1. |
Day And Night
07:07
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In the mist covered streets at night
In shadows pale
As the last-call drunk goes by
His walls unveiled
When the soldier joins the fight
He’s tempting Fate
Not wisened to the fruitless plight
A bullet’s bait
Something in the buildings high
And alleys low
It makes people accept or deny
And says which way to go
What is it that makes them feel
They choose at all?
How is it that one can fall
Between Fortune’s beck and call
And make choices where you decide
And not be here just for the ride
When the rain falls and thunder sounds
Then it calls
Like lightning when it meets the ground
Where it falls
And the farmer he tills the field
In fallow land
What makes him expect a yield
A coin in hand
There’s something in the mountains high
And the valleys low
It makes people accept or deny
And says which way to go
What is it that makes them feel
They choose at all?
How is it that one can see
Through Fortune’s uncertainty
Take hold of her spinning wheel
Slow it down your fate revealed
Life seems that it’s here to stay
But then Fate comes and takes away
Don’t need to choose run or fight
No difference between Day and Night
On the rooftops a killer waits
For his next prey to come his way
Victim chosen he starts to rise
Spinning wheel says he falls and dies
Was this fate, maybe destiny?
Why can’t Fortune just leave us be?
Here in the heart of being
It’s often hard to see
When choices coincide
Which way is right?
Feeling like Jekyll & Hyde
Forever caught in two minds
But living in certainty
Will make you uninspired!
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2. |
Carve A Smile
05:37
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Staring down in an empty well
Silent I dwell
In the corners hiding from myself
The air inside getting colder
Lost in the rooms of my mind
Facing my own regrets
Counting down to salvation
All thoughts arise
Quiet desperation
Burning my eyes
A distant voice echoes stronger
From far beyond
And it's breaking the silence
Bringing me back
Living in a faceless world
Wondering what I have become
Looking for a meaning
In empty broken words
Taking off my false facade
Wiping off my smile
Symphonies of mockery
A naked king steals the show
Eyes are burning through like the sun
Spinning lies are bullets in their gun
Laughs are cutting through like a knife
Let me carve a smile into your life
Sadness embraces me
Light is fading away
All of this darkness
Washes over my pain
Waiting for an answer
Nowhere to be found
Watching all of my sorrows
Breaking down my mind
Waiting for an answer
Nowhere to be found
Watching all of my sorrows
Breaking down my mind
Eyes are burning through like the sun
Spinning lies are bullets in their gun
Laughs are cutting through like a knife
Let me carve a smile into your life
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3. |
Escape Hatch
05:44
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As we roam down this endless highway
We can’t know if we’ll find tomorrow
If we slowed down, reviewed the new day
We’d find ourselves lost with nowhere to go
It’s funny, how we think that we’re free
This irony is not lost on me
We once had the time to see through
This veil that is now between me and you
It seems to me to be
A scene to follow
It can be hard to see
The pill to swallow
We need to make our way out of here
We’ve had more than we can bear
The path to take is loud and clear
Spread our wings and clear the air
If we stay, it gives them time to find us
We should leave now, there’s nobody left to trust
Their views are always cold and unseeing
Eye to eye, but still can find ways to disagree
This storm we’re caught inside
Like a sphere of corners
But cast the fear aside
And the wind gets warmer
We need to make our way out of here
We’ve had more than we can bear
The path to take is loud and clear
Spread our wings and clear the air
We need to make our way out of here
Don’t want to wait another day
We can go towards a new frontier
Don’t care about what they may say
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In this desolate wasted land
Now I’m free from the burning sand
I walk alone on this starry night
Imagination is burning bright
Before me in strange attire
Appears a vision - enchanting smile
Inviting me to her fire
“Won’t you stay and rest a while?”
She said she would dance for me
I take the chance and see
Watching the dust fly
As she’s whirling through the night
I can’t tear my gaze away
From the unearthly display
Don’t know if I trust my eyes
Could it be that I’m hypnotised?
I’m trying to break her stare
But I turn and she’s everywhere
The Dancer she wears the night
Pulls it round her shoulders tight
I can see on the dress she wears
She took the stars and put them there
I could feel myself divide
Like the spectrum splits from white
There’s something to be said
When you’re living in infra-red
And ultra-violet scenes
With reality in between
My world stops spinning round
As the dust settles to the ground
The Dancer she fades away
At the kindling light of day
My vision realigned
As I slowly regained my mind
And now I present to you
My midnight desert rendezvous
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Take note if you desire
Don’t jump into the fire
It will burn you
Some things not needed twice
Like dancing on thin ice
It will drown you
Don’t hang it on your door
Or kneel down on the floor
It means nothing
Don’t put your faith in God
And not - some Lord
They can’t save you
If you simply can’t believe
Cos you saw it in a dream
Your decision
When science is your guide
You limit what you find
Lack of vision
When you take that smooth road through your life
In the end it might well seem right
But then you see that you have learned nothing
And you’ll find it’s over
It’s the same thing as before
You meet yourself behind the door
Know… what you’re here for
Is it such a mystery?
