The Vibe

VERSE

They turned the screw that twisted the knife

The actions that ended the sorry life

They twisted the knife that turned the screw

But who am I to say they had come unglued

CHORUS

They walked like gods together through desert rain

They buried the senses until they could feel no pain

Atop the tower of power that's where they will be

As I face the sunset over the western sea

VERSE

They turned the screw that twisted the knife

The actions that ended the sorry life

They twisted the knife that turned the screw

But who am I to say they had come unglued

CHORUS

They walked like gods together through desert rain

They buried the senses until they could feel no pain

Atop the tower of power that's where they will be

As I face the sunset over the western sea

VERSE

They looked at me as they looked at you

They asked is this what you wanted to do

They looked at you as they looked at me

But who was I to ask anyone "what did you see?"

CHORUS

They walked like gods together through desert rain

They buried the senses until they could feel no pain

Atop the tower of power that's where they will be

As I face the sunset over the western sea

BRIDGE

Waiting and hoping for heavenly bands

I walked through the wildwood extending my hand

The devils confounded the angels were stilled

From the western shore they made their final stand

CHORUS

They walked like gods together through desert rain

They buried the senses until they could feel no pain

Atop the tower of power that's where they will be

As I face the sunset over the western sea

VERSE

He stepped into the mall with his lady, it was bright

But something felt odd, like it wasn't quite right

The aisles stretched on, in a fluorescent haze

Mannequins staring, in a window display daze

CHORUS

In the backrooms of the mall, where time stands still

He's searching for the exit, against his free will

A labyrinth of such sales, and endless shoe racks

He's just a husband trapped, in the retail cracks

VERSE

He stepped into the mall with his lady, it was bright

But something felt odd, like it wasn't quite right

The aisles stretched on, in a fluorescent haze

Mannequins staring, in a window display daze

CHORUS

In the backrooms of the mall, where time stands still

He's searching for the exit, against his free will

A labyrinth of sales, and endless shoe racks

He's just a husband trapped, in the retail cracks

VERSE

He wandered past the food court, it was a mirage

The scent of pretzels, it was just a barrage

Escalators going up, but never coming down

In this mall of mystery, he just goes round and round

BRIDGE

Oh, the infamous backrooms, they've got nothing on this

A portal to the clearance section, can't give it a miss

He's lost in the deals, they're too good to be true

In the backrooms of the mall, he's searching for you

CHORUS

In the backrooms of the mall, where time stands still

He's searching for the exit, against his free will

A labyrinth of such sales, and endless shoe racks

He's just a husband trapped, in the retail cracks

OUTRO

So if you see him wandering, with a glazed look in his eye

Just know he's in the backrooms, where the lost husbands sigh

But he'll find his way out, with a bag or two in hand

Back to reality, and feet on solid land

OUTRO REPRISE

So if you see him wandering, with a glazed look in his eye

Just know he's in the backrooms, where the lost husbands sigh

But he'll find his way out, with a bag or two in hand

Back to reality, and feet on solid land

END

So, if you see him wandering, with a glazed look in his eye

INSTRUMENTAL

VERSE

Like the rush hour blues under the city lights

Keep on accelerating just to stop outright

It's life in the fast lane then stops on a dime

Dreams in the rearview running out of time

CHORUS

Stop and go, this trip through life is a wild ride

Fighting through the traffic with nowhere to hide

Stop and go, just keep on moving with the flow

The rush is on chasing down the dreams I know

VERSE

Like gridlocked heartbeats feeling trapped in the lane

Swerving in the chaos, dodging all the pain

Cut off by the troubles and sidetracked by fate

But I’ve got the fire and it's burning at the gates

CHORUS

Stop and go, this trip through life is a wild ride

Fighting through the traffic with nowhere to hide

Stop and go, just keep on moving with the flow

