Taken to a place underground,
a cavern, ten thousand steps down.
The only light was fire fly glow,
reflecting in the blue crystal show.
Feeling in the darkness surrounding me,
roots of giant Sequoia trees
anchor the canopy of life that's above.
The answer to the mystery of life is _

Traveled through the jungles of the Yucatan
and drank the potion from the magic man.
Held the starlight inches from my face,
pushed the door open, # 7.
I walked the path way to heaven.
Saw the same face of God.

Seems every where I go
I see the same face, I feel the same flow.
With every one I meet and every hand I shake,
I'm every man, trying my best to get to know
because everything's at stake.

We're the same tribe.

Passing through Morocco for the faithful is a trip.
Hallucinating visions drives my desert ship.
For a thousand miles we could not fail,
can't enjoy if you can't inhale.
Clearly a lifetimes need of some experience and
for the record, peace.

Seems every where I go
I see the same face, I feel the same flow.
With every one I meet and every hand I shake,
I see myself in every man, trying my best to get to know
because everything's at stake.

We're the same tribe.
				

Heading for the classroom yesterday 
The kids file through the metal machine 
It finds what they may hide 
No it just ain't right... 
A sign of the times 

Another church is burning to the ground... 
Looking for the vandals and they're nowhere to be found 
But the h ate's alive 

A sign of the times, Sign of the times...
A sign of the times, Sign of the times... 

 (Accoustic Break) 

Would someone please let me know how we have spun out of control?  
Has the captain let go of the wheel? 
Or could we please try to find a way to be a bit more kind? 
I see the road to tomorrow in the haze! 

(solo) 

On the Senate floor they congregate 
Many pockets lined with green, 
From those behind the scenes, yeah they take the bribe
 (yeah it's on the side) 

A sign of the times, Sign of the times...  
A sign of the times, Sign of the times... 

(Accoustic Break)  
				

You're an angel with your wings broken,
wearing sandals that I tripped in.
You're a holiday already taken,
a cocktail that's stirred never shaken.

Your heads in overload.
You've reached your threshold
and you're about to explode.

Open your eyes. Just say what you want to say?
Open your eyes, you see yours isn't the only way .
Open your eyes. To you everyone is blind.
Open your eyes and your mind.

You're like a hand gun that's fully loaded
making idle threats of violence.

Your heads in overload.
You've reached your threshold
and you're about to explode.

Open your eyes. You take what you want for free,
Open your eyes. and you see what you want to see.
Open your eyes. To you everyone is blind.
Open your eyes and your mind.

Open your eyes. Just say what you want to say?
Open your eyes, you see yours isn't the only way .
Open your eyes. Do you really think I'm blind?
Open your eyes and your mind.
Open your mind.
				

There's a thunder in my head,
a roar I can't escape.
I can't ignore this certain fate
I'm experiencing something.
I can't explain.
There's a frame of reference fragile at best.
An itching fear that's stronger than the rest.
Follow the black ribbon into the sun.
Push it further baby, careful with this burnout now.

I'm losing myself in you
and trying to get back to me.
But I'm so far away, I'm losing myself.

The sand in my mouth,
the wind and heat I feel numb.
Ten days on the road and it feels
like where I've been ain't so bad.
Gotta get back home to you.
Gotta get back home to you.
Gotta get back home.
Throttle back slowly there's no time like now.
Red line it baby I'm pushing to the edge now.

I'm losing myself in you
and trying to get back to me.
But I'm so far away, I'm losing myself.

I'm beating down this desert highway
one hundred miles an hour times two.
But I'm so far away, I'm a million miles away.

I'm losing myself in you
and trying to get back to me.
But I'm so far away, I'm losing myself.

Get me off this desert highway.
Gotta get back to you but I'm so far away.
I'm a million miles away.
				

With a simple wave,
her hand creates my universe.
She spins and dances around the fire.
Eyes search the open road,
caught up in the sound of
transmissions burning down the wire.

We reach out for the sky
and we're never coming down.
We reach out for the sky
and we're never coming down.