What comes next doesn’t need to be
The… end of the light
These things all have a goal
To give up your control
And mislead you
From what it’s all about
Don’t get spaced out
They will hate you
If you face a mirror through your life
The glass is as far as you will see
But this is what you learned to survive
May it tide you over…
It is just a waste of time
Waiting while stars above align
No… don’t need a sign
Is it such a mystery?
What comes next doesn’t need to be
The… end of the light
It’s the same thing as before
You meet yourself behind the door
Know… what you’re here for
It’s not such a mystery
What comes next doesn’t need to be
The… end of your time
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6. |
The Cast-Out
05:33
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We are the desert sand
Unseen when you cross the land
We know where you lay your shame
And why you won’t speak our name
You say we have been swept clean
But we live in the space between
We come to you in disguise
And leave again with your lives
You sent us to die alone
In the desert we call our home
We’re the ones you forget about
We are the Cast-Out
Falling moon in our eyes
Riding through the night
Rising sun in our hands
Living out of sight
I’m one with the desert sand
Unseen when I cross the land
In battle you’ll feel my blade
The Sleeper is now remade
I know you wait in the sky
The Water has shown me why
I look in and know you all
Now I make the rain fall
Sliding moon in my eye
Searchlight in my mind
Rising sun in my hand
This world set alight
My word has spread to the stars
Imposed on worlds near and far
Defy me, you’ll face my wrath
No stopping the Golden Path
I’ve chosen to die alone
In the desert I call my home
My name has brought all no doubt
Now I am the Cast-Out
Burning stone in my eye
Sunlight in the night
I knew what you had planned
See you without sight
Falling myth in my eye
Searchlight in my mind
Rising son in your hand
Future - his design
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7. |
Draw The Line
05:44
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Since my time in this Game began
So many lives I’ve known
Some were good – and some were bad
But never was I alone
Yin or Yang - Black or White
Rich or poor, as a soldier I’d fight
Once a slave, well maybe more than twice
Once a Queen who loved to play at dice
I watched the Darkness crawl
Then heard the Light’s shrill call
Now I refuse to draw a line
And I leave this Game behind
For the Light, I tried to change the Rules
To how I thought that they should be
After all, this world has many fools
All I wanted was to set them free
Then for the Dark, I had to take control
Do just as I say
But Light or Dark who can interfere
With another’s soul at play?
I drank in deepest Darkness halls
I saw courageous Light’s shrill call
Embracing both but I’ll take what’s mine
And I’ll leave this Game behind
Oh I’ll leave this Game behind…
I’ll leave this Game behind…
I felt the Demon Darkness crawl
I saw courageous Light’s shrill call
Embracing both now I’ll take what’s mine
And I’ll leave this Game behind
Some will say it’s all said & done
When your life has come and gone
But then you’ll find them all waiting for you
And the battle rages on
They will blind you with their hidden lies
To help you choose a side
If you conform, you’ll leave your power behind
And you’ll come back to take another ride
Now I refuse to draw the line
Inside the sign that only confines
The trap’s defused, now I move past
Returning home with my soul recast
I felt the Demon Darkness crawl
I saw courageous Light’s shrill call
Embracing both, I took what is mine
And I left this Game behind
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8. |
Inside Room 6
06:48
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How did I end up here?
Perhaps I have been unclear?
Or maybe something I said
They tell me I lost the thread…
At the window to peer outside
To see what I can see
The urge for perspective has been denied
There are no points in this scene
Four walls around me are friends of mine
But I don’t include the door
Float to the ceiling with elastic eyes
Now I can’t find the floor
I hear you coming down the hall – I can’t hide
Open me up and take a peek inside
You ask me nicely “Well, is that so?”
For you to find out and for me to know
Just tell me
What’s out there
I’m in the dark but I see light
Just tell me
How can I be
Out of mind and out of sight?
How did I end up here?
Perhaps I have been unclear?