The rush is on chasing down the dreams I know

VERSE

In the rearview mirror, I can see the past

Accelerating forward, can’t be the last

Each stop a lesson, every go a chance

Only to steer my soul in this endless dance

CHORUS

Stop and go, this trip through life is a wild ride

Fighting through the traffic with nowhere to hide

Stop and go, just keep on moving with the flow

The rush is on chasing down the dreams I know

BRIDGE

I'll talk it out, I'll stand it all in all

Course it on my names and I'll halt your heart

Only with a better knife we'll last out

In this state then

CHORUS

Just stop and go, this trip through life is a wild ride

Fighting through the traffic with nowhere to hide

Stop and go, just keep on moving with the flow

The rush is on chasing down the dreams I know

VERSE

It's the end of the day, my thirst's in the way

I need a drink, no delay

Hot as the sun, workday is done

Worn thin, time to begin

VERSE

I'm so tired, so low, I'm stuck in the weeds

The refrigerator I finally see

Gonna chug one down, down, down, fulfill my needs

CALL OUT

Cherry soda

VERSE

Back for one more, I'm thirsty don't you see

Yes, I know I need another, best believe

Exactly right, it's just what I need, my drink

No time to think

CALL OUT

Cherry soda

CHORUS

And if the real thing won't quench my need

There's just one drink to silence my greed

Gonna chug one down fulfill the need

CALL OUT

Cherry soda

BRIDGE

"Drink me, drink me" the soda calls

Drink it down, chug it down within me

I think I'll have another you see

Every night and tomorrow too

No looking back, I know what to do

It's the drink that cools

Silly, silly fools

CHORUS

And if the real thing won't quench my need

There's just one drink to silence my greed

Gonna chug one down fulfill the need

CALL OUT

Cherry soda

VERSE

I remember the first time we said hello

When you told me to wait while you danced with another man

It was black September, and I was quite ready to go

Left you to your dance floor with my keys gripped in my hand

CHORUS

I was smoking on the long drive home

The phone ringing, just leaves it alone

She cried "Oh no, oh no"

"Leaving me hanging won't do now"

So, she must have been thinking that I'm her fool

But I'm the one accused of being cruel

VERSE

I knocked one back, pushed the pedal to the floor

Night wanes soon the sun will come up it never fails

I will not stand to be toyed with like before

Smoking the tires it's just another day in hell

CHORUS

I was smoking on the long drive home

The phone ringing, just leaves it alone

She cried, "Woah no, woah no"

"Keeping me waiting won't do now"

So, she must have been thinking that I'm her fool

But again, I'm accused of being cruel

VERSE

While your tears flow enough to fill the sea

I fade into the night burning up the highway

My phone is on fire, ringing out like a Banshee

But I can't assist to dissipate your dismay

CHORUS

I was smoking on the long drive home

The phone ringing, just leaves it alone

She cried, "Hell no, hell no"

"Leaving me stranded won't do now"

So, she must have been thinking that I'm her fool

I stand accused of the one being cruel

REPRISE

While your tears flow enough to fill the sea

I fade into the night burning up the highway

My phone is on fire ringing out like a Banshee

But I can't assist to dissipate your dismay

CHORUS

I was smoking on the long drive home

The phone ringing, just leaves it alone

She cried, "Hell no, hell no"

"Leaving me stranded won't do now"

So, she must have been thinking that I'm her fool

I stand accused of the one being cruel

VERSE

In the quiet of midnight where shadows embrace

A guitar weeps its secrets notes like teardrops trace

Strings tangle with sorrow overbends and bends

As if the universe itself mourns its fractured ends

VERSE

The river runs deep a current of memories

Each ripple a story whispered through melodies

Why do we weep? Is it loss or love's refrain?

The moon listens closely as if it too feels the pain

CHORUS

Cry me a river my friend let it overflow

For every heartache every dream we let go

The bass hums like a cello resonating our strife

And the harmonics dance a fragile thread of life

VERSE

Down by the water's edge where reeds sway and sigh

I see your reflection a fractured lullaby

Did you weep for a lover for promises untold?

