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a simile for a metaphor

01.love's labour's lost 02.just a moment beyond 03.rhapsodie and requiem 04.falling without fear 05.ode on what tomorrow will bring 06.nova replet laetitia 07.find 08.i hear the rocks crying out 09.do you have the time? 10.slightly 11.the reconstruction 12.a grievance

love's labour's lost 
Man's yesterday may ne'er be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability. -mutability, Percy Bysshe Shelley

just a moment beyond
golden lamp stands beget gilded dreams
wander lost in wonder for the light of day
disjoint decision, displaced derision
clouded vision of what reality affords
windswept plains of the barren minds of men
who have used their lone forsaken thought
to dream of a life bittersweet by design
formed from the spectre of fear of failure

the shadow of a life it knows it's falling
all these years of wasted breath
the shadow of this moment knows it's falling
look at the ground the grass is turning brown-all around

the red sky in the morning warns of high noon
when decisions and judgments will be dealt
a heavy hand is upon those whose breath
is misplaced in a world of wasted want
oh the dreams a mere shadow of the day
o memory of moments pass a blinking eye
predictions of the future mired in the doubt
that we will see the past once more

stone-faced statues warn of the ending times
oracles glisten with fresh morning dew
if your prediction of black and white is really grey
then we have already witnessed the truth
the stumbling masses of dumbfounded idiots on cue
swiftly inhale the latest breath of news
without regard to the validity of truth
because the next new thing is already here
yeah, the next new thing is already here
oh, the next new thing is already here.

rhapsodie and requiem
distant minutes stumble on as hours pass away
the silence in your eyes leaves me nothing more to say
i sit alone in wonder about how this could have been
so many times thought of you when you were my only friend
it was so hard to see you in this place
bitterness i felt eased the smile from my face
the silence in my mind overwhelms the loudest sound
silence comes so easily when there is no one around

when you come back will you wash it all away
quell the silent tears that are streaming down my face
when you return will you even know my name
or are my silent trespasses refusing grace in vain

i never imagined it would ever come to this
left all alone again betrayed without a kiss
solitude enjoys contempt playing games with my mind
the darkness in my head leaves me infinitely blind
i'm longing for my place in a world i do not own
to find the simple joy of a love i do not know
surrounded by a feeling of emptiness and pain
the evil in my head overcomes my thoughts again

falling without fear
all my life i have waited
for love to finally come my way
in my weakness hesitated
close my eyes and look away
my virgin heart will sometimes quiver
bring a longing to my brain
an icy wind makes me shiver
still in solitude i yet remain

when the stars burn up the darkness with the brightness of daylight
will it overcome the shadows of the coldest winter night
will the sunrise cast its image on my face
or will i hide my shame under the cloak of disgrace

morning comes and fades away
in silence i sit an stare
will i turn back to dust today?
if i did would anybody care?
tears idle tears i do not know
but it all ends up the same
washed away in the water's flow
until there's no one left to blame

will i toil in despair
shade the sunlight from my eyes;
despite the Savior's tender care
whisper to myself evil lies?
when grace abounds will i partake
or enjoy the grief i've left behind?
will i understand what true love means
will the cross cast its shadow in my life?

ode on what tomorrow will bring
when sorrow is all that i own
and despair with wickedness grows
hold me now...
when i awake sodden with tears
and hate awakens my fears
hold me now...
all that seemed good seems gone
like the darkness right before dawn
hold me now...
despair like an envelope takes hold
like numbness from a wait in the cold
hold me now...

just hold me now and don't say a word
just hold me now and don't wipe my tears
the tears i shed are for you

when hope like a wave in the sea
casts its warmth over me
hold me now...
the shadow of hate overcome
the truth has already won
hold me now...

nova replet laetitia
my eyes cannot behold
all that i believe
silent in your grace so fair
longing to see

how long must i wait
till the hour of dawn,
hold tight to what i believe;
will i stumble on?

what have i become
as i run
from a love
that i have never known

find
he who seeks will...

i can hear the rocks crying out
too close for comfort
but we have come so far
my hands are open
bloodied with the scars
a thousand triumphs
and we fail to start
a revolution
it's only in our hearts

while we question the rocks cry out his name
we see the need
but some things never change
we find the failure
only realize pain
tears are broken
but tears are not enough
to bleed the sorrow
and leave the pain behind

our arms are open
still we can't believe
we know the answer
and the truth blindly please
too seek the Savior
from our broken state
though we seek salvation
alone we sit and wait

while we search for Him
the rocks will scream the truth

do you have the time?
the wind turns cold upon my face
imperceptible in its change
like the grass growing around my feet
ever changing though it feels the same

frozen faces filling up the hall
the kind that never give away
emotion plastered on the wall
never hang 'round long enough to stay
while i die inside the world still turns
ever changing, never changing its mind
i feel unstable, am i able to remain
in the lifelessness that's mine?

spin the bottle, i guess i'm up this time
give it a moment and i'll change my mind
the end is coming, we're all running from this life
give me a moment, i haven't got the time

he says he's leaving this time for good
he's got to get away, see the world
when he's gone away i wish he would
stay away halfway around the world
sometimes i stop and wonder why
i never change the things i say
i don't bother even to try
because all i change just stays the same

i must have found the road straight to hell
because with all the good intentions
i must be paving my own way
and it is an easy ride i say

won't you join me now
it will only be a moment
and time is all i have
with an eternity to burn 

slightly 
And down the long and silent street, The dawn, with silver-sandled feet, Crept like a frightened girl. -the harlot's house, Oscar Wilde  

the reconstruction 
though towers will fall, the glass and stone may still rise.  

a grievance
the summer bakes the fallen rain
flowing water has run itself dry
the last rosy fingers fall away
welcomed relief from an angry sky

today is the moment of stagnation
for the huddled masses who wonder why
the grief they feel won't fall away
or settle in the west with the fire in the sky

and i grieve for nothing
for nothing is all i have
and this moment is nothing
like a rain soaked desert land
all i grieve is nothing
while a world waits to die without bread
and still this hunger
drives me to be all that i am

burning rays melt away tired skin
stretched and torn with all that is
too painful to watch on my tv
but my living room is not reality

the fires are ever burning excess fuel
for it never dies from the starvation of men
who lead lives of quiet desperation
wake up the next morning to do it all again

hell is not so very hard to find
for we walk the path paving our own way
talk so easily with blisters on my tongue
and as for your sorrow i've got nothing to say