Outside I hear the river raging The streets are filled with thieves not worth saving My heart now rides a hearse The poor thing died of thirst And now it's raining Inside I wish your face forgotten You're memory from me is barred from top to bottom I'm searching for a trick To somehow spin your silk Into cotton Bring me a surgeon not a priest Or this hurt will never cease Draw the curtain But there's no such thing as peace It's war from west to east And that's for certain I'm weary And the road is endless Broken down, penniless, and friendless If it wasn't for my doubt If I found a cowards way out I'd end this Shame And humiliation And the distance between the tongues of every nation It's the heart that must be slain To kill the phantom pain Of separation Bring me a surgeon not a priest Or this hurt will never cease Draw the curtain But there's no such thing as peace It's war from west to east And that's for certain Love Offered no resistance The sky's alive with gunfire in the distance The kiss didn't leave a scratch Tenderness is no match For deaths persistence Still I love you more than ever I could no more change my heart than change the weather This head will always need This heart will always bleed To be together Bring me a surgeon not a priest Or this hurt will never cease Draw the curtain But there's no such thing as peace It's war from west to east And that's for certain Outside I hear the river raging The streets are filled with thieves not worth saving My heart now rides a hearse The poor thing died of thirst And now it's raining.

Everyone who breathes here is guilty He who's blood runs holds a grudge In this prison nothing gets forgiven Everyones a witness and a judge So take care who that you talk to Choose well who that you serve Your Gods won't tell you though they aught to We get the world we deserve Up on the hill they're queuing for the gallows The people spoke, the congregation sing They're hanging heads from the edge of every window The people choose, the clown became the king The hunter looks along his rifle His moral compass never swerves The luck of the draw, the fight for survival We get the world we deserve There's a riot in the heart of the city Two tigers born inside a cage Father and mother, vengeance and mercy Schizophrenics born of faith and rage The bars were torn down from the prison The warden's lost his nerve And all the inmates cried to the sky We get the world we deserve Some believe that all chains should be broken Some believe that freedom is a curse While lies are sold and the truth remains unspoken Hearts are emptied just to fill a purse There's time enough to serve your endless sentence To laugh and cry around this endless curve But know your words are wasted on repentance We get the world we deserve There's a fire in the garden of eden Like a sun it burns through the night Like Maria who holds back her tears For the darkness when he turns out the light So take care who that you talk to Choose well who that you serve Your Gods won't tell you though they aught to We get the world we deserve.

The bridge ahead is burning and the way behind is lost My lovers lips are smiling but her eyes are filled with frost My weary heart is sinking it's broken as the dawn That pours its poison light upon my faded uniform Oh, and that pretty smile I see you through the window beside that willow tree Oh how hard that I could fall, how easy it could be You could make me say it, but I've said those words before All it ever got me was the wrong side of the door Oh, from that pretty smile Yellow sun go sinking and red moon on the rise Last time I saw it swimming in those big brown eyes But I will never be again the boy you left behind The boy who shut his eyes for you, the boy who loved you blind Oh, for that pretty smile I know that you have suffered and I know you've had it hard You did your time in paradise, you screamed and you got barred A black wind then blue you all the way to me And nowhere with you is always somewhere to be Oh, with that pretty smile For all that I have fought for and all that I have lost For all that I've been breathing and for all the coins I've tossed None of that matters half as much as this Than wipe those weeping eyes of yours and give your smile a kiss Oh, that pretty smile

For the gentle midnight talking Where the bright moon lifts the lovers tide Through old dreams their walking Where the sweetest fallen memories hide I live in a silent land Where time and death sleep side by side The lovers mouth is filled with sand And all the stars in darkness hide My captain he's a dying man He's praying that his love will last He met his destiny too late The wind has changed, his fate is cast His prayer is answered with a laugh Your love was just your foolish pride A peacock struts the aftermath And all the stars in darkness hide The wrong girl she's in love with me But all I see are bitter eyes My brother he's the better man And always sees the truth in lies If I knew how her thoughts were sown If I knew deep in night she cried A chain gang sing we're all alone And all the stars in darkness hide I've see through a million eyes Through oblivion and back I no more know ice from flame Or what I have, from what I lack But I still know my wrong from right Tattooed in darkness down inside Taught by the touch of empty night And all the stars in darkness hide Take me in your tender arms I've had enough of fools and lies Who build a bridge to doom and make A waste land of paradise Hold me close the end is here The time when ending dreams collide The lovers tender arms are torn And all the stars in darkness hide

I married Isis on the fifth day of May, But I could not hold on to her very long. So I cut off my hair and I rode straight away For the wild unknown country where I could not go wrong. I came to a high place of darkness and light. The dividing line ran through the center of town. I hitched up my pony to a post on the right, Went in to a laundry to wash my clothes down. A man in the corner approached me for a match. I knew right away he was not ordinary. He said, "Are you lookin' for somethin' easy to catch?" I said, "I got no money." He said, "That ain't necessary." We set out that night for the cold in the North. I gave him my blanket, he gave me his word. I said, "Where are we goin'?" He said we'd be back by the fourth. I said, "That's the best news that I've ever heard." I was thinkin' about turquoise, I was thinkin' about gold, I was thinkin' about diamonds and the world's biggest necklace. As we rode through the canyons, through the devilish cold, I was thinkin' about Isis, how she thought I was so reckless. How she told me that one day we would meet up again, And things would be different the next time we wed, If I only could hang on and just be her friend. I still can't remember all the best things she said. We came to the pyramids all embedded in ice. He said, "There's a body I'm tryin' to find. If I carry it out it'll bring a good price." 'Twas then that I knew what he had on his mind. The wind it was howlin' and the snow was outrageous. We chopped through the night and we chopped through the dawn. When he died I was hopin' that it wasn't contagious, But I made up my mind that I had to go on. I broke into the tomb, but the casket was empty. There was no jewels, no nothin', I felt I'd been had. When I saw that my partner was just bein' friendly, When I took up his offer I must-a been mad. I picked up his body and I dragged him inside, Threw him down in the hole and I put back the cover. I said a quick prayer and I felt satisfied. Then I rode back to find Isis just to tell her I love her. She was there in the meadow where the creek used to rise. Blinded by sleep and in need of a bed, I came in from the East with the sun in my eyes. I cursed her one time then I rode on ahead. Isis, oh, Isis, you mystical child. What drives me to you is what drives me insane. I still can remember the way that you smiled On the fifth day of May in the drizzlin' rain.