Live in Japan

Hey you
She's gonna get you
If you go walking
By this corner slow
Don't think she's gonna let
You leave just because you want to go

Boy you ain't seen nothin' yet
It's a long train of regret
Puppets get no second chance
Pull that string they gotta dance

Parallel addiction is
A double crucifixion
When your always out there
Feeding your head
Always channel surfing
Cause your brain
It isn't working
When you're looking at
That moment just remember

Don't look
Don't stray
Don't talk it over
No time
No way
Listen to me I'm cold sober
You're just out there
Taunting cobras

Hey you
Who's gonna warn you
When it's something
You don't want to know
Don't think it won't deform you
Twist your mind then let it go

Boy you ain't seen nothin' yet
It's a long train of regret
Puppets get no second chance
Pull that string, they gotta dance

Welcome to the prison
Let me tell ya
What you're missing
I've been coming here
For nearly a year
Out there was my corner
'Till I came in for a water
Mixed with whiskey
And a chaser of sideway glances

Don't look
Don't stray
Don't talk it over
No time
No way
Listen to me I'm cold sober
You're just out there
Taunting cobras

An offering of reasons
We put them all in play
A covering of treasons
That one by one we let slip away
A solitary dancer
So lost upon her stage

I have seen you
On the edge of dawn
Felt you there
Before you were born
Balanced your dreams
Upon the ends of thorns
But I don't think
About you anymore

A study made from winter
Of summers long ago
And dreams that used to glitter
Safely now hidden under snow

And so we end the chapter
And let the stage lights fade

I have seen you
On the edge of dawn
Felt you here
Before you were born
Balanced your dreams
Upon the ends of thorns
But I don't think
About you any more

See the devil on the streets at night
See him running in the pouring rain
See him grinning
'Neath a twisted light
I'll be back again
See the people standing in a row
See them nodding
Like a field of grain
No one sees the sickle though
Coming 'cross the plain

And this he knows if nothing more
That waiting in the dark
Like destiny
Are those who kissed the dogs
Of war
And there is no tomorrow
No tomorrow

Take a chance
Take a chance

See the devil he is so intense
See the devil go
And change his name
What's the going price
Of innocence
It can't be the same

And this he knows if nothing more
That waiting in the dark
Like destiny
Are those who kissed the dogs
Of war
And there is no tomorrow
No tomorrow

Take a chance
Take a chance

Burn the night away

Cheshire cat
Done rip your soul
Don't turn your back
Don't turn your back

Car rolls by
Move real slow
Fade it to black
Fade it to black

But nothin' going on
Nothin' going on

Twisted nerves
On shifting feet
Taking up slack
Taking up slack

Gone too far
Can't retreat
Cover your tracks
Cover your tracks

Nothin' going on

She's no queen of hearts
But she's good to me
Bring her coffin roses
Brush her thorns
Let it bleed

Just a hardcore dancer
Puppet on a string
One crippled romancer
Strung so tight
Gotta watch her swing

Nothin' going on

Among the images of dear
Departed
Here with memories so closely
Guarded
There's an old man
Standing all alone

As he waits among the unforgiven
Here among the souls no longer living
Lost in chains of sin still unatoned

He carves his stone

Well a man's got to do
What a man's got to do
But I'll never give my soul to you
No fallen angel's prophecy
Will ever take hold
Of the man you see
So here I stand all alone
With chisel in hand
I work my stone
And leave a message for all to see
And contemplate mortality

And carve that stone

He carves his stone
He carves his stone
He carves his stone

Jesus was a talker
Out of place New Yorker
Hung out on the boulevard
Sellin' nickel candies
Saving all his quarters
Bought himself a cheap guitar

Started playin' bars
The kids came in their cars
You'd hear them shouting
At the stage

Jesus saves
Jesus saves

Jesus started changin'
Things got really strange
He saw his tee shirts everywhere
Started missing shows
The band came down to blows
But Jesus he no longer cared

Things got out of hand
And so he quit the band
But still the critics
They would rave

Jesus saves
Jesus saves

So the dice were cast
Today became the past
And Jesus he just disappeared
Headed for New York
Or so his label thought
And there he gave away the years

Last seen drinking wine
Beneath a flashing sign
Promising salvation to strays

Jesus saves
Jesus saves

Hear him cut through the night
On your late night radio waves

Jesus saves

There in the dark
There's a child and she's waiting
Lost in the maze of a fait accompli
Is it a crime to be just hesitating
While we're pretending
That we never see

On a TV mounted on the wall
From this distance I can see it all
And I've been out here
Watching you
Watching you fall

Is there a trick to the art
Of not feeling
Safe in our world
While another's child bleeds
Praying that God won't
Demand a redealing
Of cards we have held
And pretend you don't need

