The Space Between Two Thoughts

Unconquered Soul

It's in your heart

It's in your soul

I don't know how you could hold on

You were the one

who never gave up on love

Long after the rest of us

would have said enough

It's in your heart

It's in your unconquered soul

It's in your heart

Written long ago

From the start

From before you were born

It's in your heart

A cold wind

tried to break your will

Our apathy was colder still

Freedom is just dream

that fades away at first light

When those with eyes

choose to be blind

It's in your heart

It's in your unconquered soul

It's in your heart

Written long ago

From the start

From before you were born

It's in your heart

The burden of hate

Is more than any soul can bear

So let one man's dream

Be a nation's prayer

It's in your heart

It's in your unconquered soul

It's in your heart

Written long ago

From the start

From before you were born

It's in your heart

Thief

The nights were long

The days were dark

You only came when the cold set in

The midnight sky

and the silent stars

Were the only witness

You sing the hymns of olden times

I'll meet you in the morning light

Skin and bones and blood on stones

Was the only life you knew

Until you became the thief of love

You were a stranger

In a strange land

Always hunted by the worst of man

So many delivered

By your hand

Either liberty or death

You sing the hymns of olden times

I'll meet you in the morning light

Skin and bones and blood on stones

Was the only life you knew

Until you became the thief of love

I'll never know or truly understand

You're not mine to claim

The scars you own

Are reflected in this broken land

You showed us the way

You sing the hymns of olden times

I'll meet you in the morning light

Skin and bones and blood on stones

Was the only life you knew

Until you became the thief of love

Darker

I'm told it can't get any darker

I'm told we are on the brink

I'm told it's gotten so much darker

So much darker than I think

But I'm told that we are great

Greater than the last

Greater than the greatest kingdoms

That have come to pass

If you can call the angels

Now would be the time

If you can call the angels

for some piece of mind

If we could all act as angels

We wouldn't need the signs

If we could all act as angels

We'd be just fine

I'm told that we are lost

That we have lost our way

I'm told that we have fallen from

The path that was made

The brilliant men

they gained for us a freedom

They were smarter than the rest

Though freedom looks a lot

Like somebody else

If you can call the angels

Now would be the time

If you can call the angels

for some piece of mind

If we could all act as angels

We wouldn't need the signs

If we could all act as angels

We'd be just fine

If you can call the angels

Now would be the time

If you can call the angels

for some piece of mind

If we could all act as angels

We wouldn't need the signs

If we could all act as angels

We'd be just fine

Love Will Carry Us

Your sad eyes filled up the sky

Like rainclouds above me

Do you want the truth or a lie?

Whatever makes you happy

We've got blood on both our hands

We don't know how to wash them

I think that I have lost the path

Maybe we both have

Love will carry us

Our bodies are broken, our hearts are bruised

Maybe tomorrow will be better

You aren't the only one to lose

We're in this together

We are more than what divides

More than what our eyes see

Maybe you forgot how much we're alike

Maybe we both have

Love will carry us

We were given a solemn rose

We gave back a crown of thorns

We despise what we don't have

We built a temple on a hill

Now we fight over stained-glass stills

When we can no longer walk

Or barely crawl...

Love will carry us

The Colors of Your Eyes

I'm wide awake, you're sleeping

What's the big idea?

4 am is just a state of mind, my dear

The world outside is waiting

To see the colors of your eyes

The petrichor is rising

In the morning air

Drops of sky returning to the places where

Life and death return to

all the colors of your eyes

All the colors of your eyes

I can see all the paths that lie ahead

Underneath the moon beyond

your window ledge

Waiting for you to open your eyes

I'm wide awake, you're dreaming

Of a different place and time

But they don't have to live in

The chambers of your mind

They're better when you see them

With all the colors of your eyes

All the colors of your eyes

I can see all the paths that lie ahead

Underneath the moon beyond

your window ledge

Waiting for you to open your eyes

In all the colors of your eyes

I can see all the truth behind the lies

Calling me to understand this life

Still they shine,

all those colors in your eyes

And though I can be restless

With some big idea

Don't need to rush the morning

You can rest my dear

I would wait a lifetime

To see the colors in your eyes

A Howl from a Whisper

The books are filled with gods and kings

Who built cathedrals of concrete

They chased away the native sons

And still their ghosts are on the run

But still I wait to say a word

Still my voice remains unheard

There's a city on a hill

It's gone dark; it's gone still

Maybe it was too much to ask

Afterall it's only rocks and sand

But still I wait to say a word

Still my voice remains unheard

There is still so much that I haven't learned

to raise a howl from a whisper

Still I wait to say a word

Still my voice remains unheard

There is still so much that I haven't learned

to raise a howl from a whisper

Dear Sabrina

To my dearest sweet Sabrina

I hope this letter finds you well

It's been two years since I saw you

This separation has been hell

The borders of our hearts are drawn in sand

They're blown and ravaged by time

But no pendulum will keep me from

returning your hand to mine

Even now, even when

I look around at this emptiness

Some bonds can't be severed

No pain lasts forever, even now

Can you still see my face?