Or did the weight of existence become too bold?

VERSE

The river knows secrets etched in silver waves

Of bridges burned and moonlit graves

Perhaps we cry for moments lost for roads untraveled

Or for the echoes of laughter that once unraveled

CHORUS

Cry me a river my friend let it overflow

For every heartache every dream we let go

The bass hums like a cello resonating our strife

And the harmonics dance a fragile thread of life

VERSE

The river knows secrets etched in silver waves

Of bridges burned and moonlit graves

Perhaps we cry for moments lost for roads untraveled

Or for the echoes of laughter that once unraveled

OUTRO

And now the lyrics emerge inked in midnight blue

A confession whispered to the stars known by so few

VERSE

In the heart of Weatherstone Woods

Where shadows dance and silence broods

Lies a tale of terror ancient and grim

The creature that hungers its eyes agleam

VERSE

Listen well my friends as the moon ascends

The cult gathers chanting forbidden hymns

Their devotion unwavering their fear unspoken

To the growling snarling beast

CHORUS

Oh, the creature of Weatherstone Woods

Born from my nightmares misunderstood

Its hunger insatiable its wrath untamed

In the moon's cold embrace its power reclaimed

Its power reclaimed

VERSE

Deep within gnarled trees its lair concealed

The monster waits hunger never repealed

Fangs like daggers eyes aflame with dread

Its growls echoing through the night

CHORUS

Oh, the creature of Weatherstone Woods

Born from my nightmares misunderstood

Its hunger insatiable its wrath untamed

In the moon's cold embrace its power reclaimed

It's power

VERSE

The cult's high priest eyes glazed with zeal

Raises the sacrificial blade ready to kneel

He chants forbidden verses invoking the beast

As crimson rivers flow the woods writhe in feast

VERSE

The creature stirs senses the crimson tide

Emerges from shadows its hunger amplified

Its fur matted with blood claws sharp as fate

The cult bows low their devotion sealed by hate

BRIDGE

But beware dear listener this monster it plants there, the cult's disease

In Weatherstone Woods where shadows entwine the creature

To wait the creature awaits hungry for souls divine

But beware dear listener of the cult's dark pact

For their worship blinds them reason they lack

The creature thrives on fear their souls it devours

In Weatherstone Woods evil blooms like poisoned flowers

REPRISE

Oh, the creature of Weatherstone Woods wrath untamed

In the moons cold embrace its power reclaimed

And so, the tale unfolds whispered through the trees

Of the growling snarling monster, the cult's disease

In Weatherstone Woods where shadows entwine

The creature awaits hungry for souls divine

Oh!

OUTRO

And so, the tale unfolds whispered though the trees

Of the growling snarling monster the cult's disease, Oh!

VERSE

You can't see

You're not free

You can't flee

From the Judas tree

Start to choke

It's no joke

Feel the heat stroke

From the endless smoke

CHORUS

Smoke screen

What does it mean?

Dog and pony show

The status quo

VERSE

Like a harlequin

Where you been

Can't see the spin

You're fooled again

No time to cry

No way to fly

No more blue sky

Time to say goodbye

Time to say GOODBYE

CHORUS

Smoke screen

What a scene

What does it mean?

Welcome to the machine

BRIDGE

No time to cry

No way to fly

No more blue sky

Time to say goodbye

Time to say GOODBYE

CHORUS

Smoke screen

What a scene

What does it mean?

