Nearly Human

I've been wrong
I had plans so big
But the devil's in the details
I left out one thing
No one to love me
No one to love me
No one to love

For the want of a nail, the world was lost
For the want of a nail, the world was lost

For the want of a nail, the shoe was lost
For the want of a shoe, the horse was lost
For the want of a horse, the rider was lost
For the want of a rider, the message was lost

For the want of a rider, the message was lost
For the want of a message, the battle was lost
For the want of a battle, the war was lost
For the want of a war, the kingdom was lost

(such a tiny thing)

You're askin'
What's all this talk about horses and war?
Put yourself in the place of the man at the forge
And day after day you live a life without love
'til the morning you can't take it anymore
And you don't get up

Multiply it a billion times
Spread it all 'round the world
Put the curse of loneliness on every boy and every girl
Until everybody's kicking, everybody's scratching
Everything seems to fail
And it was all for the want of a nail

Tell me what else could the answer be
Don't hold back now
Give me all your love
Just a little more love
A little tiny bit of love

Every time that i fall for that same old trick
I punish myself with the same old stick
I want to believe it so badly i deceive myself
Forgetting reality
Ignoring the fact that you're altogether someplace else
Forgetting reality

But i swear here and now
The truth shall be mine
And surrender to my prayer
The weapon is time

I'll play your waiting game
I'm gonna win the win the waiting game
I'll play your waiting game
I'm gonna win this game my friend
And forget you in the end

Your memory seems like a living thing
I never know if i'm imagining
I look at your face and i know that's impossible
Forgetting it's just a dream
Now i'm hearing your voice saying anything is possible
Forgetting it's just a dream

And i still can't say why
You keep invading my mind
But this uncontrolled fixation
Grows weaker with time

A cloud of unknowing floats between you and me
A trickle of love still flows between you and me
But we live in different galaxies

But i swear here and now
Your heart will be mine
You'll surrender to my love
My weapon is time
And your wall of resistance
I will slowly undermine
While your uncontrolled fixation
Grows stronger with time

I'll play your waiting game
I'm gonna win the win the waiting game
I'll play your waiting game
I'm gonna win this game my friend
And i'll be with you in the end

I'll play, yes i will

Kindred spirits moving along the spiral
I can see you up on another level
It's too great a fall
And i can't reach you to pull me higher
But i don't seem to get much closer or any more far

What would you tell me, if i could hear you speaking?
If you could touch me, how would i know the feeling?
I just can't imagine
But i try to do it anyway
I wish i was moving faster, i wish you'd drift back
But it just wasn't meant to happen
Very soon i'll have to

Face the fact
Some things never come together
Parallel lines running on forever
And you can't turn back
There is never any starting over
Parallel lines never do cross over

It's a challenge
Gotta make myself remember
Facing the truth, well, that doesn't mean surrender
What is bravado and how much is a force of will?
I know that the world is full of opposites that attract
But unless we ignore the physics
Very soon we'll have to

So i send you the gift of empathy
If you'd once in your life acknowledge me
I have visualized so thoroughly
That when i think of me i think of we

Can't face the truth
It means that we must surrender
Understanding won't satisfy the hunger
It whittles away at the destiny we fulfill
And like an animal running wild
You can't call it back
And it's just gonna make it harder
When it's finally time to

It's like a train that's stuck running on a track
Parallel lines running on, running on, running on

Every day i hear the news
Seems like people worship pain
All your oprahs and donahues
They just can't explain

As you reap you shall sow
I looked high i looked low
Now i know that i love my life
I love my life

I said me and my creator
We got a funny love thing
It's happenin' now and not later
Yeah, that's why i sing

First came thought then came deed
I got caught now i'm freed
All i need is to love my life
I love my life

Time, the topic of the sermon tonight is time
Time, the thief of hope
Time, the ameliorator of all our endeavors
What will we do with time off our backs?
We would make this world a perfect place
We would make our lives a perfect thing, if not for time
But i tell you now, time is an illusion
Time is an illusion, time is not real
Time is the dividing line between what is true and what is not true
Between what is real and what is not real
Between what is so and what is not so
But who, i said who, who stands for time?
Who stands at the threshold of time?
Who decides what is true and what is not true?
We do, you and i
You and i decide what is true and what is not true
What shall be our guiding light?
Happiness, i say happiness
But in a world, i see people in a world of misery
I see a world full of sorrow
Why should we be happy?
Tell me why should we be happy?
We need a message from above
Look over there, look over here
I can see it, there is beauty in the world

Whenever i
I close my eyes
Then i don't mind being the way i am
But whenever i try
Explaining why
I know i never can

Now that it's
Gone, paths i used to travel
Gone, things i used to handle
Gone, once i had a choice what to be

But then god kissed me
And i lost it when i fainted in his arms
Have pity on me brother
I'm trapped behind the mirror
I'm out here on the border

Wondering why
Why was it i?
Maybe my mind wouldn't have come this way
If i'd taken my time
Answers only unwind
When you can't look away

Maybe 'cause
I want the secret broken
I want the casket open
I need to see what no eyes can see

And when god kissed me
Then i dreamed them when i fainted in her arms
Now i've got to go on sleeping
Lean in a little closer
And i'll tell you what i'm dreaming
I'll tell you what i'm dreaming

I see time without beginning
Space without an ending
I see bodies strong and running
With minds not comprehending
Have pity on your brother
Please have pity on your sister
Take pity on each other
And on every living creature

Whenever i
Open my eyes
I can't believe it's real
It's a jungle outside
People just survive
They can't reach the high ideal

But i
Know if i can't recover, at least i
Know, i know the book from cover to cover, and who
Knows, i might dream forever
Since i've met the world's greatest lover
When god kissed me
And i knew it when i fainted in his arms

Let's dream together people