On a TV mounted on the wall
From this distance I can see it all
And I've been out here
Watching you
Watching you fall

Better not think about it
In time we'll start to doubt it
Christ has risen
Keep him hidden
God forbid he sees
It's not that we lack the vision
Only just a quick decision
Who will blame us
Rules restrain us
It's all in history

So close my eyes
And pretend I am sleeping
Avoiding the chance
That you'll visit my dreams

On a TV mounted on the wall
From this distance I can see it all
And I've been out here
Watching you fall

In the dark and bleeding
With the shadows seething there
He stands alone
Fools and faith conspire
Questions of desire
That they never owned

Kings without their armor
Men without their honor
Spit out desecration
Pieces of a nation
Buried in the ground
Screams without a sound
Burn the castle down
In the end the children cried
That the jackal surely lied
When he said please listen all
Do not look behind these walls

Coffins drowned in roses
And the war he chose is
Fought inside the mind

Death becomes compelling
When the souls for selling
And the world is blind

In the maze he wanders
Looks about and ponders
Shadows mock and taunt him
Chain him to the ground
Screams without a sound
Burn the castle down

In the end the children cried
That the jackal surely lied
When he said please listen all
Do not look behind these walls
And does the pendulum toll
Against the side of his soul
When it feels the final
Moment is near
Do you rage against the dark
Try to re-write the part
Turn around and face

What you fear
What you fear

He's seen it all before
Close your eyes
And close the door
And the dreams
That nights embrace
Slowly leave without a trace

Someone
Got themselves a letter
In the mail the other day
It's already worn and tattered
And I guess
It gives away

All the things we keep inside
All the things that really matter
The face puts on its best disguise
And all is well
Until the heart
Betrays
She knows
As she reads the letter
That things were bound to stray
Winds blow
She pulls her coat tighter
And the letter flies away

With all the things she keeps inside
All the things that really matter
The face puts on its best disguise
And all is well
Until the heart betrays

Lord bring on the night
Wrap it all around me
Let it hold me tight
Soak up all that I bleed

And I'll fly away
Yeah I'll fly away
Yeah I'll fly away
Watch me

Lord bring on the night
Wrap it all around me
Let it hold me tight
Soak up all that I bleed

I bleed

The night is growing dark
From somewhere deep within
It shelters like an ark
That always takes you in

And the mind goes numb
Until it's feeling no pain
And the soul cries out
For a handful of rain

Wash your women
In your whiskey
When your future's in the past
And you're staring up at heaven
From the bottom of a glass
And you need some insulation
From the years
You've had and lost
And you feel the perspiration
As you're adding up the cost

And the night rolls on
Like a slow moving train
And the soul cries out

There's a land beyond the living
There's a land beyond the dead
If it's true that God's forgiving
Of the lives that we have led
In the distance there's a thunder
And the air is thick and warm
And the patrons watch
With wonder
The approaching of the storm

And the night rolls on
Like a slow moving train
And the soul cries out
For a handful of rain

There's an old man in the corner
And he's smoking all the time
And the smoke is drifting upward
And it's twisting in my
Twisting in my mind
In my mind

The whiskey's getting deeper
And I use it like a moat
There's a blues man in the distance
And he's lost inside his
Lost inside his note
His note
His note

The night is growing dark
From somewhere deep within
It shelters like an ark
That always takes you in

And the night rolls on
Like a slow moving train
And the soul cries out
For a handful of rain

On the sea
They heard the voices sing
Through the storm the island is
Closing in
Many tales of lives lost at sea
Deserted beach
Just beyond the reach
You're approaching the island
Of the....

Sirens....Sirens
Hungry for flesh tonight
Sirens....Sirens
Claiming the sailors lives

Nine men made it to the shore
A night of terror lies neatly
In store
Who are these women?
Are they real?
Is this just a crazy dream?
We are approaching the island
Of the....

Sirens....Sirens
Hungry for flesh tonight
Sirens....Sirens
Claiming the sailors lives

Terror happens quickly
Remains of the sailors are gone
They vanished in the night air
Sirens singing their psalm
'Till they're gone

Another sleepless night
A concrete paradise
Sirens screaming in the heat
Neon cuts the eye
As the jester sighs
At the world beneath his feet

It's a gutter ballet
Just a menagerie
Still the orchestra plays
On a dark and lonely night
To a distant fading light

Balanced on their knives
Little parts of lives
Such a strange reality
Kill the unicorn
Just to have its horn
Soon he's just a fantasy

It's a gutter ballet
Just a menagerie
Still the orchestra plays
On a dark and lonely night
To a distant fading light

The jester takes his bows
Slips into the crowd
As the actors fade away
Another death to mourn
Another child is born
Another chapter in the play

It's a gutter ballet
Just a menagerie
Still the orchestra plays
On a dark and lonely night
To a distant fading light