that light in your eyes

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From morning to night I stayed out of sightDidn't recognize I'd becomeNo more than alive I'd barely surviveIn a word... overrun Won't hear a sound (He's curled into the corner)From my mouth (But still the screen is flickering)I've spent too long (With an endless stream of garbage to)On the inside out (...curse the place)My skin is cold (In a sea of random images)To the human touch (The self-destructing animal)This bleeding heart's (Waiting for the waves to break)1Not beating much I murmured a vow of silence and nowI don't even hear when I think aloudExtinguished by light I turn on the nightWear its darkness with an empty smile I'm creeping back to lifeMy nervous system all awryI'm wearing the inside out Look at him nowHe's paler somehowBut he's coming roundHe's starting to chokeIt's been so long since he spokeWell he can have the words right from my mouth And with these words I can seeClear through the clouds that covered meJust give it time then speak my nameNow we can hear ourselves again I'm holding out (He's standing on the threshold)For the day (Caught in fiery anger)When all the clouds (And hurled into the furnace he'll)Have blown away (...curse the place)I'm with you now (He's torn in all directions)Can speak your name (And still the screen is flickering)Now we can hear (Waiting for the flames to break)1Ourselves again

On the day the wall came downThey threw the locks onto the groundAnd with glasses high we raised a cry for freedom had arrived On the day the wall came downThe Ship of Fools had finally run agroundPromises lit up the night like paper doves in flight I dreamed you had left my sideNo warmth, not even pride remainedAnd even though you needed meIt was clear that I could not do a thing for you Now life devalues day by dayAs friends and neighbors turn awayAnd there's a change that, even with regret, cannot be undone Now frontiers shift like desert sandsWhile nations wash their bloodied handsOf loyalty, of history, in shades of grey I woke to the sound of drumsThe music played, the morning sun streamed inI turned and I looked at youAnd all but the bitter residues slipped away... slipped away

Her love rains down on me easy as the breezeI listen to her breathing it sounds like the waves on the seaI was thinking all about her, burning with rage and desireWe were spinning into darkness; the earth was on fire She could take it back, she might take it back someday So I spy on her, I lie to her, I make promises I cannot keepThen I hear her laughter rising, rising from the deepAnd I make her prove her love for me, I take all that I can takeAnd I push her to the limit to see if she will break She might take it back, she could take it back some day Now I have seen the warnings, screaming from all sidesIt's easy to ignore them and God1 knows I've triedAll of this temptation, it turned my faith to liesUntil I couldn't see the danger or hear the rising tide She can take it back, she will take it back some day She can take it back, she will take it back some day She will take it back, she will take it back some day

Where were you when I was burned and brokenWhile the days slipped by from my window watchingWhere were you when I was hurt and I was helplessBecause the things you say and the things you do surround meWhile you were hanging yourself on someone else's wordsDying to believe in what you heardI was staring straight into the shining sun Lost in thought and lost in timeWhile the seeds of life and the seeds of change were plantedOutside the rain fell dark and slowWhile I pondered on this dangerous but irresistible pastimeI took a heavenly ride through our silenceI knew the moment had arrivedFor killing the past and coming back to life I took a heavenly ride through our silenceI knew the waiting had begunAnd headed straight... into the shining sun

For millions of years mankind lived just like the animals1Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imaginationWe learned to talk2 There's a silence surrounding meI can't seem to think straightI'll sit in the cornerNo one can bother meI think I should speak now (Why won't you talk to me)I can't seem to speak now (You never talk to me)My words won't come out right (What are you thinking)I feel like I'm drowning (What are you feeling)I'm feeling weak now (Why won't you talk to me)But I can't show my weakness (You never talk to me)I sometimes wonder (What are you thinking)Where do we go from here (What are you feeling)3 It doesn't have to be like thisAll we need to do is make sure we keep talking2 (Why won't you talk to me) I feel like I'm drowning(You never talk to me) You know I can't breathe now(What are you thinking) We're going nowhere(What are you feeling) We're going nowhere(Why won't you talk to me)(You never talk to me)(What are you thinking)(Where do we go from here)3 It doesn't have to be like thisAll we need to do is make sure we keep talking2

I was spending my time in the doldrumsI was caught in a cauldron of hateI felt persecuted and paralysedI thought that everything else would just wait While you are wasting your time on your enemiesEngulfed in a fever of spiteBeyond your tunnel vision reality fadesLike shadows into the night To martyr yourself to cautionIs not going to help at allBecause there'll be no safety in numbersWhen the Right One walks out of the door Ladies and gentlemen, the winner, by a knockout...1 Can you see your days blighted by darkness?Is it true you beat your fists on the floor?Stuck in a world of isolationWhile ivy grows over the door So I open my door to my enemiesAnd I ask could we wipe the slate cleanBut they tell me to please go fuck myselfYou know you just can't win