Or maybe something I said
They tell me I lost the thread…
You say you’ve heard this before
Just like a revolving door
But I can’t find my way out
I see no swings or roundabouts
At the window to peer inside
To see what you can see
Your needles hiding a cure untried
And confusion’s guaranteed
I’m off the wall so you make the call
To let the hurricane unwind
Self-propelled I’m falling through the wall
And leave a me shaped hole behind
I hear you coming down the hall – I can’t hide
Open me up and take a peek inside
I ask you nicely “Well, is that so?”
For me to find out and for you to know
Just tell me
What’s out there
I’m in the dark but I see light
Just tell me
How I can be
Just help me
Get back in my own mind and out of your damned sight
How did you end up here?
Your cities are full of fear
Yeah, gridlock is a fun game
You people all look the same
Your money controls your life
Without it you’re called deprived
And you can see no way out
Too many swings and roundabouts
I climbed a mountain saw far and wide
A desert and a sea
I saw both sides with all that is implied
With confusion in between
It’s all off the wall so I make the call
To let the hurricane rewind
Self-compelled I bid you all farewell
And leave you all to your designs
In through the me shaped hole I make my way
Back to Room 6 imagine my dismay
Someone’s in there, not sure who
Is it me in there or dammit am I you?
Just let me
Back in there
I’m in the dark but I see light
Just tell me
How I can be
Just let me
Get out my own mind, get out of my own sight
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9. |
Turn A New Leaf
05:26
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I don't need to face regrets
For things lost or won
Don't need a guilty past
For things I've done
In life and death, I know what's mine
Like I draw breath, I'd leave it all behind
But I can't say that this has come for free
The price I paid, oh has taken toll on me
Ooh ooh as I walked down to the sea
Ooh ooh elation as I turned a new leaf
You don't need to change your life
To someone else's way
Don't even need a guide
You must obey
No one to lead, no one to follow you
One day you'll come to your own point of view
The leap you'll make is taken by design
But I can't say that it will come, it will come this time
Ooh ooh as you walk down to the sea
Ooh ooh apprehensive, will you turn a new leaf?
Ooh ooh as you walk down to the sea
Ooh ooh comprehension as you turn a new leaf
As I go swiftly to the sea tonight
No hesitation as I take my final flight
The pulsing quickens as I move from my side
Now the illusion will no more divide
The leaf has fallen to infinity
A single moment as it sets itself free
Why do we cling to our humanity
After we see what we can truly be?
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10. |
DysUtopia
06:18
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I’ve been gone from my home so long
I stopped counting the days
On this world I do not belong
But duty means that I stay
We brought this whole world to its knees
Unto our strength they resigned
Our starships sail through the stellar seas
On to the next world in line
We are fearless – unrelenting
Dread to those who see us in their skies
Subjugation – never ending
Is there no one else who questions why?
Just how long can these wars go on?
I ask myself every day
Am I thinking these thoughts alone?
Do others feel the same way?
I need a change in direction
Now my choice has been made
Has someone made the connection?
A secret message displayed
“Our illusion - evolution
Somehow it seems to us we live a lie
Endless conquests - static progress
You’re not the only one who questions why!”
The Rebellion chose to confide
Now I was part of their scheme
With our masters we’d soon collide
We’d take down the machine
We warn the next world we’re coming
And give them time to prepare
Then when the war drones start humming
Our kill-code flies through the air
Now the battle is evened out
And we’re making our stand
The masters stunned into frozen doubt
And we’re taking command
Revolution – now ascending
Free the people - see no fear in their eyes
Subjugation – finally ending
In place of former masters we arise
Our ambition – universal
But does it really mean that we’ve done right?
Tale is replayed – comes full circle
Now we’re the ones who kill the questions why…!
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11. |
Unfolding
03:45
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I go outside and I howl up at the moon
The moon is howling back at me I presume
When gravity does its thing to the tide
Inverse squares come and take me for a ride
They say the Sun is at the centre of it all
But now I find this empty thinking kind of small
I went beyond the Sun and saw the Milky Way
I had to ask should I go or should I stay
Like a suit of armour this body knows
One of these days it’s gonna have to go
It’s only there to keep my Spirit fooled inside
Unfolding, one fades from sight
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Figure Of Speechless Melbourne, Australia
Melbourne, Australia based artist Figure Of Speechless released debut album "Tunnel At The End Of The Light" 2nd September
2022!
Figure Of Speechless is:-
Glen McMaster - Guitars/Songwriting
Plus the below very special guests:-
Ray Alder - Vocals
Derek Sherinian - Keyboards/Producer
Ron 'Bumblefoot' Thal - Guest Guitar Solos/Mixing
Brian Tichy - Drums
Tony Franklin - Bass
... more
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