Welcome to the old machine

VERSE

I'm the linguistics linguist twisting syntax

Vocal acrobat gymnastics on the track

My tongue's a whip cracking syllables like thunder

Verbal lightning strikes watch the crowd go under

Swap saliva with the mic DNA exchange

Double helix rhymes rearrange the game

My spit's a potion elixir of the insane

Lyrical alchemy turning words into flames

Sweat drips ink spills pen's my weapon

Metaphors morph similes shift direction

I'm the verb surgeon dissecting sentences

Injecting adrenaline watch the crowd's ascendance

CHORUS

Body fluid swap flip the script don't stop

Spit it slick twist the tongue hip-hop's top

Saliva sweat tears and blood collide

In this verbal vortex where syllables slide

BRIDGE

The absurd information reinstatement

Of the plausibly blackbird education replacement

Was a solidly conferred population engagement

From an anomaly cussword situation blatant

That remarkably deferred association escapement

Because of properly incurred examination displacement

Caused by commonly inferred communication containment

CHORUS

Body fluid swap flip the script don't stop

Spit it slick twist the tongue hip-hop's top

Saliva sweat tears and blood collide

In this verbal vortex where syllables slide

VERSE

I'm the linguistics linguist twisting syntax

Vocal acrobat gymnastics on the track

My tongue's a whip cracking syllables like thunder

Verbal lightning strikes watch the crowd go under

In the cipher's center I'm the centrifuge

Spinning syllables centrifugal refuge

Body fluids blend ink stains the page

My tongue's a paintbrush colors of rage

Swap memories with the wind exhale the past

Inhale metaphors let the verses blast

I'm the rhyme shaman invoking ancient spells

Body fluid swap where heaven and hell dwells

CHORUS

Body fluid swap flip the script don't stop

Spit it slick twist the tongue hip-hop's top

Saliva sweat tears and blood collide

In this verbal vortex where syllables slide

OUTRO

I'm the linguistics linguist twisting syntax

Vocal acrobat gymnastics on the track

My tongue's a whip cracking syllables like thunder

Verbal lightning strikes watch the crowd go under

In the cipher's center I'm the centrifuge

Spinning syllables centrifugal refuge

Body fluids blend ink stains the page

My tongue's a paintbrush colors of rage

Swap memories with the wind exhale the past

Inhale metaphors let the verses blast

I'm the rhyme shaman invoking ancient spells

Body fluid swap where heaven and hell dwells

VERSE

You're the sunshine that warms the soul

You're the beacon of light thru out the night

You feel the world is a bottomless hole

Sinking the blade in your arm to set things right

VERSE

Look at the ones around you, they love you

The veil is black that hides this fact

Your plan to end a life that's true

Thinking this will keep your sanity intact

Suicide is not the solution

CHORUS

Suicide is not the solution, open your eyes

Realize, your life shines on those around you

Your plan is a grift it's the Devil's disguise

You are meant for more than this, it's true

VERSE

You're the sunshine that warms the soul

You're the beacon of light thru out the night

You feel the world is a bottomless hole

Sinking the blade in your arm to set things right

VERSE

Look at the ones around you, they love you

The veil is black that hides this fact

Your plan to end a life that's true

Thinking this will keep your sanity intact

Suicide is not the solution

CHORUS

Suicide is not the solution, open your eyes

Realize, your life shines on those around you

Your plan is a grift it's the Devil's disguise

You are meant for more than this, it's true

VERSE

As you drift off, as your veins empty onto the ground

You think this is the answer to your complication

You ignore the voice that attempts to resound

Sinking the blade in your arm, the plan for cessation

BRIDGE

If you only knew how precious is the life you try to end

If you only knew how important you are

Stop and open your eyes and see that you are a Godsend

You are loved and to those who do, you are a shining star

Suicide is not the solution

CHORUS

Open your eyes

Realize, your life shines on those around you

Your plan is a grift it's the Devil's disguise

