Before the War - Matthew Lien

First, things first And this is how it goes I gotta be ready by the time that you show Come back home, before my heart blows The more I think about it anticipation goes At night when we kiss I like it when we slow down And we pause for a round of applause You're a gift from heaven Forget Santa Clause The more I think about it anticipation goes Before Before you talk Before you walk Before you blink Before you think Even before you take off your coat Allow me to come closer please Before I rub your feet Before you sit Before we rush Before you blush Even before you close the door Can we have our magical kiss It's what I look forward to when I come home to you And your eyes light up the room when you look at me So, Baby it's ok We can go all the way Just promise me you'll stay Stay with me and don't you go away Baby it's ok We can go all the way Just promise me you'll stay Stay with me and don't you go away But before Before you talk Before you walk Before you blink Before you think Even before you take off your coat Allow me to come closer please Before I rub your feet Before you sit Before we rush Before you blush Even before you close the door Can we have our magical kiss Remember those days when you used to say You love me so much and you would stay I believed you in my heart Coz' you my baby You one of a kind I can say When I think about you everyday I feel like I'm in heaven yet again You bring out all the love I ever had You the one I've been waiting for Before you talk Before you walk Before you blink Before you think Even before you take off your coat Allow me to come closer please Before I rub your feet Before you sit Before we rush Before you blush Even before you close the door Can we have our magical kiss Kiss, kiss Magical kiss, kiss, kiss

I hear your voice Way down inside A whispering sea Of towering trees But no reply A silence so rare And more than I can stand Sweeps like a flood Through life's flesh and blood And steals away with it's heart If I'm losing you Then there's nothing more that I can say The fighting is on And battles are won Or thrown away But if I could live Safe and sound In God given fields Or mountains of steel Then here I'd stay Till you'd gone Guilty of stealing Every thought I own I will take my turn To fight the bullfight Every word's sunk in deep Like the blades of a knife through my heart But my strength will return To fight the bullfight As time's come to show I'm told nothing more than I should know A ship on the sea that threatens to leave But never goes This island of blue Where life clings to your hands Like water and sand Will loose it's way When you're gone When all's forgiven Still every fault's my own I will take my turn To fight the bullfight Say a prayer for my release When every hope in the world is asleep And my strength will return To fight the bullfight

Here I stand in Bressanone With the stars up in the sky Are they shining over Brenner And upon the other side You would be a sweet surrender But I must go the other way And my train will carry me onward Though my heart would surely stay Oh my heart would surely stay... Now the clouds are flying by me And the moon is on the rise I have left the stars behind me They were diamonds in your skies You would be a sweet surrender But I must go the other way And my train will carry me onward Though my heart would surely stay Oh my heart would surely stay...

Everything is so unclear, how could we ever let this happen here And with the turn of every page, another picture worth a thousand tears Reading on with great dismay, another tanker has lost its way And ninety million gallons spilled into the sea today () Don't make me tell bedtime stories 'Bout how it was when the Earth still had trees Don't make me tell bedtime stories Livin'in a world of why and might have been Tellin' all about how I remember when You can see it everywhere, we're adding colour to our atmosphere Still we let the fires burn, we haven't got a lot of room up there Now it seems this whole affair is burnin' holes in an ozone layer Well maybe I'm mistaken, but don't we need to breathe this air Don't make me tell bedtime stories () Think it's time we recongnize, we've got a problem in paradise 'Bout how it was when the Earth still had trees Don't make me tell bedtime stories Livin'in a world of why and might have been Tellin' all about how I remember when Think it's time we recongnize, we've got a problem in paradise Angels fall from troubled skies, wolves lay bleeding out upon the ice Some would say "just carry on, close your eyes now and don't think twice" Well, given our direction, this doesn't really seem like sound advice Don't make me tell bedtime stories 'Bout how it was when the Earth still had trees Don't make me tell bedtime stories