I. First Of The Last      Long before the living past   Had ripped it all apart   Something still remained    Until It flashed back to the start   Where it stands, nobody saw   Behind the blackest eyes   Show them how you're stronger now   It pays to advertise wisely   Day after day with you in my head   I said some things I shouldn't have said   For reasons unknown that I now forget   I gave you no love, which I now regret      What I'd give to hear again   Those everlasting songs   Why did all the accidents   Contrive to fall at once?   Only day after day    with you in my thoughts   I never knew time was so short   For once in my life I wasn't alone   With blood on my hands,   How could I have known?      Used to be the great white hope   Once I walked on water   Now I barely stay afloat   Balance out of order   With every sympathy worn away   Who can I return to now?   For the time that I have left   I scan that cold horizon   Searching for a kindred soul,   Someone to rely upon   We disconnected and Heaven sent   Sheltered in dead air,   Hidden everywhere         II. The Wrong Host      The sky lights up above America   The world is lost but loves America   When the eyes of children   See the ones left standing   And the rest begin to finally understand   The hand of God defends America   And who would not defend America?      We've got light on our side   We're in pole position   So praise the Lord   And raise the ammunition high   Raise it high      Hide where you can   We will shoot you where you stand      I've walked a million miles   Upon an open road   And once in every while   Without the will to carry on   Hours held me too long   In one location      An old familiar tale,   A glory to behold   A work of genius,   The greatest story ever sold   As you sign on the line,   As you do what you're told   All you sell is your soul      I've been this way before   I've seen it many times   Collision on the track   The fiction turning into fact   No-one dares to look back   Best you start to prepare   For the harvest ahead   All you lose is yourself         III. Nocturne      I'm brought to life with a series of shocks   I realise that you are gone from my life   And still I cling to the fear of the dark   Don't follow them for    they don't care how you are      And I'm finding a way of being   Accepting life all alone   And I'm hoping I'll wake up seeing   A way to live on my own      It wasn't hard to believe in the lie   Although I've come to know it wasn't my fault   Why does the world continue to spin   While everything around me grinds to a halt?      And I'm finding a way of being   Accepting life all alone   And I'm hoping I'll wake up seeing   A way to live on my own         IV. Frame And Form      Mine is a real fine line   I get harder the higher I climb   Shine like a star so bright   Anybody can see anytime      No-one will want to follow   This will be gone tomorrow   We enter an age of permanent doubt   Where we communicate without words   But I must be heard   So I cut through the smoke and the noise      Mine is a real fine line   It imagines it's one of a kind      Goodbye to all expression   Farewell to superstition   We enter an age of permanent doubt   Where we communicate without words      And the noise expands   As it covers the lie of the land   Shine like a star so bright   Till we shut out the light,   Put out the fire   Cut through the smoke and the noise      Lately I've been talking to myself   Been remembering and doing little else   The road ahead is anything but clear   Last time around, where did we go from here?         V. Mortal Procession      What about some golden hours?   I was alive, certainly you were wrong   Anyone can be pursuaded   Given the time, we all scream alone   What about this good for nothing season again?,    Everything's come and gone   And I can't believe that I'm not watching you   I'm in a sorry state   Return to ordinary thoughts now   If you can   The words I hardly understand   Gather 'round me while I wait   What about those colder rewards   Arming against lost intelligence?   Anyone who saw me crawling there   would have known that I was normal once   Return to ordinary thoughts   Too young to take the stand   But old enough to kill anyone   HA!      In the days when love divided up the looks   No drastic means were used    like rod and hooks   To enhance what nature's sculptor    had designed   No augmentation needed to refine   In the valley of the dollar, we rejoice   For plastic is the currency of choice   And beauty born is strictly for the birds   Your cash is fine but credit is preferred      When I held myself aloft,   I walked across the water   Now I barely cut across,   Lives are getting shorter   And they open up another door   To a border far below   For the time that I'm allowed,   There's a new horizon   But a soul as cold as ice   Is nothing to rely upon      If I'm hanging onto angels' wings   Then I'm safer in the air      Do I still qualify, suspended from on high?   No other sanctuary have I         VI. Ghosts Of Days      And when the eyes of children   See past the ones left standing   And the time has surely come    To understand who we are      Slowly the fires are burning   Bearing their silent witness   And the living past returns    To reap the Harvest of Souls