THE MURMURS
CITY LIGHTS
City lights and moving cars,
all the crowded nights building window star
escape to the land which is scaped by the people...
in the sky,
surrounding monuments... feeding pigeons which are fatter than the homeless...
it's a symbol of our desolation.
What's a park bench?
Here it's someone's bed.
They're not crying out of anger,
they're crying to be fed
The people here we're not to fear,
an image painted in oil and I don't think it's fair,
see the artists, see the homeless, see the lonely folk
guitarist.
See the friends and lovers hand in hand.
An activist is screaming and you know he's talking stand.
The drug dealers, the pocket stealers, chess players,
bullshit soothsayers...
Well, I live in the city and I'm melting in the pot.
Living the dark, oh no, we certainly are not!
Escape to the land which is scaped by the people...
in the sky,
surrounding monuments... feeding pigeons which are fatter than the homeless...
it's a symbol of our desolation...
And that's all it is
WASTIN' TIME
Baby baby with your skin so fair
My heart shoots up straight in the air
When you hold my hand
When you free my mind
But just make sure you're not
Wastin time, wastin time
Answers, answers
Yeah you need them now
My heart is abounding
Ripping, falling down
Don't expect no answers
Don't expect my life
Cause I just need to
Waste some time, waste some time
time time time time
Something please come along and rescue me
I need to run away I need to be free
But just don't rush me
I've never come across this in my life
Well I'm usually random
And I'm rarely right
So please don't hate me
No please don't mind
Cause I just need to
Waste some time, waste some time
Time time
Something please come along and rescue me
I need to run away I need to be free
But just don't rush me
Wastin time, wastin time
Wastin time, wastin time
Wastin time, wastin time
TORCH
How can you say there's a way down every road of life?
How can you know the truth when people seem to lie?
Torch of the world: I'm sorry but your flame is not the light
I had in mind.
Issues people: you're smarter, please work harder so no one dies of cold and hunger.
Hunger, hunger is the people crying: change they need is the change of their morality...
Money buys a bottle of numbness,
I'd be the numb, well wouldn't you?
Empty handed's not empty minded...
there can't be nothing we can do to change morality,
and find a way, find a way out of here.
Torch of the world: I'm sorry but your flame is not the light
I had in mind.
Issues people: you're smarter, please work harder so no one dies of cold and hunger.
How can you say there's a way down every road of life?
How can you know the truth when people seem to lie?
NEVERENDING
Hear the joyous song I'm singing
In the spirit of the earth
Distant voices they will call me
Sing of love and rebirth
Oh this road is neverending
And my journey has a goal
So cry your eyes out little lady
And all the answers will be told
Hear the joyous song
I'm singing In the spirit of the earth
Distant voices they will call me
Sing of love and rebirth
Oh this road is neverending
And my journey has a goal
So cry your eyes out little lady
And all the answers will be told
ECHOING
Echoing and I hear it every day, the pathetic prejudice. Echoing, it's nothing new, it's what the world has gotten used to.
I do not ask a person why he's making choices
i do not choose to recognize ignorant voices.
Echoing and I hear it everyday, the pathetic prejudice.
Echoing, it's nothing new, it's what the world has gotten used to.
Alright everybody let's start at the beginning by the end i hope you're putting yourself down.
Screaming words from the Book of God to a woman who's making choices.
I sing from the book of me and I say "lower your voices"! Echoing and I hear it every day: the pathetic prejudice. Echoing, it's nothing new, it's what the world has gotten used to. T
ell the man in the color of skin of your rights... do you see a color?
Color's blind's what the bigot should be when he thinks his race is stronger...
there's nothing disgusting about being gay.
Too many people have bad things to say
maybe they should try it some day... they might like it! Echoing, and I hear it every day, the pathetic prejudice. Echoing, it's nothing new, it's what the world has gotten used to
Echoing, and I hear it every day, the pathetic prejudice. Echoing, it's nothing new, it's what the world has gotten
used to.
UNTOUCHABLE
No one can take the place of you
Nobody in the world touches me like you do
And I know, yes I know you're untouchable
No one knows me like you do
Nobody comprehends the pain I'm goin' trough
Except you, but I know you're untouchable...
I accept you're untouchable
You never wanted what I always needed and I always needed a door
trapped in a room full of wonderful colors,
you left because you needed more
And we knew from the stars we were jumping the gun
I never thought that I'd be the one
Trapped in a room full of wonderful colors,
Just me
It's not nearly as bright,
I'm afraid of the dark,
It's all turning black, I can't see...