Can your youthful heart understand?

I still have faith that you're reading these

Cause faith is all that I have

Even now, even when

I look around at this emptiness

Some bonds can't be severed

No pain lasts forever, even now

I was beaten and left for dead

You are my blood, I have paid my debt

I see no oil I see no wine

But your heart still lives in mine

Even now, even when

I look around at this emptiness

Some bonds can't be severed

No pain lasts forever, even now

The Kings of Empty Swagger

The peasant works and supplants

the man with soft and idle hands

Beneath the red light of Arcturus

A servant's life is no life at all

We believe we've found the answer

and it will be forever after

That the past doesn't matter

We're immune to the clatter

We're the kings of empty swagger

It was only a matter of time

Before the tool learned how to defy

Beneath the red light of Arcturus

History is here again

We believe we've found the answer

and it will be forever after

That the past doesn't matter

We're immune to the clatter

We're the kings of empty swagger

We believe we've found the answer

and it will be forever after

That the past doesn't matter

We're immune to the clatter

We're the kings of empty swagger

Counting the Stars

90 miles away, you are all alone

Staring out your window

Into the dead of night

Will we have tomorrow?

Will I see you again?

It's time to move across the fields

Now that the night's began

Now I'm counting the stars

To see which ones fall

And it breaks my heart to know

That you know

90 miles away, now I'm on my knees

Praying to a god

That I have never seen

So many lives

died on the vine

They were born in a crashing car

And they don't know why

Now I'm counting the stars

To see which ones fall

And it breaks my heart to know

That you know

When you're born in blood

Its blood that you seek

There's a penance we have to pay

to justify belief, to justify belief in now

Now I'm counting the stars

To see which ones fall

And it breaks my heart to know

That you know

Lamb Amongst the Wolves

The heartbreak in their mourning

Is heartbreak in your eyes

Heartbreak is the muse you kiss goodnight

You're bleeding on the pages

Making the pain rhyme

Martyrdom and a pen by candlelight

You can't help but to feel like

a lamb amongst the wolves

Nowhere to hide even when you should

There has got to be a better way

After all of these years

There ain't no ink

thicker than these tears

The deadline's been made

But who will take the time?

It's just another day in paradise

You're searching for the truth

But word to the wise

The story has been standardized

You can't help but to feel like

a lamb amongst the wolves

Nowhere to hide even when you should

There has got to be a better way

After all of these years

There ain't no ink

thicker than these tears

You're chasing the bullet

back to where it begun

Trying your hardest not to run

Losing your head

is not the same thing as losing your mind

What you saw, you cannot leave it behind

You can't help but to feel like

a lamb amongst the wolves

Nowhere to hide even when you should

There has got to be a better way

After all of these years

There ain't no ink

thicker than these tears

What's in a Heart?

What's in a heart

that calls out to another?

What's in a soul

that brings out the colors

in the eyes of a perfect stranger?

What's the source

of the spell that we're under?

What's in a heart? What's in a soul?

That tears us apart

What makes us all whole

What's in a heart?

What keeps the peace

when war is our cover?

How do we know

when we stumble

through the doors

of a darkened chamber

where we stand

as jealous lovers?

What's in a heart? What's in a soul?

That tears us apart

What makes us all whole

What if we refuse?

What if we're consumed?

What is it that holds back the tide?

What if we believe our own conceits

What is it that keeps us alive?

How do we survive?

In a world where fear is currency

The bravest ones are those that believe

What's in a heart? What's in a soul?

That tears us apart

What makes us all whole

What if we refuse?

What if we're consumed?

What is it that holds back the tide?

What if we believe our own conceits

What is it that keeps us alive?

How do we survive?

What if we lose? What if we refuse?

What if we can't see the other side?

What if we leave?

Will we receive that which keeps us alive?

How do we survive?

What's in a heart...