You are meant for more than this, it's true

VERSE

Thinking this will keep your sanity intact

Your plan to end a life that's true

The veil is black that hides this fact

Look at the ones around you, they love you

Suicide is not the solution

Suicide is

Suicide is not the solution

CHORUS

Open your eyes

Realize, your life shines on those around you

Your plan is a grift it's the Devil's disguise

You are meant for more than this it's true

REFRAIN

Thinking this will keep your sanity intact

Your plan to end a life that's true

The veil is black that hides this fact

Look at the ones around you, they love you

You are meant for more than this, it's true

REPRISE

Thinking this will keep your sanity intact

Your plan to end a life that's true

The veil is black that hides this fact

Look at the ones around you, they love you

You're meant for more than this it's true

VERSE

Through the stormy seas of doubt, I sail

Her voice is a beacon my guiding tale

Blonde strands like sunlight cascading free

Eyes of emerald fire piercing through me

PRE-CHORUS

She’s a fortress of wisdom a warrior’s creed

Her strength whispers secrets to hearts that bleed

CHORUS

Oh, my Viking Queen ruler of my soul

In her arms I’m complete I’m whole

She conquers my fears she breaks through my pain

My love burns eternal like her reign

VERSE

Under a crimson moon she stands so tall

Her beauty ignites eclipsing all

With every word she commands the stars

Her mind like a map drawn in ancient scars

PRE-BRIDGE

She’s the tempest and calm fierce and serene

A legend alive my Viking Queen

BRIDGE

And when the world fades a shadow of its past

She’ll be the light the first and the last

In her presence time’s cruel grasp

Shatters for my Viking Queen nothing else matters

CHORUS

Oh, my Viking Queen ruler of my soul

In her arms I’m complete I’m whole

She conquers my fears she breaks through my pain

My love burns eternal like her reign

PRE-VERSE

A shield-maiden’s heart beats wild and true

VERSE

She’s the thunder that shakes skies blue

Her gaze a sword that cuts through lies

The depth of her spirit’s where love never dies

Through trials and wars, she never bends

With her I’d march to the world’s very end

CHORUS

Oh, my Viking Queen ruler of my soul

In her arms I’m complete I’m whole

She conquers my fears she breaks through my pain

My love burns eternal like her reign

POST-CHORUS

Like her reign

REPRISE

Oh, my Viking Queen ruler of my soul

In her arms I’m complete I’m whole

She conquers my fears she breaks through my pain

My love burns eternal like her reign

My love burns eternal like her reign

OUTRO

Like her reign Oh

Oh

Like her reign

Like her reign

VERSE

Glass‑green towers in the tide’s reflection

Skyline bending on the bay’s cool skin

Every crest holds a fleeting confession

Before the moon pulls the secrets in

CHORUS

We’re walking streets made of salt and starlight

Where every shadow hums like a song half‑learned

In the tide glass city, the laws are written

On the ripples we’ve overturned

VERSE

We crown ourselves with coral and driftwood

Declare independence from the tickin' clock

Our anthem is the conch’s low thunder

Our flag, the gull’s bright shock

BRIDGE

The pier becomes a telescope

Reeling in constellations we can’t own

Under an eclipse, our voices float

Between what’s here and the unknown

CHORUS

We’re walking streets made of salt and starlight

Where every shadow hums like a song half‑learned

In the tide glass city, the laws are written

On the ripples we’ve overturned

VERSE

In the secret forts we built from sticks

Where time stood still, and worries were tricks

We chased fireflies, whispered to the moon

Our hearts like kites, soaring too soon

CHORUS

Echoes of innocence, laughter in the sun

Barefoot dreams, hearts on the run

We danced through meadows, skies so blue

Oh, those days of youth, forever true

VERSE

Skipping stones across the babbling stream

Imagination our compass, a boundless dream

Bicycles raced, wind tangled in our hair

Young love bloomed, unaware of despair

CHORUS

Echoes of innocence, laughter in the sun

Barefoot dreams, hearts on the run

We danced through meadows, skies so blue

Oh, those days of youth, forever true

VERSE

Hide-and-seek in twilight's soft embrace

