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-BY MY SIDE-
By: Lance HaunRogue

There is a voice in my head, a dream in my bed...
A place where we loved, and something you once said...
That tortures me... It may never let me be... Barely lets me breathe...
This was all my fault, I had it all, but didn't know... So isn't that the way? Some would say...

(pre chorus)
They would say this is the place...
I have come here to be judged, and I have failed in so many ways...
Some would say this is the place...
I have heard it spoken of, and I thought the nails were the worst pain...

(chorus)
Crucified, by the questions and I still can't tell you why...
Crucified, and to tell the truth I'd rather have just died...
Than live with the knowledge that I chose the coward's path, I guess I have to laugh...
In spite of my of my pride, and the fear that I hide...
I needed you, I still need you by my side...

There is a voice in my head, a chill to my bed...
A place where we touched, and a memory I can't shed...
Another reminder... What she left behind her... Was never the real me...
This was all my fault, I had it all, but let it go... No, this isn't the way... But it's too late...

(pre chorus)

(chorus)

(bridge)
I can't place the blame, and there's nothing left to say...
Just know that this goes down, as my greatest of mistakes...
I will dream my dreams of you, and for that moment know a smile...
I will see glimpses of happiness, when I turn my thoughts back for a while...
But I will be alone inside, no matter who I'm with...
When I touch my lips to someone else, it will be you I long to kiss...
And I will be strong and survive, just like I always have before...
But in the end I needed you more than maybe anyone before...
You'll never know, it's so much more...

(pre chorus)

(chorus)
Crucified, by the questions and I still can't tell you why...
Crucified, and to tell the truth I'd rather have just died...
Than live with the knowledge that I chose the coward's path, I guess I have to laugh...
In spite of my of my pride, and the fear that I hide...
I needed you, I still need you by my side...
Good-bye...

•

-PUTTING VENUS ON THE MOON-
By: Lance HaunRogue

A terrible feeling, this is all very wrong... We are walking on the face of the sun...
Tomorrow calls the past today... There is no escape, and nowhere to go but home-
Pretty, pretty little smiling girl... I would offer you my planet in trade for the world...
I feel I’m falling as I fell for you... Taking me for that fool you know-

(chorus)
I was planting flowers in our secret shade... Making plans and loosing sight of you...
While you were busy in your belt of stars... Putting Venus on the moon-
Lovely in the dancing waves... I cry each day at noon...
While you are busy in your belt of stars... Putting Venus on the moon-

I swear that I can see your face... I try each night to get back through...
But the satellites have no heart to fight... To make these wishes true-

Incredible feeling, adrift out in space... I feel my heart melting in re-entry...
A comet in magnetic pull... A millennium that feels like centuries-
Tell me, tell me darling little one... Is it fair wishing on a shooting star...
No, not as fair as you... Forever in my heart now, just the way you are-

(chorus)
I was planting flowers in our secret shade... Making plans and loosing sight of you...
While you were busy in your belt of stars... Putting Venus on the moon-
Lovely in the dancing waves... I cry each day at noon...
While you are busy in your belt of stars... Putting Venus on the moon-

I swear that I can see your face... I try each night to get back through...
But the satellites have no heart to fight... To make these wishes true-

Hard to catch my breath, and you now share the air I breathe...
I haven’t much to count on now, just know that I believe-
And I’m wishing on your star, with a prayer that you were here...
Like the pain that swells within, my eyes again will well with tears-

(chorus)
I was planting flowers in our secret shade... Making plans and loosing sight of you...
While you were busy in your belt of stars... Putting Venus on the moon-
Lovely in the dancing waves... I cry each day at noon...
While you are busy in your belt of stars... Putting Venus on the moon-

I swear that I can see your face... I try each night to get back through...
But the satellites have no heart to fight... To make these wishes true-

•

-BESIDE YOU-
By: Lance HaunRogue

The air to breathe, means nothing to me...
When your eyes are looking through me...
You seem to always see, into my soul...