Live life in extreme
better then any magazine could ever hope to describe.
Ripped, we sweat this desert dance, baby do your best.
We're on our way to higher consciousness.

We reach out for the sky
and we're never coming down.

Keep reaching, keep reaching.
We're never coming down.

High on a million breaths of her,
I surrender to the magic all around me.

We reach out for the sky
and we're never coming down.
				

I'd reconciled my anger got outside of danger.
I was waiting for some signal, a sign from angels.
When the tide turns against you
it's a strange sensation, a revelation of imagination.
I could change my course and face the flow,
reap the seeds that I had sewn or follow that old river south.
Here's what I found out.

I was standing on the Great Divide looking out across America.
Trying to find my truth, define it for myself.
I died the day when I saw this place.
I saw what I could lose.

A very simple mechanism separates the fool from wisdom.
The lines between us are not real.
Conditioning is what makes us feel ignorant.
And apathy will feed our hate.
So we can never give in.

There I was standing at the Great Divide, looking for the truth in America.
For all that time I searched, when I closed my eyes,
I found the thing I was looking for.
I had it all the time.

So are we standing at the Great Divide?
Is there hope for America?
Take the flag we wave, the freedoms that we sing.
Without respect for one other,
it doesn't mean a thing.
				

Lying here awake again.
Minutes before dawn I hear your breathing,
your heart beat like a song.
Lately I've been feeling a little less then good but
seeing things for the first time like I never could.

I've had my head down against the door,
trying to get to something I couldn't find before.
That special something, that feeds my soul,
is a rhythm to live by, it's a rhythm of hope.

Something drives us onwards.
Something gives us strength.
What makes our judgment falter is the questions we think.
Who am I to fly so high?
What gives me the right to dream of what could be,
keep reaching for the light?

I've been standing in front of that door,
basing my happiness on what' I knew before.
Searching for something that moves my soul.
A rhythm to hold to, a rhythm to live to.

Have you been down like this before?
I guarantee there's something waiting for you just open that door.
A rhythm to live by, that moves your soul.
A rhythm that holds you.
A rhythm to live to.

And if there's one thing we all need now,
it's a rhythm to live by, a rhythm of hope.

Lying here awake again.
				

There's hunger in Africa,  
and anger on assembly lines.  
At the touch of a button  
I'm miles away.  
I want no connection, just information,  
and I'm gone.   

I feel so helpless,  
so I turn my gaze to another place.   

My global mind reaches out for the truth.   

Why try holding back the wave?  
You'll only drown in the changes.  
You've got to learn to let go.  
Just let go and experience the flight.  
Try to see from a different side..  
If balance is the key  
maybe we'll see  
a fututre understanding,  

then we won't feel so helpless,  
an turn away and hide from the change.   

My global mind searches for something new.  
My global mind zeros in on news.   

Time and rules are changing.  
Attention span is quickening.  
Welcome to the Information Age.   

I feel so helpless,  
so I turn my gaze to another place.   

My global mind searches for something new.  
My global mind zeros in on news.  
My global mind reaches out for the truth.  
My global mind zeros in on you.   

It's searching everywhere,  
across the mountains,  
across the oceans,  
across every man made line.  
No boundary gonna keep it from you
				

Most of this is memory now
I've gone too far to turn back now
I'm not quite what I thought I was but
Then again I'm maybe more
The blood-words promised, I've spoken
Releasing the names from the circle
Maybe I can leave here now and, o
Transcend the boundaries

For now I'm standing here
I'm awaiting this grand transition
The future is but past forgotten
On the road to madness

Times measure rusts as it crawls
I see its face in the looking glass - stop
This screaming laughter hides, the pain of its reality
Black, the door was locked I opened
And now I've paid that price ten-fold over
Knowledge - was it worth such torment, oh
To see the far side of shadow

And still I'm standing here
I'm awaiting this grand transition
I'm a fool in search of wisdom
And I'm on the road to madness
Yes, I'm on the road to madness

I'm awaiting endlessly
Pounding rhythms echo me
Won't you take me somewhere far beyond the void

