Fear

Nothing's so loud
As hearing when we lie
The truth is not kind
And you've said neither am i
But the air outside so soft is saying everything
Everything

All i want is to feel this way
To be this close, to feel the same
All i want is to feel this way
The evening speaks, i feel it say...

Nothing's so cold
As closing the heart when all we need
Is to free the soul
But we wouldn't be that brave i know
And the air outside so soft, confessing everything
Everything

And it won't matter now
Whatever happens to me
Though the air speaks of all we'll never be
It won't trouble me

And it feels so close
Let it take me in
Let it hold me so
I can feel it say...

Hold her down

Take her arms and hold her down...
Until she stops kicking
Take her arms and hold her down...
Until she she stops moving

And they don't know her
But what the fuck
They've got nothing else they can do
And they've no reason
But still they come

And i
Would have a hard time facing you
This crime
The shame of what a man can do

Take her arms and hold her down...
Until she stops screaming
Take her arms and hold her down...
Until she stops breathing

And they don't know her
But what the fuck
They've got nothing else they can do
And they've no reason
But still they come

And i
Would have a hard time facing you
This crime
The shame of what a man can do

Take the night back
All they've stolen
All we took from you

Don't give me answers for i would refuse
"yes" is a word for which i have no use
And i wasn't looking for heaven or hell
Just someone to listen to stories i tell

Now what is a blessing and what is a dream
Caught between portraits and none's what it seems
And why is it people expect there's a change
When i feel i'm a part of something i can't see
I feel the same

Now don't ask me questions or i will retreat
Fame is a cancer and ego its seed
Now i wasn't looking for heaven or hell
Just someone to listen to stories i tell

Do we ever wonder?
And do you ever care...

Subtle salvation in poems we know
Hiding our heads in a shadow of home
Now i wasn't looking for wreaths or for bells
Just someone to listen to stories i tell
Stories i tell

i will give the secrets you request
And you will be the one to sacrifice
So lay your olive arms upon my breast
And sing the poems, free the butterflies

Pray your gods who ask you for your blood
For they are strong and angry jealous ones
Or lay upon my altar now your love
I fear my time is short
There are armies moving close
Be quick, my love

I feel my body weakened by the years
As people turn to gods of cruel design
Is it that they fear the pain of death
Or could it be they fear the joy of life

Pray your gods who hold you by your fear
For they are quick and ruthless punishers
Or lay upon my altar now your love
I fear my day is done
There are armies moving on
Be quick, my love

One part of me just wants to tell you everything
One part just needs the quiet
And if i'm lonely here, i'm lonely here
And on the telephone
You offer reassurance

I will not take these things for granted

How can i hold the part of me that only you can carry
It needs a strength i haven't found
But if it's frightening, i'll bear the cold
And on the telephone
You offer warm asylum

I'm listening
Flowers in the garden
Laughter in the hall
Children in the park
I will not take these things for granted
Anymore

To crawl inside the wire and feel something near me
To feel this accepting
That it is lonely here, but not alone
And on the telephone
You offer visions dancing

I'm listening
Music in the bedroom
Laughter in the hall
Dive into the ocean
Singing by the fire
Running through the forest
And standing in the wind
In rolling canyons

I will not take these things for granted

(i saw something
Gigantic
Out on the water
I asked my dad for a nickel
He gave it to me
It was kind of misty
I couldn't be sure what it was
And of course, he wouldn't tell me)
In time i will collect the world
The eggs and wings of butterflies i love the wings
Of butterflies

A man drove up in an ugly car
And he flashed his lights at everything he saw
And his eyes were red
And his stereo was so loud you couldn't hear the engine's roar
And he yelled at everybody in the road
And did not notice all the moths he'd massacred
Spread across the open road

(weird when you get close
To something that big
You can't see anything at all...)

In time i will
Collect the world
The eggs and wings of you who fall on
Butterflies calvary
Had you wings of i give my children
Butterflies

A moth had settled upon his arm and he looked at it with a lazy eye
And he lifted up a gigantic hand
And he spread his fingers towards the sky
And he nudged the moth to make it fly away
But moths are fragile things
And he just wiped its ody down across his shoulder blade

He's a wonder, he's a little black-wing boy
Oh my daughters
He'll fill you with joy

In time i will
Collect the world
The hearts and limbs of
Butterflies you who soar o'er
Calvary
Had you wings of
Butterflies oh father, i offer
Butterflies