The blood I bleed, means nothing to me...
As your teeth are biting through me...
You feed on loving me, baby I know...

(chorus)
And I believe, this dream you weave awakens me...
And I feel alive, just knowing how I long to die... Beside you...
I will go fulfilled... If it is your will, that I should die... Beside you...

The sun above, means nothing to me...
When your love has stolen my sleep...
You leave me longingly, as you go...

The food I need, means nothing to me...
When I am but starving for thee...
You bring me cherries sweet, and crapes of snow...

(chorus)
And I believe, this dream you weave awakens me...
And I feel alive, just knowing how I long to die... Beside you...
I will go fulfilled... If it is your will, that I should die... Beside you...

(bridge)
By the light I could die from the taste of your lips...
By the night I place my faith in the pace of your hips...
By the way that you leave me, deep in this need, I'm out of breath...
By the way that you need me, please do believe, I'm in your debt...

(solo)

(chorus)
And I believe, this dream you weave awakens me...
And I feel alive, just knowing how I long to die... Beside you...
I will go fulfilled... If it is your will, that I should die... Beside you...

•

-STOOP TO INFINITY-
By: Lance HaunRogue

Remind me why we're here again
How did we come this far
I remember weekends in the rain
A family dog - a family car

It seems vivid like it's yesterday
It is torn out like a page
It stirs unsettled on the breeze
It is empty now as rage

(chorus)
And yet all along I knew - just too good to be true
Too far to run, too far to fall - for you to watch me crawl

Remind me why it is I care
Why do I even try
It isn't like this life is fair
On my knees - to touch the sky

It seems distant like a memory
It is happening right now
It stirs inside me like a dream
It is nothing that I've found

(chorus)
And yet all along I knew - just too good to be true
Too far to run, too far to fall - for you to watch me crawl
And yet all along I knew - just too good to be true
Too far to run, too far to fall - for you to watch me crawl

(bridge)
There is a stairway up to heaven
There is a rocket to the milky way
There is a portal to the afterlife
And a stoop to infinity's doorway

(solo)

(chorus)
And yet all along I knew - just too good to be true
Too far to run, too far to fall - for you to watch me crawl
And yet all along I knew - just too good to be true
Too far to run, too far to fall - for you to watch me crawl

•

-MINDLESS PLEASURES-
By: Lance HaunRogue

Stagger and collapse
Forget the numbers in your mind
Stare at the patterns on the wall
Till no pattern you can find

Repeat after me
Follow but the sound of my voice
Spare yourself the needless shame
And surrender all your choice

(chorus)
Freedom is a mindless pleasure
Use and abuse - Abuse and lose
Until you choose - to choose

Flatter yourself
Go on - just go ahead and try
Too scared to face that ego now
Malnutrition - blind and sickly white

Repeat after me
Follow blind my every word
Share your deepest fear and pain
So we can laugh at what we've heard

(chorus)
Freedom is a mindless pleasure
Use and abuse - Abuse and lose
Until you choose - to choose

(solo)

(chorus)
Freedom is a mindless pleasure
Use and abuse - Abuse and lose
Until you choose - to choose

•

-BRING ON THE CHANGE-
By: Lance HaunRogue

New thought, new self, new born - alive
Outside the sky is raining... It is warm alone - inside

Eyes are open, new, and sensitive to light
Limbs are weak, yet made to walk upright
Lungs expand and all is drown in sound
Body soft upon the solid ground

Speech is taught, and teaching spoken
Umbilical severed and water broken
Hindsight is blind, until tomorrow
No thought of self, or joy, or sorrow

(chorus)
Each step, each rung, each turning page
Certain is change
Each place, each sense, each test, each grade
Certain is change

Eyes wide open, true, and well established thought
Limbs are strong, they jolt and leap about
Heart pumps a rhythm as the mind it reels
Taken for granted just how good life feels

Opinions founded, truths tested against lies
Inherent danger, to the stubborn ways of time
Hindsight is neglected, until another day
No though but self, and joy, and play

(chorus)
Each step, each rung, each turning page
Certain is change
Each place, each sense, each test, each grade
Certain is change