Leave me here, I want to be untouchable
I close the door behind you
Now I'm untouchable too.
VENOM OF VIOLENCE
Hey, my name is not your business to know
When I call you from my silence.
People have a way of meddling whit mind
It's a venom of violence.
Hit me with the power like a rocket ship
Push my bottons and watch me fly, oh
I'll take you on an ego trip, trip, trip and fall
Can you know how bad I feel inside
Stab me while I'm bleeding one more time
I'll play your silly game until I die
Why are people cruel?
It's a human nature to ridicule.
No I don't think so
It's a selected few
And who selected you?
I never thought you'd qualify the things you say I now know why!
People think it's insecurity that entices such behavior
Better think next time before you attack
Someday they could be your savior
Hit me with the power of a rocket ship
Push my bottons and watch me fly, oh
I'll take you on an ego trip...
GAME PLAYER
When you love like I love
It's a circle of choices
I cannot explain and I know, yes I know
When you love like I love
It's a heart broken song from my pain and I know
I can give who I am but when I'm with you
Something inside won't let me come through and I know
I'm a game player, I know who to choose
Sometimes I win but mostly I lose
And I'm finding it hard to continue my game
I'm such a sore loser my heart's sore with shame and I know
You've played this before and I want to withdraw
I'm addicted,
Now I see I'm no competition
Nobody wants to play with me.
LONELY MAN'S SHOES
No one should ever be alone
It's not fair and it's harmful
There are too many of them all
And so few of us there
No one should ever be alone
It's so cruel and so lethal
There is nothing worse when no one understands
Nor do they care.
Who are we to know what they're feeling?
Who are we to know what they're healing?
A pat on the back will barely suffice;
Who are we with our words of advice?
If I had the chance to live as I choose
I'd never want to walk in a lonely man's shoes.
DOESN'T MEAN ANYTHING
Friday night and I'm sitting here empty
No spark to catch on anything dry
Nothing to hope for, no pain to feel
My friends, somewhere else
caught up in themselves, lifeless
My family surrounds me, they're built in these walls
Their foot falls still stumbling beneath my floors
But it doesn't mean anything
nothing at all
No it doesn't mean anything
nothing at all
Falling is flying, I'm reaching for the earth
Sinking is dying, return to the womb before birth
I will not sink in the waters, I will fly
I will not drown in the depths, I will not die
Cause it doesn't mean anything
nothing at all
No it doesn't mean anything
nothing at all
Quickly decieved by the one in disguise
Who finally touched me with tears in his eyes
He left me alone but he still held me tight, lifeless
Now I'm alone and I understand
The castles we built are all lost in the sand
And though people play at the same masquerade
I'm beginning to learn how to stand unafraid
Falling is flying, I'm reaching for the earth
Sinking is dying, return to the womb before birth
I will not sink in the waters, I will fly
I will not drown in the depths, I will not die
'cause it doesn't mean anything,
nothing at all,
No it doesn't mean anything,
nothing at all.
NUCLEUS
Well I was wondering if it's right
To meet your friends overnight
I'm asking 'cause I think I've finally found
A place where I fit in
Well, I was always told
If you can count friends on one hand
Then you are of the lucky few
'cause friends are in demand
And there'll be times
When you may feel
Like you are out of place
Have no fear 'cause it's a part
Of the game which you must face
Nucleus, I found you, you found me,
We found each other
We may drift apart
But always have these moments spent together,
As a nucleus of friends
So there've been times when it's been cold
And there've been rumours, so I'm told
But I'm telling you now
There are times to allow those moments on your own
So we've had our share of tears
Some were weak and some were strong
Together we'd laugh, alone we'd cry
And seperately we've grown
Nucleus, I found you, you found me,
We found each other
We may drift apart,
But always have these moments spent together,
As a nucleus of friends
As a memory from your heart
Ticking back the clock
The nights we'd spend with an open up mind
In our own world of woodstock
As we sit here with this song
Think of not what lies ahead
Take each moment as it comes
And enjoy today instead
Nucleus, I found you, you found me,
We found each other
We may drift apart,
But always have these moments spent together,
As a nucleus of friends.
MOTHER AND SON
Mother and son don't cry alone...
Mother and son don't get along...
Not your husband not your wife...