And still I'm standing here
I'm awaiting this grand transition
Maybe one day, oh I'll meet you, and we'll
Walk the roads to madness
Yes, we're on the road to madness

Oh, I think they've come to take me
I hear the voice, but there's no-one to see
I can't scream, too late it's time

Stay on the course to pass
You'll never find the answer
To a place where darkened angels
Seemed lost and never found
Scream to see the light of
Forming figures fast behind you
Lay the past in the wind to spin
And your fate will sail beyond the open plains
Sail with angels onward
Live or die for the chosen one said
Saber sights cast a spell behind you
And they lock in all around

Free the scene insider
Never looking back to find why
Ride a course till the end of time
And you'll stand atop the gate
Laying waste in a path recited
Fighting force won't avenge the guided black wing
Oh, electric might poses fright inside me
Seeing light at the end of sight reminds me
I've passed away
				

(Taxi...)
You've got a cardboard house. 
Live there all the time 
Keep your memories tied with string 
The face that many once-adored 
twenty years gone many more 
Somewhere you lost your dream 
Mama watched your every move  
but now you're all alone 
she's been gone for a while 
Daddy left some time ago, 
thirty years pass too slow 
He's the only one, could make you smile 
-oh, you're still crying- 
Big city bound. 
Gonna make your mark. 
Read your name in the lights. 
All the adds and people say 
beauty lets you get your way 
Tried your best to prove them right. 
But living on the streets ain't bad, 
sad people make you glad. 
pardon me, could you spare some change? 
-oh, you're still crying- 
Street corner girl, 
Watch the crowd go by, 
fill your tin can with life. 
Summer days tend to slip away 
like the men you couldn't make them stay. 
Hard to chose whiskey or a wife. 
Sometimes you wonder where's the end. 
Where you goin' where you been? 
Happiness seems to hard to win. 
Most never care to find. 
Della Brown sees it all the time. 
Looking for that man 
to make her smile again. 
				

You and I 
long to live like wind upon the water. 
If we close our eyes, 
we'll maybe realize 
there's more th live than what we have known. 
And I can't believe I've spent so long 
living lies I knew were wrong inside, 
I've just begun to see the light. 
Long ago there was a dream 
had to make a choice or two 
Leaving all I loved behind 
for what nobody knew 
Stepped out on the stage, a life 
under lights and judging eyes  
Now the applause has died and I 
can dream again... 
Is there anybody listening? 
Is there anyone that sees what's going on? 
Read between the lines 
criticize the words they're selling 
Think for yourself and feel the walls 
become sand beneath your feet. 
Feel the breeze? 
Time's so near you can almost taste the freedom. 
There's a warm wind from the south. 
Hoist the sail and we'll be gone, 
by morning this will all seem like a dream. 
And if I don't return to sing the song,  
maybe just as well. 
I've seen the news and there's 
not much I can do... alone. 
Is there anybody listening? 
Is there anyone who smiles without a mask? 
What's behind the words - images  
they know will please us? 
I'll take what's real.  Bring up the lights. 
Is there anybody listening? 
Is there anyone that sees what's going on? 
Read between the lines, 
criticize the words they're selling. 
Think for yourself and feel the walls... 
become sand beneath your feet. 
				