Eyes half open, old, and poor of sight
Limbs tremble as they struggle with the fight
Lungs heave and fall in staggered intervals
But a reflection of how life once was

Opinions abandoned to the tests of time
A failing memory with an open mind
Hindsight is all the sight that's known
Body soft upon the solid ground

(chorus)
Each step, each rung, each turning page
Certain is change
Each place, each sense, each test, each grade
Certain is change

No thought, no self, transform - arrive
Outside the sky is raining... It is warm alone - inside

•

-CASCADE-
By: Lance HaunRogue

In a landslide of insecurity
Another passing of my moods
In the light of your rejections
Before the darkness of the truth

Shallow, still, the water's high
Like a rising of the tide
Without warning I am churning
Fighting doubt to stay alive

(chorus)
Through the cascade of tears
I see your face inside my mind
Through the cascade of fear
I see beyond what's left behind
Cascade...

It is as simple as believing
I've convinced myself at last
In the light of this new life
I'm more or less resigned to ask

Someone, still, the water's high
Like a rising of the tide
Without warning I am churning
Fighting doubt to stay alive

(chorus)
Through the cascade of tears
I see your face inside my mind
Through the cascade of fear
I see beyond what's left behind
Cascade...

(bridge)
Tinker toys and paper dolls
Family photos on the walls
A picture perfect life we found
The music boxes winding down

(solo)

(chorus)
Through the cascade of tears
I see your face inside my mind
Through the cascade of fear
I see beyond what's left behind
Cascade...

•

-FATAL DOSE-
By: Lance HaunRogue

Is it my version of the fatal dose
That finally did me in
When did I cross that fabled line
That lies beneath your skin

Wherever life has spun me now
I'll remember where I've been
Is it my velvet tongue and languid lies
Or this expressionless porcelain skin

When did I go so far beyond
Since when do I pay you to think
Whatever life will show me now
I'll refuse to even blink

(chorus)
And it burns going down
It rises up to bring me 'round
And it burns going down
It rises up to bring me 'round

Is it my trusting nature you believe
In the wake of what I've done
What brought this on beyond repair
Is there a sign that it's begun

Whoever life will bring my way
I'll refuse to overcome

(chorus)
And it burns going down
It rises up to bring me 'round
And it burns going down
It rises up to bring me 'round

(solo)

(chorus)
And it burns going down
It rises up to bring me 'round
And it burns going down
It rises up to bring me 'round

•

-IN SHAMBLES-
By: Lance HaunRogue

I have nothing left to say
So I'll just repeat my words
I have a longing that you'll stay
To pretend that I am heard

No one listens to anyone anyway
I think we speak unto ourselves
I don't believe in what you say
It is not real to anybody else

(chorus)
In shambles
Search my soul
In shambles
Search my heart
In shambles
See my world
In shambles
Torn apart
There must be a another way
To make me whole... Again

I have nothing left to give
Though I pretend to have enough
I am no longer sure just how to live
It is a answer I can bluff

No one listens to me anyway
So I speak unto myself
You won't believe a word I say
You're just like everybody else

(chorus)
In shambles
Search your soul
In shambles
Search your heart
In shambles
See your world
In shambles
Torn apart
There must be a another way
To make you whole... Again

(solo)

(chorus)
In shambles
Search my soul
In shambles
Search my heart
In shambles
See my world
In shambles
Torn apart
There must be a another way
To make me whole... Again

I have nothing left to say

•

-SEWN-
By: Lance HaunRogue

Well, there are many lessons here
To take from and to learn
Will the future bring back all I've lost
Or is that none of my concern

The thread of life gets tangled
And we tatter at the seams
We were once so interwoven
Like a puppet in these strings

(chorus)
What was once the laughter, I had shown
If I could only smile again - and be sewn
What was once the matter, I have known
If I could stifle back the tears - and be sewn

Well, there just aren't any words
To describe this brand new pain
There are so many new emotions
With the same old useless names