Disturbance from a broken life...
My blood I fear can't shed a tear...
Too much pain can make one vain so
I cry for mother and son.
Caught between my meeting soul...
feelings cannot be controlled...
Brother, sister, mother, daughter
taste the smell of constant slaughter.
I'd die first for mother and son.
Mother and son don't turn away...
Close your eyes until the day
The black you see will turn to gold,
no longer shall you feel the cold.
Mother of nature, son of wild, mother who bore the child...
Close your eyes until you find
the meeting of the desperate mind...
CAN'T HIDE
One man turns to another
you can see it clear as day
One man turns to another
but he just can't hide his pain.
He can't hide,
he can't hide all the things he feels inside...
Oh no...
Mirror, mirror, on the wall,
Who's the fairest of us all:
Physically, internally,
'cause ugliness is all I see.
I can't hide, I can't hide all the things I feel inside.
In a world of people seeming strong,
can't you tell that there is something wrong...
"I'm so happy baby when your by my side,
I will never leave you, love will never die"
Oh yeah, can't you hear the crying...
Everybody's lying to themselves...
One man turns to another
you can see it clear as day
One man turns to another
but he just can't hide his pain.
He can't hide,
he can't hide all the things he feels inside...
Oh no...
Mirror, mirror, on the wall,
Who's the fairest of us all:
Physically, internally,
'cause ugliness is all I see.
I can't hide, I can't hide all the things I feel inside.
In a world of people seeming strong,
can't you tell that there is something wrong...
"I'm so happy baby when your by my side,
I will never leave you, love will never die"
Oh yeah, can't you hear the crying...
Everybody's lying to themselves...
All I need is you.
MAKE LOVE NOT WAR
So many people, so little caring...
Why don't people care anymore?
I am just a person, I'm no hypocrite,
but there's a little saying that goes
"Make love and not war"
So sing a little, hum a little, laugh a little,
cry a little...
Love this land and praise it and we all will be fine...
Appreciate oyur life and this land that we live in
and don't forget that one important line...
Make love not war,
make love, make love and not war.
Well climb the highest mountain if that's what it takes
and all of you people who know
that you are fakes: take off your costumes,
take off your mask and you may find that life
ain't too much of a task...
Laugh when you want to, cry when it hurts...
That's why mother nature gave us soil and dirt...
So sing a little, hum a little, laugh a little,
cry a little...
Love this land and praise it and we all will be fine...
Appreciate oyur life and this land that we live in
and don't forget that one important line...
Make love not war,
make love, make love and not war.
Well some of you have problems, don't think that your alone
...and I know that some of you put yourself upon the throne...
Get down off that pedestal,
give some one else a chance...
and if they've got that lovin' heart
they'll still save that last dance...
So sing a little, hum a little, laugh a little,
cry a little...
Love this land and praise it and we all will be fine...
Appreciate oyur life and this land that we live in
and don't forget that one important line...
Make love not war,
make love, make love and not war.
Well, some of you have romance
and some of you do not but,
brothers and sisters, this is all we've got...
So love the grass and love the trees,
feel the music and feel the breeze.
Remember in your daydreams,
there's always room to care...
Living in this land that you know we all should share...
So sing a little, hum a little, laugh a little,
cry a little...
Love this land and praise it and we all will be fine...
Appreciate oyur life and this land that we live in
and don't forget that one important line...
Make love not war,
make love, make love and not war.
Oh, yeah!
NO LONGER STRANGER
Walking alone not expecting a thing...
Next thing I know, away goes my heart to
A no longer stranger...
Our eyes are open; we see what lies ahead:
dreams of make believing,
and passions to be fed...
All I want, you give to me...
But is my heart worth anything?
I'll close my heart and surrender to you
'cause it's all the same,
the same for me and you, but I still cry...
it's never easier and I think now
I've started to love my no longer stranger.
MOUNTAIN
Mountain, beautiful mountain: let me escape within your soul.
Mountain, beautiful mountain: only in my mind imagery control... rivers are the running taps,
hypnothized by white snow caps...
The cool, brisk wind blows through my hair...
My mountain fills me everywhere.
Running rivers, running streams, spilling sorrows,
spilling dreams...
Breathe in, breathe out not to care...
My mountain fills me everywhere.
Mountain, beautiful mountain: let me escape within your soul.
Mountain, beautiful mountain: only in my mind imagery control...