Its the sound of your voice That hurts me the most Its the way that you smile That brings a tear to my eye Its the way that you dress All that phony success The way you reach for the door Instead of asking for more But I’m here, writing you a line No more hiding, or keeping it all inside Yes, I’m patient … better cover your behind … Yes your feelings are true Yes I'm coming for you Better let down the shades Block the top of the stairs ‘cause … ‘yes … Now you’re feeling the pain And you want it again The forbidden fruit Got you grabbing your boot

I'm drifting through the vastness of time To days when you were mine We're playing hide and seek beneath the vines Your hair as smooth as wine Your breast is as warm as summer fire But your eyes they tell a lie And I'm tumbling down the stairways of your mind You see I've been there before Where warm bodies make for time Where open arms and legs brings life To ones that should be tired Where people that are bound to be free Are wedlock to retire Now I'm tumbling down the stairways of your mind But now I'm overdosed by kindness Of a girl that's never mine Her body is a palace I serve Her gates are were I lie And when we're all alone, at night She's walking on a wire As she's tumbling down the stairways of her mind

When I was just shy of 17 The days were short, the nights were kings We stayed awake to sing a song We never thought we could do wrong Oh yea ... and that's when I found lust ... In the back room of a store Our bodies pressed on to the floor Until we lost all track of time That's when you told me you were mine Oh yea ... and that's when I found out ... And now I waken from a dream Where I keep asking you've been I wrote a letter to you: "My lovely girl ... Why have you been untrue?" You're bursting at the seams Tripping over our best dreams I'm warning you ... But my mind's already set ... So I pretend Then I became 21 I flew a plane, I held a gun I met a girl ... oh so sweet She took my love and went to sleep Oh yea ... and that's when I found pain ... On the back of a magazine In moving pictures on a screen I've built a world so long and wide When she'd call, that's where I'd hide Oh yea ... and that's when I found love ... It's a story about a man Trying to be the best he can Every now and then, He understands, the meaning of his life Locked up in some bedroom See him howling at the moon He's warning you But his mind's already set So he pretends ... Now most folks think its a sin To live alone, to be seen To steal away the time To never ask nobody for a dime But I'm happy to recede Not ever to succeed I'm warning you ... 'cause my mind's already set I won't pretend ... and that's when I found love

The first time that I saw you You looked so fine Love was in your eyes I imagined you were mine Then the night came, we stopped I wasn't so sure I'll work Then another day came With you again The sun kept running Through the sand I left you for another She cried hard on my shoulder For the stars, the sound My beating heart is lost and found I'm running out of signs to decipher (/discover) Listening in my sleep Morning creeps in from behind I find I'm really doing fine And all this happiness in breathing me back to life Feeling free and laughing Lost in time Be here, mine, for the moment Will you be kind enough to say I do Oh ... I'm missing you And now its time to say goodbye I'm gonna' cherish it all inside The moment's pleasant, just read the sign: "Sweetly surrender this lullaby" 'cause it for the stars, the sound My beating heart is lost and found I'm running out of signs to decipher (/discover) Listening in my sleep for the sound ... 'cause the first time that I saw you You looked so fine Love was in your eyes I imagined you were mine Then the night came, we stopped I wasn't so sure I'll work

I used to dream in color and I wished away the days Waiting on the slightest chance that I would get to play A guilded harp, a silver horn with a bonny tune to sing A place inside a golden hall to prance around the king When I was young I wished to be Up to my neck in a fantasy Why did I sign on that bloody dotted line? Let the devils hold it over me Is it a crime to live when you cannot afford the means? Is it a crime to walk the earth like ravenous machines? Is there a way to bridge a gap across a great divide? Is it a secret thrill to know the gods are on your side? When I was young I wished to be A landed man with a back forty Why did I sign on that bloody dotted line? Let the devils hold it over me The smoke still clouds my wits The stink still fills my pores From the night they kicked down the door The blood still stains my lips The grief still chafes my soul My pride was raked through the coals Yonder prison walls They own my flesh and bones But my thoughts are mine alone