Beautiful and fragrant
Just like perfume on the breeze
I'd rip my hair out by the roots
And tear my soul out for your needs

(chorus)
What was once the laughter, I had shown
If I could only smile again - and be sewn
What was once the matter, I have known
If I could stifle back the tears - and be sewn

(solo)

(chorus)
What was once the laughter, I had shown
If I could only smile again - and be sewn
What was once the matter, I have known
If I could stifle back the tears - and be sewn

•

-BLISTERS ON SCABS-
By: Lance HaunRogue

It won't heal
Unless you leave it all alone
It will never go away
Forever scars remain to show

I was here
I was alive
I have feared
I have lied
I have loved
I have lost
I have won
I have paid the cost

(chorus)
Blisters on scabs
Blisters on scabs
Salt in the wound
No autographs

I can't feel
Unless you slap me around
I will never be the same
But at least I'll never be let down

I was here
I was alive
I have feared
I have lied
I have loved
I have lost
I have won
I have paid the cost

(chorus)
Blisters on scabs
Blisters on scabs
Salt in the wound
No autographs

(solo)

(chorus)
Blisters on scabs
Blisters on scabs
Salt in the wound
No autographs

•

-DON'T THREATEN ME-
By: Lance HaunRogue

You think you'll build me up
With all your pretty lies
I have heard it all before my love
Seen that look within your eyes

And you think me so naive
Do I have "sucker" written on my face
Is there a "kick me" sign upon my back
Or are you only occupying space

(chorus)
Because you don't threaten me
See the forest - see them for the trees
No you don't threaten me
With that same smile - brought me to my knees
Well you don't threaten, me...

So you think you'll tear me down
Will you put me in my place
I know my way around you now
Though I have no saving grace

And you think me so absurd
Do I have "sucker" written on my face
Is there a "kick me" sign upon my back
Well why don't you trade me places

(chorus)
Because you don't threaten me
See the forest - see them for the trees
No you don't threaten me
With that same smile - brought me to my knees
Well you don't threaten, me...

(bridge)
Don't turn me away
Don't leave me behind
Don't make me afraid
Don't play with my mind
Don't pray on my weakness
Don't lead me astray
Don't render me silent
Don't you hear what I say

(solo)

(chorus)
Because you don't threaten me
See the forest - see them for the trees
No you don't threaten me
With that same smile - brought me to my knees
Well you don't threaten, me...

•

-WHAT YOU LEARN-
By: Lance HaunRogue

So simple in the end
To have opinions for me now
To see so clear the right and wrong
To know so well somehow

Where were you way back then
When some good could come from this advice
Where was this bold analogy
While I was thinking twice

(pre chorus)
Was I ever that far gone
Was I always this turned 'round
Was I on this road against my will
Was I at odds or just hell bound

(chorus)
When what you live
Is also what you learn
Well what you give
Is also what you earn
Well what you miss
Is what you get back in return
And that's so hard to comprehend
If you're still living what you've learned

So tragic in the end
To be rewarded just to try
To be on the side of failing life
Before I've even had my chance to shine

What has become of who we are
Why do we struggle still so hard
What does this say of where we'll be
While we have barely come this far

(pre chorus)
Was I ever that far gone
Was I always this turned 'round
Was I on this road against my will
Was I at odds or just hell bound

(chorus)
When what you live
Is also what you learn
Well what you give
Is also what you earn
Well what you miss
Is what you get back in return
And that's so hard to comprehend
If you're still living what you've learned

(bridge)
Don't expect too much from me
I have never been one allowed to try
I was always shown to turn away
I was always timid, weak and shy
Don't expect too much from me
I was never taught to be so bold
I was always told to be afraid
Well that excuse is getting old

(solo)

(pre chorus)
Was I ever that far gone
Was I always this turned 'round
Was I on this road against my will
Was I at odds or just hell bound

(chorus)
When what you live
Is also what you learn
Well what you give
Is also what you earn
Well what you miss
Is what you get back in return
And that's so hard to comprehend
If you're still living what you've learned

•

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