One more compromise I won't be making One more easy way out I won't be taking So many chances don't come twice So many eyes are made of ice One more cheating hand I won't be shaking One more substitute I won't be trying One more piece of the rock that I'm not buying So many times we stand and fight So many reasons can't be right One more simple truth I'm not denying Too many lonely hearts in the real world Too many lonely nights in the real world Too many fools who don't think twice Too many ways to pay the price Don't wanna live my life in the real world One more sacrifice I won't be making One more golden rule I won't be breaking No one to let me state my case No one to tell me to my face One more sweet surprise I won't be faking Too many lonely hearts in the real world Too many lonely nights in the real world Too many bridges you can burn Too many tables you can't turn Don't wanna live my life in the real world Oh, too many lonely hearts in the real world Too many lonely nights in the real world Too many games that I can't play Too many windmills in my way Don't wanna live my life in the real world (don't wanna live in the real world) Too many lonely hearts in the real world (too many lonely hearts) Too many lonely nights in the real world (too many lonely nights) Don't wanna live my life in the real world (don't wanna live in the real world) Too many lonely hearts in the real world (too many lonely hearts) Too many lonely hearts in the real world (ah, yeah) Don't wanna live my life in the real world

Down at the Lido they welcome you With sausage and beer Klaus and the Rooster have been there too, But lately he spends his time here Hanging with the mayor and all his friends And nobody cares Where the sailor shuts out the sunrise Blacked out on the stairs Knock twice, rap with your cane Feels nice, you're out of the rain We got your skinny girl Here at the Western World Ruthie will give you the silver key To open the red door Lay down your Jackson and you will see The sweetness you've been crying for In the night you hide from the madman You're longing to be But it all comes out on the inside Eventually Knock twice, rap with your cane Feels nice, you're out of the rain We got your skinny girl Here at the Western World In the night you hide from the madman You're longing to be But it all comes out on the inside Eventually Knock twice, rap with your cane Feels nice, you're out of the rain We got your skinny girl Here at the Western World

In dreams we do so many things We set aside the rules we know And fly above the world so high In great and shining rings If only we could always live in dreams If only we could make of life What, in dreams, it seems But in the real world We must say real goodbyes No matter if the love will live It will never die In the real world There are things that we can't change And endings come to us In ways that we can't rearrange I love you, and you love me But sometimes we must let it be In the real world In the real world When we were dreaming heart to heart I wish that we had stayed right there For when the dreamers do awake The dreams do disappear If only we could always live in dreams If only we could make of life What, in dreams, it seems But in the real world There are things that we can't change And endings come to us In ways that we can't rearrange I love you, and you love me But sometimes we must let it be In the real world In the real world

Empty Entry A deserted invitation Tracing footsteps I've made once before Shapes aloft, my chest compresses The breeze flows in shimmers Resonate! Behold, another hindrance Flooding, consuming me An imposing, intricate will Illustrator! Fabrications! The wind in the leaves The cool sting of night on my face A golden moment, a sight with no palette Impossibility dancing for me The moon as the sun These lines drawn stagnant The scene bled dry of its color World's intent, subtle and latent This air breathes like no other Stellar window, lost fruition Moonlight holds its fixation Structures come crashing. A dwelling embedded Two worlds fighting, perfection in chaos A guiding lamplight. Mangled and waning It's halo grounded, feeding the unknown I'm home, it's homeless Vacant, deprived Here I am someone, but among nothing Finding abandon Wretched, picturesque The Mass' eviction, nuclear isolation Welcomed with an empty howl The echos lay dreary and hidden Held out overnight No one to listen Creeping, heavy loom Swallows all within its shadow Blooming silhouette Growing finality Reaching far beyond sight Contorting the space in between Shortened stride, dragged by the tide Brought into view of what's to be seen A likeness amidst the figures Acting only in cycles Frantic and urgent they hurry through shadows Their pace is quickened, invader Hour of witches demands blood to be spilled The lights show no timely soul The dark of the threshold competes with the night Visions of idleness can't hold Forever Callous bludgeoner What more could sate the thief Irreversible permanence You'll earn your penitence Callous bludgeoner What more could sate The Thief Irreversible permanence Glutton, you must have had your fill Gaping eyes bestowed by the moon Calls deafened by the fall A hand extended, breaks the fixation What hides behind the night (The Thief) On my own too long Do you hold the Key? You'll uncoil me? Surely, my savior Will this release me? I know why you're here. I've begged and prayed for it Don't spin me your lies, I've heard it all before I wish it were me, the second fate went swinging But this wasn't the plan, I never knew his name Open the door, find solace in the absence Pull me from this strain The echoes that gnaw, toothless and silent Send word of me Oh my god it's starting... Sinking, sinking, sinking Can't relive this, stop this Let me just be nothing! You weren't here before You have to be the way It must be, you must be! I've learned that blood can't soak deeper than this End me here, I'm changed, I'm done Look at my hands, look at me Look at me now! Look at me now! God, please, look at me now! Look at me now! Look at me now! My God, Please! LOOK AT ME NOW!

I saw the autumn leaves Peel up off the street Take wing on the balmy breeze And sweep you off your feet And you blushed as they scooped you up On sugar maple wings To gaze down on the city below Ablaze with wondrous things Downy feathers kiss your face And flutter everywhere Reality is a lovely place But I wouldn't wanna live there I wouldn't wanna live there Weighed down by heavy lids And lunar lullabies I knew you were wide awake 'Cause you smile with your eyes Downy feathers kiss your face And flutter everywhere Reality is a lovely place But I wouldn't wanna live there From the green belt balcony The wildfires look so pretty Ponderosa canopy I'd never leave if it were up to me To the ruby redwood tree And to the velvet climbing ivy Painted all mahogany I'd never leave if it were up to me If it were up to me With a starry brush Paint the dusk venetian blue 'Cause in the evening hush You'll never believe the view And when the leaves return And their whisperings fill the night They'll freeze and burn Where fire and ice collide Where fire and ice collide Can you feel a silk embrace In the satin air? If we dissolve without a trace Will the real world even care? Downy feathers kiss your face And flutter everywhere Reality is a lovely place But I wouldn't wanna live there I wouldn't wanna live there I saw the autumn leaves Peel up off the street Take wing on the balmy breeze And sweep you off your feet

She's waiting on, She's waiting on that storm to come. Into her heart, into her heart she's waiting. She told me I must hold onto the mo-oment. And when the moments over I'll be all alone. (La le la, la le la, la le la, la le la) Then I'll be all alone. (La le la, la le la, la le la, la le la) Then I'll be all alone. (La le la, la le la, la le la, la le la) Then I'll be all alone And like a bird, yes like a bird, she'll fly away. She never said, she never said she'd stay here. She's waiting on, She's waiting on that ship to come. I cannot fight, I cannot fight the ocean, all alone (La le la, la le la, la le la, la le la) Then I'll be all alone. (La le la, la le la, la le la, la le la) Then I'll be all alone. Now kiss me on, now kiss me on my broken wings. Don't leave me here, don't leave me in the water. She's waiting on, She's waiting on that storm to come. And when the rain comes down I will be washed away. I hope, I hope we meet again. I want, I want to hold you again. I hope, I hope we meet again. I'll know, I'll know until the end. I'll be all aloooone. (La le la, la le la, la le la, la le la) Then I'll be all alone. (La le la, la le la, la le la, la le la) Then I'll be all alone. (La le la, la le la, la le la, la le la) Then I'll be all alone.