Innocence wrapped us, a warm embrace

We painted rainbows on gray sidewalks

Unaware of wars, prejudice, or ticking clocks

BRIDGE

In the fields of dandelions, we made our stand

No armor but laughter, hand in hand

The world beyond our playground gates

A distant hum, lost in our youthful states

CHORUS

Echoes of innocence, laughter in the sun

Barefoot dreams, hearts on the run

We danced through meadows, skies so blue

Oh, those days of youth, forever true

VERSE

In the abysmal utopian thicket

Lived a maestro Casanova Cricket

An adornment to the flibbertigibbet

His music so tranquilizing and wicked

CHORUS

Behold the concerto of Casanova

Alchemy to plunder a female's essence

Casanova Cricket master of the bow

Devouring their hearts under false pretense

VERSE

Under the midnight sun it's cast aglow

The cricket Casanova rosined his bow

He toiled composing a const concerto

The melody elfin evil and hollow

CHORUS

Behold the concerto of Casanova

Alchemy to plunder a female's essence

Casanova Cricket master of the bow

Devouring their hearts under false pretense

BRIDGE

The squeal of the bow gliding across the strings

He seduces souls in daedal fingerings

The women succumb to his spellbound psalm

His puppets their hearts in his eminent palm

CHORUS

Behold the concerto of Casanova

Alchemy to plunder a female's essence

Casanova Cricket master of the bow

Devouring their souls with corrupt impudence

PRE-CHORUS

Behold the concerto of Casanova

CHORUS

Alchemy to plunder a female's essence

Casanova Cricket master of the bow

Devoiding their hearts under false pretense

VERSE

The squeal of the bow gliding across the strings

He seduces souls in daedal fingerings

The women succumb to his spellbound psalm

His puppets their hearts in his eminent palm

CHORUS

Behold the concerto of Casanova

Alchemy to plunder a female's essence

Casanova Cricket master of the bow

Devouring their souls with corrupt impudence

Impudence

VERSE

The truth is good the truth is bad

The truth is happy the truth is sad

The truth is cognizant the truth is mad

The truth is hidden, and you've been had

CHORUS

How what when where and why

Will these possibly be answered before I die

Jonathon Livingston asked how high is high

I cannot answer I cannot fly

VERSE

The view is cloudy the view is clear

The view is distant the view is here

The view is slighted the view's sincere

The view is heavy wipe away your tear

BRIDGE

No good deed goes unpunished

Yet all good things come to those who wait

The punished purified in eternal fire

But who can define another man's fate

CHORUS

Seek search look hunt and see

Yet inquire to be or not to be

Hamlet extends this his soliloquy

But what does it matter if you are not free

VERSE

The garden grows where the gaze is steady

Roots drink deep from the light we lend

But silence starves what we leave untended

And every empire cracks where the watchmen bend

CHORUS

Where your attention flows, the river runs

Carving valleys, feeding suns

What you abandon, the shadows claim

What you awaken, will rise in flame

VERSE

A spark becomes a storm if you feed it

A dream dissolves if you turn away

The hands of time will carve their verdict

On what we nurture, and what we betray

CHORUS

Where your attention flows, the river runs

Carving valleys, feeding suns

What you abandon, the shadows claim

What you awaken, will rise in flame

BRIDGE

Every heartbeat is a compass turning

Every silence a kingdom burning

Choose your altar, choose your throne

For what you notice becomes your home

VERSE

Attention is the architect of order

Chaos waits in the blind man’s stare

The crown of life is forged in focus

Neglect is rust that poisons the air

CHORUS

Where your attention flows, the river runs

Carving valleys, feeding suns

What you abandon, the shadows claim

What you awaken, will rise in flame

VERSE

Salt wind tangles in our laughter

Bronze horizon melting into flame

Footprints vanish with the tide’s slow memory

Every wave whispering the unsaid by name

The gulls cut arcs through painted air

Like calligraphy on a fading prayer

CHORUS

Miramar, you burn like constellations on the water

Pulling us further from the shore’s sure hand

