Headway

Been down this road before
Do we dare try this again
Do we have it anymore
the fortitude of younger men
Then again
this road is all we know
Ooh yeah
Down the road we go

We share a history
We've spent some time apart
We were a scandal in the streets
But that's no longer who we are
The time has come
To change the repertoire

When the sound tech checks the microphones
When our names are posted up on the marquis once more
When the lights come up on centre stage
We'll have a sense of all the headway that we've made

We take it on the road
With a simple melody
A universe of chords
and some clever harmonies
I believe
That's all we need

When the sound tech checks the microphones
When our names are posted up on the marquis once more
When the lights come up on the stage
We'll have a sense of all the headway that we've made

Been down this road before
And we know which way to go
With I wink I must implore that
You all come to see our show
You'll have a good time
Because the show is all we know

Enough (partial lyrics)

I've made mistakes
Errors in judgement
that seemed inexorable
could I persuade you to
forgive past actions
regrettably deplorable
I've got what it takes
I can atone for the
Heartache that I've caused you all
Vindication
Is out of reach
but at least you've all seen me fall

As I picked up speed
I felt every vile
misdeed as the wind cut my face
But I couldn't bleed
enough for you
The faster I fell
I felt every evil
deceit now replete with disgrace
No, I couldn't bleed
enough for you

I've been a liar
A fabulist salesman
egocentric to a fault
Villainous vampire
demonic agenda
concealed by a superficial cause
A slave to desire
jumping through hoops
complete with backward summersaults
But when I got tired
I started to spiral
spinning and falling and this I recall

As I picked up speed
I felt every vile
misdeed as the wind cut my face
But I couldn't bleed
enough for you
The faster I fell
I felt every evil
deceit now replete with disgrace
No, I couldn't bleed
enough for you

Maybe, Someday (partial lyrics)

My girl
She wants me to
Wake early
No matter what the cost
I need
My rest please
Just leave me to
Sleep last evening off
She says
I'm lazy
that's crazy
I'm busy until dawn
Feeding
the scene with a
dream, see
I'm rockin' all night long
Maybe someday, I'll see fit to settle down
But until then our love remains a battle ground
lord knows that hope must still exist in both our hearts
Though all our wounds and all our scars
Have left us dizzy, seeing stars
In time we'll fix this thing before it falls apart
White picket
Fences
An' all the rest
I don't see the appeal
I need
the city
I'd miss it's kinda
bitter sweet reveal

Sweet Torment

Beautiful Moon
Keeping me
Collected and calm
Drunken buffoon
Unabashedly
Walking along

Nowhere to go
Each step I take turns out a stumble
The baggage I tow
Keep my thoughts tangled up and jumbled

What can I do?
But bait father time
He's sold me out
A soul asinine
Stuck in a moment
Sweet torment, abhorrent decline

Insidious cold
Keeping me
sharp and alert
Booze bitten troll
Inherently
Inane and absurd

Whispering sour
Sordid nebulous accusations
Noxiously foul
Odious verbal defecations

What can I do?
But bait father time
He's sold me out
A soul asinine
A mental collapse
Thoughts unassigned
Treading the surface
Until I drown in my mind
Stuck in a moment
Sweet torment, abhorrent decline

Beautiful Moon
Keeping me
Collected and calm
Drunken buffoon
Unabashedly
Walking along

Liar

Well I'm a liar truth be told
Proud of the fiction that I've sold
Villainous alchemist, the gold I forge in time
From the emptiness I harbour deep inside
Will shine and blind you every time

I have a flair for fallacy
I am the king of make believe
I spin the truth until all colours turn to black
An uncanny knack for fabricating fact
Abstract, confusion pressure trap

I need control
To take possession of your soul
Abject schemes and bluffs
Ascendancy of love
These lies of mine
Will sure take their sweet time
Infesting every inch of your design

A wooden nickel in my hand
I am a coward of a man
My yellow belly is painted brighter than the sun
And the fantasies I've framed may come undone
one by one, I can always run

I need control
To take possession of your soul
Abject schemes and bluffs
Ascendancy of love
These lies of mine
Will sure take their sweet time
Infesting every inch of your design

Z Day

What are all these burning sores on my feet
I can't walk right anymore
oh-oh-oh
No I can't see straight anymore

Seems like I've been following the wrong
Platoon of Soldiers and I can't swallow
These suicidal orders any more

I need some rest before I lose it
Please God grant our burden pause
oh-oh-oh
Please relieve our thoughts of any cause

Be strong
Maintain the course
Follow instruction to the letter
Shoot to kill with no remorse
We are soul collector sworn protectors

Void of any innocence
I find myself trapped deep beneath my skin
oh-oh-oh
An I can't deny the broken state I'm in

Please don't tell my father what I've done
I could never face him and my mother
she would come undone and never speak my name

Can't shake this strange surreality
My nightmares have all but come to pass
oh-oh-oh
And my sanity is fading fast

Be strong
Maintain the course
Follow instruction to the letter
Shoot to kill with no remorse
We are soul collector sworn protectors

Shell shock, gut rot, fire off a second shot
we've almost cleared another town
oh-oh-oh
one in the brain makes sure they all stay down.

Make it rain

My heart feels like it will rip right through my chest
Can we stop here so I can take a rest
The way that sly grin illuminates your face
This is such a perfect.. perfect place
So talk to me, yeah
hold me close, yeah
take me by the hand, yeah
Here I am, so kiss me

You're gonna make it rain down
You're gonna make it rain
You're gonna make it rain down

Lay down beside me and watch it all turn dark
Don't be scared when the thunder does it's part
Through the clouds, there, you can just make out the stars
I love it, I love the way we are
So talk to me, yeah
hold me close, yeah
take me by the hand, yeah
Here I am, so kiss me

You're gonna make it rain down
You're gonna make it rain
You're gonna make it rain down
You're gonna make it rain down
You're gonna make it rain
You're gonna make it rain down
Ooh
Been a long time comin'

Been a long time comin'
Rainin' like you're lovin' girl,
makin' me wanna dance untill we all fall down
Been a long time comin'
magic woman make it fall
mystic kiss you make the rain
you make the rain come down
you make the rain come down

You're gonna make it rain down
You're gonna make it rain
You're gonna make it rain down
You're gonna make it rain down
You're gonna make it rain
You're gonna make it rain down