They told me to run 
 But just how far 
 Can I go wearing the black mask of fear? 
 The hate in my eyes always gives me away 
 The tension building slowly 
 Now I lost everything I had in you 
 Nothing we shared means a thing 
 Without you close to me 
 I can't live without you 
 Breaking the silence of the night 
 Can't you hear me screaming? 
 I look for your face in the neon light 
 You never answer me 
 There's no direction to my stare 
 No more flame burning in my heart anymore 
 Quiet, I keep it to myself 
 Until the sun sets slowly 
 I hear your voice in the evening rain calling 
 Nothing will keep us apart 
 No more lies and fear 
 There's no end to our story 
 Breaking the silence of the night 
 Can't you hear me screaming? 
 I look for your face in the neon light 
 You never answer 
 I could make all the wrong seem right 
 If you were by my side 
 I'd gather all the tears you cried 
 And hide them deep underground 
 Can't look back, it's just a waste of time 
 Can't erase this hate from my eyes 
 Breaking the silence of the night 
 Through the streets I'm screaming 
 Looking for you in the neon light 
 Why don't you answer me? 
 Breaking the silence with my cries 
 Can't you hear me screaming? 
 We could make all this wrong seem right 
 But you never answer me 
 Voices: We know you did it.  Why'd you do it?  Why'd you do it? 
 Nikki: No, no, no! 
[  The police arrest Nikki.  The charges are: disorderly             ]
[ conduct, carrying a concealed weapon without a license, and        ]
[ resisting arrest.  They know he's a junkie because of the tracks   ]
[ on his arms.  His weapon also matches the one used in a string of  ]
[ recent killings.  Nikki isn't making much sense now, babbling on   ]
[ about perverted priests, some kind of covert operation, and not    ]
[ believing in love.                                                 ]
				

 I looked back once 
 And all I saw was his face 
 Smiling, the needle crying 
 Walking out of his room 
 With mirrors, afraid I heard him scream 
 You'll never get away 
 Cold and shaking 
 I crawled down alleys to try 
 And scrape away the tracks that marked me 
 Slammed my face into walls of concrete 
 I stared, amazed at the words written on the wall 
 Don't ever trust 
 Don't ever trust the needle, it lies 
 Don't ever trust 
 Don't ever trust the needle when it cries, cries your name 
 Wet and raving 
 The needle keeps calling me back 
 To bloody my hands forever 
 Carved my cure with the blade 
 That left me in scars 
 Now every time I'm weak 
 Words scream from my arm 
 Don't ever trust 
 Don't ever trust the needle, it lies 
 Don't ever trust 
 Don't ever trust the needle when it cries, cries your name 
 Don't ever trust 
 Don't ever trust the needle, it lies 
 Don't ever trust 
 Don't ever trust the needle when it cries, cries your name 
[  After Nikki leaves, Mary is plagued by the vision of            ]
[ Nikki turning into Father William.  As they made love on the     ]
[ altar, the memories came flooding back.  Years filled with men   ]
[ who had used her, degraded and beaten her, and driven their      ]
[ hatred and coldness into her heart.  Once, she thought Nikki was ]
[ her hope.  But now he seemed like all the rest.                  ]
[  She hated him.  She hated men.  She hated life.                 ]
[  Unable to shake his addiction, and feeling beaten in his        ]
[ confrontation with Dr. X, Nikki returns.                         ]
 Nikki: Anybody home? 
  Mary? 
[  He finds her dead in her room.                                  ]
				

A child alone in daddy's room 
The gun was hidden here 
No one home to catch me when I fall 
A young man now in a private chair 
I've seen the world through a bitter stare 
But my dream is still alive 
I'm going to be the best I can 
I want to be a busy man 
I want to see a change in the future
I'm gonna make the best of what I have  
 I want to write for a magazine 
I'm gonna be the best they've ever seen 
I know I'll win if I give it all I can 
I won't let go, gotta make the grade 
No, I won't let it go 
To be the best man, the best man that I can 
Back street hoop star you've got it good 
You were the wonder of the crumbling neighborhood 
Now taking bids on the next six digit plan 
Showed me that my will survived 
The tragedy that came into my life 
Giving me hope and the new start 
That I have 
I won't let go, gotta make the grade 
No, I won't let it go 
To be the best man, the best man that I can 
Step by step I dream the plan 
From my chair to walking man 
This constant dream is on my mind 
Chase the light I see ahead 
Luminate the path I tread 
I live to be the best I can 
Now I'm moving forward  
And I'm never looking back 
Straight ahead, focused on the big attack 
On a roll and I'm never slowing down 
I won't be torn between 
The man in the chair 
And the man that's in my dream 
I'm going to melt the two men into one 
I won't let go, gotta make the grade I set 
No, I won't let it go 
To be the best man, the best man that 
I can.