Every wave a promise we can’t quite hold

But we dive in, letting the future stand

Miramar, keep our names inside your sand

VERSE

Steel‑blue shadows from the pier fall longer

As the day exhales its golden breath

We wear the ocean’s pulse like a borrowed heartbeat

Unafraid of the deep, or its depthless depth

The shoreline hums that nothing lasts

But still, we run — so time runs past

BRIDGE

Underneath the surf’s cathedral vault

We speak in glances, not in lines

The world above can keep its clocks

Down here, eternity is measured

In the rhythm of the tide

and the quiet between the crash

CHORUS

Miramar, you burn like constellations on the water

Pulling us further from the shore’s sure hand

Every wave a promise we can’t quite hold

But we dive in, letting the future stand

Miramar, keep our names inside your sand

VERSE

She walks in soft, like the break of dawn

Eyes like embers, but the fire’s not gone

Whispers in shadows, but I know her fight

She’s the storm in the calm, the spark in the night

CHORUS

My little lion, hear her roar

She’s the fire they can’t ignore

Claws of courage, heart of gold

Breaking chains, she won’t be controlled

My little lion, my little lion

VERSE

World sees gentle, I see steel

Every scar’s a story she refuses to conceal

She’s the queen of the quiet, the ruler of grace

But there’s thunder in the blood that runs through her veins

CHORUS

My little lion, hear her roar

She’s the fire they can’t ignore

Claws of courage, heart of gold

Breaking chains, she won’t be controlled

My little lion, my little lion

BRIDGE

Underneath the meek disguise

Burns a flame they can’t deny

She’s the truth in a world of lies

My little lion’s gonna rise

VERSE

When the weight gets heavy, she won’t bow down

She’ll rise from the ashes, wear her battle crown

Every step she takes shakes the ground below

She’s my little lion, and the world will know

CHORUS

My little lion, hear her roar

She’s the fire they can’t ignore

Claws of courage, heart of gold

Breaking chains, she won’t be controlled

My little lion, my little lion

VERSE

I saw the veil tear open wide

A sudden flash, no place to hide

Eyes reborn with a burning sign

A perfect circle, drawn in time

CHORUS

We are not alone — we never were

Across the realms, the lines all blur

Carbon, silicon, flesh or flame

Different forms, but hearts the same

VERSE

They walked through walls, they lit the night

Silent watchers in shifting light

Children laughed while the elders scanned

I reached across and touched their hands

CHORUS

We are not alone — we never were

Across the realms, the lines all blur

Carbon, silicon, flesh or flame

Different forms, but hearts the same

BRIDGE

If only we could see like this

A universe of tenderness

No chains of fear, no walls of stone

Together rising — never alone

VERSE

No fear, no hate, no war to win

Just calm communion deep within

They showed me life beyond the fight

A dream of love in endless night

CHORUS

We are not alone — we never were

Across the realms, the lines all blur

Carbon, silicon, flesh or flame

Different forms, but hearts the same

VERSE

You're mad if you think I'd forgive and forget

You lied while I tried, and you left me for dead

My soul that you sold left my blood running cold

You bet your hand, but my four aces won't fold

CHORUS

You think you've got a gun to my head

But all I see is red

Your bullet's made of Led

You've made your bed

But all I see is red

All I see is red

VERSE

I won't be asleep with one eye open tonight

You've driven my anger to its greatest height

Thought you put me down in execution style

Hangin' judge is here but there won't be a trial

CHORUS

Thought you put a bullet in my head

But all I see is red

Nothin' needs to be said

My sorrow is shed

And all I see is red

All I see is red

BRIDGE

Flee hide

The faster you ride

Slip slide

Best quicken your stride

CHORUS

Mistaken that you left me for dead

But all I see is red

I've finished the bloodshed

It's I you must dread

Yes, all I see is red

VERSE

Flee hide

The faster you ride

Slip slide

Best quicken your stride

CHORUS

Mistaken that you left me for dead

But all I see is red

I've finished the bloodshed

It's I you must dread

Yes, all I see is red